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Stupid Gun Mistakes Every Writer Makes
by Chuck Dixon
THE SILENCED REVOLVER
If you’re dumb enough to put a silencer on a revolver then you’ll discover that all the noise you hoped to suppress will escape from around the cylinder. See, an automatic is a sealed system allowing gas to vent only from the end of the barrel. So all your sound is coming from the barrel as well. A revolver is not sealed. There’s a gap twixt the cylinder and the barrel where they meet. This gap allows the cylinder to turn. It also allows gas and noise to escape.
THE “EMPTY” AUTOMATIC
We’ve all seen the scene where on adversary has the drop on another at the end of a gunfight. One guy holds out an automatic to the other guy’s head, says a take away line (“This is where the rubber meets the road, scumbag.) and then…click. The gun’s empty! Well, when an automatic has fired its last cartridge the slide atop the action locks back. They would both know the gun was empty. At the same time the firing mechanism locks back as well so no “click”. If you need to have a scene like this make sure your character’s armed with a revolver.
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Gun Terms for Writers
As someone who writes fics with action sequences and the use of guns, I thought maybe it would be helpful to pass some things on. Even though I’ve done lots of research and talked with family members (I live in WI which is a big hunting state and we have lots of guns), I still catch myself making mistakes with specific terms and their usage. Reading more James Bond fics lately, I catch others making mistakes also. So here is a little guide to help writers.
A ‘clip’ is something that stores multiple rounds of ammunition. It is not what you would insert into a handgun to load it. Clips make loading into a magazine easier because they simply store the rounds. It helps with organization.
A magazine is what feeds the ammunition into the barrel. Magazines vary in capacity. They, unlike clips, are spring-loaded, which helps the ammunition move in the gun. So, when you want a character to reload, they would use a pre-loaded magazine, NOT a clip.
A silencer is really a suppressor. ‘Silencer’ is a word that’s used in media to refer to a suppressor that doesn’t exist in real life. Guns that are suppressed will still be loud and have a sound. This is because compressed air will still leak out of the end of the barrel, you can’t silence a bullet moving extremely fast through the air, and you can’t silence the mechanical parts on a gun. There will be a noise, but it just won’t be as loud or more importantly, alert people in a nearby area that a gun was just fired. SO suppressor is a much more accurate term technically speaking.
There are different kinds of suppressors. One important kind suppresses the muzzle flash. It’s likely a sniper would use this more than they would want to use a sound suppressor, as the muzzle flash more easily enables you to be spotted when you don’t want to be. These are simply referred to as flash suppressors.
After a handgun runs out of ammunition, the slide will lock back into place and you will know that it is out. There is no ‘click’ signifying an empty weapon that is so dramatized in movies and tv. A more likely scenario that would prevent a gun from firing would be a jam. Or programming the gun to recognize certain palm prints.
A great place for writers, in particular fanfic writers, who want information on guns is imfdb. You can find out what guns are used in movies and shows, and what guns characters use. You can also just search for guns.
If you want to get really specific, check out YouTube. There are users who will post reviews of guns on there, which can be really helpful if you want to see how a particular gun looks or how to shoot it.
So yeah! Here are just a few basic tips if you want to write a fic where a character uses guns.
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Simple Gun Tips for Writers
I’m not anywhere near a gun specialist, but I’ve been raised around them and I know enough that I can tell you most things on tv you see guns doing is bullshit. So here are some simple tips:
There is no muzzle flash when a shot gun or hand gun is fired. Never. Not once. Not on hand guns or shot guns have I ever seen a muzzle flash in real life.
Guns are fucking loud. Shot guns are louder than hand guns, but if you’re not wearing protective gear, even hand guns are fuck all loud and can blow out your hearing for a while.
Bullet shells are hot. If they come out of the gun and touch you, on clothes or not, they will burn you. They literally just went through a mini explosion and came out of hot metal.
On that note: After firing, the barrel of a gun and the muzzle of a gun are hot. Hot enough to burn you. No one experienced with guns is going to grab the barrel of a shot gun after it was just fired in their face.
Contrary to Wanted you can not bend the trajectory of a bullet. Like, that literally doesn’t make any sense if you know anything about any sorts of physics.
Fucking aim. Like, very very experienced shooters can whip a gun out of a holster (or lord forbid the waist line of their pants) and maybe shoot somewhere near where they intended, but that’s also if they know their gun. But, yeah, there is no instinctual dead shot in the heart. Hence why hunting is fucking hard and why shooters that have been hunting/shooting for twenty to fifty years have a hard time dropping a buck.
There’s this thing called a kick back. So, the way guns work is that their is basically a mini explosion that happens in the gun and propels the bullet or shell forward through the barrel and out the muzzle. This explosion, in all guns, not just shot guns and high caliber rifles, can cause the gun to jerk back and can push back the entire body of an unexperienced shooter. It really hurts your shoulder, too.
So, there you go. If you have any questions you can ask me and if I don’t know the answer I can ask my dad or grandpa.
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Smutty Resources.
So under the cut is basically a whole big masterlist of resources, guides etc. that all have to do with smut. None of these are mine, but if you need any specific tips just hit me up and I will gladly help you out! If this helped, like this post or even reblog! I hope you enjoy this masterlist. Also, I have tried my best to categorize these. Let me know if any of these links don’t work. I’ll be adding more every now and again.
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Smut Guides of Tumblr
This list is meant to supplement our Towel on Sex Scenes.
We will add to the list as the guides present themselves.
Accola-RPH: Smut 101: 1,677 words of probable nonsense.
All-American-RPH: Resource List for Smut Guides
Bella-Helps: A Smut Guide
Drunkentroll: SO I HEARD YOU WANTED TO WRITE SMUT.
Fuckyeahsexeducation
Howtosmut
Gan-ceann: Some Guidelines for Writing Good Smut
GoddessRPS: How to Write → Blowjobs
GoddessRPS: Smut 101
JustanotherRPH: How to: Write Smut.
Ladydi-RPC: Resources→ How to Write Smut
Lastofthetimeladies: How to write good smut: a tutorial.
Leviathan-RPC: How to smut - The Bare Bones
Leviathan-RPC: The Ups and Downs (of erections)
Leviathan-RPC: Domination and Submission
Livvefast: A guide to smut
Poshhelpers: How to Smut (for Virgins): Getting Started
Prompts-and-Pointers: Tips on Writing Sex Scenes
Ringileskiath: How to Write and Accurate Gay Sex Scene by Lemon-Sprinkles
RPCgron: The Birds and the Bees of Writing Smut
ShakeboltRPS: Post All About Kisses
Smut-101
Snazzycookies: How to write a kiss
Taysonhelpsroleplays: Resource for Writing Female Oral Sex
The-Hardyest-RPC: Writing smut; A guide
Thegraphicsbakery: Writing sex scenes is hard … er … difficult. (originally by Ad Hudler)
TheWritersHelpers: Genre help: Writing Smut
Thor-ofasgard: Smut Guide: Casual Sex
Thor-ofasgard: A Guide to Language in Smut: Part One
Thor-ofasgard: How to write Lesbian Smut
Thor-ofasgard: Writing Guide: Making Love
WonderWriting: A Girl’s First Time
WonderWriting: A Boy’s First Time
Writing-Reference: A Guide to All Corners of The Smut World
Yeah Write! Bawm Chicka Baw Bawww: How to Write SEX SCENES
YouKnowYoureAWriterWhen: How to Write Sex Scenes When You’re a Prude
BoofRP: Smutty Resources.
SpankingTheatre: 10 tips for (erotic) writing
Did we miss yours? Send us a link!
-C
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How ironic is it that after posting about you for the first time yesterday, FB reminds me that it's your birthday today? I totally forgot it was this month, and that makes me happy.
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Writing Tip February 26th
33 Ways to Write Stronger Characters (Part 1/3)
To Give:
1. Give them a goal. A strong goal not only gives your character purpose, it helps you map out your plot with ease.
2. Give them a motivation. Something is driving your character to chase down their goal. It could be a negative emotion like fear, guilt, or regret; a negative trait like pride, vanity, or greed; or a positive emotion like love, determination, or passion. Whatever the case, giving your character a motivation will make the actions they take to achieve their goal seem realistic and relatable.
3. Give them purpose. Consider how your character adds to the story. Do they create conflict or undergo emotional development? If not, your character will seem pointless.
4. Give them a fear. Fear is an emotion that all humans feel. It leads to insecurity, impatience, and conflict, which is why fear is the perfect emotion to include in your story. It both hooks readers and drives the plot forward. Just don’t let your characters cower in fear for long; make sure that they take action, too.
5. Give them a flaw. Perfection is boring. Imperfection is human. Write a human story by giving your character flaws. Go beyond the physical and give your character a poor personality trait, bad standing in society, or an unpleasant circumstance to live in.
6. Give them a history. Allow your character’s past to shape who they become. Give your character a rich history that will affect their present-day decisions.
7. Give them a present story. Don’t drown your novel in backstory. Give your character a present-day story, a quest or a journey that will shape and grow them.
8. Give them a personality. Don’t let your character have a dull, flat personality. Make your character complex by giving them contradictory traits and avoiding clichés at all costs.
9. Give them interests. A character that doesn’t like anything simply isn’t interesting. Give your character a passion, even if it’s one your readers will hate. Fervor breeds interest, no matter the subject.
10. Give them a quirk. Everyone has their strange habits. And strange is just as interesting as passionate. Give your character a quirk to help them stand out from the crowd.
11. Give them a name. More specifically, give your character a name with purpose. Showcase a time period, foreshadow their actions, or hint at their interests. Give your character’s name a role in your story.
12. Give them a desire. Desires are powerful motivators. Some desires may lead your character to accomplish their goal while others may lead your character away.
13. Give them a love. How can your readers love your character if your character loves no one? Your character doesn’t have to be all hugs and smiles, but they do need to hold love for at least one person if you want your readers to like them.
-She’s Novel Blog
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Romance: Casual Relationship Turns Serious
pro–at-imperfections asked:
Character A and B both have negative views towards love. A doesn’t believe in love because of parents being divorced and relationships failing while B just isn’t interested in love. I want A and B to both get together and have a casual fling that turns serious but I’m not sure how I can transition their distaste for love into them actually having a true relationship. How can I develop them within the story to achieve this?
Starting with a casual fling is a good way to go. Build their relationship up slowly by having them bond through shared experiences, feelings, and common interests. The more things the share, the more they may begin to see each other in a new light. It may start with noticing little things like the way the other one smiles or laughs, eventually leading to attraction that is more emotional and not just physical. Then it becomes more complicated, wanting to spend a lot more time together, missing each other when they’re apart, and experiencing complex feelings like jealousy and fear of the relationship ending.
Other posts that might help:
Sexual Tension
Subtle Signs of Love
Getting to Know Your Neighbor
Love at First Sight and the Stages of Love
Using Timelines to Pace Romantic Relationships
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I am working on developing a character who is a martial artist with background in ballet and gymnastics. Most of her fighting would be street-level, against gangs and stuff. But she's also very feminine and I'm kind of thinking dresses like a hipster. I know lots of films and comics portray female fighters in very impractical clothing. But what kind of feminine clothes could someone actually get away with wearing in a fight? Would a short skirt and leggings work? What about shoes and tops?
Well, here we go again.
Let’s start with the clothes because that’s the question we get lessfrequently. Most media presents women in combat as a sex object, and not inpractical gear. That, includes your suggestion above. You’re still talkingabout, “how can I make my character look good?” The best thing for yourcharacter would be the kind of clothing you’d wear while working in anindustrial environment, or something patterned off combat fatigues.
Heavy fabric that will take some scrapes and save you from a few cuts isworth far more than looking cute. You can save looking cute for a time whenpeople aren’t trying to turn you into people-paste.
Work boots or sneakers. Something that can get a firm grip on the ground.Work boots will provide a little more protection, so that’s a bonus. Steeltoed boots will protect against someone from stomping on her foot.
Long pants. Either jeans or work khakis are the best options. When it’s thedifference between bruising a knee and scraping it open in dirty water thatsome drunk was just puking into and fighting off a nasty infection, fashionloses out.
A work shirt or a leather jacket. Again, it won’t protect against the blowsshe’s taking, but it will provide a little protection. An insulatedjacket will make parrying unarmed strikes a little less unpleasant. Withoutone, you can easily end up with bruises along the leading edge of the arm, against the bone. Awinter coat will provide enough padding to save you from that. It’s not armor,but it does help.
Anything that dangles or flows, and won’t pull free if tugged, is aliability, and should be avoided. I don’t care how awesome your leather trenchcoat looks, if someone gets their hands on it you’re screwed. This includes skirts(both on long coats, dresses, and as an independent article) and ties. Policewear clip-ons for this specific reason. Giving your character a scarf becauseit looks cool is a terrible idea for a fighter.
Makeup is out. The last thing you need in a fight is one more thing to getin your eyes. Fighting, or any physical exertion, will make you sweat. Sweatingwill get your makeup running and into your eyes, blinding you.
Piercings and jewelry are another bad idea. Most piercings become potentialhandles for an opponent to latch onto and pull. Most of the time, these are buriedin soft, nerve-rich tissue, which will hurt like hell and bleed when torn.
Necklaces are another convenient handle, with a very inconvenient littlequestion. Will the necklace fail before your trachea? If the answer is yes,than it has the potential of being a distracting interlude while you strugglefor breath, and your attacker recovers theirs. If the answer is no, you just wrappedan improvised garrote around your neck.
Now, if a situation comes up, your character is wearing whatever they werewearing. But if they’re going out deliberately provoking a situation, then theyneed to be treating it seriously, and dress appropriately.
Also, fights will wreck your clothes. Most clothes, especially women’sfashion, aren’t designed to be durable. Thin fabric will snag and tear easily.So, if you’re putting your character in a skirt and leggings, expect those tobe in tatters after any serious abuse. Anyone who’s getting into combatregularly, especially if they dress frivolously, will find their wardrobegetting strained very quickly.
Which brings up a really serious question: if your character is going into adangerous situation where people will be trying to trying to seriously harm, orkill, her; why the hell would she care how sexy she looks?
No, seriously.
How botched are her priorities?
Looking cute is more important that living? What!?
Your character needs to prioritize her survival over the ego boost fromlooking good.
If you’ve never taken a psychology course, this will seem like a weird non-sequitur,but let’s talk about Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs for a moment. This will helpyou set your character’s priorities.
There are five tiers of needs. Each one must to be provided for before youcan consider the one above it. You can’t skip one, and rush down the list towhere you want to be. If one of these fails, everything above it drops offuntil you can deal with it.
The lowest tier is Survival: food, water, sleep, things you cannot dowithout or you will die.
The second tier is Security: safety from imminent harm, not beingmurdered by crazed cultists, thugs, or in a writer’s arbitrary fit of pique.
The middle tier is Belonging: This can be summed up as: not beingalone in the world. Finding support from family, friends, or loved ones.
The fourth tier is Esteem: This is about finding acceptance in agroup beyond your immediate family, and having a place in the world. Findingvalue in yourself and from others.
The fifth, and highest, tier is Self-Actualization: this is the needfor intellectual or creative endeavors. I’d be doing it a disservice to call ithobbies, but to some extent, that’s the idea.
Here’s the thing. Dressing to look good, and feel good about yourself is Esteem.On its own, that’s fine. But, dealing with people who are trying to kill you isa Security issue. If your Security is threatened, it doesn’tmatter if you have family, self-esteem or a creative outlet. You willdie, if you don’t deal with that problem immediately.
There’s a legitimate possibility that can have a character whose prioritiesare completely scrambled. People like that exist. But, intrying to present a competent combatant, you need to set aside the idea thatyour character is dressing to feel good about themselves. They need to dressfor the job at hand. Or, as a writer, acknowledge that this is a characterflaw, and probably should be addressed in the text.
And, yes, being perceived as feminine is an esteem tier need. I’ll be backto this in a minute.
Ballet and Gymnastics will not make you a better fighter.
No. They won’t.
Either one can help with physical conditioning. And, as anyone who’s takenballet can tell you, it is a fantastic workout. But, it’s not going tohelp you fight.
They can help you become a better entertainer. So, if your character is aTV/Film stunt actor, cross training in either isn’t out of the question. But,as I just said, looking good is far less important than surviving a fight.
There’s an edge case, if your character is a prize fighter, then they are an entertainer. So training ineither could be helpful, because they will be evaluated on how good they lookin the ring in addition to their ability to fight.
Jean-Claude Van Damme is a good example of this. He’s a fantastic martialartist, and an entertainer. His ballet training helps make his techniques lookamazing, but it doesn’t make them more effective.
We’ve actually talked about this a lot, andnothing has really changed.
But, that’s not why you picked ballet and gymnastics. You chose them becauseyou wanted to affirm your character’s femininity. Why gymnastics is consideredfeminine is a mystery for another day. But, the idea is flawed; your characteris not automatically less feminine if she practices eskrima and parkour. In that case, she’d be far better prepared to deal with, and escape attackers.
You don’t need to remind us that your character is feminine constantly. No, seriously,don’t. It’s demeaning to say a character stops being feminine because shetreats as a combat serious threat. Women can fight. They just need to approachit seriously, just like everyone else.
Train to deal with people that mean you harm, or you mean to harm. Be preparedto kill them, or not, depending on your morals and ethics, not your gender.
When facing the risk of combat, dress for it. No, not a cute outfit (or a suitand tie, for that matter). Dress like you would if you were going to work in acombat zone or in an industrial facility. Clothing that won’t kill you if itgets caught in heavy machinery, and that won’t break the bank if it’sdestroyed. Clothes that will protect you from minor cuts and scrapes, becauseyou will be getting those without it.
It doesn’t make you less feminine. It just means you’re approaching asituation from the perspective of someone who can accurately assess the dangersaround them, and is prepared to deal with them. You know; competently.
Finally, and I really need to stress this, your femininity is less importantthan survival. You can clean up, look cute, and present yourself however youwant when you’re not facing physical threats.
-Starke
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I fail at this writing every day thing. Who ever said people never change was completely right, people just go back to their old habits. Anywho. I'm beginning emotional hell this week and while missing my boyfriend terribly (I feel like a pathetic teenager) I started thinking about how I got really lucky; he is a kind, respectful, friendly guy who accept me weird quirks and doesn't shame me for anything I do. Seriously, this guy comes to the door when he picks me up, opens doors for me, gets along with all my friends, my family, laughs when I bite him, enjoys my random bout of hyperactivity, calls me beautiful and sexy, brings me chocolate and rubs my back when I'm on my period, and is content to cuddle when I don't feel sexy enough to have sex. He's never made me feel bad for being myself and its so strange to have someone want me for me--all of me. So clearly, somethings up right? He's too good to be true. But then I realized this is probably what all guys are like with their first real girlfriends. Or at least with their first crush, or whoever it is that they go to bed thinking about for the first time. I think all boys are sweet and caring, ubtil someone somewhere makes them feel wrong or crazy or stupid for acting like that. There's nothing like heartbreak to change a person. See, I'm his first girlfriend. His first love even. And don't get me wrong, it's great and I think I'm faking for him but I'm really scared that the long distance and my tendency to run from anything that involves emotional investment with ruin it, and I don't want to be that first heartbreak that changes the way he is. He is a wonderful man and he deserves someone just as wonderful. I'm not sure I'm wonderful enough.
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I cried saying bye to Lee today. I've never cried saying bye to a boy. This long distance thing really sucks. We're at that stage where we just wanna spend all our time together but we can't exactly do that from 600 miles apart. I'm afraid this is gonna fall apart. I really don't want it to.
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I haven't written much at all. Somehow blogging and writing on mobile gives me almost no satisfaction. I need to either type it out on a computer or physically hand write it. Not having a laptop is getting ridiculously frustrating. Too broke to buy one though. I feel like I'm making personal progress but not physically. Building a habit is difficult.
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