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freaky, freaky eboy
#nsfw#c. mattie densen#r. designer shoes and xanax tabs#freaky mattie tag#im so sorry...#the hand looks bad I know! coke nail who#uhhh#character art#sketch#not writeblr#oops
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Character solidifying!
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This is an ultimate masterlist of many resources that could be helpful for writers. I apologize in advance for any not working links. Check out the ultimate writing resource masterlist here (x) and my “novel” tag here (x).
✑ PLANNING
Outlining & Organizing
For the Architects: The Planning Process
Rough Drafts
How do you plan a novel?
Plot Development: Climax, Resolution, and Your Main Character
Plotting and Planing
I Have An Idea for a Novel! Now What?
Choosing the Best Outline Method
How to Write a Novel: The Snowflake Method
Effectively Outlining Your Plot
Conflict and Character within Story Structure
Outlining Your Plot
Ideas, Plots & Using the Premise Sheets
✑ INSPIRATION
Finding story ideas
Choosing ideas and endings
When a plot isn’t strong enough to make a whole story
Writing a story that’s doomed to suck
How to Finish What You Start: A Five-Step Plan for Writers
Finishing Your Novel
Finish Your Novel
How to Finish Your Novel when You Want to Quit
How To Push Past The Bullshit And Write That Goddamn Novel: A Very Simple No-Fuckery Writing Plan
✑ PLOT
In General
25 Turns, Pivots and Twists to Complicate Your Story
The ABCs (and Ds and Es) of Plot Development
Originality Is Overrated
How to Create a Plot Outline in Eight Easy Steps
Finding Plot: Idea Nets
The Story Goal: Your Key to Creating a Solid Plot Structure
Make your reader root for your main character
Creating Conflict and Sustaining Suspense
Tips for Creating a Compelling Plot
The Thirty-six (plus one) Dramatic Situations
Adding Subplots to a Novel
Weaving Subplots into a Novel
7 Ways to Add Subplots to Your Novel
Crafting a Successful Romance Subplot
How to Improve your Writing: Subplots and Subtext
Understanding the Role of Subplots
How to Use Subtext in your Writing
The Secret Life of Subtext
How to Use Subtext
Beginning
Creating a Process: Getting Your Ideas onto Paper (And into a Story)
Why First Chapters?
Starting with a Bang
In the Beginning
The Beginning of your Novel that isn’t the Beginning of your Novel
A Beginning from the Middle
Starting with a Bang
First Chapters: What To Include @ The Beginning Writer
23 Clichés to Avoid When Beginning Your Story
Start Writing Now
Done Planning. What Now?
Continuing Your Long-Format Story
How to Start a Novel
100 best first lines from novels
The First Sentence of a Book Report
How To Write A Killer First Sentence To Open Your Book
How to Write the First Sentence of a Book
The Most Important Sentence: How to Write a Killer Opening
Hook Your Reader from the First Sentence: How to Write Great Beginnings
Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing and the Red Hering
Narrative Elements: Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing and Suspense
Foreshadowing Key Details
Writing Fiction: Foreshadowing
The Literary Device of Foreshadowing
All About Foreshadowing in Fiction
Foreshadowing
Flashbacks and Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing — How and Why to Use It In Your Writing
Setting
Four Ways to Bring Settings to Life
Write a Setting for a Book
Writing Dynamic Settings
How To Make Your Setting a Character
Guide for Setting
5 Tips for Writing Better Settings
Building a Novel’s Setting
Ending
A Novel Ending
How to End Your Novel
How to End Your Novel 2
How to End a Novel With a Punch
How to End a Novel
How to Finish a Novel
How to Write The Ending of Your Novel
Keys to Great Endings
3 Things That End A Story Well
Ending a Novel: Five Things to Avoid
Endings that Ruin Your Novel
Closing Time: The Ending
✑ CHARACTER
Names
Behind the Name
Surname Meanings and Origins
Surname Meanings and Origins - A Free Dictionary of Surnames
Common US Surnames & Their Meanings
Last Name Meanings & Origins
Name Generators
Name Playground
Different Types of Characters
Ways To Describe a Personality
Character Traits Meme
Types of Characters
Types of Characters in Fiction
Seven Common Character Types
Six Types of Courageous Characters
Creating Fictional Characters (Masterlist)
Building Fictional Characters
Fiction Writer’s Character Chart
Character Building Workshop
Tips for Characterization
Fiction Writer’s Character Chart
Advantages, Disadvantages and Skills
Males
Strong Male Characters
The History and Nature of Man Friendships
Friendship for Guys (No Tears!)
‘I Love You, Man’ and the rules of male friendship
Male Friendship
Understanding Male Friendship
Straight male friendship, now with more cuddling
Character Development
P.O.V. And Background
Writing a Character: Questionnaire
10 Days of Character Building
Getting to Know Your Characters
Character Development Exercises
✑ STYLE
Chapters
How Many Chapters is the Right Amount of Chapters?
The Arbitrary Nature of the Chapter
How Long is a Chapter?
How Long Should Novel Chapters Be?
Chapter & Novel Lengths
Section vs. Scene Breaks
Dialogue
The Passion of Dialogue
25 Things You Should Know About Dialogue
Dialogue Writing Tips
Punctuation Dialogue
How to Write Believable Dialogue
Writing Dialogue: The Music of Speech
Writing Scenes with Many Characters
It’s Not What They Say …
Top 10 Tips for Writing Dialogue
Speaking of Dialogue
Dialogue Tips
Interrupted Dialogue
Two Tips for Interrupted Dialogue
Show, Don’t Tell (Description)
“Tell” Makes a Great Placeholder
The Literary Merit of the Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Bad Creative Writing Advice
The Ultimate Guide to Writing Better Than You Normally Do
DailyWritingTips: Show, Don’t Tell
GrammarGirl: Show, Don’t Tell
Writing Style: What Is It?
Detail Enhances Your Fiction
Using Sensory Details
Description in Fiction
Using Concrete Detail
Depth Through Perception
Showing Emotions & Feelings
Character Description
Describing Your Characters (by inkfish7 on DeviantArt)
Help with Character Development
Creating Characters that Jump Off the Page
Omitting Character Description
Introducing Your Character(s): DON’T
Character Crafting
Writer’s Relief Blog: “Character Development In Stories And Novels”
Article: How Do You Think Up Your Characters?
5 Character Points You May Be Ignoring
List of colors, hair types and hairstyles
List of words to use in a character’s description
200 words to describe hair
How to describe hair
Words used to describe the state of people’s hair
How to describe your haircut
Hair color sharts
Four Ways to Reveal Backstory
Words Used to Describe Clothes
Flashbacks
Using Flashbacks in Writing
Flashbacks by All Write
Using Flashback in Fiction
Fatal Backstory
Flashbacks as opening gambit
Don’t Begin at the Beginning
Flashbacks in Books
TVTropes: Flashback
Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear: Flashback Techniques in Fiction
3 Tips for Writing Successful Flashbacks
The 5 Rules of Writing Effective Flashbacks
How to Handle Flashbacks In Writing
Flashbacks and Foreshadowing
Reddit Forum: Is a flashback in the first chapter a good idea?
Forum Discussing Flackbacks
P.O.V
You, Me, and XE - Points of View
What’s Your Point of View?
Establishing the Right Point of View: How to Avoid “Stepping Out of Character”
How to Start Writing in the Third Person
The Opposite Gender P.O.V.
LANGUAGE
How To Say Said
200 Words Instead of Said
Words to Use Instead of Said
A List of Words to Use Instead of Said
Alternatives to “Walk”
60 Synonyms for “Walk”
✑ USEFUL WEBSITES/LINKS
Grammar Monster
Google Scholar
GodChecker
Tip Of My Tounge
Speech Tags
Pixar Story Rules
Written? Kitten!
TED Talks
DarkCopy
Family Echo
Some Words About Word Count
How Long Should My Novel Be?
The Universal Mary Sue Litmus Test
Writer’s “Cheat Sheets”
Last but not least, the most helpful tool for any writer out there is Google!
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THE ALIENIST - DR. LASZLO KREIZLER
“Sometimes society looks upon people as crazy. It may only mean that they are alienated from their own true natures.”
#not wip tag#/aesthetic#/edit#the alienist#laszlo kreizler#daniel brühl#just wanted to pay homage to one of my favorite series!#feel free to keep scrolling#writeblr#edit#aesthetic
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Advice on Writing Thieves, Assassins, or Other Stealthy Characters
I’ve put a lot of research into this, and I’ve seen a lot of great rogue-like characters, where the author was clearly unsure as to how they perform their criminal activities. If you feel the need to ask why I know this stuff, my main writings are for a book series called “A Thief’s War,” which should be more than enough explanation. I swear I’m not personally a thief.
Anyway, here we go:
Lockpicking:
I’ve seen some stories where characters grab a paperclip, and boom, no lock can stop them. I’ve also seen some where master thieves take a hammer and smash the lock.
A lock has a series of tumblers in it, each of which need to click into place for it to unlock. A key’s design is usual exactly what it must be to get these tumblers into the proper position.
There are a wide array of shapes and sizes for lockpicks, and if you’re going to go around picking locks, you’re going to need more than one. There is no universal lockpick. Furthermore, for some reason a lot of people don’t include the secondary locking tool: a lock wrench. This is used to turn the the lock, and to keep the tumblers in place once you’ve appropriately placed them with the lockpick.
A lockpicker will know that a tumbler is in place when they hear it click, but the noise is usually quiet, so they’ll often have their ear close to the door.
Can you pick a lock with a paperclip? Yes, but it’s hard as hell, and a paperclip won’t fit into all locks. Not to mention it’s a pain turning the lock once the tumblers are in place.
With code locks, a lot of movies or books show someone pressing their ear closely to the lock, whilst turning it, and listening for a click when it hits the right number. This actually works. These are the most useless goddamn locks in history.
Now, if you’re writing modern day, with smart locks and various other such tech, I’m afraid I can’t help. I haven’t studied that as much. Though, the previous advice will help for most locks, and that information still applies to basically all types of lock that aren’t incredibly expensive.
Sneaking:
The dashing rogue slips through the shadows, his cloak billowing behind him, and somehow none of the dozen patrolling guards walking right by happen to notice him.
Yeah, that’s not how it works.
Sneaking involves a lot of remaining very still, knowing your surroundings, and holding your breath.
A thief infiltrating a house will scout it out, usually for weeks in advance. Sometimes they’ll pose as various businessmen, and try to get the owners of the house let them in for a while so they can study the ins and outs of it. Cracking open a window isn’t quiet, and you need to know what doors will creak and what doors won’t.
If you’re trying to sneak, you need to try and stick near furniture and heavy objects. The floor isn’t nearly as likely to creak when you’re near these. Furthermore, you need to step lightly, and wear the appropriate footwear. Usually some cloth wrapping’s around one’s feet will help to be quiet, but avoid any shoes that might make clacking noises, or sound like they’re peeling off the floor when they move. A thief will also never scuff their feet, if they’re any good at sneaking.
Black clothing only helps you sneak if it’s dark, and your surroundings aren’t bright coloured. If you’re in a city of white buildings and marble, you’ll want matching attire. This is just for if you’re skulking about a city, though. Just make sure you don’t stand out. However, dark clothing will greatly help you not be seen from a distance when it’s night.
If a thief suspects someone is nearby, they should always try to locate a nearby hiding spot, and remain perfectly still. Do not move, and a good thief will hold their breath if they start getting anxious, as heavy breathing could easily give someone away.
Many stories also don’t seem to account for the fact that various rogues and criminals have shadows, too. Even a quick and subtle movement of a shadow might be enough to give away one’s presence. It’s really, really hard to actually sneak up on someone due to this, and several other factors. Most people will actually feel tense, and usually catch wind of it if someone is sneaking up behind them, as even very quiet sounds and movements like breathing will subconsciously register to people if you get too close.
I’m a master assassin, and I carry a goddamn greatsword:
There is a reason they would use daggers. Assassins didn’t usually sneak into the king’s bedchamber in the dead of night, without being seen once. There are guards. A long hallway with two guards standing in front of the door at the end, there is absolutely no way to slip past that.
They would usually have to get into the building during the day, disguised as a servant, or even another guard. They’d have to wait for the perfect opportunity to sneak into that nobleman’s bedchamber, midday when he was absent, and then wait in there for hours.
If the assassin is sneaking in at night, they rarely go through the interior of the building. Just like a thief, they’ll get the layout of the building, and then they’ll usually enter through a window, or wherever is closest to the target. If they don’t have those guard patrols memorised, they’re screwed.
But you know what’s not subtle? An assassin carrying around a scimitar, or some flashy crossbow. If you’re going to sneak past people, you need a weapon no one will see, and that you can probably hide if someone decides to search you.
Fingerprints:
This is mainly relevant for modern era stories, and I just wanted to say that I’ve seen a few shows where a criminal isn’t wearing gloves throughout the whole thing. You always wear gloves, you never leave the murder weapon. If you touched something without gloves, you may as well take it with you to avoid risk.
Slipping out of Handcuffs:
This usually requires dislocating your fingers. Ouch. But, if the one cuffing or tying up the thief isn’t paying too much attention, you can keep your hands at an appropriate angle that the cuffs will not go on correctly, or the ropes not pulled tight enough, and you can probably slip out of them.
Who needs masks when you have shadowy hoods?
Guess what the easiest facial feature to notice in the dark is? If you guessed eyes, then you’re right. But, if you’re blending in, and your eyes are veiled by the hood that’s somehow not obscuring your vision while you crane your neck downwards to ensure that it covers your face, then people are usually still going to be able to see your lips, which stand out the second most of any feature on a person.
Yes, a hood is good if you’re trying to blend in. But it’s not good for making sure people don’t see your face. Wear a damned mask.
This is all I’ve got, for now. Hope it helps someone!
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A reminder to writers:
You aren’t annoying for wanting to talk about your work.
Your characters aren’t weird or boring. You created them. They’re perfect.
Being unpublished doesn’t mean you aren’t a writer.
If you takes you 5 years to write a book, you aren’t any less of a writer than someone who took a year and finished.
You can have a life outside of writing. You aren’t cheating on your characters.
Writing can consume your life, and that’s great. If you love it, you love it. Let it define you. It’s amazing.
You don’t have to write a certain genre to be a “good” writer. Just write.
Your work isn’t “bad” because it’s full of cliches. Cliches are popular for a reason. People love them when they’re well-written.
You’re talented.
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Copenhagen, Denmark
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8 for 8 tag!
thanks @sapphicbelow for the tag!!
ONE / name
Reina or Sofi, usually people on the internet know me as the former though.
TWO / birthday
October 15!
THREE / zodiac sign
Libra
FOUR / height
5′9″!
FIVE / hobbies
writing is definitely up there, but I’m also dabbling in graphic design and illustration, and currently getting a degree in digital art and game design! additionally, I love makeup and history! especially wwii, cold war era, organized crime history, and late victorian era!! I spend way too much time on the history channel and it shows tbh.
SIX / favourite colors
purple and grey!
SEVEN / favourite books
oooh six of crows/crooked kingdom has been up there for me, as of late.
EIGHT / last song listened to
save the day by ski mask the slump god (I love ski mask and the spiderverse soundtrack SLAPS)
NINE / last film watched
inglorious basterds!! my favorite movie of all time too lmfao
TEN / inspiration for muse
music, pinterest, and written rp, tbh. I always muse better with my characters whenever I can figure out how they’d react to situations in real time, and having some cute aesthetics always helps!
ELEVEN / dream job
concept artist for films or video games!!
TWELVE / meaning behind your url
designer molotov cocktails actually came from a really short prose bit I did, ended up copping it for my username. I feel like it fits the general theme of this blog well, considering I write about fictional sugar daddies and communist revolutionaries within the same blog space, lmao.
tags! -> I'm not sure who out here is okay with me tagging them on things so feel free to like this post or rb if you want to start a tag chain!! :^)
#tag for tags#tysm for tagging me!!#sorry for being afk all of my family is out of town so I've been forced to be responsible for once#oops
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these is red bottoms
these is bloody shoes.
#c. mattie densen#obligatory art tag#I draw sometimes#thought I'd drop this shit doodle of my boy#I'm sorry if you followed for writing.... the brain worms are after me#no art blog yet so I'll keep the spam to a min
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writeblr introduction;
hello!! my name is reina (formerly known as dennie, for anyone who may have known me in the RPC), and I’m very much knew to the writeblr side of things, although I’ve dabbled in roleplaying for a while on here.
some stuff about me—
I’m seventeen years old, and studying game design and visual arts at university. I spend a little too much time drawing some of my main characters, so this writeblr might look like a little more of a graphic novel at times.
my favorite genres are modern history, period crime, modern organized crime and dystopian scifi-sequel genres— and I absolutely adore worldbuilding and crafting rich histories about the world in which my characters inhabit.
I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember, my earliest drafts being scripts when I was in grade school— I’ve moved on since then, but I absolutely love writing interesting dialogue and running scenes off the wire with weird banter!
my main WIP is a futuristic crime drama, featuring a band of criminal misfits getting themselves in over their heads after a heist gone wrong, accidentally uncovering some government secrets and making a handful of very powerful enemies while they’re at it.
I love making aesthetics and art and just chatting about anything and everything!! I’d love to get involved and active in the writeblr community, so feel free to like this post, I’ll always follow back! <3
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ADRIAN VALENTIN ROSARIO
#r. designer shoes and xanax tabs#c. adrian#bastard boy 2 gets his own tag.... mikkel is next hehe#I'm so sorry for the mattieverse spam
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M.O.N.E.Y.
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A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about them.
Lisa Kleypas; Sugar Daddy (via sunsetquotes)
#r. designer shoes and xanax tabs#c. mattie densen#fuck.#this them LMAO even the sugar daddy tab is accurate as hell hahaha
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Every so often he finds himself glancing back to the older boy dozing comfortably in the bed, his sight caught on the occassional fragment of stray light reflecting off his tanned skin, or the glossy black curls cascading down his back like a bottle of spilled ink. He can’t help but smile slightly as he watches the others chest rise and fall under the thick velvet covers, curled beneath sheets with thread counts he didn’t even know existed, let alone could count to.
The glass is sturdy, reinforced enough with the steel pillars connecting it to the rest of the high-rise to keep him from plummeting into the city that lies thirty feet beneath him. Every so often he finds himself flicking ashes into the slits of the glass barricade, watching the embers extinguish into the gusts of current catching the balcony. It’s hard not to feel the breeze from this height, but every so often he finds himself glancing down towards the blur of lights beneath his feet, tracing the red lights of the speeding cars with a fingertip until they vanish into the thick of the concrete jungle.
The pack of Parliaments is half-empty, but the boy finds himself staring at the ignited end of the cigarette more often than dragging in it, letting the pile of singed butts and blood droplets mark his presence on the balcony that evening. The slow burn gripping at his fingertips is usually his first indication the current smoke is nearly the end, and he quickly snuffs it out, eager to flip the top of his silver lighter and start anew.
He finds himself glancing at the other boy once more, as his fingers hover over the lighter once more, eagerly kindling a new flame. Mattie furrows his brows, squinting at the reflected image in the glass panels separating the balcony from the bedroom, unable to tell whether the glare in the mirror is the first sign of the morning to come, or the flame beneath his fingertips. He hesitates, dropping the unlit cigarette to the glass floor, letting it roll limply through the cracks, slipping from the balcony and falling into the neon abyss beneath him.
With a small sigh, he snaps the lighter shut, slipping it into his pocket before he steadies himself on the side of the balcony, and approaching the glass door. He's careful not to pull it too loud, not to disturb the other boy's slumber. He slips on the coat he arrived in, which had quickly been shed to the floor upon minutes of his arrival and promptly discarded and ignored for the remainder of the evening. Mattie lifts the sleeve to his face, wiping the smear of blood that had trickled down the side of his face that evening, a mixture of fresh crimson and the crusted remnants of dried blood stuck to his sleeve. He slips on a pair of slides that certainly aren't his own on his feet, and presses the elevator button. Stepping inside, he casts once quickly glance back towards the sleeping boy, this time noticing the sliver of gold between his fingers, clutched close over the band of the wristwatch.
He can't help but let out a silent laugh as he rubs his own bare wrists, the silvery doors of the elevator slamming shut and sending him plummeting thirty stories down to the city down below.
#c. mattie densen#r. designer shoes and xanax tabs#I FINALLY HAVE THE RELATIONSHIP TAG FOR THESE FUCKERS.#I was listening to do re mi and it just hit me#also yes those are The Gucci slides#there's actually a backstory to those he's not a musk I promise#I just had an idea after last nights campaign to actually elaborate on Mattie's backstory and love life lmao#I'll let this boy be mystery boy for now though :^)
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actually aurora.
“She was much more like fire than light.”
— Anaïs Nin, from “Delta Of Venus,” originally published c. August 1977
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