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Zac Pretends to Write
That's me. I'm Zac. She/her pronouns. I write fanfiction as well as original stories. This is where I talk about writing, post tips and inspiration, and share what I have written. Feel free to talk to me about your WIPs and ideas! My personal writing tag is "#did i do this write?" Last time I checked, everything on this website with that tag belonged to me. That is all, thank you for checking out my blog :)
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"We're in this together."
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I am sorry to everyone who tagged me in some tag game and I never responded. I saw it and thought “aww they thought of me” and proceeded to forget about it right after
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Ref Recs for Whump Writers
Violence: A Writer’s Guide: This is not about writing technique. It is an introduction to the world of violence. To the parts that people don’t understand. The parts that books and movies get wrong. Not just the mechanics, but how people who live in a violent world think and feel about what they do and what they see done.
Hurting Your Characters: HURTING YOUR CHARACTERS discusses the immediate effect of trauma on the body, its physiologic response, including the types of nerve fibers and the sensations they convey, and how injuries feel to the character. This book also presents a simplified overview of the expected recovery times for the injuries discussed in young, otherwise healthy individuals.
Body Trauma: A writer’s guide to wounds and injuries. Body Trauma explains what happens to body organs and bones maimed by accident or intent and the small window of opportunity for emergency treatment. Research what happens in a hospital operating room and the personnel who initiate treatment. Use these facts to bring added realism to your stories and novels.
10 B.S. Medical Tropes that Need to Die TODAY…and What to Do Instead: Written by a paramedic and writer with a decade of experience, 10 BS Medical Tropes covers exactly that: clichéd and inaccurate tropes that not only ruin books, they have the potential to hurt real people in the real world.
Maim Your Characters: How Injuries Work in Fiction: Increase Realism. Raise the Stakes. Tell Better Stories. Maim Your Characters is the definitive guide to using wounds and injuries to their greatest effect in your story. Learn not only the six critical parts of an injury plot, but more importantly, how to make sure that the injury you’re inflicting matters.
Blood on the Page: This handy resource is a must-have guide for writers whose characters live on the edge of danger. If you like easy-to-follow tools, expert opinions from someone with firsthand knowledge, and you don’t mind a bit of fictional bodily harm, then you’ll love Samantha Keel’s invaluable handbook
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Experiment FAQ
What is the Experiment?
Originally, I designed this experiment to help myself out when I was having a hard time getting writing done just after getting a new job. My lack of energy and feeling like I had no one to share my progress with started to get me down.
So I came up with an idea: for every ask I received here on my writing blog, I would write at least 100 words before I answered it! This method worked wonders for me because it gave me a caveat: if I wanted to interact with the community, I had to get some writing done. It has since grown, and now over 30 other writeblrs are participating!
How Do I Participate?
It’s as simple as deciding that you want to start using this method, too! I encourage you to let me know so I can add you to the participants list (linked below) and send a ‘checking in’ ask every once in a while, but that is not a requirement!
You can let me know via DM, reply, reblog, or through an ask! If you send me an ask, I will add you as soon as I get it, but I won't publicly answer until after I've written my 100 words XD
What are the Rules?
You get an ask, you write a hundred words, you answer it. That’s it! You can decide if you want to keep track of your progress, or answer the asks normally with no indication that you’re even participating.
Some have taken the idea and made it their own. For instance, @sleepyowlwrites designates some time when the experiment applies, but otherwise is not always using this method. @antique-symbolism asks that, if you want your ask to apply, you write “100” before or after, so they know! And @himbos-hotline switched it from 100 words per ask to 15 minute sprints per ask! All variations are valid and welcome, that’s why it’s called an “experiment,” it’s about finding what works for you!
What Should I Keep Track of and How?
It’s up to you! I personally add which WIP I worked on, how many words I wrote for that ask, and how much I’ve written for the experiment as a whole. I write it at the end of every ask after a divider image. It’s motivating for me to see the number slowly tick up at the end of every ask, but it’s a lot to keep track of! Some only keep track of total, some only list how many the ask generated, and some don’t keep track at all!
If you're looking to use a tag on your blog to keep track of everything, you can use the collective tag "#the great motivation experiment" or you can make up your own!
What if I Don’t Think This Method Will Work for Me?
That’s totally understandable! For some, this sort of thing can be overwhelming and the opposite of motivational.
If you're curious but uncertain, you can always test it out and decide what to do based on your personal results. If it works, great! If not, you can message me privately and let me know you want to drop out. No sweat! I don't mind adding/subtracting your name to the list as many times as you'd like!
If you’re not interested in participating, but still want to be part of the community, you can always check out the participants list and send asks to motivate your fellow writers! Everyone on it has signed up and agreed to be tagged!
What if Your FAQ Didn’t Answer My Question?
No worries. I tried to cover the basics, but I am only human after all. If you still have questions you can always drop into my inbox! I’ll happily answer your question as soon as I add 100 words to my own word count :D in the meantime, here are some links that might help.
Helpful Links
#The Great Motivation Experiment
Original Post
Participants List
Ask Games (to get you started!)
Whether you decide to join us or not, I hope you’re able to reach all your writing goals!
Happy writing!
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The most popular browsers in different countries in 2012 and 2022.
by @theworldmaps_
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Therapist Red Flags
Therapy is important and can be really helpful, but not all therapists are good at their job. Here’s a few things to look out for when you’re seeing a therapist:
Not listening to what you tell them
Ignoring confidentiality (except in emergencies)
Making you feel judged or ashamed
Ignoring or trivialising your needs
Consistently being late
Making fun of your needs / accomplishments
Being judgemental or critical of you
Not taking your feedback on sessions into account
Condescending facial expressions or body language
Ignoring what you want to do / accomplish in therapy
Talking too much about themselves
Making you feel like problems are all your fault
Being insensitive to your culture or religion
They’re making you feel bad about yourself
Using the phone or getting distracted during your sessions
Attempting to make romantic / sexual advances on you
Making you feel stupid or invalid for what you say or how you feel
Forgetting important details about you / your life
Pushing you too hard before you’re ready
You wondering if their behaviour is a red flag. If you’re looking it up then chances are you already feel uncomfortable in therapy. You should never be forced into seeing a therapist who makes you feel uneasy. There’s no shame in leaving and finding a different therapist.
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Now I danced in the sunlight on my hardwood floors.
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exerpt from a short story for school! just a silly lil apocalyptic steampunk world. i just adore this opening and had to share
No longer was there a spinning Earth. Instead, a great breathing, groaning machine hurtled around the sun, taking the dregs of humanity with it. Fans and regulators churned fruits and nuts while people were left to survive on scraps. Time only existed in the minds of machines, jiffies ticking into seconds into minutes into lifetimes.
A smattering of privileged people stalked the catwalks, casting cruel glares at the human underlings. Almost doubled over, the unfortunate scuttled in rafters and drains, transporting as computers couldn’t move and operating where mechanical arms couldn’t see. There were scant times when the greater people deigned to walk among the rabble. They were quick to peruse the automatic work before retreating to the end of walkways and scurrying up towers locked with keys. Nostalgia and practicality kept the relics around; humans worked with the physical and machines worked with the digital.
Likewise, great train whistles kept from a long dead era were held above the jiffy counting brains. Marking days, marking shifts, the whistles would scream until nothing else was heard. The demand for silence and ringing thereafter dictated the pattering of feet, urging them on as they followed the bark of orders.
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the creators struggle of "yes I absolutely made this for myself and I should absolutely appreciate that I made this thing that turned out amazing and be proud of it on that merit alone" vs "man it'd be cool if everyone liked this thing I made as much as I do"
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Experiment FAQ
What is the Experiment?
Originally, I designed this experiment to help myself out when I was having a hard time getting writing done just after getting a new job. My lack of energy and feeling like I had no one to share my progress with started to get me down.
So I came up with an idea: for every ask I received here on my writing blog, I would write at least 100 words before I answered it! This method worked wonders for me because it gave me a caveat: if I wanted to interact with the community, I had to get some writing done. It has since grown, and now over 30 other writeblrs are participating!
How Do I Participate?
It’s as simple as deciding that you want to start using this method, too! I encourage you to let me know so I can add you to the participants list (linked below) and send a ‘checking in’ ask every once in a while, but that is not a requirement!
You can let me know via DM, reply, reblog, or through an ask! If you send me an ask, I will add you as soon as I get it, but I won't publicly answer until after I've written my 100 words XD
What are the Rules?
You get an ask, you write a hundred words, you answer it. That’s it! You can decide if you want to keep track of your progress, or answer the asks normally with no indication that you’re even participating.
Some have taken the idea and made it their own. For instance, @sleepyowlwrites designates some time when the experiment applies, but otherwise is not always using this method. @antique-symbolism asks that, if you want your ask to apply, you write “100” before or after, so they know! And @himbos-hotline switched it from 100 words per ask to 15 minute sprints per ask! All variations are valid and welcome, that’s why it’s called an “experiment,” it’s about finding what works for you!
What Should I Keep Track of and How?
It’s up to you! I personally add which WIP I worked on, how many words I wrote for that ask, and how much I’ve written for the experiment as a whole. I write it at the end of every ask after a divider image. It’s motivating for me to see the number slowly tick up at the end of every ask, but it’s a lot to keep track of! Some only keep track of total, some only list how many the ask generated, and some don’t keep track at all!
If you're looking to use a tag on your blog to keep track of everything, you can use the collective tag "#the great motivation experiment" or you can make up your own!
What if I Don’t Think This Method Will Work for Me?
That’s totally understandable! For some, this sort of thing can be overwhelming and the opposite of motivational.
If you're curious but uncertain, you can always test it out and decide what to do based on your personal results. If it works, great! If not, you can message me privately and let me know you want to drop out. No sweat! I don't mind adding/subtracting your name to the list as many times as you'd like!
If you’re not interested in participating, but still want to be part of the community, you can always check out the participants list and send asks to motivate your fellow writers! Everyone on it has signed up and agreed to be tagged!
What if Your FAQ Didn’t Answer My Question?
No worries. I tried to cover the basics, but I am only human after all. If you still have questions you can always drop into my inbox! I’ll happily answer your question as soon as I add 100 words to my own word count :D in the meantime, here are some links that might help.
Helpful Links
#The Great Motivation Experiment
Original Post
Participants List
Ask Games (to get you started!)
Whether you decide to join us or not, I hope you’re able to reach all your writing goals!
Happy writing!
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Sometimes self projection is actually necessary. Sometimes I realize that this piece of me is supposed to be in the story. And the story is better for it.
#writing#writeblr#writers on tumblr#writing motivation#writing inspiration#writing positivity#zac speaks
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#i write a plus sign + for 'and' when im writing by hand#a teacher of mine did it and i've used it ever since#miscellaneous#polls
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Upon your fire escape I leave these gifts:
A Skyrim wheel of cheese, immune to rot and a balm for injury
A brain from the shores of Faerûn, independant and strange but devoted
and a large can of WD-40, that the ladder of your fire escape may never betray you
Incredible gifts, thank you for bestowing them upon me. I will be sure to put them to good use.
(I believe this was a response to this post I reblogged the other day. Took me a while to answer because I had to write my 100 words XD)
This ask motivated me to write 100 words for Home is Where Your Light Shines Brightest.
Experiment Total: 88,469
#ask and you shall receive#saphoblin#zac speaks#miscellaneous#the great motivation experiment#you just don't get interactions like this on twitter lol
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Editing my absolutely beloathed
(just spent over an hour on one scene and added/changed/adjusted less than 400 words. I'm tired but I feel like I did nothing.)
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