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inked-waves · 1 year

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WEBSITES FOR WRITERS {masterpost}

E.A. Deverell - FREE worksheets (characters, world building, narrator, etc.) and paid courses;

Hiveword - Helps to research any topic to write about (has other resources, too);

BetaBooks - Share your draft with your beta reader (can be more than one), and see where they stopped reading, their comments, etc.;

Charlotte Dillon - Research links;

Writing realistic injuries - The title is pretty self-explanatory: while writing about an injury, take a look at this useful website;

One Stop for Writers - You guys... this website has literally everything we need: a) Description thesaurus collection, b) Character builder, c) Story maps, d) Scene maps & timelines, e) World building surveys, f) Worksheets, f) Tutorials, and much more! Although it has a paid plan ($90/year | $50/6 months | $9/month), you can still get a 2-week FREE trial;

One Stop for Writers Roadmap - It has many tips for you, divided into three different topics: a) How to plan a story, b) How to write a story, c) How to revise a story. The best thing about this? It's FREE!

Story Structure Database - The Story Structure Database is an archive of books and movies, recording all their major plot points;

National Centre for Writing - FREE worksheets and writing courses. Has also paid courses;

Penguin Random House - Has some writing contests and great opportunities;

Crime Reads - Get inspired before writing a crime scene;

The Creative Academy for Writers - "Writers helping writers along every step of the path to publication." It's FREE and has ZOOM writing rooms;

Reedsy - "A trusted place to learn how to successfully publish your book" It has many tips, and tools (generators), contests, prompts lists, etc. FREE;

QueryTracker - Find agents for your books (personally, I've never used this before, but I thought I should feature it here);

Pacemaker - Track your goals (example: Write 50K words - then, everytime you write, you track the number of the words, and it will make a graphic for you with your progress). It's FREE but has a paid plan;

Save the Cat! - The blog of the most known storytelling method. You can find posts, sheets, a software (student discount - 70%), and other things;

I hope this is helpful for you!

(Also, check my gumroad store if you want to!)

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inked-waves · 4 years

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How to Keep an Edit Notebook

In my How to Edit a First Draft post, I mentioned something I call an edit notebook. Edit notebooks help you figure out what level of revisions your WIP requires, and exactly what is wrong with your manuscript. I use a 3-subject notebook per project, and a section per draft. An edit notebook is composed of a few parts:

1. Chapter-By-Chapter Notes

this is where you read through your manuscript and take notes on scenes

you usually want to note what happens in the chapter, how well it is written, and whether or not it is relevant to the plot

2. Overall Plot Notes

these also happen while you’re reading over your WIP

I usually made them in-between sections of chapters, but some I made while reading

these include things you’d like to add/change/remove from the plot

3. Analysis (Note: This is the most important part! The whole point of an edit notebook is to figure out how much editing you actually have to do. I sort these into different “levels.”)

Novel-Level: If all your notes say “delete scene,” “scrap,” “poorly written,” “unecessary” etc., then you’re probably looking at a full-on rewrite. Pull on your big-boy pants, grab a cup of coffee, and start re-plotting.

Chapter-Level: If your notes are less about how bad the plot is and more about how bad the writing quality is, then your revisions should focus more on pacing, the order of your scenes, point of view, and rewriting/recrafting scenes to make them better.

Line-Level: If the plot is flawless, there aren’t any plot holes or dull moments to be accounted for, just grammar/sentence structure problems, then this is when you print out your novel and go through it with a red pen.

Of course, there are steps in-between, and sometimes you’ll spend several drafts in one level. But in general, this is what you should be looking for!

4. Redrafting (Especially important when making novel-level edits, which is probably what you’re dealing with when you have a first draft)

list possible scene ideas, brainstorm

try to write out your new plot, or at least the “tentpole” moments (the important events)

from there, fill in what goes in-between the major events

remember, you can’t really know if it works or not until you actually write it!

5. Reoutlining

I like to make a summary sheet (below the cut), which ideally includes your major plot points, major flashbacks, subplots, symbols, conflicts, resolutions, and the story arc (as well as anything else you want to keep track of)

plot out timelines/arcs for characters

basically do whatever you would normally do before you begin writing something new. Except, this isn’t new! You know what you’re doing and where you’re going this time. You got this.

Keep reading

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inked-waves · 4 years

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all the tips I found for drawing a fantasy map are like :) "here's a strategy to draw the land masses! here's how to plot islands!" :) and that's wonderful and I love them all but ??? how? do y'all decide where to put cities/mountains/forests/towns I have my map and my land but I'm throwing darts to decide where the Main Citadel where the Action Takes Place is

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inked-waves · 4 years

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Another poem I performed at Unislam!

Trigger warnings for slutshaming and sexual assault

#slam poetry #my poetry #my writing #poetry #writeblr #unislam

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inked-waves · 4 years

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I love you.

And I never said I didn't.

And you love me.

And you never said you didn't.

But our stories are shelved on opposite sides of the library.

We were only supposed to meet in the book return box.

#title: rebound lover?#maybe #polyamorish #my poetry #poetry #my writing #writeblr

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inked-waves · 4 years

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This is me at Unislam 2020, enjoy!

((p.s. if you subscribe to this channel I might even post more poetry!))

#polyamorish #polyamory #poetry #slam poetry #my poetry #my writing #writeblr

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inked-waves · 4 years

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inked-waves · 4 years

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If the sea became the sky

How would it rain?

Still down? From top to bottom?

Each wave pulled across the ceiling

Splashing flecks of grey to the carpet

Liquid water

Racing down, down

In bubbles

That will never pop,

Just dissipate into foggy air

Before it reaches our heads

And falls into our ears in silence.

If the sea became the sky,

How would puddles form?

Would our feet be cradled in clouds

Each rainy day?

Leaving little pools of smoke

For the sun to turn liquidy and pull up,

Up,

Where would we keep the sun?

Would the fishes survive the thin atmosphere?

If we cried, would our tears be pulled up our foreheads too?

Or would my eyes become a smoke machine?

Would I ever feel the thrill of touching liquid water?

If the sea

Became the sky?

Would my mind suffer the same fate?

#puddle poems #coronaverse #my poetry #poetry #writeblr

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inked-waves · 4 years

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Ducks

Not chickens, not swans,

Ducks,

Not pheasants or penguins,

Ducks,

Not bats or cats or pigeons

Or elephants or cheetahs

Or trees or fruit or tins of beans

Or toast or toasters or

Toilet roll or water

(though part water)

Or grass or happy or social unity

Or thoughts or anxiety or energy

(though part energy)

Or viruses or stars or outer space

Or God

Or fish.

Ducks aren't fish.

Take away everything that a duck is not,

And you'll be left with a duck.

#puddle poems #coronaverse #my poetry #poetry #writeblr #ducks

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inked-waves · 4 years

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To the guy I found at the beginning of the apocalypse.

I'm sorry for the second time I saw you,

When I cried so hard I made your shoulder skin soggy.

I'm sorry

That I reeled you in to this lonely cloud that surrounds me.

You found me at the wrong time,

Pulled closer to my isolation through this isolation.

One week in and I'm pulling out my childhood trauma

In the hopes you'll understand my sadness,

I hope we're not moving too fast.

I'm just trying to keep up with the pace of this still world.

Because we kissed.

I blinked.

And then the whole world disappeared.

I wish this were a romance novel

So that phrase existed to harmonise with hope

Instead of this.

#coronaverse #poetry #my poetry #writeblr #polyamorish

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inked-waves · 4 years

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Look me up in the dictionary

Under C for child:

She's crisp packets and cartwheels

And the click of small feet in big red heels.

A hop, skip, trip.

The world is an oyster,

Or whatever that means.

Look me up in the dictionary

Under L for lover:

She is lips and laughs and lazy days.

Alone, she's a melody, lilting and smooth as a smokers cough,

Clumsy and lovely with a heart that will beat for the world.

So go to her.

Look me up in a dictionary

Under S for seduction, sultry, sex:

She is skin through the camera lens,

All eyelashes and tongue and cold, bare

Skin.

Can you feel the heat yet?

A heartfelt moan through a microphone,

Just static.

Look me up in a dictionary

Under W for words, writer:

She's the stroking of sharp wrists on the papers edge,

The calm in the current,

Conductor in a knife fight.

She's alive.

A silent voice of black and white pixels

And an emotion that'll stay with you for a lifetime.

#coronaverse #this could be the start of a new collection #something to make while im cooped up alone for the next few months #poetry #my poetry #writeblr

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inked-waves · 4 years

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hitch your heart to one small thing

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inked-waves · 4 years

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oc design is just “this is me” and “god I wish that were me” in random measurements on a scale

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inked-waves · 4 years

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Fridge poetry.

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inked-waves · 4 years

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It's been a while since I actually talked about myself or my projects on here, rather than just irregularly posting angsty poems about relationships, so here we go.

Those poems I've been posting are part of a project I'm working on for myself I'm calling Polyamorish, a collection of poems written to explore my relationships and identity. I don't intend to publish it or even finish it, but it's nice to have something to work on when I'm feeling the Feelings™️

Some other projects of mine include writing for a slam poetry competition I'm doing with my university, I may share some of my works from that here. I'd like to, slam poetry is a little more out of my comfort zone than what I'm used to, but it's definitely growing me as a writer and performer.

Y'all also seem to know me as that writeblr who writes romance and not a whole lot else, but I'm actually working on a script for my light entertainment society which is the most out of my comfort zone I've been in my writing in a while, but man I'm loving it. Turns out I'm actually fairly good at it too, who knew I could be funny?? Id like to share some information about that here, it feels like the wip most important to me right now so it seems only fair. Let me know if you wanna hear more about it, I might be motivated to get round to telling yall that way.

Thanks for sticking around while I'm finding my ground with the writeblr community. I doubt I'll ever properly know what I'm doing, but I hope you're enjoying my mess in the meantime

#writeblr #poetry #script writing #acting #young writer #slam poetry #wips #wip

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inked-waves · 4 years

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Fucking with a flatmate - don't screw the crew

We're reckless, always have been.

That first kiss a drug, never should have taken it.

Thank god for soundproof, they're all sat next door while I'm fucking him harder, fucking him louder.

We're reckless. No locks. Daytime sex. Blowjobs in the kitchen. They still haven't guessed. "Thank god I'm not pregnant." "From what sex?" Still they don't know. Sex once a day, every day, twice a day, condoms from the doctors are out in two weeks, he buys a box more, they pick it up from the door, 144, is he having that much sex? With me, yes. Missing lectures for the flat to ourselves, kissing in the club, invisible in a crowd of so many eyes.

We're reckless with our words. "Yeah we fuck in the kitchen all the time," we play it like a joke and they think it's all a joke and we're fucking reckless. Reckless fucking. Think they'll ever find out? I doubt it.

#polyamorish #personal poetry #from a past me though #my poetry #my writing #writeblr #poetry

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inked-waves · 4 years

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Rural Boys Watch The Apocalypse (rough draft) by Keaton St. James

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