iwillneverbeawriter
I Will Never Be A Writer
My words just don’t match my imagination.(plus I’m really bad at punctuation)
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“bad villain man has a soft spot for one person” is a god-tier trope, but when the person in question is his MOM?????????????? the best shit
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Writing Tips
Descriptions in Between Dialogue
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⤠ how characters interact with the environment
⇝ moving something, picking something up, looking somewhere
⤠ how the environment interacts with the characters
⇝ weather, other character’s actions or movements
⤠ gestures
⇝ facial expressions, body language
⤠ shifts in position
⇝ standing, sitting, leaning, shifting weight, crossing arms/legs
⤠ physical reactions
⇝ body temperature, fidgeting, heart rate, character quirks
⤠ environmental descriptions
⇝ descriptions using the five senses, setting, character’s appearances
⤠ internal dialogue
⇝ emotional reaction to what was said, reflection of past experiences, connections to other characters/settings/actions
➵ I want to reiterate… descriptions using the five senses ; when in doubt, think of the five senses your character is experiencing and pick what best moves the story forward
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show, don't tell:
anticipation
- bouncing legs
- darting eyes
- breathing deeply
- useless / mindless tasks
- eyes on the clock
- checking and re-checking
frustration
- grumbling
- heavy footsteps
- hot flush
- narrowed eyes
- pointing fingers
- pacing / stomping
sadness
- eyes filling up with tears
- blinking quickly
- hiccuped breaths
- face turned away
- red / burning cheeks
- short sentences with gulps
happiness
- smiling / cheeks hurting
- animated
- chest hurts from laughing
- rapid movements
- eye contact
- quick speaking
boredom
- complaining
- sighing
- grumbling
- pacing
- leg bouncing
- picking at nails
fear
- quick heartbeat
- shaking / clammy hands
- pinching self
- tuck away
- closing eyes
- clenched hands
disappointment
- no eye contact
- hard swallow
- clenched hands
- tears, occasionally
- mhm-hmm
tiredness
- spacing out
- eyes closing
- nodding head absently
- long sighs
- no eye contact
- grim smile
confidence
- prolonged eye contact
- appreciates instead of apologizing
- active listening
- shoulders back
- micro reactions
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Writing Tips
Punctuating Dialogue
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➸ “This is a sentence.”
➸ “This is a sentence with a dialogue tag at the end,” she said.
➸ “This,” he said, “is a sentence split by a dialogue tag.”
➸ “This is a sentence,” she said. “This is a new sentence. New sentences are capitalized.”
➸ “This is a sentence followed by an action.” He stood. “They are separate sentences because he did not speak by standing.”
➸ She said, “Use a comma to introduce dialogue. The quote is capitalized when the dialogue tag is at the beginning.”
➸ “Use a comma when a dialogue tag follows a quote,” he said.
“Unless there is a question mark?” she asked.
“Or an exclamation point!” he answered. “The dialogue tag still remains uncapitalized because it’s not truly the end of the sentence.”
➸ “Periods and commas should be inside closing quotations.”
➸ “Hey!” she shouted, “Sometimes exclamation points are inside quotations.”
However, if it’s not dialogue exclamation points can also be “outside”!
➸ “Does this apply to question marks too?” he asked.
If it’s not dialogue, can question marks be “outside”? (Yes, they can.)
➸ “This applies to dashes too. Inside quotations dashes typically express—“
“Interruption” — but there are situations dashes may be outside.
➸ “You’ll notice that exclamation marks, question marks, and dashes do not have a comma after them. Ellipses don’t have a comma after them either…” she said.
➸ “My teacher said, ‘Use single quotation marks when quoting within dialogue.’”
➸ “Use paragraph breaks to indicate a new speaker,” he said.
“The readers will know it’s someone else speaking.”
➸ “If it’s the same speaker but different paragraph, keep the closing quotation off.
“This shows it’s the same character continuing to speak.”
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You don’t have to be a perfect writer to start writing your story. Just start. The more you write, the better you become.
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“Writing is meant to move the heart, the mind, the soul–not the page-view meter.”
— Maria Popova
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Writing is first and foremost about having fun.
So write the story you want to write, no matter how cliché or overdone of a concept it might be. You are allowed to explore your ideas, create your write stories, even if it happens to be filled with millions of things we’ve already seen before.
As long as you enjoy what you're doing, and are passionate about your projects, that's more than enough reason to continue! So try not to give too much thought into what other people are trying to tell you, because there’s an audience for everything. Some people do actively seek out stories with ''washed up'' concepts.
Besides, you are not sacrificing your creativity by choosing to write about something that has been done before. Quite the opposite.
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“…but wearing black, no matter how much she claimed to be part of this court … It sucked the life from her.”
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“I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.”
— Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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someone tell 6th grade me the PJO show is about to be filmed and then catch her when she faints
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Feyre: Did you think I would go with him?
Rhysand: I heard every word between you. I knew you could take care of yourself, and yet...
And yet I found myself deciding that if you took his hand, I would find a way to live with it. It would be your choice.
Feyre: And if he had grabbed me?
Rhysand: Then I would have torn apart the world to get you back.
Feyre: I would have fired at him, if he had tried to hurt you.
Rhysand: I know.
Rhysand: I'm thinking, that I look at you and feel like I'm dying. Like I can't breathe. I'm thinking that I want you so badly I can't concentrate half the time I'm around you, and this room is too small for me to properly bed you. Especially with the wings.
Feyre: I'm thinking that I can't stop thinking about you. And that it's been that way for a long while. Even before I left the Spring Court. And maybe that makes me a traitorous, lying piece of trash, but-
Rhysand: It doesn't.
Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
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"It's a rare person to face who they truly are and not run from it--not be broken by it."
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"Myself. I saw myself."
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"It was, perhaps, the one thing I would never show him. Anyone. How I had cowered and raged and wept. How I had vomited, and screamed, and clawed at the mirror. Slammed my fists into it. And then curled up, trembling at every horrific and cruel and selfish thing I'd beheld within that monster--within me.
And when my shaking stopped, I studied it. All of those wretched things. The pride and the hypocrisy and the shame. The rage and the cowardice and the hurt. Then I began to see other things. More important things--more vital.
'I think--I think I loved it. Forgave it--me. All of it'"
From m.alinki (instagram deleted)
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Survivors, victims, perpetrators: these roles are not always separate. People can be wounded and wounding at the same time, or at different times in the same life.
Natalie Haynes - A Thousand Ships
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