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May Writing Challenge
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This May I want to get back into writing. I’m not at all consistent. I’m at a point where I don’t feel like I can work on bigger things, because I can’t guarantee myself to keep working on it in a week from now. So I will take this month as a training month to get back into the habit of writing. I will do this by writing (or trying to write) 200 words every day. Topic is irrelevant. How great my writing is that day is irrelevant. Just 200 words written down. A habit taking 21 days to form was debunked, it does take a lot longer, but 31 days are a start I would say. These are already 140 words, so 200 words every day are hopefully manageable. You're more than welcome to join me if you like 😊
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komorebirabbitwrites · 2 months
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PSA to fan creators who don't have a lot of regular contact with children: They are almost always bigger than you think. A 1-year-old baby may already be walking. A toddler is likely already hip-high. A 10-year-old may already be taller than at least one of their parents. A 14/15 year old may already have reached their adult height.
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komorebirabbitwrites · 2 months
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How To End Your Story
The Circle Ending: A story that does a full circle and comes back to the beginning
The Moral Ending: An ending where you learn a lesson and see the character develop
The Surprise Ending: A big plot twist last-minute
The Reflection Ending: The character looks back on their past achievements and experiences
The Emotional Ending: Leave your readers feelings sad, bittersweet, or happy
The Cliffhanger Ending: End on something that will leave your readers at the edge of their seat
The Humor Ending: Finish in a funny or humorous way
The Question Ending: Make the reader wonder what will happen next
The Image Ending: Show, don't tell
The Dialogue Ending: Finish with a quote from one of your characters
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komorebirabbitwrites · 2 months
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if anyone wants the secret to writing: you have to break your leg and then drink a thermos of coffee and then drink an apple martini and then listen to a playlist of Japanese synth music while ignoring your bladder. after all that, you will be able to write 500 words
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komorebirabbitwrites · 2 months
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Resources For Writing Deaf, Mute, or Blind Characters
Despite the fact that I am not deaf, mute, or blind myself, one of the most common questions I receive is how to portray characters with these disabilities in fiction.
As such, I’ve compiled the resources I’ve accumulated (from real life deaf, mute, or blind people) into a handy masterlist.
Deaf Characters:
Deaf characters masterpost
Deaf dialogue thread
Dialogue with signing characters (also applies to mute characters.)
A deaf author’s advice on deaf characters
Dialogue between deaf characters
Mute Characters
Life as a Mute
My Silent Summer:  Life as a Mute
What It’s Like Being Mute
21 People Reveal What It’s Really Like To Be Mute
I am a 20 year old Mute, ask me anything at all!
Blind Characters:
The 33 Worst Mistakes Writers Make About Blind Characters.
@referenceforwriters masterpost of resources for writing/playing blind characters.
The youtube channel of the wonderful Tommy Edison, a man blind from birth with great insight into the depiction of blind people and their lives.
An Absolute Write thread on the depiction of blind characters, with lots of different viewpoints and some great tips.
And finally, this short, handy masterpost of resources for writing blind characters.
Characters Who Are Blind in One Eye
4 Ways Life Looks Shockingly Different With One Eye
Learning to Live With One Eye
Adapting to the Loss of an Eye
Adapting to Eye Loss and Monocular Vision
Monocular Depth Perception
Deaf-Blind Characters
What Is It Like To Be Deafblind?
Going Deaf and Blind in a City of Noise and Lights
Deaf and Blind by 30
Sarita is Blind, Deaf, and Employed (video)
Born Deaf and Blind, This Eritrean American Graduated Harvard Law School (video)
A Day of a Deaf Blind Person
Lesser Known Things About Being Deafblind
How the Deaf-Blind Communicate
Early Interactions With Children Who Are Deaf-Blind
Raising a DeafBlind Baby
If you have any more resources to add, let me know!  I’ll be adding to this post as I find more resources.
I hope this helps, and happy writing!  <3
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komorebirabbitwrites · 2 months
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Many fanfic writers and artists are just one bad day or one discouraging experience away from throwing in the towel and leaving your fandom.
If you don't want to risk this happening to a favorite creator of yours, today might be a good day to let them know how much their work means to you. :)
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I hate the whole discourse of: "fanfic writers need to accept criticism so they can improve". Look, I did not post 5k of men blowing their loads so that I can become Hemingway or something, just don't read it if you don't want to, or do read it and drop your damn thanks in the tin.
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komorebirabbitwrites · 3 months
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(special occasion kiss on the temple?)
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There was something you were hiding, on the night you ran away.
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komorebirabbitwrites · 3 months
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Isle of Roses
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Entrusted with the most important mission of his life, Shisui, the youngest heir of the Uchiha clan, travels to Uzushio to broker an alliance with the Uzumaki clan. Sakura is given the opportunity to prove herself to her family. Written for @secretie, part of ShiSaku Rodeo's Lunar Exchange!
Rating: M
Ship: Shisui/Sakura
Tags: Ao3 | Tumblr
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komorebirabbitwrites · 4 months
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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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komorebirabbitwrites · 4 months
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Decided to do this ao3 wrapped, writer's edition [here]
Questions answered below the cut
How many words have you written this year?
Started tracking in early April so it's not completely accurate, but somewhere around 98,339 words
How many works did you publish this year?
11 separate works but I posted/updated 16 times
What work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits)?
Probably Lotus Eater! Or my ShiObitober works
What work of yours has the most hits?
Talking To The Moon. It has double the closest work
What work of yours got more feedback than you expected?
Honestly? Heretic got more love than I had expected. I really wasn't proud of that one but people seem to like it
Favorite title you used
Lotus Eater, hands down (thank you, Jo!). Black Sea Wine and Honey & Harvest are runners up.
If you use song lyrics, which artist’s songs did you pull from the most?
I don't really use lyrics to title works but I do include lyrics in almost everything. - Heretic is inspired by Florence + The Machine. - Death and All His Friends includes I Found by Amber Run, and Broken Crown by Mumford and Sons. - Talking to the Moon is the only one that's a lyric title. It's (obviously Talking To The Moon by Bruno Mars). It also has Blood Upon The Snow by Hozier, Who Are You, Really? by Mikky Ekko (VERY kkob in this fic), Which Witch by Florence + The Machine (again), and Love Is A... by PVRIS.
Pairing you wrote the most for this year?
ShiObi (3 times)
Favorite pairing you wrote for this year?
ShiObi or TobiKaga, probably!
What work was the quickest to write?
Ino Supremacy Flash Fics were quickest. Other than that, probably Black Sea Wine for ShiSaku week
What work took you the longest to write?
I started Death and All His Friends in 2019, so that one, obviously.
How many WIP’s do you have in your docs for next year?
Uhh, fuck, somewhere around 15?
What’s your longest work of the year?
Talking To The Moon is now my longest at just under 20k
What’s your shortest work of the year?
Better with 384 words
What WIP are you taking into next year with you?
Talking To The Moon, Honey & Harvest, Golden Veil of Autumn, and Heretic.
What’s your most common “Additional Tags” tag?
Ino Supremacy, I think. Otherwise its something to do with suicide.
Your favorite character to write this year?
Obito!!!! my son
The character that gave you the most trouble writing this year?
Definitely Tobirama. Love him, but he's tough.
What’s one pairing you want to explore next year?
More ShiObi! Or maybe TobiIzuKaga
Which work of yours have you reread the most?
Technically Heretic 'cause that editing process was brutal. For leisure, definitely Lotus Eater.
How many kudos in total did you get this year?
557
Which work has the most comments?
Talking To The Moon, by far.
Did you do any collaborative works this year?
With another writer, no, but I did collab with TBH-Logic on my ShiObitober works! She created some gorgeous art.
Did you write any gifts this year?
Lotus Eater!
Did you receive any gifts this year?
YES 😭 Jo's A Quiet Thunder was gifted to me and I'm still obsessed
What’s your most common category?
M/M
What do you listen to while writing?
Usually anything, though I do have specific fic or character playlists
Favorite work you wrote this year?
Lotus Eater
Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?
Oh, man, this one is hard. I'll list a few, I guess From Heretic: Konan reforms from a scattered wall of paper, pulled together like beads on a string. Kakashi screwing with Tenzo at the end of chapter 1 in Talking To The Moon still makes me laugh. In chapter 2, It was a vulnerable position with Nobara in his blind spot, and it was instinct to want to push back. But what did it matter in the end? Nobara would kill him or he would fuck him. Either way, Kakashi would be satisfied. In Death and All His Friends: “I don’t think it’s peace that bothers you, it’s change.” Izuna’s glare grew hotter, fury simmering just beyond dark eyes. Tobirama was not cowed by it. “You fear what your place would be in a world that no longer needs soldiers when being a soldier is all you know.” and A cocky smirk curled his lips at Tobirama’s muttering, an eidolon of days long past and nightmares that continued to haunt him. “You should know by now,” Izuna crooned. “You will never get rid of me.”
Biggest surprise while writing this year?
Editing sucks, but I knew that. I'm surprised at how much I posted, honestly.
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A lotus-eater is a person who spends their time indulging in pleasure and luxury rather than dealing with practical concerns.  Kagami will continue to pretend this isn’t temporary.
Rating: E
Ship: Tobirama/Kagami
Tags: AO3 | Tumblr
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komorebirabbitwrites · 5 months
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I was getting pretty fed up with links and generators with very general and overused weapons and superpowers and what have you for characters so:
Here is a page for premodern weapons, broken down into a ton of subcategories, with the weapon’s region of origin. 
Here is a page of medieval weapons.
Here is a page of just about every conceived superpower.
Here is a page for legendary creatures and their regions of origin.
Here are some gemstones.
Here is a bunch of Greek legends, including monsters, gods, nymphs, heroes, and so on. 
Here is a website with a ton of (legally attained, don’t worry) information about the black market.
Here is a website with information about forensic science and cases of death. Discretion advised. 
Here is every religion in the world. 
Here is every language in the world.
Here are methods of torture. Discretion advised.
Here are descriptions of the various methods used for the death penalty. Discretion advised.
Here are poisonous plants.
Here are plants in general.
Feel free to add more to this!
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komorebirabbitwrites · 5 months
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Forgot to add chapter 5!
Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Naruto Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Hatake Kakashi/Uchiha Obito Characters: Hatake Kakashi, Uchiha Obito, Yamato | Tenzou, Uchiha Itachi Additional Tags: Suicide Attempt, Multiple Suicide Attempts, Survivor Guilt, Pre-canon and then follows canon timeline, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Hatake Kakashi is Not Okay, Obito’s going to punt him in the face (with his weird dysfunctional love but also just to punt him), It’s gonna hurt a lot before it gets better, actually that’s probably a lie, Slow Burn, It’s just gonna hurt Summary:
Death won’t welcome him, open arms or otherwise. Unfortunately, someone else will.
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