Useful Writing Resources
This is an extensive list of resources for every problem you could come across while writing/planning/editing your novel. Use it well;)
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Planning/outlining Your Work
How To Outline ***
Zigzag Method : Creating Plots
How to Plot a Romance Novel
Seven Great Sources of Conflict for Romances
Let’s talk about brainstorming
Writing Something With Meaning ***
Past Or Present Tense? : How To Decide
Writing Your Work
How To Write A Fabulous Chapter #1 ***
How to Build a Romance Thread in Your Story
The Big Book Of Writing Sex ***
6 Ways to Get Your Readers Shipping Like Crazy
Romance Writing Tips ***
20 Tips for Writing Lovable Romance Novel Heroes
7 Ways To Speed Up Your Writing ***
80+ Barriers to Love: A List of Ideas to Keep Romantic Tension High
9 Romance Writing Mistakes to Avoid
Removing the Creeps From Romance
19 Ways to Write Better Dialogue ***
50 Things Your Characters Can Do WHILE They Talk ***
How To Write Action And Fight Scenes
10 Steps To Write Arguments
9 Ways To Write Body Language
Writing Good Kissing Scenes
Writing Murders
Create And Control Tone ***
Tips for Writing Ghost Stories
Incorporating Flashbacks
12 Tips To Avoid Overwriting ***
Characters
Behind the Name
Top Baby Names
Looking for a name that means a certain thing? ***
7 Rules of Picking Names
Most Common Surnames ***
Minor Character Development
Writing Antagonists, Antiheroes and Villains
Characters With Enhanced Senses
5 Tips to Help You Introduce Characters
How Do You Describe a Character?
How To Write Child Characters
36 Core Values For Building Character
Questions To Answer When Creating Characters ***
4 Ways to Make Readers Instantly Loathe Your Character Descriptions
5 Ways to Keep Characters Consistent
Character Archetypes
25 Ways To Fuck With Your Characters
Building Platonic Relationships Between Female Characters
9 Simple and Powerful Ways to Write Body Language
33 Ways To Write Stronger Characters
Conveying Character Emotion
How to Make Readers Love an Unlikable Character…
How to Create Powerful Character Combos
How To Describe A Character’s Voice ***
Describing Clothing And Appearance ***
Career Masterpost ***
Creating Your Character’s Personality ***
Character Flaws ***
Editing
DON’T EDIT>>> REWRITE THE WHOLE THING FIRST
Ultimate Guide To Editing Each Aspect Of Your Work ***
Why You Would Read Your Novel Out Loud ***
Grammar and Punctuation ***
How To Write A Captivating First Sentence
10 Things Your Opening Chapter Should Do: A Check-List for Self-Editing ***
Saving Your Story: Finding Where It Went Wrong
How To Condense Without Losing Anything
The Stages Of Editing
Dialogue/Description Balance
3 Proofreading Tips
The Short Story Form
Chapter & Novel Lengths
Anatomy Of A Novel : Chapters and Parts ***
How To Write Chapter After Chapter Until You Have A Book ***
Where Chapter #2 Should Start
Step By Step Guide To Editing Your Draft
Writing Tool: CTRL-F (How And Why You Should Use It) ***
How To Kill A Character
25 Steps To Edit The Unmerciful Suck Out Of Your Story
5 Ways To Make Your Novel Helplessly Addictive ***
Setting
{Setting} How To Describe Setting In Your Stories ***
20 Questions To Enhance Setting
How To Bring Your Setting To Life
Miscellaneous Resources You Can Use In Between
How to Write from a Guy’s POV
The Emotional Wounds Thesaurus
Text To Speech Reader
Compare Character Heights
A Visual Dictionary of Tops
Writers Helping Writers
7 Tricks To Imrove Your Writing Overnight
Work Out/ Word Count : Exercise Between Writing ***
Most Important Writing Tips ***
Let’s talk about diversity in novels
Letting Go Of Your Story
Keeping A Healthy Writing Schedule And Avoiding Procrastination ***
How To Create A Good Book Cover
Write or Die
Tip of my Tongue
Character Traits Form
Online Thesaurus
Writing Sketchy/Medical/Law
Coma: Types, Causes, etc
Tips for writing blood loss
Gunshot Wound Care
Examples of Hospital Forms
Common Legal Questions
The Writer’s Forensics Blog
Brain Injury Legal Guide
Types of Surgical Operations
Types of Mental Health Problems
A Day in the Life of a Mental Hospital Patient
Global Black Market Information ***
Crime Scene Science
Examining Mob Mentality
How Street Gangs Work
Writers’ Block Help/ Productivity
Story Plot Generator
@aveeragemusings ‘ Cure To Writers’ Block ***
50 Romance Plot Ideas
Reading Like A Writer ***
Defeat Writers’ Block
Writing In A Bad Mood ***
Writers Block
When You’ve Lost Motivation To Write A Novel ***
What To Do When The Words Won’t Flow ***
9 Ways To Be A More Productive Writer
“I Cannot Write A Good Sentence Today” (How To Get Over It) ***
Real Writing Advice ***
Info You Need To Know & Words You Didn’t Think Of
A Writer’s Thesaurus ***
Words To Describe… ***
Words & Phrases To Use In Your Sex Scenes ***
Colors (An Extensive List Of Colors)
List Of Kinks & Fetishes ***
List Of Elemental Abilities
inkarnate.com : World Creator And Map Maker For Your Imaginary Setting
Body Language Phrases
List Of Legendary Creatures
How To Write Magic
Hairstyle References
Hemingway : Writing Checker
Body Types: Words To Describe Bodies and How They Move Around
Poisonous Herbs and Plants ***
The Psychology of Color
The Meaning behind Rose color
Types of Swords
Color Symbolism
How a handgun works
How to Write a Eulogy
Types of Crying
Avoiding LGBTQ Stereotypes ***
Superstitions and More
The 12 Common Archetypes
Language of Flowers
12 Realistic Woman Body Shapes
Using Feedback And Reviews
Turning Negative Reviews Into Positive Ones ***
Proofreading Marks : Easy Symbols To Make Reviewing/Feedback Easier ***
Authonomy
Teen Ink
Figment
Fiction Press
ReviewFuse
These Are Trusted Critique Sites ;)
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A little ficlet of Lucius cuddling and loving his little baby Draco with a small sidedish of angsty forshadowing!
I’ve had this image in my head forever and decided to write it out. I can’t really decide if I like the flow of it but aaanywaay.. I needed some warm cuddly family time.
Narcissa entered the room in which she had last seen her husband. Lucius head snapped up and a heated glare was directed over his shoulder towards the steps entering the room. The heat faded from his eyes the second he saw her, but the sharp snap of his head had been sign enough to tell her to slow her steps and move forwards quietly. It had been a clear warning of: do not disturb. Lucius was sitting on the sofa facing the big window in little library right next to Draco’s nursery. As she rounded the back-rest she saw a little bundle of soft clothes and hair so fair it seemed white in her husband’s arms. She placed her hand on her husband’s shoulder, but he wasn’t looking at her. He had returned his gaze to the small sleeping baby in his embrace. A warm and gentle smile played on his lips; one he had only ever directed towards her before. A smile so small she doubted he knew he was doing it. His eyes were ever softer than his smile could ever be as they took in the sight of his sleeping son in his arms. Narcissa saw how Draco’s little cheek pouted out as it lay resting on his father’s chest, how his small hand gripped at Lucius shirt the best his small fingers could hold. She wanted the moment to last forever, just the three of them in the soft afternoon light, warm and adoring. She knew this little bundle wouldn’t stay so little forever but she could wish.
She glanced to her husband’s face. He still hadn’t taken his eyes off Draco. His thumb going ever so slowly back and forth in soft pats where he could reach as he held his son in his arms. Her smile grew wider as she stared at the two. Incredibly happy that after so many struggles they too could have such a moment. They could be a family. Her gaze soon retreated to her lovely boy. His soft cheeks, hair softer than any material, and so small.
She watched as his small chest moved as he slept, safe and secure in his father’s arms. Draco usually falls asleep like that. She doesn’t know if it’s because Lucius can’t help but pick him up the second he gets home from his duties at the ministry, or if Draco just calms by and feels safe in his father’s arms. It wasn’t the first time she had found them like this. It also wasn’t the first time Lucius had directed the harsh and poisonous look her way by accident. Lucius was as fiercely protective of Draco as he was loving. The look Lucius got in his eyes when anyone ever came near to hurt a hair on their son’s head told her that he’d tear men to shreds with his bare hands; he’d kill anyone who’d hurt his child. Draco were to be protected, from everything, always, at all costs. A feeling she shared.
As Draco grew this sentiment, the care, and the piercing focus on anyone nearing his child never faded from Lucius eyes, but the way of expressing them changed. They turned into discipline exercises and critique. They turned into etiquette lessons and stern looks. She didn’t particularly agree with all her husband’s stern words, but she always understood what he was doing. He would do everything in his power to make sure Draco would be safe even when they weren’t around. He would teach Draco how to protect himself. He would try to protect Draco from the world, and the people in it, the best he could by teaching him how to handle the world and what to expect from it. It would often make Lucius seem harsher than he is as other’s only hear the words. They never understand that his scolding’s are never cruel, never ill intended, but no one has seen him as she has; hasn’t seen him with his warm adoring eyes staring at the soft bundle held close and safe in his arms; hasn’t see how he looks at his son with the same warm gaze, adoration shining when Draco succeeds, when he’s sad, when he’s not doing anything in particular. Narcissa do and she knows. She knows that no matter how old Draco grows, when he comes to his father in the privacy of their own home or with hurt or sadness on his features, his father will melt all the same. He’ll hold his precious baby in his arms and promise to make the hurt go away; promise to make sure it’ll never happen again. Lucius can’t help it. He’ll burn down worlds to keep Draco safe; he can’t help the words of promise from leaving his lips in whispers of comfort. Promising him the perfect world he feels his son deserves, where no one can hurt him. Promising it will get better. Dad will make it better. - The same promises he’s told ever since he held that small bundle in his arms for the very first time.
The torment on Lucius’ face they day he can’t help; when his son is hurting but he can’t reach him to comfort him, will break Narcissa’s heart. It will be subtle, just like it has always been, but it will there. A raging, furious fire blazing beneath the cool surface, ready to explode. Lucius loves his son beyond anything he’s ever loved, loves him more than life itself. It hurts him worse than any physical pain ever could to not be able to reach him. No one outside their family will see it, but Narcissa will know. She’ll see it. She’ll sees it as clearly then as now when Lucius is making sure his son sleeps undisturbed in his arms, holding him gently and just watches him. A small smile firm on his lips, silently promising to protect him for the world – even though it’s a promise he won’t be able to keep. The way Lucius holds his son and looks down at him tells her all she needs to know to see it all those other times no one else does.
And Draco loves his father just as much. She sees it in the small hand clutching his father’s shirt; in how he’ll bolt towards the door on wobbly legs with feet that has barely learnt to walk. How he’ll reach his arms up to be lifted at the sight of his father. How he’ll turn to his father in frustration, in pride, in hurt and find shelter in his arms. She’ll see it in how his eyes will slowly slide towards them, seeking their comfort in a situation where they can’t do anything else than merely look at each other. She’ll see it in the way he takes the stupid mark to keep them safe. Lucius will be furious and hopeless knowing he can’t help his son, can’t keep him safe, can’t protect him from the hurt they’re enduring. Her husband’s pain of broken promises will hurt almost as much as the look on Draco face; that he knows not even his father can protect him from this, that it’s his time to keep them safe.
Narcissa doesn’t know this will come as she stares at them, eyes bright and smile gentle, but she tucks away this piece of serenity and the image of love in her heart to keep forever all the same.
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For anyone who wants a free pose-able human reference for drawing
The other day I came across this awesome program by accident (I don’t even remember what I was actually searching for, but on the several times I’ve looked for a program like this I’ve had no luck). It’s cool enough that I wanted to share it.
It’s called DesignDoll (website here) and it’s a program that lets you shape and pose a human figure pretty much however you want.
There’s a trial version with no expiration date that can be downloaded for free, as well as the “pro license” version priced at $79. I’ve only had the free version for two days so far, so I’m not an expert and I haven’t figured out all of the features yet, but I’ve got the basics down. The website’s tutorials are actually pretty helpful for the basics, as well.
Here’s the page for download, which has a list of the features available in both versions.
There are three features the free version doesn’t have:
Can’t save OBJ files for export
Can’t download models and poses from Doll Atelier (a sharing site for users; note that the site is in Japanese, though)
It can’t load saved files
The third one means that if you make a pose, save it, and close the program, you can’t load that pose/modified model later. You have to start with the default model. I found that out when I tried to load a file from the day before (this is why reading is important…). Whether saving your modifications (and downloading models and poses) is worth $80 is up to you.
But, the default model is pretty nice and honestly if all you’re looking for is a basic pose reference it should work fairly well as it is. Here’s what it looks like:
There’s a pose tag that lets you drag each joint into place and rotate body parts. The torso and waist can be twisted separately, and it seems like everything pretty much follows the range of movement it would have on an actual human.
Even the entire shoulder area is actually movable along with the joint! See, like how the scapular area of the back raises with the arm:
The morphing tag is one of the coolest features, in my opinion. It lets you pick and choose from a library of pre-set forms for the head, chest, arms, legs, etc. It has some more realistic body shapes in addition to more anime-like ones. Don’t like the options there? Mix a few to get what you want! Each option has a slider that lets you blend as much or as little as you want into the design.
So you, too, can create beautiful things like kawaii Muscle-chan!!
The scale tag lets you mess with the proportions and connection points of different joints. This feature combined with the morphing feature not only allows more body shape variations, but it also means that you can do things like make a more digitigrade model if you want. (The feet only have an ankle joint, but for regular human poses that’s all that you really need, so whatever.)
Or you can make a weird chubby alien-like thing with giant hands and balloon tiddies if that’s more your thing.
The ability to pose hands to the extent it allows is far more than I could have hoped for from a free program. Seriously, you can change the position of each finger joint individually, as well as how spread out the fingers are from each other. Each crease on the diagram below is a point of movement, and the circles are for spread between fingers.
And to make it a bit more convenient, there’s a library of pre-set hand poses you can pick from as well, and then change the pose from that if you like.
In both versions, you can also import OBJ files from other places for the model to hold, like if you wanted to have them hold a sword or something.
Basically, this program is awesome and free and you should totally check it out if you want a good program for creating pose references.
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