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Symbolism Associated With Flowers For Writers
Acacia: Since ancient times, acacia has been associated with purity and innocence. It is also a symbol of resurrection and new beginnings.
Amaryllis: Amaryllis is a symbol of passion and desire. It is also associated with strength and courage.
Anemone: Anemone is a symbol of grief and sorrow. It is also associated with hope and new beginnings.
Azalea: Azalea is a symbol of love, passion, and desire. It is also associated with beauty and elegance.
Carnation: Carnation is a symbol of love, affection, and appreciation. It is also associated with motherhood and childbirth.
Chrysanthemum: Chrysanthemum is a symbol of longevity, happiness, and good luck. It is also associated with death and mourning.
Daisy: Daisy is a symbol of innocence, purity, and simplicity. It is also associated with childhood and new beginnings.
Delphinium: Delphinium is a symbol of wisdom, knowledge, and understanding. It is also associated with royalty and nobility
Frangipani: Frangipani is a symbol of love, passion, and desire. It is also associated with beauty and elegance.
Gardenia: Gardenia is a symbol of purity, innocence, and grace. It is also associated with love and admiration.
Gerbera Daisy: Gerbera daisy is a symbol of new beginnings, happiness, and joy. It is also associated with optimism and hope.
Hyacinth: Hyacinth is a symbol of love, passion, and desire. It is also associated with grief and sorrow.
Iris: Iris is a symbol of faith, hope, and wisdom. It is also associated with royalty and nobility.
Lily: Lily is a symbol of purity, innocence, and chastity. It is also associated with resurrection and new beginnings.
Lily of the Valley: Lily of the valley is a symbol of purity, innocence, and sweetness. It is also associated with new beginnings and springtime.
Magnolia: Magnolia is a symbol of love, beauty, and elegance. It is also associated with femininity and motherhood.
Orchid: Orchid is a symbol of love, passion, and desire. It is also associated with beauty, rarity, and luxury.
Rose: Rose is the most popular flower in the world and has a wide range of symbolism. It can symbolize love, passion, desire, beauty, romance, friendship, gratitude, and respect.
Tulip: Tulip is a symbol of love, passion, and desire. It is also associated with springtime and new beginnings.
Why Symbolism With Flowers Is Important For Writers
Flowers can be used to foreshadow events or themes in a story. For example, a writer might use a white rose to foreshadow a character's death, or a red rose to foreshadow a romantic encounter.
Flowers can be used to represent characters' emotions or motivations. For example, a character who is feeling sad might be described as holding a wilted flower, or a character who is feeling passionate might be described as surrounded by roses.
Flowers can be used to create symbolism that is specific to a particular culture or region. For example, in some cultures, the lotus flower is a symbol of purity and enlightenment, while in other cultures, it is a symbol of death and rebirth.
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How to Write on Final Draft (without it feeling so daunting)
It's incredibly difficult to open up a Final Draft document without feeling like you're literally writing your final draft, so here's a few features you can use your advantage!
1. Turn on dark mode
Dark mode makes it look like less of a script and more of an outline. Edit and rewrite in light mode, you will feel the difference.
2. Use speed view
Speed view gets rid of pages and page numbers and therefore you are only looking at the words you type.
3. Use focus mode
Focus mode remove the scenes, page numbers, and outlines you have at the top on the program while writing. Another way to forget about focusing on progress.
4. Make a messy beat board
Throw all your ideas onto the beat board, it should help make the document feel a bit more lived-in and less pristine.
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5. Set a template with your formatting and use that to start every script you write
While a script format is very ridged, there are things you can do to personalize it. When you find those things, make them in a Final Draft doc (without actual writing) and save as your own template so you don't have to change all the elements every time.
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“I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them — without a thought about publication — and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.”
— Anne Tyler
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Write a note
Make a story
Vomit your thoughts
Record your messy brain
Writing anything is still writing
Which means it’s progress no matter how small
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“To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.”
— Anne Rice
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A Quick Tip: Themes and Morals
The Theme and Moral of your story go hand in hand and are often confused as the same thing. They are very similar and work together to create a compelling, cohesive story.
The theme of your novel is the central idea of your story. It’s woven throughout your entire novel, revealing itself in conflicts and your character’s actions.
Some major themes: love, redemption, survival, coming of age, good vs. evil, revenge, war, etc.
The moral of your story is the deeper meaning of your book, often a lesson or belief that the author wants to leave the reader with.
A story with the theme of love might have a moral (or lesson) such as beauty is in the eye of the beholder or love has no limits.
To further understand your theme/moral, ask yourself:
“What lesson do I want to leave my readers with when they finish my book?”
Then answer it in one sentence:
Theme: Love
Lesson/Moral: I want to show my readers that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Theme: War
Lesson/Moral: I want my readers to understand that good can’t exist without evil.
Theme: Coming of Age
Lesson/Moral: Don’t judge a book by its cover.
Supporting Themes
To really sell your theme and make it the strongest that it can be, adding in supporting themes can elevate your story.
Supporting themes are smaller ideas that branch off of and are related to the main theme. Weaving these smaller themes into your side characters can help create a very well-rounded story.
Main theme: Love
Some supporting themes: Trust, comfort, obsession, self-love, envy, jealousy, friendship.
Example: A protagonist is forced to marry an evil king. His concubine becomes jealous of your protagonist who is just trying to find self-love amidst this huge change. The king becomes envious when a knight is overly friendly to the protagonist, who feels as if she can trust this knight as a friend. A group of villagers are obsessed with the king and bully the protagonist. An elderly servant brings comfort to the protagonist by acting as a mother figure.
All of these side characters and subplots support the main theme of love! Everything ties in together.
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Such good advice for worldbuilding!
Happy Worldbuilding Wednesday!
I might or might not have touched on this already, but in my Longest Night book(s), I use resources and lack thereof as both a major worldbuilding tool, and I also use it as a major source of conflic. Here’s a few examples of resources being used to drive conflict.
For example, in the titular Village of Lights, the lights themselves are a resource! The city is built around them, and while some exist in the outskirts, those are regularly changed out to ensure they don’t “go dark.” (My magic system could be a post of its own, so just go with it for the sake of staying on topic). While theoretically this could end here, I added a little more depth with them being cared for as pieces as the goddess they worship: Lucx. The existence of these light sources mean they can accomplish farming in the cold wasteland, but they have to be highly concentrated in buildings that are well sealed—the gardens! (Oh how I wish I could show these off more, but they don’t fit well into the plot anymore.) In this case, the fact that there is a finite amount of these light sources that can only dwindle drives the plot with people seeking a way to make a more permanent, widespread light and attempt to bring forth a goddess.
While this is a very specific example, there are a lot of ways you can use resources (or lack thereof) to shape the world. In a more real world example, poverty can be considered lacking in resources. In the current system (at least in the U.S.) capitalism ties access of resources to money, so any get rich quick and/or rags to riches (or riches to rags) plots are, in fact, centered around the resource of money.
A few other examples:
In Avatar (the blue alien cat movie, not the Airbender kind) the conflict was driven by the human soldiers wanting Unobtainium to help with a resource crisis on earth.
In the Hunger Games, class disparity is a MAJOR source of tension with the Capitol having seemingly endless resources while the Districts starve. This (and the titular dystopian murder reality tv program) are a large part of the ongoing conflict.
In Dune, the desire for the addictive Spice helps power the plot, making the desert planet desirable.
So as seen here, resources and/or lacking resources can be a great catalyst for conflict in a story. It’s not the only way to write a conflict, naturally, and you should absolutely have character conflicts and other sub-plots alongside it. I think the reason this works so well though is because it’s a very real motivation that people can commonly share. Everyone needs to eat, needs shelter, needs clean water, etc., so it gives us a good way to empathize with the characters and an easy, understandable motivation. Plus it also ties the plot and setting together to make it feel more real.
Thank you for reading, happy Wednesday!
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Writing a character driven story
Creating a character-driven story can be a rewarding experience for both the writer and the reader.
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Creating a character-driven story can be a rewarding experience for both the writer and the reader. Here is an extremely detailed guide to creating a character-driven story:
Begin with your characters
In a character-driven story, the characters are the driving force of the plot. Spend time developing your characters by giving them detailed backgrounds, personalities, and motivations. Think…
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A Bare Bones Guide to Outlining a Fantasy Novel in Three Acts
If you're trying to write a fantasy novel and you're feeling overwhelmed by the process, try to break down your story into three acts as follows...
Act 1
Introduce the status quo - setting, main character, and any struggles they currently face
Create an inciting incident
Show your character's hesitancy to welcome change
Have your character take a chance and start their journey
Act 2
Introduce friends and mentors
Include trials and obstacles
Let your character have a mini success
Have your character doubt themselves regardless of their success
Act 3
Increase tension with more obstacles and rising action
The climactic high point - a.k.a. the final showdown
Show the aftermath and what your character has overcome/sacrificed in order to succeed
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Just a Few Romance Writing Tips
Here's a few quick romance writing tips to guarantee your story stands out. Feel free to add to the list!
Choose a fitting subgenre for your story.
Introduce an obstacle the couple may face upon their first meeting - use this obstacle as a source of conflict between them.
Write well-rounded secondary characters.
Create a desirable setting.
Have both your heroine and hero face internal and external obstacles.
Include subplots to add depth your storyline.
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Shout-out to all the stories that didn't make it out of the shower with us in time to be actually written down.
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A recipe for finding your story's plot:
Ingredients:
2 cups of Things that must be in the story (this can be characters, specific scenes, settings, subplots etc.)
1 cup of Vague plot ideas I may not use
1 tbsp of Central Themes
1 tsp of Ending (either happy, tragic, or bitter-sweet)
1 tsp of Protagonist's Primary Motivation
2 lbs of Brick Wall
Time, as needed
Instructions:
In a large bowl, mix Things that must be in the story. Set aside.
In a separate bowl, sift together Vague plot ideas I may not use. Discard the excess and set aside.
Add Themes, Ending, and Motivation to a small jar. Screw lid on tight and shake until mixture becomes Conflict.
Pour Conflict and Vague plot ideas into Things that must be in the story. Blend on medium until Plot Points form.
Taste.
If it is still missing something, smash head against 1 lbs of Brick Wall for one to six hours.
Let marinate for one to 365 days. Add more Things and Vague plot ideas as desired.
Smash head against the rest of the Brick Wall for one to six hours.
Scream.
Repeat steps 5 through 9 as needed.
After sufficient marination, the mixture will form an idea. This will tell you what specific action must happen in order to resolve your story's conflict. Write this down and make appropriate sacrifices to thank whichever deity took pity on you.
Now you have your conflict, climax, and resolution. You just have to figure out how to get there. Good luck with the damn middle section dork!!
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Creating Mythology
I’m headed back to my folklore roots this week and talking about creating your own myth for your worldbuilding!
Mythology explains something otherwise unexplainable, whether that be a part of the world, a structure, or a part of the human experience. They are typically reflections of society in the time they were created that echo to the present--a foundation of a certain belief or custom. This can be a really intriguing way to bring readers into the history of your world—what will your myth say about the people of that time, what were they concerned about? What kinds of stories did they tell?
Myths are just stories with a simple theme. Remember that this thing is supposed to have lasted across time—when you’re retelling a really old story, how many specific details do you actually remember? Don’t try to fool us with a story that’s too in-depth. Mythological stories are about mortality, or the nature of mankind, the afterlife, religion. A theme your myth may have is: “humans were born from the sea” or “all mankind was originally kind”.
What does your myth explain about the world? Maybe it’s where humans came from, or where a certain religion, custom, ritual, or traditional practice originated, even where a revered creature originated, or where it went. If your world can’t explain something by science, the people in it would have tried to explain it through myth. What things need explaining?
To make your myth believable (or, believable to the world it’s in) we want it to be distant in the past. Think thousands of years old, or at least, no one alive today knew anyone who lived through that time. I would say a good three or four generations old is a convincing minimum for time to have passed, but myths can be (and often are) as old as the beginning of humanity itself. As well, it may be difficult to pin down exactly what time a myth was created.
Your myth should have characters—usually they’d be gods or beings with power over the world, but this isn’t necessary. Maybe your myth is about one really influential king, or just some person who caused a great deal of waves. Nevertheless, whoever they are, think of the impact time has over someone’s reputation. The older it is, the more revered these characters may be.
Lastly, think about how your myth impacts the present. What has the past gifted? What has been lost?
Here’s a good resource: Creating a Myth: 7 Tips for Building a Richer World - TCK Publishing
Good luck! Next we're covering legend and folklore <3
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Elements of Mystery & Suspense Writing
Try adding these story elements to your writing project to heighten tension.
THE PLOT TWIST
Designed to surprise your readers, they can heighten tension by making initial obstacles worse. Keep them at a minimum!
2. THE CLIFFHANGER
Cliffhangers build anticipation by raising a question that must be answered by the reader. Always follow through on your cliffhangers!
3. THE RED HERRING
A red herring occurs when your readers follow the wrong thread designed to mislead them away from a clue. Try to use no more than three in your novel!
4. THE FALSE SUSPECTS
Give your suspects secrets to keep their motives hidden. To cultivate your suspects use means, motive, and opportunity. Keep in mind they will have one or two of these, but not all three...unless they’re the villain!
5. THE TIMELINE
Utilize timelines to create a realistic sequence of events to tie your mystery together. They can be alibi timelines, clues to be discovered, or more!
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