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shatteredblueflame · 6 months
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📖 #CalmWriMo 2023
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If you want to do NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) but a 50k word goal doesn't work for you, you're invited to join me in CalmWriMo 2023 on Tumblr for a chilled-out creative experience this November.
Here's how it works...
📝 Set a fun and achievable writing goal
This can be a word count goal, but it definitely doesn't have to be. It also doesn't have to be new-words writing. Editing, research, outlining, or anything other writing-adjacent activities are great too.
You might want to...
Work on your WIPs for [however many] days
Complete a draft or a certain number of chapters
Spend [however many] hours editing
Create an outline for a book
Research specific topics for a WIP
Make graphics or moodboards for your stories
Create or overhaul your author website
Or anything else connected to your WIP(s) or writing
🍵 Choose an accessible and enjoyable self-care focus
This can be anything at all that helps you take care of your physical and/or mental health while you work on your writing goal.
You might want to...
Be more consistent with your journaling habit
Get to grips with your sleep schedule
Start or continue a daily yoga or meditation practice
Drink more water
Reduce screen time before bed
Read more fiction, non-fiction, or writing craft books
Go for regular walks
Or anything else that benefits your body or mind
💻 Share your own CalmWriMo intro and progress
If you'd like to join in, you can make a post to share your writing goal and self-care focus using the #CalmWriMo tag. You're welcome to @ me (@winterandwords) in your intro post if you want to.
You're also welcome to use the tag to post progress updates and WIP snippets throughout November. Bear in mind, reblogs don't seem to show up in tag searches on Tumblr, so creating new posts for each update might make them more visible.
I'm going to check the #CalmWriMo tag throughout the month to see how everyone's doing and share some of your posts.
Anyone taking part is encouraged to do the same if you would like to have you have the time and energy for it. In the spirit of CalmWriMo, there's no obligation to do anything other than what you're comfortable with 💜
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shatteredblueflame · 6 months
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Getting inspired to write is actually really easy! All you need to do is be the busiest you've ever been in your entire life and as far away from a computer as humanly possible. Hope this helps 🥰
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shatteredblueflame · 6 months
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Nothing will dispell the "the curtains were just blue" myth faster than writing something yourself, because the amount of pretentious symbolism i am putting in my silly little fanfics is ridiculous. I mean SO much with these words, literally every single one of them. This fic has twenty five typos and zero correct uses of punctuation but if there's curtains you bet your ass I put thought into what colour they were.
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shatteredblueflame · 7 months
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For @mothayoin's hermitober, day 18, Promise!
Xisuma and Evil Xisuma centric!
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shatteredblueflame · 7 months
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Do you like writing? Are you an MCYT fan? Do you sometimes struggle with getting that one character's dialogue to sound just right?
Well, I have a solution:
Echo's MCYT writing cheat sheet doc!
Featuring notes on 80+ CCs ranging from Hermitcraft, Empires SMP, and the Life Series to QSMP, this Google doc has now been in the works for nearly two years (since November 2021!), currently comprises 18k+ words, and still receives tweaks and updates pretty much every day.
Contents of each CC's section on the doc (which are in alphabetical order!) include:
Commonly used words/phrases - adjectives and adverbs! Exclamations! Filler phrases and words! and other turns of phrase that make their speech distinct from others
Sentence structure - including transcriptions of example sentences that help get an idea of how exactly someone tends to say (and stumble over) their words!
Interaction with others - do they use nicknames? Which ones? What little phrases do they tend to say in conversation?
Typing - how do they type in Minecraft chat? What emoticons do they use? Do they send one long message, or several short ones? Should it be all lowercase? Do they use apostrophes? and more, with example screenshots!
In-game movement - how do they move their cubito? Do they shuffle around on the spot while talking, or stand still to look someone in the face? How expressive are they? Do they shift for emphasis, or nod? etc!
and other random characterisation notes - any fun facts about their character that you might want to keep in mind while writing!
There's also some bonus content outside of the specific character sections - links to general writing resources, recaps and summaries and quotes from the series the CCs on the doc have been involved in, as well as notes, conversation transcripts and clips I've compiled for some specific character dynamics!
(Important disclaimer: This isn't a 100% comprehensive guide - I'm just one person, and this is entirely comprised of notes I take while watching, so it's never going to be perfect or fully accurate. It also varies a lot on its level of detail for each CC, because I watch some people more than others, and in the case of QSMP there's language barriers involved, too.)
But I do think it can be pretty helpful. So if you're struggling, maybe consider giving this doc a try - you might find something useful inside! <3
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shatteredblueflame · 7 months
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POV im writing a flower husbands fic
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shatteredblueflame · 7 months
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I'd love to hear your headcanons!
Another one I have is vampirekin e1 Fwhip
His dragon ness gives him sharp teeth which help with kin dysphoria
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Vampirekin e1 fWhip, I love that.
Okok I have a lot and some of them have reasons and some are just because I like it.
Parrot therian Grian is one I've written about multiple times and love. Same with dragonkin Martyn.
I also loveee werewolfkin Ren (sometimes I like the idea that he's a dog hybrid but also just Regular Guy who wears clip on ears and tail to help with species dysphoria.)
Aviankin e1 Scott, he decorates his elytra with shed owl feathers to look like feathery wings.
Cow therian e2 Jimmy, I like to think he makes fake horns and glues them onto his hat. He also likes to wear darker colored shoes to look like hooves.
Back to Grian again I like the idea of parrot therian Grian becoming a Watcher just to get wings and then dipping immediately after (I actually have a fic in my docs with this concept I've been working on occasionally)
Elfkin e2 Scott. He wears those fake elf ear things that you can get on Amazon or Etsy (that I also have to get for myself)
Dryadkin Cleo, she likes to decorate her hair and skin with different plants to give the effect that they're growing from her
Cervitaurkin Gem, she makes or gets an antler headband and/or a deer ear headband
Goat and butterfly therian Doc, he likes to add different modifications on him for all of his kintypes (he also makes things such as mechanical wings or tails etc for the other alterhuman members of the server)
You've gotten me into the idea of humankin e1 Joel and e2 Lizzie it's such a fun idea
Griffinkin Wels and wyvernkin Hels. (Specifically Warcraft wyverns) because I think them being the opposite kind of otherkin would be funny. You get cloned and not only is he evil his kintype is the "opposite" of your own.
Endermankin Xisuma, I don't have any reasoning I just like it
Glarekin Bdubs for pretty obvious reasons. I also think it'd be fun if he was glarekin AND phantomkin. He has to sleep once the sun goes down but You Also Have To Go To Sleep (<- more or less based on my own phantom headcanons where they just try to get you to sleep and that's why they attack when you don't sleep for a while.)
Harpykin False because I think it'd be cool. Her harpy kintype would resemble an eagle
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shatteredblueflame · 7 months
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Day 11 of @mothayoin's hermitober, Corruption.
Etho is fine and normal and nothing goes wrong, also Bdubs is there.
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shatteredblueflame · 7 months
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Made my own blorbo bingo bc none of them cater to me specifically
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shatteredblueflame · 7 months
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going back to fact-check my own fic while in the middle of writing like
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shatteredblueflame · 7 months
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BREAKING NEWS: Writer discovers for the millionth time that they can write whatever they want. Join us now to see if the lesson will stick.
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shatteredblueflame · 7 months
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the fake fic ask game
🐝 send me a fake fic title, and I’ll make up a summary for it!
🐑 send me a fake set of fic tags, and I’ll try to come up with a summary for it!
🦮 send me a summary I already did for one of the above two, and I’ll try to write a snippet for that summary!
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shatteredblueflame · 7 months
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You like desert duo when they’re healthy I like it when they kill each other we are not the same
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shatteredblueflame · 7 months
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Hii sorry that I didn't do day 7, I'm currently failing two classes plus I didn't like my idea a whole lot, so I'm gonna be skipping some prompts (I might go back to some another day) and picking what I really want to do
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shatteredblueflame · 7 months
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M​artyn ​ : I’m never donating blood ever again. 
​M​artyn  : The second you walk through the door, it’s just one invasive question after another! 
​​M​artyn: ‘Where did you get it?’ 'Why is it in a bucket?’ I mean, do you want it or not?
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shatteredblueflame · 7 months
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For hermitober day 6, moon!
Pearl-centric, set before hermitcraft season 6 but before, during, and after Empires season 1. It makes sense, trust me
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shatteredblueflame · 7 months
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I have more names if these aren’t good ones/gen
Scott/Grian is just so /pos! Like they’re a dynamic in my eyes that could work in 3rd life! Like, I already have hc’s in mind for them lmao.
I may just be crazy, but I swear other 3rd life Scott dynamics got muddled a bit by flower husbands (not hating on flower husbands, they’re a good ship/duo :>)
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