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coffeebeanwriting · 1 year

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Some Quick Character Tips

Here are a handful of quick tips to help you write believable characters!

1. A character’s arc doesn’t need to grow linearly. Your protagonist doesn’t have to go from being weak to strong, shy to confident, or novice to professional in one straight line. It’s more realistic if they mess up their progress on the way and even decline a bit before reaching their goal.

2. Their past affects their present. Make their backstory matter by having their past events shape them into who they are. Growing up with strict parents might lead to a sneaky character, and a bad car accident might leave them fearful of driving.

3. Give reoccurring side characters something that makes them easily recognizable. This could be a scar, a unique hairstyle, an accent, or a location they’re always found at, etc.

4. Make sure their dialogue matches their personality. To make your characters more believable in conversation, give them speech patterns. Does the shy character mumble too low for anyone to ever hear, does the nervous one pace around and make everyone else on edge?

5. Make your characters unpredictable. Real people do unexpected things all the time, and this can make life more exciting. The strict, straight-A student who decides to drink at a party. The pristine princess who likes to visit the muddy farm animals. When character’s decide to do things spontaneously or in the heat of the moment, it can create amazing twists and turns.

6. Give even your minor character's a motive. This isn’t to say that all your characters need deep, intricate motives. However, every character should need or want something, and their actions should reflect that. What’s the motive behind a side character who follows your protagonist on their adventure? Perhaps they’ve always had dreams of leaving their small village or they want to protect your protagonist because of secret feelings.

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writingwelltips · 1 month

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Writing is a piece of you, don’t try to make it a piece of someone else.

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amcarterwrites · 4 months

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I'm so excited to share my first blog post on Practical Advice on Literary Device for Beginner Writers! I'll post every other Wednesday and hope it helps you drop the shame on your creative writing journey.

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furiouslywriting · 2 years

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How to write a novel:

Sit down

Oops, forgot to make tea/coffee

Sit down again

Wait, I haven't been on Instagram in 30 minutes

Scroll insta

Bring up manuscript

Oh, I need a new tea!

Make tea

Sit down

Stare at screen

Ohh! Is that the time already?

Finish and go watch Netflix with a total word count of 0

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wedragonsruletheworld · 2 years

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Where Do I Get Story Ideas From

Where Do I Get Ideas For A Story?

A good idea is usually the basis of a story. Without an idea you probably don’t have a story to tell. The first question an author usually gets asked (after ‘How old are you?) is ‘Where do you get your ideas?’

Ideas come from anywhere, anytime, anything. This list is just a basic sample of where ideas can come from. Try one, try them all!

Postcards

It’s not so common to get these now, but you may find a drawer full from years gone by. This also works well with old family photos, or photos of people you don’t know at all! Advertisements in magazines are great too.

Pick a postcard (or photo) with an interesting scene. It’s best if there’s a person in the picture, but okay if not.

Make up a new name for the location, a name for the person.

What were they doing just before the picture was taken/painted?

Where are they going?

Why are they there?

How do they feel right now?

What if you were suddenly in that picture too?

What if the person, animal or thing was suddenly in the room with you?

People watching

This one is easy. When you go out you’ll find a wealth of story ideas in the shopping malls, parks and anywhere that people gather. Stop for a few minutes, sit on a bench or lean against a wall and just watch the people around you. Be careful not to stare or be intrusive – nobody likes a nosy-parker!

Do this with a friend or just write down your observations.

Give them names, occupations, etc

If they have bags or parcels – what could be inside? Who is it for?

Why are they here?

What are they thinking?

Do they like the people they are with? Is it their family or have they just met? Where would they rather be?

Events

Look in the daily paper. There are hundreds of headlines each day that could be converted into a unique story. Don’t just look at the main headlines; look at the small one-paragraph snippets too. A story about a long lost pet reunited with its owner may spark a story idea for you.

Other stories

Yes, it’s okay to get ideas from other people’s stories. As long as you don’t use their story or characters it’s possible to spin off a story off your own. Change it up – take a story and change the setting/time/ages/etc. Romeo and Juliet in the 21st Century would be a very different story. Pinocchio – have the boy turn into a puppet instead – and in a future setting.

Read other books in the same genre that you like to write.

The more you read, the more your imagination will grow and it helps to have a huge imagination to write.

Some great places to start for more information are the following ebooks.

5000 WRITING PROMPTS

THE ONLY WRITING PROMPT BOOK YOU’LL EVER NEED

WRITING PROMPTS AND STORY IDEAS

Happy Writing!

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stellarosawrites · 2 years

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QOTD✨ How long have you been part of the writing community? ✨ How's been your experience here? ✨ Introduce yourself! July 2, 2022 Hi, I'm Stella Rosa here! I'm a writer who just joined Instagram for no particular (very particular actually) reasons. I'm writing a fantasy, thriller novel and I hope the writing community will welcome me because otherwise I know how to gatecrash weddings, what's a social media community gonna do about it? (For FBI purposes, that was a big mistake, and for you guys, a story for some other time 😉) Have a nice day/night and don't forget to smile. That's important. Everyone should smile all the time. It's healthy and not creepy at all. (ʘᴗʘ✿) . . . . . . . . . Wanna join my tags list? Just comment to let me know, I'll add you ASAP. . . . . . Didn't add it there, but I'm a grammar nerd who made three mistakes in her exam and is suffering from "imperfectionism phobia". . . . . . . . . [hashtags] #writing #writer #writingcommunity #writersofinstagram #book #books #writingtips #writingtipsandtricks #authorsofinstagram #author #howto #howtowrite #worldbuilding #characters #tropes #websites#writerssocietyofinstagram #writerscorner #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writingaccounts #teenwriters #teenwritersofinstagram #youngwriters #youngwritersofinstagram #writergram #originalcharacters #aspiringauthor #aspiringbestsellingauthor #youngauthor (at Paris, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfhADpSM0Kw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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heruntitled · 2 years

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10 reasons Why no one is reading your book and now to change it

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eusougil · 10 days

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arabicfornerds · 4 months

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A Fortnight in the Life of a Hyperpolyglot How do you manage to maintain and speak multiple languages? Reginald (Reggie) Hefner speaks more than ten languages. For Arabic for Nerds, he wrote down his daily language revision routine and shared his routines and tips. https://arabic-for-nerds.com/guest-articles/keep-arabic-language/?feed_id=4637

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aimlayworldwide · 6 months

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How To Write A Thesis Statement For Beginners?

A thesis statement is the compass of your essay, guiding readers on a journey through your ideas. It's your essay's North Star, the first sentence that sets the course for your entire paper. It can be concise and to the point, or detailed and rich in description, but its magic lies in conveying your message with brevity. It's your chance to reveal what your essay is all about in just a handful of words. Like a map, it helps readers navigate, giving them a clear idea of what to expect and how your essay will unfold. It's the core, the essence, the roadmap of your writing adventure.

Read Post: https://www.aimlaywriting.com/thesis-statement-for-beginners/

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coffeebeanwriting · 4 months

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Quick Tips on Writing Better Characters

Here are a handful of quick tips to writing stronger characters and understanding them better as a writer.

Give your characters a title. This can help with worldbuilding and placing your protagonist into the environment. What do others call your characters? The emperor, the bastard son, the Grinch, the chosen one, the class clown, the evil witch, the popular girl, etc.

Use your settings to enhance your character. You can use the locations of your novel to mirror or contrast your character. Do they blend in or stand out? What they focus on can say a lot about them (ex. a fearsome character mishearing things on a dark street, a princess in a ballroom only focused on the exit.)

Know your protagonist's motives and goals before you start writing. What is something they need that fuels their actions throughout the novel? Money, freedom, an artifact, food? To protect their sister at all costs and survive the Hunger Games?

Now that you know their motive, make it more complex. A character's motive can be made more complex by putting them in high-stake situations that force them to make decisions. For example, Katniss wants to protect her sister, a very common motivation. However, present-day conflict makes her to do it in the most extreme way by volunteering in the Hunger Games. The plot forces her to make an extreme choice fueled by her motivation.

Your protagonist should be active. It's okay to have your story's events sometimes happen to your character (this is referred to as the character being passive, ex. a tornado sweeping them away) but your protagonist should be active a majority of the time. This means they should always be making decisions, thinking, reflecting and progressing through obstacles.

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writingwelltips · 1 month

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Aristotle’s 3 Principles of Writing

1.Writers are imitators

2.Writers are borrowers

3.Writers aren’t bound by societal morals

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rmmcdermott · 7 months

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unpoquestoequello · 8 months

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LETTERING SECOND LESSON 📃✏

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sellingforstartups · 9 months

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#gary provost #sellingforstartups #howtowrite #goodwriting #skills #learning

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ourmysticstudentgalaxyblog-blog · 10 months

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#NewE-book #poetry #Goals #Healing

I’ve been off the scene for a while working in service to the healing arts. Cheers to all of us who are committed as agents , agents of healing, agents of home & most of all, agents of love. I wrote this short e- chapbook of poetry as a way to love myself back to myself. Despite the obstacles I’ve faced: being a poet, mother, lover of the simple things in life. Here I am God, listening..…

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