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tamsoj · 6 months

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Charles Bukowski, "a great writer," from The People Look Like Flowers At Last

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thewriteblrlibrary · 3 months

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Random and weird writing tip that works strangely well #1

Make a list of words you like before you write a scene. Potent verbs like 'doused' or 'stumble' or 'twirl' or 'pinwheeled' are probably best here. Also also, you can write a poem before a scene! Now you have a word reference to use instead of a thesaurus.

(All in all, listing words - especially verbs - you want to use before you write helps prevent a loss of words.)

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storytimewriting · 2 months

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I am a poet. I bleed through the ink of my pen and let the pages hold the wounds of my past.

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isalisewrites · 1 month

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A tidbit of writing advice

I've been writing for over two decades now. In my years, I've learned, what I consider, the most essential lesson for one's success in writing. I've seen so many writers give up and lose their fire because they haven't learned this yet. If you learn the following, then losing your love and motivation for writing will rarely occur.

Write for yourself, first and foremost.

I know it's fun to share your work and receive comments about your writing. It's a rush. It's wonderful to hear that someone loved what you created.

Unfortunately, you will face those who don't like your work, for whatever reason.

Some writers give up because they get a comment or too many more that is rude or even nasty. I have faced the same thing before. It sucks. It's discouraging. It can take the wind out of your sails. Many writers even delete their works and I think that's a crime against the heart of humanity. It feels like digital book burning and I've lost too many old favorites because of this.

Your story isn't for every reader, but your story does have a sacred audience who treasure your hard work and dedication.

So, I ask, who are you writing for?

I could say write for those who love your work, but that's a weak fuel source. It will not last nor push you through the hardest of days. Accolades are easily given and easily forgotten.

But you, the writer, whose characters live so brightly and so loudly in your head, you are your strongest fuel source. You are the first reader and the only one whose opinion matters. Write because you love it. Write because this is what you want to read. Write because it thrills your soul.

I can promise you, from personal experience, the moment you shift your purpose and reason for writing, the lighter you will feel. You are the God, the Goddess, the Divinity of your pen, your keyboard. Rude comments will be dismissed with relative ease because you know they hold no power over you.

I always appreciate the hype and excitement surrounding my fanfic updates. I get a ton of joy from that.

However, I write for myself and only for myself, and I'm so much stronger because of it.

Write for yourself.

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the-ellia-west · 4 months

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Calling all Writers

You are valid. You are beautiful. Your words hold so much meaning, they are a piece of you and every piece of you is beautiful.

Cherish your words no matter how cringe. Change them, have fun with them, do anything you like to them. Whatever you create will be a masterpiece because you are a masterpiece and everything you touch is beautiful.

If you think it's bad, it's not. Everyone is at different stages of their journey and every stage will feel wrong at different parts. You will never be perfect, but you will be awesome no matter what.

LOVE YOURSELF AND YOUR WRITING BECAUSE IT'S ALL FANTASTIC FOR YOUR SKILL LEVEL!

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the-insect-is-awake · 2 months

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Not sure where I screenshot this interview with Thomas Ligotti. Will update with source later, if I remember.

#thomas ligotti #hell #pessimism #weird fiction #horror #writing inspiration #writing quotes #writing prompt #on writing #on writers

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faeriefully · 1 month

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the thing about writers is that we will find a story that fulfills one specific niche and proceed to consume it repeatedly while analyze every detail in order to reproduce the exact emotion it evokes in us within our own works

#mine currently is frieren #and I want to reproduce this feeling and emotion and level of quality #it’s perfect #everything about it #in every way #this is my flavor of fantasy and storytelling and morals in the story and lessons and character growth #frieren and narnia and night circus and atla and taz #and gravity falls #and Star Wars #and the princess bride #g.txt #on writing #on writers #on stories #frieren: beyond journey's end #reasons i’m an english major

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xisadorapurlowx · 5 months

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#writing #fiction #author #creative writing #writerblr #writing community #my writing #writer #writers of tumblr #indie author #this happened to me the other day with my yan ocs #all my hard work in my drafts gone because I forgot to save it #reminder to turn on autosave #also take your meds and drink water if you haven't already #writing memes #on writing #on writers #author memes

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appendingfic · 6 months

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Why does no one give me validation for the amazing fanfic I am thinking about instead of writing?

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hislittleraincloud · 11 days

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Tor, how do you write SO MUCH?! I’m out here struggling to reach 1,000 words and you’re pumping out 10K word chapters? Please teach me your ways 🙏

Alas, Young Jedi, I cannot teach the ways, as the ways are long and lifetime. I've been writing and drawing since I could pick up a pencil.

Reading for longer...there's a photo of me somewhere where I'm about 1 or so, and I had crawled over to a pile of Sunday papers, slid out the Comics section, sat my ass down in my diaper, and opened the paper like anyone else would open and read a newspaper...I was quite attracted to the Dick Tracy comic, and I remember seeing the words "Dick Tracy" but being unable to communicate anything about it because hello...I was a freaking baby. But my father was freaking out after my mother pointed to what I was doing and he rushed to go grab his camera (I remember his freak out too, he was so excited 🤣💕). If I can find that photo, I'll post it (it's somewhere, it was used on the photo posters printed for when my grandmother passed back in the 00's).

By the way, the science that says that babies can't have such memories is wrong. I am proof of that. My hippocampus must have been very highly developed/advanced, because I remember a shitload of things from when I was a baby, some of which I'd like to forget. Anyway.

I was also raised on Daytime Soap Dramas (aside from the usual Sesame Street and Electric Company that was for us kids on PBS). I've seen years and years of writers writing the wildest, most dramatic shit. I've watched characters come back from the dead with wild — but plausible — explanations. Daytime Soaps got and still get a bad rap, but depending on which one, the storytelling is compelling, which is why there were fans who stayed loyal to their soap (my mother was an AMC & OLTL loyalist...she didn't care for GH or non-ABC Soaps). How to write compelling stories is hidden in plain sight with those. Back from the dead? Check. Drawing out a scene for days because of the angst? Check. Cliffhangers? Double, triple, quadruple check. Cliffhangers are prevalent in soaps and probably the main thing that kept people coming back to the stories and wanting more. Media has changed, unfortunately, and there are no regular, daily dramas (well, GH is one of three surviving American soaps) that children are stuck watching because there's nothing else on TV to entertain SAHMs. SAHMs have their pick of apps, movies, and shows now, and most fans of soaps are generationally conditioned...like me, but my soaps are gone. (Fun fact: I appeared on Hulu with my dog via Skype to ask actor Robert S. Woods a question during their interactive OLTL session, when OLTL was shifted to Hulu. I was way too excited, since I'd been watching him for over 35 years. My dog, however, was asleep in my arms with his tongue hanging out...and that was caught on camera 💩). Some of it is highly repetitive, so it trains your brain to tolerate and accept the multiple variations of storyline that are, but aren't, the same.

But anyway, back to present day since ABC gutted their soaps in favor of bullshit no one watches: I write when inspired. Sometimes it comes out with strong weed (like a good Wenjax scene that I'm deliberating whether it should go into the main Afterburn story or into the Deleted Scenes). Sometimes I just write dialogue for a couple of hours. UVC was mostly dialogue when written at first (the fic wives have seen it in its halfway mark, when it was completely lacking Jon's exploration of her house).

I also write a lot of poetry and have done so since just before I met Allen Ginsberg. My father had exposed me to the Beats before, but I was too stuck in my kid head until I met the master at 14. I was enamored by him and his freeform writing, even though I was heavily into the American Romantics like Walt Whitman (such is going to be explored in the UVCniverse). But while I could write like them, I wanted more freedom of structure with lyricism, and Beat poetry (along with non-Beats like e.e. cummings and a few others) afforded me that. The bulk of my youth poems are gone/destroyed when my fucking ex and fucking building manager emptied my apartment when I was in Rome ten years ago (so if I go quiet in November, it's me mourning those poems...since I'm not like Jon or Cairo, I can't retrieve them from m brain 😞 I have a really sharp memory, but it's not like theirs... it's more like ABW's). FTR, in my youth I was also a huge Edgar Allen Poe fan, and won the class contest to write like him in the 6th grade. I might've mentioned that before. First prize was a large (the big bar type) Hershey bar. I gave it to my father bc I didn't like regular Hershey chocolate LOL. At the time, my favorite book was a very old dictionary/thesaurus/almanac combo book, and reading bits of it every day helped my writing.

Writing poetry for me is a little harder these days, but the muse is whispering a little, and 'In Three Bites' (from the screencap I posted before about the shit I'm writing) is Jon and Cairo slinging a form of poetry at each other during class via text. Poetry can be practice for bigger things, so look into just writing down your thoughts. Stream of consciousness writings, stuff like that can be poetic or it can be rambling, who cares? Write.

Write what you know to practice, even if it's a private diary entry. Expand your vocabulary. Collect thesauruses and READ THEM, and write down (with a pen/pencil on paper) the most interesting words that appeal to you and remember/retain them for future use — don't just let your teachers hand you a list to memorize (do what they tell you to do re: vocab words, but don't be limiting yourself to what they want you to learn). Learn a second language, one that is structurally atypical to English's SVO [subject, verb, object], so that you can see the world from someone else's culture. Never stop learning words that are new to you. Never stop learning like that, would probably be my ultimate advice.

But also? Fuck word counts, unless you're writing a 100 word drabble. In fact, write more 100 word drabbles. It will teach you to pick and choose your words for effective expression of the scene/thought. I don't really worry about meeting word counts, unless it starts to get long (which is where AB is, and which is why I've had to split chapters up). Half of the UVC/MG ones I listed are at under 1K words so far, but I'm not concerned about word count on them and probably won't be, unless one of them turns into a monster (I can see 'Project Drop Down' (Cairo meets Bea) taking that turn, but I can probably make that one a 10K one shot). Don't struggle to get to 1K. Just write what you want and need to. It'll go where it needs to go, especially when you're inspired. And if you never get inspired over an idea? Move on to the next one, or move to something that does inspire you enough to write over 1K of it in one go. Some people are satisfied writing 200 word 'chapters'. I am not. There's too much going on in my head to limit everything to 200 words, so I just keep writing and writing. Might be genetic, since my father's been opining to me about how he needs to type up all of his writings (and I have a Paperblank journal that I gave him to fill up, which he did 💀).

Write!

And keep writing to whatever passion calls to you. If it isn't calling, don't angst over it. It's not the end of the world if you can't get to 1K.

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slightlycrunchy · 1 year

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she writes

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tamsoj · 6 months

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Charles Bukowski, "the creation coffin," from The People Look Like Flowers At Last

#charles bukowski #bukowski #the people look like flowers at last #poetry #literature #lit #on writers

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thewriteblrlibrary · 3 months

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Anime and Manga just... hits different. Doesn't it?

.... want to know how they do it?

(Spoilers for The Promised Neverland.)

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For character creation.

(based on what I've seen, particularly from the promised neverland)

Japanese storytelling is originally inspired by a type of Chinese poetry, and so you can see a poetic way of storytelling throughout all of anime and manga

1) have a concept/problem/weird little phenomena to explore (like the trolly problem) For the promised neverland, this is the idea of morality in dire situations. In a system that doesn't end well for them, who should you save? How many can you save?

In essence: ask a question. This is not a moral. It is not a theme. Anime and manga tend to have more nuanced themes because instead of portraying a moral, they ask a question.

2) each character will have a different answer to this question <-- and this doubles as their worldview.

For the promised neverland, Emma wants to save everyone. Her answer is that they should save everyone, no matter the danger. Ray thinks they should only save the three Main characters, because it isn't practical to save everyone. If they try, they will only be killed. And Norman is in between. He is a strategist and while he knows this will be insanely difficult, he does want to save everyone for Emma

3) why do they think this? Have a base motivation or backstory for why they have this answer. What is their reasoning for why this is right?

For Emma, she is showcased from the beginning to love her family and like praise from her mother.

For Norman, he doesn't want to be alone, and he cherishes his friends because they always kept him company, so he's going to want to try to cater to the both of them For Ray (spoilers).....he knows the secret of the house because he remembers when he was a baby. So he knows how impossible this is, and has had to live with his siblings dying for years. He's tired.

One of the best ways (I think) to do step #3 is to have backstory, and it can be as basic or as expansive as you want.

Posts on writing backstory here and here. <-- also where I talk about desire vs fear for characters, which I think adds more depth and you'll see it a lot in anime/manga. The desire is typically more obvious though, whereas the fear is a bit more subtle and nuanced.

To summarize it - the character will have a desire, and a fear that stops them from getting that desire, both rooted in their worldview.

(Like for Emma and Ray and Norman, they all want for their happy life to be true, and they fear failing to save themselves or their siblings. Each has their own version of this, depending on what their answer/worldview is)

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For the story itself

(following kishotenketsu for this. Resources here and here.)

Ki - Showcase a shorthand for the character immediately, so people can get a good sense of their base personality.

Sho - Then you can showcase more development. How does their behavior affect their current situation?

Based on the whole desire vs fear thing, the character will have nuanced behavior and thought patters. The audience will look at this and it will build intrigue for WHY they act like this. (You haven't revealed the backstory yet, this is after the backstory.)

The character will be actively avoiding their fear and chasing their goal... and yet they cannot have their goal without facing their fear. The character will try to use their personality to get their goal without facing their fear... but it's going to be difficult... and they may prioritize avoiding their fear.

Ten - Then you can showcase the backstory. This works as a twist + answer to why the character acts the way they do.

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Essence of this video: the flashback should be added when it makes the next emotional moment have more weight(edited)

Now you can put something like a parallel to the backstory and see how the character will react differently. (The backstory has taught them something about how they should act/how the world should work) This time the character's full change will be very apparent.

Thinking back on this... I think this is what Haikyuu does.... for literally every character.

And I imagine this would be how you would introduce your character/story/first arc

From here you would use the kishotenketsu method in similar ways... but it would work like this

Ki - introduction of a problem that will test the character's internal conflict/worldview

Sho - how the character is going about it - their misbehaviors and suches and such (you can also include backstory here if it explains a certain aspect of why the character acts the way they do)

Ten - something happens that forces the character to either get scared and avoid both their fear and their desire, or they are able to narrowly get away with getting their desire

Ketsu - their realization. The character will go about their life/see the world a little differently because the twist caused a change in their perspective. How do they act as a result?

Additional videos -

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And there you have it. Yet another writing methodology from the writeblr library.

And as always - the best writing methods are the ones that work for you, take what you need, modify it for your wip, or make something up on your own. There's no need to take advice as the end all be all!

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storytimewriting · 11 days

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writing is what keeps me alive

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tsukimefuku · 24 days

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Those images we see and go “literally me”

#writing #funny #humor #writeblr #writblr #writing help #writing advice #on writing #on writers

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the-ellia-west · 4 months

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Tip for Creators

If you really want to do something you will put so much effort into it that you feel like it's dumb.

Even if it's just mundane details that no one will ever see in the final product. If you truly love your project you will put your whole heart and soul into it no matter if you need 6 month breaks sometimes.

If you aren't willing to do this, and you feel like working on it is a burden, you maybe should consider starting something different.

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