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willow-thicket · 8 months

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Nicolas Gatien made an excellent instructional video on creating your own "antinet" or analog zettelkasten. (Follow his channel, too. He's aiming for 1000 & currently has just 26 to go!) Awesome learning tool/note taking system. I kinda like this better than the commonplace book strategy. Well, I guess this is like a commonplace book, but unbound & sortable.

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#Antinet #Anti-net #note taking #commonplace book #analog zettelkasten #index cards #indexing your thoughts #learning tools #note taking system #plotting your book #plot a book #idea tracker #brain dump #organize your thoughts #brilliant #art is life #great ideas #Youtube

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homeofwyrm · 8 days

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I'm giving Anastasia a try, on the fence

#art #the locked tomb #tlt #anastasia the first #Anastasia the ninth?#She is literally so important to the plot of these books and we get like three sentences of secondhand lore about her

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firedragon1321 · 2 months

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#writing #writing memes #writing community #character death #i was just listening to a song for vibes #and then #PLOT TWIST PLOT TWIST PLOT TWIST #don't mourn for that character she had it coming from a book ago #tw gun #and ofc this is the fallout of a battle i didn't write yet yay

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pangur-and-grim · 1 year

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-_- apparently the cut-off for this thing I want to submit to (which closes tomorrow) is 70k words, and I’ve got 67k

I need to think of three thousand words of bullshit to pad this thing. like a chapter where everyone goes for coffee, or something.

#if this book is ever published #and the plot grinds to a halt midway through while the characters play a prolonged game of Uno #you know why #book

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thecryptkeeper · 1 year

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im gonna piss my pants

#and the fact this is a plot from a book the op read like yall rlly have the literacy taste of a bot fly

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laney-rockin · 6 months

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It's canon that Spock likes to fuck with people and pretend he doesn't know human sayings just so he can make people explain it to him.

And then Kirk just knows when Spock is serious or is just being difficult and obtuse on purpose. They're married your honour.

#star trek #jim kirk #spock #star trek tos #tos star trek #tos spirk #star trek novels #double double #tos kirk #tos spock #this book is so fun so far #the plot is interesting #and the spirk is also kinda spirking #which it always should be #kirk calling spock 'difficult' is so funny #cause it's like calling the kettle black

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deception-united · 3 days

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Writing Tips Master Post

Character writing/development:

Character Arcs

Making Character Profiles

Character Development

Comic Relief Arc

Internal Conflict

Creating Distinct Characters

Suicidal Urges/Martyr Complex

Creating Likeable Characters

Writing Strong Female Characters

Writing POC Characters

Character Voices

Plot devices/development:

Intrigue in Storytelling

Enemies to Lovers

Alternatives to Killing Characters

Worldbuilding

Misdirection

Consider Before Killing Characters

Foreshadowing

Narrative:

Emphasising the Stakes

Avoid Info-Dumping

Writing Without Dialogue

1st vs. 2nd vs. 3rd Perspective

Fight Scenes (More)

Transitions

Pacing

Book writing:

Connected vs. Stand-Alone Series

A & B Stories

Miscellaneous:

Overcoming Writer's Block

1000 Follower Special

Writing Fantasy

Character Ask Game

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kooldewd123 · 3 months

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one of the funniest underrated parts of animorphs to me is the fact that time travel is a surprisingly common plot point, and yet it kinda gets glossed over because it almost never factors into the story in a way that actually matters. like. jake dies crossing the delaware but gets better on a technicality. there were aliens on earth at the same time as the dinosaurs but the asteroid got them too. time travel is a known phenomenon that the andalites have studied, but we don’t actually get any explanation for it because ax was distracted in class that day. everyone went back in time 24 hours and then died and forgot everything. two separate members of the main cast are different varieties of time anomalies and really the only effect it has on them is tobias getting over his family issues. jake is shown a prophetic vision of a world where the yeerks win and we just never get an explanation for what the fuck that was about. every time time travel is brought up, it contradicts at least one other time travel plotline. this is the series that taught me to never take time travel seriously in fiction and i can’t thank it enough for that. this is hilarious.

#i think the only time time travel actually significantly impacts the plot #is in the seventh book when the ellimist shows them the future #and they use those visions to figure out where the kandrona is #there's also the whole thing with tobias and elfangor of course #but the ellimist's time shenanigans are less important than the actual familial connection #animorphs #idiot teenagers with a death wish #koolmathgames.com

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dyed-indigo · 3 months

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believe it or not i am reading

[ID: A meme redraw of a quote-retweet with Scum Villain characters.

Luo Binghe @/shizunliker: you see me chasing you down wyd (Attached art of Luo Binghe running on Chinese rooftops while scowling)

Peak Lord Shen Qingqiu @/peerlesscucumber: Killing myself in front of you to forever change our bond and the trajectory of our lives. End ID]

#ID by princess-of-purple-prose! thank you :)#i'm like halfway through book 3 of svsss rn #so i'll probably be done reading the main plot and starting on book 4's extras on tuesday #depends #sorry i didn't wanna shade this though. and i used a stock photo bg #anyway #scum villain's self saving system #svsss #luo binghe #shen qingqiu #ren zha fanpai zijiu xitong #had to look at the front of the book to remember the chinese title #my art #fanart

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nonasbirthday · 1 month

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i still can't believe there are folks who say "well GTN is annoying but you just have to get through it and then the other books aren't like that so you'll be fine."

personally i have been chasing the high of GTN ever since i first closed the book

#yes i love HTN but to me it was a slog! honestly pacing is not strong in any of these books #they're chock-full of reread value but unless you are looking deeper like that tbh not much happens plot-wise in each book #and HTN is the worst culprit because you get basically harrow just being miserable on the mithraeum for four acts #interspersed with chapters that are a different version of something you already read #the way i love each book is very different but GTN was FUN #you know??#i miss it #(i miss her. gideon my dumb baby come back to me)#the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #nonasbirthday

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krowbby · 3 months

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Vlad looked imploringly at Agnes, and reached out to her.

'You wouldn't let them kill me, would you? You wouldn't let them do this to me? We could have... we might... you wouldn't, would you?'

The crowd hesitated. This sounded like an important plea. A hundred pairs of eyes stared at Agnes.

She took his hand. I suppose we could work on him, said Perdita. But Agnes thought about Escrow, and the queues, and the children playing while they waited, and how evil might come animal sharp in the night, or greyly by day on a list...

'Vlad,' she said gently, looking deep into his eyes, 'I'd even hold their coats.'

granny weatherwax was such a buzzkill for not letting her tear him apart <\3

#discworld #terry pratchett #carpe jugulum #agnes nitt #begging screaming pleading on my knees guys read agnes’ books #maskerade and carpe jugulum are soooooo important to me #agnes is so real for the vampire bf plot line in this book #she’s like obviously i can’t be with him he’s like literally evil. buuuuuuuuuut #hearth art

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thatsbelievable · 9 days

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thelaurenshippen · 1 year

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a remake of "you've got mail" called "you've got kudos" about two fic writers who make flirty comments on each other's fics, only to realize that they already know each other because they used to be on opposite sides of a fandom war when they were teenagers under different usernames

#this is essentially the plot of tweet cute #and probably the exact plot of a real book somewhere #which is why I'm posting it instead of putting it in my little ideas folder #so that someone can direct me toward the version of it that almost certainly already exists #so that I can consume it #the original rivalry is on ff.net #and it gets UGLY #but like...not so ugly you don't root for them to get together #and then they grow and realize fighting over ships is a worthless past time #and become cheerleaders for each other's work #only to eventually put two and two togehter #but also #like....fUn fan wars #not cyberbullying fan wars #it would be a careful balance #anyway I saw the phrase you've got kudos on here and thought about youve got mail #so here I am cringeposting book ideas like its 2013 or some shit

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 5 months

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Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girl found dead in a hidden room.

[First] Prev <–-> Next

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #lan xichen #jin guangyao #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #qin su #EDIT: Tumblr published an earlier draft with only half the notes I wrote so: late entry on my JGY thoughts.#Unlike the mystic powers of the stockmarket (what the OG meme is referring to) I think this situation calls for more active investigation.#qin su is such a deeply tragic character to me and I really wish we got a bit more from her.#Love everyone who sent me messages about her after the last time she appeared.#I think she needs a spin off of her being a transmigrator SO badly.#MDZS has so many interesting characters - but it sometimes fails to give them the proper room to really develop past a role in the plot.#That's just the consequence of writing a story like MDZS. Not every character in a book *needs* to have a rich inner life and backstory!#To do so would bog down the story and obliterate any notion of pacing. It's just not possible.#Jin Guangyao (nee Meng Yao) is unfortunately not free from this leeway rule. He is the culprit of this murder mystery plot #and thus NEEDS to encapsulate the themes of the book. And personally he's a 7 out of 10 at best on this front (in the AD).#MDZS is about rumours twisting reality and working towards truth. And about how people & situations are rarely ever black & white #JGY has his motivations. He's well written in regards to his actions making sense for his character.#What started as good traits (drive to succeed & improve his image) became twisted over time (do anything to maintain his image)#and it's a good parallel to WWX! He has the same arc (with different traits)! Bonus points for IGY in that regard.#but man....by the time we confront this guy for murder there's not a lot of grey morality. He's just...deep in the hole *he* dug.#There's a beautiful tragedy to it! More on JGY in later comics - this is getting pretty long already!

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creekfiend · 2 years

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Tom Bombadil should be an aspirational character for everyone with issues setting boundaries actually bc he's just like Wow that sounds hard. Absolutely not my circus though. Enjoy a song and some bread. Anyway bye

#love that for him love that for all of us in some way like may we all be the guy #at some point in our lives #who goes. wow that sounds hard. anyway good luck #everyones like im not sure you understand this is literally the plot of this book?#hes like yeah whew thats rough anyway im busy though you have a good time

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traffrogers · 2 months

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this week on traff getting obsessed with an au that barely exists

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