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daisywrites-stuff · 2 months
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good morning today is a wonderful day to eat chocolate covered pretzels for breakfast and edit your writing until your eyes fall out
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silawastaken · 6 days
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remember when I considered posting poetry? *throws at you and runs*
i want to be allowed to live-
another day in the sun,
another ribbon in my hair,
another laugh, another smile, another restless night in june,
to sit and cry is the greatest thing i do,
tears upon tears in the passenger seat.
for love to take root, the pavement must crack
i will blossom,
yellow, or pink, or green,
stubborn and unrelenting at the side of the path you walk
there can be another day in the sun,
another ribbon through my hair, perhaps a flower,
I will smile, you will smile, and we will laugh through tired evenings in may,
there will be a reason to continue, a day like today after the next,
but for a chance to live, experience, to the extent we wish-
There must be change.
Change is the folded covers on the bed.
Change is the progessive clearing of my floor.
Change is your hand in mine.
Change takes time, change takes grey days in march.
Change will change me, will change us, as the world stays untouched,
Yet I will have all I've wanted. I will learn to live, and I will learn to grit and bear it, for another summer, another spring, another Christmas, another show, another song, another dance, another another another until I am so full of experience I can settle, i can breathe, and look back at the people I have changed, for the people who've changed me,
and smile.
If I learn to love, it will be the greatest thing i have ever done.
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ionlybleedbubbles · 7 months
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Writing tips deep in my heaps of cringe, that are actually good (imo) :
When writing in third person, don't say what a character cannot do while talking from their perspective. Frame the idea by telling us what they can do, or through the opinion of other characters. For eg. Instead of saying "Mattie was bad at flying planes", say "Mattie preferred cars to planes, and would much rather his brother do the plane-flying." See? Now you've even managed to drop in a nod about his brother. You could also say, "Kevin felt safer when Mattie's brother flew the plane than when Mattie did." Put the blame on Kevin - don't judge Mattie yourself. As a narrator you must pretend to always be on your MCs' side. Ofc, this would vary with different styles of narration, but this is a general rule.
Show how important a character is by how much time you take to talk about them. You would describe your MCs well, and bring up their hobbies and interests. You wouldn't describe a background character as much. You can use this to humanize or dehumanize characters. You may initially talk very little about the main villain yourself, and rely on dialogue among the other characters. This makes the villain feel like a force rather than a person. As the story progresses though, and you decide you want to drop in a *hairflips dramatically* sad back story, you can humanize the villain, and make them more understandable as a person.
Learn from art. Try describing different sceneries or portraits as practice. Also practice writing comic books or manga as stories. Visualizing your story as comic or manga panels can really help you understand pacing and paragraphs. Take note of their vibrance and positioning.
Learn from people's mannerisms and how they are received by other people. For eg, when we ask my dad a question, he pauses to gather his thoughts before speaking. Out of respect, we wait silently during this pause. This shows how confident and charismatic my dad is. A friend of mine only verbally roasts people within our friend group, and apologizes profusely after. This shows she is both empathetic and extremely quick-witted. I could create well rounded characters based on just examples as simple as these.
This tip is what I like to call 'the fake solution' and is employed by many famous authors. For this, you force readers to make assumptions. Maybe about how the magic system works, or about who the villain is. Make it seem like the characters have come to a conclusion and that conclusion is the final solution to conflict. Then tear down those assumptions and create a whole other ending. Similar to the red herring, except this time it's all in the characters' heads and dialogue. Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy is a good example of playing with assumptions forced upon readers by the writer.
In your first chapter, focus on creating potential. You don't have to jump into the heart of the action right away, but you have to make sure your readers understand the potential for this action. For example the opening chapter of Maggie Stiefvater's Raven Boys is relatively low paced, but it leaves you with questions. It makes you wonder who the boy who talked to Blue is, and how Blue will deal with life after such a strange prophecy. This makes you need to continue reading, to find answers.
For good worldbuilding, study at least a little bit of history. Wars and military tricks make for good free prompts. If your world contains vibrant races, make sure you research and incorporate the history and implications of racism, social hierarchy and trade. Understand how this will impact travellers and mercenaries (audiences love those). Make up your own old wives' tales and coping mechanisms.
Understand that the best stories are written around an idea rather than a character. Your protagonist is simply the face of your story. The weather of the world reflects on the protagonist's choices and health. Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games focuses on the dark side of media and politics and how they are used to control a people. Notice that by the third book, Katniss, our protagonist, is doing very little herself, though her few moments are loud and powerful. Katniss could achieve nothing alone. It takes a whole bunch of people to fuel the revolution. Note that it is completely okay to write a character based story, if that's what you like. But there are tons of those. If you really want to make an impact, make an idea-based story.
Respect all your characters equally. You may love some characters more than others, but remember all your characters are representatives of people. Make sure each of them has a voice and a chance to prove themselves.
Use prose to your advantage. Let the length of your sentence define whether the sequence is fast paced or slow. For example, if your want to show surprise, your sentences must be short. Instead of saying "She snatched the last dagger and stared at it, observing each engraving", say " She snatched up the last dagger. Each engraving was sick, gnarled. "
That was a heck of a long post, but that's all from me. Feel free to add your own or contradict anything I've written.
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sleepy-academia · 2 months
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the night is still. the moths that left your hands long ago are somewhere, singing to the stars -- and you're here. your fingers are dry and cracked from disinfectant, but nothing more. between the dirty dishes and the buzzing kitchen lights you pluck invisible strings to the melody stirring the air, through the phone speaker on the counter.
you don't even hear the words at first. there's a soundtrack for everything if you let there be, and tonight your hand slips in the suds -- in the lyricist's lilt about love there's a smirk, a lightness, an ease to it all -- a mockery, surely, to hearts that fall into tempests over these things --
the boiling water in this faucet's not for her but for your unsteady hands, who once read of penelope and now weave you into tapestries for the moths who will never return.
you admit that night, on the cold tile floor as perhaps even penelope did once -- you would prick your cracked fingers on the threads again if only for a ship on the horizon, a wing on the window.
but they seek kitchen lights that don't buzz themselves sick in their duty. they seek air unstirred in their dissonance. they seek smooth stone to bounce, just once, off of the waves, and leave no footprints in the foam. they seek dishes done well before night. they seek someone who would let the night be still.
and you are here -- born of the sea foam and of the threadbare mourning shrouds and of the fireflies, flickering beneath the luminous moon, in the all-consuming night.
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viola-ohanlon · 2 months
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Just to clarify: If anyone reads my books and wants to make a playlist, and you add Taylor Fucking Swift? No. She should not be in any 'this character's vibes' or 'this character would listen to' or 'ship' or 'book vibes' playlists.
She. Is. Not.
None of them would listen to her, none of them have that vibe. My book does not have "Taylor Swift vibes", and none ever will.
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broke-art-girl · 15 days
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"The Billionaire, The Rockstar and The Somebody." by Broke_Art_Girl
(Beta Read by @inthedarknessofnight )
Fandom: Stranger things
Summary: Y/N logs onto Tinder one night. Low class life is not for them. When they stumble across a profile with images of two men clearly in a relationship, they click on it out of curiosity... Before they know it, their signing a marriage contract with Billionaire, Steve Harrington and Famous Rock Star, Eddie Munson.
Words: 7k+
Characters: Steve Harrington, Eddie Munson, Reader/ Y/N, Robin Buckley, Vickie Corroded Coffin.
AO3 Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/54334972/chapters/137998927
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joaneunknown · 1 year
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Eight steps in making the editing process of your book easier
It is that time again. You have finished telling the story and now, you have to edit it, so that your novel will be perfectly edged like a diamond. But, although it may seem easy, it is not. I have gone through it three times and a new editing process is coming way soon and, honestly, editing the first draft of the novel you have written sucks. I would describe editing your novel as a non-editor the work of the fucking devil, and I am not speaking about its grammar. I am speaking about the plot and the storyline. Just think of how many things you have learnt since you have started writing your book, and with the more things you have learnt, the better your writing became Unfortunately, no one knows everything from the first page and your writing style can also change throughout the book which makes everything even harder than it already was. So, now that I have finished procrastinating, I am going to show you eight steps into making the editing process of your book more bearable and less terrifying.
Step 1: Make a list with the editorial changes while writing
Writing a book takes a lot of time and during that time, you learn a lot of things. Your writing fluidity changes, the book's ideas start having a clearer form and your entire writing style changes. Since your ideas become clearer, you have to edit each chapter, from the beginning to the end, which means that once the writing process is done, you will have to start from the introduction and change some things. Those things could be names that you have changed throughout the book, wrong dates, different descriptions of the same characters or places and so on. My advice is to make a list of all the tiny things that you will have to fix during the editing process, while and after writing your draft. Tiny things can also include formatting changes that you think are necessary to make your book better. Maybe, it can be important information that you might have altered which should stay intact during the plot. Remembering specific information is vital when editing your draft. The main point of this step is to know the tiny details you will have to either clean up or rewrite, besides the more important information that your future you shouldn't forget while editing.
Step 2: Read your book after finishing it
I consider that reading your unedited work is also a very important step because it can give you an idea of what must be changed and how the book looks so far. I would personally give it a few days after finishing the last chapter to start reading it, so then the story wouldn't be so fresh in your mind. Also, while reading your book, whether that would be on paper or on a device, I would recommend having the list that you have made at step one next to you, so then when you spot a mistake, you'll write it down right then.
Step 3: Make a list of the chapters/moments that must be rewritten
Unlike step one, this is more serious because if there are holes or discontinued chapters that just don't fit the book, you should not only acknowledge them but rewrite or cut them off completely. I, for example, am going through this right now. My introduction is not only awkward and cringe, but it doesn't fit the book at all, and in a couple of weeks when I will be done writing the book, I will have to take out the introduction and write another one to fit the whole. So, find the biggest problems and resolve them.
Step 4: Rewrite what has to be rewritten in another document
I believe that writing those parts in a separate document is going to make your official draft look cleaner and give you more freedom in rewriting or just writing the problematic chapters. Obviously, after you have written those chapters/parts/moments, you must insert it back into the official draft and that takes us to the next step...
Step 5: Make the rewritten parts fit into book
Now that you have got rid of the parts that didn't fit the book, you should make the rewritten parts fit with both the pages before and the pages after it. I don't think it is a problem with gluing the rewritten parts back into the official draft just as long as they are on a straight line with the other pages before and after them.
Step 6: Edit the details in your editorial notes
I would call this the easiest part of all. You already have the direction, now you have to stick to it. Besides those details, it could also be grammar problems that you could solve easily with a few changes.
Step 7: Delete the useless and fill what hadn't already been filled
Just like an editor, you must know what parts have no chance of being entertaining or important to the book. You must read all your pages and edit them like a critic. What is useless and bores out your readers goes out into the trash pin and what could be fully developed must be fully developed. If you feel like a paragraph just didn't fulfill its potential, then you should grow it out until it becomes the best you could have ever made it.
Step 8: When you finish editing it, leave it off for a while before reading it
I heard this advice from Neil Gaiman during one of his masterclasses on Masterclass and since then I have found this advice extremely useful. After a while, the story will no longer be as fresh as before and when you will read it, you will feel like the reader.
I hope those steps will make you feel less frightened by the editing process that is standing on your shoulders. All you do is to make your book better and even if that could annoy and bore you, that is part of a writer's job. Just because you have written it doesn't mean it is ready to be published. You may edit your book a couple of times before feeling as if your book is ready to be posted and I think that is also fine. All that counts is to get your book edited and ready to be given to your readers.
"Most of writing is editing...It is the responsibility of the writer to provide the reader with the best material possible"- Harry Heckel
This was Joane Unknown for #TalkingUnknown, more like these on my profile and at the link in my bio. Have a good writing day and see ya next week with another one of these!
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Intro Post
Hey, this is Aven, and this is my new writeblr!! I may have accidentally deleted my old one 😭😭😭.
Pronouns are he/they. I'm young-ish writer focusing on writing YA, since that's what I like to read.
Currently working on several things, you're more than welcome to take a looksie!
I'm autistic and ADHD, physically disabled, super queer, and even more traumatized, and yes I do make that stuff my whole personality. If you don't like it, then please DNI.
Also I cuss a lot, way more on here than I do IRL.
My ask box and DMs are always open to chat, I'm a lonely little hermit lol. Feel free to tag me in games or challenges!!! If I don't participate it's because I'm out of spoons, not because I don't want to.
A bit more about me:
What I Like
Goblincore
Creepy witchy shit
Baking
Crafting
Doll Collecting (mostly vicariously thru YouTube cause that shit is EXPENSIVE)
Anything by Rick Riordan
Anything by Tamora Pierce
TERRY PRATCHETT
Any other good YA or MG spec fiction book I can get my grabbers on.
Taylor Swift
Hozier
Ashnikko
Fall Out Boy
Nordic/Celtic Fantasy music like Faun, Skald, Wardruna, AURORA, etc.
The MCU (newbie fan)
Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal
Good Omens (haven't watched S2 yet)
LOVM
Coraline
SPN (Newbie fan, only on S6)
Shadow & Bone
Gravity Falls
What I Write
I mostly write YA fantasy and sci-fi. Expect plenty of queer and neurodivergent rep, sibling relationships of all varieties, bad puns, the odd bit of creepy stuff and a lot of heart. I'm especially into mythology retellings, space operas, and exploring trauma and inner character motivations. Not so big on the romance, but I'm getting more into it.
Sorting tags for my main works
#ASOM
#LBC
#Godtouched
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mymindisfrayed · 7 months
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minimallycreative · 8 months
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So Google is no longer becoming a safe place to keep documents and such with the rise of AI stealing and Google taking content for their own uses. Storing my documents isn't an issue for me, I can keep them on a hard drive, but what about sharing documents? Like when I'm doing beta reader read-throughs, I want to be able to send large-ish files without the risk of my work being stolen. Does anyone know of a good service that does that?
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Buy a copy of Perspectives to support cancer research and funding for families with children battling cancer!
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daisywrites-stuff · 2 months
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useless details
i love adding useless details into my book
did i have a character call two background characters that have literally nothing to do with the story by their nicknames? yes. why? because he thinks they're below him.
does this have anything to do with the storyline? no. is it a completely useless detail that i added for my own enjoyment? yes.
do i read it over and over because i love that detail so much? yes.
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elenaspeaks · 7 months
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Did you understand?
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wynter-joy · 5 months
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I write for the teens who had to turn to fandom to see themselves in fiction. If it doesn't bring the joy of a wattpad story read at 3am when you're 13 and stressing about failing Spanish, it wasn't me 🙏🙏
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sleepy-academia · 26 days
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your bedroom light won't stop flickering the clouds will not lift their heads away from the world, the raindrops will not stop watching from the panes -- your friend walks in, you're sprawled out on your bed and cannot say hello, they don't need you to --
you can't trace what words leave you -- the rain pounds on the windows -- it smells the truth on you the way you'd smell its presence if you left this room where your worries steep and dry on the creaking radiator like rotten tea leaves -- their concoction found you this rainy thursday night.
but they leave you -- the words take your breath -- your lungs are cleansed, and your friend's too -- breathe, you say, they say, but not like you're giving cpr -- you are no saviors, you're just sharing driftwood now, held up by adrenaline and each other -- sigh, pitter-patter, blowing nose --
you leave after the clock ticked how-many-times, your skin ready for the rain -- but it's stopped now
and you wonder how it heard you over itself, the rain, and these clouds, bearing the weight of the world -- could earth have aligned herself for you today? you wonder --
the resting fog nods -- her strength, her strength and the water cycle got her here -- the watchful eyes of the clouds, the very lifting of the oceans and their silt, these feats and endless work in circles -- now is her rest, this moment she was permitted --
but for today, she can be your poetry if you will only wake up tomorrow, see the rain dried, fix that light, sweep those dust bunnies, those crumbs off your radiator. the world forgives you for being small.
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viola-ohanlon · 16 days
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Me on my way to write an entire book without gendering the main character:
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