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annarts05 · 2 years

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Fun Ways to Meet Characters

Thieves stealing important objects from the main characters and then being forced somehow into a found family situation

Saving a character’s life by doing something like taking an arrow/bullet

By losing a bet with a stranger and then teaming up

Gambling with a shifty character and getting really mad at them, only for them to later end up saving the other character’s life

Meeting the other in an arranged marriage and actually liking them (or really, really hating them)

Or having a chaotic dynamic where they irritate each other but they’re equally chaotic, so they become the mischievous duo in the found family

By bickering over the last piece of food at a banquet

Getting hired as a servant or maid, or some other serving position

By accidentally almost killing a character, only for them to join the found family and literally never stop bringing up that first meeting

#writing #writing prompts #found family #character dynamics #writeblr #writing community #writing side of tumblr #writing tips #oc #dysfunctional characters #writing reference #meeting #first meetings #character meetings #i love these #and arranged marriages where #they actually LIKE each other and there isn't the resistance trope

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the-missann · 2 months

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On characters...

So, I love writing characters and also love giving advice to people who want to have more interesting characters in their stories.

I happened to remember something about a character I'm currently writing for and wanted to share it.

So, I sometimes write "test stories" for characters to test their personalities, roles in the story, appearance, and even their conflicts. I totally forgot I did this with one character where I pretty much wrote a fanfiction for him before using him in the main story he's in now.

What that did was allow me to pick how I wanted him to be and solidify that before putting him in the main story. Essentially, that story is the exact same and his role is the same also; but writing the fanfiction allowed me to explore parts of him I'd never do in the actual story.

So, if you're ever struggling on making a character in any sense, try this!

#creative writing #writing #writing community #writing side of tumblr #writers of tumblr #writeblr #writeblur #original character #writers #writer #writerblr #writers on tumblr #writerscommunity #writer things #author #fictional characters #character development #original characters #writing advice

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lovelesslittleloser · 5 months

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How To Be A Good Writer

Read a lot & have an idea of what is and is not good to you in a book/writing

Have an idea that you want to write

Allow the idea to simmer in your mind until you’re completely sure that this is what you want to write

Do so much research

Binge-write and use about 8% of said research

Write a little bit more as it comes to you

Stop writing for probably months/return to step 4

Be reminded of the thing you were writing & start thinking of it again

Mental & emotional agony

Go back to what you have written and fix it with the shame you previously lacked

Repeat until finished/stuck on step 7

This is intended to imply days, weeks, and/or months of time between each step, but please go at whatever pace suits you best! This is your writing, after all, so just use this as a guideline :)

#writing #writing tips #writing help #writing struggles #I’m usually stuck on steps 3 4 and/or 7. there’s nothing to be ashamed of!!#and though having beta readers can be helpful I understand that there are some situations where that’s not an option #or you just might not want to show anyone your writing! this is entirely valid.#I for one would be willing to show someone my work with the condition that I don’t know them #but that makes it a bit hard to actually do. I don’t really know how to do that tbh #anyone stuck on step 9 just go back to step 1 honey you’re doing great okay? okay #step 1 is probably the most important step #step 1 is also the most enjoyable step for most who don’t reach the step 11 end #writing side of tumblr

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jack-daww · 1 year

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Writer ask game! (Both fanfic writers and non-fanfic writers)

1: What is the best compliment you've gotten on any of your works?

2: Do you have readers that you recognize by name (even if they may not comment regularly)?

3: Do you have scheduled uploads and if so, when?

4: How long was the longest work you've written?

5: What is your go-to way to deal with writers block?

6: Do you have a motivational cycle? (As in phases in which you barely write and phases in which you write so much holy shit)

7: How long are your uploads in regular?

8: Do you look through any and all replies to your work? Why?

9: What genre is your favourite to write?

10: Do you read and write similar stuff or are there differences?

11: What kind of relationships do you like writing best? (Family, platonic, romantic, etc.)

12: Do you write in your first language? Multiple languages? A secret, third option?

13: How many WIPs do you have open?

14: What POV do you write? First person, second person, third person?

15: What is the weirdest thing you had to look up for writing?

16: What is something you didn't have to look up but is still weird to know?

17: Could you or could you not successfully pull of a murder (at least in theory)?

18: Do you have a beta reader?

19: Do you edit your works?

20: Do you start on new ideas immediately or do you write them down until after you finish your current WIP?

21: How serious do you take your writing? Do you get money for it? Do you want to? Is it a hobby or a profession?

22: How often do you write fanfic? (From not at all to exclusively)

23: Is there a project you want to talk about?

24: Do you stick to the same writing style or do you try out new things when you can?

25: Have you ever gotten hate and if so, how did you deal with it?

26: Do you have a special writing process you have to follow every time you write?

27: How many people you know irl read what you're writing?

28: What would you say is your specialty in writing?

29: Do you listen to music while you write? If so, what kind?

30: What is, in your opinion, the greatest achievement that you have reached in writing?

Please don't feel pressured to answer anything you're not comfortable with!

#writer things #writing side of tumblr #writer speaks #writing #writers on tumblr #writer ask game #ask game #writer stuff #fanfiction writer #writers on ao3 #questions for writers #i have written writers so often it doesn't look like a word anymore #please feel free to give me numbers to answer as well

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monarch-of-jjba-simping · 3 months

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behold

a meme

#ao3 memes #ao3 writer #ao3 author #writing memes #fanfic writer #writer #author #writer memes #author memes #writeblr #writing community #writing side of tumblr

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poetryorchard · 10 months

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🧚🏾‍♂️ Sprites of the Orchard! ✨ Join us in celebration of Disability Pride Month for our first open mic!

The theme is "disabled voices" - we're looking for poetry that reflects the experience of living as a disabled / neurodivergent person.

Disability is a self-defined and widely expansive identity, so please don't self-reject - we'd love to hear your poems!

Attendee sign-up

Performer sign-up

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beskarandblasters · 9 months

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If you’re ever nervous to tell a writer your thoughts on their work or to leave a comment on their fics literally don’t be!!!

I posted a long Cassian fic Thursday and the comments on it were so kind that it’s now Saturday and I’ve been periodically going back to read them because they make me so happy 😭😭😭

Leaving a comment on a fic or reblogging it with your thoughts literally makes every author’s day I promise you!!! 🖤

#kel wont stfu #I read the comments out loud to my boyfriend 😭😭#writing #writing side of tumblr

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asleepinglaurel · 19 days

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me copying one of my drafts from my notes/docs onto A03:

It turns out to be 500 words:

me: how??? I spent so long on it?? How? What???

#writing side of tumblr #writeblr #fanfiction #solangelo #omegaverse

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ask-the-virtual-council · 8 months

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Question for Tumblr creatives (artists, writers, etc.)

I ask this because I put what I consider to be a decent amount of tags on my original art posts, but it seems I may be overtagging and steering people away, so what do you think?

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steampunk-beeping · 3 months

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I might make a side blog for the story I’m working on/rewriting lmao. It probably won’t be for another while tbh. At least until I have more done (ie more chapters written, outlined, and edited), but I do have some refs and art done of the MCs lol

#ik I am like #non-existent on Tumblr #but it could be fun to have a side blog dedicated to said story #if people are interested in it #beep speeks #writeblr #writing side of tumblr #writers on tumblr #writerscommunity

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generaln0m · 26 days

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Alright, Writing Side of Tumblr, I have a task for you:

What the fuck is this genre called?

This is only a few of them, but there are so many more

I know what kind of gameplay this is, but what subgenre of Writing is it? It's in Cosmic Horror somewhere, but there's a specific flavor to it that all came out mid-late 2010's (and Alan Wake but he was busy)

#writing trope #tropes #writing side of tumblr #cosmic horror

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annarts05 · 1 year

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The Truth About First Drafts

First drafts are not great quality. Some lines might be fantastic, but overall, it probably won’t be amazing. And that’s totally fine, it’s normal, it’s exactly what you want.

Our silly writer brains expect perfection on the first go for some reason?? Which makes no sense.

They’re meant to be terrible, just thoughts spewing onto paper, really. Just get the dialogue out, get the story into a tangible, clear sequence of events that’s actually a readable story, not just an outline. You can fix it later <3

Think of it as the “zero draft” instead of the first draft. “Garbage draft” works too.

Write it out on paper with pen, or add messy notes to your documents everywhere to really reinforce the idea that there’s no pressure or expectation for perfection.

Don’t look at any of the draft as you write it until you’re done the draft. Looking back at bad writing while working on the same project can be really discouraging, so just don’t look.

Once you finish the draft, wait a couple weeks. Long enough to distance yourself from it, so you can come back to fix it with a clear head.

Don’t compare your first draft to published books. Ever. Those books might be on their tenth, twentieth, thirtieth draft. It’s unfair. Don’t bully yourself or your project.

Set yourself a goal, x words per day, x minutes spent writing, whatever you want. Just make sure it’s achievable. Don’t set yourself up for failure unless you’re asking for discouragement.

You got this <33 Just get that draft down.

When you finish the draft, rewrite the whole thing, using the original draft as a reference if you like. There will almost certainly be countless details you want to change, so rewriting the story will be easier than fixing the original.

#writing #writing tips #writing tips and tricks #first drafts #creative writing #writing side of tumblr #writing community #writeblr

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the-missann · 2 months

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Ideas I'm never going to make

So, I have a lot of ideas I am never going to write because they're not my style. So, instead of never talking about them, I'll leave them here to maybe give some inspiration to others. Most of these ideas are 1-5 years old with a handful being over ten years old and I would love to see them written, I just have no drive to write them.

Don't know how often I'll do this, but don't worry I get a ton of ideas that never go anywhere, so I'm sure there will be more!

Onto the ideas:

A dystopia where only two people actually exist, like actually. The planet and everything on it is destroyed and by the end, it's revealed the other party caused this to happen so they could be alone with the other survivor (romantic or platonic).

A passionate romance where the two parties are dangerously obsessed with each other. It starts where only one party seems dangerous, but is revealed later on they both are. Knowing this is bad, they decide to embrace those feelings for a short time to hopefully get it out of their system.

Two enemies end up stranded together. The injured party is cautious when the healthy is trying to help them. It's revealed later that their bosses were conspiring together to kill the pair.

A mature magical girl. It's still your normal Sailor Moon, but the MC is an adult with children. Specific to what I outlined, her husband was kidnapped because of his research and she gains magical powers to go and save him.

The origin story of a pirate girl. She starts off apart of a fairly kind crew, but she wants to make a name for herself and leaves only to find a mythical being of some kind and be cursed to travel with them. In my case, it was a grim reaper.

A vampire and a vampire hunter who end up on bad (putting it lightly) terms after the hunter assumes the vampire killed their newborn child. Plot twist for me was it was actually the hunter's father and the vampire had to find a way to prove it.

A detective agency that is the center of mysterious murders. Their agency is accused of killing their detainees as anyone who goes in never comes out. Is the killer one of the detectives or is the killer just trying to frame them? The setting for me ended up where the whole group was trapped in the police department like Resident Evil 2 almost.

This one is about to be ten years old and has more detail than the others. Two kids (in about the Gothic Era) go to a toy maker's shop. This is to pick up a toy before their families embark on a long trip somewhere. The toy maker is a mysterious man, but one of his toys end up cursing the children to age backwards. In this reality, objects hold memories so they're told by the toy maker to find objects that have sentimental value as that will maintain their age until they can rid of the curse.

The tale of a sun deity and moon deity creating the sun and moon cycle. The moon was a shy anxious child and the sun was a bright cheerful child for me.

An unassuming tale of a newly wed prince and princess where the story begins as "normal" until night falls and the prince is unable to stay awake. His princess then undergoes her own form of unconsciousness where her daytime "Princess Peach" version is switched for a warrior "Biscuit Krueger" version. Who is duty bound to protect her sleeping beauty. This transformation is similar to Greed and Ling from FMA:B where there's two souls inhabiting one body.

I actually had way more than I thought, so I'm gonna cap it at ten -_-;

Thanks for reading and here's to hoping one day I can read these ideas in their entirety~ 🍂

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positivelyruined · 29 days

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not just literally begging for all these good writers I see to make side blogs for the other characters and join me in some roleplay. I claimed Tam already, but y’all know I need a Lucien, a anti-sjmcrap version of Feyre, an Elain, a Nesta…

Lord help me if someone brings Rhysand.

My blog is @thehighlordofspring

Please. I will love you forever. So will this cat.

#roleplay #pro Tamlin #writing side of tumblr #mutuals tag

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jack-daww · 2 months

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Hey mutuals! Anyone who likes to write!

I made a concept I won't end up writing, so feel free to take it and/or add onto it. I hope you enjoy!

Fae run online company that you need to be very careful while navigating but that gives the best quality magic products any non-local shop can deliver

They will ask "May we/I have your name?" When you place an order and you have to find the tiny x to leave the field and enter a nickname instead

Sending anything back is considered rude, so think before you buy

Nothing on this site includes iron or silver

They do sell food but you need to know 1: it won't have salt and 2: you will sell your soul if you buy it

None of the descriptions lie and any commenters that lie will be hunted down

At the same time, these are fae. Nobody is better at finding loopholes in literally anything, so read any contracts carefully

They have really good and old summoning spells that work! But safety measures cost extra :))

If you decide to call the help hotline, be careful of how you speak

If you want to work for them, contact your local fae lawyer to look over the contract for you

The only thing you can never trust are the maps they sell. Fae see the world differently. Fae maps will be of no use to any non-fae

#writing prompts #writing prompt #writing side of tumblr

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xan-the-emo-trans-man · 1 year

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Still the best sentence I’ve ever written

#only writers understand #writing side of tumblr #writers of tumblr #the writers will get it #memes #writer memes #writer tings

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