June 2012
32 posts
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WriteWorld: Brief Advice on How to Write... →
Anonymous asked: Do you think writing needs actual real life experience? Do you need to fully experience something from beginning to end to write a deep story about it? For instance, I want to write a story about a person battling depression, but then again, I’ve never got over depression…
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WriteWorld: Help with Character Development →
thewritemotive:
Characters are hard. I can’t speak for anyone else, but I know that I’ve stopped in the middle of writing and questioned myself about my characters. Are they too unrealistic? What is their motivation? Do I really know them as well as I should?
I have found that it helps to…
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Much Ado about Everything: So I used to be a... →
textuallyaroused:
I started going to the dojo when I was in sixth grade. It was a very masculine environment; there weren’t a lot of other girls there but the male senseis who ran the place were great guys and they genuinely loved having female students because we were such a rarity.
Now…
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The 22 rules of storytelling, according to Pixar →
#1: You admire a character for trying more than for their successes.
#2: You gotta keep in mind what’s interesting to you as an audience, not what’s fun to do as a writer. They can be v. different.
#3: Trying for theme is important, but you won’t see what the story is actually about til you’re at the end of it. Now rewrite.
#4: Once upon a time there was ___. Every day, ___. One day ___....
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English Grammar Guides
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princess-kally asked: Do you know of any guides for basic/more complex grammar rules and the like? I’ve found that I haven’t done anything on them since primary school and thus my memory of English grammatical rules is rather fuzzy…
Do we ever!
English Grammar
EnglishClub
Theyuniversity
Ego4u
English Grammar 101
English Grammar Secrets
EduFind
Thank you for your question!
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Some data OKCupid has collected about race and... →
wtfwhiteprivilege:
youngbadmanbrown:
Just because I’m still on this, peep some of this data collected by OKCupid.
But you know, facts aren’t important at all, we live in a magic post-racial utopia. Bolded was all added by me.
Black women write back the most. Whether it’s due to talkativeness, loneliness, or a sense of plain decency, black women are by far the most likely to respond to a...
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WriteWorld: Can Writing Be Taught? →
Anonymous asked: A question! My friend asked me if I was enrolled in any creative writing courses and I said no. And I was thinking that besides for the basics (like grammar, the fact that your story needs a plot/beginng, middle, and end, and spelling) is there really anything in writing that you…
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WriteWorld: Word List: Alternatives to "Walk" →
writeworld:
Instead of walk, consider:
Amble: walk easily and/or aimlessly
Bounce: walk energetically
Careen: pitch dangerously to one side while walking or running
Clump: walk heavily and/or clumsily
Falter: walk unsteadily
Flounder: walk with great difficulty
Foot it: (slang) depart or set…
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WriteWorld: Writing Style: What Is It? →
writeworld:
anon asks: I hear people talk about style a lot, but I’m not really sure if I have a style. How do you develop a style?
You most certainly have a style. If you write creatively, you have a style.
But what is it, exactly, that you have when we say that you have a “style”?
First of all:
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What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry: Rape Culture In... →
picklemethis:
fozmeadows:
About a week ago, I wrote a post on Penny Arcade vs. Rape Culture, which sent my blog traffic skyrocketing after it was linked on Reddit. However, both in comments on the post itself and elsewhere on Reddit, quite a few people seemed to be missing the point: or, more specifically, misunderstanding what rape culture actually is and how it applies to gaming. One...
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WriteWorld: Discussion: "Rape" as a Slang Term →
writeworld:
anon asked: Rape and rape culture is such an often discussed issue. I wonder if you could ask your followers how they feel about the use of the word itself as description or an allegory, as in: He/She raped it (not a person). I hope the question makes sense.
So, followers, what do you think?…
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imthedad:
imagine lying on the backs of 1,000 corgis, as they gracefully carry you across the water, whispering ancient melodies
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Fable: The Musings of a Mad Brain: Non-Ambiguously... →
esdafable:
Can anybody else think of a movie with a male and female lead that don’t hook up by the end of the story? Major props to Finding Nemo for not having Dory end up as Nemo’s would-be step mother by the film’s end.
I mean seriously, bachelor dude who lost his wife and is trying to care for his only…
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“You don’t write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid’s burnt...”
– Richard Price (via writingquotes)
↳ This is the truest thing about writing that I have ever read. - C
(via writeworld)
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“Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man’s life, must place him in such a...”
– Leo Tolstoy (via writeworld)
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WriteWorld: Writing Advice from Neil Gaiman →
createwhatyouimagine:
1 Write.
2 Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.
3 Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.
4 Put it aside. Read it pretending you’ve never read it before. Show it to friends whose opinion you…
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“I remember going to a party in New York about 35 years ago. They all called me...”
– Ray Bradbury, to Newsweek, Nov 12, 1995. We’re totally going to borrow this page from the Book of Bradbury. (via newsweek)
Brilliant quote from Bradbury
(via discoverynews)
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102 Resources for Fiction Writers →
fuoco-go:
sweetarsenic:
a-cumberbatch-of-cookies:
vulpesinculta:
Are you still stuck for ideas for National Novel Writing Month? Or are you working on a novel at a more leisurely pace? Here are 102 resources on Character, Point of View, Dialogue, Plot, Conflict, Structure, Outlining, Setting, and World Building, plus some links to generate Ideas and Inspiration.
CHARACTER, POINT OF...
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WriteWorld: Writing Drunk Characters →
writeworld:
anon asked: How do you write for a drunk person realistically when you have never been drunk yourself?
How do you write a death scene if you’ve never died? You pretend, imagine, and do your research.
But, since you asked about drunkenness specifically, we’ll tackle some of that research for…
Impressed with the answer on this one. The only thing I’d add is that...
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The Pun to End All Puns
mycroftismight:
barryyouasshole:
What does a nosey pepper do?
It gets
jalapeño business
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Much Ado about Everything: Because Zoe wanted a... →
minim-calibre:
crown-of-weeds:
likeacrime asked: If you could tell all TV writers (or movie writers or book writers) five things about writing autistic characters, so as to to make them explicitly autistic, not offensive, and actually empowering for autistic viewers, what…
“Autism isn’t a metaphor” and then saying that every metaphor concerning autism has been...
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WriteWorld: Word of the Day: Bosh →
writeworld:
bosh \bosh, noun:
Absurd or foolish talk; nonsense.
You know perfectly well — and it is all bosh, too. Come, now, how do they proceed? — Mark Twain, The Gilded Age
Bosh, bosh, bosh! Why is it right for him to follow his nature ? Because it is right. Why is it wrong for me to follow my…
