if you want to be mutuals or want to stay mutuals like this post because im gonna delete this blog and start from scratch

if you want to be mutuals or want to stay mutuals like this post because im gonna delete this blog and start from scratch

if you want to be mutuals or want to stay mutuals like this post because im gonna delete this blog and start from scratch

Important OTP question: which one sends cute good-morning texts and which one replies to them angrily because ‘it’s not even seven yet fuck off’?

if you want to be mutuals or want to stay mutuals like this post because im gonna delete this blog and start from scratch

One way to break through writer’s block. Try taking an everyday object and write about how your characters would react to it.

that feeling when you post a drabble that you are proud of and its the first thing you’ve wrote in pike 6 months and no one even likes it…

do you ever just get frustrated because you get zero asks zero requests zero reblogs zero likes and zero interaction like what do i have to do to get some acknowledgement what do i have to do so i dont feel like im screaming into the abyss what so i have to do

is it me am i standoffish? am i mean? do i seem unapproachable? is it my writing? i dont understand what im doing wrong? is it because i dont post often enough? i just hate feeling like all this blog is a brick wall that stands in my way of feeling appreciated.

Writing and plotting

Tip of My Tongue helps you find that word you’ve been thinking about all day but just can’t seem to remember.

Inklewriter helps you write interactive stories.

Tastekid provides music, movies, shows, books, authors and games recommendations for your characters.

— James Lee Burke

I want more fat characters who aren’t comic relief

A little writing tip: if you’re writing about a place on this earth you’ve never been, but want to know what the weather is like, then add that location onto your weather app and compare the conditions and temperature. Over time, you’ll begin to gain an accurate understanding of their weather systems.

If you have problems focusing while you write, try using ILYS.

The site is coded so that you can’t see what you are writing, only the last letter, and you can’t edit anything until you get to your words goal. This means you have to focus on writing and what’s on your mind, and not the editing of what you have written so far. You have to write or you can’t edit. Once you hit your goal you can edit and write normally, or go back and use ilys once again.

Since you don’t have to worry about editing, you can let your creativity flows. It can be frustrating, but it’s also liberating because you have to let it go.

Write first, edit later.

— Cyril Connolly

Cliché

A cliché is NOT a trope.

A trope is NOT a cliché.

Tropes are things that are used over and over again. They’re conventional actions, people (archetypes), and things, that make up story the same way rhyming schemes and set meter make up poetry. Tropes aren’t bad. They’re a tool.

Cliché’s are thoughtless generic place holders. They’re frequently the first thought to occur you precisely because you’ve seen it so often. But the Clichéness is in the (lack of) thought, not the frequency.

When you worry that you are going to be cliché, what you’re worried about is that you haven’t thought enough about your story. You’ve taken the first thought that occurred to you and just taken it. Sometimes that’s good, that’s your storyteller instinct. But particularly at the beginning it’s easy to simply take your first thought because you don’t want to think any more about it. So, yes, you do tend to use tropes, and you tend to use the one that you have run into the most in a close situation because that’s easiest for your brain. And that’s bad: not the trope, how you used it.

What I’m telling you is that the Trope isn’t the problem. The problem is how much you’ve thought about it. A trope is a tried and true method for solving a story problem. A cliché is a tried and true story method misapplied. It’s the misapplication that is the problem.

My best piece of advice for dealing with cliché is to stop worrying if your method for solving your story’s problem has been done before. It has. And somebody did it before that. And someone else did it before them. But somehow it didn’t screw their story over. Funny that. Why would it inherently screw yours?

Instead worry if what you’ve done solves your story problem the best way that it can be solved for your particular tale. That’s when you’ve beat cliché: when you’ve mastered the extremely difficult art of correct application, which must be relearned for every individual problem. Not when you’ve miraculously mastered the impossibility of saying something new. Worry about your story, not anyone else’s. Of course what’s happening has been done before. But it’s been done right and its been done wrong. The people who did it right, did so by thinking very hard and rejecting anything that could be done better until it was good enough.

If your question is, “I’ve seen this done a million times. Should I….” Stop. It doesn’t matter. If your question is, “Why does this bore me?” Then you’re on the right track. And the answer isn’t just that it has been done before. It’s that it doesn’t work for your story. The answer that does work will have been just as used, it just won’t be the first thing to pop into your head. “What would make this interesting?” “What else could they do?” “What would have more meaning?” Those are the questions to ask yourself. That’s avoiding cliché, not going on a goose hunt just to avoid eating turkey.

Some links I have found in various Tumblr Posts that I have saved on my computer. I do not take credit for collecting all these links. Unfortunately, I did not have the mind to save/note where these various links come from. Thank you to whoever compiled these links together.

General Writing Tips, Guides and Advice

Plot and Conflict

Character Development

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Genre Based

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