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Nico, he/him, 21. Art and writing blog. Feel free to talk to me about your WIPs/OCs, or add me on nano nleor623
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Writer ressource

I’VE JUST FOUND THE BEST THING EVER!

Want to find how long it would take to get to point A to point B on a map, by boat? I know Google Maps is great for car and bus, but how about sea travel?

Find the speed in knots (per example, a steamship from 1850 has a speed of 12 knots according to this site , enter the port city and voilà! 

Want to find the distance it’d take to get from London to New York during the 19th century, on a steamboat, and quickly? Tadaaah!

They even tell you the number of days at sea! And the seas/oceans you cross!

Happy writing, and good luck on the last days of Camp Nanowrimo April 2017!

( @writeroftheprompts @heywriters I think you might find it useful?)

I don’t usually reblog things on this blog (I do that on my other blog) but I thought it was a cool post :) 

Also this was suggested a long time ago but I just remembered about it.

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Interview my OC about questions that has no easy answer.

1. Which should be saved – a bus full of innocent lives or a loved one?

2. You meet a man who has killed someone and done time for it before. Does this factor into how you treat him? Will he ever truly escape that sin?

3. If you could jump back through time to save a loved one’s life, would you? Despite what it might to do the timeline? To everyone else? Do you believe it is their fate to die regardless?

4. You have a secret you swore not to reveal. But this secret is the only thing that would prove your innocence in a separate matter. Is it worth risking your own well-being for the secret? Or would you betray the trust given to you?

5. Is it better to hurt others before they hurt you or let yourself be walked all over and hurt by others?

6. If you tell the truth, an evil person gets to walk away free. If you lie, you may be able to send them away like they deserve. Is honesty worth more than justice?

7. You have the key to immortality in your hands. But not for free. If you want it, as a price, your worst enemy also gains immortality. Is it worth it?

8. If you could gain as much money as you want for losing a sense, would you do it?

9. Can people be held accountable for things people close or related to them did or are they innocent?

10. If a lot of people, possibly innocent people, have to die in order to make a real change, is it worth it? Can you live with their deaths even if it helps people in the present?

11. Imagine there is a beast that craves attention. If you ignore it, despite being deadly, it will leave you alone. Could you live like that? Even if it possibly attacked others? Would you try and challenge something that unknown?

12. If someone else stole something and you stole it back is that a good deed, a bad deed or one of equal worth? Are you better than the original thief?

13. Could you sacrifice yourself for the good of everyone else?

14. What of love? Say you discover your lifelong crush on another has finally been reciprocated… but they are currently dating a family member or a dear friend the crush feels responsible to honour. Do you force the break up? Date on the side? Bottle it up forever?

15. Is lying to others to gain their approval more important than being genuine and hated?

16. Have you ever contemplated killing someone? Who and why? Would you ever act on it? Are you frightened you might?

17. Have you ever gotten sheer joy out of hurting someone else, either physically or mentally? To whom and why? Did it scare you?

18. Have you ever done something morally wrong? If it’s morally wrong do you regret it?

19. What is more likely a thought to you – that this world is wrong or that you are wrong?

20. Are there people in this world who, no matter how much time and penitence is given, should never be forgiven?

21. Are there people in this world you simply think the world would be better without? If you could erase them out of existence without physically murdering them, would you?

22. How do you feel about having an intimate relationship with someone you don’t love? What if they love you in return? Does that make you feel guilty?

23. Could you ever become your own hero? Is that a role you can fulfil or is it something you look to others for?

24. How do you feel about tears? Are they cowardly and weak? Do you cry? Would you consider that shameful?

25. What is more important to you? An idea of yours being used and appreciated or the credit for that idea beings yours and yours alone?

26. Is your personal happiness more important than anything else in the world? Than fame? Than the happiness of others?

27. How far would you go to achieve a dream or ideal? Does it matter who suffers? Does it matter if you suffer?

28. How long would you wait for the one you love? A year? Fifteen years? Forever? Could you honestly be loyal to an unfulfilled love?

29. Is genius equal to hard work? Does a genius deserve praise for doing well without effort? Are they above us?

30. Do we live in a world of parallels? Can there be no hope without grief? No happiness without suffering? Or is a utopia possible?

31. What is more important to you? Being respected and praised by your elders or being looked up to and championed by those younger or of the same age?

32. If you could choose to remove certain feelings such as anger, confusion, sadness, would you remove them?

33. If you could wipe certain memories from your head, would you? Why would you? What memories?

34. What path appeals to you more? An exciting dream that leaves you possibly penniless and alone or a drab existence where you have steady success.

35. Is every person in this world wholly unique or can they be categorized? Can they be grouped and mentally dissected? Are you just another sheep in another flock or are you the sole unique soul?

Ask my ocs

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Just in case this needs to be said:

It’s the first draft. Use the word “suddenly.” Put as many dialogue tags and adverbs as you want. Say “he saw” “she remembered” “she felt” “they wondered” as many times as you need to. Put the em dash there, put in too many commas, use semi-colons with reckless abandon. Type in [whatever] instead of thinking up a title for something. Just write it. If you worry too much about the particulars, about all the advice posts you’ve seen saying whatever you’re doing is wrong or not good enough, you won’t get anything done. It will slow you down as you go back and try to reword what you just wrote to make it better, proper. The first draft doesn’t have to be perfect. It just has to be done. And when you get to the end, you’ll find that all those “mistakes” are just clues for your future self to put together to make it all better.

Putting in adverbs and certain dialogue tags are a note for you as to who is saying something and how they’re saying it. When you’re editing, you can make sure it shows through the story instead. The word “suddenly” is a reminder to make things more abrupt. The first draft is just you mapping out where you want to go and how you want to get there. Don’t waste time trying to get it 100% right now, because then it will never get done. Don’t think too much– just write. Save the thinking for editing later.

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closet-keys

The first draft doesn’t have to be perfect. It just has to be done

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ray is totally alive, building his pool, living his best life with his family and definitely not dead

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oh yeah and also I finished it and made it glow a little. I’m really proud of this one, I can’t objectively tell if it’s good or not because I did stare at it for seven hours while I was drawing, but I just really like looking at it… I know Tumlr will kill the resolution so there’s a detail just so you can see the individual eyebrow hairs I drew

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passed 40k! officially back on track, though I’d like to get the 41667 wordcount down before i go to bed since my sleep schedule is currently...like this.

enjoying what i’m writing now more than I have for awhile, although I’m not sure why considering it’s a mess. But it’s nice to remember that I actually enjoy writing lol

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i’m sorry i just will literally never stop finding it tragically hilarious how adam, gansey, and ronan’s narration about each other always basically boils down to “these two… the most handsome and intelligent and talented people in the Entire World… have no reason to be friends with Me, a Literal Trash Can” no matter the context or tone of the scene

no but seriously this is really sad but the fact that it happens so frequently and with basically no prompting makes it kind of funny like

ronan: *puts any effort into anything ever* gansey and adam: ronan lynch is a god among men, the most improbable and incredible creature ever to walk the earth, he could crush me with one hand and his cheekbones could slice off my entire face

gansey: *wrecks his clothes and hangs out in a pile of garbage* adam and ronan: gansey is a prince and my king, he is so beautiful, so classy, he is the perfect human specimen and i love him more than life itself

adam: *breathes* ronan and gansey: oh my god, amazing, how did you do that?? you’re better than this town you’re better than me you’re better than all of us, do you even know how talented you are? here take my wallet

meanwhile blue’s just like “yeah they’re okay or whatever, now back to MY story”

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