Don Miguel Ruiz (via thoughtkick)

Me when I finally finish the first draft of my WIP

Miranda Kerr (via quotefeeling)

Katie Kacvinsky (via quotefeeling)

Unknown (via quotefeeling)

Ted Mosby, How I Met Your Mother (via quotefeeling)

Rumi (via quotefeeling)

Switch off your fucking phone. Come on, be strict with yourself for once. How the fuck are you going to smash through your goals without any structure to your day, to your life? No more floating around like a lost cloud in the sky, no more moping in bed starring at the screen. This is your fucking life. Stop leaving everything to chance because what you’ll realise is your dream life isn’t going to just happen to you, you have to create it. Literally plan your life tonight. Month by month decide what you want to do, where you want to go travel and quit with those limiting fucking beliefs. WHY the fuck not make it happen? Why would you not want to give yourself the best fucking shot at winning this year? Seriously. No more fucking excuses. 2023. Make if fucking count. 

Ernest Hemingway (via quotefeeling)

We often take the things we have for granted, but the reality is that everything we have and everything we are can be taken away from us in an instant. It is important to appreciate what we have and make the most of our time.

i like the concept of soulmates—not a “you’re destined to meet me, and love me” kind of soulmate, but a “i’d pick you, every time.” kind of soulmate. a “no matter what happens, and what has happened, i want to go through it with you.” kind of soulmate. a “i love you by choice, and you’re a blessing, and i’m going to continue thinking about you this way not because i have to but because i want to.” kind of soulmate. a “you help me rest easy when everything is difficult” kind of soulmate. a “in every possible outcome, i want you there, to share it with me.” kind of soulmate.

Tommy Brown (Criminal Minds)

“i think i’m losing myself” says local girl who has yet to even find herself

(via violentwavesofemotion)

Making people laugh takes some skill and finesse, and, because so much relies on instinct, is harder to teach than other techniques. However, all writers can benefit from learning more about how humor functions in writing.

1. Identify Your Style Of Humor

Everyone has a different sense of humor. We all find different things funny for different reasons. This is why it’s important that before you sit down and try to write funny things, you think about your own personal sense of humor and how you want to mine that to produce a piece of humor writing.

2. Use The Rule Of Three

The rule of three is a common rule in humor writing and one of the most common comedy writing secrets. It involves establishing a set pattern with two ideas and then subverting that pattern with a third, incompatible idea. For example:

“Can I get you anything? Coffee? Doughnut? A better attitude?”

3. Mine Humorous Anecdotes From Your Real Life

This is especially pertinent for humor essays. If you think about it, most of the funny things in your own life are things that our friends and family also find funny. These are the stories we tell over and over. These are the stories we use to bond or connect with others.

And personally I do this a lot.

4. Leverage Cliches

While clichés are something most writers try to avoid, it’s important to recognize them. Humor relies in part on twisting a cliché—transforming or undermining it. You do this by setting up an expectation based on the cliché and then providing a surprise outcome. For example: “What doesn’t kill you makes you stranger.” In humor writing, this process is called reforming.

NEXT UP WILL BE QUICK TIPS ON HOW TO WRITE HUMOR, stay tuned!

ways you can further develop your main character

give them a misbelief

give them a goal

more notes / explanations here! most of these notes in this post are taken from story genius by lisa cron, and i thought they might help. please take all this information with a grain of salt, and maybe use it in a way that'll work best for you! <3