cerberus-spectre:

wyomingsmustache:

khaleesiofthewolves:

smallbookthings:

writeworld:

sp00kyjames:

sliceofbri:

THERE MUST BE A PARAGRAPH BREAK EVERY TIME A NEW CHARACTER SPEAKS

THIS IS NOT OPTIONAL

NO ONE WANTS TO READ ONE BIG BLOCK OF TEXT JESUS CHRIST

REMEMBER TIP TOP OK:

Make a paragraph every time that any of these things change!

Ti me

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reblogging again because this is IMPORTANT

THIS IS SO IMPORTANT, PEOPLE! REBLOG TO SAVE A WRITER’S LIFE!

There is nothing that will make me backspace on a fic faster than a lack of paragraph breaks

I hate that so much. I will delete the whole tab and start over. 😂😭

yourspecialeyes:

fortisfiliae:

captofthesswolfstar:

ao3feed-thorki:

bettsfic:

smarsupial:

dorkilybeautiful:

k-vichan:

mittensmorgul:

prairiedust:

hazeldomain:

prairiedust:

hazeldomain:

whitmerule:

soupernabturel:

majesticduxk:

So last week I tried moaning every time I ate something delicious.

It was vaguely uncomfortable and unnatural

I actually love the idea of doing this trying out fanfic/literary cliche’s out in real life, kinda wanna make up a list and undertake it as a challenge.

don’t forget to make your butthole flutter today

Guess someone’s eye color from 20 feet away.

Be careful with these. I started reading fanfiction three years ago and now I have to toe my shoes off to get my feet out.

But do you pad across rooms? 

Yes but I often give away my position when I huff.

FYI, I’m smirking at all y’all.

I’m resisting the urge to card my fingers through everybody’s hair.

This is as good a time as any to admit that right now I smell like coffee, sandalwood soap, and something uniquely myself.

I hate this post so much I clenched my fists and looked away, muscles bunching in my jaw. 

i’m so glad to see i’m not alone, i let out a breath i didn’t know i was holding

I looked at myself in the mirror, carefully mapping out every detail of my face, especially my eyes. They are cerulean orbs made of pure ocean water that can be seen a 1000 yards away. Is that disturbing? Yes. Yes it is.

My breath just hitched and I felt shame wash over me. I know I’m guilty of all of these. 😂

I felt my cheeks getting hot, deep red spreading across them, while reading these. The guilt is real.

This whole post made me chuckle darkly.

maramahan:

writing tip:

write what you love

know a lot about fashion? cool. Use that. clothes reflect culture and that’s pretty dang neat

you interested in languages? Throw me that vocab yo I might not understand but I’m here for it anyway

Burning passion for snails? awesome. work it in. you do you. show me what you love and why you love it and maybe I’ll come to love it too

an author’s vibe is contagious. if you’re bored and just doing a thing to tick a box, the reader will feel it

but if you pour passion into your work, we’ll know. Even if it’s not something we’d normally care much about, words written with love just glow

so write what you love. find what makes your heart sparkle. throw that crap into your work until it glitters like nothing else

after all–it’s your story. may as well have fun with it, right?

things writers can (probably) relate to

jilliancares:

-making the facial expression your character’s making and trying to describe it

-writing entire scenes in your head as you shower and not remembering most of it by the time you get to your computer

-deciding you can’t do something you’ve been looking forward to until you write what you told yourself you were going to write, resulting in you laying in your bed doing nothing

-having two completely different ideas for your story to go in and both seem equally good but you can’t do both and you also can’t choose

-having docs with stories you know you’ll never finish but not deleting them anyway, even if they’re only a couple sentences long

-getting random bursts of productivity that could go towards homework or cleaning your room or writing and you know you’ll only be able to do one

-getting inspiration from the most random things

-writing at inopportune times because a perfect line or dialogue just popped into your head and you have to get it down before you forget it

-“what are you writing?” “……..a story”

– “what do you want to do when you grow up?” “uunnghnnggguughhhhh”

-reveling in the embarrassment you put your characters through

howlnatural:

the most fun thing about being a fic author is when you know what’s supposed to happen but when you go to write it you realise that, for the event to be plausible, you need to add another 2k of development and establish like six extra things before you can even get to the scene you need to write, and by ‘most fun’ I mean fuck everything someone take this fucking story away from me I’m on strike

When I’m working on a book I write for 20- or even 22-hour stretches, sleep a few hours, and then go back to work until the first draft is done. The rest of the process, editing, rewriting, is more civilized. … My advice to other writers is to write, write, write, write, write, as much […]