Tag: writing

disneysmermaids:

cherribalm:

site that you can type in the definition of a word and get the word

site for when you can only remember part of a word/its definition 

site that gives you words that rhyme with a word

site that gives you synonyms and antonyms

THAT FIRST SITE IS EVERY WRITER’S DREAM DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I’VE TRIED WRITING SOMETHING AND THOUGHT GOD DAMN IS THERE A SPECIFIC WORD FOR WHAT I’M USING TWO SENTENCES TO DESCRIBE AND JUST GETTING A BUNCH OF SHIT GOOGLE RESULTS

grammar tips.

mizutaro:

  • “In spite of” and “despite” are interchangeable, but “despite” can be regarded as more formal.
  • “Than” implies comparison. “Then” refers to time. “My dog is bigger than yours. I’m going to the groomer and then I’m going to the store.”
  • Don’t abuse synonyms.
  • “Who” and “whom” are used differently. 
    • Example: “To whom does this backpack belong to?” vs “Who lost their backpack?” 
    • In reference to The Oatmeal, ‘answer your own question by using he or him.’ If the answer is ‘he’ then use ‘who.’ If the answer is ‘him’ = whom.
    • Who is subject. Whom is object. The subject is doing something and the object is having something done to them. [x]
  • Don’t be needlessly flowery. We don’t need two paragraphs devoted to what your character was wearing or on the scenery. But if you and your partner are well aware that you’re being flowery and just prefer it that way, then go ahead.
  • Don’t use commas, that aren’t, necessary.
  • Indicative vs. Subjunctive. “His toes were curled” and “Her hand was warm.” Feet is plural and hand is singular.
  • “I couldn’t care less.”
  • Loose and lose are different. When your character dies in a videogame, you lose. When your clothes are too big for you, they are loose. If your team lost your soccer game, you wouldn’t tell your mom, “We loost.” 
  • Its = possession. It’s = it is. 
  • Lets vs. Let’s. 
    • “My mom never lets me use the car.” 
    • “Let’s go shopping.”
  • Neither and nor. They’re best friends. Don’t separate them, you monster.
  • You write good or you write well?
  • Everyone loves formatting things, that’s understandable. I format things too. But it isn’t an excuse to break the rules of grammar.
  • Accept versus except. Come on. You accept an award. You love all animals except snakes. Accept is to receive and except is to leave out.
  • Lay/lie/laid. I still get confused with this one. Honestly, if you mess this up, virtually everyone does. Here’s a helpful image. [x]
  • For all intents and purposes. Intentions and purposes. Not intensive. 
  • Supposedly, not supposably.
  • DEFINITELY, not defiantly, unless your character is defying something. “He is definitely upset with me. He spoke defiantly about his displeasure.”
  • “You ‘bear’ weight with your ‘bare’ hands.” [x]
  • “A lot” is two words. 
  • “[Person] and I” vs “[Person] and me.” Remove the additional pronoun and see what makes sense.
    • “Mary and I went for coffee.” Right. “Mary and me went for coffee.” Wrong. You wouldn’t say “Me went for coffee.” Oog oog.
  • This picture sums it up.
  • “Too” is not the same as “to.” 
    • “I bought that shirt too!”
    • “I’m going to the store.”
  • ‘Irony’ doesn’t mean what you think it means. It has to be situational, verbal, or dramatic.
    • Verbal = sarcasm.
    • Dramatic = the audience knows something the character doesn’t. For example, the audience knows that the killer is creeping up on the MC, but the MC doesn’t.
    • Situational is when the expected outcome doesn’t happen. You buy a gun to protect yourself, but you end up injured by a gun. Your gun was intended to protect you and instead you were hurt by it.

laven-week:

Laven Week 2015 ➸ 7th – 13th August

Hello, admin Rowan here!! It’s that time of year again and, due to increased interest in the pairing week, I’ve made a sideblog to host the event this year. Are you a writer, or perhaps you draw or make edits and want to share your love for this ship? Then this event is just for you!!

So how does this work, you ask? Well, it’s really simple – there will be 7 themes running from the 7th to the 13th, you can pre-prepare stuff but please post it on the respective day, and make sure to use the tag #laven week or #laven week 2015 so others can find your work.

Here are the 7 themes:

  • 7th – Obsession
  • 8th – Future
  • 9th – Shattered
  • 10th – A moment in time
  • 11th – Enthusiasm
  • 12th – Summer haze
  • 13th – Introduction

If you have any questions feel free to send any asks to this blog or to my personal blog, however please read the about page on this blog before asking anything. Thank you, and have fun making stuff!!

thewritersarchive:

This is an ultimate masterlist of many resources that could be helpful for writers. I apologize in advance for any not working links. Check out the ultimate writing resource masterlist here (x) and my “novel” tag here (x).

✑ PLANNING

Outlining & Organizing

✑ INSPIRATION

✑ PLOT

In General

Beginning

Foreshadowing

Setting

Ending

✑ CHARACTER

Names

Different Types of Characters

Males

Character Development

✑ STYLE

Chapters

Dialogue 

Show, Don’t Tell (Description)

Character Description

Flashbacks

P.O.V

LANGUAGE

✑ USEFUL WEBSITES/LINKS

Last but not least, the most helpful tool for any writer out there is Google!

ancwritingresources:

Resource: Writing a Fighter

So you want to write a fighter–a “tough” character who is trained in the art of Martial Arts or is a pro-boxer. Or perhaps your character just tends to pick a lot of fights on the street. Whatever the case may be, it’s important to sound educated when describing a fight but also to pace yourself: just like writing a sex scene or creating good dialogue, writing violence and fights is a skill all in its own. Here are some resources I hope will help: 

Writing Tips:

Boxing:

Martial Arts:

Street Fighting:

Please note that these guides are for writing; please do not go out and engage in a street fight just because you read this resource post. I promise, I am not that good at providing advice.

Everything Masterpost

trxyeisnotonfire:

So I love finding masterposts online, and I figured everyone else does too, so I decided to make one of my own. I’m constantly updating this/fixing links, so make sure to check back. If you need to find it, it’s linked on my navigation page.

Bored?

  • The Bored Button

Online Games

**psychological game, possibly triggering

  • Addicting Games
  • Girls Go Games
  • Super Mario
  • Goatlings (literally the coolest website ever. you make a goat and battle and dress it up and stuff and the options for gender are male, female, neutral, other, and hidden.)
  • Online Games Masterpost
  • Lots of relaxing games
  • More relaxing games
  • Helicopter Game
  • 2048
  • QWOP
  • Curveball
  • Robot Unicorn Attack
  • Cubefield
  • Choice of Dragon
  • Color Tests
  • The End**
  • No One Has To Die**
  • Off**
  • The Grey Rainbow**
  • The Color Tuesday RPG (TCT)**
  • Bastion**
  • Coma**
  • Loved**
  • Don’t Look Back**
  • Thomas Was Alone**

TV Shows/Movies/Music

  • Hulu (watch lots of shows/movies for free, but it does have ads, totally legal)
  • Anime List (with subtitles)
  • TV Series Masterpost Blog
  • Lesbian Movie/TV Show Masterpost
  • Crackle (lots of free movies/shows, totally legal)
  • Popcornflix (more free movies)
  • Watch Documentary (documentaries)
  • Masterpost with HUGE list of shows/movies
  • Make playlists
  • Download music from YouTube

Art

Tutorials/References

  • Skin tones
  • Color palettes
  • Drawing cloth
  • Drawing varying faces
  • Better shading
  • Color palettes/ref (2) (3)
  • Body references
  • People with wings (2)
  • Colouring/shading (2)
  • Different people to use as inspiration
  • Matching profiles to front facing people
  • Drawing gifs
  • Hands
  • Art tutorial blog (very helpful)
  • Drawing guys
  • Lighting
  • Anime eyes
  • Braids
  • Watercolors
  • Hats
  • Facial expressions
  • Folds
  • Hair
  • Need something to draw?

Software

  • Free software (2)

Crafts/DIY’s

  • Heart friendship bracelet
  • Cool cutout t-shirts
  • Homemade chalk paint
  • Finger knitting
  • Origami butterflies

Feel Better (tw: mental illness, self harm, suicide, eating disorders, body image)

Distractions/Cheer Up!

I put most of these here with anxiety/panic attacks in mind but they’re just simple, calming things, so they’re really good for anytime. This is probably going to be one of the longer sections, because there are so many amazing resources. This first section doesn’t have anything triggering except very small mentions of mental illness.

  • Ocean in a bottle
  • DIY microwave heat pads
  • Origami
  • Learn how to do things (masterpost)
  • Make sand art
  • Lots of soothing games
  • DIY relaxing glitter jar
  • DIY honey lavender bath melts
  • Soothing noise generator
  • The Fluffington Post
  • Draw a nebula
  • Get compliments
  • The Dawn Room (comfort and support)
  • Draw with silk
  • Explore space
  • The Thoughts Room (get rid of negative thoughts)
  • The Quiet Place (take a break and relax)
  • Get a hug
  • Distractions (2)
  • Emotional Baggage Check
  • Cute Roulette
  • Immunity cat
  • “To This Day"… for the bullied and the beautiful (video)
  • Gives Me Hope
  • Make everything okay
  • Just say yes!
  • Liquid particles
  • Paint (click for another color, hit space to clear)
  • Nice relaxing games

Self Harm

  • Simulate cutting **VERY TRIGGERING**
  • Alternatives
  • Recovery masterpost (including more alternatives)
  • Coping with thoughts of self harm masterpost (more alternatives here too)
  • Another recovery masterpost

Information/Helping Others/Self Help

This is a bit of an extension of the last few sections, but it’s basically a bunch of links that will help you help friends/yourself with anxiety/depression/eating disorders/anything like that.

  • With social anxiety
  • Info on anxiety
  • With depression
  • Info on depression
  • With self harm
  • Info on cutting/self harm
  • With eating/body image issues
  • Info on eating disorders
  • With a mental illness
  • Info on panic attacks
  • With a panic attack
  • What not to say during a panic attack
  • Info on (mostly physical) abuse
  • Info on abuse/types of abuse
  • How to support a friend
  • Self help masterpost
  • Helpful stuff/lots of info (includes abuse, anxiety/panic disorder, bipolar disorder, depression, eating disorders, grief and loss, LGBT, staying positive, self harm, substance abuse, suicidal thoughts/suicide prevention, trauma and PTSD, and a section of other links)
  • Suicide Prevention Lifeline (US)
  • International Association for Suicide Prevention (includes links to find help centers/lifelines near you)
  • Masterpost with suicide helplines for a lot of countries
  • Info on suicide
  • Info on bipolar disorder
  • Info on personality disorders
  • Info on PTSD and trauma
  • 7 Cups of Tea (talk to people trained to listen to you and help with your problems, completely free)

Fashion/Makeup/Hair/Beauty/Cosplay

There are a lot of crossovers so I’m just combining fashion and cosplay.

Makeup

  • Makeup tips (2)
  • What colors should you use?
  • How to contour
  • Perfect eyeliner
  • Applying false eyelashes (video) (pay attention this is so hard)
  • Perfect eyebrows (video)
  • Eyeliner ref
  • Lipstick color ref

Hair

  • Bun masterpost
  • Braid masterpost
  • Dip-dying your hair
  • Good semi-permanent hair dye
  • 101 hair ideas

Cosplay

  • Learn to sew
  • Cosplay makeup help
  • Bigger eyes (video)
  • Latex elf ears (video)
  • Pointy teeth (video)
  • Fake blood **LOTS OF BLOOD, COULD BE TRIGGERING**

Clothes

  • Cheap online clothes
  • Old fashioned clothes

Sexuality/Gender Identity

  • GLBT National Help Center (US)
  • The Trevor Project (crisis intervention and suicide prevention for young LGBTQ+ people) **TW: MENTIONS OF SUICIDE/ABUSE/ETC**
  • Coming out videos/LGBTQIA+ channels
  • Asexuality, types of attraction, and romantic orientation
  • Bisexuality and pansexuality
  • Intersex
  • Human Rights Campaign coming out resources
  • Coming out
  • Transgender info
  • GLAAD
  • LGBTQIA+ terms
  • Gender Diversity terminology
  • Gender Diversity

Writing

  • Huge masterpost
  • Writing tips site (2) (3)

Names

  • Character name generator
  • Fantasy character names
  • Various name generators
  • Common surnames

Character Profiles

  • Character profile generator
  • Teen character generator
  • Various character generators

Characters

  • Manipulative
  • Witty
  • Leader
  • Rebellious
  • Indifferent/distant
  • Bitchy
  • Popular
  • Young
  • Of a different gender (different than the writer)
  • Character of color
  • With a tragic backstory
  • Character development questions
  • Underused personalities/traits
  • Character virtues and vices
  • Character trait cheat sheet
  • Lots of character resources (includes: narrators, backstory, general stuff, sexuality, religion/culture, disabilities, and other stuff) (also has other writing resources)
  • Body language
  • Diversity Cross Check (diversifying characters while making sure to not offend people or use stereotypes. You can get in contact with all of the people who submitted profiles.)

Story/Plot

  • Outlining
  • Creating a compelling plot
  • The Snowflake Method
  • Beginning and end, but no middle?
  • Coggle (free online mind mapping)
  • How JK Rowling outlines books
  • Ways to outline your plot
  • LitLift (online writing where you can write and share stories if you want to. It has great organization, so you can keep track of settings, items, chapters, scenes, characters, and more.)

Essays

  • The five paragraph essay
  • Writing a basic essay
  • Harvard essay help
  • Essay structure
  • Using quotes
  • Academic writing tips (very helpful)
  • Writing an introduction
  • Writing a thesis statement
  • Transitions
  • Strong body paragraphs
  • Paragraphs
  • Conclusions
  • Developed and detailed conclusions
  • Persuasive and argumentative essays
  • Writing about poetry
  • Writing an expository essay
  • Essay map
  • Research papers
  • Application essays

Research

  • Lots of stuff
  • Mental illness
  • Limits of the human body
  • Fighting/self defense
  • Writing fight scenes
  • Flirting
  • Kissing (scroll to bottom for writing tips)
  • Sex scenes
  • Issues, -isms, and privilege
  • Mystery/crime resource references
  • Gun information
  • Forensics for writers
  • List of resources

Motivation/Help

  • Written? Kitten!
  • Write or Die
  • Tip Of Your Tongue
  • Mind mapping
  • Cliche finder
  • Word frequency counter
  • Prompts (2)
  • First line generator

School

  • Mathway (solve math problems + get an explanation)
  • Scholarpedia
  • Effective all-nighters
  • Quizlet (great for studying – make flashcards and study them as well as playing games with them)
  • Bibliography maker
  • Didn’t listen in class?
  • Finals survival
  • Geography
  • Wolfram Alpha (solves math problems and has great research/info)
  • Online ruler
  • How to study
  • Study tips
  • Stress analyst
  • Learn history
  • Etymology dictionary
  • A ton of calculators (engineering, net profit, etc)
  • Unit conversions
  • Free graphing calculator
  • Learn to use Excel
  • Free Microsoft Word alternative
  • Writing software

Food (tw: food)

  • Cook with the ingredients you have
  • Quick and easy snacks
  • Healthier food substitutions
  • Quick and easy soup
  • Study snacks
  • Guide to chocolate chip cookies

Microwave Food (aka things to make with a microwave and a mug)

  • Microwave snacks
  • Mac & cheese
  • Nutella hot chocolate
  • Cookie in a mug (so apparently this is actually a single serving cookie you bake…)
  • Blueberry muffin
  • French toast
  • Cinnamon roll
  • Coffee cake
  • Banana bread
  • Chocolate peanut butter cake
  • Nutella cake
  • Cheesecake
  • Chocolate fudge s’mores cake
  • Strawberry pie
  • Chocolate and caramel cake
  • Quiche
  • Rice Krispie Treat
  • Chocolate cake
  • Pumpkin pie
  • Dark chocolate and nutella cake
  • Magic Diet Coke chocolate cake
  • Pumpkin spice cake
  • Chocolate cake with ganache
  • Red velvet cake
  • Brownie
  • Cookies and cream cake
  • Sausage and cheese spaghetti dinner
  • Chicken pot pie
  • Mint chocolate chip cake

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Themes

A lot of these include tutorials, too.

  • Themes by Rhaegara
  • The Theme Gang
  • Themes by heytonks
  • Hunt down that theme
  • The Coders Club
  • It’s Photoshop
  • Thememakers List
  • Starious
  • Theme resources
  • Thmresources
  • Wonderfully Themes
  • Teenage Cloud
  • HTML Hotties
  • Polythemers
  • Html wizards
  • Aeterno themes

Theme/Coding Tutorials

  • Theme base code
  • Theme Hunters tutorials
  • The Coders Club tutorials
  • Starious tutorials
  • Theme resources
  • Html wizards tutorials