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I made these as a way to compile all the geographical vocabulary that I thought was useful and interesting for writers. Some descriptors share categories, and some are simplified, but for the most part everything is in its proper place. Not all the words are as useable as others, and some might take tricky wording to pull off, but I hope these prove useful to all you writers out there!

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kind of obsessed with the idea of the rest of the gaang leaving Toph and Zuko to watch over some cooking food and when they come back its burned and Katara starts fuming but Toph and Zuko are like “we’ve never stepped inside a kitchen in our lives and only have one eye between us, if anything it’s your fault”

Service Station

You’re beautiful, sister, eat more fruit, said the attendant every time my mother pulled into the 76 off Ashby Avenue. We never knew why. She didn’t ask and he didn’t explain. My brother and I would look at each other sideways in the back seat, eyebrows raised— though lord knows we’d lived in Berkeley long enough. He smiled when he said it, then wiped the windows and pumped the gas. I liked the little ritual. Always the same order of events. Same lack of discussion. Could he sense something? Attune to an absence of vitamin C? Or was it just a kind of flirting— a way of tossing her an apple, a peach? It’s true my mother had a hidden ailment of which she seldom spoke, and true she never thought herself a beauty, since in those days you had to choose between smart and beautiful, and beauty was not the obvious choice for a skinny bookish girl, especially in Barbados. No wonder she became devout, forsaking nearly everything but God and science. And later she suffered at the hands of my father, whom she loved, and who’d somehow lost control of his right fist and his conscience. Whose sister was she, then? Sister of the Early Rise, the Five-O’Clock Commute, the Centrifuge? Sister of Burnt Dreams? But didn’t her savior speak in parables? Isn’t that the language of the holy? Why wouldn’t he come to her like this, with a kind face and dark, grease-smeared arms, to lean over the windshield of her silver Ford sedan, and bring tidings of her unclaimed loveliness, as he filled the car with fuel, and told her— as a brother—to go ahead, partake of the garden, and eat of it.

Bonfire Opera : Poems. -- Danusha Laméris.

The best advice really is to just write. Write badly - purple prose, stilted conversations, rambling descriptions. Don't delete it, pass go, take your $200, save all your garbage in a big folder. Look at how much you've made - it doesn't matter if it isn't perfect, isn't polished, it was practice. Every time you write you learn a little more, and find another piece of your voice.

Illustrations commissioned by @leapness for @jerichos_kitchen

Linocut print by Pamela Leavey

Tag meme!

List 5 topics you can talk on for an hour without preparing any material.

Not including the obvious "my OCs/original works" and only allowing myself ONE video game for fun haha.

Disability activism

Music history (US centric admittedly)

Film production

Undertale/Deltarune

Doctor Who

Tagged by: @inspirationallybored, thank you ^_^ Tagging: @blissfullyunawares @daisywords @winterandwords @lazybats4wve @lamb-of-wrath @penpaperponderings @storyteller-kara

FREE Fantasy Creative Writing Planning Guide

Do you want to write a fantasy story but don't know how to start? Have you already started a fantasy story but hit a snag in the plot?

Well, have I got a PDF for you! Take a look--it's free! ✨WOW✨

(Opens to Kofi--resource is pay what you want).

Okay, marketing aside, I've been sitting on this for a while now. I used to teach a high school class on fantasy literature, and I miss creating stuff for it. I have all these resources and knowledge, and I'm not doing ANYTHING with it. So, I figured I'd put some resources together and make them available to the vast audience of the Internet.

This is the first of the resources I'll be making. It's a 39 page PDF with fillable worksheets and examples, and I threw in a separate black-and-white document for easy printing. It guides users through some basic planning principles that can help any writer, from beginner to expert, get their plot together.

I hope to make more in the future covering character, plot, the Hero's Journey, rhetoric, and maybe even editing and feedback. It takes a while to make these, and some of the future documents may cost money because I'm ✨lacking funds✨ but I do hope to continue with them. I'll also make some resources for constructed languages eventually if that's anyone's cup of tea.

So far, feedback for this resource has been good! Share widely with anyone you know who may be sitting on a fantasy story that needs to see the light of day. Please comment with feedback (I'd love to hear about what you'd like to see in the future or how I can improve documents like these), and leave a tip if you'd like!

WHICH IS YOUR FAVORITE?

“There is no ‘chosen one,’ there is no destiny, nobody wakes up one day and finds out they’re amazing at something. There’s just slamming your head into the wall, refusing to take no for an answer. Being relentless, until either the wall or your head breaks. You want to be a hero? You don’t have to make some grand decision. There’s no inspirational music, there’s no montage. You just don’t quit.”

Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits - Jason Pargin