Compilation of writing advice for some aspects of the writing process.
How to motivate myself to write more
How to get rid of writer’s block
Basic Overview: How to write a story
How to outline a story
How to come up with plot
How to create a character
How to make a character unique
How to name your characters (Masterpost)
How to start a story
How to write a prologue
How to write conversation
How to write witty banter
How to write the last line
How to write a summary
How to write a book description
How to write romance
How to write friendships
How to write emotions (Masterpost)
How to write an argument
How to write yelling
How to write anger
How to write betrayal
How to title fanfiction
How to write an unreliable narrator
First Person vs. Third Person POV
How to write character deaths
How to use songs in a fanfiction
How to name fictional things
How to write self-insert fics
How to write multiple points of view
Introducing a group of characters
Large cast of characters interacting in one scene
How to write dual timelines
How to slow down time
Redemption arc
Plot twists
Fatal Character Flaws
good traits gone bad (Masterpost)
Slow burn
Explanation posts about writing terms
What is…
AU ideas
Favourite tropes
Tropes of the day
List of Genres
Drabble vs. One-Shot
Advice for writing relationships
Masterpost: how to write relationships + romance
More specific scenarios
How to write a bilingual character
How to write a character with glasses
How to write heterochromia
How to write a girldad
How to write taking care of a tired partner
How to create a villain
Reasons for becoming a villain
How to write a morally grey character
How to write an inferiority complex
How to write a road trip
How to create and write a cult
How to write amnesia
How to write being stabbed
How to write a stratocracy
How to write a heist
How to write the mafia
Criminal past comes to light
Ideas for traumatic experiences
How to create an atmosphere (Masterpost)
How to write a college party
How to write royalty (Masterpost)
Paramilitary Forces/ Militia
Superpowers Masterpost (Hero x Villain)
Inconvenient things a ghost could do
A Queen’s Assassination Plot
Reasons for leaving their land
Crime Story - Detective’s POV
Evil organization of assassins
Evil wins in the end
Causes for the apocalypse
Last day on earth
Liminal Spaces
Workplace AUs
Signs of co-dependency
What to wear in a desert
What to wear in the arctic
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Midnight drives with street food pit-stops and making out with the car radio playing in the background.
One of them randomly googling super random shit and telling those facts to the other person, and the other one, super sleepy, just nodding along to everything.
silent domestic acts like being in the kitchen together, dressing up together, A drying their hair while they sits between B legs
A randomly ironing B's clothes to annoy them
^ “what are you doing?” “ironing?” “since when do you do that?” “since you told me you don’t enjoy it.”
they come back from work and find their partner crying so they both sit on the floor until they stop— they end up sleeping on the couch
waiting for them to come home in lingerie that you just recently bought in their favorite color.
^ or in an outfit instead of lingerie
“i want to have a family with you—” “what?” “i want to see a mini us running around, wanna see you handle them and then when you get tired i get to watch you sleep with them in my arms.” “it’s not that easy—” “but i get to do it with you." (AWWWWWWWWWW)
kissing in the middle of an argument
Them kissing after sharing clothes for the first time
getting them their favorite food or treat as reconciliation after accidentally hurting their feelings
Sorry for not including who made them, if you are not happy with your work being put up there then please don't hesitate to message me and I will edit yours out or put credits*
Whoops, I think I got the wrong Grayson
Haven't done one of these in a while.
"Come on, this isn't funny." "I'm not joking. It's locked."
"Is that the only tent we have?"
"There's only one bed." "Well, darlin', I'm not sleeping on the floor, so I guess we'll have to share."
"I'm your bodyguard. It's in the job description to protect you at all times." "Well, could you at least 'protect' me from over there?"
"You have got to be kidding me. I have to share a room with you."
"What do you mean there's only one sleeping bag? You had one job."
"Quit following me!" "I was hired to follow you, princess, better get used to it."
"What the hell is that noise?" "Uh, yeah, slight problem. We're out of gas."
"Where are you going? We're in the middle of nowhere!" "Yeah! And whose fault is that?"
"Look around, love. In case you hadn't noticed we're snowed in. So unless you plan to freeze to death, we'll have to find a way to keep each other warm."
"I may be stuck with you, but I don't have to like it."
"Is now a bad time to tell you I'm claustrophobic?"
"Your heart's racing. Now, I know being pressed up against me is exhilerating and all, but I'm trying to concentrate on picking this lock."
"What are you? Afraid?"
"Uh. Slight problem. We're trapped."
"Well, which way, smartass?" "Uh. We might be lost."
Gets into: A Fight ⚜ ...Another Fight ⚜ ...Yet Another Fight
Hates Someone ⚜ Kisses Someone ⚜ Falls in Love
Calls Someone they Love ⚜ Dies / Cheats Death ⚜ Drowns
is...
A Ballerina ⚜ A Child ⚜ Interacting with a Child ⚜ A Cheerleader
A Cowboy ⚜ A Genius ⚜ A Lawyer ⚜ A Pirate ⚜ A Spy
A Wheelchair User ⚜ A Zombie ⚜ Beautiful ⚜ Dangerous ⚜ Drunk
Funny ⚜ In a Coma ⚜ In a Secret Society ⚜ Injured ⚜ Shy
needs...
A Magical Item ⚜ An Aphrodisiac ⚜ A Fictional Poison
A Coping Strategy ⚜ A Drink ⚜ A Medicinal Herb ⚜ A Mentor
Money ⚜ A Persuasion Tactic ⚜ A Quirk ⚜ To be Killed Off
To Become Likable ⚜ To Clean a Wound ⚜ To Self-Reflect
To Find the Right Word, but Can't ⚜ To Say No ⚜ To Swear
loves...
Astronomy ⚜ Baking ⚜ Cooking ⚜ Cocktails ⚜ Food ⚜ Oils
Dancing ⚜ Fashion ⚜ Gems ⚜ Herbal Remedies ⚜ Honey
Mushrooms ⚜ Mythology ⚜ Numbers ⚜ Perfumes
Roses ⚜ Sweets ⚜ To Argue ⚜ To Insult ⚜ To Kiss
To Make False Claims ⚜ Wine ⚜ Wine-Tasting ⚜ Yoga
has/experiences...
Allergies ⚜ Amnesia ⚜ Bereavement ⚜ Bites & Stings
Bruises ⚜ Caffeine ⚜ CO Poisoning ⚜ Color Blindness
Facial Hair ⚜ Fainting ⚜ Fevers ⚜ Food Allergies
Food Poisoning ⚜ Fractures ⚜ Frostbite ⚜ Hypothermia
Injuries ⚜ Jet Lag ⚜ Kidnapping ⚜ Manipulation ⚜ Mutism
Pain ⚜ Paranoia ⚜ Poisoning ⚜ More Pain & Violence
Scars ⚜ Trauma ⚜ Viruses ⚜ Wounds
[these are just quick references. more research may be needed to write your story...]
Writing Resources PDFs
Can you do a prompt list where two enemy soldiers have to work together in order to find safety/refuge? Except, they actually get along together and would do anything to protect the other? It's okay if you're not comfortable doing this. If you are comfortable writing this, take your time! Your mental health is more important.
Enemy Soldiers Working Together Prompts
-> feel free to edit and adjust pronouns as you see fit.
Smoke curled through the chapel, dust drifting in sunbeams like falling ash. He pressed the muzzle of his rifle against the other soldier’s chest, breath ragged. "I should kill you." The man beneath him didn’t flinch, just looked up, blood drying at the corner of his mouth. "Then why haven’t you?" The rifle trembled. And slowly, almost imperceptibly, lowered.
She collapsed in the mud, her leg slick with blood, eyes half-lidded. He cursed under his breath and dropped to his knees, ripping fabric from his own sleeve. "Don’t close your eyes," he hissed, wrapping her wound with shaking fingers. "You’re not dying here. Not like this." Her lashes fluttered. "Didn’t know you cared."
The night air bit through their jackets, the silence between them as cold as the frost gathering on their breath. He curled up under a broken beam, facing away. She lay stiff on the opposite side, arms folded tight. But as the hours dragged on, their bodies moved like magnets. She woke before dawn, his arm draped around her waist, both of them pretending not to notice when the sun finally rose.
They met in a burnt-out hallway, rifles raised, fingers on triggers. No one spoke. Only the slow, measured breaths of two soldiers too tired to shoot first. "If you fire," he said, "they’ll hear it." Their knuckles whitened. Then, slowly, they lowered the barrel. "You go first," they said. He did, but not before turning his back, just to see if they'd pull the trigger. They didn’t.
He sat on the edge of the creek, boots in the water, rifle discarded in the grass. "I don’t know why I’m still fighting," he said. "I don’t even remember what started it." She knelt beside him, their shoulders brushing. "Maybe it doesn’t matter anymore," she murmured. "Maybe we just fight to keep each other alive now."
She watched him wrestle with the snare wire, brow furrowed, cursing under his breath. "You’re doing it wrong," she said, stepping closer. "Here, like this." Her hands covered his, slow and patient. He didn’t pull away. "Where’d you learn that?" he asked. "Home," she said. "Before the war turned it into rubble."
They sat on the rusting roof of a bombed-out train car, stars scattered above like dust across velvet. She pulled her knees to her chest. "Do you think there’s a place where we aren’t enemies?" she asked. He looked at her profile in the moonlight, something wistful in his gaze. "I think we’re already there," he said. "Just took hell to find it."
⋆。‧˚ʚ💋ɞ˚‧。⋆ 𝐢'𝐦 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮
❝ you don’t have to say anything just let me stay with you. ❞
❝ i’m here, and i’m not going anywhere. ❞
❝ you’re not alone. not while i’m around. ❞
❝ want me to hold your hand for a while? ❞
❝ i noticed you’ve been quiet lately. do you want to talk or just sit together? ❞
❝ you don’t have to pretend around me. i see you. ❞
❝ even when it feels like no one cares i do. always. ❞
❝ i brought your favorite snacks and something soft to wear. ❞
❝ let’s watch something silly and forget the world for a while. ❞
❝ you don’t have to be strong for me. i’ve got you. ❞
❝ can i just hold you for a little while? ❞
❝ i don’t know the right words, but i’m not leaving. ❞
❝ take all the time you need i’ll still be right here. ❞
❝ you don’t have to carry this alone anymore. ❞
❝ your feelings are valid. every single one of them. ❞
❝ just rest. i’ll stay until you fall asleep. ❞
❝ even in silence, you matter to me. ❞
❝ let’s take it slow, okay? i’m with you. ❞
❝ you are so deeply loved even when you can’t feel it. ❞
❝ i see how hard you’re trying, and i’m so proud of you. ❞
❝ lean on me tonight. i’ll carry the heavy stuff for a while. ❞
❝ want to lay your head in my lap and breathe for a bit? ❞
❝ you don’t have to explain. i just want to make you feel safe. ❞
❝ no matter what your mind tells you you’re not a burden. ❞
❝ i can’t fix everything, but i can be here. and i am. ❞
❝ i’ll sit in the dark with you until you’re ready for the light again. ❞
❝ i don’t need you to be okay right now. i just need you to let me stay. ❞
❝ i’ll be the one who stays, even when it gets heavy. ❞
❝ i know it’s hard to ask for help. so don’t. i’m offering. ❞
❝ there’s nothing wrong with needing someone. i need you, too. ❞
❝ you don’t have to fix yourself to be worthy of love. ❞
❝ if it hurts, you can tell me. if you can’t speak, i’ll still stay. ❞
❝ you’ve made it through every hard day so far. and i’ll help you through this one. ❞
❝ i’m not scared of your sadness. you don’t scare me. ❞
❝ let me hold you until the world feels less loud. ❞
❝ we don’t need to talk. let me just be here with you. ❞
❝ your existence makes the world better, even when you feel like it doesn’t. ❞
❝ i love you. not in spite of your sadness, but including it. ❞
❝ i know you feel like no one sees you. but i do. i always do. ❞
❝ you mean more to me than you’ll ever know. ❞
❝ i’m not expecting a smile. i’m just staying close. ❞
❝ i know you’re hurting. i’ll keep showing up anyway. ❞
❝ you don’t have to feel okay for me to love you. ❞
PROMPTS FROM HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL (pt. 2) Assorted dialogue from the 2006 Disney Channel Original Movie. Feel free to adjust pronouns, etc.. part one
Was that a cell phone?
There's something freaky about her.
I will see you in detention.
Do you think that'll work?
About the singing thing…
I don't even wanna talk about it.
Um... why are you hiding behind a mop?
Your friends don't know you're here, right?
Shall the carnage continue?
Now who'd have ever thought that we'd both be here tonight.
Can I have my book back?
It was my fault.
Did you ever want to try something new, but were afraid of what your friends would think?
I can't make it, I gotta catch up on some homework.
Why is everybody staring at you?
What is going on here?
Have you seen Michael Crawford on a cereal box?
I won't attempt to understand the female mind, It's foreign territory.
We're not Charlie's Angels, OK?
We'll get this figured out real soon.
So this is your private hideout?
Do you have to wear a costume?
Not another word.
Is this some kind of joke?
You're not gonna hear me sing.
You really don't wanna do that.
Well, I just humiliated myself into the next century.
Where did those come from?
What the heck are those two doing in a tree?
Can we have a talk, please?
Toodles!
What I want is for you to have fun.
We seem to be experiencing some technical difficulties.
Wait, I baked you some cookies.
(As a writer, this is one of the hottest tropes out there—just saying, tag me if you write theseeeeee)
By @me-writes-prompts
"You have no right to save me!" "As a human being, I do. As a spy, I don't. But I still did, so quit whining and be thankful, brat."
They just had to be on the same mission, working together, unknowingly.
"Are you into me?" "What? no!!" "Then why do you keep pinning me to the wall?" "I-..."
Getting locked up in the same place
^^"What are you doing here?" "I could ask you the same." "I would rather die than be here. God." "Hey!"
Having to pretend that they are a couple in a ball!!
"You think you're better than me? Please." "I'm better than you because I'm more dangerous!" "I'm better than you because I'm more dangerous!" Cue a fight.
They just so happen to be in a narrow alleyway, with nowhere to turn.
"I guess you're not so bad after all." "Yeah, you're tolerable too." "Wow, thank you for such a big compliment." "You're welcome." "Jerk."
They need the other's help to escape a hazardous situation.
^^"You didn't need to rescue me or whatever. I don't need your help." "You need it more than you realize, or let on."
"Next time, try not to shoot a bullet my way." "Well, screw me for trying to save you. I wish I had aimed it at you." "*Gasps!*"
The other one keeps bragging, and in a "moment of foolishness", they kiss them to shut them up.
"I didn't know you could do that." "You sound impressed." "Hardly." "As a spy, you're not a good liar." "Shut up."
The unfamiliar protectiveness kicks in when they see the other injured/wounded.
avenging the death of their loved one prompts + dialogue
@celestialwrites for more!!
♡ “do you have any idea what you took from me? the life i had? the life they could’ve had?”
♡ character tracing back the murder to an underground mob ring that had been active for 200 years, until the character burnt it to ash.
♡ “say her name. say her goddamn name!”
or
♡ “get her name out of your pathetic mouth.”
♡ character quite literally painting the city red with the blood of their loved one’s murderer.
♡ “killing you would be too generous, instead i have decided you will have to live with the same pain i do.”
♡ characters have to hold back their friend as they try to kill their parents murderer, and the friend collapses into a fit of tears.
♡ “you never offered (name) mercy, why should you received that kindness from me?”
♡ character promising themselves they will never hurt anyone but they rip the world apart after the death of their loved one.
♡ “when you see them in whatever life comes after, tell them i love them.”
♡ “it was always supposed to be the two of us, you took that from me.”
♡ character fighting their loved ones murderer through tears, knowing that killing them wont bring the one they love back.
♡ “do you know what it’s like to be loved? imagine that, being loved and having them ripped from your arms.”
♡ “blood for blood.”
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