Every 21st Century Piece Of Writing Advice: Make Us CARE About The Character From Page 1! Make Us Empathize

do you think it'll all be okay?

yeah. even if it won’t i’ve got people to love in the meantime

wylan is the definition of the duality of man. he is adorable and cute and seemingly so innocent with his curls and his big eyes and his flute and everything, but he’s actually this badass motherfucker who makes bombs and threatens to push people in canals and im not surprised jesper is head over heels for him bc i would be too.

we stan wylan van eck in this household. reblog if you also stan our king our savior our musical madman wylan van fucking eck

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Have you seen this petition yet?

SAVE Shadow and Bone!!!

reminder this petition exists and that you should sign it! remember, improbable not impossible

when you can’t beat the odds…

Pro-writing tip: if your story doesn't need a number, don't put a fucking number in it.

Nothing, I mean nothing, activates reader pedantry like a number.

I have seen it a thousand times in writing workshops. People just can't resist nitpicking a number. For example, "This scifi story takes place 200 years in the future and they have faster than light travel because it's plot convenient," will immediately drag every armchair scientist out of the woodwork to say why there's no way that technology would exist in only 200 years.

Dates, ages, math, spans of time, I don't know what it is but the second a specific number shows up, your reader is thinking, and they're thinking critically but it's about whether that information is correct. They are now doing the math and have gone off drawing conclusions and getting distracted from your story or worse, putting it down entirely because umm, that sword could not have existed in that Medieval year, or this character couldn't be this old because it means they were an infant when this other story event happened that they're supposed to know about, or these two events now overlap in the timeline, or... etc etc etc.

Unless you are 1000% certain that a specific number is adding to your narrative, and you know rock-solid, backwards and forwards that the information attached to that number is correct and consistent throughout the entire story, do yourself a favor, and don't bring that evil down upon your head.

gillion tidestrider would find out what being gender fluid means and hed be like “by the gods… even my gender can be wet… we truly are blessed” and jay is like “gill it doesnt mean your gender is wet- it just means you could be a girl one day and a boy the next. or you can be anything any day!” and gill grabs her shoulders and looks into her eyes with the most dead serious look shes ever seen on him and says “jay i can be not only the wettest man alive.. i can also be the wettest WOMAN OR OTHER alive.”

“Baikal Zen”: Rocks that have fallen on the ice of Lake Baikal are heated by sunlight and emit infrared rays that melt the ice below. Once the sun is gone, the ice becomes solid again, creating a small support for the rock above.

Dogs have had many jobs throughout history, in this case: Revenge.

cats are such decadent little beasts like look at this thang

sobbing and crying at the woman who stole a meth addicted kitten from her dealer and then she and the kitten got clean together