I Got Bored And Made A Thing.

US SUICIDE PREVENTION HOTLINE IS CHANGING ITS NUMBER

Taking effect July 2022, the US Suicide Prevention Hotline will change from 800-273-8255 to the three digit code of 988. Especially with families and communities reeling from back to back tragedies, it is super important to share this information!

Repeat: Starting July 2022, the US Suicide Prevention Hotline will be 988

THINGS WRITERS NEED TO HEAR

you are allowed to take a break. you don’t have to write if you don’t feel like it.

everyone has their own pace. it doesn’t matter if you write one page or ten pages a day, you are still a writer.

your first draft is going to suck. every first draft or every book has sucked. i’ll get better and better as you edit. that’s what editing is for, making your work actually good.

experiment. try out new routines, new styles, new genres. it’ll never harm you. you’ll gain experience and become a better writer. you’ll understand what suits you and what doesn’t.

you don’t need publishing to be a writer. publishing is just an option but if you don’t want to you can just keep your writing to yourself.

if you write, then you’re a writer. no matter how much experience you have, what genre you write, if you are published or not. you are a writer.

everyone is different. everyone has a different style so find your own and rock it. search for inspiration but ultimately focus on what allows you to express your ideas in the best way possible.

you are doing great. no matter how productive you are, how much you’ve written, how fast you write. you are gonna achieve your goal and it’s gonna feel so good.

HEY WRITER FRIENDS

there’s this amazing site called realtimeboardwhich is like a whiteboard where you can plan and draw webs and family trees and timelines and all that sort of stuff. you can also insert videos, documents, photos, and lots of other things. you can put notes and post-its and, best of all, you can invite other people to be on the board with you and edit together!! 

this is really really awesome and a great tool for novel planning, so if you’re doing nanowrimo…. this could be good for you!!

+ 100 Exquisite Adjectives.

(SOURCE) Adjectives — descriptive words that modify nouns — often come under fire for their cluttering quality, but often it’s quality, not quantity, that is the issue. Plenty of tired adjectives are available to spoil a good sentence, but when you find just the right word for the job, enrichment ensues. Practice precision when you select words. Here’s a list of adjectives:

Adamant: unyielding; a very hard substance

Adroit: clever, resourceful

Amatory: sexual

Animistic: quality of recurrence or reversion to earlier form

Antic: clownish, frolicsome

Arcadian: serene

Baleful: deadly, foreboding

Bellicose: quarrelsome (its synonym belligerent can also be a noun)

Bilious: unpleasant, peevish

Boorish: crude, insensitive

Calamitous: disastrous

Caustic: corrosive, sarcastic; a corrosive substance

Cerulean: sky blue

Comely: attractive

Concomitant: accompanying

Contumacious: rebellious

Corpulent: obese

Crapulous: immoderate in appetite

Defamatory: maliciously misrepresenting

Didactic: conveying information or moral instruction

Dilatory: causing delay, tardy

Dowdy: shabby, old-fashioned; an unkempt woman

Efficacious: producing a desired effect

Effulgent: brilliantly radiant

Egregious: conspicuous, flagrant

Endemic: prevalent, native, peculiar to an area

Equanimous: even, balanced

Execrable: wretched, detestable

Fastidious: meticulous, overly delicate

Feckless: weak, irresponsible

Fecund: prolific, inventive

Friable: brittle

Fulsome: abundant, overdone, effusive

Garrulous: wordy, talkative

Guileless: naive

Gustatory: having to do with taste or eating

Heuristic: learning through trial-and-error or problem solving

Histrionic: affected, theatrical

Hubristic: proud, excessively self-confident

Incendiary: inflammatory, spontaneously combustible, hot

Insidious: subtle, seductive, treacherous

Insolent: impudent, contemptuous

Intransigent: uncompromising

Inveterate: habitual, persistent

Invidious: resentful, envious, obnoxious

Irksome: annoying

Jejune: dull, puerile

Jocular: jesting, playful

Judicious: discreet

Lachrymose: tearful

Limpid: simple, transparent, serene

Loquacious: talkative

Luminous: clear, shining

Mannered: artificial, stilted

Mendacious: deceptive

Meretricious: whorish, superficially appealing, pretentious

Minatory: menacing

Mordant: biting, incisive, pungent

Munificent: lavish, generous

Nefarious: wicked

Noxious: harmful, corrupting

Obtuse: blunt, stupid

Parsimonious: frugal, restrained

Pendulous: suspended, indecisive

Pernicious: injurious, deadly

Pervasive: widespread

Petulant: rude, ill humored

Platitudinous: resembling or full of dull or banal comments

Precipitate: steep, speedy

Propitious: auspicious, advantageous, benevolent

Puckish: impish

Querulous: cranky, whining

Quiescent: inactive, untroublesome

Rebarbative: irritating, repellent

Recalcitant: resistant, obstinate

Redolent: aromatic, evocative

Rhadamanthine: harshly strict

Risible: laughable

Ruminative: contemplative

Sagacious: wise, discerning

Salubrious: healthful

Sartorial: relating to attire, especially tailored fashions

Sclerotic: hardening

Serpentine: snake-like, winding, tempting or wily

Spasmodic: having to do with or resembling a spasm, excitable, intermittent

Strident: harsh, discordant; obtrusively loud

Taciturn: closemouthed, reticent

Tenacious: persistent, cohesive,

Tremulous: nervous, trembling, timid, sensitive

Trenchant: sharp, penetrating, distinct

Turbulent: restless, tempestuous

Turgid: swollen, pompous

Ubiquitous: pervasive, widespread

Uxorious: inordinately affectionate or compliant with a wife

Verdant: green, unripe

Voluble: glib, given to speaking

Voracious: ravenous, insatiable

Wheedling: flattering

Withering: devastating

Zealous: eager, devoted

It does help. Thank you :)

How did you start posting your writing here? I want to start posting some writing I've done but it makes me nervous. How did you feel when you first posted some writing?

First of all, oh wow thanks for asking! I’m shook.

I honestly just kind of…did it? I got super inspired and decided I wanted to share it with people, since at the time it was a fairly new fandom that was having a bunch of fun on here (A Heist With Markiplier had been out not even a week, and I posted a fic about one of the new characters).

I used to be afraid to share anything just because I was worried about what people would think or people I know IRL finding me or something, but then I just decided I didn’t care. Why deny myself of doing something that makes me happy on a site that I spend so much time on anyway? I love reading what people write so I decided that maybe a couple people’s days with what I’d written. And if not, well I was having a good time! 

I really try to make an effort to not let notes (or lack thereof) affect me. This site has an incomprehensible amount of content, tags fuck up, timezones are a thing, fandoms fluctuate, etc., etc…but honestly at the end of the day I don’t let it make or break me. I love the feeling I get when I write something that I enjoy reading back to myself, and putting it here is, at least for me, just a way to say “Okay yep. There is the thing. I did the thing. Good job, me!” 

Of course, I have been COMPLETELY blown away by the reactions I’ve gotten to some of my work. There are comments that put smiles on my faces for DAYS, and I’ve met some super cool people as a result. My fics aren’t even all that popular but I enjoy every interaction that I DO have, because it’s all in fun! 

Long story short, just go for it! You’ll learn what, when and how you prefer to write and post as you go along. Don’t be afraid to adjust if you want/need to and don’t let people give you shit for what you write or don’t write, whether it’s fanfic like me, or whatever else. Write for you. 

writers:

break up your paragraphs. big paragraphs are scary, your readers will get scared

fuuuuck epithets. “the other man got up” “the taller woman sat down” “the blonde walked away” nahhh. call them by their names or rework the sentence. you can do so much better than this (exception: if the reader doesn’t know the character(s) you’re referring to yet, it’s a-okay to refer to them by an identifying trait)

blunette is not a thing

new speaker, new paragraph. please.

“said” is such a great word. use it. make sweet love to it. but don’t kill it

use “said” more than you use synonyms for it. that way the use of synonyms gets more exciting. getting a sudden description of how a character is saying something (screaming, mumbling, sighing) is more interesting that way.

if your summary says “I suck at summaries” or “story better than summary” you’re turning off the reader, my dude. your summary is supposed to be your hook. you gotta own it, just like you’re gonna own the story they’re about to read

follow long sentences w short ones and short ones w long ones. same goes for paragraphs

your writing is always better than you think it is. you just think it’s bad because the story’s always gonna be predicable to the one who’s writing it

i love u guys keep on trucking

What you can say instead of the word beautiful:

lovely, 

charming, 

delightful, 

appealing, 

engaging, 

winsome

ravishing, 

gorgeous, 

heavenly, 

stunning, 

arresting, 

glamorous,

 irresistible, 

bewitching, 

beguiling

graceful, 

elegant,

 exquisite, 

aesthetic, 

artistic, 

decorative, 

magnificent

Are there other words like egregious where their meanings are antonyms?

you bet your butt there is! they’re called contronyms

(before getting into the words, I should clarify that the following words words aren’t really contronyms. Instead, their new definition is the opposite of the more archaic one)

artificial new definition: made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally.artificial old definition: artfully or skillfully made.awful new definition: very bad or unpleasant.awful old definition: inspiring reverential wonder.harlot new definition: a mischievous man.harlot old definition: a prostitute or promiscuous woman.resentment new definition: bitter indignation at having been treated unfairly.resentment old definition: the quality of being thankful.specious new definition: misleading in appearance, especially misleadingly attractive.specious old definition: fair or beautiful.symposium new definition: a drinking party.symposium old definition: a conference or meeting to discuss a particular subject.terrific new definition: of great size, amount, or intensity.terrific old definition: making someone afraid or anxious; terrifying.

then there are words that can mean one of two things which are opposite! (the true contronyms)

bitch: someone who is over aggressive or domineering OR someone who is excessively submissiveclip: to bind together OR to seperatedust: remove the dust from something OR apply dust to somethingoff: to turn off (a light) OR the go off (an alarm)resign: can either be resign or re-signseed: lay down seed OR remove the seeds from somethingstone: throw stones at OR remove the stone from a fruit (peaches, plums etc.)

thank you for the ask

Tense Change

I have a tendency to switch between tenses because I write some present-tense stories and I wonder if you have any tips to combat that. - srngdrgn

The first bit of advice I have for you is to focus more on writing now and then worry about your tense use in the revising stage. When re-reading your work, use a highlighter to mark all the places in which you strayed for your desired tense. Then you have visual representation of how much you need to re-work (which isn’t usually that difficult to do) and you may find yourself adding extra plot devices in.

How to Avoid Tense Change in Fiction Writing [there’s advice from Stephen King in here]

How to Avoid Tense Switches

I think the best thing for you to do is be aware while you’re writing. It’s not a huge deal if you mix up tenses so long as you’re prepared to go back and fix it in the editing and revising stages.

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13. What is the best writing advice?

I think there are two extremely important pieces of advice for writing: one I learned from my creative writing professor at college, and the other I learned from Stephen King in his novel On Writing.

> From my creative writing professor: Keep a journal and don’t think about what you’re putting in it. Just create. Doodle, scribble, quote, write things down people sitting beside you say, etc. Do this for a few weeks and then look through it again. I guarantee you’ll find something interesting in there for inspiration. Or it will just encourage writing/creating every day.

> From Stephen King: You’ll never been a good writer if you don’t read. Read a lot. Read novels, short stories, whatever; but make sure you’re reading while you’re writing or you’re going to fail.

Both of these are very obviously paraphrased! But that’s the gist of them. I think they’re super, super important.

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