CALLING ALL WRITERS 

the-beatles-are-my-boyband:

So, there’s this lovely little website called 750words.com, which encourages you to write at least 750 words per day. It’s completely anonymous and completely free and you don’t have to share your writings with everyone. 

It also tells you thinks like how distracted you were, your wpm, your most used words, and your main topics of writing. 

It’s a very nice place for your daily brain dump. And it really encourages you to write. 

SO GO JOIN AND DO WRITING THINGS

Joss Whedon’s Top 10 Writing Tips 

scyllaya:

quietworld:

“Joss Whedon is most famous for creating Buffy the Vampire Slayer, its spin-off Angel and the short-lived but much-loved Firefly series. But the writer and director has also worked unseen as a script doctor on movies ranging from Speed to Toy Story. Here, he shares his tips on the art of screenwriting.

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Let’s take a moment to understand a basic rule of fiction. 

saturnine-sundae:

A good character does not necessarily equate to a good person and that’s a-okay. There are plenty of fictional jerks, villains and antagonists that get loads of attention precisely because of their flaws. These flaws may not make them a great person or model citizen but they certainly make them an interesting character. 

Fanfiction writers: Please stop describing lube as any variation of “sticky” 

preservedcucumbers:

This is probably incriminating because I’m essentially owning up to all the smut fic I’ve read but Jesus Christ. Think about it for a second, guys. Lube is short for lubricant. As in a substance used for minimizing friction. Sticky means having a tendency to make things stick or adhere to a surface; tacky. If lube were sticky in any way, shape, or form, it would be a really terrible lubricant. And I swear almost every fic I’ve ever read that involved lube in any way (including a hilarious gag fic that used it for a prank) described lube as being sticky. IT IS NOT STICKY.

edit for clarification: Yes, I know lube turns sticky once it starts to dry. But that’s still the opposite effect of what you want, so that’s when you use more. FOR YOUR HEALTH AND SAFETY.

The significance of plot without conflict 

stilleatingoranges:

In the West, plot is commonly thought to revolve around conflict: a confrontation between two or more elements, in which one ultimately dominates the other. The standard three- and five-act plot structures—which permeate Western media—have conflict written into their very foundations. A “problem” appears near the end of the first act; and, in the second act, the conflict generated by this problem takes center stage. Conflict is used to create reader involvement even by many post-modern writers, whose work otherwise defies traditional structure.

The necessity of conflict is preached as a kind of dogma by contemporary writers’ workshops and Internet “guides” to writing. A plot without conflict is considered dull; some even go so far as to call it impossible. This has influenced not only fiction, but writing in general—arguably even philosophy. Yet, is there any truth to this belief? Does plot necessarily hinge on conflict? No. Such claims are a product of the West’s insularity. For countless centuries, Chinese and Japanese writers have used a plot structure that does not have conflict “built in”, so to speak. Rather, it relies on exposition and contrast to generate interest. This structure is known as kishōtenketsu.

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hawkwardeye:

using the prompts below, write a drabble (or whatever) a day for the next 30 days. find someone willing to hit you if you miss a day. look back at the end and go ‘oh! i’m a writer!’.

beginning. accusation. restless. snowflake. haze. flame. formal. companion. move. silver. prepared. knowledge. denial. wind. order. thanks. look. summer. transformation. tremble. sunset. mad. thousand. outside. winter. diamond. letters. promise. simple. future.