Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

can we have… a self indulgent put yourself in the story month?

do-you-have-a-flag:

where everyone puts a self insert character into their favourite media via fanfic and fanart?

and not “oh this person looks like me” LITERALLY YOU 

actual non-canon-compliant, over the top, embarrassingly sincere pictures and writings about you, the fan, being dropped into your favourite shows and films and books (and not dying instantly)

because it used to be both a cringey sincere fanfic trope and a tongue in cheek comedic fanart trope and I kind of… miss that fun?

it’s fun.

let’s do it. I’m calling it now

JANUARY 2017 IS PUT YOURSELF IN THE STORY MONTH

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Meet Cute: Shock & Awe

fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment:

• You just decimated that cat-caller, please marry me?
  
• I’m moving and as I was carrying my table out of my old building I dropped it and a leg fell off and I cannot deal with this today but you just said ‘I got this’, busted a hammer and nails out of your purse, and started fixing my table in the middle of the sidewalk? 
• I saw somebody following you so I was trying to catch up and tell you but I was too late and you just stone cold judo-flipped that mugger and I was going to offer to make sure you got home safe but on second thought would you mind walking me home?
• My incredibly stupid cat just jumped out of my apartment window after a bird and you caught her in your arms like a baby and looked up, stared me dead in the eye and said “I think you dropped something” 
• You walked into my shop, ordered three black coffees like you were on a coffee run for your friends or something, and then shotgunned them one after another right in front of me and I am concerned 
• Due to some kind of accidental spark all of the fireworks in the back of my car are now all exploding at the same time so I abandoned ship only to watch you bust out a fire extinguisher and rescue my poor car how can I thank you 

littlestartopaz:

mustangsally78:

animate-mush:

transgirlsamwinchester:

mylordshesacactus:

charamei:

If writers took every bit of writing advice that was in the format ‘Don’t use X part of the English language’, all English fiction would read like Spot the dog

#Spot chases the ball#the ball chases Spot#the ball conquers nations#the ball still chases spot#see spot run#run spot run#the ball is coming

stop telling ppl to write like hemingway i promise u adverbs are not another face of the dark lord satan its ok

First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing, because verbing weirds language

Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing, because no verbs

Then they for the descriptive, and I silent because verbless and nounless

Then they for me, and, but no

REBLOGGING BECAUSE THE LAST POST IS BRILLIANT.

@momster90

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aggressivelyneutral16:

writing-prompt-s:

“It literally could not get any worse if we summoned Cthulhu, and in fact might improve the situation somewhat.”

2016

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kryptonitanott:

words-writ-in-starlight:

dainesanddaffodils:

One of my favorite phrases my Creative Writing professor had for when you’re writing fantasy is ‘giving your story a Flux Capacitor’.

Because it’s not real, it doesn’t exist. But the way it’s thrown into Back to the Future, at no point does it throw the audience off or suspend any more disbelief than time travel would. You believe Doc when he says he created the Flux Capacitor - the thing that makes time travel possible, because the universe never questions him. 

So it essentially means like, there are going to be elements to your universe that are just not gonna make any sense, even if you set up a whole system based on it. And the only way to make it work is completely own it. You cannot second-guess your system or else the reader will too. You can give it the strangest explanation, but write it like you own it.  

Either you’ve got to follow the rules of reality and physics and shit TO THE LETTER, or you have to say “naaaaaah” and fuck off with your magic/sci-fi/whatever to have a marvelous garden party where reality isn’t invited.

*Steps in quietly* hi, i’m Kry and i get stupidly excited when i see posts like this one in my dash.

So, okay, what you are talking about has to do with two very intertwined concepts: one is the concept of verisimilitude, the other is the concept of “fictional pact”.

So the first one is a term that comes from Aristotle (and also Plato, but he spoke of it negatively, as is the habit of the asshole of Plato). The verisimilitude is basically the credibility of a particular element within a book, a poem or a play. It is something that has the appearance of truth (it is not necessarily true, it can be false) for the purpose of persuading someone, getting someone’s attention and maintaining that attention.

That concept of verisimilitude is mixed with the concept of the fictional pact that was born (more or less) of the expression of the poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “willing suspension of disbelief”: what he meant by this is that when a subject is reading a book must suspend their critical sense, ignoring inconsistencies or incompatibilities of the work of fiction in which the subject is immersed (such as existence of a Flux Capacitor) that may clash with their reality, allowing them to enter and enjoy the world of fiction exposed in the book.

To simplify all this, my friends and I like to explain it in the following way, using “The fossilized mosquito paradigm” of Jurassic Park: “So you have the fossilized mosquito. In our reality (for the moment, mehehe) it is scientifically impossible for this theory to happen. But it has an argument that is sufficiently consistent, believable and possible (aka: verisimilitude concept) to work on a book/movie/video game and to create a pact of fiction by which it is easy to accept that what is narrated could have happened although it is pure fiction.” 

If the plot of the story is sufficiently credible to immerse the reader in the story, it doesn’t matter if it’s a fossilized mosquito that revives dinosaurs or a Flux Capacitor that teleports ya which in reality would be impossible, because what matters is that in your fictional world works enough to suspend those thoughts of doubt and enjoy the story!

unusual inheritance fic prompts:

pervertedhypocrisy:

amusewithaview:

1.  “you died and left me your children, even though they’re only a few years younger then me”

2.  “you died and left me a haunted house”

3.  “you died and left me an obscure magical object, I’m not sure what it does, and your instruction sheet just says ‘have fun storming the castle!’”

4.  “you died and left me a fanatically loyal warrior order”

5.  “you died and left me a bunch of money and a pile of really weird IOUs?!  why did someone owe you a free body disposal.  why did someone owe you two brides and a goat.  why did someone owe you an island.  WHY”

6.  “you died and left me to repay a bunch of really weird IOUs”

7.  “you died and left me a small country”

8.  “you died and left me six research labs that operate in international waters and I’m kind of scared to find out why keeping them out there was a stipulation of the will”

9.  “you died and left me a menagerie of animals that are supposed to be extinct?  and some that aren’t supposed to be real???  where did you get unicorns.  where did you get gryphons.  where did you get pegasi???”

10.  “you died and left me on the hook for a hereditary marriage contract”

11. “you died and left me as the genetic key to a safe that some crazy people are really determined to open, and i would like to keep all of my fingers”

12.  “you died and you left me your kid, the problem being that there is no way this is your kid and i think that it might be a fairy changing??!?”

13. “you died and i now have to clean out your house and why the hell did you have a sex dungeon? Oh god, someone has been living down here.”

14. “you died and now aliens have come for me because you were their earth contact and now they’ve dragged me into their war with the government to allow the world to know about them.”

15, “you died and you had all of these contracts that you had put my name on and so now i now employee a small fleet of butlers and i have to have them for five years.”

16. “you died and left your demon contract to me, so now i have to figure out a loophole in your shit legal jargon contract written in blood so that i also don’t go to hell.”

17. “you died and WHY DID YOU HAVE SOME MANY DOGS.”

18. “You died and all of your money went to me, but now your gold-digging former spouse is hitting on me and i can’t make them leave because of a stipulation in the will.”

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vintar:

there’s a lot of people pushing back against “write what you know” as advice for aspiring authors and i would like to speak up in its defence for a moment because i just finished reading a mystery book where the murder weapon was a vicious fighting dog, and in the scene where it was finally revealed we found out that a) the person who had stolen it and was using it to kill people it had been keeping it secret from the police by locking it in his car boot, b) it was an irish wolfhound, c) once freed, it attacked the hardboiled detective across the yard instead of the gormless idiot who had been repeatedly stuffing it in a car boot, and d) its way of attacking the detective in this very dramatic finale was via mighty swipes of its sharp claws, which slashed through his skin like knives

i don’t think this author has seen a dog in his life. i think he might have confused them with lions? write what you know: if you’re writing an animal, be fairly confident that you could point to one in a small child’s pop-up book

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amusewithaview:

anabundanceofstilinskis:

theawkwardone0:

fangfero:

branded-blade:

rinhkitty:

chimeracorp:

wyrmforge:

drunksparce:

nucleic-asshole:

peridot-against-ddlg:

ddlg-is-mega-nasty:

video-games-against-ddlg:

jonginagainstddlg:

necessaryocthings:

describe your oc’s backstory in the shittiest way you can imagine

a bite to the shoulder changes a young mans life forever 

a djinni was deceived by Iblis, he then proceeded to burn his Entire home

a seemingly young trans boy demon prince is harassed by a former god turned demon. constantly

Trans man reads book raises the dead fucks over the world and dumps his vampire boyfriend

And my personal favourite “witch gets eye replaced w diamond befriends local skeleton”

did a kickflip once

Dating a librarian leads to a lifetime of loneliness.

dragon girl loses all hope, and subsequently her arm

Dead scientist is shoved inside a dead pirate. What happens next will warm your heart.

Young nerd has literally everything bad possible happen to her while growing up, often repeatedly.

Angry man learns his ex-boyfriend died, becomes an edge-lord as coping mechanism.

Younger sister of famous ninja has no respect for home village, decides to live in a tree.

Totally not a Mary Sue.

Local lesbian dates pathological liar, kills deity, just wants a nap.

Dead mom, disappeared sister, mysterious visitor all lead to an adventure.

Blood rituals are messy, angel-blood rituals are worse.

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writing-prompt-s:

You walk in through your front door and find that every OC you’ve ever created has somehow come to life and is now waiting for you in your living room. And they’ve got a few words to say to you…

Facing a room full of people I’ve tormented, tortured, corrupted, and killed.

I’m sure I’ll come out of that hale and hearty.

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