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calligeniascorner · 3 months
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Ref Recs for Whump Writers
Violence: A Writer’s Guide:  This is not about writing technique. It is an introduction to the world of violence. To the parts that people don’t understand. The parts that books and movies get wrong. Not just the mechanics, but how people who live in a violent world think and feel about what they do and what they see done.
Hurting Your Characters: HURTING YOUR CHARACTERS discusses the immediate effect of trauma on the body, its physiologic response, including the types of nerve fibers and the sensations they convey, and how injuries feel to the character. This book also presents a simplified overview of the expected recovery times for the injuries discussed in young, otherwise healthy individuals.
Body Trauma: A writer’s guide to wounds and injuries. Body Trauma explains what happens to body organs and bones maimed by accident or intent and the small window of opportunity for emergency treatment. Research what happens in a hospital operating room and the personnel who initiate treatment. Use these facts to bring added realism to your stories and novels.
10 B.S. Medical Tropes that Need to Die TODAY…and What to Do Instead: Written by a paramedic and writer with a decade of experience, 10 BS Medical Tropes covers exactly that: clichéd and inaccurate tropes that not only ruin books, they have the potential to hurt real people in the real world. 
Maim Your Characters: How Injuries Work in Fiction: Increase Realism. Raise the Stakes. Tell Better Stories. Maim Your Characters is the definitive guide to using wounds and injuries to their greatest effect in your story. Learn not only the six critical parts of an injury plot, but more importantly, how to make sure that the injury you’re inflicting matters. 
Blood on the Page: This handy resource is a must-have guide for writers whose characters live on the edge of danger. If you like easy-to-follow tools, expert opinions from someone with firsthand knowledge, and you don’t mind a bit of fictional bodily harm, then you’ll love Samantha Keel’s invaluable handbook
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calligeniascorner · 3 months
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Jung Woo Sung and Shin Hyun Bin for ELLE Korea November 2023 promoting upcoming kdrama Tell Me That You Love Me.
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calligeniascorner · 4 months
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GUESS WHAT
ALL THAT YOU EVER WANTED FROM ME WAS SWEET NOTHING - CH.4 IS NOW LIVE!!!!!!
And here I thought it'd take me until Xmas.
See ya on the other side ;)
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calligeniascorner · 4 months
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hey
For those who have been waiting on ch.4 of All You Ever Wanted Was Sweet Nothing, it's coming, I swear. I've been stuck at like 300 words for months but I've been battling with it for a couple of weeks now and the word count is now over 2k. I hope I can get something on AO3 before Christmas. Anyway, I'm sorry for the wait.
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calligeniascorner · 5 months
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How can I get better at writing descriptions? I feel like when I am writing dialogue things flow smoothly but as soon as I have to describe setting I just go blank. I realized that I am a pretty distracted person and don't really notice details of the environment around me, I get lost in daydreaming when going around and I am completely clueless of my surroundings. This makes it hard for me to actually imagine those kind of details and incorporate them in a scene when I am writing. I don't want my descriptions to sound like a shopping list, like "The trees were tall and green and the sky was blue." Do you have any tips on how to improve with descriptions, to bring some poetry into them? Thank you!
I relate to every line of this ask, thank you for sending it. I'll do my best to answer.
You may have seen my recent reblogs of advice on this subject. I will put the links at the bottom of this answer as well, just in case you missed them.
"I feel like when I am writing dialogue things flow smoothly but as soon as I have to describe setting I just go blank."
I've found that the two things require different sessions. If I write all the dialogue first, I can only think about the dialogue. Returning later with a mindset geared toward description helps me focus on descriptions.
"I get lost in daydreaming when going around and I am completely clueless of my surroundings."
Understandable. My trick here is, when I can, daydream a scenario that requires I focus on my surroundings. Am I a spy being followed? A criminal who needs an alibi? A researcher who has to give a detailed lecture? Silly stuff like that helps me focus on the details around me, even the most banal, without getting bored. Also, keeping a notebook or writing app on hand is good for saving quick descriptions of your experiences as they occur.
"I don't want my descriptions to sound like a shopping list, like 'The trees were tall and green and the sky was blue.' "
Command of metaphors & similes ("like a shopping list") and a reliable thesaurus should never be underestimated! Also, getting very specific and exaggerating slightly can make your descriptions really pop: “In summer, the elms towered over everything, their leafy shade a respite from the glaringly cloudless sky."
Listening to recorded ambient sound can assist you in imagining yourself somewhere you're not. Asking obscure questions like "what do you call the little window over a door?" can help you describe specifics. Reading books and watching shows set in places you want to write about can give you authentic details, but double-check their facts if you can. Build connections with people who know stuff you don't and are willing to discuss it.
A "shopping list" description is fine for a first draft. If your brain won't get creative, let it be blunt and just say "the trees were tall." You can find ways later to make it more interesting, but at least leave your future self an idea of what needs to be described.
As promised, links!
Analyze stories
How to Make Your Description More Vivid
Lets Write Some Novels
Writing Exercises for Describing Locations
Describing New Settings
Show vs Tell
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calligeniascorner · 8 months
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I DID IT
Even Eli didn't see it coming this fast
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calligeniascorner · 8 months
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calligeniascorner · 9 months
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I tried making brownies at midnight and it was a 3 hour affair that ended with shockingly not the first time ive baked sweet soup
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calligeniascorner · 9 months
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All that you ever wanted from me was sweet nothing - Chapter 2
https://archiveofourown.org/works/44107129/chapters/122529343#workskin
I can't believe I've written almost 2000 words in one go. It's been a long time coming on that chapter and I'm sorry it's taken me so long. It seems I can only write when I'm on holiday and not thinking about a million other things. Not sure if it bodes well for the rest of my writing but hey, at least I can still produce something.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy this chapter. I know I've really liked going back to these characters. They are everything <3
Happy SAG AFTRA strike day for those who celebrate.
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calligeniascorner · 9 months
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calligeniascorner · 10 months
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Ok so I've found a way to describe what Neurodivergent Can't Do Task Mode™ feels like to neurotypicals
So you know how you can't make yourself put your hand down on a hot stovetop? There's a part of your brain that stops you from doing that? That's what Neurodivergent Can't Do Task Mode™ feels like
Even if we want to do it, there's a barrier stopping us from doing it, and it's really hard to override
And why does our brain see the task as a hot stovetop? Because when neurotypicals finish a task, they get serotonin, but we don't get that satisfaction after completing a task. A neurotypical wouldn't get serotonin from putting their hand on a hot stovetop, it would just hurt. When we can't do a task, it's because our brain knows that the task will hurt (metaphorically) and wants to avoid that.
It's not that we're choosing not to do the task, it's that our brain is physically preventing us from doing it.
Neurotypicals can and should reblog but please don't add anything
(Sorry/not sorry about the random bolding, it makes it easier for us to read)
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calligeniascorner · 11 months
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you have been visited by the seven magic dragon balls your biggest wish will be granted but only if you reblog
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calligeniascorner · 1 year
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BAFTA nominations for Hugo Blick and Chaske Spencer this morning! The English finally getting some recognition.
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calligeniascorner · 1 year
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Smooth as babies bottoms
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calligeniascorner · 1 year
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OH MY FREAKING GOD
👀 so anyways
sorry I had to take a sip of water a year and a half ahem ah yes like I was saying rough day chapter 20 will be posted on Sunday March 12 2023 at 9pm est thank you
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calligeniascorner · 1 year
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Last Sentence Game
I have no idea how to play that game, it seems most of my followers are P0rn b0ts these days :/
But here's the last two sentences of the yet-to-be-published second chapter for All you ever wanted from me was sweet nothing (well, at least, where I've left it at this point in time):
She talks more than he does. Which doesn't surprise her but what catches her off-guard is how well he listens. 
Thank you @laiqualaurelote
next chapter coming... whenever I can get out of this funk (ugh)
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calligeniascorner · 1 year
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To anyone who's waiting for updates on my two fics for The English, I'm sorry it's been so long. I got back to work at the beginning of the month and it's been really tiring. I haven't had the time/energy to continue writing for a while. I've just restarted writing- only to scrap 1k from the next chapter of All you ever wanted from me was sweet nothing because it went in a really rogue direction and the tone wasn't right.
I haven't forgotten about my hand was the one you reached for either but I need a little more time to figure out where it's going.
I hope I'll have an update on either fic by the end of the month.
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