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the-ninnas-writes · 7 months
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A tip for writing truly immersive environments and locations — building your very own Snapshot library.
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How it started:
In real life I like to think I'm an observant person who notices the tiniest things around me, but when I sit down to describe, I don't know a forest — 🤯 poof, I'm blank. Can't remember a thing about my own town even.
The events of my current novel are happening in August. Writing any kind of non-plot related narratives throughout the year was very difficult, especially describing nature, and I kept waiting for actual August to happen in my city so that I can write in the moment.
When August came, I was jotting down everything about this time of the month. The weather patterns, what was flying through the air, what the people around me were behaving like and so forth. I was even able to divide those into subcategories like 'conversations I overheard' or 'internal character monologues while going from point a to point b'.
I called it a Snapshot of August.
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So, how do I use these 'Snapshots'?
They're like a recipe cards for all kinds of situations — or at least the ones you've been. So you wrote a Snapshot about a coffee shop. You add more and more snippets every time you sit in a coffee shop. If my characters are in a coffee shop I pull up the appropriate Snapshot and start picking and choosing elements in order to build the environment. I'll take that description of couple these to highlight MC's low esteem, a pinch of cinnamon smell in the air, a dash of how square my butt felt against the uncomfortable wooden chairs...
Sure, I can just take a picture things then I'll have a stupor as to how to describe the picture later. Sure, I could try to write from memory and get two lines in, or you could be that mysterious individual at the corner of a bar peeking at people from under your glasses and scribbling away every curious individual you see every mannerism and the ways the light hits their beer glasses.
The difference is that I wrote those snapshots WHILE I was in those situations and locations, so I can describe in utmost detail the August frustration of constantly wiping my sprinkled windowsill from the winged seeds of catkins hanging from the branches of a silver birch outside my house.
I forget these things! Snapshots are both for little details and large, descriptive scenes where you can plug your character into.
This is especially crucial when you're in a unique place you can't easily access again, like when you're on vacation! And it's a powerful ally for never slowing down on things like narrative descriptions during a NaNoWriMo sprint.
I will update this post in the future with some snapshot examples.
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the-down-upside-finch · 4 months
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Chapter 16 of Minding Q's is up!
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Mostly just another silly banter chapter, but also: a new character has entered the story! I'm really excited to finish chapter 17 and post it since it's got even more fun new characters hehehe
Taglist: @my-cursed-prince, @athenswrites, @serendipminiewrites (Please let me know if you want to be added or removed!)
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moondust-bard · 11 months
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Here’s that form I promised
And here’s the info post for those with questions.
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soundwavefucker69 · 9 months
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Okay, it's time for a new pinned post.
Hi, I'm Mint, or Shrooms, depending on who you're talking to. He/him pronouns, and I make original fiction and fanfiction. I recently made the move from Tapas to Wattpad, so here's a link to all of my shit.
Ambrosia is a standalone, centering on a main character being isekaied into a world where horns designate your status as a magic user, and he's the only lizardman with horns, but all he wants to do is cook food. So, obviously, the only option available to him is to cook magical food, and if that lands him a possible elf with disturbingly sharp teeth, well, so be it.
The Legend of the Artificer is a series centering around a person getting reincarnated into a new world, and, using the power of ADHD and autism, with a healthy dose of insanity, becomes an artificer savant in a world where there are no artificer savants. The reading order is The Tower, The Krakos, The Exam, The Haunting, and, finally, the most recent ongoing work, The Gauntlet, which just had six chapters posted today. The Tower is a little janky, because I wrote it in my old style, which was too long for Tapas's word count limit feature, so the chapters are broken up, but it gets to smoother sailing when you hit The Krakos.
All of this takes place in something I'm working on called Cosmic Intervention Media, which is a universe where there are two cosmic beings called the Serpent and the Owl that reincarnate people into other worlds. It was born out of my frustration that there were a limited amount of trans stories in the isekai genre, and there's many more stories to come! I have a lot of stories I've been banned from writing until I finish The Gauntlet and Ambrosia. Eventually, we want to branch out to including other people's works in the universe, maybe a zine or two, and we have an audio drama coming out next year! So, look forward to the announcement about that.
Anyways, thanks for checking out my blog, get comfy, and if you get bored, well, my stories are always there to read.
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lyraoctavia · 11 months
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Got bored again so I drew Kora from Into the Phantasm (my ebook series) as Kairi from Kingdom Hearts 3
And they told me I couldn’t make Sokai gay
Well look who’s laughing now!
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Sometimes I hate my own mind.
I hate it because it believes you and I could co-exist. It believes in the romance you don't hide in your sunken eyes. It believes one night -one wonderful night- and a kiss would keep you here by my side.
I hate my own mind because when you sing about someone's light chasing away your shadows, it believes I am the light, when it's very clear I am nothing but a little star and you're looking for the sun.
I could be that light for you, if you just come closer and see my star in its entirety.
But you won't.
You are 300 kilometers or light years away (they're both the same), searching for someone to burn you, not even looking my way.
I hate my own mind for wanting you and hating you and valuing you at the same time.
But we don't talk in the daylight.
Our story began and ended in one night.
Image by: Nikolay Ninov
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ravenbloodau · 9 months
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EEEEH I WRITE AND DRAW SHIT FOR MONIES PLEASE I NEED HELP WITH COLLEG
MY WEBSITE: https://faesflora.carrd.co/
MY PORTFOLIO FOR ART BECAUSE I’M SCARED TO POST MORE HERE: https://ravenbloodartportfolio.carrd.co/
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HAVE A MILDLY AWKWARD DAD FRIEND AS TRIBUTE
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rosepetalsdelight · 10 months
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I shall cherish this breathe I have now, not just because of death but because later on it might be filled with anger and bitter petty
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ash5monster01 · 11 months
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wanted to make a quick post and let you all know I’m still actively writing for this account, I’m in my final two weeks of school and working extra shifts at the moment. but my last day of classes is 5/4 so that means after that you guys won’t be able to get rid of me <3
masterlist
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littlesugarwords · 2 years
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but back then, i was too young to know how to love her. and now, i live in this floral skin, unsure of how to tend to her.
— daydreams
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jnicolewrites · 2 years
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wip intros
(long post whoops) here's a guide to some of the things I have up on wattpad atm and probably the stories i'll talk about the most on this blog. most of them are finished first drafts i will maybe actually edit in like, five years or so. enjoy!
Eighth Moon (IN PROGRESS in progress)
Genre: fantasy? steampunk? steampunk fantasy? steampunk fantasy ft. paranormal? I have no idea
Blurb: In the hopes of fanning the flames of rebellion against the colonizing nation, a freedom fighter tracks down the last heir to her nation’s throne, who was thought to be assassinated. Just one eensy problem. He’s a werewolf, and thanks to an age-old legend, they’d all be doomed if the public ever found out.
Quote: The wolf was nowhere to be seen. In its place knelt a man, the naked curve of his back facing her, his head hung so that she only see the barest tuft of his black hair.
Elaine covered her mouth. “Well, shit.”
The House Above the Sea
Genre: paranormal/romance (slash between paranormal and romance bc no one falls in love with the paranormal entity. we do not like the paranormal entity)
Blurb: A New York City teenager spending the summer in Hawaii meets a boy trapped in an old house, cursed to never speak again. Why is he so set on breaking the boy’s curse? cuz they’re friends ofc no other reason
Quote: Kit opens his arms, and like a tired soldier finally returning home, Neo slumps into them. Kit smells like acrylic paint and ink, like an artist, like art. Neo breathes him in, and in the way only art can do to a person, is transformed.
The Search for Juno (series)
Genre: fantasy/adventure/humor
Blurb: A young woman accidentally kills a man in self-defense one night, but said man was actually the god Poseidon, and now he’s placed a bounty on her head. Her solution: trick the pantheon, frame someone else for the crime, and take the money for herself.
Quote: In the parking lot below, Hermes waved at her from the driver’s side of an atrociously purple Jaguar. It was one of those sports cars that looked like someone had crushed it beneath their foot: low and slim, the Victoria’s Secret models of automobiles. Angie absolutely hated it.
“What is that disgusting, grape-looking thing?” Angie called, squinting in the early morning sun. Despite the hour, the heat was a tangible pressure on Angie’s skin, not a lick of moisture in the dusty air. “And why are you driving it?”
Folding the Sky
Genre: fantasy 
Blurb: A meteor strikes the earth, and its magical rock dust gives a certain segment of the population unusual abilities, dubbed the Celestials. With the help of four others with powers like hers, one Celestial who can see others’ memories must find a missing man in possession of a clairvoyant tapestry before war breaks out.
Quote: If ever something was lost, from a piece of jewelry to a favorite corset to an old smoking pipe, Zuri Ayim was the one who could recover it.
People praised Zuri for her skill, but it wasn’t that, exactly. It wasn’t that she had a knack for finding lost things, it was that the human mind often knew where they were. All it took was adequate digging.
That’s a Good Question (series)
Genre: urban fantasy/humor
Blurb: According to the prophecy of a young witch, a very tired demon hybrid with mommy issues has to save the city from an unknown evil.
Quote: “With the help of a demon.”
I sputter, “Half-demon.”
Midge’s mom waves me off. She just gives her daughter this weird look that’s caught between admiration and concern and then tells her, “Just be careful, alright? I can’t have you getting hurt.”
“He promised,” Midge reminds her. “He promised not to steal my soul.”
Within/Without
Genre: romance
Blurb: A shapeshifter has fallen in love with the same girl again and again as they grew up together, but this is the first time she’s met his original face. Plentiful chaos (and some romance i guess) ensues.
Quote: With my other hand, I comb a hand through his hair. To my surprise, it straightens and lengthens underneath my fingertips, shimmering once again with Simon’s natural ginger hue. Simon—the real Simon, the one body that is his and his only—blinks at me, red-faced. “What are you doing?”
Instead of answering, I kiss him, slowly, passionately, so that he feels the heat pouring off of me and I off of him. He says my name, softly. “Live,” I tell him. “I am telling you to live.”
100 Yellow Doors
Genre: paranormal
Blurb: An amnesiac vampire and a woman who time travels against her will form an unorthodox and sometimes awkward friendship that spans the lengths of time.
Quote: He remembered a night he found Iman on his doorstep, only for such a violent wave of relief to pass over him that he nearly staggered—and he remembered the cold emptiness in his chest twenty-three minutes later when she vanished again. He had missed people before, he thought, but never in the savage, unpredictable way he missed Iman.
I’m planning to make actual wip pages for these sometime in the near future, so stay tuned, and thanks if u read this far!
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sadgirlanthology · 1 year
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Always you. 
Love Letters to Sweden by Ruby Valentine (@sadgirlanthology)
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thewritingsofevbrowne · 11 months
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Vampires. Crime. Romance.
New Series on Wattpad <3 I've been hard at work with this series but I'm excited to start sharing it with my readers. Please let me know what you think. I'd love to hear any feedback <3
SoundCloud | Spotify | Ko-Fi | Wattpad | Instagram
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nmjackson · 1 year
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Okay, the only answer to writer's block? Writing more.
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lyraoctavia · 11 months
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This is getting out of hand
Now there are two of them!
Also, I love how my lack of planning and ultimately mid drawing skills implies that Kora is taller than Sarah
Yknow what, that’s canon now, none of you can stop me
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mademoisellefantasy · 6 months
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The Moon, The Lights, The Endless Nights
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Perhaps, an Angel’s sincere love was the one thing more precious than his gratitude… - mademoisellefantasy
In the new chapter of "Guardian of The Downworld (Let me see your eyes again)" I explore the concepts of love, shame, revenge, justice, mercy, and the potential of life from the POV of love-struck Magnus Bane. Read it here!
Art piece: The Art of Love, by a Time Travelling Impressionist Painter - Ron Hicks (found on Pinterest)
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