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for the draft thing: when i start writing novels i always have a lot of beginning, a fair amount of backstory, a solid ending, and maybe one or two key events in between, but nothing in the middle. i'm never sure how to approach this and it usually kills a lot of my projects :/ not sure if this is a question you can answer easily but if there's any tips i'd love to hear it!
Planning the middle...
I’ve gathered a couple of resources that I believe may help you with this.
Coming Up With Scene Ideas
How To Engage The Reader
Pacing Appropriately
Balancing Detail & Development
Writing The Middle of Your Story
Powering Through The Zero-Draft Phase
Maintaining Writing Momentum
How To Prevent Getting Stuck
Writing Your Way Through The Plot Fog
Resources For Plot Development
Guide To Plot Development
How To Foreshadow
Novel Planning 101
Tackling Subplots
Things A Reader Needs From A Story
Planning A Scene In A Story
How To Fit Character Development Into Your Story
And some prompts in case you have trouble getting the creative juices flowing while you’re brainstorming...
Romantic Prompts
Angst Prompts
Dramatic Prompts
Suspenseful Prompts
Sad Prompts
20 Sentence Story Prompt
31 Days of Character Development : May 2018 Writing Challenge
31 Days of Plot Development : January 2019 Writing Challenge
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Character Development : A Collection of Resources
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Resources
Resources For Creating Characters
Resources For Describing Characters
Resources For Writing The Mafia
Resources For Writing Royalty
Commentary on Social Issues In Writing
General Tips
Guide to Character Development
How To Fit Character Development Into Your Story
Tips on Character Consistency
Designing A Character From Scratch
Making characters for your world
Characters First, Story Second Method
Understanding Your Character
Tips on Character Motivations
31 Days of Character Development : May 2018 Writing Challenge
How To Analyze A Character
Alternative Method of Character Creation
Connecting To Your Own Characters
Interview As Your Characters
Flipping Character Traits On Their Head
Character Driven vs. Plot Driven Stories
Traits
Tips On Writing About Mental Illness
Giving Your Protagonists Negative Traits
Giving Characters Distinct Voices in Dialogue
Giving Characters Flaws
Making Characters More Unique
Keeping Characters Realistic
Archetypes
Writing Good Villains
Creating Villains
Guide to Writing The Hero
Positive Character Development Without Romanticizing Toxic Behavior
Tips on Writing Cold & Distant Characters
Balancing Multiple Main Characters
Creating Diverse Otherworld Characters
Foreshadowing The Villain
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Hot take: Actual literary analysis requires at least as much skill as writing itself, with less obvious measures of whether or not you’re shit at it, and nobody is allowed to do any more god damn litcrit until they learn what the terms “show, don’t tell” and “pacing” mean.
why my hand shaky
comfy
War between the Brotherhood and Minutemen is honestly inevitable even with an alliance between them, but you know what, it would be the American Revolution all over again and the events surrounding it would be 100% identical. The Brotherhood lost to the Institute and can’t come back to the Capital Wasteland with nothing. They want the Commonwealth and believe they have to save the people from themselves. Maxson’s humiliated their boogeyman was beat by farm boys and the Minutemen is catching up to them and fast.
The Brotherhood linger after their failed war and impose ‘taxes’ (forcing settlers to give up their crops), in order to pursue a campaign in “cleansing” the Commonwealth, which leads to settlers getting pissed because, obviously, they don’t owe these assholes anything.
More “taxes” in order to keep this campaign going leads to Commonwealth getting angrier and angrier. Common consensus at this point, they don’t want war, they just want to the Brotherhood to get the fuck out.
What is this similar to? Quartering Act of 1795. This act forced the colonist to provide food and shelter for British soldiers when needed.
The Minutemen try to negotiate with them to back down but that doesn’t really go anywhere. Piper, Good Neighbor, and the Railroad begin to spread anti-Brotherhood propaganda.
Boston Massacre 2289: A squadron of Brotherhood soldiers on patrol are surrounded by angry settlers who throw ice, rocks, and beat them with whatever they can find on them. One initiate mistakes a rock for a grenade and fires onto the crowd, causing the other soldiers to fire as well, believing it was ordered by their captain. When the dust settles, 15 settlers are dead. An image similar to the one below is spread by Good Neighbor, the Railroad, and Piper. There is outrage across the Commonwealth.
Tea Act 2.0: Maxson attempts to give the Brotherhood a monopoly on arms trade to stop the Minutemen from catching up, which does not end well and leads to…
Boston Tea Party Electric Boogaloo: The Railroad, folks from Good Neighbor, a few from Diamond City, and a group of Minutemen dump Brotherhood supplies into the Boston Harbor. Hancock is the main organizer of the event.
Intolerable Acts 2289: Maxson attempts to cut off the inner Boston area, specifically Diamond City and Good Neighbor (Railroad included) from Minutemen trading routes as punishment until the debts could be paid. Some in Diamond City hope to pay off the Brotherhood and blame the rebels, while in Good Neighbor, all hell breaks loose.
Piper and Deacon’s Midnight Ride: Growing uncomfortable with the amount of technology and guns the Minutemen acquired after the defeat of the Institute and fearing war, Maxson orders that the Brotherhood go to Sanctuary and confiscate it. Noticing the Brotherhood’s activity shifting and getting a suspicious inside source (Haylen) Deacon and Piper head out nights before to warn Sanctuary. The guns and technology are transferred to another settlement.
Shot Heard Round the East Coast: Marching up to Sanctuary, the Brotherhood are surprised with an ambush at Lexington and Concord. The first shot in the The Second War for American Independence and the Second Siege of Boston begins.
Battle of Bunker Hill: The Brotherhood, hoping to eliminate the Railroad, take Bunker Hill. The Railroad and Minutemen try to hold on but are overwhelmed, however, they are able to kill a significant amount of Brotherhood soldiers.
The First Commonwealth Council: The General of the Minutemen decides to meet with several representatives from across the Commonwealth to discuss what to do: Hancock, Fahrenheit, and Dr. Amari from Good Neighbor, Desdemona and Deacon from the Railroad, Piper Wright, Nick Valentine, the Bobrov brothers, and Arturo Rodriguez from Diamond City, Wiseman from the Slog, Preston, Danse, and Ronnie Shaw, etc.
Hancock, Desdemona, Ronnie, Fahrenheit, and Deacon push for war, but the council comes to a consensus to try negotiation one last time. Address grievances and hope that Maxson addresses it and leaves. Danse still believes Maxson can be reasoned with as he spared his life earlier.
Maxson doesn’t.
The Second Commonwealth Council: The different factions come together to unite under the Minutemen and form a military that can take on the Brotherhood. While the General remains in charge of the military, with Preston as their right hand man, they agree to model this new American experiment a democratic republic. The Commonwealth is truly born. Their Declaration of Nationhood is written by Piper, Preston, and Hancock.
Appealing to outside forces: In a losing war, the Minutemen gain the attention of the legendary Courier Six, Lone Wanderer, and their allies, including Dr. Madison Li, who have been at odds with the Brotherhood for some time. They agree on an alliance and recognize the Commonwealth. Their involvement turns the tide of the war drastically.
Reconstruction of Liberty Prime: Knowing that the tide has turned, the Brotherhood works on rebuilding Liberty Prime to stop the Minutemen once and for all. Leaked out by Haylen, who is ready to defect to the Minutemen, the leaders debate what the best course of action is. If Liberty Prime is built, the war is over, even with the support of the Lone Wanderer and Courier. The Prydwen must be destroyed, even Danse agrees it is the best course of action, though it pains him. It really is honestly, though, the last thing they all wanted, but Maxson brought it to that point.
Destruction of the Prydwen: The Minutemen mark an artillery bombardment on the Prydwen in the early hours of the morning. However, not without sneaking out the squires with the help of Haylen and other Brotherhood defectors, who promptly take them and hunker down in Sanctuary Hills. It is assumed that Maxson is killed.
World Turned Upside Down: After a week of fighting, a young knight stands on the rubble of the Prydwen and waves a white flag. The remaining Brotherhood are either escorted out single file back to the Capital Wasteland, completely defeated with the loss of the last Maxson or stay behind as Minutemen. Now, comes the hard part: making a nation.
ADDITION: Sole Survivor and Crew > > > > > > Founding Fathers not only on the sheer factor of them not being racist slave owning assholes but also being like “we could do this but better actually” and in three hundred years kids in the Commonwealth are going to be into, like, a musical about Preston and that’s gonna be so much better than Hamilton.
queer is literally a slur. like you’ve never been called that in a derogatory context like most lgbt people? you think your experiences escaping homophobia make it okay to justify the use of a homophobic slur?
queer is an identity.
it has also been used as a slur. there is no denying that. but using a word as a slur does not make it a slur. because before queer is a slur it is an identity. before it is derogatory it is a label. the use of queer as an identity is infinitely more important than the use of queer as a slur because the people who identify as queer are infinitely more important than the people who use queer as a slur.
say a lot of people decided they hated me. despised me. were disgusted by me to the point where my own name became a slur. would you tell me not to say it? would you tell me i could no longer be helena, and instead must come up with a euphemism for the name that belonged to me decades before it belonged in the mouths of bigots?
because that would make you an enabler.
you would tell me i can’t say my name anymore because some lowlife decided he could use it to insult me?
you would tell a gay man that he can’t be gay anymore because some teens in the early 2000’s started calling everything they didn’t like “gay”, and now he has to say “same sex oriented male identifying individual”?
does that enrage you? because it should. that’s exactly how you sound.
you are telling me i cannot use my label. you are telling me that when my great-uncle shouted until his face was red and he spat tobacco and the word queer at my feet, he was right. he was right to insult me, and i was wrong to say my name.
you are shitting on every single one of our predecessors. you are slandering every person who fought for their rights to exist and and be tolerated and be celebrated in their countries, every person who was lost to the aids epidemic, every person whose country criminalizes love and gender expression, every child whose parents abandoned them for straying from the norm, every person who was born and will die in the closet longing to be themselves. the queer umbrella is a safety net, a security blanket, the comfort of being known without being pressured to tell. it is near and dear and important as fuck to every member of the lgbt+ community and you are a blight upon the earth you walk.
how dare you speak upon my experiences with homophobia. how dare you disguise your own homophobia as activism. and how fucking dare you have the audacity to come to my blog and hide behind an anonymous ask and preach to me about how i’m oppressing myself. go look at the fucking wikipedia page for queer and read about how 1980s lgbt+ activists, especially lgbt+ people of color, fought to call themselves queer in a world that still hates peculiar things. and here you are forty years later spitting queer back at their feet.
i don’t give a fuck if people start using my name as a slur. my name is still helena. i will not change it. i chose it, i like it, and it belongs to me. it does not belong to bigots no matter how badly they want it. your discomfort with my identity is not my fucking problem.
i am helena. i am queer. die mad & go fuck yourself
your url is wrong. how can you have a sex if you don't have a gender
the difference between sex and gender is that i didn't have gender with your mom last night. hope this helps
Best Pixar short?
the big fucking bird that sat on the powerlines and fucking killed all those nasty tiny little shit bitch birds who were mean to him
happy in touch saturday :(
Leaked footage of chapter 6 when Malleus tries to go see Yuu in Ramshackle but they’re not here because they’re currently half-head on the VDC stage and he ends up on the ghosts uncles instead.
please help spread the word about the indigenous genocide happening in Brazil TODAY
“Brazilian Supreme Court is about to rule an important decision on Indigenous Lands. Today (July 30th), STF resume the discussion of a lawsuit filed by the state government of Santa Catarina against the Xokleng people, concerning the Ibirama-Laklãnõ Indigenous Land, where Guarani and Kaingang peoples also live. In 2019, the Supreme Court classified the case with the status of “general repercussion”. This means the decision will serve as a guideline for the Brazilian federal government and all judicial instances regarding demarcation procedures. The world must watch this judgment closely. The future of Indigenous Peoples in Brazil depends on it.”
“Since June 8, 2021, Indigenous Peoples and Indigenous organizations in Brazil have been in Brasilia, the capital, with the Levante pela Terra (Standing up for the Land) camp, protesting against Bill PL 490, which passed the technical juridical board of the legislative house to be approved on June 24, 2021. Bill PL 490 aims to make the demarcation of Indigenous lands in the country unfeasible and to set the year of the Constitution of 1988 as an arbitrary cut-off date for recognizing Indigenous land rights. If the Bill passes, Indigenous Peoples who were not on their land before 1988, due to various factors including forced removal and lack of legal recognition, would no longer have rights to their traditional territories.
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The Bill opens the gate for development on Indigenous lands, including deforestation for large scale cattle farming, mining leases, the regularization of illegal subdivisions in the territories in favor of land grabbers, and all kinds of large scale infrastructure such as hydroelectric plants, ports, roads, military bases etc. It would legalize operations that greatly impact Indigenous territories without their Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) nor benefit-sharing, and represents a new wave of colonization.”
BRAZIL IS AN INDIGENOUS LAND. AND IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN.
THE BILL PL490 IS BEING VOTED TODAY, JUNE 30TH. THE LIVES OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN BRAZIL AND THEIR RIGHTS TO THEIR LAND IS IN RISK.
THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO FINISH WHAT THEY STARTED WHEN THE PORTUGUESE INVADED THESE LANDS IN 1500.
please help raising the hashtags #MarcoTemporalNão and #TerraIndigenaFica in your social media. please talk about this.
also check the ABIP (Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil) website for more information on the indigenous peoples situation in Brazil. the website is available in english and brazilian portuguese.
FLORESTA DE PÉ, FASCISMO NO CHÃO! FORA BOLSONARO!
This is a big, giant list of Youtube tutorials that will teach you all the basic life skills you need to know in order to be a functional adult. There are a lot of important skills that aren’t included in this list, but this should be enough of a basic guide to get you started and prevent you from making a total mess of yourself. Happy adulting! Household Skills:
How to unclog a toilet without a plunger
How to fix a blown fuse
How to fix a leaky faucet
How to clean soap scum from your tub and shower
How to escape from a house fire
How to make a budget and stick to it
How to sharpen a knife
How to clean a self-cleaning oven
How to clean red wine stains from carpet
How to clean blood stains from fabric
How to clean grease stains from fabric
How to do a load of laundry
How to iron your clothes
How to test your smoke detectors
Cooking Skills:
How to tell if produce is ripe
How to know if food is expired
How to properly sanitize a kitchen
How to cook an egg
How to make rice
How to make pasta
How to put out a kitchen grease fire safely
How to use a gas stove
How to use a convection oven
How to cook meat safely
How to use a stand mixer
How to use kitchen knives properly
How to make mashed potatoes
How to make grilled cheese sandwiches
Health Skills:
How to stop bleeding
How to treat a burn
How to do CPR (on an adult)
How to do CPR (on a child)
How to do CPR (on a baby)
How to help someone who is choking
How to save yourself if you are choking alone
How to read a nutrition label
How to treat frostbite
How to recognize when someone is having a stroke
How to maintain a healthy sleep schedule
Mental Health Skills:
How to calm down during a panic attack
How to help someone who is suicidal
How to meditate
How to stop self-harming
How to recognize problem drinking
How to choose a therapist
How to deal with disappointment
How to cope with grief
How to raise your self-esteem
Relationship and Social Skills:
How to apologize
How to cope with a breakup
How to accept criticism
How to deal with bullying
How to argue in a healthy way
How to ask someone out
How to break up with someone
How to recognize an abusive relationship
How to rekindle a damaged friendship
How to speak in public
Job Hunting Skills:
How to tie a tie
How to write a resume
How to write a cover letter
How to dress for a job interview (for women/femmes)
How to dress for a job interview (for men/masculines)
How to properly shake hands
How to nail a job interview
Other Skills:
How to sew on a button
How to hammer a nail
How to change your oil
How to put gas in your car
How to jump-start a car
How to pick a good password
How to back up your files
How to write a cheque
pink in the night
memeception
Hey! Can I ask you if there are games or wips with the 'Enemies to lovers' trope? I'm just a sucker for it honestly
Thanks in advance!
Here are some of the IFs we were able to find! For some games, the RO for that trope has not been introduced yet but will be, and for some it may not be a full blown enemies but dislike very much but may not murder/harm.
If anyone knows of additional suggestions for this category, feel free to message us and we’ll update and add to this post!
180 Files: The Aegis Project by @scribble-games
A Mage Reborn by @mage-parivir
Attollo (depending on who you side with) by @attollo
Blood Moon by @barbwritesstuff
Citadel by @bouncyballcitadel
Choice of the Deathless by Max Gladstone
Crème de la Crème by @hpowellsmith
Ebon Light by @underbliss
Greater than Gods by @greaterthangods
Greenwarden by @fiddles-ifs
Hollowed Minds by @shai-manahan
Into The Shadows by @wynnakang
Oathbreaker (VN) by @larkylabs
OFNA: Birds of a Feather by @ofna
Project Hadea by @nyehilismwriting
Royal Affairs by @hpowellsmith
Sentinel by @nyehilismwriting
Serpentine by @serpentineif
Spellbound: A Ghost Story by CorvusWitchcraft
When Twilight Strikes by @evertidings
The Eight Years Revolution by @eight-years-revolution
The Exile by @exilethegame
The Fog Knows Your Name by Clio Yun-su Davis
The Soul Stone Wars by @intimidatingpuffinstudios
Virtue’s End by @crimsiswrites
Up & Coming (no demo yet!)
Legend of a Savior by @legend-of-a-savior-if
Made of Magic and Blood by @madeofmagicandblood
Surveyor by @joyfulbeegaming
Wolfwater (can romance villain) by @wolfwater-games
2003 Clone Wars was on something completely different
I can't with this I'm actually crying
The mashup you never thought would work
Because I’ve lost control of my life
*sheds a single tear thinking about big titty bara boys*
yall ever think about how wild it is that people got so horny over an anime water commercial an actual anime was created based around it and got like 3 whole ass seasons
Streaming Service Rant
Hm… Mario’sa saw an ad in the newspaper for’a part time job! Mario’sa gonna take it! It’a seems like easy pay! Yahoo!
bruh someone made a whole audible/dramatization of the Hobbit on youtube and it is 100000/10 and got me drawing