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shit Jae-ha says (or mostly him just fucking with Hak)

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The Daily Word Counts of 39 Famous Authors

17 Of The Most Powerful Excerpts From Poetry

37 Ways To Write About Anger

Six Sub-Plots That Add Style To Your Story

93 Extremely Bad Business Writing Habits to Break

Torture your Character - The Three Most Effective Types of Inner Conflict

Proust’s Questionnaire - 35 Questions Every Character Should Answer

How To Become A Writer - The Easy Way - by Neil Gaiman

When To Use ‘That’ And When To Use ‘Which’

How To Write A Beginning And An Ending That Readers Will Never Forget

11 Things To Know About Dating A Writer

Word Counts - How long should your novel be?

Howdy Ma’am: Three Ways To Introduce Your Characters In The First Few Lines

10 Things To Stop Doing To Yourself As A Writer

The Five Best Online Tools to Help You Outline Your Novel

Make Me Care - Nine Ways To Ensure An Unforgettable Read

The Three Mistakes Writers Make That Stop Us Reading Their Books

Why First Time Authors Don’t Write The Books They Want To Read

How To Avoid ‘Telling’ Words

The Opposite Habits of Famous Writers

The Nine Types of Unreliable Narrator

13 Ways To Start A Story

The Three Surprises You Need In A Story

Six Questions To Ask Before You Even Start Your First Draft

The 12 Worst Mistakes People Make In Email Subject Lines

NaNoWriMo Calendar – Organise and Conquer!

Literary Style: 15 Writers and Their Bedrooms

The Romantic Sub-Plot - Six Uncommon Romantic Love Interests

Three Steps To Help You Write Brilliant Descriptions

10 Remedies For The Horrible Things Writers Tell Themselves

180 Emotionally Powerful Words To Use In Headlines

Write Small - Five Ways To Make Your Reader Care

How To Plot A Perfect Scene In 10 Minutes

It’s Never Too Late To Start Writing - When 27 Famous Authors Were Published

One Goal To Rule Them All – Five Things To Consider Before You Write An Epic Fantasy

Unhinged — Three Plot Devices You Should Definitely Be Using

12 Inspiring Literacy Quotes

10 Elementary Tips For Writers From Sherlock Holmes

Four ways to remove padding words

Five Ways To Create Fictional Conflict That Counts

The Writer’s Journey - Five exercises to get you started

Three Lines That Will Help You Write A Better First Draft

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“Your being here, and smiling… I couldn’t ask for anymore than that.”

↳ requested by @y-u-k-i-n-a

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Writing Tip July 16th

We’ve wrapped up the grammar portion of the month, which means we are moving on to the fight scene portion of the month. We will cover tips on how to write the actual fight, as well as information on injuries and the like. Without further ado:

5 Essential Tips for Writing Killer Fight Scenes

Fight scenes are dangerous territory for writers. On the surface, they seem as if they’re guaranteed to keep the reader glued to the action in the same way as they often do at the movies. In reality, though, readers tend to skip over fight scenes – skimming the long, tedious, blow-by-blow descriptions in favour of getting back to the dialogue and character-driven drama that truly engages them in the story.

My novel, Traitor’s Blade, is a swashbuckling fantasy in which fight scenes are a crucial part of the storytelling. This means having to ensure that every piece of action is vital and engaging; it means that every duel must draw the reader in and not let them go until the end. So how do you keep the pacing, flow, and more importantly, the drama moving forward with so many fights?

1. Make every fight advance the plot

No matter what you might think, violence is actually boring. Watching two hulking brutes bash at each other with clubs isn’t interesting. Only when one of the brutes is smaller, weaker, and trying desperately to stay alive long enough to let his people know that the enemy is coming does the action start to matter to the reader. But don’t just think in terms of climactic battles or killing off enemies. Sometimes the fight provides a crucial piece of information about the antagonist such as a particular type of cut they make that could explain the wounds on a victim the protagonist discovered in the previous chapter. The fight might also wound your protagonist, slowing them down in later scenes and giving you a chance to make their lives harder and therefore increase the suspense.

2. Reveal character through action

The way your protagonist fights – and when they choose to fight or walk away – tells the reader a great deal about them. Your hero might be a skilled but retiscient warrior or they could be an amateur but with a bloodthirsty streak that comes out when confronted with violence. But don’t just stop with your protagonist or their opponents. Think about what the action reveals in those watching the fight. Does the seemingly helpful mentor figure suddenly become enraptured watching the blood flow? Do the innocent bystanders just sit there or do they scramble to help? Fight scenes that reveal character are by far the most compelling ones for readers – they get to investigate your characters by seeing how they deal with violent situations, allowing you to follow that classic dictum of modern writing: show, don’t tell.

3. Your fight scenes must fulfill the promise of your book

Traitor’s Blade is a swashbuckling fantasy so every fight has to give the reader some of that sense of wonder they first encountered watching classic adventures like the old Errol Flynn and Douglas Fairbanks films. But perhaps your genre is gritty historical fiction. If so, the last thing you want to do is break suspension of disbelief. You have to carefully ensure that the weapons and fighting styles are true to your era (note: this doesn’t mean you can’t have a longsword in the 18th Century since they were around for long periods of time after their proper era, but you can’t have King Arthur swinging a rapier around in 6th Century Britain!)

4. Make every fight unique

I read a YA fantasy recently in which almost every fight involved the main character jumping up and spinning in the air to kick opponents in the face (usually two or three.) Regardless of how unrealistic this would be (after all, realism only matters if it’s part of the promise of your book), the fact is you probably couldn’t remember one fight from another. By contrast, think of a movie like The Princess Bride, in which every fight is special – every conflict is resolved using different means, whether trickery or skill or simply iron-willed determination.

5. Let the reader choreograph the action

If you describe every action of the fight, not only will you bore the reader but your pacing and flow will fall apart. So think of your job not so much as having to meticulously choreograph the fight but rather to give the reader enough insight into the action that they can build the scene in their minds. Show them early on in the fight how each weapon moves through space—make that vivid and visceral. Make the reader feel as if they could actually pick up that weapon and defend themselves even just a little bit. Then you’re free to focus on the character’s actions and reactions—making them distinct, personal, and emotionally motivated just as you do with their words. The reader will then be able to fill in the action while you describe what your characters are saying, what they’re thinking, and what’s showing on their faces. In other words, help the reader to choreograph the fight so that you can spend your time on the drama. This also lets you vary the length of your fight scenes, which helps to keep them from becoming predictable. In Traitor’s Blade there are fights which span an entire chapter and others which are told in four lines.

Think of it this way: violence is dialogue. Make your fights into a conversation spoken with actions in which the real conflict is happening in the hearts of the characters and in which the reader themselves are helping to tell the story.

-Chuck Sambuchino

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Haku  and Yona with Son  (✿ ♥‿♥)

(My Favorite Haku x Yona fan art forever and ever!!)

Wonderful Fan Art By:K_Ponbon please do not remove source/credit || Permission ❀

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okay but why no one talks about this??

“IT STIRS MY DESIRE” (//ω//)

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Thunder Beast Hak

“When you protect someone you want to keep safe, do you always weigh your own life against theirs?”

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Soundtrack for writers

Writing without music kind of gets me stuck. I don’t know what happens, I feel incomplete. The wrong type of music, however, throws me off. If, just like me, music is an important part of your writing process, this is the post for you.

Sound effects websites:

Rainy Mood 

Shower Time

Coffitivity

Soundrown

Noisli

Rainy Cafe

A Soft Murmur

Snowy Mood

Sound effects on YT:

- Journey

Night train

Night train with rain

Car ride

Car ride with rain

Airplane cabin

Pirate ship

Pirate ship with rain

Spaceship

- Nature

Garden

Swamp

Rainforest

Snow storm

Snow storm with fireplace

Winter wind

Winter waterfall

Beach

River

Desert with wind

Field

Underwater

Haunting storm

Cave water

- Places and events

Airport

Restaurant

City

Train station

Shopping mall

School

Convention center

Call center office

Fireworks

Classical music:

Liszt

Handel

Villa-Lobos

Mahler

Mussorgsky

Paganini

Clara Schumann

Robert Schumann

Haydn

G.P. da Palestrina

Rossini

Verdi

Chopin

Takemitsu

Salieri

Elgar

Debussy

Gershwin

Satie

Soundtracks:

Ghibli

Lord of the Rings

Skyrim

Pirates of the Caribbean

Harry Potter

Naruto and Naruto (villains)

Journey

Disney

Star Wars

The Terminator

The Last of Us

Cowboy Bebop

The Ring

Edward Scissorhands

Sleepy hollow

The Village

Until Dawn

Layers of Fear

Outlander

Downton Abbey

This War of Mine

Hunter x Hunter

Pride and Prejudice

Clannad

Marco Polo

House of the Flying Daggers

Baccano!

Somewhere in time

The Order

The Notebook

Final Fantasy X

Final Fantasy XIII

Van Helsing

Anno 1404

Jurassic Park

Lost

Titanic

The Last of the Mohicans

One Piece

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One of the basics steps when writing a story is research. Looking for an specific topic is easy, but sometimes you forget that elements are connected and when you start writing about them you realise you have to make more research and have to stop writing just when…

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To sell your novel, you may need to know how to write a synopsis, even if you are a pantser-type novelist who can write a whole novel without making an outline first. Agents and publishers will often ask for a synopsis along with sample chapters before they request a complete manuscript.

The biggest mistake most people make when they try to write a synopsis for the first time is to create a bare bones plot summary, along the lines of “First this happens, then this happens, then this happens…” Synopses written this way tend to be so dry and boring even the author would have trouble understanding why anyone would want to read the full novel.

Imagine, for example, if a sports writer described a hockey game as “First one team scored. Then the other team scored. Then the first team scored twice. Then the game ended.” Pretty boring, yes?

- See more at: http://www.how-to-write-a-book-now.com/how-to-write-a-synopsis.html#sthash.luoazyx1.dpuf

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I don’t know what I think until I write it down.

Joan Didion (via simplewritingtips)

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There are a lot of choices to make when writing a novel. I know a lot of writers struggle with being decisive and often get hung up on making certain choices about their story. What should I name my book? What should I name my protagonist? Why should my character make this…

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“I’ll teach you some exercises as an apology.”

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(via Bridgid Gallagher - Plot your novel for NaNoWriMo)

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Word Tracking Spreadsheets - These sheets also have sections for character and plot information.