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Hey writeblr community

If you write:

High fantasy

Epic fantasy

Alternate universe stuff

Badass princesses

Fate and other fuckery

Dragons

Mythical creatures

Or anything along those lines

Then like or reblog so I can follow you and check out your wip :D

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“protect heteroromantic aces” lmao from what? the sharknado?

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Reblog if you think fanfiction is a legitimate form of creative writing.

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Paladin by Dmitriy Below

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How do you write creepy stories

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If your representation only adds to the trauma experienced by marginalized people, your writing is part of the problem.

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Guys, if you want to be a good artist and storyteller you need to absorb other media and influences beyond popular comics and movies and video games. Hell, even beyond visual art. Read novels, science articles, history books. Listen to podcasts, watch documentaries. Dip into different disciplines. Explore stuff outside your everyday. What you create and the pool of ideas you can pull out of is expanded by the knowledge you gain. Don’t do yourself a disservice by limiting your library. You never know when some weird shit you read about mushrooms could end up inspiring you or helping you solve a design/story problem.

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fun facts about stephenie meyers siblings ft. my escalating levels of distress and concern:

all of her siblings’ names (seth, emily, jacob, paul, and heidi) end up in the twilight saga in one way or another

not all incorporations are made equal

i.e. heidi is a glorified extra who shows up for 2 chapters at the end of the second book whereas jacob is literally the secondary love interest for the entire series

on a scale from jacob to heidi how bad is your relationship with your sister

seth and paul are both werewolves

seth is a sweet, harmless baby brother type in the books and also the name of one of meyer’s sons so im gonna take a leap and say he was steph’s favorite

except for jacob, who got to be the third billing character in the series while everyone else got to be a tertiary character at best

emily gets horribly maimed. so uh. thats fun

on a scale from seth to emily how bad is your relationship with your sister

i cant stop thinking about heidi though like. all of the others have moderate to important roles in the series meanwhile heidi is just some italian chick who eats people and says MAYBE 3 words? she’s like the volturi’s receptionist or something. a fucking receptionist

all of this is just varying degrees of batshit obviously. i cannot imagine my sister writing me as a character in her pulpy vampire romance novel and us ever being on speaking terms again

how do you react to that? how do you have a relationship. how do you roll up to thanksgiving and sit across the table from someone who makes $50 million a year off a YA series where YOU are a speaking character

actually never mind. yeah if my sister made $50 million a year i wouldnt say shit to her about it either

still though

somewhere out there is a man named “jacob meyer” who has never known peace 

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New Bechdel-like test for gay/lesbian romance films:

Your gay characters cannot:

Have an illegal or otherwise creepy age gap.

Cheat on each other or anyone else (especially not if the cheating is portrayed as romantic).

Die tragically, violently or AT ALL. 

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lo.reads

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And there she lullèd me asleep,         And there I dreamed—Ah! woe betide!— The latest dream I ever dreamt         On the cold hill side. I saw pale kings and princes too,         Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried—'La Belle Dame sans Merci         Hath thee in thrall!’ I saw their starved lips in the gloam,         With horrid warning gapèd wide, And I awoke and found me here,         On the cold hill’s side.

John Keats, ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad’

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(via even-younger-young-neil)

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...For I was reared In the great city, pent 'mid cloisters dim, And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe! shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds, Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags: so shalt thou see and hear The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘Frost at Midnight’

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writeblrs: your 2019 will be full of inspiration and you! get that wip done!

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“Traditionally, the muses were women, but mine’s a guy; I’m afraid we’ll just have to live with that.”

— Stephen King, On Writing

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“The strongest themes are ageless, classless, universal.”

— Dianne Doubtfire, The Craft of Novel Writing

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