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Writing Tips Masterlist

Last updated April 9, 2021.

World-Building

4 Tips for Writing Magic

Creating a Culture

Totalitarian Governments

Creating a Distinct World

Creating (Fictional) Medicine

Describing New Settings

Writing a War

Writing a War with Superheroes / Magic / Fantasy

70 Questions for World-Building

Creating Superstitions

49 Questions for Creating a Religion

The Tie Between Characters and World-Building

34 Questions for Creating a Government

36 Questions for Music in World-Building

Creating a New Species

42 Questions for Creating an Education System

Characters

Developing Character Appearance

Developing Character Personality

Multilingual Characters

Creating a Wardrobe

How to Name Your Characters

Your Characters vs. Already-Established Characters

Effective Point-of-View Character

Writing an Impactful Death

Writing with Archetypes

Designing Your Characters

Mute Characters

Thinning Your Cast

Not Enough Characters?

84 Questions for Developing Plot and Character Roles

Sexuality without a Relationship

Consistent Personalities

Skills and Knowledge

Creating Conflict

Character Arcs

Sympathetic Characters

Name vs. Pronouns and When to Use Them

Creating Character Voice

Characters Who Are Learning Another Language

Character Fears

Finding Motivations

Creating Character Flaws

Emotionless Characters

Relationships

Dynamic Relationships

Sibling Relationships

Believable Romance

Characters Who Don’t Know How to Relationship

Complementary Character Traits

Writing a Slow-Burn Romance

Characters Who Fall Out of Love

Groups of Characters

Making Compatible Characters

Emotions

Frustration

Grief

Fear

Planning & Plotting

Planning a Series

Writing an Outline

Tips for Writing Subplots

Non-Point-of-View Romantic Subplots

Avoiding Generic Plots

Planning and Pace

Editing & Prose

Writing with Emotion

Controlling Pace with Detail

Steps of the Editing Phase

Descriptions in Context

Imagery

Dialogue

Showing vs. Telling

What is passive voice?

Reworking Moments of Exposition

Adverbs

When to Cut Your Content

Avoiding Cliches in Your Story

The Importance of Vocabulary

Writing Beginning Paragraphs

Motivation

How to Balance Multiple Projects

How to Fall Back in Love with Your Story

Writing Every Day?

Sticking with Your Story

Getting (Back) Into the Writing Habit

Setting Realistic Goals

Shiny New Idea Syndrome

Positive Writing Mindset

Staying Motivated on Your Projects

Getting in “The Zone”

Keeping Writing Logs

Avoiding Burnout

Breaking Out of Writer’s Block

Scenes

Quick Decisions

Travel Scenes

Breakdown in the Shower

General Writing & Miscellaneous

The Joys of the First Draft

Injuries

Creating Suspense

Writing Poison

Prophecies

A Word to Young Writers

Making a Moodboard

Consuming with the Producer Mindset

For First-Time Writers

Building Your Writing Skill

Advice for Student Writers

How to Do Research

How to Maximize Your Writing Time

How to Make Your Book Look Like a Book

On Experimenting in Writing

When to Use Multiple Points of View

Building Theme

Becoming a Beta Reader

Background Music While Writing

Why Committing to a Project Can Be Stressful

Warm-Ups for Writers

Determining Your Story’s Genre

Why do we get stressed when we don’t write?

Writing Short Stories

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You ever think that the Dragon Age franchise feels bad that nothing they do will ever be funnier than Oghren telling you that the Joining chalice full of darkspawn blood made with mouth tingle, and if you tell him “no one asked you to chug the whole thing” he disapproves one point. Just a lil minus one. He’s not saying you’re wrong, but you didn’t have to fucking bring it up. You hand him a chalice, he’s gonna chug that chalice, it’s kind of your fault for not stopping him. The funniest and most realistic thing in Dragon Age is the idea of a character disapproving of you just one goddang approval point. The singular unit of approval. The equivalent of the third set of silver bracers that you gave them because you gotta clean out the inventory. Minus one approval is the concept of someone not closing the door behind them when they leave your room. If you’ve got a good relationship, this isn’t going to destroy it, and if you’ve got a bad relationship, it’s just one more fucking thing, but either way I would like a small shiny stone looted from a random canvas sack to make up for it

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Dragon Age-Inspired Dialogue Prompts

A dialogue prompt list heavily inspired by Dragon Age👀 If you’d like more vague DA-themed & fic trope prompts, venture here.

Choose the first letter of the prompt section + the prompt # (e.g. C2 is “"Honestly? Fuck the Chantry,” and F11 is “My robes suit you,” etc.) + the pairing (here are the ones I write for) — and prompt me any time :3 

Feel free to use and reblog!💕

😁 Comedy Central

"This is why the Maker left.”

“Honestly? Fuck the Chantry.”

“You did not just compare me to a cat / mabari / nug / [Thedosian animal of your choice].”

“There’s no problem a well-aimed fireball can’t fix.”

“There’s no problem magic can’t fix.” “Or create.”

“If we don’t make it out alive, I’ll see you at the Maker’s side.” “Bold of you to assume you’re going there.”

“[Character of your choice] is a bit of a dimwit.” “Hey!” “That was affectionate.”

“If it bleeds, it can be killed.” “Well, it doesn’t.”

“Magic does not work like that.” “Maybe. But have you ever tried it?” “No, because I’m not bloody insane!”

“You probably shouldn’t touch that.” “What harm could this trinket possibly do?”

“I hate the Deep Roads.” “You’re the one who dragged us here.” “Doesn’t make what I said any less true.”

“No idea what’s going on, eh? Would a fireball to the face jog your memory?”

“I saw you cheat!“ “Yes. And?” “That’s unfair.” “Life is unfair, and I’m playing by its lack of rules.”

“I accidentally punched a Templar. A few times. At least ten.”

“Time for my favorite pastime.” “Which is?” “Drowning my problems in ridiculous amounts booze!”

“[Dangerous activity of your choice] will go fine! Come on, I’ve seriously been lacking fun lately.” “I’m fairly sure what you’re lacking is brain matter.”

"No! Dragon-hunting is not a way to kill time, it’s a way to kill us.”

“Don’t worry. Everybody’s afraid of something.” “Even you?” “No.”

“There’s something strange going on with my head.” “You may be unfamiliar with these things—they’re called thoughts.”

“I think I did okay!” “Another building just collapsed.” “Well, it’s the building’s fucking fault not mine!”

“I’m too young to die.” “You have a low-grade fever and a mild infection.” “I can see a spark of light in the dark… this is the end, is it not?”

“Who do you take me for?” “An idiot.”

“We shouldn’t have smoked so much elfroot.”

“Can I have breakfast in bed?” “Sure. Just sleep in the kitchen.”

“Void! Did I say that out loud?”

🥰 Floof & Feels

“I wish we’d stay like this forever.”

“You’re everything I’ve ever wanted, everything I need, and I’m going to cherish you until my dying day.”

“There’s nothing I wouldn’t do for you.”

“Can you hold me? Please?”

“I thought you’d never ask.”

“I believe in you.”

“Would you ever consider… marriage?” “Why do you ask?” “Oh. I’m—for a friend.”

“I’ll protect you.”

“You always look beautiful. Tonight, you look divine.”

“You developed a whole new spell… for me?”

“My robes suit you.”

“Kiss it better?”

“Sing for me?”

“Tell me more about your people.”

“Your magic makes me feel safe.”

"They will never tear us apart.”

“It’s just a hug, it won’t kill you.”

“I didn’t expect you to be into cuddling.” “I’m not!” “Then what is this?” “Just… close skin-to-skin contact.” “Uh-huh.”

“You’re being far too adorable.” “Is that a complaint?” “No. By all means, continue.”

“You’re being overly affectionate.” “Sorry.” “I never told you to stop.”

“That’s the kindest thing anyone has ever done for me.”

“You’re so warm.”

“You smell nice.”

“Why are you smiling?” “Because you’re here.”

“Have I told you that I love you today?”

💔 Anguish & Apprehension

“I don’t believe you.”

“I wish we’d never met. I only bring you pain.”

“I feel like I don’t know you anymore.”

“We won’t be able to hide in time.”

“You can’t keep risking your life like this.”

“I was so scared I’d lost you.”

“Everything here feels wrong. The Veil is… far too thin.”

“I don’t deserve you. I know a day will come when you realize it. I selfishly hope it never comes to pass.”

“I ruined your life.” “You’ve ruined nothing. You are my life.”

“Was that… blood magic?”

“The demons won’t leave me alone.”

“Why can’t you see that I love you?”

“There has to be a way to fix this.”

“Why do you insist on taking care of everyone but yourself?”

“I think I’m going mad.”

“Leave. I can’t right now. I can’t.”

“I never meant for this to happen!”

“You can’t die on me! I won’t allow it!“

"I don’t know how to save myself.”

“Please, stop. You’re hurting me.”

"This place is cursed.” “Is there a way out?” “I doubt it.”

“It was just a dream.” “I… I don’t think so.”

“Why does it hurt so much?”

“You said you trusted me. What changed?”

“Please tell me you’re lying.”

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Dragon Age-Inspired Prompt List

A prompt list with DA-specific prompts👀 If you’d like DA-themed dialogue starters, venture here.

Choose one (or several!) of the prompts + a pairing (here are the ones I write for) — and prompt me any time :3

Feel free to use and reblog!💕

📑 Fanfiction Tropes

General fic tropes with some DA-specific stuff thrown in at the end ~

Humor

Hurt/comfort

Tooth-rotting fluff

Domestic fluff

Angst with a happy ending

Mutual pining

Idiots in love

Friends to lovers

Enemies (to friends) to lovers

There was only one bed

Sharing body heat

Snowed in/trapped

Unresolved sexual tension

Matchmaking

Reunion fic

Sick fic

5 + 1 fic

Fake/secret dating

Getting together

First date/kiss

First time

Proposal/marriage

Game/drinking night at the Hanged Man

Inquisitor!Hawke OR Inquisitor!Anders OR [any alternate Inquisitor of your choice]

[Character] needs a hug

🎶 Chant of Light

Totally random quotes from the Chant that seemed vaguely cool. Can be read as a sort of poem/story ~

Left to wander the drifting roads of the Fade

Calling out for justice

Lost to night

By cruel magic taken, ice, lightning, and flame

Steel my heart against the temptations of the wicked

Let the blade pass through the flesh, Let my blood touch the ground, Let my cries touch their hearts

And the stars stood still, the winds did quiet

Magic born of mingled blood and lyrium

What hath man’s sin wrought?

They shall be named Maleficar, accursed ones. They shall find no rest in this world Or beyond

Magic exists to serve man, and never to rule over him

Blessed are the peacekeepers, the champions of the just

Trembling, I step forward

The deep dark before dawn’s first light seems eternal

Perhaps there is only abyss

In hushed whispers

Prickling pangs of dread

With passion’d breath does the darkness creep… it is the whisper in the night, the lie upon your sleep

Dream and idea, hope and fear, endless possibilities

Let chaos be undone

Unshaken by the darkness of the world

I shall weather the storm, I shall endure

Marvel at perfection, for it is fleeting

With my eyes closed, yet I see The Light is here

In your heart shall burn An unquenchable flame All-consuming, and never satisfied

🔥 Thedas

Random stuff to do/experience in Thedas ~

Shared dreaming in the Fade

Fun with magic (making ice slides with ice magic, dodge fireball, weaving abstract lightning art in the night sky, making caricature statues with earth magic, etc.)

Wounds from magical friendly fire

The feel of healing magic

The smell of lyrium (~ the air after a lightning strike — or your own hc)

The song of red lyrium

Lyrium high

Crippling numbness after magic overuse

The smell of fresh elfroot

Smoking blood lotus

Shivering in a place where the Veil is thin

Wounds after using blood magic

Sensing darkspawn

Hearing the Calling

Getting lost  in the Deep Roads

Napping in the Brecilian Forest

Watching the stars from the window of a Circle

Festivities in Orzammar

Winter in Ferelden

Dragon hunting in the Free Marches

Masquerade ball in Orlais / Orgy if a ball seems too boring

Sunbathing in Minrathous

Strip Wicked Grace

Mage vs. mage sparring

Warrior/rogue vs. mage sparring

💕 Affection

Kiss Prompts ~

In the rain

By a campfire

In a tavern

At a ball

In the middle of a fight

In an alley to hide from pursuers

Lazy morning kisses

Rough kisses

“I love you” kiss

“Shut up” kiss

“Happy you’re alive” kiss

“I missed you” kiss

Touch Prompts ~

Gentle touches

Accidental touches

Holding hands

Hugs/cuddling

Tickling

Healing touch

Spirit touches

Magic touches

Touching scars/wounds

Massage

Playing with hair

Touch-starved

🔞 NSWF Prompts Below ⤵

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Dragon Age-Inspired Prompt List

A prompt list with DA-specific prompts👀 If you’d like DA-themed dialogue starters, venture here.

Choose one (or several!) of the prompts + a pairing (here are the ones I write for) — and prompt me any time :3

Feel free to use and reblog!💕

📑 Fanfiction Tropes

General fic tropes with some DA-specific stuff thrown in at the end ~

Humor

Hurt/comfort

Tooth-rotting fluff

Domestic fluff

Angst with a happy ending

Mutual pining

Idiots in love

Friends to lovers

Enemies (to friends) to lovers

There was only one bed

Sharing body heat

Snowed in/trapped

Unresolved sexual tension

Matchmaking

Reunion fic

Sick fic

5 + 1 fic

Fake/secret dating

Getting together

First date/kiss

First time

Proposal/marriage

Game/drinking night at the Hanged Man

Inquisitor!Hawke OR Inquisitor!Anders OR [any alternate Inquisitor of your choice]

[Character] needs a hug

🎶 Chant of Light

Totally random quotes from the Chant that seemed vaguely cool. Can be read as a sort of poem/story ~

Left to wander the drifting roads of the Fade

Calling out for justice

Lost to night

By cruel magic taken, ice, lightning, and flame

Steel my heart against the temptations of the wicked

Let the blade pass through the flesh, Let my blood touch the ground, Let my cries touch their hearts

And the stars stood still, the winds did quiet

Magic born of mingled blood and lyrium

What hath man’s sin wrought?

They shall be named Maleficar, accursed ones. They shall find no rest in this world Or beyond

Magic exists to serve man, and never to rule over him

Blessed are the peacekeepers, the champions of the just

Trembling, I step forward

The deep dark before dawn’s first light seems eternal

Perhaps there is only abyss

In hushed whispers

Prickling pangs of dread

With passion’d breath does the darkness creep… it is the whisper in the night, the lie upon your sleep

Dream and idea, hope and fear, endless possibilities

Let chaos be undone

Unshaken by the darkness of the world

I shall weather the storm, I shall endure

Marvel at perfection, for it is fleeting

With my eyes closed, yet I see The Light is here

In your heart shall burn An unquenchable flame All-consuming, and never satisfied

🔥 Thedas

Random stuff to do/experience in Thedas ~

Shared dreaming in the Fade

Fun with magic (making ice slides with ice magic, dodge fireball, weaving abstract lightning art in the night sky, making caricature statues with earth magic, etc.)

Wounds from magical friendly fire

The feel of healing magic

The smell of lyrium (~ the air after a lightning strike — or your own hc)

The song of red lyrium

Lyrium high

Crippling numbness after magic overuse

The smell of fresh elfroot

Smoking blood lotus

Shivering in a place where the Veil is thin

Wounds after using blood magic

Sensing darkspawn

Hearing the Calling

Getting lost  in the Deep Roads

Napping in the Brecilian Forest

Watching the stars from the window of a Circle

Festivities in Orzammar

Winter in Ferelden

Dragon hunting in the Free Marches

Masquerade ball in Orlais / Orgy if a ball seems too boring

Sunbathing in Minrathous

Strip Wicked Grace

Mage vs. mage sparring

Warrior/rogue vs. mage sparring

💕 Affection

Kiss Prompts ~

In the rain

By a campfire

In a tavern

At a ball

In the middle of a fight

In an alley to hide from pursuers

Lazy morning kisses

Rough kisses

“I love you” kiss

“Shut up” kiss

“Happy you’re alive” kiss

“I missed you” kiss

Touch Prompts ~

Gentle touches

Accidental touches

Holding hands

Hugs/cuddling

Tickling

Healing touch

Spirit touches

Magic touches

Touching scars/wounds

Massage

Playing with hair

Touch-starved

🔞 NSWF Prompts Below ⤵

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It’s you, it’s you, it’s all for you

Everything i do

I tell all the time

Heaven is a place on earth with you

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i do love the terror bc it has that insane “characters who know theyre in a story” trope that makes me crazy but in wildly different ways. crozier knows from the beginning theyre in a tragedy and hes powerless to stop it. until carnivale james thinks theyre in a high adventure story of which he is the protagonist and this is just his prologue and he slowly comes to realize and accept that it’s crozier’s tragedy. and hickey thinks hes the protagonist of some kind of bizarre cosmic horror story that will be read as religious text in a thousand years once he’s managed to eat the sun but he is just a rat in the ships hold.

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I can never walk away from you. Not by the gods who all looked on as I ran out of reasons to make you stay. Not by the forget-me-nots I willed to die under my pillow. Not by the poems you never knew were yours. Between us, I can never be the first one who leaves because I’m terrified — of you moving on to a life I’m not a part of. I’m terrified of confronting the choking weight of emptiness in cold mornings.

To walk away from this is something I never learned; that is my downfall and your strength. And I guess the difference between us is when I said that I was terrified of you leaving — when I said that I was terrified of losing you, I meant it.

I meant every word of it, my love — I meant every word that you did not.

— Fray Narte, “trapped ghosts learn to haunt themselves.”

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“In the dream I don’t tell anyone, you put your head in my lap.”

— Richard Siken, from I Had a Dream About You

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in this house we support and protect

💫💫💫 GABI BRAUN 💫💫💫

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it is funny how people really think mah boy is just a dumb jock. smh.

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GUYS

GuyS

THIS IS

PoST-TIMESKIP REIBERT

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Imagine the sniper, the god of destruction, the badass warrior Bert would have become. Just do it. DO IT.

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it is funny how people really think mah boy is just a dumb jock. smh.

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Let's talk about this.

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Local red hair babe gets excited by making people fight.

Literally just DIO but in a jaguar's body, who's yours? (つ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)つ