#WRITING NOTES

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Writing Notes: Speech & Language

Milestones Related to Speech and Language

Birth to 5 months

Coos

Vocalizes pleasure and displeasure sounds differently (laughs, giggles, cries, or fusses)

Makes noise when talked to

6 to 11 months

Understands "no-no"

Babbles (says "ba-ba-ba")

Says "ma-ma" or "da-da" without meaning

Tries to communicate by actions or gestures

Tries to repeat your sounds

Says first word

2 to 17 months

Answers simple questions nonverbally

Says 2-3 words to label a person/object (pronunciation may not be clear)

Tries to imitate simple words

Vocabulary of 4-6 words

18 to 23 months

Vocabulary of 50 words, pronunciation is often unclear

Asks for common foods by name

Makes animal sounds ("moo")

Starting to combine words ("more milk")

Begins to use pronouns ("mine")

Uses 2-word phrases

2 to 3 years

Knows some spatial concepts ("in" or "on")

Knows pronouns ("you," "me" or "her")

Knows descriptive words ("big" or "happy")

Uses 3-word sentences

Speech becomes more accurate, but may still leave off-ending sounds. Strangers may not understand much of what is said.

Answers simple questions

Begins to use more pronouns ("you" or "I")

Uses question inflection to ask for something ("my ball?")

Begins to use plurals ("shoes" or "socks"; regular past tense verbs, "jumped")

3 to 4 years

Groups objects, such as foods or clothes

Identifies colors

Uses most speech sounds, but may distort some of the more difficult sounds, such as l, r, s, sh, ch, y, v, z, th. These sounds may not be fully mastered until age 7 or 8.

Uses consonants in the beginning, middle, and ends of words.

Some of the more difficult consonants may be distorted, but attempts to say them

Strangers are able to understand much of what is said

Able to describe the use of objects ("fork" or "car")

Has fun with language; enjoys poems and recognizes language absurdities ("Is that an elephant on your head?")

Expresses ideas and feelings rather than just talking about the world around him or her

Uses verbs that end in "ing" ("walking" or "talking")

Answers simple questions ("What do you do when you are hungry?")

Repeats sentences

4 to 5 years

Understands spatial concepts ("behind" or "next to")

Understands complex questions

Speech is understandable, but makes mistakes pronouncing long, difficult, or complex words ("hippopotamus")

Uses some irregular past tense verbs ("ran" or "fell")

Describes how to do things (e.g., painting a picture)

Lists items that belong in a category (e.g., animals or vehicles)

Answers "why" questions

5 years

Understands time sequences (e.g., what happened first, second...)

Carries out a series of 3 directions

Understands rhyming

Engages in conversation

Sentences can be 8 or more words in length

Uses compound and complex sentences

Describes objects

Uses imagination to create stories

NOTE

The ability to hear is essential for proper speech and language development.

Hearing problems may be suspected in children who are not responding to sounds or who are not developing their language skills appropriately.

The above are some age-related guidelines that may help to decide if your child is experiencing hearing problems.

It's important to remember that not every child is the same.

Children reach milestones at different ages.

Source ⚜ More: References ⚜ On Children ⚜ Hearing ⚜ Children's Dialogue

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Writing Notes & References

Alchemy ⚜ Antidote to Anxiety ⚜ Attachment ⚜ Autopsy

Art: Elements ⚜ Principles ⚜ Photographs ⚜ Watercolour

Bruises ⚜ Caffeine ⚜ Color Blindness ⚜ Cruise Ships

Children ⚜ Children's Dialogue ⚜ Childhood Bilingualism

Dangerousness ⚜ Drowning ⚜ Dystopia ⚜ Dystopian World

Culture ⚜ Culture Shock ⚜ Ethnocentrism & Cultural Relativism

Emotions: Anger ⚜ Fear ⚜ Happiness ⚜ Sadness

Emotional Intelligence ⚜ Genius (Giftedness) ⚜ Quirks

Facial Expressions ⚜ Laughter & Humour ⚜ Swearing & Taboo

Fantasy Creatures ⚜ Fantasy World Building

Generations ⚜ Literary & Character Tropes

Fight Scenes ⚜ Kill Adverbs

Food: Cooking Basics ⚜ Herbs & Spices ⚜ Sauces ⚜ Wine-tasting ⚜ Aphrodisiacs ⚜ List of Aphrodisiacs ⚜ Food History ⚜ Cocktails ⚜ Literary & Hollywood Cocktails ⚜ Liqueurs

Genre: Crime ⚜ Horror ⚜ Fantasy ⚜ Speculative Biology

Hate ⚜ Love ⚜ Kinds of Love ⚜ The Physiology of Love

How to Write: Food ⚜ Colours ⚜ Drunkenness

Jargon ⚜ Logical Fallacies ⚜ Memory ⚜ Memoir

Magic: Magic System ⚜ 10 Uncommon ⚜ How to Choose

Moon: Part 1 2 ⚜ Related Words

Mystical Items & Objects ⚜ Talisman ⚜ Relics ⚜ Poison

Pain ⚜ Pain & Violence ⚜ Poison Ivy & Poison Oak

Realistic Injuries 1 2 ⚜ Rejection ⚜ Structural Issues ⚜ Villains

Symbolism: Colors ⚜ Food ⚜ Numbers ⚜ Storms

Thinking ⚜ Thinking Styles ⚜ Thought Distortions

Terms of Endearment ⚜ Ways of Saying "No" ⚜ Yoga

Compilations: Plot ⚜ Character ⚜ Worldbuilding ⚜ For Poets ⚜ Tips & Advice

all posts are queued. will update this every few weeks/months. send questions or requests here.

[itsawritblr]

Me about 100 times a day.

Later, when I read my notes.

[logophilist1982]

Dark academia coffee

[docbrownstudies]

notes on margaret's kerrison's immersive storytelling for real and imagined worlds / 10/27/24

[estradog]

rb if you like girls (i will be taking notes)

[lord-fallen]

ALL-IN-ONE NOTION: “WINTER ARC”

a highly customizable, simplistic but fancy notion template for writers. perfect for organizing novels while keeping it aesthetically-pleasing to look at. guaranteed higher muse and motivation to finish works-in-progress.  to download / copy, click “duplicate” top-right to copy it to your notion. works best with DARK MODE*.

features:

visual and simple overview of wips

chart overview categorizing wips

weekly planning section with a simple to-do list

section for intentions and mindset to help motivation

tags system (e.g. completion status, main tropes, and genres)

writing tracker

please like / reblog if you’re using or interested in using it!

*tip: for switching to dark mode, in your notion go Settings > My settings > Appearance > Select Dark

[ambrosiagourmet]

Character POV unreliability factors -

Kabru: treats things like they are his fault and his responsibility to an unreasonable degree. Sometimes filters other people’s treatment of him through the lens of assuming that they all think these things are his fault/responsibility too. Other than that he’s mostly good at reading people and situations. It’s just that his view of himself is so distorted by what he thinks he should be that the closer someone gets to him, the more distorted they become, too.

Marcille: anxiety brain doesn’t turn off easily once it has been turned on. This leads her catastrophizing both about outcomes and about what people think of her. Also, I think she’s not very good at understanding what she’s good at, outside of the very particular slice of what she has been told she is good at, academically. I’m not projecting you’re projecting.

Laios: will not fucking directly acknowledge his own pain. He can be aware of discomfort and frustration, but actually getting him to look at the root cause is nigh impossible. This is both very fun and very annoying to write. Laios you are allowed to acknowledge your trauma. Please. Please acknowledge your trauma. Laios get back here.

[fantasyiswaybetterthanreality]

I was musing on Epic the Musical. I've seen a few animatics for suffering, but they all show Ody on the ship/the siren not looking like his wife. So I'd like to throw my interpretation from the livestream into the mix. Suffering didn't have any artwork/animatic for it like the other songs, so it's interpretation can be really anything.

I imagined it as a flashback, with ethereal background lighting and whimsy feel to it. A young Penelope swimming in a tide pool of sorts, hair floating freely in the water as she splashes and floats like a kid. (Young) Ody is on the rocks nearby, watching with a lovesick expression. As Penelope keeps trying to convince him, she treads closer until, she's right there in front of him, caressing his face and teasing a kiss.

When he says "But only if you answer answer a question or two." Penelope perks up eagerly ("of course"), because finally we're getting somewhere.

Then Ody asks his questions, dramatically reenacting the ordeal and making giant hand gestures. (Bonus: Penelope's "oh, no" isn't sarcastic, but that concerned, but I know this is fake acting.) Penelope talks about Scylla with this super bright, goofy expression that causes dissonance.

Then "Now jump in the water!", she flops back and splashes. Back to the back and forth.

"You should come up onto the ship, we'll jump at the same time!" But there's no ship around? It's just beach?

"The things I do for you." Ody shakes his head in disbelief and it looks like he's about to jump in the water. We cut to Penelope's eager expression, which turns into horror and pain. The background changes to a dark red/maroon to signal that the illusion is broken.

We pan to Odysseus standing high above on a ship, with a bow pointing at the siren. Both the audience and the siren were too caught up in the illusion that was created to notice that Ody wasn't under the spell.

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Writing Notes: Fire Development

Recognizing each stage allows you to describe with accuracy how a fire can quickly increase; later we will discuss fire characteristics, which will provide you with an opportunity to describe accurately the visual features of a fire scene.

THE 4 STAGES OF FIRE DEVELOPMENT

Incipient Stage

Also known as ignition.

This first stage begins when all 4 components have resulted in a fire starting.

Easiest to control and extinguish, and given the right circumstances, may possibly burn out on its own accord before it has a chance to reach the second stage.

Growth Stage

Shortest but most sudden of the 4 stages.

Combination of oxygen and any nearby combustible material will fuel the fire.

As it progresses, gases will rapidly increase in temperature, resulting in a build-up of pressure in the room.

Fully Developed Stage

When all the combustible materials have been consumed, the fire is at its peak and will be fully developed.

At this stage, the heat will be immense, and because the room will be engulfed in flames, there will be little hope of escape or survival.

Decay Stage

If the fire is left, then this final stage will be the longest, as the fire gradually finishes its consumption – think of a bonfire that is left to burn.

The heat still remains intense, and will do for some time, which is why firefighters remain so long at a fire scene even after the flames have been extinguished.

The fire may continue to smoulder and there is a risk of pyrolysis occurring, which may result in a secondary fire.

Source ⚜ More: Writing References

[kaibacorpintern]

What Strange Creatures Brothers Are a kaiba brothers fanfiction collection

Gen stories focused specifically on the fraught, anxious, and yet loving relationship between the Kaiba brothers, with a moody and existential bent. Written for @rainstormcolors for her birthday(s). All are rated T, with no romantic ships of any kind, and follow manga canon. All are stand-alone and can be read separately.

Abstraction (one-shot, 5.8K. Post-DSOD. Second-fluffiest.)

Honda's dog has puppies, and even the Kaiba brothers aren't immune.

Conditional Contrapositive Converse Inverse (one-shot, 4.8K. Post-DSOD. Fluffiest.)

Sooner or later, the thick duvet of heat and the stars of sweat dotting his skin will frustrate Seto, and he’ll either 1) roll into the pool for a few laps, to make this a “productive” afternoon, or 2) go back inside, to the cool, dark cave of his lab, and spend the next six hours fucking around with circuit boards. Now is the best time to ask. “Niisama,” Mokuba says, “I've been thinking.”

Jishin Kaminari Kaji Kyoudai (three-parter, 19.2K. Post-Battle City. Least fluffiest.)

There are times when Mokuba sees too much of Gozaburo in Seto. He can only bite his tongue for so long.

[itsawritblr]

Searching my notes for the one damn thing I need to finish writing this chapter.

[logophilist1982]

Notebook aesthetic

[dominoblues]

Let's talk characters' eye color...

I've noticed that Takahashi-sensei has not been consistent with the characters' eye color. So this let me to wonder, which ones are actually canon in the end?

The anime had its own version of it, but i don't consider that canon. So, I will limit myself to the original art from Takahashi-sensei himself.

Yugi/Atem Their purple/reddish eyes are mostly consistent; sometimes, depending on the light, they appear brownish. Ther's an instance where they have light blue eyes too (apparently Takahashi-sensei must have loved blue eyes, because the majority of his characters at some point have been colored with blue eyes at least once).

Jounouchi His eyes are usually golden/light brown, but sometimes you can find him with blue eyes too.

Seto Kaiba Seto is usually always colored with light blue eyes. Sometimes his eyes are darker. Once I found him with green eyes.

Anzu She is one of the most inconsistent characters. I think the dm anime giving her blue eyes didn't help. I'm inclined to believe that Takahashi-sensei originally gave her dark brown eyes (which is also the color she has in the first anime series), giving the color of early art and, only after the beginning of the anime, he started using also blue. I like her with brown eyes a lot.

Mokuba He too has seen some inconsistency. From brown to deep blue his eyes have changed a lot. I believe originally he wasn't supposed to have dark blue eyes. In my canon he has deep grey eyes.

Bakura/Dark Bakura I was surprised to discover that Bakura actually has blue eyes and only a couple of times he is depicted with goldish/light brown eyes. Dark Bakura has also blue eyes or red eyes. I love his blue eyes, which also fit with my canon that Ryou is actually half-european.

Ending with one of my favourite art. This is the reference i use for my canon charcaters' eye color.

[randomwriteups26]

Always remeber procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder.

When ever you feel down or insecure just think that the expert in anything was also a beginner once...

@thelailasblog @thelostfilesofstudents @blushlillyyy @dr-scarlette-witch @stark-reading-mad @juliaxyn @angelicasdigitaldiary @academing

[childlikegoblinqueen]

So…. Following a BtVS/Monster of the Week type formula, Blight of the Living Dead was a bit more comical while setting up an overarching Big Bad for the season.

I have a few thoughts on where the next episode could go, and a few villains or classic monsters for subsequent episodes (feel free to pitch though! I’m genuinely interested in eating some brainworms)!

But I keep getting a needle for the next installment which picks up a bit where the last one fell off and plays with some older horror movie tropes and stuff.

It’s also a bit more serious than BotLD?

I’m not ready to revisit this just yet but I’m always happy to hear ideas!