#and a perfect length of a story.

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

The Butcher of the Forest

novella

a woman is forced by the tyrant king to enter the wild and dangerous north forest to find his children - as she’s the only person to enter and return from it once before

and must face strange and unsettling creatures, bargains, traps, and her past

[night-triumphantt]

Didi <3 (@sysba)

If u don’t love her we simply can’t be friends

[freakshowcowboy]

this probably sounds sooo annoying of me but i used to see ppl rating books 5 stars and go that just cant be true theres no way a book can be perfect and complaint free yall are lying to me. and then i read a book that moved me to my core and i understood

[queensparklekitten]

time princess players how do y'all picture the MCs of every story

like since every set and piece of official art has a different hair colour, length, and style with every picture of them, and sometimes there's descriptions that don't match the images, which one do you go with

and do you make half of them look like your avatar or have your own designs

[ethereiling]

im going to be so real i think im going to snap if i see one more person talking about how There Is No Objective Quality In Art because yes there is!! there arent strict rules about what objective quality is, theres no one size fits all metric, but high quality art is effective in evoking emotion and thought in ways that low quality art isnt. there are so many ways that people can choose to evoke certain feelings through art but the effectiveness of that Is a pretty solid means to determine quality in my experience

[sukugo]

i'm so sad there won't be another jjk movie....i wanna see gojo on the big screen again

[youdonotcompare]

I never realized how much Bonnie Bedelia looked like Mary Stuart Masterson when she was younger. I don't know if there is a third actress that looks like them, but if there is, then they should do a new version of a FGT as a TV series with the three of them playing Idgie Threadgoode at different ages.

And honestly, while I'm here, I can't help seeing similarities between Mary Louise Parker and Riley Keough as I'm watching 'Under the Bridge', especially in certain scenes.... so, I'm thiiiiiinking that maybe these ladies could play older/younger versions of Ruth Jameson in the same said remake??

The only proviso is that they don't erase Ruth being a lesbian, because that was some batshit stuff that I'll never forgive Jon Avnet and the executives higher than him for doing to her. (and not just because it erased part of Ruth's personhood, but also because Buddy was in a relationship with Eva Bates, thank you very much)

[roger-paladino]

making that WF video was like. reminding me how much and how deeply Mo cared for Lee it hurts soo so so bad

[essektheylyss]

I AM attempting to read at least four books this weekend and that IS ridiculous but alas, here we are.

[andromedasummer]

huh, the amount of people who perceived themes other than eugenics and transhumanism in regards to evolution in phyrexia is very interesting to me

[vulpinesaint]

becoming a john wick fanboy :) i get the whole american male action film star thing now i'm totally into it

[nerdynikki94]

I'm sincerely worried. Like my brain has melted because of Hannibal. I watched it twice last weekend. It's only been a week, but it's already Friday again, and I desperately want to watch it again this weekend, because anything else I put on I would have to force myself to watch. This twisted, dark, tragic, gay romance is the only thing want to see rn. I simply want to cocoon myself in the Hannigram of it all, and it's become priority. I'm afraid I'm going to burn myself out on it. Send help...

[nomaishuttle]

what's the kirsten video?

its by babbitykate, it just released yesterday! its a 6 hour long video covering the entire history of kirsten from american girls (going over all her books and catalogue releases) i rly liked it :] she also has abt a 45 minute video covering the the history dolls from american girl in general

[troubadour-malin]

vent in the tags!

[mymelodyisme]

hello I love your writing and i just wanted to ask if you have any tips when on a writer's block?

😭 is this really meant for me?!!! Hi!!!!

Oh gosh I don’t know if I’m being honest. I just kind of go with the flow of it all. Literally writing the words as I think them and then go back to adjust when I need to edit. But !! But! If I could say anything that might help get your creativity back on the treadmill

I would suggest, depending on what you’re writing of course, put yourself as the voice of the character for a bit. How would you react to what’s going on. I embarrassingly do a lot of facial movements and hand movements and play out a scene. Sometimes it’ll unlock an “oh wait something like this could happen next” moment

If you’re stumped entirely, move ahead!!! Don’t allow yourself to be fitted like a typewriter! If a scene isn’t scening put a letter or mark and press enter. The fun part about this is that you can come up with ANYTHING now that there’s no connection to the former line and if you go ham enough with typing you can find a new point and reconnect them. Writing seems like it should be point A to point B to point C but you really could start anywhere within reason. Sometimes i think about the end result and then work my way there :)

Sometimes I also just like looking at things. Art, people, words, and I get little snippets of dialogue or action and I think “hey I want to stick that somewhere” here’s an example from my notes app (speaking of notes app use the heck out of it)

When I was writing Drink for your First Kiss this was literally all I started with :) that and the vague movements and feelings that would have come from being kissed for the first time.

As for the notes app, I recommend making it a widget! I like to write down my silly little ideas. Sometimes something really dumb happens to me and I’ll mark it as something that can be used for character development

Here’s an example! I take my siblings to school. Well at the start of the year I was driving, right? Well there’s this hole that you have to curve just right to avoid.

Dear reader I did not do that.

If anything I saw something black fly across my vision. I freaked out for a bit, dropped my sister off, and made my way back only for it to have been nothing (I should have known that realistically). And as I was shaken, driving home, I thought “ah what if it was my guardian Angel? Oh! What if he was cast down from heaven because he fell in love with me. Oh! What about a story about a girl who hits her guardian Angel, disguised as a bird, with her car and takes him in only to find out he was cast out for falling deeply in love with her and doing absolutely everything in his power to protect her. What if his love was the driving force of the story. He already fell from heaven, what wouldn’t he do for her?”

All that from me hitting a hole and all within the span of ten minutes lol!

So if you take anything away from my silly little rambling it’s that you CAN and you WILL come across a motive to continue that you haven’t hit yet!!

Mark it down, mark it down, mark it down!!

I’m sure you’ll get on eventually and if worse comes to worse, be dramatic!!!! Kill off a character for a few minutes in the drafts 🫢 nothing to get you worked up than imagining they’re not there and how does everything else move on.

Oh also add lots of spaces in between thoughts. That’s something that just works for me!

If there’s a space it can be filled during the read over :) [act out your scenes it’s so fun]

Plus, you might just hit a hole and meet a fallen Angel idk life’s full of surprises! (Like your words will be ♥️)

PS: dreams are also a good way to take ideas :) they’re already the unfiltered insanity that happens in your brain maybe take a pinch of it for your writing !

Pss: do not compare your worth and skill to others. That can be the death of creativity. We are all trying and we are all doing as we should. You’ll get there :)

[creativepromptsforwriting]

Imagine you're opening AO3 and search for a fic. Imagine you're finding one that fits all your criterias. Imagine it has the perfect length. Imagine getting lost in the story and feeling almost high when it's over. Imagine looking up the author and they have written. so. many. more. fics. exactly. like. that. Imagine.