#fixyourwritinghabits

[ahb-writes]

I enjoy working on second drafts because it gives me an opportunity to be surgical. Fixing the bones of the story is a smart and effective strategy, particularly because the second draft always requires rewriting (as opposed to a simple revision).

But it pays to keep track of potential inconsistencies or divergences ahead of time.

You can't do everything in your first draft. You know this. So, help your future writer-self and save yourself time by: (a) leaving room for error in your first draft, and (b) documenting those errors. Acknowledging plot holes, continuity errors, and weak character dynamics won't do you any good if you don't keep track of them.

For me, the best way to reconcile first-draft problems is to take notes while I'm working on my actual first draft. I can be surgical:

Address inconsistent foreshadowing

Fill in research gaps for location/geography

Reassess plot twists that don't hit as hard as I want them to

Break down character relationships take up too much space

Reorganize character goals that are unresolved or incomplete

Explore insufficient worldbuilding for key scenes

The point is that I don't have the time or space to immediately address these problems while writing the first draft. Everyone's writing process is a little bit different. My preference is such that detailed spreadsheets and outlines allow me to separate the outside-in rewriting (structure and pacing) from the inside-out rewriting (character development, setting detail).

Hello! Thank you for every advice you give here!

This might sound like a weird ask, but I don't know how to write the second(or more) draft. I've heard some advice about rewriting and not editing, but every time I try to write the second draft, I just end up copying the first one, with very few differences.

So my question is, what is your way of writing the second draft and if you have any advice on that? I know some things that work for some don't work for others, but I just can't seem to find the right way.

Oh, second drafts. Only the most difficult writing step after drafting, followed by the most difficult step of writing the third draft.

The good news is that almost no one pulls together their story on the second draft. If your first draft is putting down the bones of the story, the second is figuring out where to lay the connective tissue. Maybe you've got too many bones, maybe you don't have enough. Maybe some of your bones are too short, or too misshapen to work. The second draft is getting that story skeleton together, knowing full well you're gonna need to fix some of those bones first.

Get yourself a plan to put that skeleton together - make an outline. I swear I'm not the sworn enemy of pantsers that i sometimes seem to be (it's professional jealousy, I swear), but if you don't have an outline, now is the time to get one. If you do, go back and revise that first. You'll want to know what you want the story to become from the pile of bones you're working from.

Not enough bones - identify what you're missing. If you're like me, sometimes while drafting you write 'figure this shit out later' and then forget to do so. Thanks for nothing, Past Me. But chances are your story needs some added scenes, more character development, etc. Identifying those missing pieces and fleshing out your outline can help you tackle a second draft.

Too many bones - figure out what needs to be cut. Not every scene is going to be worth keeping no matter how attached to them you are. If you're on the fence about a scene, consider if it serves to move the plot forward, develops the characters, or establishes important worldbuilding. If the scene meanders plotlessly, repeats character beats instead of expanding on them, or seems to suck the oxygen out of the story, you may have to rethink or remove them.

These bones don't fit - figure out what scenes are lacking. Another thing I tend to do in first drafts is sell my scenes short. I just don't think of the best outcome, the most dramatic climax, or a great setting when I'm trying to figure out what happens. In going through your novel, think about each scene carefully. Should this argument take place in a deserted library, or would it be more emotional and dramatic on a crowded train? If the villain's plot seems small, how can you make him a greater threat?

Uuuh bro that's not a human bone - revising scenes that went off the rails. If you're gearing up for NaNoWriMo yet again, you might know the feeling of writing pages of bullshit to make that wordcount. It could be good bullshit! It could be really fun! But if it sticks out like a sore thumb in the story, it may be best to set aside to figure out what to make out of it later.

You're not going to get everything right in the second draft either, so don't over-stress in trying to get your story whipped into shape. But you will be better off after giving those bones a little polish and assembling them into what could conceivably pass for a decent skeleton, one that you won't mind sharing with others to see what other work it might need. Good luck!

[writingquestionsanswered]

hiya! for writers who are complete beginners, kinda sorta maybe write at a high school level, can't describe to save their lives, have overall bad flow (as in they can't decide what little moments scenes to think up and even write, if they do, they're no good), have been told countless times to write daily and just read more but that doesn't cover the basics or foundations of creative writing, not like they can learn from a book bc they're a hands on learner anyway and p.s they're super broke so can't afford writing classes and no library near them offers free ones ---- aka me :( --- do you have any advice? lol i feel kinda doomed and that maybe writing isn't for me, but I don't wanna get my hopes down!! with the right tools, it's possible.

Free Resources for Learning How to Write

I want to start with addressing why you've been told so often "to write daily and read more" as a way to learn how to write. It's very difficult to learn and excel at a craft if you have no experience with said craft. You can read all the information in the world about how to forge a sword, but that doesn't mean you'll be able to pick up a hunk of metal and be able to forge a beautiful sword. You need to spend a lot of time watching other people forge swords, and spend a lot of time actually practicing each step yourself if you want to get good at it. Writing works the same way. Reading lets you experience what fiction should be, writing lets you practice each step for yourself.

Fortunately, there are lots of ways to read fiction for free. You can borrow books from friends, family members, and members of your community. You can check out books and e-books from your local library if you have one. You can look for Little Free Libraries in your neighborhood. There's also a lot of legally free fiction available online. Project Gutenberg, Planet E-Book, Bartleby, Literature.org, Classic Literature, Classic Short Stories, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Library of Short Stories, Levar Burton Reads, and sites like Kobo, Amazon, and Audible often offer freebies of both e-books and audio books.

Other free ways to learn how to write:

1 - Follow bloggers and vloggers and authors on social media who talk about the craft of writing. Some of my favorites are: Joanna Penn/The Creative Penn, K.M. Weiland, Liselle Sambury, Abbie Emmons, Hannah Lee Kidder, Brittany Wang, Alyssa Matesic, Bethany Atazadah, Lindsay Puckett, Alexa Donne, Shaelin Writes, Ellen Brock, The Writing Gals, and Sincerely, Vee.

2 - Follow writing craft blogs here on tumblr: (some suggestions) @writingwithcolor, @howtofightwrite, @heywriters, @cripplecharacters, @lgbtqwriting, @fixyourwritinghabits, @wordsnstuff, @yourbookcouldbegayer, @lizard-is-writing

3 - Watch writing craft videos on YouTube: If there's something specific you want to learn about, say, "how to structure a scene," type it into YouTube and many different videos will pop up that walk you through how to structure a scene. Just look for one that strikes you as appealing!

4 - Look for free writing resources online: many authors (especially indie authors and writing gurus/coaches like Joanna Penn, K.M. Weiland, Bethany Atazadeh, Brittany Wang, and Abbie Emmons) offer free writing resources on their web sites or by signing up for their newsletters. Often you'll see writers participating in free online writing summits/workshops which you can sign up for and either watch the videos live or via video playback that is offered for a short period of time (like 24 hours.)

5 - Do a Google Search: believe it or not, there's not a single thing you could want to learn about writing that you can't find for free on Google. If you want to learn how to improve your grammar, go to Google, type in "tips for improving grammar" and you will get a million articles that will tell you how to do just that. Want to learn how to improve your story's flow? Google "how to improve story flow" and you'll have your answer. You can even search for free worksheets, guides, and workbooks on just about anything you want. "Free character development worksheet" brought back a ton of nice looking free worksheets. "Free worldbuilding workbook" brought up several free workbooks and worksheets to help you with worldbuilding. Everything you could want to know is out there.

And, bonus: you can always read through the posts in my WQA master list to get help with a wide variety of craft and writer-related issues.

Happy learning! ♥

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[heywriters]

Hey so I am sort of new, or more like re-introducing myself after so long a way I may as well be a new person, to writing side of tumblr. Do you have an recommendations on people or tags that be cool to follow?

Yep, sure do!

@writingquestionsanswered

@fixyourwritinghabits

@keepcalmandwritefiction

@wordsnstuff

@writingwithcolor

@theliteraryarchitect

@thewritinghole

@the960writers

@bookishdiplodocus

@thewritersspotblog

@questionprompts

@writtentelepathy

@the-write-type

@elumish

@insanitysilver

@howtofightwrite

@jstor (below blogs are inactive/on hiatus but good references)

@scriptshrink

@scriptmedic

@scriptcriminaljustice

I also have a side blog to this one @hey-writers for writer promos and the occasional posted fiction or poetry. I don't update it often, but it is there if you want to peruse other writeblrs.

Followed tags are touch and go as people will "tag spam" things that aren't relevant, but check these out anyway!

#writers on tumblr

#writeblr

#writing

#creative writing

Make use of the "Latest" and "Top" categories when checking tags.

Welcome back!

[aimmyarrowshigh]

hi! where do you get your drabble prompt lists from? do you have a compilation of all the prompt words somewhere

Thank you so much for asking this! Quite coincidentally, I've been working on a post about how to curate prompt lists without AI, because I'm SO ANNOYED BY PEOPLE SAYING THEY NEED AI FOR PROMPTS. You do not need one iota of AI for writing prompts! Here's how I curated my list of random word prompts, which has enough prompts on it for me to do daily drabbles for something like 27 years if I wanted.

Image-heavy How-To under the cut!

This is my method for curating a prompt list, which means that these are the kinds of prompts that work well for me. I like single-word or short phrase prompts only, because prompts that are too detailed feel "already written" to my brain and don't inspire me. If you have a different style of prompt that you prefer, that's totally fine. You still don't need AI, though, I promise -- any style of prompt you like, you can google it and there WILL be thousands of curated lists created by actual human writers at your disposal. @fixyourwritinghabits has TONS of resources about finding and curating writing prompts without AI.

But if you like single word/random word prompts, this is how I created my Massive Prompt List.

Go to the Porn Battle. WHAT? Yes, I said Go To The Porn Battle, which was a fandom event for many many years and featured any and every pairing under the sun, requested alongside... random prompt words. Some are porny. Most are just words! Pick any given year of Porn Battle from the archives in the sidebar. https://web.archive.org/web/20160716010243/http://battle.oxoniensis.org/

2. Copy the ENTIRE PAGE. This will take a LOT of memory! It is an extremely long page of text! (I did this on a desktop computer. I cannot promise you can do this tutorial as-is on a phone or tablet.)

3. Paste it into Notepad or another PLAIN-TEXT program. Word will try to include the formatting, and we don't want the formatting. Plus, plaintext will use slightly less memory.

4. Copy your plaintext into a word processing program. I used Word 365 without Copilot, and I cannot guarantee that the steps are exactly repeatable in Google Docs, but I would assume that they are pretty close.

5. This step, though, I am NOT sure that you can do in Google Docs, so you may have to play around and see what your options are there. You're going to open up Find+Replace, and FIND all the commas (,) and REPLACE them with tabs (^t).

6. Now you have an even longer document, because obviously tabs take up more physical pagespace than commas do. That's what we want. We're going to copy this entire document...

7. ...And paste it into a spreadsheet. I used Excel, but I assume that Google Sheets has many of the same capabilities. Again, you'll need to play around if you're not using Office. But each tab should be in the next column over. This is key. This is what we want. If your document all copied into one column, go back and try again with the tabs.

8. The FIRST column is all of the FANDOMS AND PAIRINGS. Since I am not interested in keeping those for my prompt list -- I have my own fandoms and my own pairings that I want to write, and odds are I haven't even heard of a lot of the ones people were submitting 15-20 years ago! -- we're going to delete the entire FIRST column. ONLY THE FIRST.

9. Now we have approximately 15,000 random words in their own cells across the spreadsheet. *I* personally like to alphabetize each column to get rid of the blank cells. It's easier to see how many columns we're actually working with that way.

10. Now the slightly tedious work starts: curating the actual list. We're going to cut Column B and paste it at the bottom of Column A. Alphabetize Column A (which now also includes the text from B). And then DATA -> REMOVE DUPLICATES.

11. Repeat for every column until you have one fucking long Column A of random word prompts! Then, go through the list and remove any that you know you will not be interested in writing -- that might be words specific to a fandom you aren't in (Dalek, for example); words that are squicky for you; words that you don't know; words that just don't ping your brain with story ideas. But for that last one... be very generous. Allow EVERY meaning of a word to be a possibility. You might not think that a word fits with your OTP or fandom of choice, but in 99% of cases, you can find a way, I would bet.

12. Copy your WHOLE long-ass Column A of alphabetized words into the List Randomizer. https://www.random.org/lists/

13. Paste the randomized list back into whatever program you want to use to store your list. I keep mine in Excel, separated into smaller 100-prompt lists, but I am nuts when it comes to prompts. You can easily keep your list in Word, or Google Docs, or Ellipsus, or whatever!

14. Write! Play! Have fun!

I also have a couple of already-curated prompt lists on my Tumblr at https://www.aimmyarrowshigh.com/drabbles -- Feel free to use these lists however you wish. I'd love to be tagged to see what you write! :)

[nikkilbook]

So I was talking with a mentor of mine (both of us on the autism spectrum), and he introduced me to a ChatGPT use case that I hadn’t seen talked about on my side of the internet yet. Specifically, it’s usage as an accessibility tool and “personal aide.”

For example, handing my Robot Friend a list of bullet points and having them turn it into an email I can send to my boss explaining some of my communication deficits. Could I do that myself? Probs. But sometimes it takes SO MUCH BRAIN POWER to do that, and half the time I miss some of what I wanted to say. Same thing with writing letters to the Social Security Administration, emailing my Voc Rehab counselor, making a case for why I need a particular tool or class or whatever, writing ad copy for my online store, writing a heckin website bio, all sorts of nonsense. Yesterday, I spent some time working on a meal plan and telling it what I had in my pantry, what I didn’t like from its suggestions, and getting it to give me a list of groceries that I didn’t already have. It’s a little wonky, sure, but it’s usable.

I’m also curious, as a genealogist-in-training, about how it could be used as a research tool. I did see this post by @shortace and the comments by @fixyourwritinghabits that went over a use case where the historical research presented by ChatGPT was blatantly and verifiably wrong, so I know I’d have to make sure to regularly demand sources from it, or use one of the other chats that provides sources automatically, but I feel like there’s potential here, because I could theoretically feed all my current info to the Robot Friend so it could take more than just one string of info into consideration the way I have to do it with Google. Also, fewer Boolean commands to remember. Heck, I might even be able to get it to spit out a research log for me based on the questions I asked it.

I think I’m going to document different use cases as I go, to share what’s been useful and what hasn’t. I am always on the hunt for things that can executive function FOR me, so I want to share what I find.

[ivaalo]

@fixyourwritinghabits NO! STOP GIVING YOUR MONEY TO WIKIPEDIA!

Contribute to Wikipedia instead, but don't give a single dollar to them. They have enough money to survive for AT LEAST 84 years.

Here is their annual report. 60% of your donation goes to the executives' pockets. There is no need for them to have salaries that high.

The leader of Wikimedia now lives with more than $300,000/year. Yeah. For something done by people who do the job freely. They're wasting your money.

Here's a video explaining everything you need to know.

A group of Wikipedia editors have formed WikiProject AI Cleanup, “a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated content on Wikipedia.” The group’s goal is to protect one of the world’s largest repositories of information from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued Google search results, books sold on Amazon, and academic journals. “A few of us had noticed the prevalence of unnatural writing that showed clear signs of being AI-generated, and we managed to replicate similar ‘styles’ using ChatGPT,” Ilyas Lebleu, a founding member of WikiProject AI Cleanup, told me in an email. “Discovering some common AI catchphrases allowed us to quickly spot some of the most egregious examples of generated articles, which we quickly wanted to formalize into an organized project to compile our findings and techniques.”

9 October 2024

[fixyourwritinghabits]

Hi @fixyourwritinghabits I've suddenly had this feeling where I don't feel so motivated to write anything how do I try and get away from that feeling pleasssse help?

Thank-you @penneferofvenerburg

Motivation Tag!

Guide: Inspiration, Motivation, and Passion post

Writing Resources: Advice and Motivation Masterlist

How to Get Out of A Writing Slump (from a better version of Nano)

[karizard-ao3]

https://www.tumblr.com/fixyourwritinghabits/165207980583/friendlytroll-badmadwolf-rainbowbarnacle

This reminded me of you!!

Oh, this is excellent! I am saving this. I'm making a bookmarks folder for writing reference stuff (which I should have done way before now, actually) and this is the first thing that's going in.

[tomatomarrow]

Writing Productivity System for Mutual Aid/Charity

Here’s a tool I created to complicate feelings of creativity-related guilt, add some gravitas to the notion of getting distracted while maintaining wiggle room, and ultimately achieve more writing.

This system was built with ADD in mind and is designed for people who have benefited from economic racism or those with sufficient disposable income, so while I’m hoping it’s useful to everyone, I don’t think it’s for everyone.  I had charities in mind when I created the system, but I now trend towards giving to mutual aid funds and giving directly to the crowdfunding campaigns of those facing financial hardship.  That said, give where thou wilt.

Whenever you open a word processor and tell yourself that you are going to Commit To Writing Something, prepare a point-tracking system (I use a calculator).  Give yourself a point every time you open a distraction (an internet tab, a video game, etc.).  Give yourself leeway for research, but if it doesn’t directly pertain to what you’re writing, award yourself a point. 

At the end of the day, your point total × 50 cents = your charity donation.  Days when you don't write count for ten points.

If you’re able, try trading a little more executive function for much more impactful giving (and some incidental habit-tracking benefits; this is how I use the system). At the end of the day, bank your points in a ledger, add them up at the end of the week, and give based on that total. 

50 cents (USD) works well for me, but feel free to adjust the multiplier before you start using the system (play around with a calculator and see what you’d be giving if you wrote the same amount you wrote this week).  You want something you’re gonna be able to notice, but not something so intense that you end up at financial risk yourself. 

I don’t use this system all the time, but it’s worked really well for me in times when I needed to Get Shit Done or just felt stuck & guilty as a creator.  While it’s better if I do write, the process of feeling bad about not writing gets interrupted by remembering that my not writing now directly benefits someone in need, and if I get distracted, each individual distraction only counts for a little--just enough additional pressure that I can usually recognize what I’m doing as I’m doing it, close the tab before it loads all the way, and get back to writing.

[pleasespellchimerical]

#the thing about Campbell is that he was an obscure academic writing in the 1940s and 50s #he died before his work became super popular #many many folklorists that came after him have refuted his ideas on myths #because that's how academics work! #Campbell certainly didn't mean for this theory to define all stories and dictate how stories are written for decades to come

via @fixyourwritinghabits

For those of us who got desperately tired of (for a while) seeing every pitched screenplay jammed into the Procrustean bed of monomyth and then having to watch it get pieces chopped off it until it fit, this comes as a breath of fresh air...

[keepcalmandwritefiction]

I posted 342 times in 2022

13 posts created (4%)

329 posts reblogged (96%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@writingquestionsanswered

@heywriters

@microsff

@its-a-writer-thing

@fixyourwritinghabits

I tagged 342 of my posts in 2022

#queue do count - 328 posts

#fiction - 300 posts

#fiction writing - 300 posts

#writing tips - 239 posts

#writing advice - 239 posts

#writing motivation - 68 posts

#original fiction - 41 posts

#character creation - 40 posts

#rating: sfw - 37 posts

#type: text fic - 35 posts

Longest Tag: 68 characters

#sleep and rest and food are enough to restore their energy and power

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

– Gwendolyn Brooks

70 notes - Posted January 14, 2022

#4

Every writer I’ve ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.

– Stephen Sondheim

123 notes - Posted March 18, 2022

#3

[Image description: A screenshot of a tweet by Kyla Zhao (#kylazingaround) saying,

murphy’s law for writers: the more free time you have, the less likely you are to actually write

/end image description]

171 notes - Posted May 27, 2022

#2

My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.

– Susan Sontag

208 notes - Posted February 25, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

– Elizabeth Hardwick

317 notes - Posted April 22, 2022

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[lureofthesea]

Sources: acorviart, fixyourwritinghabits, the-100th-witch

Another suggestion: check when your public library offers resume/writing workshops!

not to sound like a boomer, but I need some people to learn how to write emails in a semi-professional (at the very least) format so you're not cold emailing a business/potential employer/any other stranger about formal matters in the exact same way you'd DM a close friend on instagram

the formality/language can loosen up in the email chain once you've established a rapport and you match the other person if they're being less formal, but please don't have the very first email you send a stranger be written in all lowercase ultra-casual sms slang with no greeting or signature and a billion emojis

[averymorstan]

As you know, I’m peddling my book Seams a Bit Queer, which is on Amazon, and I wanted to talk a little bit about my outlining. As much as I troll fixyourwritinghabits, I do actually outline my original works. Specifically, most of these books are short and set over a very strict short time period such as a few days. Here is a blank outline for a holiday book I’m working on that takes place literally in two days. 

Because part of the challenge I set for myself at the start of the summer was to release a book a month from Sept-Dec., I needed a formula. I decided that each book would be about 15-20K, take place over the course of just a few days or maybe a week, and be very easy reads/low conflict. I knew I wanted love stories and I felt, based on my history with fanfic, that if I built a little world I could be comfortable in that I could knock out about 7 chapters per book. Using that, I created the outline for my books that keeps me reigned in so I can continue to whip out the books.

This is a very demanding turnaround. I don’t know that I recommend it. The only reason I’m doing it is because I know I write very quickly and I wanted to challenge myself to see if it was possible for me to do this. 

You can see in my outline that I have two ‘scenes’ per chapter, and each scene gets a location. I have a few set locations that I put on a picker wheel and randomize if I find myself stuck in the story. For example, if the wheel lands on the Coffee Shop for the next scene but they’re currently in someone’s apartment, I need to figure out how to get them to the coffee shop. It can be a great way to break up writers block. 

I also need to know what time of day it is, and any specific tasks or hints that need to happen in that chapter. 

I’m still suffering the plague- sore throat, wracking painful cough, no brains- so I’ve had to adjust my timeline a little. In theory, Vane Attraction would be coming out next week but that’s not going to happen now. It’s good when you’re doing these kinds of projects to remain flexible with yourself. Just because you have a deadline, doesn’t mean it’s set in stone. Hopefully, Vane Attraction will be out by the end of the month, and then Tate’s book (which is one of my favorites).PS: One day I’ll reply to messages, I promise, but gosh I’m sick so it’s probably bed for me right now.

[georgiansuggestion]

i'm writing a book and am about to do fucked up shit to the protagonist, how do i apologize beforehand?

I think you’re looking for @fixyourwritinghabits, or another writing-specific blog who will probably have better, more specific advice for you than I will.

I’m a little confused as to who you want to apologize to? Bad things happening to protagonists is a fixture of all kinds of fiction. In some 19th century novels, especially with omniscient narrators, the chapter titles or narrative commentary might mention the events in an apologetic way, (e.g. Chapter 12: Wherein Nigel Edwin Featherstonehaugh Endures an Indignity He Did Not Deserve) but it’s not a style that necessarily fits with most modern writing.

[ebonydraygon]

#I haven't reblogged a lot about this yet but it's a great video to remind yourself on how being ethnical in your work is#you just need... four hours - @fixyourwritinghabits

“Being able to write a good review is a unique and difficult skill. Creative people often have trouble recognizing their skills as skills because eventually they’ll feel like second nature and they don’t feel real and practical like building a house or domming. But it turns in that this stuff actually is valuable. If it wasn’t, people wouldn’t be stealing it! Creativity doesn’t feel super special or unique, until you realize people have to plagiarize it.”

I can’t stop thinking about this^ specifically watch hbomberguy’s video it’s phenomenal

[sarang-archer]

january 22nd was when I posted this piece of fanart to show off my invisible ink traditional option, and it’s june 2nd (happy pride!!) with no signs of fading!! ✨

If you’re interested in a commission, I now currently have 3 in the queue, so claim a spot asap!! Here’s a post I made with @fixyourwritinghabits to promote my work and how to approach an artist for commissions, and here’s a link to my chibi sale!!

ty for all the follows and notes so far, I’ve gotten a lot of interest in my work and I’m looking for apartments for rent atm with your support 🥰

My carrd: https://sarangarcher.carrd.co/