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This is an ultimate masterlist of many resources that could be helpful for writers. I apologize in advance for any not working links. Check out the ultimate writing resource masterlist here (x) and my “novel” tag here (x).

✑ PLANNING

Outlining & Organizing

For the Architects: The Planning Process

Rough Drafts

How do you plan a novel?

Plot Development: Climax, Resolution, and Your Main Character

Plotting and Planing

I Have An Idea for a Novel! Now What?

Choosing the Best Outline Method

How to Write a Novel: The Snowflake Method

Effectively Outlining Your Plot

Conflict and Character within Story Structure

Outlining Your Plot

Ideas, Plots & Using the Premise Sheets

✑ INSPIRATION

Finding story ideas

Choosing ideas and endings

When a plot isn’t strong enough to make a whole story

Writing a story that’s doomed to suck

How to Finish What You Start: A Five-Step Plan for Writers

Finishing Your Novel

Finish Your Novel

How to Finish Your Novel when You Want to Quit

How To Push Past The Bullshit And Write That Goddamn Novel: A Very Simple No-Fuckery Writing Plan

✑ PLOT

In General

25 Turns, Pivots and Twists to Complicate Your Story

The ABCs (and Ds and Es) of Plot Development

Originality Is Overrated

How to Create a Plot Outline in Eight Easy Steps

Finding Plot: Idea Nets

The Story Goal: Your Key to Creating a Solid Plot Structure

Make your reader root for your main character

Creating Conflict and Sustaining Suspense

Tips for Creating a Compelling Plot

The Thirty-six (plus one) Dramatic Situations

Adding Subplots to a Novel

Weaving Subplots into a Novel

7 Ways to Add Subplots to Your Novel

Crafting a Successful Romance Subplot

How to Improve your Writing: Subplots and Subtext

Understanding the Role of Subplots

How to Use Subtext in your Writing

The Secret Life of Subtext

How to Use Subtext

Beginning

Creating a Process: Getting Your Ideas onto Paper (And into a Story)

Why First Chapters?

Starting with a Bang

In the Beginning

The Beginning of your Novel that isn’t the Beginning of your Novel

A Beginning from the Middle

Starting with a Bang

First Chapters: What To Include @ The Beginning Writer

23 Clichés to Avoid When Beginning Your Story

Start Writing Now

Done Planning. What Now?

Continuing Your Long-Format Story

How to Start a Novel

100 best first lines from novels

The First Sentence of a Book Report

How To Write A Killer First Sentence To Open Your Book

How to Write the First Sentence of a Book

The Most Important Sentence: How to Write a Killer Opening

Hook Your Reader from the First Sentence: How to Write Great Beginnings

Foreshadowing

Foreshadowing and the Red Hering

Narrative Elements: Foreshadowing

Foreshadowing and Suspense

Foreshadowing Key Details

Writing Fiction: Foreshadowing

The Literary Device of Foreshadowing

All About Foreshadowing in Fiction

Foreshadowing

Flashbacks and Foreshadowing

Foreshadowing — How and Why to Use It In Your Writing

Setting

Four Ways to Bring Settings to Life

Write a Setting for a Book

Writing Dynamic Settings

How To Make Your Setting a Character

Guide for Setting

5 Tips for Writing Better Settings

Building a Novel’s Setting

Ending

A Novel Ending

How to End Your Novel

How to End Your Novel 2

How to End a Novel With a Punch

How to End a Novel

How to Finish a Novel

How to Write The Ending of Your Novel

Keys to Great Endings

3 Things That End A Story Well

Ending a Novel: Five Things to Avoid

Endings that Ruin Your Novel

Closing Time: The Ending

✑ CHARACTER

Names

Behind the Name

Surname Meanings and Origins

Surname Meanings and Origins - A Free Dictionary of Surnames

Common US Surnames & Their Meanings

Last Name Meanings & Origins

Name Generators

Name Playground

Different Types of Characters

Ways To Describe a Personality

Character Traits Meme

Types of Characters

Types of Characters in Fiction

Seven Common Character Types

Six Types of Courageous Characters

Creating Fictional Characters (Masterlist)

Building Fictional Characters

Fiction Writer’s Character Chart

Character Building Workshop

Tips for Characterization

Fiction Writer’s Character Chart

Advantages, Disadvantages and Skills

Males

Strong Male Characters

The History and Nature of Man Friendships

Friendship for Guys (No Tears!)

‘I Love You, Man’ and the rules of male friendship

Male Friendship

Understanding Male Friendship

Straight male friendship, now with more cuddling

Character Development

P.O.V. And Background

Writing a Character: Questionnaire

10 Days of Character Building

Getting to Know Your Characters

Character Development Exercises

✑ STYLE

Chapters

How Many Chapters is the Right Amount of Chapters?

The Arbitrary Nature of the Chapter

How Long is a Chapter?

How Long Should Novel Chapters Be?

Chapter & Novel Lengths

Section vs. Scene Breaks

Dialogue

The Passion of Dialogue

25 Things You Should Know About Dialogue

Dialogue Writing Tips

Punctuation Dialogue

How to Write Believable Dialogue

Writing Dialogue: The Music of Speech

Writing Scenes with Many Characters

It’s Not What They Say …

Top 10 Tips for Writing Dialogue

Speaking of Dialogue

Dialogue Tips

Interrupted Dialogue

Two Tips for Interrupted Dialogue

Show, Don’t Tell (Description)

“Tell” Makes a Great Placeholder

The Literary Merit of the Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Bad Creative Writing Advice

The Ultimate Guide to Writing Better Than You Normally Do

DailyWritingTips: Show, Don’t Tell

GrammarGirl: Show, Don’t Tell

Writing Style: What Is It?

Detail Enhances Your Fiction

Using Sensory Details

Description in Fiction

Using Concrete Detail

Depth Through Perception

Showing Emotions & Feelings

Character Description

Describing Your Characters (by inkfish7 on DeviantArt)

Help with Character Development

Creating Characters that Jump Off the Page

Omitting Character Description

Introducing Your Character(s): DON’T

Character Crafting

Writer’s Relief Blog: “Character Development In Stories And Novels”

Article: How Do You Think Up Your Characters?

5 Character Points You May Be Ignoring

List of colors, hair types and hairstyles

List of words to use in a character’s description

200 words to describe hair

How to describe hair

Words used to describe the state of people’s hair

How to describe your haircut

Hair color sharts

Four Ways to Reveal Backstory

Words Used to Describe Clothes

Flashbacks

Using Flashbacks in Writing

Flashbacks by All Write

Using Flashback in Fiction

Fatal Backstory

Flashbacks as opening gambit

Don’t Begin at the Beginning

Flashbacks in Books

TVTropes: Flashback

Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear: Flashback Techniques in Fiction

3 Tips for Writing Successful Flashbacks

The 5 Rules of Writing Effective Flashbacks

How to Handle Flashbacks In Writing

Flashbacks and Foreshadowing

Reddit Forum: Is a flashback in the first chapter a good idea?

Forum Discussing Flackbacks

P.O.V

You, Me, and XE - Points of View

What’s Your Point of View?

Establishing the Right Point of View: How to Avoid “Stepping Out of Character”

How to Start Writing in the Third Person

The Opposite Gender P.O.V.

LANGUAGE

How To Say Said

200 Words Instead of Said

Words to Use Instead of Said

A List of Words to Use Instead of Said

Alternatives to “Walk”

60 Synonyms for “Walk”

✑ USEFUL WEBSITES/LINKS

Grammar Monster

Google Scholar

GodChecker

Tip Of My Tounge

Speech Tags

Pixar Story Rules

Written? Kitten!

TED Talks

DarkCopy

Family Echo

Some Words About Word Count

How Long Should My Novel Be?

The Universal Mary Sue Litmus Test

Writer’s “Cheat Sheets”

Last but not least, the most helpful tool for any writer out there is Google!

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Stranger things is so good. I can't believe it took me this long to finally watch it

#stranger things #im only on Ep 4 so far #but it's really good #and I usually hate horror/supernatural stuff

I just realised that the junior class has the same amount of Muslims as they do white kids

#like I know Degrassi has some issues when it comes to representation #but they are one of the most diverse shows #and the first show I've really watched that had main Muslim characters #degrassi

Triles

This post is basically my opinion and interpretation of Tristan & Miles’s relationship. Long story short: I don't ship them. I kind of view them as a guy who wanted to love someone (Tristan) and a guy who wanted someone to love him (Miles), not really as this great epic romance. They just happened to be in the right place at the right them when they got together (the second time, the first was a mess). So these are kind of my reasons for not shipping them:

When you think about it, they were basically only together for 7 episodes before Tristan went into a coma.

And we didn't really get to see much of their relationship because both characters were barely in those episodes until 2x08. So, one reason I don't really ship it is because we didn't really get to actually see their relationship, unlike other couples like Zaya and Jankie.

I honestly think that if Tristan hadn't been in the bus crash and hadn't gone into a coma that they would have broken up. The last we really see of them before the crash is in 2x08 when they have some relationship troubles, these are resolved but what aren't resolved are Tristan’s views on Miles.

I mean, calling your boyfriend a “manwhore” and constantly invalidating his sexuality probably won't make a great relationship in the long run and I think this would have led them to break up in the future if Tristan had continued being biphobic.

Another problem with their relationship (which is also a reason they got together in the first place) is that Miles seems to idealise Tristan as the guy who made him better as a person and I’m not sure that's entirely true. Miles’s storyline in s1 and his character development over the seasons didn't really have much to do with Tristan and more with himself and his family.

I think Miles idealises Tristan more after the crash because Tristan’s not really around to cause trouble in their relationship and suddenly it seems like his whole life revolves around Tristan (until Lola steps in). But this whole idealisation of each other doesn't make for a very healthy relationship.

Basically, I think that if the crash hadn't happened then Triles wouldn't have been a very successful or happy relationship. I think them breaking up in s4 was a good move and also showed great character development from Tristan. I kind of think the whole purpose of the relationship was a) to have representation of a gay couple on the show, and b) for Miles’s plot going forwards.

#degrassi #triles #tristan milligan #miles hollingsworth

mayanovak

degrassi next class | cold water

#degrassi #this is awesome!

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DNC Reviews: 4x02

So this was an interesting episode because all three plots were through the POV of the junior class which doesn't happen very often. Overall, I enjoyed this episode, particularly Saad’s.

#more reviews no one wants to read #but that I am going to post anyway #degrassi #Degrassi season 4 #reviews #Degrassi reviews #Frankie hollingsworth #saad al’maliki #shay powers

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001 | Send me a fandom and I will tell you my:

Favorite character:

Least Favorite character:

5 Favorite ships (canon or non-canon):

Character I find most attractive:

Character I would marry:

Character I would be best friends with:

A random thought:

An unpopular opinion:

My canon OTP:

Non-canon OTP:

Most badass character:

Pairing I am not a fan of:

Character I feel the writers screwed up (in one way or another):

Favourite friendship:

002 | send me a ship and I will tell you:

when or if I started shipping it.

my thoughts:

What makes me happy about them:

What makes me sad about them:

Things done in fanfic that annoys me:

Things I look for in fanfic:

My kinks:

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other:

My happily ever after for them:

003 | Give me a character & I will tell you

How I feel about this character:

All the people I ship romantically with this character:

My non-romantic OTP for this character:

My unpopular opinion about this character:

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:

My OTP:

My OT3:

#this looks fun!#send em in

Me: *sees a bunch of posts about how Tiny and Jonah and half the cast deserved more plots and backstory*

Me: Damn right they did

Also me: *sees the post mention Tristan or Zig*

Also me: nevermind...

#I would take a miles or Zoe plot over them any day #sorry they just annoy me #especially tristan #tiny deserved more plots though #degrassi #dnc

S4 Reviews: 4x01 #BackToReality

I know this is late but I'm rewatching s4 now that it's out on Netflix and I'm going to review every episode as I watch it with my thoughts! So first of all, the first episode of the season BackToReality:

#degrassi #dnc #dnc season 4 #degrassi season 4 #Esme song #zig novak #saad al’maliki #Grace Cardinal #Jonah haak #Yael baron #Lola pacini

The Junior Class

I know the show is going to be really different in s5/6 no that the seniors are gone but s4 did a great job of making it possible for the juniors to actually carry the show. I mean you've got:

- Lola who was amazing this season and made everyone love her and has great potential for future plots (plus Saad and Lola are an OTP). She's also great because she's a really good supporting character but is also able to carry her own plots well. And also she's basically the best friend to everyone!

- Saad who no one really cared about before this season but who turned out to be an awesome and really interesting character.

- Keeping Esme around which was a really good move by the writers because she's one of the most interesting characters on the show and her storyline was heartbreaking this season and hopefully the writers will pull through with an awesome mental health storyline next season (dealing with personality disorders would be really interesting)

- Frankie (in my opinion) was slightly less annoying this season in and proved she could be a great supporting character for Esme’s future plot. Plus I always think she's got potential for a really interesting storyline maybe to do with self-image or self-esteem (and the only guy she can really date now is Baaz and I don't think that's going to happen so hopefully no more boy drama)

- Shay was kind of boring this season but she's always been great and I think they might be building up to a storyline with sports/her pushing herself too hard in the future which could be cool

- Yael, who after this season and the last a lot of the fandom now loves and has become a much more developed and interesting character who could make a really good main character

- Rasha is awesome and will hopefully continue to be awesome (I’m not sure if she'd make a great main character though)

- They kind of screwed up with Hunter because he's still a jerk so I don't know what they're going to do with him besides make everyone hate him more

- Baaz and Vijay are still irrelevant but were slightly better this season in supporting Yael. But if the writers are going to give them storylines I don't think anyone would really be interested...

Anyway, there are some really interesting characters in the junior class and a lot of them are interconnected and have really interesting dynamics together. It sucks that the senior class left because they were amazing but I think the show can still do well if they use their characters well!

Also, something interesting is that the plots are a lot more spread out amongst the juniors so a lot of them get their time to shine whereas in the senior class there were some characters who got a lot more storyline than the others and there were a lot of characters who were purely supporting characters.

#degrassi #this is so long I'm sorry #we're going to miss the seniors #but I like a lot of the juniors too #I think they've got great potential #degrassi next class #I just like a lot of the juniors I guess

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I just wanted to say that I love Saad Al'Maliki and he better be the male lead in s5/6 because all the other guys in his grade are trash

#degrassi #saad al’maliki

THE EPISODES CAME OUT!! I’m so excited!! I can't wait till someone uploads them!

#remember when I said I'd wait till they came out on netflix #yeah right #I have no self control #degrassi #finally

You know, I think when Zoe says “she doesn’t want me anymore” in that teaser she's talking about her mother not Rasha. Doesn't it say in the episode descriptions that she's wondering what support she's going to get when she's valedictorian or something like that? I feel like we’re going to get a storyline about Zoe and her mum since, you know... She did kick her out and the writers can't just ignore that this season.

I'm just hoping Zoe is happy in the end. She deserves it.

#sorry for my rambling #degrassi next class #zoe rivas #Zasha #degrassi

I can't believe I ever thought I would hate Jay/Manny together, honestly what was I thinking?

#Me watching Degrassi TNG for the first time #I've almost finished s7 #I'm so slow #I'm so bad at binge watching #but Jay and manny just broke up and I'm mad #they were like the only ship I cared about in tng #I used to hate Jay and manny as characters too #yay for character development #degrassi #Degrassi TNG #Degrassi s7 #janny #these tags are so long #like no one even reads them #why am I tagging so much

Trailer Thoughts

The one minute trailer came out and I’m excited! Here are some of my thoughts:

- Frankie, Zig and Esme having a threesome? What is going on??

- This terrorism plot line looks like it's going to be good. The writers better not screw it up.

- So much Saad and Esme! I'm excited for their plots!

- “I think I'm falling in love with you.” ZASHA! ZOE BEING HAPPY! PRAISE THE LORD

- Miles what are you doing? Don't be an asshole (but also I want to know what is going on between Miles and Tristan before I get mad at him.)

- Why was there no Tiny? Why is there never any Tiny? I’m mad

- More Lola and Yael friendship! Yay!

Anyway this season looks like it's going to be a mess and I can't wait! Can July 7 come sooner?

#degrassi #Degrassi season4 #dnc season 4 #dnc

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tiny does well in basically one subject and zoe has a photographic memory and does great in school so don't be too shocked

He does well in at least two subjects but probably more (Science and Computer Science) and photographic memory isn't a real thing and Zoe has never been mentioned to do well at school whereas Tiny has.

I don't know, I’m mostly just annoyed because Tiny never gets any plots or anything besides being Zig’s best friend and Shay’s girlfriend. But I get that they probably want Zoe to make a speech rather than Tiny, which makes sense because she's a main character.

I can't believe Tiny isn't going to be valedictorian

#degrassi #tiny bell #he was cheated #did they forget that he does really well in school?

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