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Vox's perpective on Alastor is actually so funny

Like you have this guy, he's your best friend, you hang out all the time (you're secretly in love with him), when you offer a partnership he BRUTALLY mocks you for wanting to have a team and friends

Then like 70 years later he joins the most sappy "friendship is magic" group of people ever, and teams up with the princess of hell who is known to be all about friendship and feelings and helping each other and working together to be better.

And Vox doesn't know Alastor was forced to do it or that he's spent the whole time insulting the hotel. From his perspective Alastor has joined this lovey dovey crew because he AGREES with it.

And then when you almost succeed in taking over heaven, this asshole, who again, mocked you for wanting friends and not just doing things alone, defeats you by singing a song about THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP AND JOINING TOGETHER with LITERALLY EVERYONE WHO IS NOT YOU, INCLUDING YOUR CURRENT LOVER AND BESTIE WHO HE TURNED AGAINST YOU

Like he doesn't know Alastor made a second deal with Rosie and wanted his staff fixed and also wanted to save himself, like Vox just sees Alastor partnering up with every other person they know

I'm not saying vox was good or right but imagine being insulted for wanting friends and then being defeated by the same guy through the power of friendship.

(btw I see people calling Al's hypocrisy with this and the stuff with the touching etc. bad writing. I actually think it's really good interesting character writing, Alastor is pretty intentionally written as a hypocrite in a way that they seem to be calling attention to, and there's a lot of info Vox doesn't know. The things he insults vox about are pretty consistently things he also does.)

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for the record, this is not what I meant when I said

”for as long as it lasts”

#poem

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Are you still stuck for ideas for National Novel Writing Month? Or are you working on a novel at a more leisurely pace? Here are 102 resources on Character, Point of View, Dialogue, Plot, Conflict, Structure, Outlining, Setting, and World Building, plus some links to generate Ideas and Inspiration.

CHARACTER, POINT OF VIEW, DIALOGUE

10 Days of Character Building

Name Generators

Name Playground

The Universal Mary Sue Litmus Test

Priming the idea pump (A character checklist shamlessly lifted from acting)

How to Create a Character

Seven Common Character Types

Handling a Cast of Thousands – Part I: Getting to Know Your Characters

It’s Not What They Say …

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

How to Start Writing in the Third Person

Web Resources for Developing Characters

What are the Sixteen Master Archetypes?

Character: A compilation of guidance from classical and contemporary experts on creating great dramatic characters

Building Fictional Characters

Fiction Writer’s Character Chart

Character Building Workshop

Tips for Characterization

Fiction Writer’s Character Chart

Villains are People, Too, But …

Top 10 Tips for Writing Dialogue

Speaking of Dialogue

Dialogue Tips

Advantages, Disadvantages and Skills (character traits)

How to Write a Character Bible

Character Development Exercises

All Your Characters Sounds the Same — And They’re Not a Hivemind!

Medieval Names Archive

Sympathy Without Saintliness

Writing the Other: Bridging Cultural Difference for Successful Fiction

Family Echo (family tree website)

Interviewing Characters: Follow the Energy

100 Character Development Questions for Writers

Behind the Name

Lineage Chart Layout Generator

PLOT, CONFLICT, STRUCTURE, OUTLINE

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

How to Write a Novel

Creating Conflict and Sustaining Suspense

Plunge Right In … Into Your Story, That Is!

Fiction Writing Tips: Story Grid

Tips for Creating a Compelling Plot

Writer’s “Cheat Sheets”

The Thirty-six (plus one) Dramatic Situations

The Evil Overlord Devises a Plot: Excerpt from Stupid Plotting Tricks

Conflict Test

What is Conflict?

Monomyth

The Hero’s Journey: Summary of the Steps

Outline Your Novel in Thirty Minutes

Plotting Without Fears

Novel Outlining 101

Writing the Perfect Scene

Fight Scenes 101

Basic Plots in Literature

One-Page Plotting

The Great Swampy Middle

SETTING, WORLD BUILDING

Magical World Builder’s Guide

I Love the End of the World

World Building 101

The Art of Description: Eight Tips to Help You Bring Your Settings to Life

Creating the Perfect Setting – Part I

Creating a Believable World

An Impatient Writer’s Approach to Worldbuilding

Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions

Setting

Character and Setting Interactions

Creating Fantasy and Science Fiction Worlds

Creating Fantasy Worlds

Questions About Worldbuilding

Maps Workshop — Developing the Fictional World Through Mapping

World Builder Projects

IDEAS, INSPIRATION

Quick Story Idea Generator

Solve Your Problems Simply by Saying Them Out Loud

Busting Your Writing Rut

Writing Inspiration, or Sex on a Bicycle

Creative Acceleration: 11 Tips to Engineer a Productive Flow

The Seven Major Beginner Mistakes

Complete Your First Book with these 9 Simple Writing Habits

Free Association, Active Imagination, Twilight Imaging

Random Book Title Generator

Finishing Your Novel

Story Starters and Idea Generators

REVISION

How to Rewrite

One-Pass Manuscript Revision: From First Draft to Last in One Cycle

Editing Recipe

Cliche Finder

Revising Your Novel: Read What You’ve Written

Writing 101: So You Want to Write a Novel Part 3: Revising a Novel

TOOLS and SOFTWARE

My Writing Nook (online text editor; free)

Bubbl.us (online mind map application; free)

Freemind (mind map application; free; Windows, Mac, Linux, portable)

XMind (mind map application; free; Windows, Mac, Linux, portable)

Liquid Story Binder (novel organization and writing software; free trial, $45.95; Windows, portable)

Scrivener (novel organization and writing software; free trial, $39.95; Mac)

SuperNotecard (novel organization and writing software; free trial, $29; Windows, Mac, Linux, portable)

yWriter (novel organization and writing software; free; Windows, Linux, portable)

JDarkRoom (minimalist text editor; free; Windows, Mac, Linux, portable)

AutoRealm (map creation software; free; Windows, Linux with Wine)

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Reblogging this for Nana!

conleches

some fucking resources for all ur writing fuckin needs

body language masterlist

a translator that doesn’t eat ass like google translate does

a reverse dictionary for when ur brain freezes

550 words to say instead of fuckin said

638 character traits for when ur brain freezes again

some more body language help

“You’re not going to get anywhere staring at my grave, you know.”

“Shut up,” Jerome snapped.

Irvin stuck out his tongue at him. “Seriously. I’d like to get back to the eternal paradise, if you don’t mind.”

“You never made it there in the first place,” Jerome retorted, without bothering to open his eyes. “And which one of us is the medium who actually knows what he’s doing and which the clueless ghost stuck in between worlds?”

“You say it like it’s my fault.” Irvin flopped his incorporeal self down on the gravestone and drew his knees to his chest, perching on it like a bird.

“We don’t know it’s not.”

If he’d bothered to look, Jerome might have regretted those words. Irvin’s face twisted into a look of hurt, then grief, then anger. “Hell, man. I had to watch my own funeral. Do you know how fucked up that was?”

When Jerome didn’t answer, he furrowed his brow and leaned forward, hands on either side of his mouth to amplify the sound. “Hellooo? Earth to-- no wait. Limbo calling mr. mighty medium, please answer! Hello? Helloo?”

As if on cue, Jerome collapsed on the grass, narrowly avoiding the graves on either side of him. His now open eyes were glazed over and his hands were balled into fists so tight his knuckles had turned white.

“Well,” Irvin blinked down at him, still perched on top of his own gravestone. “Shit.”

#original #writeworld #long time no see #cliched text is cliched

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misfortunate child shadows hide his gentle heart “I don’t want to die”

#poem #haiku #pandora hearts

diamond and princess “all this for a piece of bread?” magic carpet ride

#poem #haiku #nobody actually ever taught me how to divide syllables in english #they don't teach that here #they just say it's hard and don't do it #so i hope this is right #aladdin #yes really

pruinaluderet

au where solas owns up and tells who he is and what he’s done instead of running away

where arry yells at him for three hours straight so loud the mountains echo; where he literally radiates icy rage and the air crackles with barely constrained lightning, and it takes all of solas’s willpower not to call up a barrier to protect himself; where they end up in a shouting match on the battlements and arry physically hurls solas over the railing into the snow below; where everyone makes themselves scarce when he descends the stairs, except iron bull, who pats him on the back and pours him a drink cos damn boss, you got some cojones

where enri internalizes his rage, only making the most dreadful puns whenever he spots the traitorous shaven head anywhere; where solas spends his days in, painting and researching, rarely coming out of his safe haven; where, when he does, an arrow speeds past him when he opens the door to the battlements, almost grazing him; where he looks up to see enri standing there, bow in hand and smiling - dreadfully sorry, didn’t see you there - and high-five sera on his way down

where priya tears into every wolf that crosses their path with such rage that solas trembles in fear, seeing what she sees - his face on every one of them; where she regularly wakes the whole castle by screaming into the night at the top of her lungs; where cole makes a life-size pointy-eared figure out of hay and some old clothes, and has dorian enchant it, for her to sink her daggers into when the frustration swells beyond measure

au where angry lavellans give the dread wolf his due

#oops posted this in the gaming blog #dragon age #fanfic #arrithial lavellan #enrithiel lavellan #priyala lavellan #solas

writerswritecompany

#tip #material

Things you learn on the roads (and the woods, and the cities, and the waters, and...) of Skyrim, a memoir by Farendar the Wood Elf

There’s a war.

Which really shouldn’t have come as such a surprise, but then again, knowing that would have required paying attention.

Paying attention is hardly the first thing to cross a young elf’s impulsive mind when there’s adventure to be had, things to steal, game to hunt…

But the war is nevertheless somewhat of a big deal, apparently.

People fighting said war are touchy.

..and will execute you simply for being there.

Also, apparently “trespassing” is a thing in Skyrim.

A silly concept, really. And surely not enough to warrant a man’s execution.

(But seriously, if you can’t even secure your purse and lock things properly, you don’t even really deserve to keep those things, now do you?)

But that’s beside the point.

Dragons. Very LOUD dragons, at that.

Kind of like the people themselves, actually.

Speaking of the people, they’re an unfriendly lot. Also fitting, given the unfriendly land they live in.

Well, except the Argonians, maybe. Hard to be angry at people who fish you out of the freezing waters (literally) and stick you beside a fireplace. And don’t even turn up your pockets while you shiver and sputter!

But such kindness shouldn’t go unrewarded, so what better way for a scrawny Wood Elf to prove it than by roughing up some uppity Nords in the city for the good of his saviors?

(Really though, expecting a man who can fell a wolf with one arrow from a hundred yards to NOT have some power in his fists as well is just foolish.)

Sadly that power doesn’t always help in the harsh lands of Skyrim.

Because cats can see better in the dark than elves.

No, not Khajiit - well, them, as well, but they don’t try to jump you and gnaw your face off in the night.

What we learned: next time, stick to the roads.

And buy a horse.

#fanfic #Skyrim #Farendar

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site that you can type in the definition of a word and get the word

site for when you can only remember part of a word/its definition

site that gives you words that rhyme with a word

site that gives you synonyms and antonyms

bumblebeebabie

THAT FIRST SITE IS EVERY WRITER’S DREAM DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I’VE TRIED WRITING SOMETHING AND THOUGHT GOD DAMN IS THERE A SPECIFIC WORD FOR WHAT I’M USING TWO SENTENCES TO DESCRIBE AND JUST GETTING A BUNCH OF SHIT GOOGLE RESULTS

#material

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Describing Voices

Does your character have a particular voice type in mind? Do they have an accent? Are they monotonous? Does their voice grate? Is it silky? Sultry? Low? High-pitched? Do they slur? Stutter? What in the world is the difference between some of these? Here are some links below to help further identify your character:

Words to Describe Someone’s Voice ~ With definitions of each

An Article About Describing Voice ~ Includes some thought-provoking questions to ask yourself and some exercises

Voice Types ~ Describes and gives examples of types like soprano, alto, etc.

Panix.com Character Chart ~ An extremely in-depth character chart; scroll down to the Voice Quality category for examples of some of the many types of voices, ranging from aphonic to glottalized to yawny.

Vocal Qualities ~ Directly from the above link, for those who want to head straight for the quality types.

Vocal Impressions ~ Lists listener comparisons with examples from celebrities, such as Morgan Freeman and Marilyn Monroe. (example: “She sounds like… diamonds dipped in caramel.”)

Speech Patterns ~ With examples from different well-known folks

Gender and Speech Patterns ~ An interesting article about the observation of speech between men and women

Speech Accent Archive ~ A very broad archive that includes different audio samples of accents ranging from Afrikaans to Ancient Greek to Korean to Zulu. Can search by geography as well.

Speech Impediment (Wikipedia) ~ Includes links to different pages such as stuttering, cluttering, muteness, and the social effects.

What Makes A Man’s/Woman’s Voice Sexy? ~ Just what it says on the tin.

Other Words/Synonyms for ‘Said’:

Synonyms-Antonyms.com ~ Listed according to usage

TheCaveOnline ~ Includes categories and meanings for each one

550 Alternative Words for Said (HubPages) ~ Includes adverb / phrase modifiers

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Have more ideas/links? Have a question? By all means, submit your input and questions to The Writers’ Helpers!

-J

#material #tips

LETTER NEVER TO BE SENT #2

For your information,

you don't know what to do with gray.

#letters never to be sent

Hint

If you think you're ready,

you're not.

#poem

It's called denial

and I am most definitely not in it

#poem

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Author's Notes #3

#19: Duty. More of a character study than anything, really. I'm really fond of the Mass Effect franchise, can you tell? Especially my Shepards. And Shelly is extremely interesting to me, ever since I started playing her. This was just some thoughts after I finished Virmire on her. Not a masterpiece when it comes to the writing, but cool enough for a caracter study.

#20: Auriel Tabris had always been beautiful. Bioware makes great games ok. Auriel is my second city elf, one that gives me a lot of feels. I lost track of where I was going with this piece halfway through, so it kinda cuts short and doesn't have any point. Might expand on it in the future.

#21: Self-fulfilling prophecy Venting. A real life situation that bugged me (still kinda does) and based this on something a friend said about it. Particularly I like this because it leaves room for so many interpretations and is suitably distanced from me.

#22: Unconditional. Perfect. Tender. Same as above, venting. Much more personal than the last one though, and I'm not sure how I feel about it.

#23: Princess of Lothering they called her. Note to self: stop using the word "adore". This one is something that's been in my head for auite a long time, and I donät really like how it came out: might have to retry sometime. Eliza Hawke is one of the most important DA protags to me, and I wish I could properly communicate her backstory and inner workings.

#24: You're so hellbent on being Venting, yet again. This came out in a moody fit, but I kinda like it. It's clumsy, and kind of personal, but it communicates well.

#25: This isn’t a relationship, it’s a train wreck. Clichy as fuck. Venting. Would scratch, but it was important to get this out.

#26: Do yourself a favor I while back, I had a fit at night and wrote about a dozen poems. Most of them turned out to be meaningless (other than for venting), but this one I kinda like. It's not quite the success Self-fulfilling prophecy is, but this one is short and ambiguous as well. I think I'm finding m style of poetry.

#27: "Hey, cool bowtie." I've been going through some writing prompt archives, and upon seeing the bowtie prompt on get-scribbling this popped to my head. Not really sure where I was going with it and thus if I succeeded in what I tried, but eh.

#author's notes

"Hey, cool bowtie."

She looks up, meeting the glinting eyes in the tanned face. He gestures at her neck.

"Cause bowties are cool, right?"

She can't help laughing. "That Doctor Who crap doesn't work on me, you know."

He looks sheepish, then shrugs. "I figured you for a fellow fan, sorry."

He turns to walk away, but she grabs a hold of his elbow. The rolled-up sleeve feels soft to her touch: soft in the way that an old, worn, and most of all loved garment should.

"No, no, I am. It's kinda refreshing to have someone recognise that, actually: most people just figure me for a 'dirty hipster'."

He turns back, eyebrow raised. When he sees the smile radiating sincerity, his own lips curl to match.

"Mind if I sit?" He gestures to the free seat opposite her. She nods.

"Not at all."

#original

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