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Our first NEWT Writing Event is here! A team of members have been busy toiling away in the back of the classroom to present you with our first event.  However, this event is for discord members only. So, if you haven’t already, please head on in and join our discord server! 

This event is centred around dialogue prompts. Each participant will receive five (5) different writing prompts, in the categories of their choice! 

These categories include:  — Angst — Romantic — General  — Smut* — Misc

*Only for our eighteen and over members. 

These prompts can be used for any fandom, including original work or original characters. Multiple prompts can be used in one piece of writing, or used individually- it’s all up to the writer! As long as one prompt is used within the piece, it counts. 

This event starts on the 20th of June and will end on the 21st of August. 

travel to a world           of dark bargains struck by moonlight,                       of haunted towns and hungry woods,                                  of talking beasts and gingerbread golems,                                               where a young mermaid’s voice can summon deadly storms           and where a river might do a lovestruck boy’s bidding but only for a terrible price.

Books read in 2021   ·  •  •   Daisy Jones & The Six 

@sixofcrowsnet heist: Typography

“He picked your pocket?” Doughty asked incredulously.

She’d often wished to chip away a bit of his arrogance, but she couldn’t bear the idea of seeing Kaz stripped of his pride.

One minute he made her blush and the next he made her want to commit murder.

What do you want, then? The old answers came easily to mind. Money. Vengeance. Jordie’s voice in my head silenced forever. But a different reply roared to life inside him, loud, insistent, and unwelcome. You, Inej. You.

Speak, she begged silently. Give me a reason to stay. For all his selfishness and cruelty, Kaz was still the boy who had saved her. She wanted to believe he was worth saving, too.

She would have her ship and he would have his city.

“I would have come for you. And if I could’t walk, I’d crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we’d fight our way out together - knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that’s what we do. We never stop fighting.”

“I can hear the change in Kaz’s breathing when he looks at you.“ “You… you can?” “It catches every time, like he’s never seen you before”

She’d laughed and if he could have bottled the sound and got drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.

Kaz had taught her to crack a safe, pick a pocket, wield a knife. He’d gifted her with her first blade, the one she called Sankt Petyr - not as pretty as wild geraniums, but more practical, she supposed.

He needed to tell her… what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. That he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that he couldn’t pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her. That without meaning to, he’d begun to lean on her, to look for her, to need her near.

it’s because every chapter ends in a cliffhanger. and i’m not kidding when i say that it is so flawlessly paced that you can’t put it down, but those beats are so crucial to why the book is so amazing to read. think of the end of the literal first chapter of the book: “it’s primrose everdeen.” that is a BOMB that she drops in that first chapter, and after the introduction, you as the reader are as blown away as katniss. so, you can’t help but turn the page and keep reading!! because you HAVE to know what happens next. and how does the second chapter end? like this: “of course, the odds have not been very dependable of late.” you, the reader, are instantly thinking, oh my god, what is going to happen? are the odds going to be in her favor? is she going to have to kill peeta? you HAVE to know. so you turn the page.

the reason this works so well is because suzanne collins wrote for television and you can tell. it is my personal belief that thg should have been adapted for television and not into films, because missing those beats, even just the white space of the page, i think fundamentally warps the pacing and the structure of the novels. i know i go on and on and on about the “because she came here with me” and “if it weren’t for the baby” lines but seriously this is why peeta is a media genius, its’ because suzanne COLLINS is a media genius. can you imagine watching that on television and the screen just cuts to black and goes to commercial or the episode ends and you have to wait to see what happens next?? it’s GENIUS

furthermore, the hunger games series as a whole is divided into a trilogy, but within that, divided into three sections each. and each section ends with an even bigger cliffhanger than the last. i see these, in the world of television, as mini season breaks within the larger three “seasons” of the show (that being the whole trilogy). here are the first three endings of all the sections. imagine you’re watching this on television and these lines drop, and then you have to wait several more weeks for the next installment. you would be climbing the walls for it. part 1 (the tributes): “beeta blushes beet red and stammers out. “because. because. she came here with me.” part 2 (the games): “before i can stop myself, i call out Peeta’s name.” part 3 (the victor) (the end of the book): “i take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when i will finally have to let go.” those are ALL cliffhangers and make it impossible to stop reading.

(also, we can talk about the fact that all three of those beats are focused on peeta, the one who seems to most intrinsically understand dramatic timing and using his words to create a narrative.)

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