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A great Twitter thread on character-driven stories, character arcs, and agency by Naomi Hughes
(The link she referenced is this article)
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Curious question: what would be a good representation of trauma?
thatâs a truly a loaded question because trauma comes in all shapes and sizes. there is no one way to define this, there never will be. i canât give you a list of traits that are universal to all trauma survivors. every person is unique and therefore their perception of their experiences and how they react will be just as unique. there isnât a one size fit all, but i can certainly give you tips from a survivorâs perspective.
this will be lengthy, sorry.
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đ Types of Mermaids đ
please be respectful of cultural boundaries when working with mermaids from various cultures and traditions, and be mindful not to intrude.
đ Rusalkas - slavic in origin, disturbed spirits of the âunclean deadâ, ghosts of women who died violent deaths, with a penchant for drowning young men. they live only in rivers and lakes, and are known to have green hair like aquatic plants, only appearing in the night.Â
đ Melusina - a mermaid that walks among humans, but returns to their two-tailed form during baths and when they bathe their children. often a water spirit of a nearby lake or river. french origin.Â
đ Siren - greek mythology. servants and companions of persephone, whom searched for her when she was abducted. they are known to sometimes have the body of a bird, and for their song, which lured sailors to their doom. cannibalism implied folklore. have the power of prophecy.Â
đ Merrow - irish mermaid. known to have green hair and webbed fingers. particular noted love of music and their red cap, which when stolen, they will live with the thief until they find it, and then return to the water, leaving even a whole family behind.Â
đ Ben-varrey - from the isle of man, known to bless those that are kind to them with prosperity, gifts, and even the location of treasure.Â
đ Aicaya -Â Caribbean mermaid, humans who become mermaids when they are shunned from their community and go to live in the sea.Â
đ Amabie - japanese merpeople, with birdlike torsos and three legs and scales. they are gifted with prophecy, usually foretelling abundant harvests or epidemicsÂ
đ Ningyo - âhuman faced fishâ known to have golden scales, that brings bad weather and misfortune when caught, but when their flesh is eaten the consumer is granted youth and beauty, even agelessness.Â
đ Finman / Finwife - magical shapeshifters that disguise themselves as sea creatures or plants to lure humans, unlike most mermaids they kidnap people from the shores to be their spouses or servants. they have a greed for jewelry and coins, particularly silver, and prefer humans over other finfolk.Â
đ Sirena Chilota - considered the more friendly mermaids, caring for all fish life and rescuing drowned sailors to restore life to them. known for their human-like beauty and youth, according to legend they are the child of a human and a âking of seasâ, tears are a powerful substance. from chilote mythology.Â
đ Cecealia - sometimes known as âsea witchesâ, they are half human and half octopus. origins in native american and japanese mythology.Â
đ Sirena / Siyokoy - the philippine version of mermaid and merman respectively. also called âmagindaraâ, they are known to protect the waters from raiders, and protect the boy moon from sea monsters. Siyokoys can sometimes have legs however, covered with scales and webbed feet
đ Sea Mither - scottish/orcadian mythology, a spirit that personifies the sea during spring and summer, battles along scottish isles using storms to bring the summer about. a mother figure to all aquatic life.Â
đ Ceasg - a fresh-water mermaid, specifically half-salmon, said to grant three wishes if captured. sometimes called maighdean na tuinne (maid of the wave) or maighdean mhara (maid of the sea). scottish.Â
đ Selkie - though somewhat different from the typical mermaid, as they are not cold-blooded, have the body of a seal in the water and are human on land. in legends their skins are often stolen and they are kept by fishermen as spouses, or become lovers to fishermenâs wives who shed tears into the sea. Â
I had no idea so many versions existed.
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writing tip #750:
never, ever use the e-word in your writing. does your character have green e***? no. they have verdant orbs, leafy pools, bright emerald fields resting on their face
Resting on their face is a very important distinction! Eyes are not in your head, thatâs where your brain is and thereâs no way theyâre related in any way
âHelp!â he screamed, blood gouting from the gaping holes in his face. âPlease, somebody, help! Someone ripped the bright emerald fields out of my skull!â
me writing dialogue:Â âwhat is man but a vessel through which a higher entity may see? what is his purpose? must he find a purpose? we are but stardust; the universe comprehending itself.â
me writing action: they ran real fast from the bad men aand legs hurty
me writing action: Her legs pounded against the earth, the familiar jolt grounding her like nothing else could. Magic, gods, royaltyâshe didnât know anything about that. But running? Thatâs something sheâd been doing since day one.
me writing dialogue: âI dunno man whatchu wanna doâ âI dunno. What do you think?â âHey man I donât knowâ
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Look, itâs us.
@not-thechosenone actually more like
me writing descriptions: The morning sun streamed in through the stained-glass window, a thousand jewel-like reflections dancing across the tiled floor.Â
me writing action: one person hits other person uhhh then they both run from bad guy
me writing dialogue: âhiâ âhiâ âbyeâ
Accurate.
I am simultaneously all of these at any given moment of writing. There is no consistency in the first draft, only authorial suffering and wandering exposition.
bluh Iâm still vaguely alive but idk what to post on this blog tbh. I might try to upload explanations of each character at the very least? idk man
OH I think ill make a spreadsheet of just basic informationÂ
bluh I'm still vaguely alive but idk what to post on this blog tbh. I might try to upload explanations of each character at the very least? idk man
Words to replace said, except this actually helps
I got pretty fed up with looking for words to replace said because they werenât sorted in a way I could easily use/find them for the right time. So I did some myself.
IN RESPONSE TO Acknowledged Answered Protested
INPUT/JOIN CONVERSATION/ASK Added Implored Inquired Insisted Proposed Queried Questioned Recommended Testified
GUILTY/RELUCTANCE/SORRY Admitted Apologized Conceded Confessed Professed
FOR SOMEONE ELSE Advised Criticized Suggested
JUST CHECKING Affirmed Agreed Alleged Confirmed
LOUD Announced Chanted Crowed
LEWD/CUTE/SECRET SPY FEEL Appealed Disclosed Moaned
ANGRY FUCK OFF MATE WANNA FIGHT Argued Barked Challenged Cursed Fumed Growled Hissed Roared Swore
SMARTASS Articulated Asserted Assured Avowed Claimed Commanded Cross-examined Demanded Digressed Directed Foretold Instructed Interrupted Predicted Proclaimed Quoted Theorized
ASSHOLE Bellowed Boasted Bragged
NERVOUS TRAINWRECK Babbled Bawled Mumbled Sputtered Stammered Stuttered
SUAVE MOTHERFUCKER Bargained Divulged Disclosed Exhorted
FIRST OFF Began
LASTLY Concluded Concurred
WEAK PUSY Begged Blurted Complained Cried Faltered Fretted
HAPPY/LOL Cajoled Exclaimed Gushed Jested Joked Laughed
WEIRDLY HAPPY/EXCITED Extolled Jabbered Raved
BRUH, CHILL Cautioned Warned
ACTUALLY, YOUâRE WRONG Chided Contended Corrected Countered Debated Elaborated Objected Ranted Retorted
CHILL SAVAGE Commented Continued Observed Surmised
LISTEN BUDDY Enunciated Explained Elaborated Hinted Implied Lectured Reiterated Recited Reminded Stressed
BRUH I NEED U AND U NEED ME Confided Offered Urged
FINE Consented Decided
TOO EMO FULL OF EMOTIONS Croaked Lamented Pledged Sobbed Sympathized Wailed Whimpered
JUST SAYING Declared Decreed Mentioned Noted Pointed out Postulated Speculated Stated Told Vouched
WASNâT ME Denied Lied
EVIL SMARTASS Dictated Equivocated Ordered Reprimanded Threatened
BORED Droned Sighed
SHHHH ITâS QUIET TIME Echoed Mumbled Murmured Muttered Uttered Whispered
DRAMA QUEEN Exaggerated Panted Pleaded Prayed Preached
OH SHIT Gasped Marveled Screamed Screeched Shouted Shrieked Yelped Yelled
ANNOYED Grumbled Grunted Jeered Quipped Scolded Snapped Snarled Sneered
ANNOYING Nagged
I DONâT REALLY CARE BUT WHATEVER Guessed Ventured
IâM DRUNK OR JUST BEING WEIRDLY EXPRESSIVE FOR A POINT/SARCASM Hooted Howled Yowled
I WONDER Pondered Voiced Wondered
OH, YEAH, WHOOPS Recalled Recited Remembered
SURPRISE BITCH Revealed
IT SEEMS FAKE BUT OKAY/HA ACTUALLY FUNNY BUT I DONâT WANT TO LAUGH OUT LOUD Scoffed Snickered Snorted
BITCHY Tattled Taunted Teased
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fanfic: this character has had several bottles of hard liquor and theyâre just slurring their speech slightly and for some reason are not in the hospital with alcohol poisoning
me: âŚ.youâve literally never had a drink in your life have you
very good point. Alcohol For the Non-Drinking Fanfic Writer, a primer by me Thereâs a shit ton of variability in response to alcohol depending on body mass, history of drinking (your liver can upregulate the CYP450 enzyme responsible for metabolizing alcohol but only to a certain point; chronic alcoholics hit a point where their livers are so trashed they lose this and go back to getting drunk off small amounts of alcohol), and ethnicity (people of East Asian descent are more likely to lack a critical enzyme for breaking down one of the metabolic steps in the degradation of ethanol and are stuck in the shittiest part of it, with flushing and nausea), and other factors. But if I had to guesstimate for writing:
1 drink (a tall glass of beer, a can of beer, or a shot of hard alcohol in a cocktail or alone): are you a burly dude? you may or may not feel it. are you a tiny lady? you will probably notice it.
2 drinks: burly dude may or may not be noticing it. tiny lady like me: this is a sweet spot where youâre talkative but not drunk. (Note: people donât go from zero to âso drunk you remember nothing/are profoundly disinhibited.â Thereâs a lot of ground to cover in between.)
3 drinks: burly dude probably feeling it, tiny lady getting drunk.
4 drinks: burly dude still feeling it, tiny lady ready to FUCKING FIGHT YOU
5 drinks: burly dude, slow down, buddy, you gonna polish off that six-pack by yourself? Thatâs going to hurt in the morning. Tiny lady: oh my GOD stop. Go to bed.
This is where we draw the cut-off for a âbinge,â if you were wondering. More than this and youâre officially binge-drinking, where your odds of serious harm go up sharply. From alcohol, but also from the bad decision dinosaur that plagues you when you binge-drink.
a fifth of anything by yourself: Sir. Sir, can you hear me? Sir, I need you to open your eyes. Squeeze my fingers. Sir, youâre in the emergency room.
Splitting a bottle of wine between two adults: generally like three drinks each, youâll feel it but youâll survive. (A bottle of wine between three adults: usually not quiiiiiite enough.)
An entire bottle of wine by yourself: oh, so you enjoy suffering?
Other Fun Medical Alcohol Facts: high-proof alcohol like vodka will temporarily paralyze your pyloric sphincter, so the alcohol canât get into your gut for about twenty minutes. Then, when it DOES get into your small intestine, enjoy getting uncomfortably drunk too fast.
Alcohol is a zero-order metabolizer: that means that nothing on Earth can sober you up except time*, and the time it takes is linear, directly related to how much you drank. Most of us can clear about a drink an hour, so if youâre drinking slowly you can stay roughly sober all day. Most of us donât drink that slowly. Hangovers are made awful by a metabolic intermediate (literal acid in your blood!!!! itâs so shitty!!!!!!!) that makes you nauseated and feel super gross, and not every drinking episode will lead to a hangover, and severity of hangover varies greatly by person and amount drunk.
So please never write someone having coffee to âsober up.â Now theyâre drunk AND they canât sleep. Bad combo. Sucks for driving. Splashing cold water on your face? No. Amphetamines? Good Lord whatâs wrong with you. Look, the roomâs gonna spin, you fucked up your endolymph in your semicircular canals, deal with it. You can partially override that with proprioceptive feedbackâkeeping one foot on the floor to get tactile inputâbut itâs just gonna suck for a while.
The variability in capacity is real; my aunt-in-law, who is roughly my size, can drink me under the table easily. Sheâs a high-powered business executive who has martinis with lunch. I tried to keep up with her once and had to call in sick. So you donât HAVE to write a character having a ânormalâ alcohol tolerance, but donât get into âyep, definitely alcohol poisoningâ territory, please.
This has been Please Donât Show Up In My Emergency Room, I Hate Getting Barfed On by your local friendly medical trainee.
*this is technically not true, but no substance you can get your hands on will do it. hmu if you want to hear the story of the EtOH receptor antagonist and why it never went to market, what with all the dying.
whatâs the EtOH receptor antagonist???
okay whew. here we go. there has been a LOT more interest in this than I was expecting (I was expecting none, to be clear), and it has been approx. 8 billion years since I was in undergrad, which is the last time I can reasonably claim to have been CURRENT on Neuro research. (I did my masterâs at an institution that does not have what one might call a robust Neuro department and mainly did Stats.) So if a real live Neuro person comes on here and contradicts me, you should probably believe them.
BUT. Here is the story, as I recall it:
Alcohol, or, as we fancy-schmancy-pantsy medical types like to call it to distinguish it from the bajillion other alcohols out there (âalcoholâ describes a general type of molecule in chemistry, not the good olâ-fashioned Get You Drunk molecule) ethanol, abbreviated EtOH, is whatâs generally called a âsedative-hypnotic.â What that means is that it doesnât work on opioid receptors, it doesnât work on cannabinoid receptors. It does stuff to your GABA receptorsâGABA being the major inhibitory neurotransmitterâand it also binds to other stuff. We still donât have its actions in the brain fully mapped. But we know, and weâve known for a while, that it does stuff to GABA receptors.
A major pharmaceutical company developed an honest-to-God antagonist. If youâre not a pharm person, you may be going, âa what now?â First point: damn near everything your brain does is determined by neurotransmitters and the receptors that love them. Neurotransmitters interact with their receptors in a variety of ways, with a HUGE variety of end results. Humans love jamming other chemicals that are not neurotransmitters into their receptors. Why do opioids work? Because they mimic NTs we make ourselves. Why does cannabis get us high? Because it mimics endogenous (âoriginating insideâ, self-made) NTs. Manmade molecules that alter us are hijacking built-in systems. Donât even get me started on how fucking bananas cool it is that neurons can adapt to neurotransmitter levels, and in a super awesome sci-fi-like variety of ways. Take a Neuro class! Take five! Take seventeen! Most fun I ever had was in a Neuro lab.
So whatâs an antagonist? Itâs something that, one way or another, makes it so the NT canât do its thing at the receptor.
The line of thinking went, if we can keep ethanol from doing its thing at the GABA receptor, we can make people sober again. They can drink and then take a pill and be sober. Wouldnât that be AMAZING? Wouldnât that be lucrative? These are questions that drug companies think about a LOT.
So they made the chemical! Its name is Ro15-4513. You can Google it and get a WAY less interesting description of what went down. But how my professor explained it to us is like this:
It works. Itâs an ethanol antagonist at the GABA receptor. You take it and it blows the ethanol off the receptor and youâre sober. And⌠because humans are awful, you get drunk again. You take another pill. Youâre sober again. The time that pill is active is less than the time it takes your body to metabolize ethanol, so youâve still got all that ethanol swishing around in your system waiting to murder you via aspirating your own vomit the hot second it wears off, but by God, youâre sober.
Except, as mentioned, the GABA receptor is not the only place where ethanol does stuff. One of the effects it has, since itâs such a teeny tiny molecule, is fucking with the lipid bilayer that forms the bulk of your cell membrane. If youâre a Neuro person, youâre getting cold chills right about now, because the only reason neurotransmission works is the properties of the lipid bilayer. You have to be able to transmit electricity down the axon of the neuron to generate an action potential. The lipid bilayer is what allows you to do that.
The pill does nothing for that. So if you take enough of the pill, and keep drinking, there comes a point where youâve fucked the lipid bilayer beyond repair. You canât transmit messages. Your brain doesnât remember how to tell your body to do things like breathe, or not have seizures. And you die!
So, in summary, we have a pill that could make you a responsible designated driver, but actually fucking kills you because people have no self-control.
Moral of the story: Neuroscience Is Super Fun!!!!! It was my gateway drug into medicine. I would never have gone to medical school if it werenât for my Behavioral Neuroscience professors.
today on: humanityâs hubris has led to so many things being bad when they were designed to be good
I find that, when writing bios, itâs really helpful to look at a list or a chart like the one above. Picking two or three traits from each chart and building a character based around them will give you a really interesting bio, because they will serve as a reminder that characters need depth and dimension.
Independent and clever.
VS.
Independent, clever, pretentious, and stubborn.
The first combination doesnât come with any flaws, whereas the second will provide a more dynamic character.
i made this instead of writing
Im reblogging this instead of writing
Iâm realising this instead of writing
everyone says âi forgive but i donât forgetâ whereas my dumb, bitter ass is over here never forgiving but always forgetting
once i remember why i was mad in the first place, itâs over for you hoes

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1. Favorite place to write. 2. Favorite part of writing. 3. Least favorite part of writing. 4. Do you have writing habits or rituals? 5. Books or authors that influenced your style the most. 6. Favorite character you ever created. 7. Favorite author. 8. Favorite trope to write. 9. Least favorite trope to write. 10. Pick a writer to co-write a book with and tell us what youâd write about. 11. Describe your writing process from scratch to finish. 12. How do you deal with self-doubts? 13. How do you deal with writers block? 14. Whatâs the most research you ever put into a book? 15. Where does your inspiration come from? 16. Where do you take your motivation from? 17. On avarage, how much writing do you get done in a day? 18. Whatâs your revision or rewriting process like? 19. First line of a WIP youâre working on. 20. Post a snippet of a WIP youâre working on. 21. Post the last sentence you wrote in one of your WIPâs. 22. How many drafts do you need until youâre satisfied and a project is ultimately done for you? 23. Single or multi POV, and why? 24. Poetry or prose, and why? 25. Linear or non-linear, and why? 26. Standalone or series, and why? 27. Do you share rough drafts or do you wait until itâs all polished? 28. And who do you share them with? 29. Who do you write for? 30. Favorite line youâve ever written. 31. Hardest character to write. 32. Easiest character to write. 33. Do you listen to music when youâre writing? 34. Handwritten notes or typed notes? 35. Tell some backstory details about one of your characters in your story ________. 36. A spoiler for story _________. 37. Most inspirational quote youâve ever read or heard thatâs still important to you. 38. Have you shared your outline of your story ________ with someone? If so, what did they think of it? 39. Do you base your characters of real people or not? If so, tell us about one. 40. Original Fiction or Fanfiction, and why? 41. How many stories do you work on at one time? 42. How do you figure out your characters looks, personality, etc. 43. Are you an avid reader? 44. Best piece of feedback youâve ever gotten. 45. Worst piece of feedback youâve ever gotten. 46. What would your story _______ look like as a tv show or movie? 47. Do you start with characters or plot when working on a new story? 48. Favorite genre to write in. 49. What do you find the hardest to write in a story, the beginning, the middle or the end? 50. Weirdest story idea youâve ever had. 51. Describe the aesthetic of your story _______ in 5 sentences or words. 52. How did writing change you? 53. What does writing mean to you? 54. Any writing advice you want to share?