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Imagining a story in your head:
Writing down the story:
As a writer, I can confirm this.
Thank you for the visual aid of every story I ever wrote
Yes, this is precisely how it happens. Every time.
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It’s a fitting punishment for a monster.
To want something so much—to hold it
in your arms—and know beyond a doubt
you will never deserve it.
Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn (via ravenreyse)
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Russian tale The Humpbacked Horse by Yershov, illustration print postcard (1957) / Illustrated by Genrikh Valk http://ift.tt/1Www6Pc
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Resource Dump: Creating Characters!
Primary Characters
- Your Hero: Top Ten Rules
- 10 Traits of a Great Protagonist
- 4 Steps to Creating a Truly Active Protagonist
- 20 Tips for Creating Relatable Protagonists
- How to Center your Story
- How to Create Unforgettable Protagonists
- 25 Things You Should Know About Protagonists
- Creating Memorable Characters
- Creating Strong Female Protagonists
- Creating Dynamic Protagonists
- How to Create Characters
- Inner Dialogue - Writing Inner Character Thoughts
- 25 Things a Great Character Needs
- 5 Ways to Create 3D Characters
Secondary Characters
- 10 Secrets to Creating Unforgettable Supporting Characters
- How to Write Effective Supporting Characters
- Question to Ask (& Strengthen) Your Minor Characters
- 5 Tips for Developing Supporting Characters
- Techniques for Creating Great Secondary Characters
- 5 Steps to Dazzling Minor Characters
- 3 Ways to Create Stupendous Supporting Characters
- Creating Memorable Secondary Characters
- 5 Archetypes for Supporting Characters
- Your Map to Creating a Memorable Minor Characters
Names
- Top Ten Tips
- 8 Tips for Naming Characters
- 7 Rules of Naming Fictional Characters
- Name that Character!
- 6 Creative Ways to Name your Character
- Naming your Characters
- A Guide to Naming Characters
- Female: 1 | 2 | 3
- Male: 1 | 2 | 3
- Alien: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
- Surname: 1 | 2 | 3
- Unisex: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
Traits
- List: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9
- Developing Character Traits
- How to Create Good Personalities for your Characters
- Develop Memorable Personalities
- Give your Character Personality
- How to Create a Character’s Personality
- How to Make Sure your Character’s Personality Shines
- 5 Building Blocks of your Character’s Personality
Appearance
- Appearance Generator
- Your Character’s Physical Appearance
- How to Describe a Character’s Looks
- Describing a Character’s Appearance
- Character Description Resource
- Examples of Physical Characteristics
- Describing the Physical Attributes of your Characters
- How Great Authors Describe Character Appearance
- Ultimate Guide to Nailing your Character’s Appearance
- Describing Clothing and Appearance
- Character Appearance Help
- Character Description Resource
- Describing People: A Person’s Physical Appearance
- Describing the Physical Attributes of Characters
Speech
- Talking About your Character: Speech
- Variety in Character Voices
- All your Characters Talk the Same
- How to Create Distinctive Character Voices
- How to Create Characters Who Don’t Sound like You
- The Art of Voice in Fiction
- Create Varying, Yet Realistic, Speech Patterns
- The Art and Craft of Dialogue
- Writing Character Voice
- Creating Differences in the Speech Patterns of your Characters
- Style: Person and Speech
- Dialects: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
Backstory
- Building Better Backstories
- Basic Tips to Create Better Characters with Tragic Backstories
- How to Write a Backstory
- Writing Characters Using Conflict and Backstory
- Backstory Description Generator
- Questions to Create Character Backstory
- How to Weave in Backstory to Reveal Character
- Nail your Character’s Backstory
- How to Write Backstory Without Putting your Reader to Sleep
- How to Write a Killer Backstory
Diversity
- How to Make Young Adult Fiction More Diverse
- Writing People of Color
- A Few Tips and Resources for Writing Characters of Colour
- Writing Characters of Colour Tastefully
- Writing With Colour
- 7 Offensive Mistakes Well-Intentioned Writers Make
- Writing Characters of Colour
- Describing Characters of Colour
Gender
- Female: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
- Male: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
- Transgender: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
- Non-Binary: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
Sexuality
- Main Character Sexuality
- On Writing LGBTQ Characters: 1 | 2
- Writing Gay Characters
- Guide to LGBT YA
- Avoiding LGBTQ Stereotypes
- Writing Bisexual Characters: 1 | 2
- Writing Asexual Characters: 1 | 2
- Pansexual & Demisexual Characters
- How to Write Gay, Bisexual and Pansexual Characters
Introduction
- Introducing a Character
- Introducing your Main Character
- Do’s and Don’ts for Introducing your Protagonist
- First Impressions
- How to Introduce a Character
- How Not to Introduce a Main Character
- Introducing the Protagonist
Development
- Character Development
- 9 Ingredients of Character Development
- Characterisation 1 - Character Development
- How to Develop a Character for a Story
- Character Development
- Character Development Drives Conflict
- Developing your Characters and Making them Interesting
Relationships
- How to Write Strong Character Relationships
- Character Relationships
- 3 Keys to Developing Character Relationships
- The Secret Behind Great Character Relationships
- 3 Tips for Character Relationships
- Building Believable Relationships
- Sibling: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
- Platonic: 1 | 2 | 3
- Romantic: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
Strengths
- Identifying your Character’s Strengths
- Character Strengths and Weaknesses
- Introducing the 24 Character Strengths
- Character Strengths and Virtues List
- Strengths and Weaknesses
- A Balance of Strengths
Flaws
- 123 Ideas for Character Flaws
- DarkWorld RPG Flaws List
- Character Flaws
- Ten Ugliest Character Flaws
- The Four Types of Character Flaws
- On Giving Flaws and Weaknesses
- Character Flaw Index
Goal
- Why your Character’s Goal Needs to be 1 of these 5 Things
- Goals Define the Plot
- Goal Setting for You and your Character
- How to Explore you Character’s Motivation
- 4 Ways to Motivate Character and Plot
- Motivation
By Genre
- Fantasy: 1 | 2 | 3
- Sci-Fi: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
- Romance: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
- Thrillers: 1 | 2
- Horror: 1 | 2 | 3
Heroes
- Your Hero: Top Ten Rules
- How to Write your Own Hero Story
- What Makes a Great Hero?
- Creating Heroes and Heroines
- Write a Story about a Hero
- How to Create an Antihero that Readers Love
- Heroes vs. Anti-Heroes
- Create a Super Hero
- How to Create a Brand New Iconic Hero or Villain
- What Makes a Hero
Villains
- How to Create a Credible Villain in Fiction
- How to Make a Purely Evil Villain Interesting
- 9 Evil Examples of the Villain Archetype
- How Not to Create a Villain
- Creating Villains People Love to Hate
- 3 Techniques for Crafting a Better Villain
- Basic Tips to Write Better & More Despicable Villains
- Writing Tips for Creating a Complex Villain
- How to Create a Great Villain
Do’s & Don’ts
- Do’s and Dont’s of Writing a Good Character
- How to Create a Character
- Characterisation Dos and Dont’s
- Female Characters of Do’s and Dont’s
- Do’s and Dont’s of Dialect
Helpful Writing Blogs
- fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment*
- writeworld
- referenceforwriters
- thewritingcafe
- aquestionofcharacter *
- writingwithcolor
- fuckyeah-char-dev
- dailycharacterdevelopment
Clichés
- Characters and Cliches
- Top 10 Character Cliches
- 7 Lazy Character Cliches
- 10 Most Cliched Characters in Sci-Fi
- Four Worst Character Cliches
- Female Character Cliches
- Character Cliches to Avoid
- The Cliche Character Test
- How Cliches Can Help You Make Great Characters
Templates
- How to Create a Character Profile
- Writing Character Bios
- Character Sheets and Character Creation
- Gender/Sexuality Generator
- Extremely Detailed Character Template
- Writer’s Resource: Character Template
- Character Description
I’m always a slut for for new characters
Reblogging for future reference
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Source: bookandslugclub
What my 13 year old self learned from these books:
- that girls want to have sex just as much as boys
- that girls masturbate
-that girls masturbate a lot
- that girls masturbate to fantasies about really strange things (but that’s okay)
- that there are different ways to masturbate and/or have sex
- that there are things like “ritual sex”
- that people can be “old” (40s) and “ugly” (see pictures) and still be hot
- that sometimes what you really need is a self-loathing, gruff bastard who is secretly super gentle and will love you faithfully and passionately for the rest of his life and give you lots of orgasms.
- some stuff about acual historical events like wars and… stuff
It’s a funny thing about the modern world. You hear girls in the toilets of clubs saying ‘Yeah, he fucked off and left me. He didn’t love me. He just couldn’t deal with love. He was too fucked up to know how to love me.’
Now, how did that happen? What was it about this unlovable century that convinced us that we were, despite everything, eminently lovable as a people, as a species? What made us think that anyone who fails to love us is damaged, lacking, malfunctioning in some way? And particularly if they replace us with a god, or a weeping madonna, or the face of Christ in a ciabatta roll–then we call them crazy. Deluded. Regressive. We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship.
Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.
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