writer-of-whatever: awesomedigitalart: Beneath the Surface by juliedillon I feel like annerocious could make this about screenwriting. When I saw this on my dash I instantly thought, the boat is the final draft! But the art was unsourced, so I didn’t. And voila! Here it is. I don’t know whether this means I am getting too…
Read moreWe can’t give the audience moral of the story. Give them the story, then let them define the moral themselves. Joko Anwar (via quotewhorequotes) This is why you don’t have your final challenge happen in a conversation where people make speeches that include the words “Sometimes people just (fill in moral)”. Your story proves your…
Read morevancity604778kid: ultrafacts: Source Click HERE to Follow the Ultrafacts Blog! ALICE ROOSEVELT WAS HARDCORE. “She was known as a rule-breaker in an era when women were under great pressure to conform. The American public noticed many of her exploits. She smoked cigarettes in public, swore at officials, rode in cars with men, stayed out late…
Read moreclevergirlhelps: Writability: 7 Signs You Should Cut Your Prologue avajae: Those of you who follow me on Twitter may or may not have seen this last week: The more I do this interning stuff, the more I see why agents advise against prologues. 9/10 times you really don’t need it. #pubtip — Ava Jae (@Ava_Jae)…
Read morebeautiful-tragicinthefalloutboy: “Previously, researchers had misidentified skeletons as male simply because they were buried with their swords and shields. By studying osteological signs of gender within the bones themselves, researchers discovered that approximately half of the remains were actually female warriors, given a proper burial with their weapons.” Here is that awesome plot you were looking…
Read moreWHAT YOU WANT IS SUBTEXT
So, it’s sort of like a puzzle. You want to convey the information that your protag was, let’s say, orphaned at the age of seven and inherited a vast fortune. How do you do it? TRICK QUESTION. You do not want to convey information, you want to create curiosity and emotion and feelings of connection…
Read moreTO MAKE MORE DIMENSIONAL FEMALE CHARACTERS…
You have to get past thinking of them in terms of who would be willing to have sex with them. Go out in the street and look at ALL the women. Every single one of them has compelling dramatic conflict in their lives. Imagine that.
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annerocious: Two spaces after a period looks very old-fashioned.
Read moreHOW TO STOP OVERWRITING YOUR DIALOGUE
It’s simple. We’re watching it. Develop your characters in such a way that even someone who has never seen True Blood can grasp what they are looking at here. If this doesn’t make sense, get out your notebook and write down everything you can tell about these two people and their relationship and their backstories…
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Two spaces after a period looks very old-fashioned.
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