Today Is September 29th, Tadano Hitohitos Birthday!

Writing Prompt: Dialogue

"Can you swim?"

"Just about."

"Define 'just about'?"

"I can float well enough, if I don't panic."

"Don't panic?"

"If my head goes under water I panic, even in a bathtub."

"Well, shit."

HAPPY FIRST EVER INTERNATIONAL AROMANTIC VISIBILITY DAY

the elusive 7 act Structure

Create your outline - full guide

Here’s my quick and easy run-down on how to create a full outline for your projects — all the plot beats your story is meant to have!

The only thing you should really have before you start plotting is your character arcs.

Why? What happens if you don't have them?🤔

- Your plot is way more likely to feel unfounded

- You're going to lack change through the story

- You'll be writing for plot only, and lose any deeper meanings

- Your outline could feel decent to you, but when you start writing you will quickly lose interest

📌Remember this one important thing before we start.📌

Plot & world building are just tools to tell your characters' story.

👉ACT 1

Here are the beats you should hit in the first 10-20k words.

STATUS QUO - Your protagonists current situation, with all its faults and potential.

INTERNAL CONFLICT - Most important one!!! You have to paint the start of your character's arc (preferably on page 1), by hinting at their fatal flaw, misbelief, regret, or something that holds them back.

INCITING INCIDENT - The event that pulls your character out of their comfort zone and makes them debate.

DWELLING AND ACCEPTING - Your character's first actions: do they refuse the call? What makes them finally accept it? This is where you form a clear external goal.

Are you ready for the murky middle?

👉ACT 2

Beats to hit in the murky middle.

NEW WORLD - The character finds themself in a new uncomfortable place they need to learn to navigate.

A FEW CHALLENGES - What's the external goal they're working towards? What are the steps they can take to get closer to it and what challenges do they find along the way?

MIDPOINT - Plot twist! They've reached their goal but it turns out not to be what they expected. Introduce a higher stakes goal.

THINGS TURN SOUR - Your hero's thrown off their rocker and they can't keep up with the blows.

BIGGEST HIT - Your hero experiences the worst hit in the whole story, and they give up. They go back to their status quo, defeated.

Is the middle feeling a little less murky now?👀

👉ACT 3

Beats to hit in your final stretch.

THE LIGHTBULB - What breaks your hero back out of their darkest moment? What makes their little brain cogs turn again? ...or who?

THE NEW PLAN - How do they decide to deal with the whole mess they've created?

EXECUTION - How do they tackle it, and does everything go smoothly, or do they face one final challenge that forces them to reconsider some things?

THE TRANSFORMATION - They complete their character arc, they've finally learned their lessons.

TYING UP LOSE ENDS - They resolve any remaining open questions, and showcase the change from who they were at the start.

I teach you this and so much more inside my Academy. You'll start from the really important stuff, so you know the purpose behind your book, and your full character arcs. That's when the outline snaps into place.

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Self-paced online writing course that provides all the tools you need to plan your novel, and teaches you how with fun, easy-to-follow video

Woo, it’s been awhile!

Not sure, if it’s already been done; but, ever since I first saw this meme, this is all that’s been stuck in my head. And after a few months, I’ve finally gotten it out of my head. Enjoy!

"I weep because you cannot save people. You can only love them."

jeanette winterson | there is no absolution for the fallen, only the dying | a little life by hanya yanagihara | everything everywhere all at once | vladimir nabokov | if it's love, it must be more than most

op: "i really don't mind-" zeta: "Do Not enable him"

sort of a sequel to this? a lot of people really wanted op to get a hug and i support that. so does prima. zeta isn't really against it, he just wishes prima would at least try to stick to the schedule for primus' sake-

haunted au

AO3 Skins for Multilingual People

Idk nothing about coding but after long hours of trying to make my own site skin i figured how to block all works written in languages one doesn't speak

.blurb:not(:has(dd[lang$="en"])) { display: none; } .blurb:has(dd[lang$="es"]), .blurb:has(a[href*="/skins/" i]), .blurb:has(a[href*="/collections/" i]), .blurb:has(a[href*="/series/" i]) { display: block; }

So basically,

.blurb:not(:has(dd[lang$="en"])) { display: none; }

This will block all works that are not in the language selected, in this case english (en)

And

.blurb:has(dd[lang$="es"]) { display: block; }

This will show previously blocked works that are in the language selected, in this case spanish (es)

If you speak more than two languages just copy and paste the last part as many times as u need and change the language.

Note that this will only block the view of this works but will NOT filtered it so it may tell you there are more works than shown

If someone knows about coding and wants to make corrections pls do!

this is your reminder that if you're going to be posting spiderverse gifs / clips you NEED to tag them as flashing, eyestrain, etc.

seizures can kill. the lives of your disabled friends and followers are more important than a movie.

also, do NOT tag them as epilepsy, seizure, photo-sensitivity, etc. people use these tags to find other people like them. by putting them in these tags you are endangering them.

Hot take: the Spiderverse movies are quite possibly the most relatable superhero movies I’ve ever experienced because I’ve never seen a superhero movie nail the ‘being queer and closeted’ experience down to a T

Like the AMOUNT of experiences they get down so well is just

- not feeling accepted anywhere, even within your own community sometimes, feeling like a mistake no matter where you go

- hiding half your identity from your parents (I swear to god that scene where Miles is about to tell Rio he’s Spiderman in ATSV is literally me trying to come out to my parents and chickening out, it hurt to watch)

- fearing rejection from your parents (“Dad, do you really hate Spiderman?”)

- finding out the people you look up to and trust wouldn’t accept you and would actually try to harm you and the sheer terror that comes from it (god the Prowler reveal in the first movie still hurts me)

- gravitating more and more towards friends who are also queer because they get you (aka the spideys from different dimension just gravitating together)

- just. having a secret identity, in general

- the underlying theme of the movies that despite anything, despite the world rejecting you, despite your own community rejecting you, you are valid and you are loved and you should never forget that (which is not an inherently queer experience but g o d)

I could go on, but. Just. Dammit, these movies mean so much to me.