Posts that give me WIP inspiration

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
wyrmably

Anonymous asked:

This might be a bit weird.

How to describe foreign culture without sounding like a foreigner?

writingquestionsanswered answered:

1 - Do lots and lots of research.

WQA’s Guide to Internet Research
Setting Your Story in an Unfamiliar Place
How to Write Any Type of Character
Writing a Diverse Character from Outside the Community
Describing a Character’s Race & Ethnicity
Writing Character Slang and Accents
Dialogue Scenes with Language Barriers 
Using a Foreign Language in Your Story
Character Speaking Another Language (Without Actually Writing It…)

Watch documentaries and read books about the culture. Watch movies and TV shows about the culture. Read interviews, blogs, and articles about the culture. Sometimes you can find people from the culture who love to educate people about their culture, so see if you can find people like that in writing forums, travel forums, etc. Just don’t ask people who aren’t already offering this kind of help.

2 - Hire a sensitivity reader (or two, or three) from the culture.

If you’re going to write about a culture that isn’t your own, it’s absolutely VITAL that you hire at least one sensitivity reader from that culture. Otherwise, not only are you going to sound like a foreigner portraying a culture that’s not your own, there’s also a high risk that you could end up doing something offensive or even harmful, and you definitely don’t want to do that.

I hope that helps!

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I’ve been writing seriously for over 30 years and love to share what I’ve learned. Have a writing question? My inbox is always open!

ana-lyz
nancywheeeler

hopeless time loop. the way out isn’t to save everyone. the way out isn’t to save even one person. the way out isn’t to change anything. the way out is accepting how it happened the first time is how it always will be. that’s how you acted, that’s how they acted, that’s how you would have acted every time if you weren’t given the curse of hindsight. the way out is accepting you can’t fix the past; you can only forgive yourself for it.

too-short-for-my-own-good
ernmark

I love time loop stories. Really, I do.

But I'd love to see a story about what happens after you emerge from the time loop.

When, after months or years of repetition, you have to learn how to live with a choice you can't redo tomorrow.

When you meet someone new for the first time and have to figure out how to navigate this brand new conversation.

When you reach for the same day's clothes and realize that you can't wear them because they got dirty. Your laundry, your dishes, your body, your teeth, all the tasks that reset with the loop are suddenly stacking up and you need to set aside time to do them.

When you reach that first weekend and your schedule radically shifts and you don't know what to do with yourself, which is terrifying but also exhilarating in ways you can't explain.

When you casually drop facts learned from those books you spent a dozen loops reading, and you realize you retained something worth keeping.

How your memory gets weirdly good all of a sudden, despite not having all that repetition to fall back on, because suddenly every experience is fresh and new.

And when the seasons change, and your hair grows long enough that you want to cut it, and when you realize it's shocking because you didn't think you'd ever see something as incredible as the passage of time.

randomlettrrsqqssfxwcvhxnqbwriro asked:

Hello, my dear human! (: List five things that make you happy. Feel free to use as many or as little words as you like, and be as descriptive/spartan/simple/complex/etc as you want with the language that you use. Then, sent this ask or a variation of it to the last ten or so different people who reblogged your post! Have a wonderful week!!!!

istg I did not mean to wait a month before answering this.

  1. staying up till 2 am writing
  2. playing music late at night
  3. singing as I cook/clean the kitchen
  4. being part of a fandom while new content is coming out. It’s one thing to make up theories about something by yourself, but it’s another thing when the entire fandom is doing it together in anticipation of the release date. And I don’t have to worry about spoilers.
  5. getting asks
thadeeliv
dasha-aibo

Post-apocalyptic concept: world ravaged by endless nuclear war, where the buildings are actually nuke-proof. Everyone is locked inside a labyrinth of interconnected high-rises while mushroom clouds become just kind of a regular annoyance.

semicolonthefifth

Generations pass, and while living inside the network of bunkers and buildings isn’t ideal, the fear of the nukes has changed into a norm. New generations have nothing to compare to - all they know is the safety of the buildings and the muffled explosions. Ironically nukes still serve their purpose as a deterrence to war, not in its total prevention but in the restriction of ground combat. Perhaps further generations pass and the explosions keep coming, and some wonder who is even sending the nukes anymore and for what reason. Is there even a war still, or has the world accepted this new living and now just send nukes out to maintain this weird era of peace within constant war.

dasha-aibo

You get it

thadeeliv
dasha-aibo:
“injuries-in-dust:
“kraetys:
“tiger-in-the-flightdeck:
“numberlover1729:
“injuries-in-dust:
“Thats it folks. We can all go home. We have the peak humans are weird space orcs story.
”
Uh, Galactic Central? This is Zorblax 863-G. The Humans...
injuries-in-dust

Thats it folks. We can all go home. We have the peak humans are weird space orcs story.

numberlover1729

Uh, Galactic Central? This is Zorblax 863-G. The Humans WANTED to mate with us, what do we do?

Did you mention the pain caused by mating?

Yes, 50,000 of the original volunteers withdrew, but 30,000 new ones stepped forward.

Those are some freaky lifeforms

tiger-in-the-flightdeck

“We… We showed them examples of our genitals. Scans show that 57% of the volunteers developed increased heart rate and elevated body temperature while a further 16% began to make noises. And. Well. One individual presented us with a device that they had custom designed a year before our arrival and I swear it is an exact replica of the High Council Leader’s penetration organ.”

“What, you mean with the-”

“Yes, with the suckers and everything. They said they are working their way up to the Jumbo version. I was too frightened to ask what that meant.”

kraetys

Why is the high council leader’s penetration organ a commonly seen thing? Does the council just meet in full nude? Is the leader the only one?

injuries-in-dust

Clothing may not necessarily be a universal invention.

dasha-aibo

Consider: space tabloids

too-short-for-my-own-good
vamprisms

vampire hunter? no i said vampire HAUNTER. this jerk sucked all my blood out so now i spend my afterlife knocking over shelves and scaring off potential victims and just making the castle generally pretty cold

vamprisms

it's always 'bleh why are the plates floating', 'gah who knocked over my blood goblet' and never 'sorry for killing you' ok starve then!

vamprisms

and what are you going to do about it? have a priest exorcise the place? yeah good luck with all the crosses and holy water you piece of shit

marlynnofmany

It’s a lovely morning in the gothic castle, and you are a horrible ghost.

alnaperera
tldsurvival:
“weirdponytail:
“first-son-of-finwe:
“Because it’s happened to us on a trek, if you see abandoned clothes, stop and search for anyone nearby. Late-stage hypotherima causes a thing called paradoxical undressing where the person feels too...
first-son-of-finwe

Because it’s happened to us on a trek, if you see abandoned clothes, stop and search for anyone nearby. Late-stage hypotherima causes a thing called paradoxical undressing where the person feels too hot and starts taking their clothes off.

weirdponytail

for a little bit of an order for this if it isn’t obvious: Take any wet clothes off (including sweaty clothes!! underlayers can become soaked with sweat while working in the cold and lead to hypothermia later) BEFORE you wrap the person in warm dry blankets/clothing. 

Also I cannot stress the ‘do not rub’ thing enough. If you have a frozen steak, let it thaw a little bit and then give it a good rub. Take a peek at it via a hand lens. You’ll see tons of little cuts/gashes. That’s from the ice crystals cutting into the flesh. NEVER rub the skin of a hypothermia/extreme cold exposed person to warm them up unless you want the same damn thing happening to their flesh.

Don’t warm the extremities (hands/feet) too quickly. Not only would it be extremely painful, but the vessels in said extremities opening too quickly can lead to shock (part of the direct heat issue).

tldsurvival

This deserves another reblog

reblogging this for reasons
some-messed-up-writing-for-you
some-messed-up-writing-for-you

Short Prompt #1192

CW: kidnapping.

"How do you feel, darling? The rope loose enough for you?" The villain sauntered over to their hostage, giving them a little smirk.

Civilian pulled at their restraints, testing their strength. "Eh, it's alright." They cocked an eyebrow at the criminal. "Why am I here, anyway?"

Villain looked confused. "Because you're dating Hero?"

"I'm doing what now?"

hero villain