• interrupt a line of thought with a sudden new one
• say ‘uh’ between words when unsure
• accidentally blend multiple words together, and may start the sentence over again
• repeat filler words such as ‘like’ ‘literally’ ‘really’ ‘anyways’ and ‘i think’
• begin and/or end sentences with phrases such as ‘eh’ and ‘you know’, and may make those phrases into question form to get another’s input
• repeat words/phrases when in an excited state
• words fizzle out upon realizing no one is listening
• repeat themselves when others don’t understand what they’re saying, as well as to get their point across
• reply nonverbally such as hand gestures, facial expressions, random noises, movement, and even silence
Excellent sticky note for dialogue writing in fiction.
All of this. I get a lot of compliments on my dialogue and this list pretty much covers what I do (but some of it, I didn’t even realize I did, lol). I highly recommend reading your dialogue aloud (or imagining it in realtime like a movie scene) to see if it feels natural, which is what I do when editing.
“For example, we often hear that necromancy was outlawed because it was a devilish practice that depended upon the power of Satan for its effectiveness. What you do not hear is that necromancy was an aspect of ancestor worship, and that part of outlawing it involved making it illegal to bury your family members on your own land. Suddenly, you were required to bury your dead in Church-sanctioned graveyards. This effectively removed one of your most solid claims to ownership of your ancestral land. It was no longer the place where you could prove your forefathers lay buried. It made it easier for authorities to come along and kick you out of your home and take state ownership of the land your family had left to you. This also supported the ultimate goal of breaking up family clans, and the political power and wealth that often went along with them.”
— Aaron Leitch, Folk Tradition and the Solomonic Revival; At the Crossroads
a character’s favorite vehicle, technology, coat, etc.
a pleasant night
hair, skin tone, clothing, etc. of a good person
undisturbed water of a lake
the case/container of something important
valued wood, furniture, art
velvet
Think to burn, to infect, to bleach vs. to enrich, to protect, to be of substance.
*slams reblog like the fist of an angry god*
the politics of light and dark are everywhere in our vocabulary…psa to writers: subvert this, reveal whiteness and lightness as sometimes artificial and violent, and darkness as healing, the unknown as natural
Do you love greek myths, queer love stories, and badass women? Then I think you’ll love Volume I of my Gods and Monsters series, which contains 22 stories exploring the above.
Of course, these stories are available on my tumblr and AO3, but if you’re looking for physical version that you can hold in your hand, here’s the place to be!
It also contains 17 gorgeous black and white Illustrations by @nesynkoy!
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Creative Writing Professor at a former college: Welcome to creative writing! By the way,
you will not write fantasy, ghost stories, pranormal, or science fiction
in this class, as this is a creative writing course.”
What the ever loving fuck is with “creative” writing professors who think that speculative fiction of any stripe ISN’T CREATIVE?
I still remember my own creative writing teacher telling me this because he saw the Terry Pratchett book on my desk and got this smug smirk on his face like “aha, gotcha”. He had the nerve to pick it up and call it “popularist fiction”, like somehow being popular and easily accessible made it less inherent in intellectual value.
I had it in my back pack because I did my final thesis on the evolution of mythology and folk tails into fantasy and sci-fi and the societal importance of telling stories (before anyone asks, no I don’t have it, I lost it when I moved continents), and I used Terry Pratchett because there wasn’t a single humanitarian issue the man did not touch on.
Which I told him. And then he kind of floundered and went “ah, well but, it’s…well I mean it’s not exactly high brow”, like neither the fuck was Shakespeare or Dickens you self-important turnip. Dickens was literally selling his stories by the chapter. He was the popular author of his time. Shakespeare was too, he fucking made up words and phrases all the time because the language he needed to express himself didn’t exist in the way he needed it too.
Intellectual elitism is nothing more than a hold over from class warfare and the belief that only certain people should get to be truly educated. And it needs to be smashed.
The only creative writing teacher I ever had who helped my style worth a damn allowed us to write any fucking thing we wanted, and actually altered her requirements for the final because she wanted me to write a new chapter of my superhero/sci-fi ongoing JUST SO SHE COULD KNOW WHAT HAPPENED NEXT! I have to this day never received a better compliment on anything I’ve written.
And my impression of professors who only wanted to see “serious” literature was simply that they didn’t know a damn thing about genre fiction, and it was a good way to cover up their ignorance. Because everything that came out of their mouths on the subject was broad-strokes bullshit. (And I know at least one prof was writing terribly derivative detective novels on the side for beer money. But god forbid we learn how to actually make a living writing.)
so @carpedm87 and i were laughing about tumblr sex ed and…
imma help you guys out a little bc tumblr has obviously scared half of y’all into thinking that anal is difficult and fanfiction porn is too clean and that if you use less than a whole cup of lube, you will die
cleaning:
have a nice, solid poop ahead of time
that’s it. you’re done
probably not something anyone cares to read about in a fanfic. ok to skip
your rectum is empty most of the time anyway
umm…. enemas sound like overkill to me personally, but i guess if you want to?
lubing:
use some, i guess. probably don’t use none
some people prefer more? some prefer less?
stretching:
idk never heard of her
condoms:
wear them irl
up to you whether you include them in fic? im not your moral compass
inserting:
relax and think about wanting the dick inside you
your body does the rest
literally, relax. if you’ve pooped poops the size of the dick, and you’ve used some lube, it’ll fit
the ol’ “one-two-dick”:
all the fingering stuff is just foreplay that feels good. pleasure helps you relax
if you don’t need it and you’re psyched about dick without it, ok to skip
you don’t have to skip it if you like it
i personally think it’s boring to read 80% of the time. other people will get squicked out if it’s skipped. write what you want
after:
sometimes your butt is sore?
sometimes it’s not?
idk, depends. neither is unrealistic
irl, wash things that went in your butt with soap and warm water
in fic, do you want to write about clean up? is it part of the story? if not, laugh at anyone that tries to shame you into including this
Time to bring this back, I think. NSFW for demonstration images involving lots of dicks and also a kinks page. If you’re under 18, just don’t click that (and don’t come bitching to me if you do click it and get offended, I told you what was under there).
Fandom younglings, by which I mean anybody under approximately the age of 30, meet Minotaur.
Minotaur, sadly, passed away in 2009. But his friends have ensured his page stays up and lives on. He was a valued member of the early Internet fannish community, and his best-known contribution to it–the one to which I have just linked you–was “I am a gay man, here is how to write gay sex.” You can learn more about him as a person and fandomer here: https://fanlore.org/wiki/Minotaur
And while his famous guide uses very outdated fandom terminology (yep, it still says “slash” all over the damn place), and you can definitely tell the website’s layout hasn’t been touched in–literally–17 years, it’s still a great place to start, and I use it as a resource to this day.
It’s been here for you possibly since shortly after you were born, lovingly crafted for you by a fandom elder. Honor and use it.
Thank God. So sick of the occasional know it all trying to tell me my porn is not written correctly. I actually got this as a comment once : “you can’t do that! That’s a hospital visit!! There would be buckets of blood because you didn’t use enough lube and there was no actual stretching !”
My actual response : “I never write something I haven’t actually done myself. If you’ve had anal, please correct me. No? Okay, go away.”
I hate know it alls. Fuck off and come back when you can speak from experience.
wupacing 