The Right Writing

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Anonymous asked: I'm not all sure if it was your blog, but wasn't there a voting for best protagonist etc going around on tumblr? I never noticed the results!

Oh no I forgot all about that stuff! It’ll come back in a couple days. Sorry, guys! 

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Anonymous asked: Sudden urges are what happen when characters need the restroom.

I wish!

Authors often say things like “John had the sudden urge to take a turn into the spooky forest instead of going to work, so he swerved his car to the left instead of taking the rightmost road” when it wouldn’t be a natural thing for John to do.

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Ways for the author to directly intervene in the story >: (

  • Prophecies
  • Ancient tales
  • Intuition
  • “Sudden urges”
  • Orders from the boss/leader/etc
  • Things the gods say
  • Governmental edicts

If you use any of these, take care to see that the government or the gods or whoever sends prophecies to seers has an agenda beyond “advance the plot.” Otherwise, you might as well waltz into the pages of your story and push your characters into place.

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Every scene should have at least one awesome, memorable part.

Every character should do at least one awesome, memorable thing.

If this isn’t true in your story, you may need to rewrite or delete certain scenes and characters.

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You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.
Neil Gaiman

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jacko-as-a-pun:

so basically here’s an actual important thing that needs doing. fuck monsters for five seconds and listen to this. 

tumblr user http://stfufood.tumblr.com/ has made it their personal challenge to have someone commit suicide however possible. they post links to people’s tumblrs asking their followers to send them hate messages. they are constantly railing against people with anxiety/depression saying they should kill themselves and rid the world of them.

well how about this, i’m making it my personal challenge to have their tumblr removed to stop the hate. if you want to help email abuse@tumblr.com and explain what’s going down. we need stfufood brought down before someone gets seriously hurt. 

if you take the time to do this, then thank you very very much. i love you all. 

If you’re easily disturbed, don’t click on their blog. There’s some NSFW stuff. Just report them. Stfufood literally thinks people with disorders and mental illnesses shouldn’t be allowed to live because of all the “suffering” those people have to endure by just living.

If you want to see one of Stfufood’s posts telling people to commit suicide without wading through NSFW posts, look here. But be warned: it’s probably one of the most terrible things you’ll ever read on Tumblr.

(via orima-kazooie)