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Formerly maythedarknessbemerciful, littledream.
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By her mother’s standards, Regina has clearly become weak by the time the curse got broken. In fact, this ‘weakness’ (her need to have a child, to love) was her downfall - as it brought the savior to town. When your own mother destroys all the love in your life, as a result it is entirely sad not knowing how to express it properly if you happen to have it in you again.
“I think a lot of people think maybe acting’s a bit about, you know, showing off yourself but actually, well I do it to escape me. And then you watch a film but you go ‘oh it’s still me again’ you know?”
—Helena Bonham Carter
Are you still stuck for ideas for National Novel Writing Month? Or are you working on a novel at a more leisurely pace? Here are 102 resources on Character, Point of View, Dialogue, Plot, Conflict, Structure, Outlining, Setting, and World Building, plus some links to generate Ideas and Inspiration.
CHARACTER, POINT OF VIEW, DIALOGUE
The Universal Mary Sue Litmus Test
Priming the idea pump (A character checklist shamlessly lifted from acting)
Handling a Cast of Thousands – Part I: Getting to Know Your Characters
Establishing the Right Point of View: How to Avoid “Stepping Out of Character”
How to Start Writing in the Third Person
Web Resources for Developing Characters
What are the Sixteen Master Archetypes?
Fiction Writer’s Character Chart
Fiction Writer’s Character Chart
Villains are People, Too, But …
Top 10 Tips for Writing Dialogue
Advantages, Disadvantages and Skills (character traits)
How to Write a Character Bible
Character Development Exercises
All Your Characters Sounds the Same — And They’re Not a Hivemind!
Writing the Other: Bridging Cultural Difference for Successful Fiction
Family Echo (family tree website)
Interviewing Characters: Follow the Energy
100 Character Development Questions for Writers
Lineage Chart Layout Generator
PLOT, CONFLICT, STRUCTURE, OUTLINE
How to Write a Novel: The Snowflake Method
Effectively Outlining Your Plot
Conflict and Character within Story Structure
Ideas, Plots & Using the Premise Sheets
Creating Conflict and Sustaining Suspense
Plunge Right In … Into Your Story, That Is!
Fiction Writing Tips: Story Grid
Tips for Creating a Compelling Plot
The Thirty-six (plus one) Dramatic Situations
The Evil Overlord Devises a Plot: Excerpt from Stupid Plotting Tricks
The Hero’s Journey: Summary of the Steps
Outline Your Novel in Thirty Minutes
SETTING, WORLD BUILDING
The Art of Description: Eight Tips to Help You Bring Your Settings to Life
Creating the Perfect Setting – Part I
An Impatient Writer’s Approach to Worldbuilding
Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions
Character and Setting Interactions
Creating Fantasy and Science Fiction Worlds
Maps Workshop — Developing the Fictional World Through Mapping
IDEAS, INSPIRATION
Solve Your Problems Simply by Saying Them Out Loud
Writing Inspiration, or Sex on a Bicycle
Creative Acceleration: 11 Tips to Engineer a Productive Flow
The Seven Major Beginner Mistakes
Complete Your First Book with these 9 Simple Writing Habits
Free Association, Active Imagination, Twilight Imaging
Story Starters and Idea Generators
REVISION
One-Pass Manuscript Revision: From First Draft to Last in One Cycle
Revising Your Novel: Read What You’ve Written
Writing 101: So You Want to Write a Novel Part 3: Revising a Novel
TOOLS and SOFTWARE
My Writing Nook (online text editor; free)
Bubbl.us (online mind map application; free)
Freemind (mind map application; free; Windows, Mac, Linux, portable)
XMind (mind map application; free; Windows, Mac, Linux, portable)
Liquid Story Binder (novel organization and writing software; free trial, $45.95; Windows, portable)
Scrivener (novel organization and writing software; free trial, $39.95; Mac)
SuperNotecard (novel organization and writing software; free trial, $29; Windows, Mac, Linux, portable)
yWriter (novel organization and writing software; free; Windows, Linux, portable)
JDarkRoom (minimalist text editor; free; Windows, Mac, Linux, portable)
AutoRealm (map creation software; free; Windows, Linux with Wine)
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people born today won’t know what it’s like to have the plague spread across your entire country and kill half the population
reblog if you’re a true 1340s kid
- Cordy: Why is it always virgin women who have to do the sacrificing?
- Wesley: For purity, I suppose.
- Cordy: This has nothing to do with purity. This is all about dominance, buddy. You can bet if someone ordered a male body part for religious sacrifice the world would be atheist (snaps her fingers) like that.
My feelings towards Riley get pretty interesting you know? It’s all done in phases:
- oh hi cute college guy, I like you, I’m not supposed to like you but I do and this is all wrong please do something bad so I can hate you like I should
- good I can hate you now you’re now all Initiative-y and can’t have a mind of your own! Damn, I get that this season is all about finding yourself but please start thinking fast
- oh my poor little puppy dog who wants to be there for Buffy but she’s not easy emotionally and he doesn’t feel good enough
- … Riley sweetie those vamps are maybe a little too much, just a little
- OH YOU STUPID ULTIMATUM GUY! BUFFY DID GOOD TO LET YOU GO!
- … he’s sort of nice now… I sort of like him… he should’ve mentioned Sam before but… he’s all back to being good guy Riley
And it’s funny because I’m loving Angel because of greyness and just look at all the greyness here! There’s lots of wrong but very human choices. The issue is it’s all done through phases and I don’t have the whole love/hate thing Angel’s people have constantly going on and that they do so well.
Robert Downey Jr. on who would win a battle among the Avengers (via mrscatalano)
#intro post
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