Another Writing Nook
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Fuck Yeah Character Development!: Your Character And Clothes While gratuitous blocks of text about a character’s clothing should normally be avoided, how someone dresses can be a great way to show rather than tell about elements of their character. It’s also a great tool to show character or personality when working with visual media. I’ve even seen it used as a thoughtful and successful part of the plot.
So let’s get thinking about your character’s style:
- What colors do they prefer? Why?
- In what state of cleanliness and repair are their clothes typically in?
- Comfort, practicality, or fashion? What’s most important?
- Name the ways in which your character’s average clothes are suited (or unsuited) to what they’ll be doing in the story.
- What kind of shoes does your character usually wear?
- Does their manner of dress tell you anything about their personality, job, etc?
- If they wear a uniform or standardized type of outfit, what is their opinion on it? Do they try to adapt it or wear it a certain way?
- Is there anything that your character wears that has sentimental value?
- Does your character wear jewelry? If so, what style and how much?
- Are there any accessories they carry for practical reasons (for example keeping hair ties on their wrist, or having work gloves in a pocket)?
- What kinds or articles of clothing do they hate, and why?
- What do other people think about your character’s clothes? What do people assume about the person based on their clothing? What do their friends think of how they dress?
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“A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.” — Albert Camus (via writingquotes) -
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Letters from the Margins: Hello, I’m Ellen and I’m a 21 year old queer ciswoman who watches... Hello, I’m Ellen and I’m a 21 year old queer ciswoman who watches shows from all around the world just to find representation. The kind of representation I’m talking about is not LGBTQ+, though that is a very important aspect of media that I’m always analyzing and critiquing. No, the…
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Hey, sometimes you have bad writing days! Sometimes you are like this ferret, wet and miserable and sad because you didn’t get any writing done and someone made you take a bath because you stank!
Don’t be so hard on yourself! Tomorrow is another day, where like this ferret you will feel so much better after a bath and not dwell on what you didn’t do today. Because seriously, fuck today. Today is a day you didn’t get to write. Today is an asshole. Today is the sad ferret who had to have a bath.
But guess what? There’s no baths tomorrow! Go with the knowledge that you will no longer be a sad, wet ferret. You will be dry! You will feel better! And you will have another chance to write!
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“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery – celebrate it if you feel like it.” —Jim Jarmusch (via archatlas)
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The Writers Helpers: How to Write a Fight Scene (Rebloggable Version) Admin Note: This post is a rebloggable copy of our page on fight scenes. The page is being phased out, so from now on all updates will be made on this post and not on the page.
Among the typically difficult scenes writers face in their stories, the fight scene definitely…
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The Writers Helpers: Writing Tips 77: Naomi’s Advice for writing Abusive Relationships I was asked to make a rebloggable version.
1. Be bold, vicious and detailed.
There are different kinds of abuse and they are all damaging to a person. In our current social climate it seems to me that authors and readers have no idea what an abusive… -
Fuck Yeah Character Development!: what if my writing is bad, aka fuck that bullshit Okay, so you want to write things. Many things. Beautiful things! Things that seem so awesome in your head! But you have just one tiny, itty-bitty problem:
Everything you write is total, complete shit. It’s so shit you want to print it out just so you can set it on…
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Fuck Yeah Character Development!: Describing Characters Through 'Showing' Describing characters can be a little bit of a ‘telling’ minefield. While you are almost certainly going to end up with some ‘told’ description of a character, try to keep it to a minimum, ‘showing’ things about their appearance through action and dialogue instead.
Examples:
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