Tag: writing

romancingthebookworm:

BOOKWORM PROBLEMS:

Tiny detail mistakes.

So second time reading ACOTAR and I noticed something I missed before. It’s just one of those little details, but did anyone else notice that chickie there didn’t field dress her deer?

I don’t even hunt and I know your supposed to gut your deer on the spot so body heat won’t accelerate bacterial growth.

Small detail pet peeves! Ever encounter one?

heretherebeangst:

theprincessoflight:

secifosseluce:

thornsword:

magical-awesome-kid:

ominouslymathematical:

vampireapologist:

saltymommie:

vampireapologist:

saltymommie:

vampireapologist:

vampireapologist:

Imagine one of those vampires that spent a few decades napping and now they’re trying to catch up as best they can so they’re in a library looking through years of old magazines and overhear some middle-schooler discussing her project about the moon-landing and they’re like “WHAT!!!”

“You have to tell me everything about this!!!”

A confused but enthusiastic sixth-grader unfolds her trifold poster board and tells an absolutely captivated 3000 year old man-eater about the space race.

More like “I LITERALLY HAVENT EVEN GOTTEN THROUGH THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA PLEASE TAG SPOILERS”

I’M!!

“Have you gotten to Franz Ferdinand being shot yet?”
An Austrian Vampire, angrily looking up from a ninth-grade history book: “are you FUCKING KIDDING ME??”

“yeah you know…lincoln doesnt get reelected”
Vampire: “well why NOT he seems perfectly capable and oooh…oh…”

FRICK

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH

“So, you know pluto isn’t a planet, right?”

*Vampire chucks astronomy book written in 1994 at the person*

Imagine the vampire asking people who killed JFK and they’re all like ‘no one knows’ and the vampire just sighs and says ‘ok I know I said no spoilers but this is just getting ridiculous. someone tell me.”

imagine a vampire who’s absolutely mad about having missed a very specific moment and not really caring about the big picture searching for the one history nerd who might know when that outrageous lipstick they loved was put out of commerce, what happened to that minor theatre company debut, a forgetten artist’s they loved fate, if their friends ever did marry, what happened to that family lineage/where are the heirs now, /what happened to that one small hungarian village who was basically only some houses and mud where the heck did my village go/

this is my favorite vampire post

I love this on so many levels. Also @yetanotherramblingfangirl you need it.

writingwithcolor:

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Writing With Color Top Posts + Other Useful Ones

Oh hey– here’s a list ranked by Writing With Color’s most popular posts since opening in 2014 up till now, the start of 2017. Pulled together for the interest and usefulness for readers like you. Thank you.

Top 7 Popular Original Posts 

  1. Words for Skin Tone – This two part guide offers an array of words for describing skin color. Part I focuses on the problems with food descriptors. Part II provides alternatives. (68k+ Notes)
  2. Common Micro-aggressions: African Americans and/or Black People – An extensive list of common micro-aggressions towards Black people with some links for further reading. (46k)
  3. Words to Describe Hair – As with the words for skin tone, an offering of words to describe hair, from curls to different colors. (34k+)

  4. Black and White Symbolism: A Look into the Trope – Discusses concept of black as evil and white as good, from its history & problem implications. Guide offers alternatives & solutions. (10k)
  5. Describing Accents – An example-based post for describing accents and voices. (5k)
  6. How to Research your Racially/Ethnically Diverse Characters –     Self-explanatory. (5k) 
  7. Describing Asian Eyes – A guide to describing Asian eyes with further useful commentary. (4k)

Honorable Mentions

Other

recommended WWC Posts.

  • Stereotyped vs Nuanced Characters and Audience Perception –       Discusses one of our more common ask themes: the writing (or rather, the not writing) of stereotypes.
  • Stereotyping Tropes List – A categorized tropes list reposted from the TV Tropes website with links to their topics on the subject matter.

–WWC 

sergle:

spirituallygeeky:

thechubbynerd:

for-mi-ca-tion:

trashfirefallon:

Concept: make more chubby characters who are not the butt of jokes or there to supply a token character

Concept: make more chubby characters who don’t become thin as part of their character development.

Concept: make chubby characters who love themselves as they are and refuse to change whatsoever

Make chubby characters that can walk and talk without getting winded and don’t complain about being hungry all the time

Make chubby characters who are the romantic lead of the story instead of the bff of the thin romantic lead.