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Here you'll find dumb stories written by yours truly. If you do read any, I hope you enjoy reading them.
I will mostly post original stories and rarely any fanfics. I will also be posting some pretty gory/insane stories once in a while.


longreads:

Helpful tips from a poet who lives in Brooklyn:

1. MOVE OUT OF BROOKLYN
I know not every novelist in America lives in Brooklyn, it just seems that way. There are a million stories on the L Train, and they’re all basically about dorky people doing dorky things. Which is fine. The best novel to come out of Williamsburg was obviously A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. That was The Pre-ironic Brooklyn Age. And while Brooklyn might be a great place for other artists, poets and painters to live and interact and steal from each other, all your sad little Brooklyn novels end up sounding about the same. Novelists in packs are like Smurfs, except drunk and bitter.

“How to Write the Great American Novel.” — Jim Behrle, The Awl
See more #longreads from The Awl

longreads:

Helpful tips from a poet who lives in Brooklyn:

1. MOVE OUT OF BROOKLYN

I know not every novelist in America lives in Brooklyn, it just seems that way. There are a million stories on the L Train, and they’re all basically about dorky people doing dorky things. Which is fine. The best novel to come out of Williamsburg was obviously A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. That was The Pre-ironic Brooklyn Age. And while Brooklyn might be a great place for other artists, poets and painters to live and interact and steal from each other, all your sad little Brooklyn novels end up sounding about the same. Novelists in packs are like Smurfs, except drunk and bitter.

“How to Write the Great American Novel.” — Jim Behrle, The Awl

See more #longreads from The Awl

forsakenasylum:

102 Resources for Fiction Writers

goddessofcheese:

vulpesinculta:

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

10 Days of Character Building

Name Generators

Name Playground

The Universal Mary Sue Litmus Test

Priming the idea pump (A character checklist shamlessly lifted from acting)

How to Create a Character

Seven Common Character Types

Handling a Cast of Thousands – Part I: Getting to Know Your Characters

It’s Not What They Say …

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?

Character: A compilation of guidance from classical and contemporary experts on creating great dramatic characters

Building Fictional Characters

Fiction Writer’s Character Chart

Character Building Workshop

Tips for Characterization

Fiction Writer’s Character Chart

Villains are People, Too, But …

Top 10 Tips for Writing Dialogue

Speaking of Dialogue

Dialogue Tips

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!

Medieval Names Archive

Sympathy Without Saintliness

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

Behind the Name

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

Outlining Your Plot

Ideas, Plots & Using the Premise Sheets

How to Write a Novel

Creating Conflict and Sustaining Suspense

Plunge Right In … Into Your Story, That Is!

Fiction Writing Tips: Story Grid

Tips for Creating a Compelling Plot

Writer’s “Cheat Sheets”

The Thirty-six (plus one) Dramatic Situations

The Evil Overlord Devises a Plot: Excerpt from Stupid Plotting Tricks

Conflict Test

What is Conflict?

Monomyth

The Hero’s Journey: Summary of the Steps

Outline Your Novel in Thirty Minutes

Plotting Without Fears

Novel Outlining 101

Writing the Perfect Scene

Fight Scenes 101

Basic Plots in Literature

One-Page Plotting

The Great Swampy Middle

SETTING, WORLD BUILDING

Magical World Builder’s Guide

I Love the End of the World

World Building 101

The Art of Description: Eight Tips to Help You Bring Your Settings to Life

Creating the Perfect Setting – Part I

Creating a Believable World

An Impatient Writer’s Approach to Worldbuilding

Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions

Setting

Character and Setting Interactions

Creating Fantasy and Science Fiction Worlds

Creating Fantasy Worlds

Questions About Worldbuilding

Maps Workshop — Developing the Fictional World Through Mapping

World Builder Projects

IDEAS, INSPIRATION

Quick Story Idea Generator

Solve Your Problems Simply by Saying Them Out Loud

Busting Your Writing Rut

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

Random Book Title Generator

Finishing Your Novel

Story Starters and Idea Generators

REVISION

How to Rewrite

One-Pass Manuscript Revision: From First Draft to Last in One Cycle

Editing Recipe

Cliche Finder

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)

screaming

(Source: ruthlesscalculus)

Fandom: Puella Magi Madoka Magica

unrequieted-love:

She sits alone in the subway train, save for the two male passengers that were sitting across from her.

Madoka must be worried about me… But, I’ve said horrible things to her. She’ll never forgive me…

Sayaka sighs as she stares blankly out the window. Today, she saw Hitomi confess to Kyosuke and they were happy together. They made a good couple… She could picture it clearly. Hitomi’s confident face as she told Kyosuke her feelings and Kyosuke’s smile as he accepted them. Would he have reacted the same if she had told him her feelings first? Probably not. Who would love someone like her, especially since she’s a Puella Magi with no soul. She’s just an empty shell of her former self. Nothing more, nothing less.

But, she can never get that possibility out of her head. She loved to think about how it would turn out.

She would be walking home and would see Kyosuke playing the violin.

                                          

“Kyosuke… You still play beautifully.” She would say in awe.

He would smile at her and motion her to sit with him. He would say, “Here, let me play you a song.” And he would play another wonderful melody.

“Kyosuke… I love you.” Sayaka mutters under her breath.

Kyosuke finishes his piece and sets down his violin. He turns to face Sayaka.

“Eh?” Sayaka looks up and sees him looking into her eyes.

He moves in to kiss her.

“Sayaka… I love you too.”

Her thoughts are interrupted when she overhears the men talk about their girlfriends. How she was an idiot for not doing as she was told. How she would get lazy once they loosened her leash. They didn’t say anything good about her at all. She just couldn’t stand to her one more word of their stupid conversation.

“Excuse me.” She stands up and walks over to the men. “That woman… Tell me more about her.”

One of them sneers, “What?”

“She tries to do her best for you to make you happy. She cares about you. Shelovesyou with all of her heart, and yet, you’re going to make it seem like she’s nothing but a burden to you?”

The other man glares at her, “Hey, do you know her or something?”

“Tell me, what have I been fighting for all of this time?” Sayaka questions them.

“Because if you don’t…”

Everything goes black. She can’t see anything, but she can still hear. She can hear her laughing manically and the men screaming begging for their lives.

DIE!!!”

(Source: orchestratedlove)

theonlysurvivingvictim:

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Fandom: Twisted Metal

Fandom: Disgaea 4

Pairing: Valvatorez x Artina

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Original Story #1

Inspired by “If I Told you Once” by Circus Contraption

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Fandom: Puella Magi Madoka Magica

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