Another Unreal Dwelling

prompts-and-pointers: babbleslime: Character development...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 08:00:27 +0900

Plant's chart; he's an emotional little flower baby. He also places a lot of importance on physical things.

Quick's chart; Quick has a high need for spiritual fulfillment as well as social fulfillment.

prompts-and-pointers:

babbleslime:

Character development thing.

Plot points on this chart to represent how important these different aspects of a character’s life are to them. By doing that you can help determine what type of things your character deems to be most meaningful in their life, especially compared to others aspects.

A brief explanation of each aspect is below in case you’re confused about the meaning of any.

Physical Aspects

Strength: to have physical power and strength

Sex: to have sexual gratification and satisfaction

Possessions: to have objects and tangible things

Health: to have physical health and stability

Appearance: to have a good external appearance

Emotional Aspects

Love: to love and be loved, romantically or otherwise

Appreciation: to be appreciated by others

Attention: to be paid attention to

Security: to feel secure emotionally

Approval: to be approved by others

Social Aspects

Respect: to be respected

Friendship: to have friends

Intimacy: to be intimate with a partner or partners

Belongingness: to feel needed and belonged

Family: to be on good terms with/have a family

Spiritual Aspects

Inner peace: to be content with themselves

Purpose: to feel as though they are fulfilling a purpose

Self-sufficiency: to feel that they are able to provide for themselves

Growth: to feel as though they are growing and changing

Acceptance: to be able to accept themselves without consequence

This is an absolutely amazing exercise and I certainly recommend doing it.

How to end your novel

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:00:37 +0900

How to end your novel:

writeworld:

nanowrimodiary:

The Dos and Don’ts By James V. Smith Jr.

Don’ts

Don’t introduce any new characters or subplots. Any appearances within the last 50 pages should have been foreshadowed earlier, even if mysteriously.

Don’t describe, muse, explain or philosophize. Keep description to a minimum, but maximize action and conflict. You have placed all your charges. Now, light the fuse and run.

Don’t change voice, tone or attitude. An ending will feel tacked on if the voice of the narrator suddenly sounds alien to the voice that’s been consistent for the previous 80,000 words.

Don’t resort to gimmicks. No quirky twists or trick endings. The final impression you want to create is a positive one. Don’t leave your reader feeling tricked or cheated.

Dos

Do create that sense of Oh, wow! Your best novelties and biggest surprises should go here. Readers love it when some early, trivial detail plays a part in the finale.

Do enmesh your reader deeply in the outcome. Get her so involved that she cannot put down your novel to go to bed, to work or even to the bathroom until she sees how it turns out.

Do resolve the central conflict. You don’t have to provide a happily-ever-after ending, but do try to uplift. Readers want to be uplifted, and editors try to give readers what they want.

Do afford redemption to your heroic character. No matter how many mistakes she has made along the way, allow the reader—and the character—to realize that, in the end, she has done the right thing.

Do tie up loose ends of significance. Every question you planted in a reader’s mind should be addressed, even if the answer is to say that a character will address that issue later, after the book ends.

Do mirror your final words to events in your opener. When you reach the ending, go back to ensure some element in each of your complications will point to the beginning. It’s the tie-back tactic. Merely create a feeling that the final words hearken to an earlier moment in the story.

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Photo

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 08:00:47 +0900

Rethinking corners. :D

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 23:11:55 +0900

Rethinking corners. :D

Some library design that would flair up imagination! :D

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:28:22 +0900

Some library design that would flair up imagination! :D

" When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction..."

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:38:09 +0900

““ When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind. ””

- C. S. Lewis (via seabois)

thinkingininklings: Stephen Fry’s take on the e-reader vs. book...

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:38:02 +0900

thinkingininklings:

Stephen Fry’s take on the e-reader vs. book argument.

"But the problem with readers, the idea we’re given of reading is that the model of a reader is the..."

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:20:24 +0900

“But the problem with readers, the idea we’re given of reading is that the model of a reader is the person watching a film, or watching television. So the greatest principle is, “I should sit here and I should be entertained.” And the more classical model, which has been completely taken away, is the idea of a reader as an amateur musician. An amateur musician who sits at the piano, has a piece of music, which is the work, made by somebody they don’t know, who they probably couldn’t comprehend entirely, and they have to use their skills to play this piece of music. The greater the skill, the greater the gift that you give the artist and that the artist gives you. That’s the incredibly unfashionable idea of reading. And yet when you practice reading, and you work at a text, it can only give you what you put into it. It’s an old moral, but it’s completely true.”

- Zadie Smith (via lyras)

"but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight…"

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:16:08 +0900

“but the rain
Is full of ghosts tonight…”

- Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “Sonnet XLIII” (via litverve)

WriteWorld: Traits of Effective Writing

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 23:03:00 +0900

WriteWorld: Traits of Effective Writing:

writeworld:

Always keep the following traits in mind when you write. If you follow them, you will do your best work.

Stimulating Ideas: Good writing includes important ideas, accurate information, and interesting details. It also has a clear message or purpose.

Logical Organization: Good writing is well…

"In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves."

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 01:07:22 +0900

““In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.””

- Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls (via quote-book)

"I want to feel my life. I want to stop agreeing to things I don’t really want."

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 01:07:19 +0900

“I want to feel my life. I want to stop agreeing to things I don’t really want.”

- Living Out Loud, 1998 (via kari-shma)

"Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must’ve hit a window. Calvin: Isn’t it..."

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:21:39 +0900

““Calvin: Look, a dead bird!
Hobbes: It must’ve hit a window.
Calvin: Isn’t it beautiful? It’s so delicate. Sighhh… once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is. You realize that nature is ruthless and our existence is very fragile, temporary, and precious. But to go on with your daily affairs, you can’t really think about that…which is probably why everyone takes the world for granted and why we act so thoughtlessly. It’s very confusing. I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up.
Hobbes: No doubt.””

- Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: There’s Treasure Everywhere

"It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept."

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:03:24 +0900

““It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.””

- Bill Watterson

"Reality continues to ruin my life."

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:02:22 +0900

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”

- Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

"I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only..."

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 01:41:41 +0900

“I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.”

- Marie Curie (via holymoleculesbatman)

"Not all who wander are lost."

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:47:05 +0900

“Not all who wander are lost.”

- J. R. R. Tolkien (via laceofpearls)

"I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of..."

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:02:47 +0900

“I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two every day running alone, not speaking to anyone, as well as four or five hours alone at my desk, to be neither difficult nor boring. I’ve had this tendency ever since I was young, when, given a choice, I much preferred reading books on my own or concentrating on listening to music over being with someone else. I could always think of things to do by myself.”

- Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (via the-professional-student)

"We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable,..."

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:50:49 +0900

“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”

- e e cummings (via venula)

amandaonwriting: 10 Signs That You’re a Writer by...

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:50:37 +0900

amandaonwriting:

10 Signs That You’re a Writer

by Writability

You constantly edit. Whether it’s while you’re driving down the street and pass a misspelled sign, or grammatical errors in Facebook posts, you fix errors constantly in your mind—and sometimes not so silently.

You’re highly observant. And not only do you notice things all the time, but you file them away in your I could write about this later folder.

You often ask, “How could I describe this?” You don’t ignore your life experiences—everything from walking outside during a torrential downpour, to burning yourself while cooking, to taking the first bite of a piping-hot homemade chocolate chip cookie can be used in your writing, and you often pause to think about how you would describe it in words.

You have a hyperactive imagination. There’s never a dull moment in that head of yours—your imagination is always working on overtime to keep you entertained and give you fresh ideas.

You feel inspired to write after reading a good book. Enough said.

You often daydream about your WIPs. Your characters never completely leave you— they walk alongside you throughout the day and give you new ideas when you least expect it.

You feel guilty if you haven’t written anything in a while. What a “while” is depends, but after a writing hiatus, a part of you begins to demand that you get back to the keyboard and reprimands you if you don’t.

Grammar jokes are funny. Well, they are.

You can’t get enough books. After all, every new book is a couple hours worth of inspiration.

You keep doing this writing thing. It doesn’t matter if you’re not published, if no one else cares if you continue to write, if you don’t make a penny off of the words that you put on the page—none of that matters, because you’ll continue to write anyway.

10 Signs by Writability

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