Writing Site References

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A small list of random ass sites I’ve found useful when writing:

• Fragrantica: perfume enthusiast site that has a long list of scents. v helpful when you’re writing your guilty pleasure abo fics
  
• Just One Cookbook: recipe site that centers on Japanese cuisine. Lots of different recipes to browse, plenty of inspiration so you’re not just “ramen and sushi”
  
• This comparing heights page: gives you a visual on height differences between characters
  
• A page on the colors of bruises+healing stages: well just that. there you go. describe your bruises properly
  
• McCormick Science Institute: yes this is a real thing. the site shows off research on spices and gives the history on them. be historically accurate or just indulge in mindless fascination. boost your restaurant au with it
  
• A Glossary of Astronomy Terms: to pepper in that sweet terminology for your astrophysics major college au needs
  
• Canine Body Language
  
• Feline Body Language
  
• Cocktail Flow: a site with a variety of cocktails that’s pretty easy to navigate and offers photos of the drinks. You can sort by themes, strengths, type and base. My only real annoyance with this site is that the drinks are sometimes sorted into ~masculine~ and ~feminine~ but ehhhh. It’s great otherwise.
  
• Tie-A-Tie: a site centered around ties, obviously. I stumbled upon it while researching tie fabrics but there’s a lot more to look at. It offers insight into dress code for events, tells you how to tie your ties, and has a section on the often forgotten about tie accessories
  
• Types of High Heels: A page describing twenty five different types of high heels. It gives a description and pictures. Shake it up from just “stilettos and kitten heels”
  
• Random Job Generator: Exactly as it says. The site offer more generators like characters, plots, or town names.
  
• Glossary of Hosiery Terms: Figure out what is what on a pair of stockings.
  
• Men’s Dress Shoe Guide: A quick guide describing the eight most common types of men’s dress shoes. Pics included.
  
• Types of Women’s Coats: Descriptions and pics of various different types of coats.

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secondlina
As 2019 peeks around the corner, here is my Christmas gift to all illustration freelancers, webcomic artists and comic artists. An invoice and accounting management tool in Google Sheets. Open the link then click File > Make a Copy to save your own copy to work with.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1amiimlkqXpEA6niD9XLW3lZIOP9iCaY17drAUIegUlg/edit?usp=sharing

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stringbing

Animation smears lecture from Chapter 3 or FULL VERSION of my Complete Introduction to 2D Animation which you can find on https://gumroad.com/stringbing

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use comic sans to write

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arahir

i hate this so much but this knowledge is too powerful to keep from you all.

last night @phaltu discovered that setting your font to comic sans in google docs improves writing speed and creativity by an insane amount. “no” i said and “die” but then i tried it and god. i wish it wasn’t this way. i wish it wasn’t true. i wish i could protect you all from this but it’s real.

something about this font is so disarming. something about this font lets you look past the shape of the words and into their soul. i’ve never written so much as i did last night, on my phone, at 2am, in comic sans.

if you have writer’s block. if you lack inspiration. if you need this. don’t be afraid to use it. sometimes the things we find most horrifying are also the things we need the most. trust me. let comic sans into your life.

lorddio

This is because comic sans is a dyslexic friendly font, and was designed for ease of reading. It’s disarming and supposed to help! But, it’s still..comic sans and if you don’t want to use that, there are other fonts that should give you similar effects, like OpenDyslexic

Comic sans is just more available so this is still good advice for writers.

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brynwrites

Making your angst hurt: the power of lighthearted scenes.

I’m incredibly disappointed with the trend in stories (especially ‘edgy’ YA novels) to bombard the reader with traumatic situations, angry characters, and relationship drama without ever first giving them a reason to root for a better future. As a reader…

• I might care that the main siblings are fighting if they had first been shown to have at least one happy, healthy conversation.
  
  
• I might cry and rage with the protagonist if I knew they actually had the capacity to laugh and smile and be happy.
  
  
• I might be hit by heavy and dark situations if there was some notion that it was possible for this world to have light and hope and joy to begin with.

Writers seem to forget that their reader’s eyes adjust to the dark. If you want to give your reader a truly bleak situation in a continually dim setting, you have to put them in pitch blackness. But if you just shine a light first, the sudden change makes the contrast appear substantial.

Show your readers what light means to your character before taking it away. Let the reader bond with the characters in their happy moments before (and in between) tearing them apart. Give readers a future to root for by putting sparks of that future into the past and the present. Make your character’s tears and anger mean something.

Not only will this give your dark and emotional scenes more impact, but it says something that we as humans desperately, desperately need to hear.

Books with light amidst the darkness tell us that while things are hard and hurt, that we’re still allowed to breathe and hope and live and even laugh within the darkness.

We as humans need to hear this more often, because acting it out is the only way we stop from suffocating long enough to make a difference.

So write angst, and darkness, and gritty, painful stories, full of treacherous morally grey characters if you want to. But don’t forget to turn the light on occasionally.

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blixart



fernacular
for anyone who legit wants to know how to calculate it correctly:
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How to Plot Your Story Using the But/Therefore Method

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theliteraryarchitect
Here’s another sneak peak from my forthcoming book The Complete Guide to Self-Editing for Fiction Writers!

The but/therefore method* is an easy way to create your plot and test the cause-effect connections between your plot and character motivation.

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123 Ideas for Character Flaws

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tagaston

For any of you who are writing ‘across the pond’-here is a little guide I put together of some common differences between British and American English!

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Clickventure Murder, Cheat, and Fuck Your Way Through Boston

Do you have what it takes? Are you the kind of hero who can singlehandedly sin enough to turn Boston into the new Sodom, just like the Prophecies And Recipes section of the United States Constitution predicted would happen one day?

It’s time to get started! Go to Boston and start fucking and killing everything until the Lord destroys the city.