pens-swords-stuff:

This is for all the writers who:

• Have never finished a project
  
• Don’t have publishing as their big goal
• Write purely for enjoyment
• Can’t/don’t stick to an idea
• Don’t put their work out for people to read
• Write purely as a hobby

You are just as valid and talented as writers who have been published, or have finished projects. You are still a writer, even if you don’t have other people read your work. You don’t have to pursue the same goals and have similar accomplishments to other people to be valid as a writer.

You are valid, you are important, and you are talented.

(via littlerobinwriter)

urbexamc:

relatablepoetryandquotes:

“She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.”

- Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth (via the-book-diaries)

writing-prompt-s:

Image Prompt

forageables:

a list of quirks for characters to make them a little more interesting

• doesn’t like to wear shoes
• always has a piece of sugarfree gum in their mouth
• has a collection of cartoon dvds
• walks everywhere they go
• only wears pastel colors
• won’t go anywhere without three hairbands on their wrist
• refuses to wear any shoes except red converse
• has a crippling fear of something mundane like mushrooms
• has a dream notebook filled with every dream they can remember
• has a really loud sneeze and goes into sneeze fits
• only wears vintage clothing
• has damaged hair from messing with it too much
• super good at advanced math but can’t do addition for shit
• believes in the supernatural, like ghosts
• likes to go on midnight shopping trips and run through stores
• gets too emotionally attached
• loves dogs and has three of them
• has hallucinations, but not scary ones
• works at a fast food establishment in their free time
• always carries a musical instrument with them
• always carries a sketchbook with them
• likes to name inanimate objects
• strictly against drug use
• excessively polite
• excessively indecisive
• can recite the first 200 digits of pi
• can only play clocks by coldplay on the piano and plays it 24/7
• gets itchy skin when anxious
• has to move things around in a certain pattern before going to sleep
• worries that if they do one thing wrong they’ll die
• obsessed with puzzles
• obsessed with rpg videogames
• texts with one thumb
• always has red painted nails
• an amazing runner with super toned legs
• has a beautiful voice
• has restless legs, especially at night
• has terrible performance anxiety
• doesn’t like to turn assignments in because they’re afraid they’ll fail
• loves science but is really bad at it
• can/can’t make friends easily
• likes to lie in fields and stare at the stars
• believes that wishes can come true
• falls deeply in love
• bruises super easily
• beautiful/horrible handwriting
• ambidextrous
• only likes nintendo games
• only drinks sparkling water
• doesn’t watch tv/listen to music
• goes to concerts every week
• likes slam poetry
• likes to study in coffee shops/libraries
• doesn’t understand politics but tries nonetheless
• wears the same sweatshirt every day
• collects sweatshirts
• works three part time jobs
• crazy intelligent but super shy
• likes to memorize phone numbers instead of writing them down
• loves to calculate probability
• gets homesick very easily
• wants to leave home very badly
• trips a lot
• can’t dance but tries anyway
• brushes their teeth seven times a day
• incredibly honest to a sometimes brash extent
• only draws with mechanical pencils
• only writes with pens
• collects pens from hotels
• wants to believe in heaven but can’t
• watches a ton of anime
• makes people cute nicknames
• makes people origami
• uses origami as a coping mechanism
• owns a ton of t-shirts from hot topic, but has never been inside
• makes all their own food
• vegetarian/vegan/pescatarian
• eats rice krispies every morning
• does everything “for the aesthetic”
• watches kids shows
• goes to a private school
• short term memory loss
• loves disney movies
• makes lists of random things in their free time
• only eats foods with a spoon
• only likes to wear skirts
• never has their hair down
• dyes their hair every two weeks
• likes to collect pokemon cards
• gets obsessed with games really easily
• gives up too easily
• gets their heart broken too often
• has a mysterious disease
• has a big social media following
• tries too hard to be popular
• likes to draw everything and everyone
• can eat a whole lemon
• listens to “edgy” music all the time

(via writingtoxic)

wordsnstuff:

yourocsbackstory:

Your OC‘s Backstory Weeks - New Edition!

After the fun we had in September and October, here‘s the announcement all of you have been waiting for: there’ll be a new set of OC Backstory Weeks coming up!

Content: The topics will be mostly the same - so if you participated before, this is the time to enter with a new character! ;)

Rules: There’ll be some questions and a prompt, and like last time: This is meant to be about writing! If you just jot down a short drabble on the topic or a full scene doesn’t matter, as long as you explore your characters and your style while writing.

Prompts will be posted in the beginning of the week, and I’ll reblog all drabbles I find (@ me and #yourocsbackstory) on the following weekend.

You can enter at any time or skip some prompts, but I‘ll only reblog according to schedule, for a maximum of two entries per writer and week.

Tentative schedule:

Week 1: Introduction (Dec 31 - Jan 6)

Week 2: Family (Jan 7 - Jan 13)

Week 3: Education (Jan 14 - Jan 20)

Week 4: Friends - Beginnings (Jan 21 - Jan 27)

Week 5: Skills (Jan 28 - Feb 3)

Week 6: Friends - Ends (Feb 4 - Feb 10)

Week 7: Rivals (Feb 11 - Feb 17)

Week 8: First Love (Feb 18 - Feb 24)

Week 9: Loss (Feb 25 - Mar 3)

Week 10: Free (Mar 4 - Mar 10)

(via ardawyn)

love-me-a-good-prompt:

• Person A makes hot chocolate for Person B but when they hand them their mug, Person A drops it spilling the piping hot drink on Person B. Person A then helps Person B clean themself up and treat any burns they might have.
  
• Person A and Person B were supposed to go out for a date but a snow storm hits and they get snowed in. Person A is really sad about it so Person B builds them a blanket fort so they can spend the evening snuggling and watching Christmas movies together.
  
• Person A starts decorating for Christmas only to realize that all of their strands of lights have stopped working. They’re really upset because they can’t afford to replace all of them so they call Person B to vent. An hour later, Person B shows up at Person A’s house with several strands of working lights and helps them decorate the house.
  
• Person A was supposed to go Christmas caroling with a large group of friends but has to cancel because they’re sick and have lost their voice. Person B, one of the friends in the group, makes up an excuse as to why they can’t go caroling either. Person B then shows up at Person A’s house and serenades them with Christmas carols in their living room.
  
• Person A and Person B are decorating a gingerbread house when Person A accidentally breaks a piece causing the house to collapse. Person A is really sad and afraid that Person B will be mad at them but Person B has the idea to turn it into a post-apocalyptic gingerbread house so they work together to strategically destroy it even more.
  

groundcontrolpoetry:

The summer wonders shine like sunlight,

flickering through the clouds in our memories

of ice cream dripping down our fingers

and slipping off onto our clothes.

We shiver as we consider the chillier days

and earlier nights that are waiting to bite,

whispering into our ears from the shadows

of the hazy fog of the oncoming winter.

j.p

(via writerscreed)