Tag: writing shit

also i’m starting my annual archiving of fics that hadn’t made it to ao3 yet, so if i start blowing up your email, i’m actually not sorry at all. links will post here when they wend their way through the queue over the next couple days.

Fluff Starters

memesfrommenace:

  • “You’re hair is really soft after you wash it.”
  • “Ssh. Stop fussing. I’m just braiding your hair.”
  • “You smell really nice.”
  • “Would it be all right if I borrowed your sweater? It smells like you.”
  • “I might have slept with your robe when you were gone.”
  • “If you steal the blankets, I am going to put my cold feet on you.”
  • “Here, let’s share the blanket.”
  • “You’re comfy.”
  • “You are my new pillow.”
  • “You are very endearing when you are half-asleep.”
  • “But I want to hear you sing.”
  • “We can talk over dinner.”
  • “Don’t be stubborn. Try it!”
  • “Don’t get up – I’ll do it.”
  • “Will you let me rub your back?”
  • “Care to give me a back scratch?”
  • “Star-gazing was a good idea.”
  • “You look beautiful/handsome in the moonlight.”
  • “I’ll always be here for you.”
  • “I’ll be here to protect you.”
  • “I think I love you.”
  • “You are my love.”
  • “How about something warm? It will will help you sleep.”
  • “It’s okay. I couldn’t sleep anyway.”
  • “Don’t be silly. I want to stay up with you.”
  • “It is not morning yet.”
  • “Shush and go back to bed.”
  • “I heard you talking in your sleep.”
  • “Your bed head is really cute.”
  • “We’ll do dishes together.”
  • “How about a kiss?”
  • “I love your hugs.”

A few were inspired by these.

post breakup AUs

lizmapes:

tragicashwritingprompts:

because i haven’t seen enough of these around and i am so here for angst:

  • “today was the first family gathering i’ve been to since we broke up and my little cousin that absolutely adored you asked where you were and i had to lock myself in the bathroom and sit in the tub for a half an hour and look through a folder on my phone of pictures i took of you to feel okay again¨ AU
  • ¨i still have your phone number memorized even though i haven’t called you since we split and somehow i remembered it even though i’ve had like six shots of bourbon and hey, i know you’re pissed that you’re here at this dingy club at 3 in the morning to pick my drunk ass up, but you have to admit that’s pretty impressive¨ AU
  • “i’m pretty sure if taylor swift and i were in a competition of who could write the most breakup songs in one night, i’d win by a landslide because i still set two plates out for dinner even though i eat alone and it’s almost pathetic because we’ve been broken up for ages but i’m still not over you” AU
  • “so i know we haven’t talked in like, two years, and that things ended pretty badly between us but what the fuck do you mean you’re engaged to be married¨ AU
  • “yes, i know this is your sweatshirt and that we broke up five months ago but it’s really comfy okay. i totally don’t wear it because like it still smells like you or is the only thing that even remotely feels like home since i moved out. pfft. absolutely not.” AU
  • “look, i know we agreed to be friends and everything but that’s what everyone says when they break up. i can’t take you asking me for advice on how to ask out the new person you’re interested in, okay? it’s killing me” AU
  • “oh hi, totally didn’t expect to see you here at this one hole in the wall coffee shop literally no one in the entire world besides you knows about. what a coincidence.” AU
  • “it´s my [insert family relation here]´s wedding and seeing all these happy couples is killing me and all i can think about is how this was almost us” AU (bonus: “i know that it’s two in the morning and i’m dressed really formally and a little (a lot) bit drunk but i couldn’t stop thinking about you after my grandma asked how you were doing also can i come in it’s freezing out here”)
  • “i still have your sister’s scarf and i know it’s stupid but i’ve been hoping maybe one day you’ll come by and pick it up so we’ll be forced to talk again because i haven’t seen you in months and i’m maybe kinda sorta still in love with you” AU
  • “i know we were never officially together or anything but seeing that picture you posted on [insert social media] with him/her literally felt like you carved my heart out of my chest and stomped on it and i’m not really sure why i’m leaving this voicemail but my pillow still smells like you and i miss your stupid face” AU
  • “we have a lot of mutual friends so we see each other more than two broken up people usually do and i know we’re not really close anymore but you’re wearing that stupid (adorable) hat you always wore when you were upset so tell me what’s wrong because it’s literally killing me to see you look so sad” AU
  • “so like, i know we broke up and stuff but funny story, i haven’t told my family yet and they just assumed you’d be coming with me for [insert family celebration] and i really don’t know how to tell them and i know this is really selfish but i can’t break my great grandma’s heart like that, she’ll probably have a heart attack and– wait what? you’d do that for me? holy shit, i love you… wait–” AU
  • “i found your box of letters underneath my bed last night and because i’m a nosy motherfucker i decided to read them and it turns out they were all addressed to me and the last one was dated the day you moved out and i’m not quite sure why i thought this would be a good idea but here i am, standing on your doorstep, wondering why the fuck we’re not together anymore” AU
  • “well this is really awkward considering the last time we saw each other, i was screaming at you to never talk to me again, but like, my dog recognized you all the way across the park and literally dragged me over here because she misses you so hi” AU

omg i love these

closet-keys:

toboldlywrite:

Just in case this needs to be said:

It’s the first draft. Use the word “suddenly.” Put as many dialogue tags and adverbs as you want. Say “he saw” “she remembered” “she felt” “they wondered” as many times as you need to. Put the em dash there, put in too many commas, use semi-colons with reckless abandon. Type in [whatever] instead of thinking up a title for something. Just write it. If you worry too much about the particulars, about all the advice posts you’ve seen saying whatever you’re doing is wrong or not good enough, you won’t get anything done. It will slow you down as you go back and try to reword what you just wrote to make it better, proper. The first draft doesn’t have to be perfect. It just has to be done. And when you get to the end, you’ll find that all those “mistakes” are just clues for your future self to put together to make it all better.

Putting in adverbs and certain dialogue tags are a note for you as to who is saying something and how they’re saying it. When you’re editing, you can make sure it shows through the story instead. The word “suddenly” is a reminder to make things more abrupt. The first draft is just you mapping out where you want to go and how you want to get there. Don’t waste time trying to get it 100% right now, because then it will never get done. Don’t think too much– just write. Save the thinking for editing later.

The first draft doesn’t have to be perfect. It just has to be done

copperbadge:

actuallylotor:

my favorite kind of fanfics are “canon divergence” because it’s always like handing back a reviewed essay with comments like “I enjoyed the strong beginning but here is where you lost me, I’ve made some notes”

Speaking as the author of several, this combination of helpful, academic, and petty is exactly my motivation. 

novelistcore:

i think, honestly, one of my favorite things about being a writer is that, after a really long time of just not writing, you can sit down and fall in love with your characters again and again. and yeah, i kinda joke about it, but i genuinely love what i’ve done with this huge imagination of mine, and that feeling is,, utterly remarkable, ya know?? amazing,,

the best writing advice i’ve gotten so far

pagebypagepoetry:

When I began working on my undergrad honors thesis last year, some of the best writing advice my adviser gave me actually ended up not being about my writing at all.

She told me, as part of the 10-12 hours I was supposed to work on the project per week, to include the times I found myself just thinking about it. Whether I was going for a walk. Eating lunch. Taking a shower. Falling asleep. Whatever.

Because the times you spend thinking about your writing, even if you don’t put a word on the page or computer, still count. They are an important part of the writing process. So if you question your status as a writer somedays because you haven’t gotten any words down for however long, just remember that thinking about and planning your projects mentally is all part of the process.