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“HEY, Writers!” Ask Policy

I do not answer research questions. Research is the sole responsibility of each individual author.

What counts as a research question? (borrowed from @justawritingaid​)

  • Research/Portrayal questions (“How do I write a character who is x?” where “x” is referring to a lifestyle, physical/mental condition, gender, culture, etc.)
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Feb 27893 notesReblog

Anonymous:

I'm not sure if this is the right blog to ask but do you have any resources for people trying to avoid certain topics in novels? I haven't read a book in almost 10 years because EVERY SINGLE ONE I pick up has sexual violence, homophobia, and/or slavery in it, and I will NOT read that crap, ever.

heywriters:

heywriters:

GREAT question, but I have no answer. Does anyone know of a “trigger warning” site or something for published books? I hear writeblr sometimes talk about wanting one, but don’t know if such a thing exists 😕

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booktriggerwarnings.com

Jul 19293 notesReblog

pigeontheoneandonly:

c–jam:

archivesandfeminism:

Just to reiterate that reblog from a while ago about ffnet dying and how one day probably soon we’re gonna blink and it’ll just be gone:

I’m trying to make backups of the few things I’m not too embarrassed to keep from Way Back When (because I’m also like 4+ computers beyond what I originally wrote that shit on and some of it got lost in data migrations)

And guys

The password recovery is NON FUNCTIONAL.

That site is circling the drain, so if you’ve got stuff on there you want to keep, go save it now.

This has been a PSA from your local digital archivist/ fandom old.

Don’t know who might end up seeing this, but fichub.net can convert fics off of fanfiction.net into downloadable formats. I’ve seen a ton of people talking about all these complicated work-arounds to screenshot or even copy/paste entire fics in order to save them before the site goes down, but this is wayyyy easier!! It seems like a lot of fic conversion websites don’t actually handle stuff from ff.net all that well, so it took me a bit of digging before I found one that works– but this one does, it’s extremely easy to use, and it supports EPUB, MOBI, PDF, and Zipped HTML formats! It even preserves all the fic’s metadata and formatting, and you don’t have to download it chapter by chapter, you just copy/paste the fic’s url into the search bar, export it, and then choose your preferred format and download the whole thing in one shot. Easy peasy!

I’ve reblogged posts like this a few times over the past month, and I want to add: please backup any comments you particularly love! If the site goes down or breaks badly or one of a dozen other options, those could be gone.

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Jul 1925,404 notesReblog

papasmoke:

papasmoke:

Mind boggling that the Pinkertons are still around doing the same shit they were doing a hundred years ago today

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Very funny considering the pinkertons are the corporate equivalent of a man with a handlebar mustache and bowler hat tying women to train tracks.

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Jul 192,427 notesReblog

Anonymous:

Hi, so I'm having trouble with writing one of my many fanfictions and I don't know why because I really do want to write this fanfiction and I cannot wait to see the outcome of my imagination but every time I get on google docs to write another chapter it's like I freeze- even if I know what I want to happen next and it's only happening with this one fanfictions alone. I understand if you don't know how to help me but I'll take anything.

switch to paper and pen, and do not continue exactly where the last sentence left off but a little ahead of that. if this does not immediately help, write in brief terms what you want to happen in the next chapter. then expand on each thing that must happen. add any details and dialogue as they come to you.

if you find yourself stopping because you want your next sentence to be “perfect” or are concerned about violating some writing “rule,” let your chaotic goblin side take over and write messily. just let your brain think “no, we are not doing important google docs writing, we are doodle writing and it is silly and okay to do some creative rule-breaking right now.”

it might help to review the original source material for fresh zeal, but that comes with the risk of distracting or discouraging you. i just broke through a similar rut by watching new source material in my fandom, and out of determination (and a little spite) pushed myself through the next chapter. if my scenes aren’t perfectly stitched together that’s fine, for now they exist and i can arrange them however i like later. ooc dialogue is okay too, i will correct it later, for now i just need the characters talking.

lastly, maybe some music or ambient sound will help? music/sound is just another way of distracting your brain from whatever is causing your writer’s block—as long as it doesn’t distract you from actually writing, of course.

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Jul 19103 notesReblog

Classical Pieces You’ve Probably Heard but Might Not Remember the Name

makingsandwichesonlamuella:

maythecorpsbewithyou:

thatnicegingerfangirl:

canned-chaos:

preciousnugget:

Add others if you want! Have fun!

  • Dies Irae (from Requiem) - Verdi Scary scenes in cartoons, especially involving storms, holes, or treacherous waterfalls.
  • Flight of the Bumblebee - Rimsky-Korsakov Oh come on, everyone knows this one! It sounds too much like the title for you to forget what it’s called! Also: Drumline.
  • Finale to the 1812 Overture - Tchaikovsky Naval battle! Cannon! Fireworks! 4th of July in ‘Murica! Even though it’s about that *other* war going on in 1812!
  • Der Holle Rache kocht in meiner herzen (aka the Queen of the Night aria) - Mozart The one that fancy ladies in movies use to try and break champagne glasses.
  • Libiamo ne’ lieti calici - Verdi ?
  • Largo al factotum - Rossini Does your cartoon need a classical tune for your rotund Italian chef to sing while tossing pizza dough? Have we got a song for you!
  • Overture to The Barber of Seville - Rossini Fast-paced, sneaky-things-are-afoot movie song.
  • The Blue Danube Waltz - Strauss Da-da-da dum dum. *plink plink* *plink plink*. As heard in Jack’s entry to First Class in “Titanic,” and a million other places. (Veggie Tales “Stuff Mart,” anyone?)
  • Moonlight Sonata (mvmt. 1) - Beethoven The ultimate pretty-and-sad piano and/or ballet scene song.
  • Symphony No. 5 - Beethoven dun dun dun DUUUUUN.

I’m sure there are more but these were some of the first that came to mind as missing!

I think this one’s missing, one of my favourites:

Danse Macabre - Camille Saint-Saëns

This is one of the best classical music master-posts I’ve ever seen. I’m so proud of yall

Pavane for a Dead Princess- Maurice Ravel. Apparently it’s in Dark Knight Rises? I just think it’s pretty.

And

Tales from the Vienna Woods- Johann Strauss II. Contains the melody playing on Rose’s music box in Titanic just before Cal gives her the Heart of the Ocean.

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Jul 18317,487 notesReblog

stupid-elf:

kineticpenguin:

kineticpenguin:

It is increasingly obvious that most people have no idea how to indicate an illness is slowly killing someone without making them cough up blood. Doesn’t matter what it is or if it has anything to do with your respiratory system, if you’re dying, you’re coughing up blood.

Writers found out about tuberculosis and were like “damn this slaps” and we’ve been stuck with it ever since

As a person the doc told had all the symptoms of something that kills people (procedural testing confirmed it was something else so that’s neat, I’ve been given steps to mitigate it so what I actually have won’t be a problem that could kill me for quite some time) I have some other options

1. MAKE THEM FALL OVER. Seriously most things that will kill people cause some bodily system to fail at some point, and having somebody be walking upright, then suddenly grasping for something to hold onto, then hitting the deck can be a far more dramatic moment than “oh no mystery illness, I’m coughing a lot, uh-oh there’s blood now.”

2. Cognitive dysfunction. One of the body’s common responses to “oh that’s no good” is to focus all of the attention on the problem, and that can make people with chronic illnesses ‘zone out’ for no reason. If you have a normally witty, innovative, or otherwise mentally present character having them sit in a chair talking and then suddenly drop out of the conversation, only coming back to it when somebody addresses them directly, and even then their eyes are perhaps unfocused, or they seem like they’re trying to say the minimum necessary to get you to move on. It can be a gut punch.

3. Lack of confidence. When something goes from routine to being something [malady] might prevent them from doing the person might suffer a loss of confidence. Maybe you have a strong character that has a stress-triggered case of syncope. They might hesitate to lift weights or work out again, fearing that sense of oncoming death that knocks when you realize your body is going to shut down on you and there’s nothing you can do to stop it.

4. The opposite of loss of confidence, the acquisition of false confidence. The inability to accept there’s things they can no longer do, punished by a demonstration of the fact they cannot do it. Maybe your character is a gymnast, but tore their rotator cuff. They might instinctively go to swing around a corner by the doorframe, a typical enough gesture for most, especially those accustomed to moving quickly, but the pressure of simple inertia causes them to cry out in pain and fall, their arm and torso spasming as a sense of hurt, failure, and doubt clouds their eyes.

5. Google illnesses with similar symptoms, then go read peoples’ stories. “There’s nothing more tragic than the truth,” and whatnot. Oftentimes an author cannot even imagine the pain of having something be one’s lived experience. So go look for people who have that lived experience. Then revel in the pain you can cause your character.

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Jul 1899,427 notesReblog

Injury angst for writing dummies.

scriptmedic:

sheikofthesheikah:

Hospitals and injury are always such a staple of angst fics, but 9 times out of 10 the author has clearly never been in an emergency situation and the scenes always come off as over-dramatized and completely unbelievable. So here’s a crash course on hospital life and emergencies for people who want authenticity. By someone who spends 85% of her time in a hospital. 

Emergency Departments/Ambulances.

  • Lights and sirens are usually reserved for the actively dying. Unless the person is receiving CPR, having a prolonged seizure or has an obstructed airway, the ambulance is not going to have lights and sirens blaring. I have, however, seen an ambulance throw their lights on just so they can get back to the station faster once. Fuckers made me late for work.
  • Defibrillators don’t do that. You know, that. People don’t go flying off the bed when they get shocked. But we do scream “CLEAR!!” before we shock the patient. Makes it fun.
  • A broken limb, surprisingly, is not a high priority for emergency personnel. Not unless said break is open and displaced enough that blood isn’t reaching a limb. And usually when it’s that bad, the person will have other injuries to go with it.
  • Visitors are not generally allowed to visit a patient who is unstable. Not even family. It’s far more likely that the family will be stuck outside settling in for a good long wait until they get the bad news or the marginally better news. Unless it’s a child. But if you’re writing dying children in your fics for the angst factor, I question you sir. 
  • Unstable means ‘not quite actively dying, but getting there’. A broken limb, again, is not unstable. Someone who came off their motorbike at 40mph and threw themselves across the bitumen is. 
  • CPR is rarely successful if someone needs it outside of hospital. And it is hard fucking work. Unless someone nearby is certified in advanced life support, someone who needs CPR is probably halfway down the golden tunnel moving towards the light. 
  • Emergency personnel ask questions. A lot of questions. So many fucking questions. They don’t just take their next victim and rush off behind the big white doors into the unknown with just a vague ‘WHAT HAPPENED? SHE HIT HER HEAD?? DON’T WORRY SIR!!!’ They’re going to get the sir and ask him so many questions about what happened that he’s going to go cross eyed. And then he’s going to have to repeat it to the doctor. And then the ICU consultant. And the police probably. 
  • In a trauma situation (aka multiple injuries (aka car accident, motorbike accident, falling off a cliff, falling off a horse, having a piano land on their head idfk you get the idea)) there are a lot of people involved. A lot. I can’t be fucked to go through them all, but there’s at least four doctors, the paramedics, five or six nurses, radiographers, surgeons, ICU consultants, students, and any other specialities that might be needed (midwives, neonatal transport, critical retrieval teams etc etc etc). There ain’t gonna be room to breathe almost when it comes to keeping someone alive.
  • Emergency departments are a life of their own so you should probably do a bit of research into what might happen to your character if they present there with some kind of illness or injury before you go ahead and scribble it down.

Wards

  • Nurses run them. No seriously. The patient will see the doctor for five minutes in their day. The nurse will do the rest. Unless the patient codes.
  • There is never a defibrillator just sitting nearby if a patient codes. 
  • And we don’t defibrillate every single code. 
  • If the code does need a defibrillator, they need CPR.
  • And ICU. 
  • They shouldn’t be on a ward. 
  • There are other people who work there too. Physiotherapists will always see patients who need rehab after breaking a limb. Usually legs, because they need to be shown how to use crutches properly.
  • Wards are separated depending on what the patient’s needs are. Hospitals aren’t separated into ICU, ER and Ward. It’s usually orthopaedic, cardiac, neuro, paediatric, maternity, neonatal ICU, gen surg, short stay surg, geriatric, palliative…figure out where your patient is gonna be. The care they get is different depending on where they are.

ICU.

  • A patient is only in ICU if they’re at risk of active dying. I swear to god if I see one more broken limb going into ICU in a fic to rank up the angst factor I’m gonna shit. It doesn’t happen. Stop being lazy. 
  • Tubed patients can be awake. True story. They can communicate too. Usually by writing, since having a dirty great tube down the windpipe tends to impede ones ability to talk. 
  • The nursing care is 1:1 on an intubated patient. Awake or not, the nurse is not gonna leave that room. No, not even to give your stricken lover a chance to say goodbye in private. There is no privacy. Honestly, that nurse has probably seen it all before anyway. 
  • ICU isn’t just reserved for intubated patients either. Major surgeries sometimes go here post-op to get intensive care before they’re stepped down. And by major I mean like, grandpa joe is getting his bladder removed because it’s full of cancer. 
  • Palliative patients and patients who are terminal will not go to ICU. Not unless they became terminally ill after hitting ICU. Usually those ones are unexpected deaths. Someone suffering from a long, slow, gradually life draining illness will probably go to a general ward for end of life care. They don’t need the kind of intensive care an ICU provides because…well..they’re not going to get it??

Operations.

  • No one gets rushed to theatre for a broken limb. Please stop. They can wait for several days before they get surgery on it. 
  • Honestly? No one gets ‘rushed’ to theatre at all. Not unless they are, again, actively dying, and surgery is needed to stop them from actively dying. 
  • Except emergency caesarians. Them babies will always get priority over old mate with the broken hip. A kid stuck in a birth canal and at risk of death by pelvis is a tad more urgent than a gall stone. And the midwives will run. I’ve never seen anyone run as fast as a midwife with a labouring woman on the bed heading to theatres for an emergency caesar.
  • Surgery doesn’t take as long as you think it does. Repairing a broken limb? Two hours, maybe three tops. Including time spent in recovery. Burst appendix? Half an hour on the table max, maybe an hour in recovery. Caesarian? Forty minutes or so. Major surgeries (organs like kidneys, liver and heart transplants, and major bowel surgeries) take longer. 
  • You’re never going to see the theatre nurses. Ever. They’re like their own little community of fabled myth who get to come to work in their sweatpants and only deal with unconscious people. It’s the ward nurse who does the pick up and drop offs. 

Anyway there’s probably way, way more that I’m forgetting to add but this is getting too long to keep writing shit. The moral of the story is do some research so you don’t look like an idiot when you’re writing your characters getting injured or having to be in hospital. It’s not Greys Anatomy in the real world and the angst isn’t going to be any more intense just because you’re writing shit like it is. 

Peace up.

This post is almost entirely true, and the places where it’s not entirely true are variations in practice between facilities or rare cases that the author (understandably) did not go into.

For example, I do ICU transfers for a living. In the hospitals I do transfers between, nurses don’t stay IN the room of a vented patient. They typically have a seat at a desk or rolling work station outside.

A broken limb CAN land a character I’m the ICU, but only because of a rare complication: if the bone marrow slips into the blood stream and causes a fat embolus, which is basically a ball of fat that lodges in the pulmonary vasculature and prevents the person from doing gas exchange in their lungs. It’s the embolism and the subsequent nearly dying that earns them entry to the ICU.

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Jul 1853,834 notesReblog

dongcroncher:

silver-tongues-blog:

aphrobites:

annagetsthefabulousbabes:

tiktoks-for-thiccthots:

It’s not that I wouldn’t follow a dog into the woods to go on an adventure it’s just that I think this is the sort of trail that leads to being on a true crime podcast.

you know what if i die i die i’m FOLLOWING THE DOG THROUGH THE PLANT ARCHWAY

this is how you get kidnapped by fairies. following strange animals through odd overgrown gates in the middle of forests

they live in Narnia

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Jul 1897,523 notesReblog

Planning A Scene In A Story

wordsnstuff:

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– A lot of you have asked questions pertaining to a struggle with planning scenes, so I’ve decided to make a little rundown of questions to answer before writing a new scene of your story. Obviously, you probably won’t end up going through this process over and over again until the end of your writing career, as this will become like a second nature to you as you continue to practice it. If you have any further questions, my ask box is always open. Happy writing!

Intention

  • How is the setting of the scene relevant to the events that take place?
  • Is this scene easy to follow with the information given to the reader?
  • What role do past events play into this scene?
  • How will the events in this scene shift the story toward the resolution?
  • Does this scene solve any plot holes or create any new ones?

Purpose

  • What is the overall purpose this scene serves?
  • How will this scene progress the plot?
  • How will this scene help to develop your character(s)?

Information

  • What information is this scene supposed to reveal to the reader?
  • What information is required to make this scene make sense?

Subtext

  • Are there any hidden messages you need to plan beforehand?
  • Is there any foreshadowing taking place during this scene?
  • What context might alter the implications of this scene?
  • What consequences might come from the events of this scene?

Starting Point

  • Does this starting point make sense for the trajectory of the scene?
  • Does the starting point allow room for some rising action?
  • Is your scene starting abruptly or with a build up to a large event?
  • Is there space between the beginning of this scene and the last?
  • If there is, are there any blanks you need to fill in to continue?

Tone

  • What is the main way you’ll be conveying tone in the context of the scene’s events?
  • How do you want the tone to impact the reader’s experience?
  • Does the tone change drastically in contrast with the last scene?

How Do You Want The Scene To Leave The Reader?

  • Do you want your reader to end the scene asking a bunch of questions? 
  • Do you want one of the subplots to be resolved?
  • Do you want the reader to be shocked?
  • Do you want the reader to think, “Oh, that makes sense now”?

If you have any to add, feel free to leave them in the comments down below to help each other out!

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Jul 174,921 notesReblog

bookishdiplodocus:

gailywriting:

A lit of people think that worldbuilding exists solely to make epic, sweeping fantasy worlds to quest across, but it can create smaller, softer, mundane worlds to inhabit too.

You can worldbuild a small village. You can worldbuild a bookshop. You can worldbuild a jail cell, or a wishing well, or a single-parent household.

Not every story wants a grand scope.

This is important.

Yes! You can world build in fanfiction too, especially if canon’s worldbuilding was unsatisfying or just too light for your taste.

Jul 171,547 notesReblog

bookishdiplodocus:

gailywriting:

A lit of people think that worldbuilding exists solely to make epic, sweeping fantasy worlds to quest across, but it can create smaller, softer, mundane worlds to inhabit too.

You can worldbuild a small village. You can worldbuild a bookshop. You can worldbuild a jail cell, or a wishing well, or a single-parent household.

Not every story wants a grand scope.

This is important.

Yes! You can world build in fanfiction too, especially if canon’s worldbuilding was unsatisfying or just too light for your taste.

Jul 171,547 notesReblog

HEY, Romance Writers!

heywriters:

A few followers have asked for tips on writing romance into their stories or as the basis of their stories. Here’s a masterlist of sources (below cut) that may help.

General Romance:

What Defines Romantic Love?

How to Build a Romance Thread in Your Story

How to Plot a Romance Novel

Slowburn Romance

When Friends Fall for Each Other (ask)

Tips for Writing a Character Who Has a Crush

Tips on Writing Unrequited Love 

Writing Healthy Couples in Fiction

An Antidote to “Love at First Sight”

How Attractive Should Your Characters Be?

3 Great Ways to Show That Your Character Is In Love

6 Ways to Get Your Readers Shipping Like Crazy

Six Steps to Stronger Character Arcs in Romances

Seven Great Sources of Conflict for Romances

9 Romance Writing Mistakes to Avoid

20 Tips for Writing Lovable Romance Novel Heroes 

How to Write a Kissing Scene in a Romance Novel

Types of Kisses and Kissing + This Post Is All About Kisses

List of Ideas to Keep Romantic Tension High

100 Questions for Character Couples

How Do I Make the Relationship Development Realistic?

How Do I Know If Two People Are Compatible?

Healthy Relationships Can Include Teasing

How to Write a YA Romance Without Cliché   

Intercultural Romance:

How do I write an interracial couple accurately? (ask)

15 Common Stereotypes About Intercultural Relationships

Cross Cultural Relationships

[Ideas for] Your [Fictional] Cross-Cultural Relationship

Things to Avoid When Writing Interracial Romance

writingwithcolor: Interracial Relationships (w/ links)

Bad Romance:

Removing the Creeps From Romance

Why The Surprise Kiss Must Go

Possessiveness 101

10 Signs You May Be in an Emotionally Abusive Relationship

Edward & Bella Are In An Abusive Relationship

Red Flags, Verbal Abuse, Stalking… | Script Shrink

5 Huge Mistakes Ruining the Romantic Relationships in Your Book

How do you write a [bad] relationship without romanticising it? (ask)

General Tips for Writing Characters Love Interests:

How to Write from a Guy’s POV

Writing Awesome Male Characters: What You’re Doing Wrong

7 Point-of-View Basics Every Writer Should Know

How Do You Describe a Character?

4 Ways to Make Readers Instantly Loathe Your Character Descriptions

3 Signs Your Story’s Characters Are Too Perfect

Is a Quirk Just What Your Character Needs?

Six Types of Character Flaws

Is Your Character Optimistic Or Pessimistic?

5 Ways to Keep Characters Consistent

9 Simple and Powerful Ways to Write Body Language

10 Body Language Tricks for Deeper Characterization

Describing People Part Three: Gestures, Expressions, and Mannerisms

33 Ways To Write Stronger Characters

Conveying Character Emotion

Distinguishing Characters in Dialogue

How to Make Readers Love an Unlikable Character…  

Characters: Likability Is Overrated

Relationships in General:

How to Create Powerful Character Combos

8 Secrets To Writing Strong Character Relationships

Character Relationships: 6 Tips for Crafting Real Connections

Writing Relationships: Hate to Love

Stereotypes, Archetypes, & Tropes:

Five Signs Your Story Is Sexist: Part 1, Part 2

Five Signs Your Story Is Sexist – Against Men

Always Female vs Always Male

Born Sexy Yesterday & Manic Pixie Dream Girl

7 (Overused) Female Love Interests

Other Resource Lists

Resources For Romance Writers

Pinterest Board “Writing: Romance Arcs and Plots”  

thewritershelpers FAQ (romance, kissing, sexuality, etc)

+ Follow HEY, Writers! on Ko-Fi // Wattpad // AO3 // Goodreads // Pinterest

Just want everyone to notice the fourth subheading is a general list of character advice!

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Jul 1714,423 notesReblog