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Who Am I? Exercises to prevent your character from having an identity crisis by KyKyAceHeart
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Coming up with five adjectives to describe your character barely scratches the surface. In order to make your character figuratively come alive, you'll need to know them better than they know themselves. The exercises in this book will make you think about your characters in ways you never have before.
Scene Prompts - What Should Your Character Do Next? by paulapdx
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These are NOT your typical writing prompts. I find most writing prompts too general or specific to be helpful. The ones in this book are just generic enough to spark your imagination and everyone's response will be completely different. Depending on your story idea, plot, characters and writing style, the response to the following prompts will look vastly different from another writer's. How does this work? Well, when you hit a roadblock in a particular scene, play with one of the prompts and see how your character responds, what comes out of their mouth. Then, let the other characters respond to that line. Here's an example. For the following prompt, I can have a character respond one of many ways (and I literally just came up with these as I'm writing this book summary). SAMPLE PROMPT - Ask someone to leave Now, what's the next line out of your character's mouth? Is it: -- You know what, get the hell out! -- Look, I'm tired. Can we talk about this tomorrow? I'll have Peter drive you home. -- Will you please just leave! I can't do this. I can't talk to you anymore! -- Either he goes or I go. Which will it be? See how all these are very different ways for a character to essentially ask (or try to force) another character to leave? The key is to work with the response that works best for your situation. You should have a sense of what the scene is about and your character's goals, but that's all you really need! I love these prompts. You can insert them any time you hit a wall. They always seem to get my creative juices going. Sometimes I find that I've gone on to write an entire scene and I didn't even end up keeping the lines that the prompts generated! It was enough just to get me unstuck and get my characters interacting again. I hope these prompts can help others too. If folks vote and comment to let me know that they've helped, I'll post 10 prompts per chapter for the next 10 weeks. Cheers! We'll start with a chapter and a bonus one too.
Writing POC 101 by talkthepoc
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An advice book on how to successfully write POC characters by Wattpad authors. [Highest rank: #1 in Non-Fiction]
search no more ▸gif hunt by anaemicc
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A little book where I make samples of aesthetic gifs for you to use in your writing. Requests are welcomed! ➳SOON: faceclaim tips & gifs.
Worldsmiths | Fantasy World-Building Resource Book by TheTigerWriter
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This is the ultimate fantasy world-building resource book. There are many topics for you to think about for your world! Climate, fashion, laws, even etiquette. Use this book to organize your information, think about topics you haven't thought of before, and create a world which your readers can really engage in :) If you have any topics you would like me to add, let me know in the Topics Suggestion Hub! You can also use the service, "Ask Me to Ask You Questions" to have a real person to talk to about your world. I am very willing :) ~~Those who create worlds shall be known from today as Worldsmiths.~~ Cover by me :) Updated: Jan. 31, 2023. Published: Jul, 22, 2018.
How to: Build Your Fantasy World by creativexwrites
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#1 IN WORLDBUILDING - 03/11/2019 //✿\\ Do you want to give fantasy writing a go; but you're not quite sure where to start? Or Are you a fantasy writer with so many world ideas, you're not quite sure how to pin them down and really get those fantasy gears spinning? I am an avid fantasy reader, writer and watcher, here to offer you a guide on how to get your ideas onto paper and get to building that perfect fantasy world you crave. From the time period to creating your own fantasy language. Here is a content list, feel free to skip to a chapter you feel you need most: 1. What IS Fantasy? 2. Is World-Building Really Necessary? 3. Prompting 4. The First W: Where? 5. The Second W: Why? 6. The Third W: When? 7. The Fourth W: What? 8. The Fifth W: Who? 9. The First and Only H: History 10. The Five Senses 11. Your World, Your Rules 12. Fantasy Language 13. Adventure Time! 14. What NOT to do 15: Topic Suggestion
thousands of book title ideas ✓ by eryl_cant_write
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This book contains THOUSANDS of title ideas. Can't think of a unique title for your story? Just add this to your library and you can now read thousands of different titles in different genres. Love story, Fantasy, School, Mermaid, Vampire, Werewolf, Zombie, Song Titles, Magic, Unique Words, Teen Fiction, Thriller, Historical and many more!
Forenames and Surnames by lxstinwxnderland
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so i did this little book thing because I know how hard it is to think of names for characters, this may not be of any use to you because, yeah. erm but if it is then that would be great. this is basically 100 girls names, 100 boys names and 200 surnames.
Your Wonderful Guide to World Building by RobynTheWriter827
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This guide will hopefully help you to create the perfect world to set your story in. I'll be suggesting resources, websites, tips from Pinterest and my own advice to help you through one of the hardest parts of planning! If you have questions of a particular area of world building, please say so in the comments or send me a PM, so we can talk it through together and I can plan a chapter answering your question, dedicated to you! ▶1st Place Non-Fiction, Historical Fiction and Spiritual in Possibility Awards 2018 ▶1st Place Non-Fiction in 1st Ohana Awards 2018 ▶1st Place Non-Fiction in Neon Awards 2018 ▶1st Place Non-Fiction in Firecracker Awards 2018 ▶Runner-up General, Historical and Non-Fiction Mid-Year Awards 2018 ▶3rd Place Non-Fiction in Prism Awards 2018 Reached 1k reads on 24 December 2018 Reached 2k reads on 11 May 2019 Thank you so much to @Umeike for the fabulous cover! Thank you to @PossibilityAwards for the mood board! Completed, with minor editing to be done.
Star Wars Writing Tips and Tricks. by neeran
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Tips on how to write better and have more people read your Star Wars stories. I will not claim to be an expert, but I hope that someone will read this and it will help them further achieve their goal of becoming a writer. Because I mainly write Star Wars (Clone Wars and Rebels), a lot of references and callbacks will be to Star Wars. This will mostly focus on FanFiction and fandom writings but they could also be applied to other categories on Wattpad, as I am beginning to branch out into other genres as well.
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