Which One Of Your Otp Is The One To Die And Which Is The One To Sit In The Middle Of The Street, Holding

which one of your otp is the one to die and which is the one to sit in the middle of the street, holding their dead body, rocking back and forth, screaming “come back, come back, come back”?

“How’s writing going so far?”

A Way With Worlds - World Creation Column 

This is a list of all columns, in chronological order.

Your Main Character - Why your setting is your main character.

It’s The Little Things That Count - What you need to know to build a good world.

IN THE BEGINNING … there was a lot of planning - Origins of worlds.

Intelligent Life and Culture - Who’s in your setting?

Magic and Technology - They may work different, but setting-wise they’re the same thing, and important.

Pyramids of Power - Influence, action, and effect in your world.

Getting a Vision - The warm-and-fuzzy issue of getting a feel for your world.

Your World Is In Danger! - The importance of preserving data in worldbuilding

Retcon as Continuity - Turning screw-ups into actual plots.

The Fanfic Rebellion - Why fanfic sometimes takes odd turns, and what you can learn from it.

Attitude - Except in some cases, the concept of ‘attitude’ can give you a bad one.

Finding Inspiration - When you need ideas.

Webbing your World #1 - A crash course in web development (somewhat dated) for putting your world and works on the web.

Webbing Your World #2: Getting fancy and getting involved - Going beyond simple pages (somewhat dated)

Webbing your World #3: What goes into your webbed world - Good page design and philosophy.

Writing Religion in your Continuity - Writing religion in a way that works.

Webbing Your World #4: The Revenge of Whoever - By popular request, a column on making your web world’s design work for visitors.

Getting Readership for your Continuity - The evils of pandering.

Readership on your terms - Getting readers for your world.

Creating New Religions - Spirituality from scratch.

Timeline-Based Writing - Using timelines for inspiration and story writing. Worth reading.

Yin and Yang; Utopia Dystopia Cornucopia - Absolute good, absolute evil, absolute writing nightmare.

Sex: A completely boring discussion - Writing from biology to society.

Putting it All Together: Xai - My own experiences in worldbuilding.

World View: Evolving with Alicia Ashby - Taking a simple anime and making something new without changing it.

Yin and Yang: The Deadly Hero - Killer heroes, stereotypes, and bad writing

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed - The largely illusory quest for originality.

The Paradox of the Badass - Tough characters can be tough to write.

The Stakes - Know who’s fighting for what and why.

The Persecution Rests - Bigotry, biases, persecution - and how to write them.

Service, Service - What’s worse than Fanservice? Find out!

Crime and Punishment - Crime, law, punishment - and a step-by step way to review these elements and address issues.

More Crime and Punishment - Odds and ends on crime and punishment

Yin and Yang: Self-Serving Self-Sacrifice - It’ isn’t self-sacrifice if you do it for yourself.

Timeline based Writing: The Critical Axis - Further expanding on the Timeline-Based Writing column, looking at ways to find coherent storylines when you can’t seem to.

Why Are We Doing This? - The first anniversary column of Way With Worlds, and an introspective look at creativity.

Cycles of Conflict - A little psychology applied to writing conflicts, and exploring using a specific theory in your stories.

Losing The Race - Making your own races can lead to creating stereotypes if you aren’t careful.

Yin and Yang: Knowledge and Ignorance - Sometimes it’s what your character’s don’t know that’s important.

Yin and Yang: Subjectivity and Objectivity - You know what you know - or do you? And what do your characters really know?

The Odds - Just what are the chances of things happening in your world?

Normalcy - Just what is normal in your world - and just what is normal, period?

The March - History is happening as you write, not just when you build your world.

God, Darwin, History - Avoid the three biggest excuses in writing and life.

Parallel Earths - Alternate Earths require subtlety they don’t always receive.

Technology and Terminology - Beware Technobabble! A look at how characters refer to technology.

Communicating your World - Just because you built it doesn’t mean readers will understand it.

Playing God - A great way to make your work less than divine.

Without Words - There’s more to communications than just things your characters say.

TMI - You may have a world, but writing about it the wrong way can negatively affect your readers.

The Drought - Your readers need to know what’s going on - don’t disappoint them.

Aslan Meets His Match: Theme versus Setting - A look at the idea of new Narnia chapters, and what it can tell us about worlds and story themes.

Dark Mary Sue - There’s something worse than a heroic Mary Sue - a Mary Sue villain.

The Realism Factor - Reality is a two-sided process - or is it one?

Apocalypse How - It’s the end of the world, and amrageddon is a lot of work.

And In Closing - Way With Worlds draws to an end.

alright but why does no one write colorblind character AUs??? 

(note: i am not colorblind, a friend of mine who is was just telling me about some of the shit that’s happened to him)

you accidentally took my bag instead of yours and i don’t know your name so i yelled “YOU IN THE YELLOW SHIRT” but you didn’t respond so i yelled “HEY ASSHOLE” when i finally caught up with you… and apparently your shirt is red??

we’re doing a lab in chemistry with the “flame test” where you set an element on fire and we’re supposed to record what color the flame is, but i have no fucking clue what color it’s supposed to be so i’m copying your answers and now you think i’m trying to cheat

i thought this tomato was ripe but it’s actually green and you saw me take a bite out of it and whispered “hardcore”

if you ask me “what color is this” one more time i’m going to punch you out don’t think i won’t

did you know i can’t be a police officer in certain states??? like what the fuck i will fight the system and become a police officer goddamn it, my partner can record that the perp’s shirt was fucking purple

you’re too polite to tell me that the colors of my outfit clash horribly but the jokes on you because i actually know what colors they’re supposed to be (because there’s an app for that!) and i just like making your eyes bleed

i’m always a slut for a christmas au 

“i know we hate each other but it’s christmas eve and your flight was cancelled please come inside”

“i got you for secret santa so i got you this really expensive but sentimental gift that you’ve always wanted, hoping you’ll never find out it’s from me - and that i’ve been in love with you 1234567 years” SNOWBALL FIGHTS

“hi we’re neighbours and omg are you alright i could smell cooking burning - whoaaa now that’s just embarrassing? step aside i’ll handle this”

person a seducing person b into taking a few steps back/backing them against the wall (”oh look, how did that mistletoe get right there????”)

“you’re in the hospital for the holidays so i came in while you were sleeping to decorate your room i love you merry christmas”

“YES I BOOBY TRAPPED THE PRESENTS BECAUSE YOU DO THIS EVERY FUCKING YEAR”

“i live below you and i was minding my own business watching the snowfall out the window WHEN I SAW A BODY FALL ARE YOU REALLY PUTTING UP CHRISTMAS LIGHTS NOW”

I KNITTED YOU A JUMPER

MY MOM KNITTED YOU A JUMPER

“we’re strictly ‘platonic’ but we’re snowed in omg we’re gonna have to repopulate the earth”

“i slipped on ice outside your house and you ran out barefoot to help me quick let’s get inside under a blanket”

“’it’s a wonderful life’ aww it sounds so cute babe sure we can watch it! *30 mins later* “YOU MONSTER”

“we were playing in the snow and you suddenly tackled me to the ground and now…we’re just…staring… at each other…”

“YOU DON’T LIKE MARSHMALLOWS IN YOUR HOT CHOCOLATE? WHY DO YOU HATE LOVE”

TREE DECORATING (bonus points if one of them is doing it completely wrong omg why am i in love with you) 

“we took our kids to santa’s workshop and they both wished we would get together” FRIENDS AU - “our christmas party turned into a tropical theme because the radiator is broken and it’s hotter than hell in here - damn you look good without a shirt i never noticed before asgdhfjgkhl” 

“we’re co workers who hate each other but you had too much to drink at the staff christmas party and admitted your love for me i don’t know how to act around you now” 

DRUNKEN CAROLLING (”that’s not a thing” “oh yes it is”) 

TEACH ME HOW TO SKI (lol jk i know how you’re just so fucking cute)

“there’s a storm and omg i’m losing signal are you okay?? hold on let me drive 489432 miles to get you the night before christmas” 

PULLING YOU IN FOR A KISS WITH A SCARF 

“i did that annoying thing where i put loads of smaller boxes inside one big box and you’re getting really mad but you don’t know that the ring is in the smallest box and i can’t wait to see your face”

Hello my fellow writers.

Most people have heard of Evernote by now, but a lot of people (myself included) thought/think that it’s purely for business or shopping lists and what not.

I’m here to tell you that it’s not just for business. It can be a valuable tool for plotting and organizing your novel!

I’ve blurred out all the super pertinent details for my current project as well as my email address, but here’s how I set it all up.

1. Download Evernote. There are paid versions, but for what we’ll be doing, the free version works just as well. You have to make an account, because everything is in cloud storage, unless you make a local notebook.

2. Set everything up and make your first notebook. Title it however you want.

3. Make Notes in the Notebook. Obviously, you can do this however you want, but here are some note blocks to get you started;

-Plot: Here’s where you’ll put your premise, summary or outline

-Setting: Here’s where you’ll describe your setting. I found a cool thing when I was searching for Evernote templates that has key questions to answer about setting. Find it HERE. (If you have an evernote account, you can add it straight to your notebook!)

-Misc Ideas/Notes: This is just a place to jot down things you may think of that may not fit into any category or are incomplete. (I have lists of names and potential titles in mine)

-Characters: This is to hash out your characters!

-Snippets: I don’t always write in the right order or I’ll think of something a character might say or do, or a particularly awesome description I don’t need quite yet and I can add it here.

-Character Profiles: This was something I added because I found a really nice 100 question survey thing for characterization and I didn’t want to clog up my character page for this. I only did this for my four main characters, but as far as I know, there are no limits to how many notes you can have in a notebook.

I hope this helps someone out! I’m really excited about this because I’ve been having trouble getting my ideas sorted out in my head and this has really, really made things easier to see and think about!

Back to work!

-Amanda

P.S. It occurred to me that this could seem sponsored and I assure you that Evernote is not paying me to promote them, though if they did, I wouldn’t say no because money is nice. However, I’m nowhere near popular enough for that, so you guys probably have nothing to worry about! Happy writing!