How Would You Describe Green Eyes Without It Sounding Cliche?

How would you describe green eyes without it sounding cliche?

There are some ways to describe eyes here.

consider the following

"please for the love of god help you’re the only one here who speaks English" AU

"i go to this restaurant every week and sit at the same table and suddenly you’re my new server" AU

"i’ve been breaking my phone on purpose just because you work at the help desk" AU

"i saw you taking selfies and i wondered if i could take one with you" AU

"i’m the sarcastic techie who got dragged into running your stupid presentation" AU

"we somehow ended up in charge of senior prank" AU

"i’ve walked into your classroom four times by mistake can you please help me learn my way around this stupid school" AU

"your music’s way too loud bUT THAT’S MY FAVORITE SONG" AU

"bored single parents at a OneDirection concert" AU

"mutual drunk friend called BOTH of us to pick them up from a party well this is awkward" AU

"for the last time we do not sell hydrochloric acid I’M CALLING THE COPS" AU

"your email address is one letter different from my friend’s so i keep emailing you by mistake" AU

"you accidentally added me to this group chat and i don’t know how to take myself off" AU

Language Creation

Anonymous asked: I was looking through the archives and I couldn’t really find anything pertaining to this but you wouldn’t happen to have any resources for language creation, would you?

I am all about stories where the hero and villain know each other very well and were once friends, but I could deal with it being used another way.

What if instead of being used for drama, for wistfulness and pleas to join the other side, it was more like the hero looking over a battlefield going Seriously, who does she think she’s kidding, she’s been using the same chess strategy since we were seven or the villain picking a headquarters in a specific climate because she knows the hero hates hot weather or deciding Send in some forces to round up all the copies of his favorite poet’s work, that’ll tick him off.

Or most of all them still having inside jokes with each other.

10 ways to hit your readers in the gut

One of the strongest bonds that link us to our favorite stories is the emotional tie, or books that sink a fist right into our guts. When you finished a book where you couldn’t let go of after the last page, chances are, the author successfully punched you in the spleen. If you’ve ever wondered how to do just that, here are some of my favorite methods:

Make your reader root for your main character(s). Make your character stretch out their arm toward their goal, as far as they can to reach, until their fingertips barely brush it. Make your character want something so much that your reader wants it, too.

When your character trips and stumbles and stops to question themselves, the readers will hold their breath.

Push your character to their very limit, and then a little further.

When your character hits the bottom, they should scrape themselves back together and get back up. Give readers a reason to believe in your character.

If your character is challenging your plot, your plot should challenge your character.

Leave a trail of intrigue, of questions, of “what if?” and “what next?”

If a character loses something (a battle, an important memento, part of themselves), they must eventually gain something in equal exchange, whether for good or bad.

Raise the stakes. Then raise them higher.

Don’t feel pressured to kill a character (especially simply to generate emotional appeal). A character death should serve the plot, not the shock factor. Like anything else in your story, only do it if it must be done and there’s no other way around it.

What’s the worst that can happen? Make it happen. Just make sure that the reader never loses hope.

Fighting Words

Active verbs to use in a fight scene or an otherwise violent encounter, color-coded by severity (with red as most intense and purple as most mild), and categorized by type of fight.