Hi! Could You Give Us Some Tips On Posting Poetry On Tumblr? I've Just Started Writing 'for Real' But

Hi! Could you give us some tips on posting poetry on tumblr? I've just started writing 'for real' but im kinda scared of posting.. :/

Hi! And yes, of course, I’d be happy to help! (pls dont be afraid friend

1. Tagging system. Tumblr recognizes only the first five tags you put in (as far as I know), so make sure you put in the ‘good ones’ in there. Yes, the search will pick up on some words you use within the text, but tagging is a surefire way to increase your exposure.

Tags I found to be the best to use are: #spilledink #spilledthoughts#poetry#quotes#nosebleedclub

But you can absolutely mix and match them with others you think are good. 

2. Reblog your own stuff. I don’t know why people think self promotion is bad but it’s not. Timezones are a thing, so feel free to reblog your own stuff whenever you please.

3. Don’t be afraid. I like to say that everyone’s like 99% percent scared shitless so don’t be intimidated or afraid or anything. I know that’s easier to say than do, but whenever you start feeling afraid, just imagine how great it’ll be to get feedback and meet people who share the similar interests as you. Look at it that way. 

And don’t be afraid of failure - failure is actually good. You’ll see what works and what doesn’t. It’s a great learning opportunity. (I’m not saying you will fail, in fact - I’m sure you won’t, but I am, personally, someone who is very afraid of failure and that has nearly stopped me from trying so many great things.)

4. Submit your poems to wnq-writers. They actually accept submissions and that can be a great way to get more exposure (just make sure that you link to your blog). 

5. Networks & groups & friends. You can search for networks on tumblr, and they can be a great place to get feedback, make friends and ultimately, gain more exposure. Also, there are Facebook groups - like Nosebleed Club, and people will often ask for feedback there or announce some sites that are accepting submissions or contests. 

And make friends. Send me a message, you’ll get one friend right away. Writing is incredible but sometimes the road to success has a lot of crossroads and obstacles and at the end of the day, it’s good to have someone to vent to - someone who understands. 

6. Writer’s block ain’t shit. Look, there will definitely be times when inspiration has run out and you’re wondering whether you’ll ever get your mojo back. You will. I promise. Just clear your head, do something else and don’t worry about it. It’ll come back and there will be stars in your soul again. :)

7. Write for yourself. Comfort yourself, write what you needed to hear. Don’t be afraid to change the direction of your poetry if the current one doesn’t feel right. Try out new forms, try out new topics, and fuck that stupid “write what you know” advice because, guess what? That’s shit. No one knows shit about dragons and yet, we have fantasy books, so who’s the real winner here?

All joking aside -  please, don’t be afraid. Take it as a new opportunity, take it as a new interest that might take you to incredible places. And some time down the road, you’ll be really happy you started, as corny as that sounds.

The Ghost Child

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2dRd9rZ

by this_is_trash

Hide moves back to Japan and ends up meeting a ghost child [chap 1 -2, general, hide&kane]

Words: 1694, Chapters: 1/3, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of Writeoween16: Hidekane

Fandoms: Tokyo Ghoul

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M, Gen

Characters: Nagachika Hideyoshi, Kaneki Ken

Relationships: Kaneki Ken/Nagachika Hideyoshi, Kaneki Ken & Nagachika Hideyoshi

Additional Tags: writeoween, writeoween16, youngKaneki, it’s hide&kane but i’m also tagging hidekane, ghostkaneki, vampireHide, Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Creatures & Monsters, paranormal creatures, Domestic Fluff, First Meeting, friends - Freeform, learning about each other, cute stuff, domestic fluff?

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2dRd9rZ

5 ways to make your character more three-dimensional

A story without 3D characters can quickly fall flat and become tiresome and boring. So, to ensure that doesn’t happen in your story, here are 5 ways to make your character more 3D.

1. Allow for “out of character” characterisation.

Like people, characters are not only one thing. They have many traits and quirks to their personality, so make sure you’re not limiting them to one specific trait. A quiet and shy person, isn’t always going to be quiet and shy and an outgoing person, won’t always be outgoing. This is mainly to do with the environment and circumstances and you should include some of these in your story if you want your character seem well rounded and three-dimensional. For example, someone might be mean and bossy at work, but then gentle and kind at home. This could be for many reasons, but the obvious one is stress. People can act very differently when stress is involved and everyone experiences it. So that’s something to consider for your story.

2. Give them a sense of grace, destiny or belief

As people we are always looking for a greater purpose, or at least most of us are. We struggle and we dream and we wonder about the future, your character is no different. Some turn to religion, whilst some turn to other means, but we’re all looking for something. Your character will have aspirations and expectations of life, so it’s important to include these in your story. People want to connect with the characters that are put in front of them and understanding their reasoning for some or even all of what they do can be really beneficial for your story.

3. Pair of conflicting emotions

People are flawed and we make mistakes. We try to do the right thing, but that doesn’t always work out. This is something that your character will probably experience at some point and even if it doesn’t happen in the duration of your story, they may have experienced it in the past and this may influence the way the behave in the future. For example, someone might feel like they’re in love with someone who is married and they know it’s wrong, but at the same time, they also feel like it’s right. So you have this character who is having an affair with a married man and now they feel guilty, but at the same time, they feel happy and excited. The conflicting emotions are confusing for the character and now they’re faced with a dilemma. This is just one example, but it’s situations like these that can be enticing and will make the reader really connect with the character, even if they don’t always agree with what the character is doing, they will feel more realistic to them.

4. Use a character’s physical appearance as an expression of inner feelings

Sometimes you might think that you know what a person is thinking and feeling, even though you can’t hear that person’s thoughts. This is because you’re reading their body language and hearing the tone in their voice. This is a good thing to consider when writing your story. If you find yourself using a lot of internal dialogue, then maybe you could swap some of that for some subtle hints. You don’t need to be a body language expert to know that rosy cheeks and fidgeting are signs of embarrassment or unease. You could also go one step further and show illness through this form as well. If someone is depressed, they tend to eat less and become tired more often. This could cause them to lose weight and seem slower. They also lose interest in hobbies and things like that. So, you can tell the reader that the character is depressed without ever saying the words.

5. Draw from your own experiences

Place your character in the real world by using your own experiences. You don’t have to be exact and neither do you have to go into too much detail. Simply using your own experience of falling off your bike to help you to describe the way your character felt when he fell down the stairs could really help you. Although they are very different, the emotional elements are still there. Your character would feel fear before it happened, just as you would do if you felt your bike start to become unsteady. You would feel pain in both instances and you would feel shock afterwards. Of course some aspects are different, but the similarities will help you to bring the character to life.

some tips on drawing figure skating positions for non-figure skaters, from an ex-figure skater with 10 years of experience

these are all the most basic versions of these positions of course. there’s a lot of different types of spirals and sit spins. some other notes i didn’t add:

on ALL spirals, the standing leg is always straight. if it’s bent, they’re doing something else/fucking up a spiral.

air positions get tighter the more revolutions the jump is. some single jumps (like waltz jumps) don’t even really have an air position. if they do, the bottom leg is straight, but instead of crossing over the left leg, it’s just bent in front of you. the arms might be in, they might be out, idk no one cares that much about singles lmao

if they’re in a performance, they’re looking up at the audience. remember, figure skating is performed in stadiums; rather than simply looking out, a figure skater has to look up to appear to be addressing their audience. they’re probably just doing it for show and focusing on their program, but the motion is still there.

if you’re in practice, however, you’re probably looking up at the skaters around you to make sure you don’t fucking crash into everyone on the ice surface. self-explanatory.

your face will literally never look good mid-jump or spin.

not technically figure skating, but pairs have more jumps and higher lifts than ice dance. there’s a specific rule regarding this, but since i never did either, i don’t know it.

this definitely wasn’t a vague at the yuri on ice fandom. okay, it was, but i’m mostly excited that so many people are paying attention to figure skating now, so y'all are chill.

just remember: head up, arched back, extended leg is probably straight. draw with motion. if you don’t know what a position’s supposed to look like, don’t just look at references; you can even google the test requirements for a specific jump/spin/move if you want to. (ISI is a good place to start, since they’re international and everyone uses pretty much the same criteria for individual moves anyways.)

hidekane pls! maybe a cute au with these two lovelies~ ?? TY

Aaah, I wish I had the time to flesh this story out properly, but it’s an AU I’ve been thinking about for a while now! :D Thank you for asking for HideKane ~ I’m always a sucker for these two dorks. (>.

Summer and winter don’t mix. At least, not in Kaneki’s mind they don’t. His predecessor, Arima, told him this before he left everything to Kaneki and turned into dust. Summer and winter can never meet. This is why spring and fall exist. To separate the two forever.But, because of one too many reasons, here he is, sitting atop the school roof with Spring, Summer, and Fall and having some kind of peaceful lunch hour.Spring is a kind-hearted and soft girl named Yoriko. She reminds Kaneki a lot of the cherry blossoms that fill the air whenever it’s her time to perform the ritual. Fall is a sharp-tongued girl, a little rough around the edges, named Touka. Summer, on the other hand, is a force entirely on his own. His smile is brilliant and his golden brown hair catching the light made him look like the sun itself. He has a natural warmth that comes with his unbridled mirth and energy. Typical of a Summer.“Er,” Kaneki says, interrupting whatever the other three were talking about (probably the upcoming school trip), “I still don’t understand why we’re hanging out like this. Isn’t this against the tradition?” He’s looking at Touka, Fall, his partner. The one who’s supposed to keep him from being within a ten kilometre radius of Summer.Touka jerks her thumb at Yoriko. “Don’t look at me. It was her idea. I just go along with whatever she wants.”“Oh, Touka,” Yoriko pouts. “You told me you agreed with me!”“Well. It’s true that the tradition is a bunch of dusty farts.”“Dusty old farts seconded,” Summer pipes up.Kaneki frowns as the conversation is entirely derailed. In the end, the other three assure him that tradition can go chuck itself in the garbage. He isn’t wholly convinced. Not even a little bit.Summer scares him. The heat terrifies him.

Months pass and somehow he and Hide—Summer—walk home together every so often. He thinks Hide has a scant sense of humour. Hide thinks Kaneki makes a lot of funny faces whenever they’re together. They laugh together now. They lend each other school supplies and books. They while the weekends away at each other’s houses. But still, Kaneki is afraid. So they never touch. Not a single brush of skin against skin.Hide’s inclination toward horseplay makes this difficult, but Kaneki does his best and finally, Summer gets the message.It makes Kaneki rather lonely.

Spring and Fall are joined at the hip. Kaneki can say the same about himself and Hide. Whenever he and Hide make plans to go home together, he can see Yoriko and Touka watching them intently. He wonders if this is something their predecessors told them to do. How do they not see the risks of what they’re doing? How does Hide not see them? How does Kaneki not see them? Despite his fears, he still sticks to Hide like glue. He’s made Hide his emotional support, his weapon to combat loneliness. He needs Hide. But he can’t.Winter can’t need summer. They exist independently of each other. Not like this… Not like this.

Then one day, two years later, on graduation day, Summer vanishes. Hide is gone, without a trace. Touka and Yoriko seem to know something, but they say nothing. Kaneki feels broken, betrayed. He doesn’t know what to do. The pain reaches inside of him, in places he never even knew existed. For two years afterward, winters are harsh and unforgiving, because Kaneki can’t forgive himself for falling in love with the one person he can’t fall in love with.

“You’ve given up looking?” Touka asks, sliding him a cup of black coffee. She and Yoriko have built a café together. They’re happy and though it’s been so long since Hide disappeared, Kaneki feels kind of okay now. “I found out about his predecessor.” Kaneki takes a sip of his coffee. “Why didn’t you tell me he’d run away?”“He told us not to,” she replies solemnly. “We swore we wouldn’t tell you the truth. Not by ourselves. He never said anything about stopping you from looking for the answer yourself.” She smiles sadly. “I can’t believe he thought you wouldn’t love him back.”“He can be dense like that.” Kaneki can’t ignore the ache in his chest. Hide had seen him one day in middle school performing the ritual. That was when he had decided to run away from his predecessor and meet Kaneki himself. But going against tradition meant making enemies. He asked Yoriko to help him. She did.Now here they are in the middle of this mess.“You didn’t answer me,” Touka says suddenly. “You’ve given up? Or haven’t you?”Kaneki lowers the cup. “Yes and no. It’s… hard to explain. Somehow, I just feel like he’s telling me to trust him. That he’ll come back to us.”Touka smiles. “Yeah. Sounds like something he’d tell you to do.”

Another year passes. Kaneki sits in front of his laptop, typing away. He leans back and pinches the bridge of his nose. He sighs. Glancing at the clock, he sees that it’s almost time to perform his ritual. He gets on his feet to gather everything he needs, but just as he does so, the doorbell rings.He wonders who it might be at this time of night. He’s worried it’s some sort of criminal, even a prisoner on the run. But he shakes his head. It’s suspicious, but he needn’t panic. He goes to the door. Opens it a little.“Kaneki…”“Hide?”Summer looks tired. His face is gaunt and he moves with unmistakable lethargy. But the moment he sees Kaneki, some of his brilliance returns and he beams.“Kaneki,” he says again. “I’m home.”

Send me a prompt + a pairing!

Imagine Kaneki writing for a newspaper, and he’s asked to write something on ice-skating. Because of this, he goes to several competitions to get a better understanding and is enthralled. Imagine Kaneki becomes interested in ice skater Hide and his unique style. Kaneki has the opportunity to interview him and gets to know him, and Kaneki feels himself falling for his charm. Hide demonstrates one of his routines and Kaneki is memorized. But what makes Kaneki really fall in love is Hide working with children in his spare time Kaneki goes to the ice rink Hide frequents and sees him leading a small child on the ice, holding their hand and giving cheerful encouragements. Hide notices and skates over to Kaneki and tells him to slap on a pair of skates and join him. Flustered, Kaneki tries to refuse, Hide winks and says, “I’ll make sure you don’t fall.” And Hide leads him on the ice, and Kaneki holds on to his arm.