This Is Super Cool So I'll Through My In!

This is super cool so I'll through my 🎩 in!

Mine is an OC I imagined for a pivotal point in my story. Named a Silph, this giant snake monster is guardian protecting a sacred stone.

When its balance is upset, it splits into two separate beings: one is reclusive and the other is destructive.

The main inspos of this monster were Molgera and Colgera from The Legend of Zelda,

Giratina from Pokemon,

and Gigapede from DMC3.

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I'd much rather read this idea than write it myself 👏. It's a really amazing idea!

Though I did have some ideas, they just never got very far. I'll share these three since you shared yours.

One was with a man who awoke to a strange laboratory where he was being experimented on. Having barely any memories, the only thing he can remember is that his son is missing. However, it seems to facility is trying to keep something from coming inside and the man seems to be the highest concern. Will he remember why he was so important? Or will he simply search for his son unbothered by the pressures of the walls around him.

The second idea was one I got from watching Resident Evil 4 remake, where I thought about a zombie apocalypse that wasn't started from a virus, but actually a cure. This cure was made to pinpoint illness in the body, but one person decided to use it to make mindless monsters who would do anything to cure any ailment they had.

The last idea was one I wrote when I was a kid and I've just never gotten very far with it. It was similar to a Saw Trap in which four characters are trapped inside of an abandoned factory unsure of how they even got there. Along the way, the MC is met with people she knows personally and they've either been murdered or trapped to be murdered. What did these people have in common? All these people were someone who wronged her at some point in her life.

Even though I have these basic ideas, I don't have much more than that unfortunately 😅

I randomly want to mention that I have a goal to write one story in every genre. So far, my newest interest is horror/psychological horror.

I just don't have a good idea and daydream about an idea that suits the genre.

It's been a minute and for once, it's not just because I was swiming in the dumpster after being down in a trash bin ☺

No, this time I was gone because I wanted to do something more with my writing and get it seen by more people. While Tumblr has helped my self-esteem (somewhat), it's obviously harder to be seen on here.

Then, it was like the universe heard me and it dropped this post to me.

So after some convincing myself to try, I attempted learning html and......... It was actually pretty fun.

All things considered, I'm no tech person, I dislike math, and cannot stand things that are too technical; but their resources broke it down in a way I could understand and I built my first website from the ground up 🕺

So, if your curious about what it looks like, you can check it out here!

And maybe don't look at it on mobile 😅

Also, obviously, I'm still new to codding so the site looks as basic as basic can be. I'm also waiting to learn javascript, so there's nothing too advanced on there either.

Regardless, I'm extremely proud of myself for sticking with this and trying it out. Physically, I haven't been so well so this is a good distraction while I get better.

But, let me tell you what you can expect to see!

More info about my stories (like how they came to be)

Personal goals for my stories

Excerpts of what I've written

Self-made covers

Character concepts

Funny tidbits about the development of my stories

I'm not finished with everything I wanna do, and some things I'll have to learn how to make, but I eventually plan to have more pages including:

An about me page

Pages for my ideas that are either dead, half-made, or ideas that are nothing more than that.

Some of my fanfictions

A hobbies and interests page

And pages for my 250k word collection of short stories: Quiet Girl

I'm excited for everything I have planned, so if you like what you see here, stop by my page and see if you like anything else!

That's all from me, thanks for reading and I hope things are okay now and they stay okay with you 🍂

I've never had the chance to share this so ig I'll do it here.

So, I have a speech impediment. Yay.

Specifically a stutter and I've suffered bullying centered around my stuttering for years on end. (For some reason it was always by girls. Guys used to think my stutter was cute for some reason it's not btw).

My sutter is the prolongation of words and the block

I.e How areeeee you and I'm fin____

I wanted to share this for anyone else who's living with a stutter. I've noticed a few things.

I actually only stutter on vowels (lovely that every word has a vowel in it huh?)

I pretty much stop breathing when I talk (it's like my brain can only focus on one thing at a time)

Reading does not increase or decrease my stuttering.

I sometimes add extra words or pronounce words differently to avoid stuttering.

My stutter decreases dramatically when speaking to people who don't cut me off.

Now, I'll go through and explain them to help anyone who may have similar issues.

For 1, I noticed around four years ago that I actually only stutter on words that have a vowel sound. I sat down with myself and talked for a bit and found that every word I stuttered on, it was at the vowel sound.

Shockingly, even words that begin with a vowel sound I stutter over, I'll give details on that later.

So, the best way I've learn to handle this is to stop when I know a word has a vowel and I stutter on that word, so I'll say something like:

Everything is all ready done.

Separating them into two words seems to prevent me from stuttering.

2 might also just be my anxiety, but for the sake of this post, let's say it's not. I noticed I'm usually out of breath when I talk. I do talk fast, but I mean like I just ran a marathon out of breath from just saying a simple sentense.

The best way I can describe it is like when you're singing a song. You try and sing the full line as the singer does, but most of us haven't trained our lungs so we end up breathless by the end of it.

I still do this, but it's gotten better as I've learned to breathe from my diaphragm when I talk instead of my chest.

3 I'm really saying for anyone trying to help someone with a stutter. This does not help someone to calm their stutter. As a kid, my parents sat me down and assumed if I read aloud I would learn not to stutter, but it makes no difference.

My advice is to just be patient. That person knows they stutter, let them take their time and they'll eventually get out what they need to say. You're in no rush to hear what they say, so just let tham go at their own pace.

One last thing about this. DO NOT try and finish a sentence for them. It's bad enough we have a stutter, but if someone tries to fill in the sentence for us, our self esteem goes 📉📉.

For 4 (lol) this is a thing I developed and it works pretty well. This is the detail I was going to get into. So, sometimes I stutter over the word it, no Pennywise.

So, to stop that from happening since it is used a lot, I started saying "I T is like." Now, I don't say that in public, but I do with my family and the word is simple enough that no one is thinking too hard on what I spelled out.

But this is why I usually don't refer to things by their proper name (so if anyone here ever becomes my real friend, please know I'm not saying things wrong, I'll just stutter otherwise).

Lastly, 5. I would assume this is the same for everyone regardless if they have a stutter or not. When someone is cutting you off, it makes you rush your words, cut your words off, and stutter. So it gets worse for someone with a stutter.

I have very rarely encountered people who didn't try and cut me off because I paused to take a breath or held out a word. It's true that the anticipation of someone cutting you off sometimes makes you stutter.

I have my stutter under control a lot now, but it did take me a while to get to this point. So, for anyone out there who has a stutter, try and find out what makes your stutter tick and go from there to find ways around it.

This has been a PSA about stuttering, thank you for reading 🍂

Sorry, but last thing, since I'm a writwblr, I wanted to add how to properly write a character with a stutter.

We know t-the (repeating sound) stutter is a real one, but it's normally used for someone who's simply nervous. Someone who actually stutters would stutter at any point in time and sometimes in different ways (eg me having two versions of a stutter).

Also, know where your character's stutter comes from. Mines happens to be hereditary and environmental as I frequently get cut off and thus rush my words to get them out faster. It's also just kind of the way I am since I'm very fast paced and have a hard time "taking things slow"

It's also good to detail a tick or habit your stuttering character may have, like they stop talking and shake their head when pausing their stutter.

Oh, and it's true, cursing eliminates stuttering. There needs to be some testing done on that.

writers' resources

sick of using "very _____" ? : https://www.losethevery.com/

want to simplify your writing ? : https://hemingwayapp.com/

writing buddies / motivation ? : https://nanowrimo.org

word you're looking for but don't know ? : https://www.onelook.com/thesaurus/

need a fantasy name ? : https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/

need a fantasy name ? : https://nameberry.com/

want a name with meaning ? : https://www.behindthename.com/

who wants a map maker! : https://inkarnate.com/

story building / dnd ? : https://www.worldanvil.com/

need some minimalistic writing time ? : https://zenpen.io/

running out of ideas ? : https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/

setting a goal ? how about 3 pages / day ? : https://new.750words.com/

what food did they eat ? : https://www.foodtimeline.org/

questions on diversity within writing ? : https://writingwithcolor.tumblr.com/

now what was that colour called ? : https://ingridsundberg.com/2014/02/04/the-color-thesaurus/

want more? : https://www.tumblr.com/blog/lyralit :]

I randomly want to mention that I have a goal to write one story in every genre. So far, my newest interest is horror/psychological horror.

I just don't have a good idea and daydream about an idea that suits the genre.