Adding Small Moments Of Existence To Your Writing

Adding small moments of existence to your writing 

What I’m talking about is proof of life outside your characters in your world. Not in the sense of ‘talking to the cashier at the checkout’, but things like:

Graffiti etched into a desk your character sits in during an exam

Realising that someone has come along and arranged the cans on the shelf so the labels say something stupid

Dirty vans that have ‘wash me’ written in the dried mud

A coin that has been stuck into a piece of gum on a handrail

Little things that show the world still goes on despite whatever is happening to the characters. 

This helps make the world a world, not just a setting. There are other people with other lives doing stupid, funny, dangerous, things that in no way impact the protagonist. You don’t have to dwell on them, they can only be mentioned briefly in passing during the set up of a scene, but it will help create life within the background of the story and give the characters a chance to briefly think about something other than themselves/their situation.

no thoughts only heart full of feelings from reading The Grandest Book Shop in the World by Amelia Mellor

It’s almost Passover :)

thinking about how hard the ninth doctor's "just this once, everybody lives!! hit

no one:

me, scrolling back up my writing for no reason: shut up im admiring my paragraphs

I’m gathering screencaps of doctor who season 4 and gotta say I LOVE how many images of Ten and Donna are just “Gay Judgement.png”