How I Feel When I'm Writing And Can Manipulate The Lives And Events Of An Entire Fictional World:

How I feel when I'm writing and can manipulate the lives and events of an entire fictional world:

About the writing craft — Masterlist

Hello everyone! Since the followers on this tumblr have grown a little since I first started back in March, I've thought about doing a recap on the writing advice / craft posts I've done.

As you know, I am quite picky in calling in "writing advice", so these are much more meant to be like a "behind-the-scenes" "take-what-you-want" kind of posts.

[Disclaimer: the posts refer to a specific fanfiction, but they can be applied to anything—and I do apply them to original stories too)

PRE-PRODUCTION: Plotting, Inspiration, Ideas, Character design

About the fear before beginning to write a long story

Designing characters: The characters and the leitmotivs

On how I plot and divide the chapters

The foreshadowing series: How I introduced clues all along to foreshadow some events in the story (Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 coming soon.)

POST-PRODUCTION: Editing, rewriting

In killing your darlings when something doesn't work—and how necessary it is

On editing (from a real-life editor): The macro, the micro, an introduction to everyone

WRITING IN GENERAL

On why Nanowrimo doesn't work for me and what I do about it

On why I don't believe in "Writing advice"—and you should just read

On the difference between fiction and reality—and how people nowadays just confuse the tw

If this is of any need to you, don't hesitate to save it or reblog it! I'm still writing about writing, but I thought there was no harm in doing a master list if anyone can find it interesting.

Also, do not hesitate to hit the ask box!

—hera

(pd: taggin @writeblrsupport in case they want to reblog for other writers!)

I actually did write an incident report, tldr; a solar system supernova’d while testing an experimental FTL engine

I don't 'write' my characters, I just watch them do stupid shit and write up the incident report.

Yoink! ;) many thanks friend

A comprehensive guide to wilderness & travel medicine

Don’t know if anyone mentioned this yet but I just stumbled across this guide for a whole lot of medical emergencies when you’re out in the wilderness. I only skimmed through it so far but I feel like this would be a great resource for whump writers (or writers in general really)!

https://savannaharsenal.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/comprehensive-guide-to-wilderness-travel-medicine.pdf

Holy crap, thank you so much.

If you ever are self-publishing or illustrating a paperback, an absolutely essential tool is this page, which gives you the exact pixel count of a book spine based on its page count, and/or a template you can use for the correct width/height ratio.

It's such a good feeling when all your little details you have planned start to fall in place for your story like a big puzzle. And you're just there staring and smiling because hey, I did that by accident and it fits.