salt-of-the-ao3:

pachelbelsheadcanon:

prokopetz:

Proposal: instead of creating fantasy names by inventively misspelling real names, create fantasy names by cutting real names in half and stapling them back together with mismatched counterparts. e.g.:

Alexamin
Danthew
Jamriel
Tyseph
Wilmeron

Here is an online fantasy name generator that does exactly this for you.

uhmmmm just tested and it works super well?? check it out!

canaries:

canaries:

HELLO I JUST FOUND THE BEST FUCKING WEBSITE FOR WORKING ON CHARACTERS AND WORLD BUILDING YEET FUCKERS SEE YOU IN 8 YEARS

If you have been struggling with world building and finding a way to keep track of everything PLEASE GOD LOOK AT NOTEBOOK.AI

Notebook.ai has different categories for different things:

And then once you make something each category has different questions for you to answer about your world:

This website is literally a blessing

writers:

ironinkpen:

  • break up your paragraphs. big paragraphs are scary, your readers will get scared
  • fuuuuck epithets. “the other man got up” “the taller woman sat down” “the blonde walked away” nahhh. call them by their names or rework the sentence. you can do so much better than this (exception: if the reader doesn’t know the character(s) you’re referring to yet, it’s a-okay to refer to them by an identifying trait)
  • blunette is not a thing
  • new speaker, new paragraph. please.
  • “said” is such a great word. use it. make sweet love to it. but don’t kill it
  • use “said” more than you use synonyms for it. that way the use of synonyms gets more exciting. getting a sudden description of how a character is saying something (screaming, mumbling, sighing) is more interesting that way.
  • if your summary says “I suck at summaries” or “story better than summary” you’re turning off the reader, my dude. your summary is supposed to be your hook. you gotta own it, just like you’re gonna own the story they’re about to read
  • follow long sentences w short ones and short ones w long ones. same goes for paragraphs
  • your writing is always better than you think it is. you just think it’s bad because the story’s always gonna be predicable to the one who’s writing it
  • i love u guys keep on trucking

List of Elemental Abilities

thewritershandbook:

Air/Wind

Earth

Fire

Water

Darkness

Electricity/Lightning

Energy

Ice

  • Cryokinesis – control ice, snow and other forms of frozen water.
  • Freeze Breath – freeze things in solid ice.
  • Freezing – lower the temperature in kinetic atoms to freezing temperatures.
  • Frigokinesis – control snow either as precipitation or already on the ground.
  • Ice Beam – shoot beams of freezing energy.
  • Ice Generation

Light

Weather

  • Atmokinesis – manipulate the various aspects of the weather by using water, fire, earth, air, and lightning/electricity.
  • Atmokinetic Resistance – immunity to all weather-based abilities and effects.
  • Atmokinetic Sensing – sense the future weather patterns.

Other

From Superpower Wikia. See their complete list of superpowers HERE.

Resources For Describing Characters

wordsnstuff:

Physical Appearance

Character Traits

Talents & Skills

Miscellaneous


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How to come up with names for your dystopian teen lit:

tabletop-rpgs:

deducecanoe:

carry-on-my-wayward-wesley:

alice-moran:

alice-moran:

alice-moran:

Try to say regular names with a bunch of Oreos in your mouth!

Examples:  Jocelyn = Jorslun.  Elizabeth = Lisbit.  Daniel = Dannel.

You’re welcome.

Following up on this idea.  I tried this method with a hamburger in my mouth, in lieu of Oreos. Results:

Alice = Allit.   Mark = Marth.  Tommy = Domi.

Confirmed: a mouth full of President Choice White Mac and Cheese  produces a subset of names with a more badass tilt to them.  

Examples: Chris = Rith.  Brittany = Brickney.  Megan = Mayhem. 

I JUST CACKLED OUT LOUD IN PUBLIC

This is an amazing tool.

Next time I need an RPG character name I’ll be using the Chubby Bunny method.

Color Synonyms

damselwrites:

White

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also: pale; blanched; sallow; pallid; waxen; spectral; translucent; albino; 

Grey

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also: dust; stone; pepper;  

Black

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also:  coal; slate; dusky; ebon; shadow; murky; 

Tan

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also: flesh; khaki; cream; tawny; 

Brown

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also:  henna; russet; sepia; chestnut; cocoa; drab; bronze; 

Red

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also: terracotta ; rouge; carmine;  fire-engine; ruddy

Orange

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also:  pumpkin ; rust ; 

Yellow

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also: sunny; amber; saffron; hay; straw; platinum; 

Green

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also: viridescent; grass; jade; forest; 

Blue

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also: turquoise; cyan; ultramarine; royal; aqua; aquamarine;

Purple

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also: berry;  amaranthine;

Pink

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also: flushed; candy; cherry blossom; petal pink ; 

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source: http://ingridsundberg.com/

—–additional synonyms added by me