profcyon:

heliosapphic:

heliosapphic:

Hey y’all so this NPC generator? This is some good shit. 

Here’s the link btw!

[image: screencap of the linked site. It generates a physical description, a name, personality traits, ability scores (as in D&D), sexual orientation, relationship status, alignment tendencies, and a plot hook.]

teesshinystuff:

TAKEN FROM HERE: https://sites.google.com/site/houseotwisted/junk/20drawings

1. Draw the most common appearance for your character. This is your comfort zone. (Color)

2. Draw your character from the front, the side, and the back. This is something called a ‘turn sheet’. It’s a little boring to do, but will be very helpful to you in the future to have on hand.

3. Draw your character from the front, the side, and the back, but have them in nothing but their undies at most. This is to show off how your character is built. Drawing nothing but a straight pant-leg with no structure under it is no way to learn! (Skip this if your character doesn’t wear clothes)

4. Draw your character at three different ages than they currently are. (Must be noticeably different. No ages: 4, 5, and 6, etc.) Color one of them.

5. BANG! Your character just heard a loud noise right behind them. Draw their reaction!

6. Draw a bird’s eye view of your character.

7. Draw your character feeling very happy. Show body language.

8. Draw your character feeling very angry. Ditto.

9. Draw your character feeling very sad. You know the drill.

10. Draw your character with a different body type than they usually have. This helps you map distinguishing features onto different ‘templates’.

11. Draw your character if they were the opposite gender.

12. Draw your character as a different species than they normally are.

13. Somebody has just handed your character a live duck. Draw their reaction. Keep them in character.

14. Mary Sue the HELL out of your character. (Due to being asked “What is Mary Sue?” several times, I have included a link to the evil that is Sue: [Click if you dare.]

15. Draw your character lifting something heavy. (no magic allowed!)

16. Draw your character in an opposite role than they appear in your story/continuity.

17. Draw your character doing something they enjoy.

18. Draw your character doing something they do NOT enjoy.

19. Draw your character in a dynamic pose that is not a profile shot (from the side).

20. Draw the most common appearance for your character. Color it. (Pssst! See if it improved from the first one you drew. I bet it did!)

writeworld:

krisnoel-lionhead:

I decided to make a reference post on most of the writing topics I’ve covered so far. If you’re looking for something specific, this might make it easier. Hope this helps!

General writing posts—

• Ideas Worth Your Time
• Antagonists
• How to Keep a Deadline
• How Anthropology Relates to Writing
• Incorporating Flashbacks
• When to Use Bad Language
• How to Write What You Know
• Is Your Novel Working
• Introduction to Screenwriting
• Writing with Others
• Working on Multiple Projects Simultaneously 
• Picking Up an Old Story
• Developing a Well Paced Novel
• When to Include a Prologue
• Dialogue Writing
• Embarrassing Writing Habits
• Developing Good Writing Habits
• World Building 101
• The Opening Hook
• Developing Your Style
• Types of Endings
• Plotting Failures
• Forging Friendships

Editing posts—

• Easy to Miss Writing Mistakes
• Staying Motivated During the Editing Process
• Is Your Story Too Telly?
• Editing: Who Should You Trust?
• When to Begin Editing
• On Editing
• Easy Editing
• Content Editing

Character posts—

• My Character is Drunk
• Writing the Significant Other
• Writing the Best Friend
• Writing the Best Antagonist
• Introducing Your Characters
• Character Trait Cheat Sheet
• Characters You Need to Stop Writing (Or Reinvent)
• Making Your Characters Likeable
• Prewriting Characters
• Writing a Young Character
• The Importance of Characters
• Is Your Character a Mary Sue?
• Character Development Exercises
• Strong Characters
• Too Many Characters

Genre posts—

• The Space Opera
• Historical Fiction
• What is High Fantasy?
• Figuring Out Your Genre
• The New Adult Genre
• Different Types of Science Fiction
• Writing Horror Novels
• Teen Sick-Lit
• Fantasy Clichés

Motivation—

• Keep Being Weird
• Important Writing Lessons
• My Favorite Writing Quotes
• You’re Not Perfect
• Where to Write
• Negative People to Avoid
• Quick Motivation Tips
• Using Rejection to Motivate
• Finding the Courage to Share Your Writing
• Staying Motivated
• How to Stay Motivated Over the Weekend

Publishing—

• Writing a Blurb
• How to Make Sure Your Novel Won’t Get Published
• Full Querying Guide
• What is a Crossover Novel?

Body Language—

• The Importance of Body Language
• Further Understanding Body Language

Random posts—

• Why Everyone Should Continue Writing Love Stories
• Why Writer’s Are Insane
• Don’t Preach to Your YA Readers
• Overused Situations in Fiction Writing
• Male Readers and Female Protagonists
• The Power of Silence
• Studying People
• Trends I’m Sick of in YA Fiction
• Virginity as an Identity

Sorry I couldn’t replace the link with the title of the post. CAN’T FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO THINGS ON TUMBLR NOW. Also, you can obviously follow my blog for more writing tips or suggest topics for me to cover. Thank you!

-Kris Noel

We’ve reblogged a lot of these already, but this is an awesome resource!

venndigo:

lawful good: i want to do the right thing, and following society’s rules is the best way to do that

neutral good: i want to do what’s right, and i’m willing to bend or break the rules as long as no one gets hurt

chaotic good: i’m willing to do whatever it takes as long as it’s to do the right thing

lawful neutral: following the rules of society is the most important thing, and that matters more to me than doing what’s right

true neutral: i just want myself and the people i care about to be happy

chaotic neutral: i want my freedom, and i don’t care what i have to do to keep it

lawful evil: to impede the protagonists (in whatever evil way) is my primary goal, but i follow my own code of morals even when it’s inconvenient

neutral evil: to impede the protagonists (in whatever evil way) is the my primary goal, and while i’ll do what it takes to achieve it, i also won’t go out of my way to do unnecessary damage

chaotic evil: i relish in destruction and want to do as much damage as possible while i try to achieve my primary goal

shithowdy:

here’s a really phoned-in tutorial on aging characters and stuff for you.

don’t just listen to me though, look at pictures of real people and you will be a winner

i hope this is helpful lmao

madisonsmagazine:

MY WRITING MASTERPOST

I just have a lot of writing tips and masterposts and just stuff in my likes and I decided to put them all into this. All rights goes to the people who made them.

Cool Other Masterposts:

• Writing Specific Characters
• Writing References
• Writing Masterpost
• Character Guides
• Writing Help for Writers
• Ultimate Writing Resource List
• Lots of RP Guides
• Online Writing Resources
• List of Websites to Help You Focus
• Resources for Writing Bio’s
• Helpful Links for Writing Help
• General Writing Resources
• Resources for Biography Writing
• Mental Ilnesses/Disorders Guides
• 8 Words You Should Avoid While Writing
• The Ultimate Writing Masterpost

General:

• The Official Ten-Step Guide to Becoming the Next Gatsby
• The Periodic Table of Storytelling
• Joss Whedon’s Top 10 Writing Tips
• Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone
• 34 Writing Tips that will make you a Better Writer
• 50 Free resources that will improve your writing skills
• 5 ways to get out of the comfort zone and become a stronger writer
• 10 ways to avoid Writing Insecurity
• The Writer’s Guide to Overcoming Insecurity
• The Difference Between Good Writers and Bad Writers
• You’re Not Hemingway - Developing Your Own Style
• 7 Ways to use Brain Science to Hook Readers and Reel them In
• 8 Short Story Tips from Kurt Vonnegut
• How to Show, Not Tell
• 5 Essential Story Ingredients
• How to Write Fiction that grabs your readers from page one
• Why research is important in writing
• Make Your Reader Root for Your Main Character
• Writing Ergonomics (Staying Comfortable Whilst Writing)
• The Importance of Body Language
• Fashion Terminology
• All About Kissing
• Genre Help: Romance
• 187 Mental Illnesses
• Types of Mental Illness
• Eye Color List
• Spectral Groupings
• Do you have trouble creating your titles?
• On being a co-writer || Additional tips on effective co-writing 
• The length of a chapter
• How to deal with too many story ideas
• On writing two stories simultaneously || a similar ask
• When a story stops working
• Copyright
• Reading critically for writers
• The question of outlining
• Avoiding publishing scams
• Finding story ideas
• Tips on building a platform [guest blog]
• How much does writing “in genre” matter?
• What a “real writer” is
• Pennames and aliases
• A series of thoughts on series titles
• The self-pub miniseries: the why
• The self-pub miniseries: the what
• Rewriting fanfiction into original fiction
• Formatting long quotes and songs 

Characters:

• 10 days of Character Building
• Name Generators
• Name Playground
• Universal Mary Sue Litmus Test
• Seven Common Character Types
• Handling a Cast of Thousands Part 1 - Getting To Know Your Characters
• Web Resources for Developing Characters
• Building Fictional Characters
• Fiction Writer’s Character Chart
• Body Language Cheat
• Body Language Reference Cheat
• Tips for Writers: Body Language
• Types of Crying
• Body Language: Mirroring
• Character Building Workshop
• Tips for Characterization
• Character Chart for Fiction Writers
• Villains are people too but…
• How to Write a Character Bible
• Character Development Exercises
• All Your Characters Talk the Same - And They’re Not A Hivemind!
• Medieval Names Archive
• Sympathy Without Saintliness
• Family Echo (Family Tree Maker)
• Behind The Name
• 100 Character Development Questions for Writers
• Aether’s Character Development Worksheet
• The 12 Common Archetypes
• Six Types of Courageous Characters
• Kazza’s List of Character Secrets - Part 1, Part 2
• Creating Believable Characters With Personality
• Angry
• Bad Asses
• Bitches (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
• Childishness
• Emotional Detachment
• Flirtatious
• The Girl Next Door
• Introverts (2)
• Mean Persons (2)
• Psychopaths
• Party Girls
• Rich (2) 
• Rebels
• Sarcasm
• Serial Killers (2)
• Shyness (2, 3)
• Sluts
• Villains (2)
• Witt
• Body Language Cheat Sheet
• Creating Fictional Characters Series
• Three Ways to Avoid Lazy Character Description
• 7 Rules for Picking Names for Fictional Characters
• Character Development Questionnaire
• How to Create Fictional Characters
• Character Name Resources
• Character Development Template
• Character Development Through Hobbies
• Character Flaws List
• 10 Questions for Creating Believable Characters
• Ari’s Archetype Series
• How to Craft Compelling Characters
• List of 200 Character Traits
• Writing Characters of the Opposite Sex
• Making Your Characters Likable
• Do you really know your characters?
• Character Development: Virtues
• Character Development: Vices
• Character Morality Alignment
• List of Negative Personality Traits
• List of Positive Personality Traits
• List of Emotions - Positive
• List of Emotions - Negative
• Loon’s Character Development Series - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
• Phobia List A-L (Part 1), M-Z (Part 2)
• 30 Day In Depth Character Development Meme
• Words for Emotions based on Severity
• Eight Bad Characters
• High Level Description of the Sixteen Personality Types
• How Not to Write Female Characters
• Writing Female Characters
• How to write empowering female characters
• Why I write strong female characters
• Red Flags for Female Characters Written by Men
• Writing strong female characters
• The Female Character Flowchart
• Eight Heroine Archetypes
• Eight Hero Archetypes
• Help on picking character names
• A tip about realistic characters
• Strategies to create believable characters
• Additional tips on writing PoC characters
• Advice on writing genders
• Creating unstable characters
• Ambiguous Antagonists
• A tidbit on psychological trauma [trigger warnings]
• On writing accents
• What makes characters stick with me
• Sweetening up character description
• Making an introverted character stand out
• Conveying too much or too little character “inner reflection”
• Revealing a character’s asexual orientation
• Revealing a character’s gender & orientation
• A habit of killing characters
• When characters aren’t standing out
• Breaking hearts with character deaths
• Quick tips on expressing character 
• Character development versus pacing 
• A mini guide to character voice
• A Description Resource
• 55 Words to Describe Someones Voice
• Describing Skin Colors
• Describing a Person: Adding Details
• Emotions Vocabulary
• 90 Words For ‘Looks’
• Be More Descriptive
• Describe a Character’s Look Well
• 100 Words for Facial Expressions
• To Show and Not To Tell
• Words to Describe Facial Expressions
• Describing Clothes
• List of Actions
• Tone, Feelings and Emotions
• Writing A Vampire
• Writing Pansexual Characters
• Writing Characters on the Police Force
• Writing Drunk Characters
• Writing A Manipulative Character
• Writing A Friends With Benefits Relationship
• Writing A Natural Born Leader
• Writing A Flirtatious Character
• Writing A Nice Character
• Fiction Writing Exercises for Creating Villains
• Five Traits to Contribute to an Epic Villain
• Writing Villains that Rock
• Writing British Characters
• How To Write A Character With A Baby
• On Assassin Characters
• Disorders in general (2, 3, 4, 5) 
• Attention Deficit Disorder
• Antisocial Personality Disorder
• Anxiety (2, 3, 4, 5) 
• Avoidant Personality Disorder
• Alice In Wonderland Syndrome
• Bipolar Disorder (2, 3)
• Cotard Delusions
• Depression (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)   
• Eeating Disorders (2, 3)
• Facitious Disorders
• Histrionic Personality Disorder
• Multiple Personality Disorder (2)
• Narcissistic Personality Disorder
• Night Terrors
• Kleptomania (2)
• A Pyromaniac
• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
• Psychopaths
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (2) (3)
• Sex Addiction (2)
• Schizophrenia (2)
• Sociopaths (2)
• Aspergers Syndrome
• Apathy 
• Autism
• Someone Blind (2)
• Cancer (2, 3)
• Disability
• Dyslexia
• Muteness (2, 3)
• Stutter
• Actors
• Ballet Dancer (2)
• Christianity
• Foreigners
• Gamblers
• Hinduism
• Hitmen
• Satanism
• Smokers
• Stoners
• Taoism
• Journalists
• Vegetarians
• Alcohol Influence (2, 3, 4, 5)
• Cocaine Influence
• Ecstasy Influence (2)
• Heroin Use
• LSD Influence
• Marijuana Influence (2, 3)
• Opiate Use

Tips on Writing Dialogue:

• It’s Not What They Say…
• Top 8 Tips for Writing Dialogue
• Speaking of Dialogue
• The Great Said Debate
• He Said, She Said, Who Said What?
• How to Write Dialogue Unique to Your Characters
• Writing Dialogue: Go for Realistic, Not Real-Life

Tips on Writing Point of View:

• Establishing The Right Point of View
• How to Start Writing in the Third Person
• The I Problem

Style & Craft of Writing:

• The literary “weak verb”
• Do you have word tics?
• Victoria’s Vitamins: vague descriptive words
• Victoria’s Vitamins: mood
• Breaking writing habits
• Varying sentences
• Describing colors
• Sweetening up character description
• Purple prose
• Grammar is a tricksy thing
• “Smartening” the language of your narrative
• Building suspense and making readers sweat
• A couple tips about description in fast-paced scenes

Content:

• The story of exposition
• 10 ways to hit your reader in the gut
• Make your reader root for your main character
• Make your reader hold their breath
• What’s the big deal about intros?
• A tip about description
• The word count of your manuscript
• Things that make me keep reading
• Choosing ideas and endings
• When to describe setting
• Battling cliches
• Is your story YA, NA, or adult?
• When a plot isn’t strong enough to make a whole story
• Flashbacks with multiple POVs
• Bulking up your word count
• Avoiding cliches
• Conquer that opening line || response || discussion
• Tips on revealing setting awesomely kind of
• Deciding between different ideas for the same story 

Revision:

• You’ve finished your manuscript! Now what?
• Revision sucks but doesn’t have to suck
• Where to find beta readers/critique partners
• Tips on taking critique
• Tips on giving critique
• What to do with bad writing advice
• Additional insight on bad writing advice
• Five quick steps to get into revising that manuscript
• When to say you’re done revising
• Beginning the awesome journey of revision
• Friends are not always the best readers 

Plot, Structure, & Outline:

• Writing A Novel Using the Snowflake Method
• Effectively Outlining Your Novel
• Conflict and Character Within Story Structure
• Outlining Your Plot
• Ideas, Plots and Using the Premise Sheets
• How To Write A Novel
• Creating Conflict and Sustaining Suspense
• Plunge Right In…Into Your Story, That Is
• Tips for Creating a Compelling Plot
• 36 (plus one) Dramatic Situations
• The Evil Overlord Devises A Plot: Excerpt from Stupid Plot Tricks
• Conflict Test
• What is Conflict?
• Monomyth
• The Hero’s Journey: Summary of Steps
• Outline Your Novel in Thirty Minutes
• Plotting Without Fears
• Novel Outlining 101
• Writing The Perfect Scene
• One-Page Plotting
• The Great Swampy Middle
• How Can You Know What Belongs In Your Book?
• Create A Plot Outline in 8 Easy Steps
• How to Organize and Develop Ideas for Your Novel
• Create Structure in your novel using index cards
• Choosing the best outline method for you
• Hatch’s Plot Bank

Setting & Making Your Own World

• Magical Word Builder’s Guide
• I Love The End Of The World
• World Building 101
• The Art of Description: Eight Tips to Help Bring Your Settings to Life
• Creating the Perfect Setting - Part 1
• Creating a Believable World
• Setting
• Character and Setting Interactions
• Maps Workshop - Developing the Fictional World Through Mapping
• World Builders Project
• How To Create Fantasy Worlds
• Creating Fantasy and Science Fiction Worlds

Helpful Tools & Software:

• Tip Of My Tongue - Find the word you’re looking for
• Write or Die - Stay motivated
• Stay Focused - Tool for Chrome, lock yourself out of distracting websites
• My Writing Nook - Online Text Editor, Free
• Bubbl.us - Online Mind Map Application, Free
• Family Echo - Online Family Tree Maker, Free
• Freemind - Mind Map Application; Free; Windows, Mac, Linux, Portable
• Xmind - Mind Map Application; Free; Windows, Mac, Linux, Portable
• Liquid Story Binder - Novel Organization and Writing Application; free trial, $45.95; Windows, Portable
• Scrivener - Novel Organization and Writing Application; free trial, $39.95; Mac
• SuperNotecard - Novel Organization and Writing Application; free trial, $29; Windows, Mac, Linux, portable
• yWriter - Novel Organization and Writing Application; free; Windows, Linux, portable
• JDarkRoom - Minimalist Text Editing Application; free; Windows, Mac, Linux, portable
• AutoRealm - Map Creation Application; free; Windows, Linux with Wine

Grammer & Revision:

• How To Rewrite
• Editing Recipe
• Cliche Finder
• Revising Your Novel: Read What You’ve Written
• Writing 101: Revising A Novel
• 20 Common Grammar Mistakes That (Almost) Everyone Makes
• Synonyms for the Most Commonly Used Words of the English Language
• Grammar Urban Legends
• Words Instead of Walk (2)
• Commonly Confused Adjectives
• A Guide on Punctuation
• Common Writing Mistakes
• 25 Synoms for ‘Expession’
• How to: Avoid Misusing Variations of Words
• Words to Keep Inside Your Pocket
• The 13 Trickiest Grammar Hang-Ups
• Other Ways to Say..
• Proofreading
• 300+ Sophiscated and Underused Words
• List of Misused Words
• Words for Sex
• 100 Beautiful and Ugly Words
• Words to Use More Often
• Alternatives for ‘Smile’ or ‘Laugh’
• Three Self Editing Tips
• Words to Use Instead of ‘Walk’, ‘Said’, ‘Happy’ and ‘Sad’
• Synonyms for Common Words
• Alternatives for ‘Smile’
• Transitional Words
• The Many Faces and Meanings of ‘Said’
• Synonyms for ‘Wrote’
• A Case Of She Said, She Said

Creativity Boosters:

• *Creative Writing Prompts
• *Ink Provoking
• *Story Starter
• *Story Spinner
• *Story Kitchen
• *Language is a Virus
• *The Dabbling Mum
• Quick Story Idea Generator
• Solve Your Problems By Simply Saying Them Out Loud
• Busting Your Writing Rut
• Creative Acceleration: 11 Tips To Engineer A Productive Flow
• Writing Inspiration, Or Sex on a Bicycle
• The Seven Major Beginner Mistakes
• Complete Your First Book with these 9 Simple Writing Habits
• Free Association, Active Imagination, Twilight Imaging
• Random Book Title Generator
• Finishing Your Novel
• Story Starters & Idea Generators
• Words to Use More Often
• How to: Cure Writer’s Block
• Some Tips on Writer’s Block
• Got Writer’s Block?
• 6 Ways to Beat Writer’s Block
• Tips for Dealing With Writer’s Block

Improvement:

• Improve Your Writing Habits Now
• 5 Ways to Add Sparkle to Your Writing
• Getting Over Roleplaying Insecurities
• Improve Your Paras
• Why the Right Word Choices Result in Better Writing
• 4 Ways To Have Confidence in Your Writing
• Writing Better Than You Normally Do
• How’s My Driving?

Motivation:

• Backhanding procrastination
• On habits and taking care of yourself || Response
• More troubles with writing motivation
• The inner critic and ways to fight it
• The writing life is hard on us
• For troubles with starting your story
• Writing to be published
• “You’re a writer, will you write this for me?”
• Writing a story that’s doomed to suck
• Writing stamina builds slowly
• When depression goes and writing goes with it
• Additional inner critic strategies
• Tips on conquering NaNoWriMo (or any project, really)
• You will change as a writer
• Ways to keep writing while in school
• 13 quick tips when you’re starting your novel
• First draft blues
• Getting in your own way 

Writing an Application:

• How to: Make That Application Your Bitch
• How to: Make Your App Better
• How to: Submit a Flawless Audition
• 10 Tips for Applying
• Para Sample Ideas
• 5 Tips on Writing an IC Para Sample
• Writing an IC Sample Without Escaping From the Bio
• How to: Create a Worthy IC Para Sample
• How to: Write an Impressive Para Sample
• How to: Lengthen Short Para’s

Prompts:

• Drabble Stuff
• Prompts List
• Writing Prompts
• Drabble Prompts
• How to Get Into Character
• Writing Challenges/Prompts
• A Study in Writing Prompts for RPs
• Para Prompts & Ideas
• Writing Prompts for Journal Entries
• A List of Para Starters