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General Writing Tips, Guides and Advice
How to be Confident in Your Writing
Start Your Novel Already!
Why First Chapters Matter
How to Outline a Novel
Incorporating Flashbacks
Word Building 101
Common Mistakes in Writing
Tips on Getting Started
What Not to Do
7 Tips to Become a Better Writer from Stephen King
How to Use Reading to Become a Better Writer
Why Writers Must Read
How to Finish What You Start: A Five-Step Plan for Writers
31 Ways to Find Inspiration for Your Writing
10 Tips to Write Fanfiction
Writing a Blurb
10 Writing Tips
Perfecting Description
Point of View
Speed Up Your Writing
Recieving Bad News
Useful Writing Apps
Avoiding Clichés
Writing Lessons
Finding Inspiration
Plot and Conflict
What is Conflict?
Where’s Your Conflict?
Adding Conflict to Your Scenes
Guides for Using Inner Conflict That Makes Sense
Plotting Your Novel
Internal and External Conflict
The Top Ten Plotting Problems
The Elements of Plot Development
Plot Help
Writing a Plot Your Own Way
Plot Development
Develop a Plot
Tension and Conflict
Your Plot, Step by Step
Plot vs. Exposition
Plot and Conflict
Character Development
How to Describe the Body Shape of Female Characters
Character Apperance Help
Words to Describe Voice
Body Language Cheat Sheet
Character Development Exercises
101 Character Development Questions
Art of Character Development
Introducing Characters
Characters You Need to Reinvent
Making Characters Likeable
Heros and Villains
Describing Clothing
Understanding Body Language
100 Positive Traits
Mental Illness in Writing
Conflicts and Characters
Indifferent, Distant Characters
Bitchy Characters
Describing Voice
Being a Bitch
Heartless Bitch
Writing Nice Characters
Character Questionnaire
Mental Disorders
Writing Characters with Mental Illness
Writing Male Characters
Playing Male Characters
Breaking Sterotypes
Characters with Glasses
Rebellious Characters
Writing Female Characters
Writing Intriuging Male and Female Characters
Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar
Placement of Speech Tags
Grammar and Spelling
Grammar Slammer!
American vs. British Grammar
HyperGrammar
Grammar Girl
Punctuating Dialogue
How to Use the Semicolon
Introduction to the Basic Rules of Punctuation
Comma 101
All About Dialouge
11 Grammar Tips
Comma Usage
Correct Use of Apostrophe
Proofreading
Transition Words
40+ Tips to Improve your Grammar and Punctuation
Better Writing: Grammar & Spelling
Semicolons and Colons
Underlining and Italicizing
Dashes and Parentheses
Hyphens
Apostrophes
The Ellipsis
List of 1000+ Adjectives
All About Names
List of Names
100 Most Popular Names
Sci-Fi Names
Sci-Fi Names Part 2
Name Berry
Behind the Name
Fantasy Name Generator
20,000+ Names From Around the World
Victorian Era Names
How to Choose a Name
Naming Your Characters
Give Your Character the Perfect Name
Name that Character!
10 Tips to Name Your Character
Genre Based
20 Tips to Writing Love Scenes
On Love And Sex
All That Sex!
Writing “Real” Men in Romance Fiction
Kissing
How to Write a Kissing Scene: Valentine Edition
How to Write a Kiss? And Should You Write Sex?
The Keys to Conflict
Writing Gender-Specific Dialouge
Things Smut Writers Should Know
How to Write a Sex Scene
3 Secrets to Writing Sex
Writing Love Scenes
Why You Should Write Love Stories
How to Write Horror
Horror Sub-Genres
Horror Plot Cliches
25 Things You Should Know About Writing Horror
Plot and Character in Horror Fiction
7 Laws of Comedy
5 Secrets for Improving Comedy Writing
How to Break into Comedy
How to Be Funny
Mystery Writing Lessons
10 Rules for Mystery
Mystery Writing
Other
Word Count
Story Starters & idea Generators
Fifty Quick Writing Prompts
Write or Die
Writing Prompt Generator
Dictionary.com
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Oxford Dictionary
Spanish Dictionary
Medical Dictionary
Your Dictionary
A Bunch of Character Questionnaires
a quick step by step guide on what to do if you come back to your apartment and find yourself locked out because your front door is frozen shut
kick the bottom of the door for 10 minutes
text your landlord
remember your landlord is on vacation and also in her mid 50′s so it takes about 36 hours to receive a response
briefly wonder why the fuck you moved the canada
remember that college tuition is significantly cheaper here than in the united states
look up and notice your cat is at the window, staring at you. he paws at the window lightly and meows. it’s devastating. his eyes are so big and imploring. decide that you have to get inside your apartment at all costs. not even god himself can stop you from feeding your cat his chicken wet food dinner. frida kahlo herself could descend from the heavens and ask “hey you wanna bang?” and you’d say “hell yeah but first let me open this door so i can feed my cat his dinner”
remember there is a starbucks 3 blocks down the street from you
enter. the barista gives you a weird look for entering a starbucks at 7pm on a tuesday
order a venti cup of hot water. you order in french because the barista just said “bonjour” instead of “bonjour, hi.” you have a strong american accent. you hit the r in merci a little too hard to compensate. you embarrass yourself.
exit the starbucks clutching the massive cup of hot water in your hands. it’s burning your fingers.
return. methodically pour the starbucks cup of water all over the the door frame. it begins moving a little but still wont open
back up
ensure your doc martens are properly gripping the sheet of ice covering the ground. many people have told you to stop wearing doc martens in the winter, despite your protests that theyre actually the ideal winter boot. also, you’re a lesbian and punk’s not dead
release a pterodactyl screech and sprint towards the door, slamming the full force of your pathetically tiny 5′2″ 110lb body into it
you dont know any of your neighbors so you dont care about maintaining your pride anyways
the door swings open
run up the stairs
open the actual door to your apartment and yell MOMMY’S HOME MY LITTLE BITCHASS BABY BOY DONT WORRY at your cat
cat flings his body to the ground and starts purring like he does every time you come home
write tumblr post
this is superior humor
God's away on business
(A diptych of Saw portrait studies vaguely in Disco Elysium style for no real reason other than I like drawing them in scratchy angular shapes.)
this is my 20th text post meme. pls join in my celebration (●^o^●)
I think the most damage this site has done to me is making me think "It's fucken wimdy" when it is, in fact, fucken wimdy outside.
Little gem from Reddit
I get so sad every time someone says they couldn't get into TLT because they got lost so I MADE THIS. enjoy. Please let me know if Im missing anything or anything is wrong!
EDIT 3/15: UPDATED SOME INFORMATION IN THE BoE SLIDE
Link to all the artists' websites/blogs below!
Slide 2: ttbret on twitter
Slide 3: decemberiste on twitter
Slide 4: midnightcrows.tumblr.com
Slide 5: exmakina.tumblr.com
Slide 6: haveyoumetmythief.tumblr.com
Slide 8: BriarwickArt
Slide 9: fluffehwuffeh.tumblr.com
Slide 11: mothmanforreal.tumblr.com
Slide 12: ydteus.tumblr.com , sermna.tumblr.com
Slide 13: notedchampagne.tumblr.com, marceline2174.tumblr.com
Slide 14: lulafia.tumblr.com, by melli4uhbees on twitter
Slide 15: melli4uhbees on tumblr , reaandull on tumblr
Slide 16: starcanist on tumblr
Slide 17: cutetanuki-chan on tumblr
I keep using my girlfriend with unusual work hours to get out of coworker interactions and happy hours and hanging out.
But now the company holiday party is upon us.
And I’ve been lying about the girlfriend.
I suddenly really empathise with the characters in Hallmark Christmas movies.
enough coffee shop aus. time for ‘the thing’ aus. they are trapped together at a research station in antarctica. everyone stands around tensely while getting a blood test. somebody’s head turns into a spider.
Is there anything better in this life than girls dressed in men’s clothes?