Get Your Words Out

Get Your Words Out is a year-long writing challenge to build a writing life by meeting a word count goal. It is based on Livejournal and Dreamwidth.

Writers can come to this tumblr for inspiration and information, but participation in the challenge happens on LJ and DW.

Sign-ups are in December and January.
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How Does Your Character Stand? 

everything4writers:

Character Development Through Posture

(Source: glowplease)

thewritershandbook:Tastes & Aromas

thewritershandbook:

Tastes & Aromas

violettesandthistles: A 19th century photo of a “Ghost Ride”.

violettesandthistles:

A 19th century photo of a “Ghost Ride”.

amazinglyartisticadvice:Good reference for writers OR artists.

amazinglyartisticadvice:

Good reference for writers OR artists.

(Source: instagram.com)

Writing High Stakes for Your Character

latenightnovelwriting:

  • There is a price that must be paid by the end of your story. Your character needs to come away changed, as the cost has taken something away from them, even if it is only emotional loss.
  • Create a transforming event, the effects of the transformation, and your character’s final understanding of their experience and how they have been affected.
  • The high stakes should not only impact your protagonist. Write how it impacts all of your characters, anyone who may be changed by your main character’s decisions.
  • Your stakes should be high. The fate of the entire universe does not have to hang in the balance for your character, but there should be a cost. Example: in Hunger Games, Katniss is willing to give up anything to save her sister, even her life.
  • The high stakes should involve some form of moral dilemma for your character.
  • Your character can be changed in small ways. The event does not have to be universe-altering.
allthingseurope:Manarola, Italy (by theycallmepo)

allthingseurope:

Manarola, Italy (by theycallmepo)

Should You Show or Tell? 

thisherelight:

that little brush with a spring storm woke my longing for violence. i spent half of last summer terrified. racing to stay ahead of storms, my pulse beating in my temples and utterly, devastatingly, alive. 

this year is shaping up to be all work and very little play. it’s enough to make a guy pack up and move to Oklahoma. 

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