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Create your outline - full guide
Here’s my quick and easy run-down on how to create a full outline for your projects — all the plot beats your story is meant to have!
The only thing you should really have before you start plotting is your character arcs.
Why? What happens if you don't have them?🤔
- Your plot is way more likely to feel unfounded
- You're going to lack change through the story
- You'll be writing for plot only, and lose any deeper meanings
- Your outline could feel decent to you, but when you start writing you will quickly lose interest
📌Remember this one important thing before we start.📌
Plot & world building are just tools to tell your characters' story.
👉ACT 1
Here are the beats you should hit in the first 10-20k words.
STATUS QUO - Your protagonists current situation, with all its faults and potential.
INTERNAL CONFLICT - Most important one!!! You have to paint the start of your character's arc (preferably on page 1), by hinting at their fatal flaw, misbelief, regret, or something that holds them back.
INCITING INCIDENT - The event that pulls your character out of their comfort zone and makes them debate.
DWELLING AND ACCEPTING - Your character's first actions: do they refuse the call? What makes them finally accept it? This is where you form a clear external goal.
Are you ready for the murky middle?
👉ACT 2
Beats to hit in the murky middle.
NEW WORLD - The character finds themself in a new uncomfortable place they need to learn to navigate.
A FEW CHALLENGES - What's the external goal they're working towards? What are the steps they can take to get closer to it and what challenges do they find along the way?
MIDPOINT - Plot twist! They've reached their goal but it turns out not to be what they expected. Introduce a higher stakes goal.
THINGS TURN SOUR - Your hero's thrown off their rocker and they can't keep up with the blows.
BIGGEST HIT - Your hero experiences the worst hit in the whole story, and they give up. They go back to their status quo, defeated.
Is the middle feeling a little less murky now?👀
👉ACT 3
Beats to hit in your final stretch.
THE LIGHTBULB - What breaks your hero back out of their darkest moment? What makes their little brain cogs turn again? ...or who?
THE NEW PLAN - How do they decide to deal with the whole mess they've created?
EXECUTION - How do they tackle it, and does everything go smoothly, or do they face one final challenge that forces them to reconsider some things?
THE TRANSFORMATION - They complete their character arc, they've finally learned their lessons.
TYING UP LOSE ENDS - They resolve any remaining open questions, and showcase the change from who they were at the start.
I teach you this and so much more inside my Academy. You'll start from the really important stuff, so you know the purpose behind your book, and your full character arcs. That's when the outline snaps into place.
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You just found out you’re a superhuman. You have everything that comes with that, super strength, speed, and the ability to not need to eat or sleep. This is good until your friends start realizing you haven’t eaten in a while, causing them to have a surprise intervention.
I am thrilled to announce that my upcoming novel, To Shape a Dragon’s Breath: The First Book of Nampeshiweisit - which will be released on May 9th 2023 - is now available for preorder!
Anequs, a fifteen-year old indigenous girl, has never been away from her isolated island community. But Anequs has just bonded with a dragon hatchling, and thus become the first Nampeshiweisit - person in a unique relationship with a dragon - that the island has seen in more than two hundred years. That’s something that does not go unnoticed by the colonizing powers that be.
Now, in accordance with the colonizers’ laws, Anequs must attend an academy on the mainland and prove her competence in dragon husbandry and magic. If she can’t or won’t perform to their very specific expectations, her dragon will be put to death.
Anequs must navigate two cultures’ worth of traditions and wisdom, trying to fill a role no one has held in two hundred years. There are no mentors who can teach her precisely what she needs to be, so she must find her own path. She rekindles lost traditions, pieces together new ways of doing ancient things and traditional ways of doing new things. She must comply with the laws and regulations imposed on her by colonizers while also staying true to her people's values and beliefs.
It can be preordered at Penguin Randomhouse, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon among other retailers.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706010/to-shape-a-dragons-breath-by-moniquill-blackgoose/
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/to-shape-a-dragons-breath-moniquill-blackgoose/1141987016
https://www.amazon.com/Shape-Dragons-Breath-First-Nampeshiweisit/dp/0593498283
Big thanks to the artist of the cover illustration, Ryan Pooman
https://www.instagram.com/ryanpooman/
and to art director Regina Flath
https://twitter.com/reginaflath/
https://www.instagram.com/reginaflath/
Lo que hice mientras me aburría en clase // What I did while I was bored in class
The Barbie movie isn't about girl power. It's not about how women can do everything they set their mind to. It's about how sometimes women are tired and average and that has to be okay too, because you don't have to do everything to be worth anything. (And that this is also true of men.)
Common dialogue mistakes
Are you making any of these common dialogue mistakes? Read the post to find out what they are and how you can quickly fix them.
Does dialogue feel like a struggle? Here are the most common mistakes I see writers make that have their dialogue falling flat.
👉 The length of a single line
Less is more, and this is very true for dialogue. The quicker you can get your point across, the punchier the dialogue will read.
A lot of the time if you feel your dialogue dragging, you may be repeating points that you’ve already said.
👉 No unique character voices
A big web to untangle, but ask yourself this: If I left out dialogue and action tags entirely, would my readers still be able to tell who’s speaking?
If yes, that’s when you know you have a strong and unique character voice.
The worst thing you can do is make all your characters sound the same, or just like you.
👉 Exposition everywhere
Using dialogue as a means to lay down exposition or explanation can come off very cringy to readers.
Would these characters realistically say that to each other, if you didn’t need the reader to know?
When in doubt, trust that your readers can take hints and fill in gaps. Always write from the head of your character first.
👉Trying to be too realistic
Adding in too many pauses, elipses, ums, uhhs, and errs can get tiring very quickly, especially if every single character does this.
Yes, most people speak like that, but fictional dialogue is stronger the punchier and tighter you keep it.
👉 The white room syndrome
Sometimes writers get so involved in the dialogue and scene that they forget to lay out the setting or tell the readers what’s happening around your characters.
This leaves no image in your readers’ heads, and makes your writing feel non-immersive.
Use the setting, background people, and props to enhance the scene.
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My mom didn't like that they represented men as fools in Barbie but then I told her, "Barbieland is a representation of the real world but in reverse, where the Barbies are men and the Kens are women. And if you think about it, Barbieland is made from the 'female gaze' (Barbies/men), and just like in many situations in real life the products made from the male gaze -like movies- represent women as fools and nothing more than an object, an accessory of man."
you know what trope drives me absolutely feral? Repetition. Just :
"Hey, hey, it's okay"
"Shh, you're safe, you're safe, it's alright "
"Look at me. Hey, look at me"
"Stay with me. Come on, just stay with me"
"It's over. It's over now."
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry"
"I'm here. I'm right here"
Grief hunts Peter Parker all the time, it seems the world can't let him be happy. And sometimes that becomes too difficult to deal with.
(Or I've had a song on repeat in my head for days and I took the opportunity to practice my writing)
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Based on the song United in Grief by Kendrick Lamar
Rating: Not Rated
Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Categories: F/M, Gen
Fandom: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
Relationships: Michelle Jones/Peter Parker, Michelle Jones & Peter Parker, Ned Leeds & Peter Parker, Michelle Jones & Ned Leeds & Peter Parker, Happy Hogan & Peter Parker
Characters: Peter Parker, Michelle Jones, Ned Leeds, Happy Hogan
Additional Tags: Mentioned May Parker (Spider-Man), Mentioned Tony Stark, Mentioned Stephen Strange, Grief/Mourning, Angst, Movie: Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), Hurt Peter Parker, Peter Parker Needs a Hug, Ambiguous/Open Ending, One Shot, Song Lyrics, Inspired by Music
Language: English
Words: 1,085
This is my first fic in english!
I know nwh its not the movie of the moment, and I really wanted to do something about atsv, but I got more inspired by this one since the song has been in my head rent free for days. I will try to make an atsv fic (with most likely found family), but I don't promise anything.
Either way enjoy my fic, and feedback is always appreciated!
Jun 27th, 2023
im always like hehe im so smart i will avoid shame by never doing anything ever but then i feel ashamed of not living and it turns out i didn't escape any sort of discomfort i just traded it in for a less rewarding kind
Spiderman being the most relatable superhero part one
My Spider-Sona!!
Sorry for the bad quality of the image! I made it while I was in class.
I'm not that good at drawing, but at least I can draw a little bit, so I tried to made my Spider-Sona. I'm very indecisive and bad at superheros suits designs that almost every time I draw him, I do it with a different suit and style, plus my art style is not very stable, but this is the suit that I draw the most and I like it too, so.
Most of the concept of them and his suit is based on the inotopia superpower. So I add four extra eyes to the suit, even though he just has two eyes irl. They also draw eyes on their hands for the same reason. And I think he would carry some sticker with drawn eyes with himself, plus a pen.
I didn't colored it because I'm really really bad at that, but the suit should be black or dark grey with the web pattern as a dark red (although I'm still debating the colors).
They are a salvadorean transmasc aroace, and goes by he/they pronouns!
I still don't have a name but I will maybe named him Spider-Eye or something.
I did this mostly for fun, but feedback is always appreciated!
(I'm not that good at making image descriptions, so if I failed to explained it in an understable way, I apologized)
Do you guys remember this?
Has this been done yet
If not, it’s done now
Finally, the meme meme meme…
This scene got me and my Silbling cracking, we were the only people besides one lady in cinema that laughed at it. Because it's true, British did steal all of their stuff.
Miles meets the little nerd from earth 19-9999
Controlling Your Pacing
Pacing is one of my favourite things to pay attention to when reading or writing something. The pacing of a scene is literally how ‘fast’ or ‘slow’ a scene appears to be moving. Action scenes that spring the story from one place to another tend to go faster than introspective scenes or scenes that explore character dynamics.
All of this is created through putting space and words between elements of the scene. What I mean by that is that readers interpret a passage of time between ‘things’ (actions, dialogue, gestures, etc.) on the page, and pacing is controlling that interpretation.
For example,
“Georgia sat on the couch, “wow it sure is hot in here,” she said. “It sure is,” Henry agreed, sitting next to her.”
This sentence is just about the actions with some breaking dialogue, but it goes pretty quickly through what’s happening.
Whereas, if we were to intentionally pace this scene, it may look like this:
“Georgia swiped at her brow, wandering over to sink into the couch. “It sure is hot in here,” she said, peering up at Henry through the wisps of her bangs. He nodded weakly, his entire body sagging from the heat. Crossing the room to collapse next to her, he added dryly, “it sure is.”
It’s not perfect, but you can get a sense of the time between things happening. The added detail between the two characters talking conveys maybe a minute between sentences, which might be accurate for two people dogged down by a heat wave.
To speed things up, we want less space between elements:
“Adam slammed open the door with his shoulder, letting it bounce off the concrete wall behind him. “Everyone out!” He shouted. A crack in the roof snapped above them.”
The added (or subtracted) elements of a scene that control your pacing is the sights/sounds/feelings/smells/maybe tastes of a place. When we’re anxiously rushing to get out of the house we may not acknowledge that the kitchen smells like the bread our roommate baked that morning, or that there are smudges on the window from when the dog climbed up on the couch. However, when we have a second to contemplate, we’re going to notice these things, and it would be appropriate to write them in.
Another important element to controlling pacing is your character’s thoughts or acknowledgement of feelings.
For example:
“Adam slammed open the door with his shoulder, it bounced off the concrete wall behind him. He winced, his mother’s high voice ringing in his head, chiding him for damaging the walls even though he knew the building was coming down on top of them. How long would he live with her constantly in his mind? He tried to wave away the memory. “Everyone out!” He shouted.”
That slows down the scene quite a bit, yeah? And maybe that’s what you wanted in that moment. Play around with the details and pacing in your scenes, you might be surprised how much can change.
Good luck!
HAPPY FIRST EVER INTERNATIONAL AROMANTIC VISIBILITY DAY
I love my two disaster boys ❤
Peter and Miles multiverse (spiderverse) breaking besties CANON!
Hot take: the Spiderverse movies are quite possibly the most relatable superhero movies I’ve ever experienced because I’ve never seen a superhero movie nail the ‘being queer and closeted’ experience down to a T
Like the AMOUNT of experiences they get down so well is just
- not feeling accepted anywhere, even within your own community sometimes, feeling like a mistake no matter where you go
- hiding half your identity from your parents (I swear to god that scene where Miles is about to tell Rio he’s Spiderman in ATSV is literally me trying to come out to my parents and chickening out, it hurt to watch)
- fearing rejection from your parents (“Dad, do you really hate Spiderman?”)
- finding out the people you look up to and trust wouldn’t accept you and would actually try to harm you and the sheer terror that comes from it (god the Prowler reveal in the first movie still hurts me)
- gravitating more and more towards friends who are also queer because they get you (aka the spideys from different dimension just gravitating together)
- just. having a secret identity, in general
- the underlying theme of the movies that despite anything, despite the world rejecting you, despite your own community rejecting you, you are valid and you are loved and you should never forget that (which is not an inherently queer experience but g o d)
I could go on, but. Just. Dammit, these movies mean so much to me.
I don't want to be that person, but can we, like... make fan-content of Miguel O'hara adopting every young spidy (including the live action movies) or something like that
when no one has written the exact fic to scratch a very specific emotional itch and you absolutely do not have time to write it yourself but you still want to read it dammit
Alberto Mielgo
La mente maestra detrás del estilo único de "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse," y quien merece más reconocimiento por su trabajo y arte.
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The mastermind behind the unique style of "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse," and who deserves more recognition for his work and art.
this is your reminder that if you're going to be posting spiderverse gifs / clips you NEED to tag them as flashing, eyestrain, etc.
seizures can kill. the lives of your disabled friends and followers are more important than a movie.
also, do NOT tag them as epilepsy, seizure, photo-sensitivity, etc. people use these tags to find other people like them. by putting them in these tags you are endangering them.
Grits my teeth. Why do people always assume I want to fuck a character when I post about them enthusiastically
Writing Prompt: Dialogue
"Can you swim?"
"Just about."
"Define 'just about'?"
"I can float well enough, if I don't panic."
"Don't panic?"
"If my head goes under water I panic, even in a bathtub."
"Well, shit."