“Whatever you two are doing over there, keep me out of it.”

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lyralit

summertime writers' asks!

🦋 tell us about your current wip

🌿 who is your favourite character you've ever written?

🌞 favourite character from current wip

🍦 what is your current word count?

🌻 least favourite character / hardest to write

🍉 favourite wip

☁️ wip you want to write but haven't started yet

🌸 wip you've been working on the longest

✨ newest wip

🦩 wip you hate working on but are too far gone to turn back

🍸 character who inspired your mc

🌱 book that inspired your wip

🍃 what is your genre?

🌼 least favourite writing genre

🥥 least favourite reading genre

🐠 author who inspires you

🍯 author you know

🌷 writing achievement you want to brag about

🍄 name a song that represents your mc

🍬 a song for your favourite character

🌤 name the hardest thing you've had to do for writing

🍰 where you like to write

🍧 weirdest place you've written

🕊 mc's MBTI

🍀 character you would kill off if they were not vital to the plot

🍓 worst thing you've done to your characters

👒 nicest thing you've done to your characters

🌾 book you would / have writ(t)e(n) fanfic for

🌨️ book you hate

🐥 here's some writing motivation!

rb for an ask!

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writers-potion

Word Dieting Your First Draft

Here are two phrases you can cut without loss:

begin to (begins to, beginning to, began to, begun to)
start to (starts to, starting to, started to)

She began to run -> She ran. Rain began to fall -> Rain fell.

Should you avoid "begin to" altogether?

Well, no. Sometimes, when an action starts and is abandoned immediately, they clarify what's going on:

She began to walk home, but changed her mind after a few steps. He started to paint the fence, but thought better of it.

Cut "Look"

More often than not, your story will work just as well without telling the reader that the character is looking at something.

Looking at him, she nodded. -> She nodded. He looked at her and poured her a drink. -> He poured her a drink. She looked at the mountain which towered over the valley. -> The mountain towered over the valley.

Cut "See"

If you describe something, it is implied that the POV character sees it.

When she took another galnce at the book in his hand, she saw he was

Cut "Turn"

Do your characters turn towards one another before saying something? Turn before they move? People turn all the time - it's implied without having to describe it.

She changed her mind, turned, and hurried home. -> She changed her mind and hurried home. She turned to him and clasped his hand -> She clasped his hand.

Where turn + look are used:

He turned to look at her and nodded. "I agree that's true." -> He nodded. "That's true." -> "True" [even better!]

When to use "look", "turn" and "see":

when a dialogue scene involves several people
when two of these words are used, try cutting one.

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raccoonboywrites

Anyway, I had a really cool idea last night for a writing challenge, and it goes like this:

Set a timer for 15 minutes, sit down, and write something for your favourite character. It doesn’t have to have plot or be cohesive, the spelling doesn’t matter, it could just be a stream of consciousness. Stop when the timer is up, and post. No editing, no worrying about quality or quantity. See what comes up!

Tag whoever you want and get those creative juices flowing 🥰