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Giving props it great, but when people obsessively do it but not really try with others it kind of hurts. But then you have those that make a confessions blog just to spam that around others feel like the shouldn’t even bother with trying.
Dude, I’m sorry to be an asshole here, but the whole ‘she gets compliments and asspats, I deserve them too!’ thing strikes me as incredibly childish. If you’re having fun, you don’t need to be praised and coddled and put up on a pedestal all the time, and if you’re the type to write a sentence like ‘It makes others feel like they shouldn’t even bother with trying,’ then I’m betting cash money that you’re engaging in a cycle of behaviour that directly results in you not getting praise. You’re going to look on enviously and sadly when someone else gets praise, and you’re going to get depressed and drop threads, go on dramatic hiatuses because you feel like you ‘shouldn’t even bother’ anymore, or you’re going to do harm to your characters for no good plot-related reason. This lowers the quality of your RP and makes your partners believe you to be flakey, unreliable and over-dramatic, stuff that makes THEM not want to risk developing too much CR with you because there’s a possibility that a person who’s very important to their character will drop off the face of the Earth and they’ll be unable to even retcon a REASON for it because, who knows, you may come back. This only perpetuates the cycle of you not getting compliments, because you’re allowing your passing moods to dictate what you do in RPs that effect other peoples’ characters.
“I don’t know what to do with my character”
“I don’t have any ideas for scenes”
“I don’t know how to start”
“I suck at making starters”
Seriously why are you roleplaying
Episode 11: “This roleplay’s inactive? Must be the admin’s fault.”
Why this statement makes absolutely no sense to me.
Warning: Opinions and lax writing ahead.
Anonymous asked: I feel like my story is going too fast. Within the first page, my character’s hometown is ransacked, but I’m not sure what I should do to slow down or transition to that.Although every writer runs into pacing trouble from time to time, there are a couple of…
Clothing catalogs become encyclopedias of free clothing for your characters. Songs suddenly all start sounding like your OTP. Watching movies becomes imagining your characters in the situation of the movie’s characters. Ordering coffee at Starbucks becomes the “what would they order?” game.
The ellipsis seems to be one of the most alluring punctuation symbols, and I see it misused everywhere. The ellipsis is tossed in willy-nilly and often extends to four, five, or even six dots. The ellipsis—three consecutive dots—serves some specific purposes in writing. If used correctly, an ellipsis can be quite effective, if not, it can be downright confusing.
Just a list of about 200 personality traits, nothing too big.
100 Beautiful and Ugly Words
by Mark Nichol
One of the many fascinating features of our language is how often words with pleasant associations are also quite pleasing on the tongue and even to the eye, and how many words, by contrast, acoustically and visually corroborate their disagreeable nature — look no further than the heading for this post.
Enrich the poetry of your prose by applying words that provide precise connotation while also evoking emotional responsesBeautiful Words
- Amorphous: indefinite, shapeless
- Beguile: deceive
- Caprice: impulse
- Cascade: steep waterfall
- Cashmere: fine, delicate wool
- Chrysalis: protective covering
- Cinnamon: an aromatic spice; its soft brown color
- Coalesce: unite, or fuse
- Crepuscular: dim, or twilit
- Crystalline: clear, or sparkling
- Desultory: half-hearted, meandering
- Diaphanous: gauzy
- Dulcet: sweet
- Ebullient: enthusiastic
- Effervescent: bubbly
- Elision: omission
- Enchanted: charmed
- Encompass: surround
- Enrapture: delighted
- Ephemeral: fleeting
- Epiphany: revelation
- Epitome: embodiment of the ideal
- Ethereal: celestial, unworldly, immaterial
- Etiquette: proper conduct
- Evanescent: fleeting
- Evocative: suggestive
- Exuberant: abundant, unrestrained, outsize
- Felicity: happiness, pleasantness
- Filament: thread, strand
- Halcyon: care-free
- Idyllic: contentedly pleasing
- Incorporeal: without form
- Incandescent: glowing, radiant, brilliant, zealous
- Ineffable: indescribable, unspeakable
- Inexorable: relentless
- Insouciance: nonchalance
- Iridescent: luster
- Languid: slow, listless
- Lassitude: fatigue
- Lilt: cheerful or buoyant song or movement
- Lithe: flexible, graceful
- Lullaby: soothing song
- Luminescence: dim chemical or organic light
- Mellifluous: smooth, sweet
- Mist: cloudy moisture, or similar literal or virtual obstacle
- Murmur: soothing sound
- Myriad: great number
- Nebulous: indistinct
- Opulent: ostentatious
- Penumbra: shade, shroud, fringe
- Plethora: abundance
- Quiescent: peaceful
- Quintessential: most purely representative or typical
- Radiant: glowing
- Redolent: aromatic, evocative
- Resonant: echoing, evocative
- Resplendent: shining
- Rhapsodic: intensely emotional
- Sapphire: rich, deep bluish purple
- Scintilla: trace
- Serendipitous: chance
- Serene: peaceful
- Somnolent: drowsy, sleep inducing
- Sonorous: loud, impressive, imposing
- Spherical: ball-like, globular
- Sublime: exalted, transcendent
- Succulent: juicy, tasty, rich
- Suffuse: flushed, full
- Susurration: whispering
- Symphony: harmonious assemblage
- Talisman: charm, magical device
- Tessellated: checkered in pattern
- Tranquility: peacefulness
- Vestige: trace
- Zenith: highest point
Ugly Words
- Cacophony: confused noise
- Cataclysm: flood, catastrophe, upheaval
- Chafe: irritate, abrade
- Coarse: common, crude, rough, harsh
- Cynical: distrustful, self-interested
- Decrepit: worn-out, run-down
- Disgust: aversion, distaste
- Grimace: expression of disgust or pain
- Grotesque: distorted, bizarre
- Harangue: rant
- Hirsute: hairy
- Hoarse: harsh, grating
- Leech: parasite,
- Maladroit: clumsy
- Mediocre: ordinary, of low quality
- Obstreperous: noisy, unruly
- Rancid: offensive, smelly
- Repugnant: distasteful
- Repulsive: disgusting
- Shriek: sharp, screeching sound
- Shrill: high-pitched sound
- Shun: avoid, ostracize
- Slaughter: butcher, carnage
- Unctuous: smug, ingratiating
- Visceral: crude, anatomically graphic
Notice how often attractive words present themselves to define other beautiful ones, and note also how many of them are interrelated, and what kind of sensations, impressions, and emotions they have in common. Also, try enunciating beautiful words as if they were ugly, or vice versa. Are their sounds suggestive of their quality, or does their meaning wholly determine their effect on us?
From Writers Write
