“im Sorry Im So Hard To Love” Vs “loving You Comes More Naturally To Me Than Breathing” My Beloved.

Getting these types of voice messages from the characters really makes me swoon lol. I'm looking forward to more of these 🥺

@geckoghostie wanted to know how I draw shoulders and sleeves so I whipped up a quick how-to using my basic methods. I hope it’s easy to follow.

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Plotting Methods for Meticulous Plotters

A Guide for the Seasoned and the Not-So-Plot Savvy

This is a subject that a lot of writers tend to struggle with. They have ideas, great ideas, but are uncertain how to string them together into a solid plot. There are many methods that have been devised to do so, and most seem to be based on something you might remember:

The 5 Point Method

This is your basic plot diagram:

Exposition – This is the beginning of your story. This is where you introduce your character (s), establish a setting, and also present your main conflict.

Rising Action – Your story now begins to build. There are often multiple key events that occur where your main character may be faced with a new problem he has to solve, or an unexpected event is thrust at him.

Climax – Everything you’ve been writing has been leading up to this moment. This is going to be the most exciting part of your story where your main character faces the main conflict and overcomes it.

Falling Action – This is mostly tying up loose ends after your main conflict is resolved. They are minor things that weren’t nearly as important as the main conflict, but still needed to be dealt with.

Resolution – The end of the story.

This is probably the easiest way to remember how to string together a single (or multiple) plots. It may be easier for some to define the main plot as the central conflict: the thing that’s causing your main character a huge problem/is his goal.

The 8 Point Method

This method is used to write both novels and film scripts, and further breaks down the 5 Point Method. From the book Write a Novel and Get It Published: A Teach Yourself Guide by Nigel Watts:

Stasis – The opening where the story takes place. Here you introduce your main character and establish a setting (Watts defines it as an “everyday” setting, something normal, but it can be whatever you want).

Trigger or Inciting Incident – The event that changes your character’s life and propels your story forward. This is where you introduce the main conflict.

The Quest – The result of the event. What does your character do? How does he react?

Surprise – This section takes place in the middle of the story, and involves all of the little setbacks and unexpected events that occur to the main character as he tries to fix the problems he’s faced with and/or achieve his goal. This is where you as an author get to throw complications, both horrible and wonderful, at your protagonist and see what happens.

Critical Choice – At some point your character is going to be faced with making a decision that’s not only going to test him as individual, but reveal who he truly is to the audience. This cannot be something that happens by chance. The character must make a choice.

Climax – This is the result of the main character’s critical choice, and should be the highest point of tension in the story.

Reversal – The consequence of the choice and climax that changes the status of your protagonist, whatever that may be. It could make him a king, a murderer, or whatever else you like but it has to make sense with the rest of the story.

Resolution – The end of the story where loose ends are tied up. You’re allowed to leave things unresolved if you intend to write a sequel, but the story itself should be stand alone.

Three Act Structure

While this method is usually for screenplays, it is also used in writing novels (for instance The Hunger Games novels are split up into three acts). From the The Screen Writer’s Workbook by Syd Field: Acts 1 and 3 should be about the same length while Act 2 should be double. For instance if you were writing a screenplay for a two hour film Acts 1 and 3 would be 30 minutes each while Act 2 would be 60 minutes.

Act 1, Set Up – This contains the inciting incident and a major plot point towards the end. The plot point here leads into the second act and is where the protagonist decides to take on the problem he’s faced with.

Act 2, Confrontation – This contains the midpoint of the story, all of the little things that go wrong for the protagonist, and a major plot point towards the end that propels the story into the third act. This is the critical choice the character must make.

Act 3, Resolution – This is where the climax occurs as well as the events that tie up the end of the story.

Another way to look at this method is that there are actually three major plot points, or disasters, that move the plot forward. The first is at the end of Act 1, the second is in the middle of Act 2, and the third is at the end of Act 2.

The Snowflake Method

A “top-down” method by Randy Ingermanson that breaks novel writing down into basic parts, building upon each one. You can find his page on the method here. His ten steps:

Write a single sentence to summarize your novel.

Write a paragraph that expands upon that sentence, including the story set up, the major conflicts, and the ending.

Define your major characters and write a summary sheet corresponding to each one that includes: the character’s name, their story arc, their motivation and goal, their conflict, and their epiphany (what they will learn).

Expand each sentence of your summary paragraph in Step 2 into its own paragraph.

Write a one page description of your major characters and a half page description of less important characters.

Expand each paragraph in Step 4 into a page each.

Expand each character description into full-fledged character charts telling everything there is to know about the characters.

Make a spreadsheet of all of the scenes you want to include in the novel.

Begin writing the narrative description of the story, taking each line from the spreadsheet and expanding the scenes with more details.

Begin writing your first draft.

Wing It

This is what I do most of the time. I tend to keep in mind the basic structure of the 5 Point Method and just roll with whatever ideas come my way. I’ve never been a fan of outlines, or any other type of organization. According to George R.R. Martin, I’ve always been a gardener, not an architect when it comes to writing. I don’t plan, I just come up with ideas and let them grow. Of course, this may not work for some of you, so here are some methods of organization:

Outlines

Notecards

Spreadsheets

Lists

Character Sheets

And if all else fails, you can fall on the advice of Chuck Wendig: 25 Ways to Plot and Prep Your Story.

Remember, none of the methods above are set in stone. They are only guidelines to help you finally write that novel.

-Ash

Updated as of 12/6/2018

Another note: While I still do the ‘Wing It’ method for a lot of shorter works, I’ve settled into actually outlining my novel using the three act structure as a guide and a ton of bullet points. It’s completely okay to adopt a new plotting method when you’ve been using the same one for years. I’ve got 7 pages of outline for Act 1, and it was probably one of the best writing decisions I’ve made. Don’t get discouraged if something doesn’t click. Instead, try something different.

Prompts- 30.07.2019

Prompt 3: „ You re right above ‚clown' on my creepy scale..”

So, waking up in the middle of the night in an unknown location, not anymore in the bed you crashed earlier and heck, even in your normal clothes anymore dure woke u up from your deep slumber.

The room looked old but well kept, with a king sized bed, a small dusty table in the corner, a rocking chair with a ghost in it, a window on the left side of the room, a door .... wait, did I just said ghost...?!?

As on cue, the ghost rose from the rocking chair so fast upon seeing that u woke up that it send it to the floor with a loud thud echoing into the room. The ghost looked like it died tragically, probably asassinated or in a fight or something, since it looked like something sharp dug into its chest if we judge from the gap where its heart should be...

It keep starring above me, so I slowly followed it s gaze... there I found an old looking painting of a girl, a beautiful one at that, wearing a dress, the same one I m wearing right now...

It is a beautiful drawing, if we ignore the red smeared on every inch of it, well, minus the bust of the girl..

Now the ghost dropped it s gaze on my shaking form as a creepy smile began to form on it s face and it s eyes started to glow ...

„You are right above ‚clown ‚ on my creepy scale” i thought as i closed my eyes tightly, waiting for the spirit to take my breath away... quite literally...

100 reasons to learn a foreign language

1) To travel

2) To communicate with people from other countries

3) To make friends from other countries

4) To study abroad

5) To find a job or an internship abroad

6) To read books in their original language

7) To watch movies and TV shows with the original voices

8) To understand music in other languages

9) To discover and understand new cultures

10) To understand new words and idioms, which means that you will have new ways of expressing yourself

11) To discover new foods and recipes from all over the world

12) To have more job opportunities

13) To get a better job, with more possibilities

14) To understand the world a bit better

15) To watch the news or read newspapers in another language, so that you can gain other information and see the world from another point of view

16) To learn traditions and customs from other countries

17) To be more open-minded

18) To train your brain

19) To have a new challenge

20) To avoid illnesses such as Alzheimer or dementia

21) To brag to your friends and family about being bilingual

22) To meet your soulmate from another country

23) To have more youtube content to watch

24) To make your parents / family proud

25) To learn the language of your ancestors

26) To learn the native language of your partner

27) To learn the native language of your best friend

28) To give yourself a reason to watch cartoons

29) To be able to watch Disney movies in different languages

30) To learn more about history, geography and geopolitics 

31) To be able to sing in more than one language

32) To raise bilingual children

33) To be able to help lost tourists in your city

34) To be able to ask for help when you’re lost in a foreign city

35) To not have regrets later

36) To be able to read more resources when you’re researching for an essay

37) To become a more interesting person

38) To have something to do in your free time

39) To meet more interesting people

40) To see your culture from another perspective

41) To be a traveler, not a tourist

42) To be able to bargain the prices when you’re traveling

43) To escape from tourist traps

44) To share amazing experiences with the locals  

45) To become more creative

46) To read memes from different countries

47) To become a citizen of the world

48) To laugh at how crazy your native language and your native culture is

49) To laugh at how hard your target language is

50) To understand jokes in another language

51) To participate more efficiently and responsively in a multi-cultural world

52) To teach your native language abroad

53) To learn to respect everyone and human nature

54) To appreciate cultural diversity

55) To help immigrants who arrive in your country and don’t speak the language yet

56) To watch sports competitions in another language

57) To understand all the Eurovision’s song

58) To be proud of yourself when you master a new aspect of your target language

59) To appreciate the variations of dialects of a foreign language

60) To get a tattoo in a foreign language

61) To volunteer abroad

62) To watch Netflix TV shows from other countries

63) To go from hearing random songs to hearing a language you understand

64) To learn how to make new sounds

65) To improve your CV

66) To say a secret out loud to a friend and have no one else understand you

67) To understand people speaking a foreign language on the bus

68) To be more open and tolerant

69) To always have something new to share

70) To become a better version of yourself

71) To say yes to more adventures

72) To learn how to greet people in tons of different ways

73) To talk to your pets in another language

74) To feel like you’re traveling in time

75) To make foreigners feel welcome in your country

76) To learn how to read and write in a foreign alphabet

77) To read street signs in other countries

78) To learn how to swear in another language

79) To help deaf people fit in society it you’re learning a sign language

80) To learn while you’re young

81) To learn while you have time

82) To read poems in their original language

83) To have people tell you that you have a cute accent

84) To become an inspiration for other language learners

85) To speak more languages than your friends and family

86) To stand out from the crowd

87) To help save an endangered language

88) To learn more about linguistics

89) To grow as a person

90) To help people who are struggling with your native language or target languages

91) To translate crazy phrases on Duolingo

92) To talk with kids who don’t speak your native language

93) Because learning languages is an epic adventure

94) Because so many languages will sound good to your ears

95) Because it’s fun

96) Because it’s rewarding

97) Because the language learning community is amazing

98) Because there’s no reason not to learn languages

99) Because you won’t regret it

100) Because you don’t actually need a reason

Hope you guys like it and agree with it :) Add more reasons if you want!

A little cover of an underrated group I adore: Onlyoneof- Time leap!

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Until next time, see ya~♡ And take care♤

A little request from a friend of mine after I said I wanna practice drawing women... I haven't drawn women since the beginning of 2019 ( my Kard drawing)

This is Yang Hye Ji and she played Oh Bit Na in the kdrama Nevertheless.

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Until next time, see ya~♡ And take care♤