Open up a horror story and write down all the writing conventions you see. If you don't wanna read, listen to an audiobook. For example when I was trying to write a confinement story and had no ideas how to improve, I started reading/listening to Stephen King's 'Misery' but specifically focused on how the story was written when there wasn't any plo...... 1 reply
Currently reading https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/dousei_ai/ for my everything list where I read EVERY SINGLE STORY ON THIS SITE and obviously i have to start with the yaoi tag lmao. This story is not by any means AMAZING but woah it dropped this banger line 1 reply
Why would just start saying a word thinking it was from another language, to the point that you were doing an 'accent', and not look it up before all that?
English is my second language and I'm terrified of using any new word that gains popularity in the internet cause... what if its a slur or some incel culture shit.
(Larping for example, I knew ...... 4 reply
Thinking about it the best thing for me is practice and research, I don't want to do allat (as accounting and computer sci already forces me to do) but yeh it makes sense
I'll just focus on finding writing prompts first to test my current skill and get to reading all the novels I put to the side. Unlike accounting though this research is at least ...... reply
the amount of new acronyms that keep coming out that I had to google lool. The most recent one is "ctfu" (crack/ing the fuck up???) because I kept seeing it around 2 reply
NO BC WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME THAT IJBOL MEANS I JUST BURST OUT LAUGHING????? no bc i used to say ijbol all the time cos i thought it was a korean word for smth idk
I kept saying it cos it sounds SO funny in a korean accent but i js found it means that lameass millnielaln word?? Girl bye
bad news: the best way to improve your writing is by reading, not just writing by itself. you sound like you're going into this group trying to prove to yourself and others that you haven't lost your writing abilities instead of seeing this opportunity as something to learn from. read. read, read, read. go into books as a writer, not a reader. if y...... 1 reply
I stopped reading actual books in so long that I think I lost all my writing skills and my pride won't allow that.
I have a chance of being invited to a writing group for horror romance (underrated combo) and I can not mess this up.
I need anything, how to expand sentences, how to describe the 5 senses, characterization, YouTube tutorials, anything.
Please help this non novel and book reading user it is not my fault that one day I decided I'd just read manga/whas/huas for the past years, and never tried writing after that.
Yall wish yall had a pencil for this pencil sharpener. but yall DON'T. All your pencils are small, skinny, and ugly asf. None of your pencils fit in my sharpener, they're all too loose and they look awful with me. That's why i'm gonna marry another sharpener so i can get sharpened hohoho. Y'all wish ... but yall can't #staymadpencils Feeling: Sharpenersexual
'Things' are your daily life experiences by which you get to know the world around you. Tell others about the things you did, may it be cool, sad, crazy or funny. You can also find things that you might want to do and a friend to do it with!