The Skellingcorner

[sweetlittlevampire]

[babyanimalgifs]

“So cute. Every time his mother gave him the toys, he’ll say thank you”

more baby animals here

[fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment]

[fountainfinity]

things people do in real world dialogue:

• laugh at their own jokes

• don’t finish/say complete sentences

• interrupt a line of thought with a sudden new one

• say ‘uh’ between words when unsure

• accidentally blend multiple words together, and may start the sentence over again

• repeat filler words such as ‘like’ ‘literally’ ‘really’ ‘anyways’ and ‘i think’

• begin and/or end sentences with phrases such as ‘eh’ and ‘you know’, and may make those phrases into question form to get another’s input

• repeat words/phrases when in an excited state

• words fizzle out upon realizing no one is listening

• repeat themselves when others don’t understand what they’re saying, as well as to get their point across

• reply nonverbally such as hand gestures, facial expressions, random noises, movement, and even silence

[nanowrimo]

Plot Doctoring: 9 Steps to Build a Strong Plot

Like the main event itself, NaNo Prep is always better with an incredible writing community around you. Luckily, our forums come with such a ready-made community. Inspired by the Plot Doctoring forum, we asked Derek Murphy, NaNoWriMo participant, to share his thoughts on plotting, and he outlined his 9-step plotting diagram:

Here’s a truth: you must write badly before you can write well. 

Everybody’s first draft is rubbish. It’s part of the process, so don’t worry about it. The writing can be polished and fixed and improved later, after NaNoWriMo, during the editing stages.

What most writers get out of NaNoWriMo is a collection of great scenes that don’t necessarily fit into a cohesive story—and that’s a problem if you want to produce something publishable.

Nearly all fiction follows some version of the classical hero’s journey: a character has an experience, learns something, and is consequently improved. There are turning points and scenes that need to be included in your story—if they are missing it won’t connect with readers in an emotionally powerful way. And it’s a thousand times easier to map them out before you write your book.

[its-a-writer-thing]

[thewordriven]

While this is for wine tasting… aromas can be an important part of writing a description and setting a scene… Here is an aroma chart to help you with your descriptive smells…

[vikingshistory]

[jorindelle]

The Aslaug Appreciation Vikings Countdown ≡ 4 Days till Vikings!
↳Aslaug + Character Traits  {insp. from @dobranoka​}

[feynites]

[libations-of-honey-and-milk]

In fairy tales and fantasy, two types of people go in towers:  princesses and wizards.

Princesses are placed there against their will or with the intention of ‘keeping them safe.’
This is very different from wizards, who seek out towers to hone their sorcery in solitude.

I would like a story where a princess is placed in an abandoned tower that used to belong to a wizard, and so she spends long years learning the craft of wizardry from the scraps left behind and becomes the most powerful magic wielder the world has seen in centuries, busts out of the tower and wreaks glorious, bloody vengeance on the fools that imprisoned her. 

That would be my kind of story.

[feynites]

When Princess Talia was fourteen, her eldest sister was placed in a tower.

Princess Adina was eighteen by then, and so of a marriageable age. She had grown quite beautiful, though she was more willful than winsome, and she did not care for the notion of the tower very much at all. Their mother did her best to persuade her on the subject. After all, the queen herself had been eighteen when her own parents had sent her to live in that very same tower, to be safely tucked away until her husband could be chosen, and then ride out to claim her. A tradition going back ages and ages.

[princess-of-positivity]

• tips for panic/anxiety attacks

• another anxiety masterpost

• kittens meet puppies for the first time (video)

• drunk girls surprised with puppies (video)

• gifs for anxiety masterpost

• breathing exercise #1 (gif)

• coping with a panic attack (article)

• breathing exercise #2 (gif)

• breathing exercise #3 (gif)

• thunder and rain sounds (video)

• be ok (song) 

• girl obsessed with sloth is surprised with a sloth (video)

• people try walking their cats (video)

• woman plays relaxing instrument (video)

[sweetlittlevampire]

I just submitted my first exam…written and handed in via a Google.docs form.
Seems like I finally stopped living in the Stone Age.

[its-a-writer-thing]

[creativeprompts]

3 METAPHYSICAL CONCEPTS FOR WRITERS 

Okay. I’m going to go out on a limb here. This post may be a little “woo-woo” for some. But if you have an open mind, who knows, it just might inspire you to think differently about your creative process.

I’m a pretty metaphysically minded person. Everything is energy and we can’t always see what’s going on behind the scenes. I believe that in many ways, this mindset helps me as I writer. It helps me have faith in my process… and that’s an important thing to have!

Here are the three primary concepts that give me confidence in my creativity:

Read the full article at Writing One Word at a Time

[sweetlittlevampire]

Aaaand thus I just finished my first piece of CSS animation. Which I have to hand in for grading as well.

For someone who didn´t even know what a line of HTML code looks like last October I think that´s not too shabby. :3