to go back to my statement of not having enough morally grey wlw ladies in asian dramas - i just recently started Couple of Mirrors and it's a cold-hearted assassin and a kind writer / socialite who found out her husband and best friend were having an affair getting together set in like 1920s / 1930s Shanghai???
I’ve decided to make a masterlist of asks I’ve done to make them easier to find for you guys (and for myself). I split them into categories as best as I could by genre and topic. Also, some asks have some helpful tips in the notes as well to check out (some are marked but not all) and if you have anything to add that you think would help, feel free to reply or reblog with your addition. I’ll try to keep it updated with future asks.
Now without further ado, the strangest and most wonderful list I’ve ever made.
Urban fantasy prompts/creating urban fantasy world (also linked under fantasy)
Links to help with world building
Creating a pantheon of gods
Things to research when writing a historical novel (also linked under Historical)
Using metaphors in descriptions
Too much world building?
Asking questions to develop a magic system
Wizard school ideas
Why magic would drain from a world
Tips for descriptions
Reasons for civil war
Writing confusion in your character
Obstacles to character goals: traveling abroad
Reactions to sadness
Reactions to a devastating event
Showing a character’s anxiety towards something
Showing a character’s secret without revealing it
Reasons a character would die for another
Secrets in a character’s past
Culture shock with loss of rules
Growth of a trainee witch
Characters provoking other characters
Dealing with moving to a completely new place
Why a 19yo would allow a strange boy to live with her
Why a character would want a do-over in life
Showing a character going from good to bad
Possible good messages when the villains aren’t reformed
Kid growing up surrounded only by adults
Quirks for characters
Showing friendship with reserved characters
Introducing an antagonist
Introducing side characters
When you don’t think your character’s backstory fits
Writing Different Types of Characters
Writing antiheroes
The reluctant hero
Writing a violent character afraid of their mind
Making an immoral character likeable
Not a normal girl
Sympathetic villain
Making sure your character isn’t just a flirt
Writing intelligent characters
When your hero isn’t very heroic
Confident characters
Writing an antisocial character
Visiting family for the first time
Showing closeness in siblings (opposite twins)
How a joker and a quiet character can become friends
Daughter of a party organizer prompts
Parent jobs where the kid needs to keep up appearances
The mom that left comes back…a vampire
Including character’s parents
Why a character would leave another
Sibling relationships
character with an abusive father (and how to show fear)
Writing a slow paced love story
love interest vs the ex revamped
Platonic male x female relationships
Random places to get married
Suspense and romance with a “different” male lead
sad relationship prompts
Asexuality and romance
Mutual pining
Romance with large age differences
Childhood friends falling in love
Fluffy unique first kiss
Ways of showing commitment in characters (vampire edition)
Friendship to romance
Small situations for a couple story
fantasy creature and human fluff
characters meeting and falling in love during war
Why best friends might fall in love
Unlikely soulmates prompts
Using dreams as energy
Time travel prompts (asked for male x female protags)
Time travel: how saving someone can go wrong
Reliving memories
Android characters
Writing humanoids in post apocalypse
Consequences of growing a baby in an artificial womb (theoretical)
The evil AI that characters can’t (shouldn’t) destroy
Girl and guy get trapped in the same body
Rich people in post apocalypse
Discovering you have a doppelgânger
Superheroes
Teenagers, hormones and their superpowers
Weird superpowers
Superhero kids reluctant to be superheroes
Aliens
beings traveling to Earth
Why an alien wouldn’t be able to leave Earth
Reasons an alien would be sent to live on Earth
Human/alien team surviving on hostile planet together
Urban fantasy prompts/creating urban fantasy world (also linked under world building)
gods losing their powers
creations turning on their creators
How elemental powers might work
Why NOT to destroy the world when it’s your goal
Mistreated genies
Tropes of a fantasy (also linked under Writing Motivation/Tips)
Male character ideas in a fantasy
Immortal woman prompts
Beauty and the Beast revamp
How Death and a teenage girl become adventure teammates
Powers for magical beings writing down history
Girl meets demon from forest behind her house
Reverse fairytale prompts
Revamped fairytale prompts 2
Manatees being confused by mermaids
a princess befriends a baby dragon
Making a character believe in a cure for a curse
Egyptian gods living among us
A love between the sun and the moon
What fantasy creatures do on Halloween
Human and fantasy creature become pen pals
Creatures
Monsters and urban legends
Fantastic creatures
A little bit on dragons
Kind dragons
Magic and Witches
witch x wizard romance
witch prompts
Witch being protective over a human-turned-doll
magical boarding school
Ideas for curses
A young witch exploring the boundaries of her powers
Traps a wizard could set for a thief
Angels and Demons
Angels and demons
Angel as a human on earth
Jobs for angels and demons who fall in love
Physical impacts on a demon who keeps dying and coming back
Demons hunter prompts
Vampires
Human meets vampire 1
Human meets vampire 2
How to hide your vampirism from your family
Royal vampires
Vampire hunter gets bitten by a vampire
Reasons a locked up vampire would go after your character
Why a vampire and vampire hunter would work together
Vampire x werewolf forbidden love
Ghosts
Helpful ghost prankster prompts 1
Helpful ghost prankster prompts 2
Human and ghost solving mysteries together
1776 woman with supernatural abilities prompts
A medium whose friend is in a coma
Medium question Pt. 2: their fatal flaws
Battle Scenes
Writing Battle Scenes Tips
How to lead up to an action scene
Weiterlesen
lisa really said "sugar is the worst thing you can put into your body" and emma was like, no btch, and stabbed her
currently rewatching Strangers from Hell again for the new year, and you can straight up see Moonjo fall in love with Jongwoo in real time as he talks about his little pianist murderer
the comedy of you yi insistingly wandering into yan wei's house only for yan wei to have to kick her around so she doesn't fall into the death traps istg
the "goodbye anna" bit??? asasjkfjakfjdka this show is so hilarious
noir-esque "one-night-stand to enemies to lovers" mjjw set in the late 1920s in which jongwoo is a gritty private detective with anger issues and moonjo a flirtatious but ruthless gang boss
also peep my first attempt at explicit smut, and downwards spiral into my 3rd giant multichapter project (no i'm not ok)
I'm sick and tired of the lack of stem dark academia vibes in modern literature. Obviously we have Frankenstein, which I love, but I am foaming at the mouth for a book like The Secret History, or Bunny, or Dead Poet Society but stem.
Imagine a murder mystery at a prestigious university, but it's a sleep-deprived physics student who's obsessed with space, an equally as tired chemistry student that's only a ~little~ unhinged and overexcited for orgo lab, and a medicine student who spent an entire week studying anatomy getting together to solve it.
Or, they all suspect each other, though nobody knows that they do, and the actual murderer attempts to sabotage the group effort without being caught.
totally not relevant to Palamedes or nurse outfits BUT hypothetically what would Camilla wear to a costume party?
Okay, so I’ve been collecting all of these posts on writing since a while back and my babe @dans34 needed help, so I decided to make a masterlist! I’ll be updating it whenever I find something new. I know it’s not a lot, but hey, it might work for someone!
Websites and charts
Mendeley
Zen writer
Wolfram Alpha
Charahub
Hemingway
Apps for writers
The NaNoWriMo Survival guide
Writing Advice Masterpost
Awesome sites and links for writers
Software and tools master post
Character cheat sheet
Plotting made simple
Stages of grief
Descriptions
How to show (not tell) your character’s appearance
Writing tip on how to describe eyes
Describing characters of color
How to make a character’s death sadder
Writing with color
Different types of fractures
Grammar
Resisting extravagant verbosity
Words to use more often
Tone Vocabulary list
Word definitions/ synonyms and antonyms/ words that rhyme with other words (useful af, trust me)
Writing tips
How to write the perfect ending
Writing advice you’re not going to like
Which scenes to cut
Nine ways to make the readers care
Friends, not love interests
Reaserch your big five
Hellish and Dystopian worlds
What to do when you’re stuck writing a scene
A smattering of stupid writing tips
Top ten writing tips from ‘Game of Thrones’ author George R. R. Martin
Creating a character
Creating OC’s
Core values
123 ideas for Character Flaws
How to name a character effectively
Things you should know about your characters
Help on how to write any type of character
How to make a character likable
Clothing from any era
Fantasy/historical clothing designs
Masterpost for writers creating their own worlds/characters
Generators
Random generators (for deaths, cities, names, etc.)
So you want to make a character
Character trait generator
Fantasy Girl Generator
Prompts
Writing prompt list #3 (has about 95 prompts)
Drabble prompts
Halloween one line
Obscure word prompts
AUs
AUs masterlist (divided in different themes)
Trashy AUs
Airplane AUs
Cute AUs
Meet ugly AUs
Car/Motorcycle AUs
Music/Background Sounds
Music to keep you focused
Kingdom Hearts II: Passion Kingdom Orchestra
MyNoise
Sounds to soothe anxiety
Miscellaneous
How to google it
lesbian | stem girlie | 21 | big fan of the locked tomb, roots of chaos, horror stuff, hozier
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