Some Writing Prompt Generators

needlekind:

Serendipity (names, places, mapbuilding, etc.)
Quick Story Idea
Full Story Idea
Writing Challenges
General Character
Quick Character
really just all of Seventh Sanctum
RPGesque generators
Writing Prompts
Inspiration Finder
Story Arc
Fantasy Story Situaton
Adventure
Chaotic Shiny is just really good in general
Random Plot 

Ultimate Writing Resource List

thelastrplord:

a massively extended version of ruthlesscalculus’ post

General Tips

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"Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to force the Muse to show up. You get into the habit of writing every day so that when she shows up, you have the maximum chance of catching her, bashing her on the head, and squeezing every last drop out of that bitch."

- Lili St. Crow (via writingquotes)

"I’m now writing out of rage — and I feel a kind of Nietzschean elation. It’s tonic. I roar with laughter. I want to denounce everybody, tell everybody off. I go to my typewriter as I might go to my machine gun. But I’m safe. I don’t have to face the consequences of ‘real’ aggressivity. I’m sending out colis piégés [‘booby-trapped packages’] to the world."

- Susan Sontag

"Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, either is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in the reader’s face. Whenever the writer writes, it’s always three o’clock in the morning, it’s always three or four or five o’clock in the morning in [hir] head. Those horrid hours are the writer’s days and nights when [zie] is writing. The writer doesn’t write for the reader. [Zie] doesn’t write for [hirself], either. {Zie] writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is sheltered by the wings of nothingness — those exquisite, enveloping, protecting wings."

- Joy Williams

"Being a good writer is 3% talent and 97% not being distracted by the internet."

- (via worldinink)

eyecager: painted-bees: tennine: msg: explore-blog: Chuck Close on creativity The rest of this quote is glorious as well: “Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will grow out of the activity itself and that you will — through work — bump into other possibilities and kick open other doors that you would never have dreamt of if you were just sitting around looking for a great ‘art idea.’ And the belief that process, in a sense, is liberating and that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today, you know what you’ll do, you could be doing what you were doing yesterday, and tomorrow you are gonna do what you did today, and at least for a certain period of time you can just work. If you hang in there, you will get somewhere.” Normally I dont reblog these things, but this has been especially true to me this year.  100% Adding to this with Nick Cave’s quote “Inspiration is a word used by people who aren’t really doing anything. I go into my office every day that I’m in Brighton and work. Whether I feel like it or not is irrelevant.” Inspiration is nice, but if you only work when it strikes, you’re going to be an unhappy artist. This is especially true if you want to earn a living at it; you don’t hear about surgeons getting “surgeon’s block” or garbage men getting “garbage men’s block.” There are assuredly days when the surgeon doesn’t want to be removing gall-bladders, but she does it anyway, because that’s her job.”

eyecager:

painted-bees:

tennine:

msg:

explore-blog:

Chuck Close on creativity

The rest of this quote is glorious as well:

“Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will grow out of the activity itself and that you will — through work — bump into other possibilities and kick open other doors that you would never have dreamt of if you were just sitting around looking for a great ‘art idea.’ And the belief that process, in a sense, is liberating and that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today, you know what you’ll do, you could be doing what you were doing yesterday, and tomorrow you are gonna do what you did today, and at least for a certain period of time you can just work. If you hang in there, you will get somewhere.”

Normally I dont reblog these things, but this has been especially true to me this year. 

100%

Adding to this with Nick Cave’s quote

“Inspiration is a word used by people who aren’t really doing anything. I go into my office every day that I’m in Brighton and work. Whether I feel like it or not is irrelevant.” Inspiration is nice, but if you only work when it strikes, you’re going to be an unhappy artist. This is especially true if you want to earn a living at it; you don’t hear about surgeons getting “surgeon’s block” or garbage men getting “garbage men’s block.” There are assuredly days when the surgeon doesn’t want to be removing gall-bladders, but she does it anyway, because that’s her job.”

jhermann:

Teju Cole continues to devastate in 140 characters or less.

ProPublica: Everything we know so far about drone strikes


straddling-the-atmosphere:

onceuponabopper:

thetimetravelersguidetothegalaxy:

wittywallflower:

Writing is weird.

One minute you are telling a story.

The next minute you are researching the average amount of snowfall Edinburgh gets.

or how to kill someone with a piece of barbed wire and a tomato

Or how much force it takes to dent a human skull with a can of Pepsi.

what the hell are you guys writing?

"Texts are secrets. They’re little mementos of inclusion and excitement you can read over and over. They’re letters, journal entries, notes passed in class. Because we like to hold onto words that mean something to us. We like re-read and remember and re-live that moment when he said, “I miss you,” or even just “Merry Christmas” because you know they mean the same thing…And when I text my best friend, “He texted me! ” and she replies, “Yay!”, we’re not a generation lost staring at screens. We’re in corsets being handed scrolls sealed with his coat-of-arms. We’re in sundresses waiting for the postman to drop his letter. We’re on swing sets hoping to circle ‘yes’ or ‘no.’ We’re a million starry eyes still staring at the same starry skies with fingers crossed and hopes high."

- DateByNumbers No Texting, No Exceptions on CollegeCandy (via datebynumbers)

Doctor Who: Asylum of the Daleks

astheshadowslovethecastle:

fozmeadows:

Warning: total spoilers.

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Steven Moffat Explains Why He’s So Bad At Writing Women

gnimaerd:

shallitellyouastory:

fuckyeahgirlcrush:

erincognito:

oxbridge:

“There’s this issue you’re not allowed to discuss: that women are needy. Men can go for longer, more happily, without women. That’s the truth. We don’t, as little boys, play at being married - we try to avoid it for as long as possible. Meanwhile women are out there hunting for husbands. The world is vastly counted in favour of men at every level - except if you live in a civilised country and you’re sort of educated and middle-class, because then you’re almost certainly junior in your relationship and in a state of permanent, crippled apology. Your preferences are routinely mocked. There’s a huge, unfortunate lack of respect for anything male.”

—

Steven Moffat, in The Scotsman  (via michaelbush)

Seriously though, won’t someone think of the men?! Having to deal with us needy women, gosh, I just don’t know how they do it!

 #soooo let me know if i’m reading this right. #what moffatt is basically saying is #ouch my priviledge is hurting #how oh how can i ever deal with being a middle class straight white man with a successful career and several primetime bbc1 tv shows and a successful motion picture release and the ears and eyes of the british media? #this burden is oh so difficult to bear #i feel so underrepresented and marginalised #stfu #gtfo #i’m so glad family television is trusted to this man. #it’s not like shows like doctor who are formative or anything #thank fuck he can tell a decent story and his sexist bull shit shows only rarely

I think all of my exes can attest to the fact that Moffat is full of shit.

DW: Amy and Rory

centrumlumina:

[Doctor Who related, all of the spoilers all of the time.]

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Dear Rory and Amy,

letseyx:

  1. YOU HAVE A CHILD. River motherfucking Song, have you already forgotten her?!
  2. Any dude who would divorce you because you can’t have kids doesn’t deserve you.
  3. Adoption exists.

WHAT EVEN WAS THIS ARGUMENT.

To be fair, I don’t think Rory was aware that was why she threw him out until she said it in the episode (at least that was my impression), but yeah, Amy’s rationale on this was loads of stupid, not least because of point 3. It was bad writing, and an instant of Moffat’s utter inability to pace major plot. I enjoyed most of the episode, but the Rory/Amy was a shitshow.