The World Is Made For The Boringly Average And I Refuse To Elaborate.

I bequeath the with a writing tip!

Characters are made to resemble people. So it would be fair to say characters also have mental health issues. If you can’t handle a situation mentally then they won’t be able to either. You can tone down the effects but still make sure you can see them! If they fight a lot give them insomnia or make them extremely jumpy! If people die around them a lot give them nightmares or separation issues! This can also go the opposite way. If you characters in a good situation don’t make them completely miserable.

Tip over!

Dive in Deeper: Irony

Hey, hey! Happy Monday! Hopefully everyone had a wonderful weekend and we’re all ready to tackle the week as strong people!

Sometimes, I forget If I’ve quickly covered something on this blog before.. I feel like I’ve done irony before but it’s probably me just imagining…

Let’s begin!

What is Irony?

The definition of irony as a literary device is a situation in which there is a contrast between expectation and reality

For example, the difference between what something appears to mean versus its literal meaning.

Irony is associated with both tragedy and humor.

What Are the Main Types of Irony?

Dramatic Irony: Also known as tragic irony, this is when a writer lets their reader know something that a character does not. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, each young lover takes the poison, thinking the other is already dead—the dramatic irony comes from the audience wanting them to know the whole story before taking this final action. Similarly, in Shakespeare’s Othello, Othello trusts Iago—but the audience knows better.

Comic irony. This is when irony is used to comedic effect—such as in satire. Jane Austen was a master of irony and dialogue. Her preoccupation with social divisions, and the witty and insightful tone with which she revealed hypocrisy and parodied people contributed heavily to her voice. Austen opens Pride and Prejudice with a famous line implying that men are the ones who hunt for a wife; however, she makes it clear throughout the narrative that it is actually the other way around.

Situational Irony. This is at play when an expected outcome is subverted. For example, in O. Henry’s classic tale, The Gift of the Magi, a wife cuts off her long hair to sell it in order to buy her husband a chain for his prized watch. Meanwhile, the husband has sold his watch in order to buy his wife a comb for her hair. The situational irony comes from each person not expecting to have their gift be undercut by the other’s actions.

Verbal irony. This is a statement in which the speaker means something very different from what he or she is saying. Think of the knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail: with both his arms sliced off, he says, nonchalantly: “It’s just a flesh wound.” He is ironically (and comically) underplaying the severity of his injury.

What Is the Difference Between Irony and Sarcasm?

Sarcasm is a conversational device characterized by saying the opposite of what one means.

The key difference between irony and sarcasm is that sarcasm characterizes someone’s speech. Irony can additionally describe situations or circumstances. There are some cases in which someone could say something that is considered both ironic and sarcastic, but sarcasm is not a literary device.

Five Tips For Writing Irony

Pay attention. As you read and watch movies, think critically about what is ironic, and why. For example, in the film The Wizard of Oz, the great and powerful Oz turns out to be just a regular man, while Dorothy, who has been desperately seeking his help so that she can get home, has had the power to return home all along. Think about ways in which you can incorporate situations like this into your writing, where you subvert the expectations of your characters, your readers—or both.

Use an omniscient point of view. Many novels written in the nineteenth century are told from an omniscient point of view. When a reader knows more than the character, as in Bram Stoker's Dracula, it generates suspense, because your reader waits for the character to learn what they already know. But you might want to invert that balance of knowledge and make the narrator a character in the story that knows more than the reader. Agatha Christie used this first-person strategy to create narrative irony.

Have a clear point of view strategy. Point of view strategy is deeply bound up with what story you want to tell and will guide how that story unspools. No matter where you are in the drafting process, devote some time to thinking through the risks and rewards of different point-of-view strategies and consider who in your story may be best suited to hold the narrative reins.

Use the “meanwhile” device. If you are using an omniscient narrative point of view strategy, your narrator may recount a parallel event happening simultaneously in another place using the “meanwhile” device (e.g., “Meanwhile, across town...”). Because this device lets the reader in on happenings that one character has no knowledge of, it is a great tool for generating dramatic irony.

Use a flashback sequence. When your narrative or characters recall a long memory from a time before the story began, you may want to pull the reader back into a past scene. This is called a flashback. It important to mark the beginning and end of a flashback to make your time jumps clear to the reader, which you can do using past perfect tense to introduce the change—e.g. “he had gone to the marina.” Past perfect tense uses the verb “to have” with the past participle of another verb (in this case “gone”). After a few lines of this, transition into simple past tense—e.g. “he climbed onto the boat.” Generally speaking, using past perfect for a long section of text is jarring for most readers. It’s enough to use it only at the start of the flashback before switching to simple past tense. At the flashback’s end, use a reminder that the reader is back in the current scene.

There you have it! Please reblog, like and comment if you find these helpful!

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!

And to all a good night.

Not that the detective is bad at solving crimes, far from it in fact. However they’re such an idiot in literally EVERYTHING else to the point where the demon is surprised they’re not missing limbs and much more surprised they’re not dead by now. Like stupid enough to the point where he’s been kidnapped (white van, promise of candy and all), lost all of their money to scammers twice, and almost died cause they couldn’t solve 3^2.

A detective and a demon are a crime solving duo. However, the demon is bound to the detective, and only helps because the detective is an idiot.

Writing Tip for ya guys!

World building can be hard task, considering how there’s so much to take care of. For the more ambitious types you may consider even creating creatures. Creating animals is a difficult task as they have to seem somewhat realistic. What I recommend is taking a pre-existing animal and changing its habitat and diet.

Here, let’s change a tiger! We can change the tigers environment to a mountainous one, and we can make it an omnivore! First let’s change its size, let’s make them a little smaller then a coyote. Let’s make them thinner as well, shrinking their head and legs to be more agile. We can make their coat slicker and fur shorter. We can exchange the proud oranges and whites to more dusty browns similar to that of dirt or bark. We can make they’re teeth smaller and more dull, as well as make their ears bigger and slightly more pointed. And we’re done! We’ve changed a proud and huge predator of the forest to a small and sly omnivore of the mountains. Of course it doesn’t have to be extremely realistic but unless your creature uses a magic of some sort I would recommend not doing extremely unrealistic things.

Tip over! (This was a long one.)

Good morning kings let's push this boulder

good morning kings let’s push this boulder

Glass is spiky

Fuck this shit Imma eat a jar

I had a fist fight with an ostrich. It did not go well. I ended up in the hospital with one arm missing, and my brother walked into my hospital room, slapped me in the face, and gave me an ostrich egg with a bow tied around it.

I refuse to believe I am sick, I am just updating and I froze half way through the process.

Dnd Update! Again!

I have been abandoned, I live alone in the woods now, there’s no one but me, a sandwich, and the murderous farmer that my character couldn’t tell was actually just a regular scare crow.