By Sharon Crosby

let’s stop seeing sex as the biggest thing you can do to show someone you love them

by Lazette Gifford

Description of main characters in first draft stories often fall into two wide categories — far too little or way too much.  Writers see their characters and they want their readers to see them, too.  However, sometimes they can go too far in description, especially in the main character.

What?  Don’t you want the reader to see the main character just as he or she is?  Yes, you do.  However, you need to consider two things about readers.  First, they have vivid imaginations and can ‘see’ characters without every detail drawn in.  Second — and the more important of the two — the reader wants to connect with the main character in some way.  This may mean that she wants to see the character as herself or she may want to imagine the character as a favorite star.  If you give too much description, you erase that connection.

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True. And also not enough time.

If there’s one thing I learned since I signed up on 05/15/2013 1:18:10 PM, it’s that #freyja aesthetics takes up too much of my time.

Some Writing Prompt Generators

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 

This is the Arrow of Destiny. Reblog this and see what comes up next. This person/saying/thing will have something to do with your future. 

My favorite products for PR

Tracking

Blendle Blendle is actually a tool designed to help newspapers generate more revenue through paid articles. But Blendle has an outstanding collection of print editions from the largest newspapers and magazines in Germany and it makes it super easy to search for keywords (e.g. FinTech) and find out how wrote an article in what magazine. Give it a few minutes and you have a powerful list of journalists to talk to in no time.

Alert.io Alert is my go-to tool for tracking things on the web. No matter if it’s topics, keywords, companies or competitors, Alert.io got you covered.

Project Management

Asana I have tried Asana a couple of times in the past, but was never really happy with it – until their redesign in October. Now I’m transitioning all my personal and work related projects and tasks from Todoist, which I’m still very fond of.

Todoist If you are looking for a very reliable, fast and minimalistic ToDo app, then Todoist would be my personal recommendation. I’ve been happily paying for a pro account for the last two years and organized all of my personal and most of my work related things in it. Now, that I’m working in a bigger team at Ballou PR, I transitioned to Asana, to keep everyone on the same page.

Writing

Ulysses III Ulysses is my favorite writing app by far. It’s really beautiful, fast and has many handy features including markdown support and a powerful export feature. As a hobby writer (who writes far too little), this is definitely my biggest discovery over the last five

Desk PM I came across this little gem just a few days ago and what I love the most about it, is the instant publishing feature for platforms like Tumblr, Blogger, Wordpress, Squarespace, Medium and a few others. Even though it lacks a few features that would be nice to have and has a few bugs, I was happy to pay the 19,99€ for the full version for one simple reason: I didn’t have to copy and paste written articles to the website. That was the single biggest issue that I had with publishing articles online.

Other stuff

Producthunt Whenever I can’t remember the name of an app that I wanted to try, I head over to Producthunt instead of searching for it on Google. It’s easily the best resource on the web to find apps and services that are useful.

this is the arrow of destiny. reblog this and see what comes up next. this person/saying/thing will have something to do with your future

This twitter is a gift. (x)

Power comes with responsibility. The more power a character has, the more they are defined and confined by it. The fewer choices they will have. The easier it is for their actions to have massive, widespread unintended consequences continuously rippling outward. When they make a mistake, they will hurt more people than just themselves. More you have, the more cautious you have to be. The more you have to give up, the more you have to sacrifice, because circumstances outside of your control have decided you will not be like other men/women. That’s just a fact of life. You can say “But I don’t want it”. Well, tough. Suck it up. Deal with it or deal with the consequences.

Michi of howtofightwrite, “Would it be cliche or a poor choice…”

As usual, the mods of howtofightwrite nail the importance of power in character development to the effing wall, paint a gd dartboard on it, and proceed to stick only bullseyes. Hats off to them. 

(via writeworld)