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Writing Worksheets & Templates

will update this every few weeks/months. alternatively, here are all my tagged Writing Worksheets & Templates

Chapter Outline ⚜ Character- or Plot-Driven Story

Death & Sacrifice ⚜ Magic & Rituals ⚜ Plot-Planning

Editing: Sentence Check ⚜ Writing Your Novel: 20 Questions

Tension ⚜ Thought Distortions ⚜ What's at Stake

Character Development

50 Questions ⚜ Backstory ⚜ Character Creation

Antagonist; Villain; Fighting ⚜ Protagonist & Antagonist

Character: Change; Adding Action; Conflict

Character: Creator; Name; Quirks; Flaws; Motivation

Character Profile (by Rick Riordan) ⚜ Character Sheet Template

Character Sketch & Bible ⚜ Interview your Character

Story-Worthy Hero ⚜ "Well-Rounded" Character Worksheet

Worldbuilding

20 Questions ⚜ Decisions & Categories ⚜ Worksheet

Setting ⚜ Dystopian World ⚜ Magic System (AALC Method)

Templates: Geography; World History; City; Fictional Plant

References: Worldbuilding ⚜ Plot ⚜ Character ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs

all posts are queued. send questions/requests here.

Writing Notes & References

Alchemy ⚜ Antidote to Anxiety ⚜ Attachment ⚜ Autopsy

Art: Elements ⚜ Principles ⚜ Photographs ⚜ Watercolour

Bruises ⚜ Caffeine ⚜ Color Blindness ⚜ Cruise Ships

Children ⚜ Children's Dialogue ⚜ Childhood Bilingualism

Dangerousness ⚜ Drowning ⚜ Dystopia ⚜ Dystopian World

Culture ⚜ Culture Shock ⚜ Ethnocentrism & Cultural Relativism

Emotions: Anger ⚜ Fear ⚜ Happiness ⚜ Sadness

Emotional Intelligence ⚜ Genius (Giftedness) ⚜ Quirks

Facial Expressions ⚜ Laughter & Humour ⚜ Swearing & Taboo

Fantasy Creatures ⚜ Fantasy World Building

Generations ⚜ Literary & Character Tropes

Fight Scenes ⚜ Kill Adverbs

Food: Cooking Basics ⚜ Herbs & Spices ⚜ Sauces ⚜ Wine-tasting ⚜ Aphrodisiacs ⚜ List of Aphrodisiacs ⚜ Food History ⚜ Cocktails ⚜ Literary & Hollywood Cocktails ⚜ Liqueurs

Genre: Crime ⚜ Horror ⚜ Fantasy ⚜ Speculative Biology

Hate ⚜ Love ⚜ Kinds of Love ⚜ The Physiology of Love

How to Write: Food ⚜ Colours ⚜ Drunkenness

Jargon ⚜ Logical Fallacies ⚜ Memory ⚜ Memoir

Magic: Magic System ⚜ 10 Uncommon ⚜ How to Choose

Moon: Part 1 2 ⚜ Related Words

Mystical Items & Objects ⚜ Talisman ⚜ Relics ⚜ Poison

Pain ⚜ Pain & Violence ⚜ Poison Ivy & Poison Oak

Realistic Injuries ⚜ Rejection ⚜ Structural Issues ⚜ Villains

Symbolism: Colors ⚜ Food ⚜ Numbers ⚜ Storms

Thinking ⚜ Thinking Styles ⚜ Thought Distortions

Terms of Endearment ⚜ Ways of Saying "No" ⚜ Yoga

Compilations: Plot ⚜ Character ⚜ Worldbuilding ⚜ For Poets ⚜ Tips & Advice

all posts are queued. will update this every few weeks/months. send questions or requests here ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs

febuwhump september special: 20 prompts that didn't make it into febuwhump 2024

as per popular request, here are 20 extra prompts submitted by febuwhump followers at the beginning of the year that didn't make it through the popular vote for this year's febuwhump event.

there are no rules, no win conditions, no ao3 collection: just 20 prompts to spark inspiration that i particularly liked and was disappointed not to see get used.

and if you tag the blog @febuwhump or use the tag #febuspecial the blog will share a random assortment that it comes across!

a perfect opportunity to create something this september!!

plain text prompts under the cut:

DAY 1: amputation

DAY 2: body modification

DAY 3: bear trap

DAY 4: warzone

DAY 5: trust fall

DAY 6: missed connections

DAY 7: spinal injury

DAY 8: cannibalism

DAY 9: blood oath

DAY 10: bones

DAY 11: missing person’s report

DAY 12: apocalypse

DAY 13: blunt forced trauma

DAY 14: sharp objects

DAY 15: thunderstorm

DAY 16: noose

DAY 17: explosive vest

DAY 18: cosmic horror

DAY 19: lost child

DAY 20: crybaby

Send them in with your characters!!

~ I HATE YOU BUT I LOVE YOU ~ ENEMIES-TO-LOVERS PROMPTS

requested by: anonymous request: hello I'm writing a lovers to enemies to lovers book but I really need some prompts bc I think there's too much bickering and not enough fluff 😭😭 pls help

Feel free to use and reblog!

saying one thing but meaning the other aka acting hateful but having loving feelings

^ "You're the worst person" *while being super gentle/caring with the other*

"I'd do everything to ensure that they don't get away with it." *literally helping them get away with it*

A: "Ugh, I hate [Person B] so much" C: "But they're so sweet and nice to you." A: "Yeah, exactly. That's so hateful of them."

the other person has always made their blood boil but it takes them a while to realise that the reasons have changed

how can someone be so aggravating and so arousing at the same time?

being mean and provoking upfront just to do nice and thoughtful things behind their back

*both bickering* *Person A suddenly going quiet and grinning at Person B* Person B: "What? Why are you looking at me like that?" Person A: "Because you're just arguing so much with me because you like me." *Person B turning red*: "... nOo..."

realising their feelings for the other person but it just makes them meaner because they're overcompensating (after all, no one should know that they're actually in love with person B)

they have been very snippy and full of snide remarks towards person B but since they realised they have feelings for them their mind goes blank and they go mute in front of person B

avoiding the other person as they're enemies but full on ghosting them once they realise their own feelings for their enemy

trying to mask their feelings in the least obvious way: just openly telling them how they're feeling because they wouldn't believe it anyway

^ "Do you know that you actually have a special place in my heart? Oh, how I love and cherish you!" "Yeah, fuck you too!"

A: "Do you sometimes feel that the line between hate and love can be very thin?" B: "They are the strongest feelings after all. Maybe they're actually the same and it doesn't make a difference whether you hate or love."

A: "Stop messing with me! You could never love me!" B: "Oh, if only you knew! I hate how much I love you!"

"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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If you like to use your imagination, and if writing and character development is your thing, you're in the right place!

There are a lot of "OC Questions" blogs, and in my opinion there can never be too many of those, but I wanted mine to be a little different. This one will have character questions, but it will also have writing prompts, writing challenges and creativity exercises that I hope will help people get the proverbial creative juices flowing. I may also reblog writing tips or memes from time to time.

While the content of this blog will be aimed mainly at writers, many of the things may also be used by artists, animators and other creators. Everyone is free to use and share it.

You can answer the questions or do something with the prompts on your own, you can reblog and share them, or you can tag your friends and followers to do them with you. Use this content in whichever way feels most comfortable for you!

For the time being, I am creating all the content myself, but I will eventually open the ask box for contributions. I will do that on a schedule and I'll make sure I give plenty of notice.

Crediting me is not necessary, but if you do decide to use any of these prompts or questions, I think it'd be nice to be tagged so I can see what you create.

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My goal is to have daily content, organized in the following categories:

Character Question of the Day

Sunday Sparks (writing prompts)

Monday Monologue (prompt for writing in first person)

Two Characters Tuesday (writing prompt with two characters)

Wednesday Who's Who (character questions)

Thoughts for Thursday (themed questions & prompt)

Friday Five (writing prompt with 5 elements)

"Someone Says" Saturday (dialogue prompts)

((I will link these once I start posting content))

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POSTING SCHEDULE

Character Question of the Day - each day at 8:00 a.m. Atlantic Time (UTC-4)

Daily Themed Prompts - each day at 9:00 a.m. AST (UTC-4)

Reblogs & other posts - whenever i feel like it

When someone dies, the afterlife they go to is determined by WHERE they died. Dying in Scandinavia sends the soul to Valhalla or Hel, but dying in Greece lands them in Hades, and so on. You have just died in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Nommmmm nommm nommm (*^◯^*)

WRITING PROMPTS - Assassin

An assassin decides to kill anyone that tries to make her kill a child.

"Aw, baby. You thought I came over because of your pretty face?"

An assassin and a detectibe fall in love.

"I'll hunt him down for you, unless he pays me more than you do."

Two assassins go after the same impossible target, and fall in love along the way.

"I aim well."

A pair of teenagers scam people by pretending to be assassins without killing even one person.

"I'm expensive, sweetheart, and it's not money that I take."

Prompt #98

„112 what’s your emergency?“

„So... I accidentally summoned a demon and now they won’t leave ...“

„Demons are not real.“

„Tell that the demon currently eating all of my ice cream!“

Prompt #97

You are friends with two werewolves and a vampire. Somehow, your friends still don’t know that you know that they aren’t human. They also don’t know that you aren’t really human yourself.

Prompt #96

Superhero and Supervillain are both de-aged without their memories of their adult lifes and they somehow become best friends.

Prompt #95

„This is a horrible idea.“

„I know. You don’t have to come with me.“

„Yeah, but I want to say ‚I told you so‘ when this plan inevitably fails, so I really have to go with you.“

Prompt #94

A powerful mage came from another world through a portal to our world. Since our world has no magic, the mage expects it to be easy to reach world domination. But before they can do that, they obviously need more information about our world...

The mage didn’t expect to become addicted to Netflix while researching the entertainment behavior of people in this world. Naturally, the mage still plans on reaching world domination. However, they have to finish this show first because they need answers.

Prompt #93

Living a normal life with a boring desk job when literally your whole family (mother, father, siblings and even your spouse) are supervillains is not that easy...

Prompt #92

You somehow ended up in another world where magic is real. Unfortunately only evil witches have brown eyes like you in this world.

Nobody wants to listen when you tell them that this is just a misunderstanding.

And then you discover that you do have magic in this world.

Prompt #91

You are the child of a supervillain.

Now you have been kidnapped with a group of civilians by another villain.

Well, your parent will be furious.

Prompt #90

Once every 10 years, portals open up to a magical world. However, you have never been an adventurer, so you never planned on stepping through a portal.

Until your dog jumped through one. And now you are lost in another world looking for your dog.

Prompt #89

„I know you are here to save me, but this is really not necessary.“

„There is a monster standing behind you.“

„This so called monster is my best friend and a lot nicer than most humans.“

Prompt #88

The villain doesn’t like it, but to save their own life they have to do the unthinkable:

They have to ask the hero for help.

Prompt #87

You are a mage but there are only a few people who know that. You are also a magician who does magic shows for people who don’t know that magic is real.

Prompt #86

They are dangerous, murderous creatures. They kill and they maim. They are ruthless and they show no regrets.

Therefore, every werewolf knew that they should stay away from the dangerous creatures called humans.

Until one day a young werewolf met a human for the forst time...

Prompt #85

You try to summon a demon. Instead of said demon appearing in a cloud of smoke, there is a voice:

„At the moment hell is busy. The next free demon will arrive soon.“

Then there is weird music.

You wait.

Prompt #84

You are not a hero or a vigilante or something like that. However, you stopped a villain by pure chance.

Said villain now views you as their archenemy and they are constantly trying to make you fight them...

Prompt #83

There is a door. It is not a normal door.

No one knows what is on the other side because nobody who goes through this door ever comes back.

The only question is: do they not come back because they can’t or because they don’t want to?

Prompt #82

There is a superhero team with two members who are constantly arguing. But most of the time it’s about one of them who got themselves into too much danger or something like this, and everyone can tell that they are just really worried about each other.

Naturally the whole team ships them and they make matchmaking plans.

Little do they know that the two have already been married for a long time.

Prompt #81

When the hero finds out, that the supervillain is just a teenager and an orphan, they adopt the villain.

The villain is not happy about this (but maybe one day they will be).

Prompt #80

„And then I literally died.“

„You mean figuratively?“

„No no. I mean literally. That was the day I died.“

„What?!“

„... I forgot to tell you, didn’t I? I‘m a zombie with really good make-up skills.“

Prompt #79

You ever wondered why monsters hide under beds? Well, obviously because they are scared of humans, especially children...

Prompt #78

They say you have no choice. That it is your destiny. They say you have to do it, you have to fight them. They say you have to defeat them like the prophecy foretold. They say you have to kill them.

However, you never liked fighting. And you want to save the world, you really do, but not like that. Not with a sword in your hand. Not by killing someone, no matter how evil they are.

They say you have no choice. But they are wrong. You always have a choice.

Prompt #77

When a supervillain gets amnesia because of a car crash, they forget everything about the past twenty years. Therefore, they don’t remember getting powers and becoming a villain. And since no one knows the villain’s secret identity, nobody comes looking for them.

So they live a normal life until they rediscover their powers one day. That day they decide to become a superhero.

Things get complicated, when the new superhero starts to remember their past...

Prompt #76

Two ex-archenemies meet again years after they both retired from the superhero/ supervillain business and actually get along quiet well.