So Remember That Worldbuilding Website, Notebook.ai, That Was Goin Around And Everyone Was So Excited,

How do you handle this much adorableness??!!! 

Oh my GOD <33333

in honor of the 10 year anniversary of the most ICONIC movie of all time, HSM, i decided to make this  :^)

Writers Write is a resource for writers. In this post, we share formatting tips for professional writers, and we show you how to format numbers, italics, and bullet points.

Formatting Tips: Numbers, Italics, Bullet Points

There are as many correct ways of formatting as there are style guides. If you work for a company, stick to what your company prescribes. If you do not have a style guide, create your own.

Three of the most useful things to include in a style guide are how to write numbers, how to use italics, and how to use bullet points.

Formatting Tips For Professional Writers

Resources For Writing Young Adult Fiction

This is also available on wordsnstuffblog.com!

– This one is a little shorter than my other resource master posts, but that’s because of the nature of the genre being more about the demographic. I hope you all find this helpful. Happy writing!

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Getting The Details Right

Writing YA That Connects With Teen Readers

Showing A Character’s Age

Switching From Adult To Young Adult

Writing For A Young Adult Audience

Young Adult and New Adult Book Markets

Cliches

5 Cliches To Avoid In YA Fantasy

10 Worn Out Cliches In YA

20 Mistakes To Avoid In YA

YA Romance

Resources For Romance Writers

Tips On Writing Skinny Love

Plotting The Teen Romance

How to Write A YA Romance Without Cliché

How to Write Realistic YA Romance

YA Fantasy

Resources For Fantasy/Mythology Writers

What Makes A Good YA Fantasy

So You Want To Write YA High Fantasy?

What is Young Adult Fantasy?

General Tips

What NOT To Do When Writing YA

6 Tips For Writing Young Adult Books

Things To Keep In Mind When Writing YA

5 Things To Avoid When Writing A YA Novel

Agents That Represent Romance

Publishers of Romance Novels

The 8 Habits of Highly Successful Young-Adult Fiction Authors

The Ultimate Guide to YA Fiction

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PoC Character Inspo on Pinterest

In response to this post I did some extra work filling out my character face claim boards on Pinterest and found there actually are a lot of good onsite pics. One just needs to search outside the primarily white & pretty “character inspiration” tag. 

Here are some safe search terms I’ve found useful so far:

poc character inspiration - woc character inspiration - character inspiration black/asian/latina - [insert ethnicity here] character inspiration - mixed race

indian character inspiration - native american character inspiration*

interracial character inspiration - poc couples - blaxican - blasian - 

#b(lack/Asian/white)m(an)a(sian/black/white)w(oman) couples** 

poc lgbt couples - fem black couples - [idk hard to search sfw lqbt pics] 

Cons

Pinterest searches are skewed toward photos of women, and what male photography can be found will generally fall into the “hot” category.

Searching “character inspiration” will always bring back only the most gorgeously Photoshopped human beings. 

Other keywords will likely bring back Instagram pics which aren’t very “story” like— especially if you’re writing a world sans smartphones.

If you search “[any race] girls” Pinterest will automatically show a disclaimer about their policy on nudity. Search for women not girls. 

Hispanic and Latino mean different things which confuses searches, and they apply to a variety of nationalities so be specific. 

Same goes for Asian, pick a nationality or be doomed with the skinny white girl equivalents of East Asia. Ain’t nuthin wrong wit skinny Asian/white girls, they’re just annoyingly prolific online.

BE VERY CAREFUL SEARCHING FOR LGBTQ IMAGERY. I was quick to clear my search history after finding content for this post. 

Hey, if Pinterest writers start tagging PoC inspo pins with relevant terms it will make them easier to find— plus, making your collection searchable may get you more followers. If anyone knows of any additional and exceptionally useful Pinterest keywords, please tell me. I’ll (gladly) test them out and add them to the list. 

Thanks @prideandpen, @lmartinezwrites, @boothewriter, @brynprocrastinates, and @ashleyddddd. I hope you find this useful. 

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*No worries, Pinterest search generally knows the difference between East Indian and American Indian.

**Search for specific interracial pairing i.e. bmaw, amww, ambw etc., but make sure to also type “couples.”

Disney Heroines + their names’ meanings

Bonus:

i love niall because his looks go from old irish man to hot college boyfriend to rich trust fund baby to ceo of a fortune 500 company

AUs

List of some classic tumblr AUs for your fandom, OCs, etc. Just randomly listing AUs. No explanation needed since the names explain themselves.

Coffee Shop AU

Flower Shop AU

Tattoo Parlor AU

Mafia AU

Actor AU

Genderbent AU

Youtuber AU

Military AU

Secret Agent AU

Assassin AU

College AU

High School AU

Royalty AU

Apocalypse AU

Disney AU (Hercules, Mulan, Beauty & The Beast, Frozen, Moana, Tangled, etc)

Time Travel AU

Alternate Career AU

Arranged Marriage AU

False Relationship/Marriage AU

Accidental Marriage

Hunger Games AU

Sun & Moon AU

Greek Gods AU

Age Swap/Reverse AU

Pokemon AU

Office AU

Magic AU

Mermaid AU

Siren AU

Vampire AU

Single Parent AU

Immortal AU

Reincarnation AU

Ghibli AU (Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, Kiki’s Delivery Service)

Werewolf AU

Pirate AU

Superhero/Superpower AU

Noir Detective AU

Harry Potter AU

Omgeaverse AU

Cyberpunk/Robot AU

Note: You may mesh certain AUs together if you wish (Ex: Mafia and Police AU, Werewolf & Vampire AU, Pirate and Mermaid/Siren AU, Coffee and Flower Shop AU)

Couldn’t explain it better!

Why do I write?

People ask me “Why do you write?” and I never have a good answer. I just like doing it . I never even considered myself to be good at it until I started sharing. I’m a shy person so I guess I communicate better by writing. It’s a way to keep a thought going forever, and I think that’s pretty cool. Writing is a form of art and I’m an artist so I feel like it fits my life style. Everything that you do has a subsection. There’s different forms of art and I would like to attempt as many of them as I can. So I guess my answer to the inevitable question “why do you write?” is because I’m an artist and creating is what I do best. 💜

I laughed harder than I should’ve

my relationship with one direction and their fandom is like this:

the boys are on stage and the fandom is in the audience. the theater is on fire and some audience members have extinguishers while others are pouring gasoline. everyone is screaming. im in the green room watching everything happen on the monitor and occasionally shouting at the screen