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Some words to use when writing things:

winking

clenching

pulsing

fluttering

contracting

twitching

sucking

quivering

pulsating

throbbing

beating

thumping

thudding

pounding

humming

palpitate

vibrate

grinding

crushing

hammering

lashing

knocking

driving

thrusting

pushing

force

injecting

filling

dilate

stretching

lingering

expanding

bouncing

reaming

elongate

enlarge

unfolding

yielding

sternly

firmly

tightly 

harshly

thoroughly

consistently

precision

accuracy

carefully

demanding

strictly

restriction

meticulously

scrupulously

rigorously

rim

edge

lip

circle

band

encircling

enclosing

surrounding

piercing

curl

lock

twist

coil

spiral

whorl

dip

wet

soak

madly

wildly

noisily

rowdily

rambunctiously

decadent

degenerate

immoral

indulgent

accept

take

invite

nook

indentation

niche

depression

indent

depress

delay

tossing

writhing

flailing

squirming

rolling

wriggling

wiggling

thrashing

struggling

grappling

striving

straining

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I needed this today. May you all have some hottie giving you these eyes.

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Types of Ships

Parts of the Ship

Wind Directions

Sides of Boats

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Excellent thread.

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From the mouth of a One Percenter -

Abigail Disney

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Awesomeness

AU → Lexa survives and lives happily ever after with Clarke.

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Beautiful

A song from Lexa to Clarke!

I haven’t slept at night, I should have stayed to fight, Stayed with you. I know you’re not the enemy You seen the good that’s left in me I should have stayed with you.   You said we deserve better than this, I guess we do. But how can the leader of the ground, Love the leader of the sky crew.   May We Meet Again, When I can trust my heart and not my brain, Be safe and rescue your friends, Then maybe we can meet again.   So if you go to the Capitol, Maybe we can forget it all, And you’ll stay with me. We won’t have to be warriors, We can let down our barriors,   And you can stay with me.   You said we deserve better than this I guess we do, But how can the leader of the ground Love the leader of the sky crew.   May We Meet Again, When I can trust my heart and not my brain, Be safe and rescue your friends, And may we meet again. May we meet again.

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How to stop researching (or worldbuilding) and start writing

This is actually advice my mentoring professor gave me when I was writing my first thesis.

He said: Accept that you are never done. There is always more to know, more to research, more questions raised than answered. At some point, you just got to start writing.

Now, “easier said than done, this accepting”, I thought.

I started writing because my thesis deadline was looming. But what if you’re writing a novel and you have no deadline? How do you know when it’s okay to stop researching? When is it okay to stop worldbuilding? (Which is just like doing research, but in your own head instead of in reality.)

My advice to you is: start writing, and you’ll run into the gaps you still need to fill. Then you know what to research before starting your second draft. Let your story tell you what it needs.

For example:

Just fill your margins with a to-research-list for your future self.

That way, it’s also managable: “I finished my first draft, and I have a list of 317 things I need to decide on.” Instead of: “I saw on tumblr that you can’t build a world without knowing everything about the sewage system! And gosh, I haven’t invented three languages yet!”

Advantages:

You get things done.

It’s not overwhelming.

You don’t spend your time inventing things you’ll like so much that you want to infodump them into your story.

You mainly research things that are relevant to your story.

Well, knowing you, you already researched enough irrelevant stuff too.

You get things done.

I hope this was helpful. Don’t hesitate to ask me any questions, and happy writing!

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Day forty

of @the-wip-project‘s challenge

Q40: How do you start a new story?

A40: I start with the scene that the idea came to me with. I write out that scene as completely as possible. Afterwards, I re-read it and think of what is needed to make this scene make sense.

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