Master Post of Writing Advice

writing-the-words:

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All advice is by Marina Montenegro and originally posted on Writing the Words blog

Getting Started:

Prewriting 101

Setting Up Your Space

Starting Again (if you’ve stopped)

Where to Start

Writing the Beginning

Writing What You Don’t Know

5 Truths About Being A Writer

Characters:

Character Building

Non-Binary Characters

Writing A Hero

Writing Non-Humans

Writing Women

5 Ways to Name Your Character

5 More Ways to Name Your Character

Dialogue:

Dialogue

Improving Dialogue: Eliminate Exposition

NaNoWriMo:

NaNoWriMo

Tips & Tricks for NaNoWriMo

Planning & Outlines:

How to Start Outlining

Is My Idea Good Enough?

Should you Outline?

7 Things to Do Before You Start

Plot:

Details

Fight Scenes

Sex Scenes

Sexual Assault in Literature

Story Arcs

Setting:

Description

When Setting Really Matters

World Building:

Creating World Maps

World Building

Other:

Editing

Making Time to Write

Point Of View

Prologues

Rejection Letters

Why I Write

Writers Block

Writing with Sound

5 Signs You Treat Your Reader Like an Idiot

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vnicent:

otteroftheworld:

My parents live in this town and the city legally can’t tear the tree down to build or anything because the tree has its own legal rights and they can’t do anything about it.

how does. how does this happen. how DID this happen

I love this story because this guy in the early 1800’s had so many great childhood memories of this tree and wanted to make sure it was protected no matter what. So he deeded the ownership of the tree to itself and everyone just went with it.

Then in 1942 this intense windstorm came and knocked the tree over. And people were bummed. But someone had saved an acorn from the original tree, so they planted that and now Son of the Tree That Owns Itself is over 50 feet tall.

And since this new tree is technically the offspring of the original tree it’s considered to have legally inherited the plot of land it’s inhabiting.

Two generations of trees owning land is amazing and if you don’t think this is the coolest thing get right out of my face.