Ma'am Those Are My 15 Emotional Support Wip Research Tabs

The moment a character realises they've been betrayed vs the moment a character realises they're going to betray someone, fight!

If you're reading this...

go write three sentences on your current writing project.

a new concept: idiot academia

where u have book smarts but have absolutely no common sense

I love the autumn--that melancholy season that suits memories so well. When the trees have lost their leaves, when the sky at sunset still preserves the russet hue that fills with gold the withered grass, it is sweet to watch the final fading of the fires that until recently burnt within you.

-Gustave Flaubert, Memoirs of a Madman and November

realistic expectations of book genres

— so you know how us writers want to have an accurate representation of the real world, right? well, I believe it’s important to include realistic aspects in our writing, even if it’s fantasy-based/fiction (this goes for authors who have published books lacking realism). I asked my community of writers what they want to start seeing and want they want to stop seeing less of in genres such as YA, fantasy, fiction, etc., and they’ve answered anonymously.

✎ an age specification on books (like cassandra clare’s books are specifically for 14+ and say that on the back of all books)

✎ realistic diversity! like, not every friend group has a person of every race, and I rarely ever see it

✎ I think writers should stop romanticizing toxic relationships since it’s unhealthy and ab*sive

✎ I feel like we need more main characters with disabilities

✎ please stop romanticizing toxic relationships in YA! it’s not a 100% matured audience and they may not be able to tell it’s a toxic relationship which can be very dangerous!

✎ more body types

✎ characters that are more relatable, less like supermodels and more like struggling/awkward teenagers

✎ include consent, talking about/mentioning menstruation, and giving male characters emotions

✎ female characters with negative traits other than “shy” and “clumsy”

✎ more female characters with really big life goals/dreams that they actually plan to stick to!

✎ stop including graphic s*xual content in YA!

✎ more BIPOC!

✎ more friendships that have the same tropes but don’t evolve into romance

✎ people with physical disabilities

✎ more accurate representation of grief and trauma!

✎ some characters staying single throughout their whole story

✎ periods. do fantasy women not menstruate?

✎ not getting the guy/girl

✎ in YA contemporary I think that the characters should have less autonomy. I want to see less of adult life in YA. like no, teenagers have a lot of restrictions. show them more often

✎ in fantasy: periods and all the other things that come along with them!

y’know for me it straight up doesn’t even occur to me to unfollow someone when they stop posting whatever it is i followed them for. unless the thing they’re posting about now is somehow actually actively upsetting to me i just accept it as a part of my life now. i’ll just scroll past it like i’m driving a car and dodging an obstacle on the road. and that part of the road is my daily commute and the thing stays on the road forever and i swerve around it every day for months instead of ever taking the initiative to get it removed. it just adds flavor i guess

Quotes From My WIP

These are some of my favorite (non-spoilery) quotes from my WIP, Of Souls and Swords! Please be kind, and please do not plagiarize my work :)

Sword fighting looked great and all until you actually had to learn it.

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“I’m sorry I fought her.”

Bian raised her brows knowingly. “No, you’re not. You’re just sorry you got caught.”

I laughed. “You know me too well."

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“Where. Were. You?” The last word was punctuated by a pillow in my face.

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“Remind me why I tolerate you?”

“My entertainment value. Why else?”

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“Not another word from you. I have a deadly weapon and I’m not afraid to use it.”

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“My mother had a lot to say about you.”

“Only good things, I hope?”

"She called you immature, irresponsible, a practitioner of evil magic, and a poor excuse for a soldier.”

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Maybe my true home wasn’t in places, but in people.

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“Revenge is a concept for the living.”

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If we were a storm, I was thunder and she was rain—perfectly matched, perfectly balanced, perfectly opposite.

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I’d never thought about it before, but I saw with sudden clarity just how young I was to be experiencing any of this helplessness and fear.

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If they wanted me to fight, I would show them battle.

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I wasn’t born to respect. I was born to rebel.

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“Trust me as I have trusted you."

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I looked away from him, studying the high iron gates that guarded the camps. From here they looked like living things, like snakes rising up on stakes, ready to strike.

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"But even the hardest stone weathers over time."

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“Every fortress has a weakness.”

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This must have been what it was like to be a phoenix, rising high and higher on wings of flame. This was what it was like to live and die in the same breath.

taking off a mask to reveal what lies beneath as a romantic gesture is overdone, and besides i want to see the romantic or even platonic potential of protecting someone's identity beneath the mask, without any expectation of ever being allowed to see what's under it. picking it up and holding it gently to their face when it's knocked off and they're in danger of being exposed, without trying to catch a glimpse of what they "really" look like under there. throwing yourself in front of them to hide them from view while they put themselves back together without taking advantage or looking back to see what you're protecting. learning to read them by body language, tone of voice, and behaviour so well that you never need to see their face to feel like you know and understand them.

Every peice in chess was carefully considered before inclusion. The pawns are there cause you need a bunch of little guys. The bishop is there to market to the religious demographic. Horsie is there cause people like horsies. And the rook? That's sex appeal baby