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July 5, 2016
Writing Prompt #98
“If you kill me, you’ll have no one left. Just think about that before you end this.”
July 4, 2016
Kim Shimmers and the Black Prophecy
A Harry Potter Fanfic by me (and the 3rd installment of the Kim Shimmers series)
This Harry Potter fan fiction (as long as all goes according to plan) will be posted at the beginning of every week. The pictures above are not mine, though I edited some.
Chapter 10
Accimoria
The next day Fred kissed Kim on the cheek as he dashed out of the breakfast hall, shouting something about testing something with the word puke in it, but to keep it quiet. Kim assumed this was because Hermione was still on their tales. She smiled at him and watched as he and George jogged away, chatting happily. She was glad things were finally looking up for their joke shop. Since it had, their spirits had been considerably higher. It was all thanks to Harry, who oddly wasn’t at breakfast either. Or lunch.
“Where have you been all day?” Kim asked as she sat down amongst the group at dinner. Harry looked rather exhausted, as did Ron.
“I’ve been here,” Hermione said, shrugging.
“I know, I meant those two.”
“Trying to get some homework done,” Ron grumbled as he forked up a bight of food. He seemed even too drained to eat with his usual fervor. “I can’t believe how much we’ve got.” There was a lot, but Kim hadn’t had too much trouble keeping up so far. Not to the degree they were displaying anyway.
“Well, why didn’t you do any last night?” Hermione asked him.
“Huh, I’m with you Ron,” Kim chuckled dreamily. “I didn’t get anything done last night either.”
“Well I’m sure you didn’t,” Hermione said a bit sharply, though Kim couldn’t think why.
“Yeah,” Ron laughed. “Too busy off snogging somewhere I’d assume.”
She gave a briefly embarrassed expression that melted into a mischievous grin. She couldn’t deny it. She knew how they knew… the whole school had been muttering about the firework display. Those on the wrong side of the school to see it had heard about it from others.
“You saw that, hu?” she finally said.
“Please,” Hermione scoffed. “It’d be hard to miss.”
July 3, 2016
What do people mean when they talk about filter in writing? Like "watch out for filters" i'm so confused D:
I honestly didn’t know what you meant by this either and looked it up. Apparently -
“Filtering” is when you place a character between the detail you want to present and the reader.
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Common filter words seem to include -
to seeto hearto thinkto touchto wonderto realizeto watchto lookto seemto feel (or feel like)canto decideto sound (or sound like)Here is a paragraph a blog presented with filter words intact so you can see an example -
Maria noticed James had gone silent and was staring past her out the coffee shop window. Turning and looking herself, she saw a beautiful woman on the sidewalk, talking animatedly on a mobile phone. Maria felt a little tug of jealousy, and she turned back around furiously and stared at James, who jumped and looked down at his espresso. She realized he wasn’t blushing, but he seemed uncomfortable. “Who is that?” she asked as she watched his face for any sign of guilt. She wondered if he could ever tell her the truth. She decided right then this would be his last chance to regain her trust.
Here is the blog post I pulled from -
http://www.invisibleinkediting.com/2013/12/23/how-to-find-filter-words-and-filter-them-out/
But there are plenty on the subject if you Google it, so I suggest you just read up on the subject to learn more. (Google “filter words writing”).
