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January 30, 2018
Synonyms For Very
living-that-library-lifestyle:
This masterlist is a masterlist of words that you may use alongside the word very, very being one of the most common words that are used when writing. I hope this helps you as much as it helps me in our writing seem more sophisticated and unique.
A:Very accurate - exact
Very afraid - fearful
Very angry - furious
Very annoying - exasperating
B:
Very bad - atrocious
Very beautiful - exquisite
Very big - immense
Very boring - dull
Very bright - luminous
Very busy - swamped
C:
Very calm - serene
Very careful - cautious
Very cheap - stingy
Very clean - spotless
Very clear - obvious
Very clever - intelligent
Very cold - freezing
Very colourful - vibrant
Very competitive - cutthroat
Very complete - comprehensive
Very confused - perplexed
Very conventional - conservative
Very creative - innovative
Very crowded - bustling
Very cute - adorable
D:
Very dangerous - perilous
Very dear - cherished
Very deep - profound
Very depressed - despondent
Very detailed - meticulous
Very different - disparate
Very difficult - arduous
Very dirty - filthy
Very dry - arid
Very dull - tedious
E:Very eager - keen
Very easy - effortless
Very empty - desolate
Very excited - thrilled
Very exciting - exhilarating
Very expensive - costly
F:
Very fancy - lavish
Very fast - swift
Very fat - obese
Very friendly - amiable
Very frightened - alarmed
Very frightening - terrifying
Very funny - hilarious
G:
Very glad - overjoyed
Very good - excellent
Very great - terrific
H:
Very happy - ecstatic
Very hard - difficult
Very hard-to-find - rare
Very heavy - leaden
Very high - soaring
Very hot - sweltering
Very huge - colossal
Very hungry - ravenous
Very hurt - battered
I:Very important - crucial
Very intelligent - brilliant
Very interesting - captivating
J:
K:
L:
Very large - huge
Very lazy - indolent
Very little - tiny
Very lively - vivacious
Very long - extensive
Very long-term - enduring
Very loose - slack
Very loud - thunderous
Very loved - adored
M:
Very mean - cruel
Very messy - slovenly
N:
Very neat - immaculate
Very necessary - essential
Very nervous - apprehensive
Very nice - kind
Very noisy - deafening
O:
Very often - frequently
Very old - ancient
Very old-fashioned - archaic
Very open - transparent
P:
Very painful - excruciating
Very pale - ashen
Very perfect - flawless
Very poor - destitute
Very powerful - compelling
Very pretty - beautiful
Q:
Very quick - rapid
Very quiet - hushed
R:
Very rainy - pouring
Very rich - wealthy
S:
Very sad - sorrowful
Very scared - petrified
Very scary - chilling
Very serious - grave
Very sharp - keen
Very shiny - gleaming
Very short - brief
Very shy - timid
Very simple - basic
Very skinny - skeletal
Very slow - sluggish
Very small - petite
Very smart - intelligent
Very smelly - pungent
Very smooth - sleek
Very soft - downy
Very sorry - apologetic
Very special - exceptional
Very strong - forceful
Very stupid - idiotic
Very sure - certain
Very sweet - thoughtful
T:
Very talented - gifted
Very tall - towering
Very tasty - delicious
Very thirsty - parched
Very tight - constricting
Very tiny - minuscule
Very tired - exhausted
U:
Very ugly - hideous
Very unhappy - miserable
Very upset - distraught
V:
W:
Very warm - hot
Very weak - frail
Very well-to-do - wealthy
Very wet - soaked
Very wide - expansive
Very willing - eager
Very windy - blustery
Very wise - sage
Very worried - distressedX:
Y:
Z:A/N: If you know of anymore words I can add please message me.
This is very important ;)
Reblogging for future reference.
various starters
❛ you’re a weapon and weapons don’t weep. ❜
❛ hurt me once, I’ll kill you twice. ❜
❛ never trust a survivor until you learn what they did to stay alive. ❜
❛ death is the only god that comes when you call. ❜
❛ I am teeth. I am royal. you are nothing to me. ❜
❛ the sun will rise and we will try again. ❜
❛ we’re just kids. we aren’t supposed to be heroes. ❜
❛ I like my women like I like my Absinthe: bitter and intoxicating. ❜
❛ what doesn’t kill me better run. ❜
❛ she wasn’t looking for a knight. she was looking for a sword. ❜
❛ don’t dehumanize bad people, because it’s their humanity which makes what they’ve done so terrifying. ❜
❛ she isn’t just pretty. she is otherworldly and vaguely threatening. ❜
❛ magic is not good or evil. is a knife evil? only if the wielder is. ❜
❛ I don’t want your crown. see, I’ve come to burn your kingdom down. ❜
❛ they broke my wings. they forgot I have claws. ❜
❛ all that blood was never beautiful, it was just red. ❜
❛ what do you do when there’s no hero in the story? simple. you kill the monster and crown yourself. ❜
❛ how terrible it is, to love something that death can touch. ❜
❛ you may not be interested in war, but it is interested in you. ❜
❛ I feel divinity in my bones like aching. like fire. ❜
❛ you make me feel and I don’t like it. I want it to stop. now. ❜
❛ you are losing my interest and that is very dangerous. ❜
❛ she will burn your kingdoms down, herself with it, if it means your ruin. ❜
❛ it’s okay to be scared. it means your about to do something brave. ❜
❛ she looks like divine absolution. ❜
❛ I will not be another flower, picked for my beauty and left to die. I will be wild, difficult to find and impossible to forget. ❜
❛ be careful with words. they can be forgive, but never forgotten. ❜
❛ you not wanting me was the beginning of me wanting myself. ❜
❛ I’m tired of fighting. for once, I want to be fought for. ❜
❛ never run back to what broke you. ❜
❛ I was quite, but not blind. ❜
❛ your gut knows what’s up. trust that bitch. ❜
❛ we all eat lies when our hearts are hungry. ❜
❛ do not judge my story by the chapter you walked in on. ❜
❛ I’m just a girl, standing in front of a salad, wishing it was a donut. ❜
❛ you can miss something but not want it back. ❜
❛ you can’t save people, you can only love them. ❜
❛ I came, I saw, I made it awkward. ❜
❛ we buy shite we don’t need, with money we don’t have, to impress people we don’t like. ❜
❛ you’re always one decision away from a different life. ❜
❛ my brain has too many tabs open. ❜
❛ I’m not saying I hate you, just that you’re like the Monday of people. ❜
❛ there’s no ‘we’ in fries. ❜
❛ apology accepted, trust denied. ❜
❛ death and I have been scandalously intimate for some time now. ❜
❛ life happens. coffee helps. ❜
❛ I am mine before I am ever anyone else’s. ❜
❛ I rely a bit too heavily on alcohol and irony. ❜
❛ very early in my life it was already too late. ❜
❛ is that a threat or are you flirting with me. ❜
❛ was the use of force necessary in completing your objectives? ❜
❛ I’ll let you drag me to hell if it means you’ll hold my hand. ❜
❛ I do bad things, and I do them very well. ❜
❛ you drink too much, you cuss too much and you have questionable morals. you’re everything I ever wanted. ❜
❛ they will kill you, but first they will have to catch you. ❜
❛ drugs might kill you but they’ll never break your heart. ❜
❛ good girls are just bad girls that haven’t been caught. ❜
❛ a pretty face doesn’t guarantee a pretty heart. ❜
❛ no airbag, we die like men. ❜
❛ true evil is, above all, seductive. ❜
❛ it takes more courage to suffer than to die. ❜
❛ you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time. but the wolf? he only needs enough luck to catch you once. ❜
❛ justice is vengeance in prettier packaging. ❜
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January 29, 2018
firewritten:
thejollywriter:
incandescent-creativity:
cog-writes:
nicholewrites:
firewritten:
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Good morning writing friends!
I have a question for you. What is your opinion on character flaws?
It’s just that I’ve never really been able to get a handle on what people mean when they talk about how characters should be flawed. I’m not sure what counts as a flaw and what doesn’t and who it is that decides what’s a flaw and what’s not. Also it makes me a bit nervous because I’ve only had bad experiences with people who like to point out other people’s flaws and judge them and punish them harshly for small mistakes.
I guess I prefer to empathize with and try to understand characters and to see their point of view and why they do the things they do and to think of them as real people, not as lists of flaws for me to judge. And it’s possible that other people are doing that too but that the word “flaw” is the sticking point in not understanding each other, since I have such negative associations with it.
Thoughts?
Flaws to me are traits turned up very high or low.
Arrogance is too much pride. Shame is the absence of pride.
I also think that the defining trait of a flaw is that it has to be something that hinders a character in some way, but it’s something the character could choose to change. They don’t though, hence why it’s a flaw.
That’s why things like depression and adhd aren’t flaws. A character can’t change those.
That’s a really good way to put it! I was going to link you to this post because it has some good examples, and it’s too early for me to think like a human. It’s also really worth noting that a lot of times, characters don’t consider their flaws to be flaws–they might even think of their flaws as strengths (and the readers might too, until the big event happens and guess what is hindering our hero?).
While we’re talking about character flaws:
The flaws should affect the plot!!!
For example. If you’ve decided that your character is impulsive, make sure you have them taking the first course of action that pops into their head. Let this guide your story. If your character is an overthinker, let them stall and think about everything for so long that they miss An Opportunity.
You have to write situations where their flaw can shine, otherwise what’s the point of giving them flaws?
Also the flaws can be something your character has to overcome because it fucks them up totally early on in the story. Their pride can get in the way, their fear can stop them and cause someone they care about to get hurt, recklessness can be the same way. Flaws can lead to determining the kind of story you tell actually. It was Hamlet’s indecision that led to his destruction, making it a tragedy.
Flaws give a character depth and it can be rich material for plot.
Thanks everyone! This has revealed to me that yes, the sticking point in my not being able to understand is that I have a very different idea of what a flaw means and different feelings about discussing flaws as a result of my experiences.
I think that my hunch was right and what you guys are talking about is pretty much what I meant by empathizing with and trying to understand characters and why they do what they do. I just don’t like using the frame of flaws to talk about it because I’m really sensitive to judging others and finding them less than or not good enough and blaming and shaming them, and that’s the lens that my brain interprets the idea of flaws through.
Thank you for clearing up something that had been bothering me for a while, and now I understand things much better and I’ll be able to navigate my feelings around the concept of character flaws when it comes up in the future. Yay progress! :)
I agree with all of this! Great advice!
One thing to add though, while things like depression and adhd can’t be changed, they totally can be overcome! So using them as your characters ‘flaws’ is a doable thing, though I understand not wanting to haul off and call them ‘flaws’ because, like you said, the word is stigmatized. But imagine a character who is adhd and cannot for the life of her focus, but with hard work and help from her special ed teacher she’s able to get an A in math. Bam! Character development despite flaws.
Flaws are just a word we use often because it’s a common pitfall for new writers to make characters too perfect. It’s not that you need to ‘add’ flaws. Most traits can be both good and bad, depending on the situation you put them in.
Ex: Ben is very confident in his skills at basketball. As a result, he does really well, wins games, gets a scholarship. Also as a result, he tends to be a braggart in regards to the subject.
Labeling qualities as flaws or positive traits can be really limiting, thought admittedly some traits do tend to be more one than the other sometimes. But a trusting character can develop fast friendships but can also get taken advantage of. A guarded, aloof character can be lonely but also avoid heart break. The key is to make sure that the situations you put your character in don’t overly exaggerate just the good, or the bad for that matter, because that’s boring.
littlemanicmonday:
Me: wow I’m way too attached to fictional characters
Me: *sees y’all send death...
Me: wow I’m way too attached to fictional characters
Me: *sees y’all send death threats to writers because you didn’t agree with their decisions*
Me: never mind I’m attached the healthy amount
Last sentence tag
I was tagged by @scribbledwriting [thanks!] to post the last sentence I wrote in my story.
I’ve actually been working on something totally new that I haven’t even talked about that I will for now call The Gifts They Give.
“If
there was a place where something might happen between the two of them, that
was it.”
Secret insider info; the two characters mentioned above are girls <3
Also, I’m a lame-o and I’m not going to tag anyone right now cause I’m kind of doing this in a rush. But if you want to do this, please do it! Also, if you don’t want to post your own because you’re insecure, post your last line in my ask box on anon and I’ll post it for you!
It happened
I’ve been so busy, my que is….is…. EmPtY?!?!?!
January 28, 2018
"Sometimes people put up walls, not only to keep people out, but also to see who cares enough to tear..."
- Leisa Rayven, Bad Romeo
(via books-n-quotes)
