Little Writing Things
This blog is dedicated to all the writers out there, and their little things.
~Up and running since 4/15/11~
Creator, Manager, and Moderator: Veronica
This blog is dedicated to all the writers out there, and their little things.
~Up and running since 4/15/11~
Creator, Manager, and Moderator: Veronica
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3. Getting the correct amount of syllables in each line of a haiku
4. The feeling of a fresh piece of paper between your fingertips
7. The first spark of inspiration after a long episode of writer’s block
8. Editing
9. A fabulous idea inspired by the most random thing
11. When someone really loves your work
12. Alliteration
13. Just the right amount of fluff
14. Days when your muse is in overdrive
15. When you finally think of the perfect title
16. When you write more after you think you’re “finished”
17. The feeling of being completely pure and whole again after writing your heart out
18. Having long, heated, and inspirational conversations with your Muse
19. When the music you’re listening to sets the mood for a scene
20. Experimenting with new and different writing styles
21. Making up new and interesting names for characters
24. Making playlists on your iPod for all your characters
25. When you fall in love with the love interest
26. Sitting and writing outside in beautiful weather
27. The satisfaction you feel after you finish writing a long story
29. Having as much time as you want to write
30. Erasers that erase really well and don’t leave smudges
31. Having an endless supply of notebooks to write in
32. Creative writing camps in the summer
33. When you get a great idea and you have a word processor or notebook nearby to record it
34. When you get an idea at just the right moment, and you write for hours
35. When your reader thinks it’s the decoy instead of the actual bad guy
36. Finally finding the perfect name for a character
37. A good cup of tea and a word processor at your fingertips; heaven
38. Making the facial expressions along with the characters as you write
39. Bouncing ideas off of people and getting great feedback
40. When a brand new pen writes instantly
41. When people give useful critiques
42. Works that use you as a conduit to tell its story
43. Whimsically well-suited word choice
44. When the things you write about happen in real life
45. When you’re at the end of a notebook, and look back at everything else you’ve written
46. That little sob you get in the back of your throat as you write a farewell scene
47. When your iPod shuffles exactly the right song for a scene
49. Finding someone as enthusiastic about writing as you are
50. When your characters come to life and push your story in a direction you never expected
51. Finding an old draft titled “Unfinished” on your computer and finishing it
52. That little excited feeling in your stomach when you get an idea and can’t wait to write it
53. Feeling special when you write with a fountain pen
54. Writing when you’re sad and instantly feeling better
55. When you get done writing after a long period of time, and the real world seems a bit TOO surreal
56. Having a seemingly endless supply of entries in your drafts or notes on your phone
57. Writing a story dedicated to a friend, and them LOVING it
58. Falling in love with a character you created
59. When you have an idea and quickly write it on the next best piece of paper
60. That tingly feeling you get when you imagine a really good scene in your head
61. Cleaning your room and finding a mostly empty notebook and an unused pen
62. Being able to describe a character’s quirky mannerisms perfectly
63. Cleaning your room and finding a bunch of crumpled up plot and character notes
64. Finding and reading stories you wrote when you were just a little kid
65. When you find a really old story tucked away somewhere and realize how much you’ve improved
66. That very unique ritual you have to get into the story
68. That funny knot in the stomach when you feel successful and you are not even half way through
69. When you hear a song and create a scene in your story that could go along with it
70. Staying up all night to figure out how to get rid of a plot hole
72. When reading books is “research”
73. When you imagine yourself in situations, you’re visualizing your characters doing it, not you
74. Hoping the world will be as excited about your ideas as you are
77. You write characters similar to yourself because you don’t fit in in the real world
78. You write a character that looks like you just in case your book is ever adapted into a film
79. A scene starts in your head every time a Hans Zimmer song comes on
82. When you start writing a poem with zero ideas, but it actually turns into something good
84. Back to school- the best excuse to buy tons of new notebooks
85. When everything falls into place
86. Falling in love with your characters
87. When you feel nervous and excited and your stomach lurches at just the thought of writing
88. When nothing else matters except working on your story
91. Having arguments with yourself over stories
92. When the shattered pieces of your heart fall perfectly into a good piece of writing
93. You get birthday money; you spend it all on new writing materials or books
94. When you have ideas for a new book when you haven’t even finished the one you started
95. When two characters fall in love that weren’t supposed to end up together
97. Unintentionally writing to the mood of the music you’re listening to
98. When you’re SUPER EXCITED to do your creative writing homework
99. When a short dialogue between your characters is so emotional it makes you cry
100. Getting to that 100-page mark
101. When you start out iffy about a side character, but eventually end up LOVING them
102. When you’re writing an intense scene and you forget to breathe
103. Having a stack of baby name books for the purpose of creating characters
104. Naming your pets after your characters
106. Right after a writer’s block, you get ideas so fast you can’t even write them down quick enough
107. When your Drabble has exactly 100 words at the first try, so you don’t have to edit it
108. When your Christmas list includes name books, notebooks, colorful pens, and mechanical pencils
110. When the characters take on lives and plans all their own
111. Being nice to your enemies in real life, but getting revenge in your stories
112. When you’re writing outdoors, in pen, and a mosquito lands on your face
113. Having two pieces of writing going on at once
114. When the most fun thing you and your best friend can do together is edit one of your stories
115. Making your characters’ outfits on Polyvore
116. Getting into character when you’re writing and feeling what your characters feel
117. When you spend an entire day writing, and wake up the next morning excited to do it again
118. Doing NaNoWriMo for the first time
119. Starting a story and getting inspiration for another story
120. Liking your character’s name so much that you have thought of naming your children those names
121. Fangirling over the romantic pairing in your own novel
127. Getting to a word count goal
130. Counting down the days until NaNoWriMo
131. New pens
132. Being told your writing sounds like it came from a published author
133. Crushing on another writer because of what their characters do
134. Thinking “What would so-and-so do or say right now?”
135. Finding the perfect setting
136. When characters come to you so strongly it’s like they’re begging you to tell their story
137. Fountain pens
138. When you hear a song on the radio, and suddenly realize that it fits your book/character
139. When you lose sleep because your muse strikes late at night and you just can’t stop writing
143. Channeling a character in a tough real life situation
144. Finding awesome books to help your writing
145. That moment when you know exactly what you’re doing for NaNoWriMo
146. Creating a playlist for your novel
147. Feeling completely lost because you lost the notebook that your writing was in
151. Your favorite sound is a pen scratching on paper
152. When you write something so good, you surprise yourself
153. When you have an idea for everything in your novel save the climax
154. When you are going back through already written stuff and you start reading it like a book
156. Going through blogs or websites for inspiration
158. Finding that perfect writing buddy who helps you keep going and understands your frustrations
159. When you hear just one thing in passing and it sparks an entire story
162. Having friends that read your stories and motivate you to finish them
163. Writing fanfiction even though you know it can’t get published
164. Having dreams where you’re interacting with your characters after an all-day writing spree
167. Telling your characters how sorry you are for constantly making them suffer.
168. Updating your NaNoWriMo word count.
169. Spending hours formatting the font, spacing, and margins until they are just right.
170. That feeling when you finally start writing again after being on hiatus for a long time
171. Looking around and wondering if anyone looks like your characters
172. Having a character you love dearly, but knowing you’re going to have to kill them off eventually
173. The Oxford Comma
174. Seeing the potential for a story everywhere you look
176. The voices in your head fighting over who gets their story told first
177. Being a part of a writing community
178. Writing prompts
179. Sitting down with a cup of fresh coffee and a blank page
180. The feeling you get when you finish NaNoWriMo, especially if it’s your first year
181. Creating something you know you will love reading later
182. Noticing accidental foreshadowing for an event three chapters before you even thought of writing it
183. Feeling accomplished after writing sad stories and when your friends read over it, they cry
184. Typing a sentence, backspacing it and rewriting it, backspacing that and writing the original one
185. Someone reading your work and then saying “I would buy that book”
186. Making subtle references to other works in homage to your heroes
187. Swapping ideas with other writers until everyone has something they can write
188. Getting a section of dialogue perfect
189. Finally figuring out the perfect way to describe the plot of your story
190. Having friends who love your characters as much as you do
191. Encouraging a friend to write and being encouraged in turn
193. Reading your story aloud in the voices of your characters
194. Whenever you go to a movie, you have to be that guy that goes, “The book was much better”
195. When you find a song that sounds like it was written just for your story
197. Crying as you write an emotional scene and having everyone ask if you’re okay
198. That wonderful feeling when you just…know
200. Making an awesome typography for your title
201. The sound of your keyboard when inspiration strikes
203. When your main character and their love interest finally kiss
205. The thought that one day: you will be big
206. When you get an idea in class and you have to write your idea in the margin of your notes so you don’t lose it (this is a lot like 204, so please try not to submit the same thing twice for further reference)
208. Paper that is so nice to write on, it actually inspires you to write more
209. Saving vocabulary words from past English classes
210. That feeling of “Nooooo!” when you accidentally save over one of your chapters
211. Playing your plot through your head like a movie
212. Accidentally speaking out loud the dialogue you’re writing
213. Physically reacting to the emotions in the scene you’re writing
214. Having a certain pen/pencil you HAVE to write with
215. Preparing to write more of your story, but getting distracted and ending up just reading what you’ve already got
216. Getting annoyed with anyone who interrupts you while you’re writing
217. Not being able to write fast enough before getting a new idea
218. Finding old stories you wrote when you were younger and re-writing them because your writing style has improved so much
219. That one dodgey pen that you keep writing with because you refuse to start using a new pen before you’ve finished the old one
220. Adding the names of your characters to the dictionary because the wiggly line annoys you
221. Basing the appearance of your characters on celebrities or people you know because it is easier than imagining the appearance of a completely new character
222. Reading through stuff you wrote the night before and realizing how tired you must have been because of all the stupid spelling errors or grammatical mistakes
223. Feeling like you’ve writing masses after having writer’s block, when in reality you’ve only written three lines which weren’t necessary or particularly good anyways
224. Making your characters do things that you fantasize about doing with your crush
225. Whenever you’re going through something, you always have to write about it
226. Writing an action and then doing it to see if it looks natural
227. Wishing you had telekinesis so you wouldn’t have to write out the scene
228. Reading one of your favorite author’s works and wondering if you’ll ever be as good as them
229. That moment when you finish a story and you’re sure you’ll get some peace in your head for a while. And then the plot bunnies attack you. Suddenly there’s a new story in your head and though you groan and protest, you secretly love it
230. That awesome moment when you FINALLY get to use the brand new three hole punch that you just bought
231. That not so awesome moment when you’re trying to print your manuscript and the printer tells you you’re out of ink
232. Reading a book that’s so good you forget to go to sleep before the sun rises
233. “Talking” with inanimate object. Literally or just getting a general vibe off them. (i.e. which pen/pencil/pair of shoes feels right)
234. That feeling when you find a notebook with an amazing design
235. Arguing with people about who controls whom in your author-character relationship
236. Not being able to fall asleep because you have too many story ideas floating around in your head
237. That awesome moment when your flashdrive goes through the washer and dryer and you can still get your writing off of it
238. Celebrating your brand new ink cartridge running dry because now you have a hard copy of your manuscript
239. Being sensitive about your work so you’re weary of allowing people to read it
240. Loving a short story so much that your heart races every time you see its title
241. That epic moment when you get an idea for a new story, and you spend so much time planning out every detail
242. Using writing to escape your crazy life
243. When your room smells of tea and is covered in your story notes and pens
244. Those times when you wonder how you were unfortunate enough to fall into writing. But then the better moments when you love what you do with no regrets
245. The intimidation of a blank word document
246. Having all the energy to write, but when you actually get in front of your computer…Nothing.
247. Taking Myers-Brigg Tests to discover your characters’ personality types
248. “Can I just use what you said in my book?”
249. When you finally write that scene where you had been stuck for the past few months!
250. Planning out a whole scene in great detail while in bed or in the shower
251. Falling asleep after writing a new scene and dreaming of your characters acting it out
252. When you’re at work and an idea strikes, and you madly rush to write it down even if that means ignoring customers
253. When you adopt a new bookbag into your family of infinite purses and bags that is PERFECT for carrying around books and writing journals
254. I did chores, which means I can earn more money, which means I get to go to Barnes and Noble, which means I get a new book bag, which means I can get more books, which means I can expand my vocabulary, which means I have more ideas, which makes my writing that much better. I guess doing chores pays off in the long run
255. Trying to create a pen name for yourself
256. Having a million notebooks scattered all over your room. Then you find more in a cabinet and it’s the best moment ever
257. Coming up with character names that flow really well and just roll off the tongue
258. Getting writer’s block on the very LAST chapter of your story
259. Observing and taking notes of every move a kid in class makes because they’d make a perfect character
260. Discussing an awesome story idea when you’re drunk and inventing an elaborate world for it, just to forget it in the morning
261. That little burst of happiness when you write the first line
262. Having to decide in which language you’re going to write (in)
263. Wishing you could read someone else’s mind to see how other people think
264. Not being able to fall asleep even though you’re exhausted, because the most perfect lines are begging to be written down
265. Going to a place, just to write about that place
266. That awesome but potentially dangerous moment when you find the perfect solution to a problem in your plot… while in the middle of a major exam
267. Metaphors
268. Forcing yourself to write because you have nothing else to do but you don’t want to feel lazy
269. When someone actually reads your work and starts fangirling over it
270. Doing laundry and finding all your lost pens in your pockets
271. That feeling you get when the dialogue is perfect
272. Finding a pen that just glides so perfectly across paper
273. Beginning to write or type a new story before going to bed, then looking at the clock and it’s suddenly three or four in the morning
274. When you come up with the best rhyme ever, in the middle of a state test
275. Determining Myers-Brigg types for your characters
276. Knowing what comes next while you’re writing and getting the same nervous feeling as knowing what comes next in a movie
277. When you create a character so real to you, that it’s almost like they’ve been waiting for you all long
278. Every time you share your writing with your Dad, you both somehow get into a philosophical discussion about your characters and plot
279. The amazing feeling when you get into a rhythm and your fingers just sail effortlessly across the keyboard
280. Writing a short story so you can free your mind and get new ideas for your long story
281. That moment when you realize that it’s not you choosing the direction of your story, but your characters
282. Searching forever for the perfect model for your character and coming up with nothing, then you were about to give up when you were about to give up finding the perfect model
283. That awful moment when your computer crashes and you realize you had no back-up whatsoever of your story files
284. Writing days… with tea
285. When the font, size, or proximity of your Word document has changed and you are unable to write because it is so distracting
286. When you’re writing an emotional scene and you begin to cry because of all the emotions it makes you feel
287. Learning another language so that you can diversify your writing
288. When you have to stop reading on a cliffhanger
289. Homophones are my greatest asset/ as a poet / but they are also my greatest enemy/ when I’m sleepy
290. The weird feeling that you want to get at least one negative comment on your work
291. That amazing feeling you get when you realize that you have more time to write now that school is out
292. When your friends and family don’t get as excited about your story ideas, and then you feel foolish for telling them
293. When you’re more in love with your characters than actual people
