The five types of writers block

Inspirationless: where you have the motivation but just can’t think of anything good to write.

Motivation Deprived: you have the idea, but just, don’t really wanna.

Pooped: Basically you have no ideas and don’t really feel like writing anyways.

Procrastination: Where you are SO PUMPED TO GET THIS THING DONE!! But, there’s that other thing, and, your show is on, and, you’ll just do it tomorrow.

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Alternatives for 25 overused words in writing

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1. Interesting– note worthy; thought-provoking; fascinating; attracting; appealing; attention-grabbing; captivating; gripping; invigorating; engrossing; engaging; electrifying.  

2. Beautiful– striking; stunning; magnificent; lovely; charming; gorgeous; radiant; dazzling.

3. Good– acceptable, wonderful, exceptional; positive; brilliant; first-rate; notable; stellar; favorable; superb; marvellous; prime.

4. Bad– awful; lousy; poor; unacceptable; crummy; dreadful; rough; inferior; substandard; atrocious; appalling; dreadful; defective.

5. Look glance; fixate; observe; stare; gaze; peer; scan; watch; study; browse; eye; glimpse; review; inspect.

6. Nice lovely; superior; pleasant; satisfying; delightful; likeable; agreeable; correct; adequate; swell; fair; okay; approved.

7. Very extremely; exceedingly; exceptionally; immensely; tremendously; abundantly; particularly; remarkably.

8. Fine- satisfactory; worthy; respectable; exquisite; suitable; well; imposing; decent; admirable; praise-worthy; decent.

9. Happy– cheerful; delighted; pleased; content; amused; thrilled; elated; thrilled; ecstatic; on cloud 9. 

10. Really– genuinely; truly; honestly; actually; undoubtedly; certainly; remarkably; incredibly; downright; unquestionably; extremely.

11. Sad– miserable; gloomy; devastated; distressed; down at heard; distraught; distressed; dispirited; sorrowful; downcast; feeling blue; desolate.

12. Big– massive; huge; giant; gigantic; enormous; large; colossal; immense; bulky; tremendous; hefty; sizable; extensive; great; substantial. 

13. Shocked– taken aback; lost for words; flabbergasted; staggered; outraged; astonished; astounded; stunned; speechless; appalled.

14. Small– tiny; petite; mini; miniature; microscopic; minuscule; compact; pocket-sized; cramped; puny; undersized; limited; meager; modest; minute; pint-sized. 

15. Angry– irate; enraged; touchy; cross; resentful; indignant; infuriated; wound-up; worked-up; seething; raging; heated; bitter; bad-tempered; offended; frustrated. 

16. Know– understand; comprehend; realize; learn; perceive; recognize; grasp; sense.

17. Change– alter; transform; replace; diversify; adjust; adapt; modify; remodel; vary; evolve; transfigure; redesign; refashion; advance; transition; shift; adjustment.

18. Old– aged; ancient; matured; elderly; senior; veteran; decrepit; seasoned; venerable; past one’s prime; doddering; senile.

19. Think– ponder; reflect; conceive; imagine; contemplate; consider; determine; realize; visualize; guess/assume; conclude; envision. 

20. Funny– comical; ludicrous; amusing; droll; entertaining; absurd; hilarious; silly; whimsical; hysterical; joking; witty; facetious; slapstick; side-splitting; knee-slapping.

21. Go– move; proceed; advance; progress; travel; walk; journey; depart; exit; flee; make one’s way; clear out; get underway.

22. Give– grant; donate; hand-out; present; provide; deliver; hand over; offer; award; bestow; supply with; contribute to; send; entrust.

23. Get– acquire; obtain; receive; gain; earn; gather; collect; buy; purchase; attain; score; secure; take possession of; grab.

24. Easy– effortless; simple; clear; smooth; straightforward; uncomplicated; painless; accessible; apparent; basic; plain; child’s play; facile; elementary; cinch. 

25. Fast– agile; brisk; rapid; nimble; swift; accelerated; fleeting; high-speed; active; dashing; winged; hurried; turbo. 

ghostling:

H O R R O R . P R O M P T S

  • “I just got back from the cemetery.”
  • “I swear I just saw someone… or something looking in my window.”
  • “I know I closed the damn closet door, but it keeps opening! Please tell me this is just some kind of joke you keep pulling.”
  • “What’s behind you in these pictures…?”
  • “Apparently like 20 years ago, some girl slaughtered her family in the basement.”
  • “I think there’s something about this house that you’re not telling me.”
  • “I keep hearing noises coming from the attic…”
  • “I know what I saw, and whatever is in the basement… it’s not human!”
  • “I didn’t have time to see what it was! I just got the hell out of there!”
  • “Whose grave were you bringing flowers to…?”
  • “The
    electricity guy said there was absolutely nothing wrong – and yet, the
    lights always flicker on at 2am. Explain that to me?”
  • “Why don’t you spend the night in that house ‘alone’, then try to convince me that you don’t believe in ghosts.”
  • “Y-you don’t understand, he didn’t have a face!”
  • “I had a dream that I killed you.”
  • “Ah, yes… the room you’re staying in. It’s a paranormal hot spot, apparently.”
  • “I keep hearing whispers at night… I-I can’t sleep!”
  • “There was something else in there with me, I’m not going back to that house.”
  • “Come on, it’s just an urban legend…”
  • “Are you trying to tell me I’ve been sleeping in a dead girl’s room!?”
  • “I keep getting the feeling that someone is following me.”
  • “Don’t panic… but I think there’s someone else in the house.”
  • “I can still feel her/his ghost, and it’s killing me…”
  • “There’s something growling in the basement… could you, uh… check it out for me?”
  • “Can you just… can you please check the closet?”
  • “P-please… put the knife down.”
  • “I bought this haunted ring on eBay!”
  • “No, no, no – run!”
  • “I
    didn’t forward one of those freaky chain letters and now I keep hearing
    the laughter of children coming from my hallways at night.”
  • “The dead are all around us…”
  • “She’s dead! She’s dead and yet I keep seeing her, everywhere!”
  • “There’s something breathing under the bed…”
  • "You can’t tell me you don’t believe in ghosts after all we’ve been through.”
  • “I saw something I wasn’t supposed to see, something… that wasn’t supposed to be here.”
  • “Maybe an exorcism is in order…?”
  • “I woke up, and it was j-just… staring at me.”
  • “He was there, then like a second later he literally vanished! I saw it happen!”
  • “I like the ghosts here… they keep me company.”
  • "You can’t honestly tell me you’re in love with a dead girl.”
  • “Wasn’t someone murdered in this house? Why are we here?”
  • “If dying means being with him/her, kill me. I’d be happier that way.”
  • “Ghosts aren’t real. You need help.”
  • “…what do you mean we didn’t talk last night? You came over, you were here.”
  • “You saw something you weren’t supposed to see. And now… now you know what has to be done.”
  • “I’m pretty sure my toaster’s haunted.”
  • "What’s wrong with you? You look like you’ve seen a ghost.”
  • “Don’t! Don’t you dare open that door!”
  • “I visited his/her grave for the first time today…”
  • “Something terrible happened here, didn’t it?”
  • “Wh-why do you have a knife…?”
  • "You’re all bloody, what happened!?”
  • “You know that book from The Evil Dead? Yeah, well… I’m pretty sure we found something pretty damn similar to it.”
  • “You’re bleeding…”
  • “How can you not see it…? I’m dead! I’ve been dead for years!”
  • “I’ve always wanted to see you choking on your own blood.”
  • “I’m sorry, I’m busy Friday with the… funeral and all.”
  • “I’ll never forget the sound of his screaming.”
  • “From the looks of it, the afterlife is a lot more fun than this.”
  • "Legend has it that you can still hear her crying for her lover in the dead of night.”
  • “I want to be dead, too.”
  • “Well don’t you look lovely, all covered in blood.”
  • "Whoa – wait! Please don’t go down there… let’s just get out of here, please?”
  • “You played with a Ouija board!?”
  • “Me and some friends played with a Ouija board the other night… and things have been a little strange since then.”
  • “There’s so much negative energy in this house… do you know if someone died here?”
  • “You’re always hanging out in cemeteries… and yeah, it’s kinda creepy.”
  • "They just don’t believe like they used to…”
  • “I will haunt you until the end of time.”

Me, doing chores: Plotting story ideas and wanting to write
Me, eating a meal: Plotting story ideas and wanting to write
Me, doing anything else: Plotting story ideas and wanting to write
Me, opening a Word document to write: what is plot?? ideas, nope, don’t have those. words aren’t real.

Phantom of the Opera and its adaptations sentence starters

Leroux:
“The angels wept tonight.”
“Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead.”
“All I ever wanted was to be loved for myself.”
“You are afraid of me! And yet, I am not really wicked.”
“He/she fills me with horror and I do not hate him/her.”
“She/he is singing tonight to bring down the chandelier!”
Kay:
“Hell is full of burning bridges.”
“None of us can choose where we will love.”
“There is no better way to raise a demon in my mind then to tell me something could not be done. Impossibility was not a concept I acknowledged.”
“Let me paint him a rainbow.”
ALW:
“The Angel of Music sings songs in my head.”
“You have come here for one purpose, and one alone.”
“I remember there was mist.”
“Is this what you wanted to see?”
“I was just fourteen and soaked to the skin!”
“Why have you brought me here? We must return!”
“His/her eyes will find us there. Those eyes that burn!”
“Forget this waking nightmare.”
“Yet in his/her eyes, all the sadness of the world.”
“All I want is freedom, a world with no more night.”
“I must go, they’ll wonder where I am.”
“He/she was bound to love you, when he/she heard you sing.”
“But why is it secret? What have we to hide? You promised me!”
“You were all that mattered.”
“So it is to be war between us.”
“What I once used to dream, I now dread.”
“Go now! Go now and leave me!”
2004:
“No one would listen.”
“No one but her/him heard as the outcast hears.”
“Learn to find your way in darkness.”
“Who will be there for you, comfort and care for you?”
“Learn to be lonely.”
“Laugh in your loneliness.”
Love Never Dies (AU):
“The moments creep, yet I can’t bare to sleep.”
“All agleam, like a dream.”
“Every fantasy set free.”
“Starting soon upon our stage, the performance of the age.”
“Is there music in your head?”
“What a child. Full of life! Full of you…”
“Help me through this sadness.”
Love Never Dies (OLC):
“Are you ready to begin? Are you ready to get on? You’re about to start out on the journey of your life.”
“It’s a fun house where the mirrors all reflect what’s real, and reality’s as twisted as the mirrors reveal.”
“I should’ve known that you’d be here.”
“I should’ve known it all along.”
Alonso and Tilford musical:
“Pity her/him, ____. She/he couldn’t bare to look at her/his own child.”
“Any kindness that we receive is a blessing.”
“Whatever you want me to be, I can be.”
“What twisted measure of human worth condemns a child at birth?”
“Come what may at morning light, the world is yours tonight.”
“Skin deep, poison in the mirror.”
“You fool the world with your thin veneer, but you’re not worth the salt in my tears!”
“Pain is proof that you’re alive.”
“Through it all, what truth is left behind, someone cared enough to break your heart.”
“The love you never had will haunt you like a shadow. So close, but when you reach there’s no one there.”
Ken Hill:
“While floating high above, I hear you speak my name.”
“We’ll share paradise.”
“If only you could weep for me like that.”
“In time you will learn to love me, I know it.”
“Share with me my dark domain.”
“Oh, free me from this dark despair.”
“Weave your magic spell.”
“How dare she!”
“We are finished. Our love is over! I say it’s over… Ended!”
“I did weep for you, once.”
“Out of pity, ___, not love.”
Yeston and Kopit Phantom:
“Why was I born to this grave?”
“Not a day I’ll rest ‘til that voice is found.”
“Well, that’s obviously something she doesn’t know.”
“Well, someone should tell her!”
“What has happened to your sense of humour?”
“You were the only one, my only chance of happiness.”
“I wondered how long it would take you to tell me it’s true.”
“What did you think of it?”
“It could’ve been better.”
“There was a time I thought I was only dreaming.”
“I went through that phase to.”
“This place is mine!”
“Here, where fables come alive.”
“She is as innocent and natural as a rose.”
“You are music, beautiful music, and you are light to me.”
“I will find a way, through fear and doubt.”
Charles Dance miniseries:
“I know what to do about it. I’ll kill them both!”
“What kind of horror are you leaving me in?”
“The gods smiled when they imagined you.”
“She is the reason I was born.”
“I was born so that she could save me!”
“Do you find that apt?”
“You are magic, too, I think.”
“Magic is my friend. Magic cannot hide from me.”
“Hat, do you think? Formal touch?”
“Do you like these woods of mine?”
“One can get quite hopelessly lost in these woods if one does not know the path… Or have a guide who does.”
Rosen and Schierhorn Phantom:
“I am whatever you want me to be…”
“I am perfect spirit, imperfect man/woman.”
“I’ll always love you, I’ll never leave.”
“I will always be your fulfillment and you’ll always be my desire.”
“If you are the creator of such beauty, why have you forsaken the world?”
“What do they know of beauty?”
“We’ll leave the world to its madness. We can live in bliss, alone.”
“Here nothing is missing, nothing is gone.”
Robert Englund slasher Phantom:
“Love and music are forever.”
“Everyone dies, I just choose the time and place for a few.”
“You’re a thing from hell!”
“And you sir/madam, are hell bound!”
Claude Rains Phantom:
“Hear the bells ringing soft and low, bringing peace through the twilight’s glow.”
“Night has begun.”
“Who would pay any attention to a baritone and a detective?”
Spooks:
“What does a chicken say when it lays a square egg?”
Mystery Legends:
“One day, God willing, I would have my revenge.”
“You were the light in the darkness of my existence.”

Writer Ask Game

1 : What age-group do you write?
2 : What genre do you write?
3 : Do you outline according to big ideas or small details?
4 : Which do you prefer–line-editing or plot-revisions?
5 : Do you write better with or without deadlines?
6 : What would be the biggest compliment you could hope to receive on your current WIP?
7 : How long is your current WIP?
8 : What author would you be most excited to be compared to?
9 : What do you struggle most with as a writer?
10 : Do you brain-storm story ideas alone or with others?
11 : Do you base your characters off of real people?
12 : Is your writing space clean or cluttered?
13 : Do you write character-driven or plot-driven stories?
14 : Do you have a favorite writing-related quote?
15 : If you transport your original characters into another author’s world, which world would you choose?
16 : Would your story work better as a movie or tv show? Why?
17 : Do you make soundtracks for each story?
18 : If you could assign your story one song, what would it be?
19 : Would you rather live in your characters’ world, or have your characters come live in our world?
20 : What book would you love to see adapted for the big or small screen?
21 : Do you finish most of the stories you start?
22 : Has your own writing ever made you cry?
23 : Are you proud or anxious to show off your writing?
24 : When did you start considering yourself a writer?
25 : What books are must-reads in your genre?
26 : What would you like to see more of in your genre?
27 : Where do you get inspiration from?
28 : On a scale of 1-10, how much do you stress about choosing character names?
29 : Do you tend to underwrite or overwrite in a first draft?
30 : Does writing calm you down or stress you out?
31 : What trope do you actually like?
32 : Do you give your side-characters extensive backstories?
33 : Do you flesh-out characters before you write, or let their personalities develop over time?
34 : Describe your old writing in one word.
35 : Is it more fun to write villains or heroes?
36 : Do you write with a black and white sense of morality?
37 : What’s one piece of advice you would give to new writers?
38 : What’s one piece of writing advice you try–but fail–to follow?
39 : How important is positive reinforcement to you as a writer?
40 : What would you ask your favorite author if given one question?
41 : Do you find it distracting to read while you’re writing a first draft?
42 : Do critiques motivate or discourage you?
43 : Do you tend to write protagonists like yourself or unlike yourself?
44 : How do you decide what story idea to work on?
45 : Do you find it harder or easier to write when you’re stressed out?
46 : What Hogwarts house would your protagonist(s) be in?
47 : Where do you see yourself as a writer in five years?
48 : Would you ever co-write?
49 : Are you a fast and rushed writer or a slow and deliberate writer?
50 : Would you rather be remembered for your fantastic world-building or your lifelike characters?