Eric Shansby, Washington Post

How the setting looks in my head:

How the description comes out on the page:

“In the end, we’ll all become stories.”

— Margaret Atwood (via paperlover)

In the fanfiction writing system, grammatically-based offenses are considered especially heinous. On the internet, the dedicated proofreaders who find and correct these vicious grammar fails are members of an elite squad known as the Grammar Police. These are their stories.

Quirky

I’ve mentioned before that one of my favorite things about character development is figuring out the smallest tidbits of a character, something insignificant that shapes a person in a roundabout way. Characters should never be hindered by their quirks of course, but I like recognizing characters by one or two things they always seem to do. And I have a new favorite that I only just realized.

Feidhelm, one of the mc’s in my changeling story, falls asleep to the sound of conversation. Unless he is directly involved or benefits from said conversation, and he knows not to do this when a situation is dire, the sound of people talking and the rise and fall of their voices serves as a lullaby. He does it with people speaking around him, when a TV is going off, or even during a live human performance. His favorite voice to fall asleep to is Kyran’s, because when he’s not talking to his half elf brother directly, Kyran’s voice is a pleasant and comforting thing to hear. To some if comes off as incredibly rude, and I would too if someone was like that in real life, but I like the bit of inside info. 

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