A trope that gets to me: 'guard dog' character and their partner who are both fully aware of it and honestly don't care/kind of like it. Someone says "call your guard dog off" and their partner does call them off. That person, their 'guard dog', is someone who is unreservedly, irrefutably loyal to them. Someone undoubtedly dangerous who is willing to kill, to maim, to obey, simply because of their love for one another. There's no manipulation involved— it is loyalty, brutal, dogged loyalty. And it goes both ways.
Writing advice from my uni teachers:
If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.
Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.
Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.
Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.
Max is just happy to be there..
Different Ways to Describe Eye Colors
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Natural Eye Colors:
Brown Eyes
Blue Eyes
Green Eyes
Hazel Eyes
Hazel Green Eyes
Gray Eyes
Black Eyes
Heterochromia Eyes
Unnatural Eye Colors:
White Eyes
White/Silver Eyes pt 2
Red Eyes
Reddish-Brown Eyes
Pink/Magenta Eyes
Gold/Yellow Eyes
Unusual Eyes (Silver, White, Purple, Pink, Red, Orange, Yellow)
Seasonal Eyes
trans zag sketch be upon ye while i work on my research paper
𖦹 Sam and Max having/showing morals for any split second is always one of my favorite things in the world... 9 days until TDPB Remastered... 9 dayyyysss.. ⸜(ˊᗜˋ)⸝
good morning dirtbag nation last night I cowboy camped up on a ridgeline tucked beneath hemlock saplings right alongside one of those big intermountain power lines that look like giant men walking across the mountain tops. the wires were so close that there was a constant crackling hum of electricity that almost disguised the sound of the rain pit-pattering on my tarp. when the water hit the cables it made hot blue flashes like little lightning birds on the wire, and you could almost track the sheets of wind in the darkness because of the ripples of light.
Later the lamb would just think that the real thing is nicer than the gaunlet idk
I gave up so fast holy shit
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