Tag: writing

use comic sans to write

fanartfunart:

insanelycoolish:

arahir:

arahir:

i hate this so much but this knowledge is too powerful to keep from you all.

last night @phaltu discovered that setting your font to comic sans in google docs improves writing speed and creativity by an insane amount. “no” i said and “die” but then i tried it and god. i wish it wasn’t this way. i wish it wasn’t true. i wish i could protect you all from this but it’s real. 

something about this font is so disarming. something about this font lets you look past the shape of the words and into their soul. i’ve never written so much as i did last night, on my phone, at 2am, in comic sans.

if you have writer’s block. if you lack inspiration. if you need this. don’t be afraid to use it. sometimes the things we find most horrifying are also the things we need the most. trust me. let comic sans into your life.

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it’s true

Im gonna try this soon… 

I’ll update with my findings. 

FUN FACT Comic Sans is a dyslexic-friendly font!  Its lettering is styilized in a way that makes it easier to read:

(b and d and e and a are always the hardest ones to differentiate for me)

And for extra comparison:

(I keep feeling like I spelt handwritting wrong but ok.)

A lot of the slight newuances are there to help streamline reading and comprehention, and prevent letter flipping/rotation.

SO I’m assuming that some of the reason that it’s so easy to write with is becuase it’s BUILT to be easy to write with. There’s other fonts like it if you guys hate comic sans and wanna try out something like this….but I can’t remember which ones…..Just look up “Dyslexia friendly fonts” or somethin. (although I always liked Comic Sans and the font is actually the victum of cronic contextual misuse-but that’s another discussion.)

eclecticmuses:

Anyone besides me wish there was just like… a direct interface between your brain and the computer, so you could just download the fic sitting in your head directly to your computer without actually having to type or write it? That would be fantastic. I need it immediately. That’s where I’m at right now.

lavenderas:

tumblinbean:

Writing is like typing out your favourite book from memory.

Sometimes you forget what happens, but that’s okay. You just gotta keep making that shit up. 

If you can bullshit an essay you can fucking bullshit a scene in a story. The great part of writing a story is that you can go back to it. Anytime. Anyplace (usually.)

Bullshit that scene. Guess what that character is gonna say. Make memes out of it. Just. Write.

plaidshirtjimkirk:

@ ff writers who use common tropes in their stories: keep doing you ♡♡♡ I want to read my otp falling in love, accidentally kissing, getting fake married, pining, and etc a million times over. No one will tell the story in your voice, so it’s actually new every time. Don’t ever feel bad about exploring something in your own way.

elliewritesstories:

mareebrittenford:

writing-references-yah:

I think the best piece of character design advice I ever received was actually from a band leadership camp I attended in june of 2017. 

the speaker there gave lots of advice for leaders—obviously, it was a leadership camp—but his saying about personality flaws struck me as useful for writers too. 

he said to us all “your curses are your blessings and your blessings are your curses” and went on to explain how because he was such a great speaker, it made him a terrible listener. he could give speeches for hours on end and inspire thousands of people, but as soon as someone wanted to talk to him one on one or vent to him, he struggled with it. 

he had us write down our greatest weakness and relate it to our biggest strength (mine being that I am far too emotional, but I’m gentle with others because I can understand their emotions), and the whole time people are sharing theirs, my mind was running wild with all my characters and their flaws.

previously, I had added flaws as an after thought, as in “this character seems too perfect. how can I make them not-like-that?” but that’s not how people or personalities work. for every human alive, their flaws and their strengths are directly related to each other. you can’t have one without the other.

is your character strong-willed? that can easily turn into stubbornness. is your character compassionate? maybe they give too many chances. are they loyal? then they’ll destroy the world for the people they love.

it works the other way around too: maybe your villain only hates the protagonist’s people because they love their own and just have a twisted sense of how to protect them. maybe your antagonist is arrogant, but they’ll be confident in everything they do.

tl;dr “your curses are your blessings, and your blessings are your curses” there is no such thing as a character flaw, just a strength that has been stretched too far.

This is such a fabulous flip side of what I’ve always known about villians. That their biggest weakness is that they always assume their own motivations are the motives of others.

This is brilliant!!