Goal

Hallo Lieblinge!*

First of all, thank you to everyone who encourages me daily to keep this blog running and who inspires me with their creativity to create even more! And also a very big shout out to those who already supported me on Ko-fi these past seven months. 💕

There are some big changes in my personal life right now. I just finished my Master's degree and as I'm no longer a student, I had to give up my students jobs, which means that I'm without income for the moment. I'm hoping to get a job in the field I studied and move, but it seems to take some time to get there.

Unfortunately, my current laptop sounds like it's going to break down soon and I would like to get a tablet that I can easily use to answer my asks on Tumblr and create new prompts, but which I can also use for my job applications, so that is what my goal is for. (I already put the 'coffees' I received so far towards that goal.) ☕

Please don't ever feel obligated to give something, my blog is a free space for inspiration and creativity and will always be like this. But if you can help out in any kind of way it's highly appreciated! And even if it's just good vibes send my way to get my dream job! 😁

Much love, Jana 💋

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*I decided I wanted to say something else than a generic 'Hey guys' like I always did, so I'm calling all of you 'Liebling', my favourite German term of endearment from now on, which is also completely genderneutral.

Writers' Resolutions

A bunch of resolutions for writers and people who want to try writing this year. It's in no way something you must do, these are just ideas how you can set out to improve your writing in 2022.

Try something new

• Try to write something you have never written before.
• Write something silly, write something serious, write in a different genre, try to write characters that you haven't explored yet.

Write consistently

• Writing consistently will not only give you exercise to become a better writer, it can also keep your voice as a writer consistent.
• If you have a first draft, write it down quickly and without big breaks inbetween.

Don't wait for inspiration

• Waiting for inspiration to come can take forever. So don't wait for inspiration: search for it.
• Make writing into a habit that comes natural to you every day, look up writing prompts, read a book you like, get yourself into the mood to write and do it!

Do your research

• As a writer, you need to know about a lot of different things.
• You can do research by reading books, listening to podcasts, watching movies, talking to other people, etc.
• Take this year to learn something new and then tell your reader all about it.

Edit that draft

• We all have that one story we wrote a while ago and then stopped at the first draft.
• Take it and reread it and then rewrite it. You have a new perspective on it now and maybe this will be the year you turn your idea into a book.

Set yourself a goal

• This explicitly doesn't have to be a goal about how many words or pages you write.
• Your goal can be to finish something, to edit something, to write a few sentences every day, to share more of your writing or to publish something.

Don't compare

• Try not to compare your writing with that of someone else.
• Writing is about finding your own voice and telling a story that only you can tell. Also: other people's accomplishes don't diminish your own!

Write!

• Whatever the outcome of your writing may be and whatever you want to do with it, if you want to publish it, if you want to share it with friends, or if you want to keep it to yourself: just start writing!
• Do what you love to do.

To all my lovely writers, I wish you a great year, may everything work out in your favour!

- Jana

Theme Week: Friendship

Another theme week, this time about one of my favourite things in the world and in fiction: FRIENDSHIP!

The week from May, 9th to the 15th is going to be Friendship Week, which includes 2 new posts (Friendship Dynamics, How to write friendships), 3 friendship-themed single prompts and reblogs of my posts about friends so far.

All of the new posts for this week are already up for members on my Ko-fi.

I hope you have a wonderful week and get inspired to write some really strong friendships!

- Jana

Theme Week: Friendship

Another theme week, this time about one of my favourite things in the world and in fiction: FRIENDSHIP!

The week from May, 9th to the 15th is going to be Friendship Week, which includes 2 new posts (Friendship Dynamics, How to write friendships), 3 friendship-themed single prompts and reblogs of my posts about friends so far.

All of the new posts for this week are already up for members on my Ko-fi.

I hope you have a wonderful week and get inspired to write some really strong friendships!

- Jana

Theme Week: Royalty

I checked my notebook to see what kind of prompts I had written down in there the last few months and I saw that I had quite a lot of royalty prompts. So I decided to make it a thing.

The week from March, 21st to 27th is going to be Royalty Week, which includes 3 new prompt lists (Royalty Scenarios, Royalty Dialogue, Modern Royalty AUs), 3 royalty-themed single prompts (which I had already in my queue, that just fit perfectly) and reblogs of my posts about royalty so far.

All of the prompt lists are already up for members on my Ko-fi.

I hope you have a wonderful week and get inspired to write some cool royalty stories! 👑

- Jana

Fic Titles List

Alphabetical titles

• Alphabet A-C
• Alphabet D-F
• Alphabet G-I
• Alphabet J-L
• Alphabet M-O
• Alphabet P-R
• Alphabet S-T
• Alphabet U-V
• Alphabet W-X
• Alphabet Y-Z + Numbers

Special titles

• Aesthetic German Words Part I
• Aesthetic German Words Part II

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• My dog yanked on its leash and now I’m lying in a giant pile of leaves and you stand there and laugh and STOP TAKING PICTURES!
• I’m babysitting for the neighbors and the kid’s kite is stuck in a tree, can you please help us?
• There is a competition for carving a pumpkin at the market and you think you can win against me. The Game is on!
• It’s a torrential downpour and we both have to wait for the bus without shelter in sight but I have a small umbrella.
• You told me you like spring better and now I have to convince you that fall is the best season.
• You think it’s funny to scare me with your Halloween costume, now I’m going to show you how funny that is.
• Our school has a strict “Do not throw with leaves” rule and we’re sitting in front of the principal with leaves stuck in our hair and other unfortunate places.
• I have to take pictures of the colorful trees in the park for a project but somehow you always end up in all of them.

You can find more prompts at my sideblog: creativepromptsforwriting

• We have to do a project together and it’s like the group projects in school: one is doing the work and the other one’s only sitting around and comments everything.
• We’re sharing one small office and we always fight about the temperature.
• There is only one copy room on our floor and we both have to copy something, but someone’s obviously having a good time in their so we both stand there awkwardly and wait.
• You took the last bit of coffee and didn’t make a new one. That’s unacceptable.
• Since you started working here you never stopped asking me out for lunch and it always seemed like a joke to you, so today I say yes and wait for your reaction.
• The company is searching for a new slogan and made a competition out of it for their employees and we both want to win the car that the winner is getting.
• I hear you swearing at your computer because it doesn’t open your mail account, move over, I’m going to fix it.
• One of the colleagues is retiring and we were supposed to order a cake and forgot about it, the party starts in half an hour, we have to do something!!!

More prompts you can find on my sideblog: creativepromptsforwriting

• The walls between our apartments are so thin, when you sneezed I automatically yelled “Gesundheit!” and now I’m holding my breath and wait to see if you yell something back.
• I saw you throwing a plastic bag in the garbage bin for organic waste and I’m holding a speech about recycling and NO I'M NOT CUTE when I’m angry, we all have to live on this planet!
• I love to sing under the shower and now I’m standing at the mail box and my neighbor tells me he also likes [insert your favourite artist here]. So embarrassing.
• Some kids pulled the fire alarm in our building and it’s 3 am and I’m standing on the street, shivering in my MARVEL PJ’s and this is so not funny!
• I accepted a package adressed to you and now I lie in wait because you never seem to be home when I am.
• It started with a small problem and a sticky note I put on your door to tell you about it and you answered with another note and now the door is full and I never even met you.
• Your music is way too loud but instead of telling you to stop I put on my own music. Let’s see who surrenders first.
• You desperately want to see the season finale of your favourite show but your TV broke down and now you ask me if you could watch it at my apartment. You even bring beer.

You can find more prompts at my sideblog: creativepromptsforwriting