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WEBSITES FOR WRITERS {masterpost}
- E.A. Deverell - FREE worksheets (characters, world building, narrator, etc.) and paid courses;
- Hiveword - Helps to research any topic to write about (has other resources, too);
- BetaBooks - Share your draft with your beta reader (can be more than one), and see where they stopped reading, their comments, etc.;
- Charlotte Dillon - Research links;
- Writing realistic injuries - The title is pretty self-explanatory: while writing about an injury, take a look at this useful website;
- One Stop for Writers - You guys... this website has literally everything we need: a) Description thesaurus collection, b) Character builder, c) Story maps, d) Scene maps & timelines, e) World building surveys, f) Worksheets, f) Tutorials, and much more! Although it has a paid plan ($90/year | $50/6 months | $9/month), you can still get a 2-week FREE trial;
- One Stop for Writers Roadmap - It has many tips for you, divided into three different topics: a) How to plan a story, b) How to write a story, c) How to revise a story. The best thing about this? It's FREE!
- Story Structure Database - The Story Structure Database is an archive of books and movies, recording all their major plot points;
- National Centre for Writing - FREE worksheets and writing courses. Has also paid courses;
- Penguin Random House - Has some writing contests and great opportunities;
- Crime Reads - Get inspired before writing a crime scene;
- The Creative Academy for Writers - "Writers helping writers along every step of the path to publication." It's FREE and has ZOOM writing rooms;
- Reedsy - "A trusted place to learn how to successfully publish your book" It has many tips, and tools (generators), contests, prompts lists, etc. FREE;
- QueryTracker - Find agents for your books (personally, I've never used this before, but I thought I should feature it here);
- Pacemaker - Track your goals (example: Write 50K words - then, everytime you write, you track the number of the words, and it will make a graphic for you with your progress). It's FREE but has a paid plan;
- Save the Cat! - The blog of the most known storytelling method. You can find posts, sheets, a software (student discount - 70%), and other things;
I hope this is helpful for you!
(Also, check my gumroad store if you want to!)
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isnt it so interesting and so reflective of being a teenage girl how the yellowjackets collectively and sort of automatically/instinctively assign certain roles to certain members of the group, often roles that involve getting their hands dirty and doing things that are anywhere from gross to ethically questionable to truly morally reprehensible but necessary for their survival, because no one else can stomach it, and then they punish her for acting out the exact same role that they assigned her?
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I am so hesitant to speak on the positives regarding the boys in The Wilds Season 2 because I don't want it to be mistaken for me saying the show needed to add male characters. I absolutely would have been happy with the show never introducing a single man onto this series, ever, but because they did, and that's a reality we are living with, I do think it's fruitful to look at how well they executed a lot of that material (not all of it, but a lot of it).
This is from a TV writing perspective. And honestly, you can tell me "fuck your TV perspective, I wanted the girls, period, the end," and I'd tip my hat to you and say sounds good because mood. So please don't come for me in my inbox like I'm so heinous creton because you do you, babe.
But here's the thing about the boys -- they are there to highlight the girls. Period. Is that somewhat paradoxical because in being there, they inevitably take away time from the girls, inherently giving them less space to grow? Sure, but regardless, they do lift the girls up simply by...existing in the same conditions.
Let's start with logistics. Juxtaposed with how the boys run their camp, the girls are superior in every way. And the deep-rooted conflict that haunts the boys (especially in the back half of the season) gives time for the series to show a different side of the girls. Last season was all about struggle. And they are still struggling in Season 2, but they have bonded. They are a family. There is a bond between them that doesn't break. They have their differences, they disagree, they get angry, sad, vengeful, depressed, confused, but they never give up on each other -- especially when it matters.
Someone breaks a nail, and the boys are bailing. They have a single demonstration of teamwork the entire 8 episodes, and it's nurtured out of fear and necessity, not a deeper bond between character.
But back to the girlies. Because they're settled in, we get lighter moments -- funny moments, happy moments, moments of reprieve we couldn't get if the boys weren't there because the show needs conflict. Again, you can say "fuck your conflict," that's fine, I get it, but that's also not how TV works. As much as we'd love to see these girls just exist in the wilderness and joke around, make out, and have a good time, that doesn't make a show, it doesn't propel a story forward.
And before you say "they're still trapped" ... OK, yea, but we also couldn't have 8 episodes of Leah running around the island completely unhinged while everyone else thinks she's lost her entire mind. We got all these fan-ficky moments of glee to indulge in because the boys were entrenched in misery.
As they should be.
But the boys also suck at living on the island. Everything that saved the girls in their first days doesn't exist for the boys because they are incapable of rising above their issues. Shocker. They don't listen to each other, they don't work as a team, and spend all their energy fighting to be leaders. Leaders of what? Also, let's not even talk about how they're so insecure, they'd literally rather follow an actual rapist over someone who beats his chest a little too much sometimes. There's no empathy there, no compassion, no critical thinking skills, and when there is -- it's egregiously misplaced.
The girls possess critical thinking skills AND empathy and that's why they are incredibly successful. It's also why they will be running circles around the boys if the show gets a third season and the camps merge.
Even the moments that are claimed as a win for the boys -- defeating a large wild animal, for example -- are mirages and fake wins given to them by someone who wants the scales to feel more balanced than they actually are. The girls haven't beaten a large animal yet because they haven't been faced with one -- the animal wasn't meant to be there, that's a tainted experiment making the control group (the boys) no longer a baseline.
When the boys are praised for being able to ration food because the "girls haven't done that yet" -- that's a lie. It's wrong. The girls are 20 days ahead of the boys, if they didn't have food, they'd be dead. We see Martha literally risking her entire belief system and paying the price just so the other women can eat. The women can do everything the boys do -- and better -- when given the chance. And that's true across the board.
Going into the specific dynamics of the boys, there is some really good stuff there. Kirin and Ivan are two of the most complex teen characters I've seen on a TV show, and that's saying something considering there are 16 people and 8 of them needed to be given a backstory in an 8-episode season.
Kirin being introduced in a way that gives a visceral response to any woman is so well executed -- his turnaround and growth and the way it weaves into Ivan's story is absolutely phenomenally written and portrayed by the actor. The turnaround in which you go from despising him to being desperately thankful he's there is emotional whiplash in the best way, as the layers to his character are peeled back through both his and Ivan's complicated past getting revealed.
The thing about Kirin and Ivan is that in the end, no one is totally right, and no one is completely wrong. They both made mistakes, and both deserve forgiveness. They are also both able to give that to each other -- which, is, well, a very big thing.
There's so much growth there, so much complexity, such a dynamic and three-dimensional relationship.
Ivan is a character that you instantly attach yourself to but ends up making really peculiar decisions along the way. it elicits the opposite emotional response of Kirin's character (except you never hate him as much as you initially hate Kirin). His flawed past makes that flawed decision-making super duper understandable, though, and therefore he, too, becomes complex, layered, and genuinely empathetic.
The way he and Kirin grow and navigate their scenario together and are able to find friendship considering what they've gone through together while swimming in an absolute mess of tragedy is actually super beautiful to watch unfold. They are both deeply flawed but are also both inherently good and you instinctually root for them at every turn.
The actors are also the strongest of the bunch, with the exception of maybe Alex Fitzalan, Seth's actor, but I'm not even going to go there in this post, because that's too much to unpack, and I'm still not sure how I feel about it. Complicated, I feel complicated.
So while yes, the show didn't need boys and yes, we missed out on a lot of time with the girlies because of that -- especially post island, that was a big swing and a miss all around, they should have given us 10 episodes so we could have seen more of the girls in the facility and not just Leah -- the boys did have their qualities, and reasons for being there, and if the show was always going to add them anyway, there are highlights to appreciate.
I think Season 3 is going to be absolutely fascinating. I hope the girls run circles around the boys, lead the charge, and eventually link up with Kirin and Ivan to make an unstoppable team.
I also hope every single person ends up being queer because romantically I do not need a single hetero relationship to unfold beyond friendship but I already KNOW Fatin and Kirin are going to be a thing. Just wait for it.
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hoes w/ clear skin on insta fuckin pummel their skin w/ pounds of foundation for every lil makeup video and no one gives a fuck but everytime a chick w/ some acne or bumps does it, suddenly every1 in the comments is a dermatologist and sayin how the makeup is what’s clogging their pores and how she must immediately stop bc her naïve little brain and its decision to put on foundation is Poisoning her skin and corroding her pores into agony or smth . ok