To Cure Writers' Block
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Black Chick
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Character #1
Gender: Female
Race/Ethnicity: Asian/Korean
Born in/Lives in: she was born in South Korea but moved to the USA when she was young.
Age, Birthday: 17, March 7
Occupation: Junior in high school [11th grade]
Appearance: 5’ 4” and a bit cubby. Has long, silky, straight black hair. Normally wears it down. Has dark brown eyes and wears thick-rimmed, rectangular glasses. Only has chinky eyes when she laughs. Normally wears clothes from preppy stores like Aeropostle & Abecrombie. Sometimes wears clothes from stores like Forever 21 when she is trying to impress someone. She saves her skimpiest clothes for when she’s trying to catch the eye of her crush that week.
Personality: She is a big drama queen. If there is no immediate drama going on in her group of friends she will start it. If you need to know who’s going out with whom or who cheated on whom, she’s the person to go to. She knows what’s going on with everyone at every second of every day. Though she seems like she usually knows what she’s doing, she normally doesn’t. She likes to be in control and she normally is, even though the stuff she plans doesn’t always turn out how she plans. She usually seems happy to the outside world when she is not freaking out over some little thing but she is truly hurting on the inside. She doesn’t like to show people that she has all this pain from her past but from time to time she will open up to someone close to her.
Past: she spent a portion of the childhood living in South Korea. When she moved to America she hung out with mostly other Korean students in the area. She was raped when she was five. And she is adopted but didn’t out until a year ago.
Family Life: her family life isn’t too pleasant. She is always working hard to please her mother who doesn’t acknowledge anything she does. Her father isn’t home much he absolutely loves his little girl and will do anything for her. Her older brother is very over-protective and threatens to kill any boy she brings home even if he’s gay. He is going to a community college and lives at home. He tends to always be wrapped in gangs and drugs. He also hits on her when he gets drunk. She doesn’t tell her parents about this because she knows her mom wouldn’t believe her and her dad would literally kill her brother.
(Source: characterlogblog)
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Character #2
Gender: Male
Race/Ethnicity: Hispanic/Peruvian
Born in/Lives in: Born in USA, lived in Peru for a short while, currently lives in the USA
Age, Birthday: 17, March 16
Occupation: Junior in high school [11th grade]
Appearance: 5’ 11” and fit. He is very dark for a Hispanic. He is often mistaken for an Asian because of his chinky eyes which a lot of Peruvians have. He has mid-length wavy black hair with strikes of red in his bangs that cover his dark brown eyes. You will normally see him wearing normal jeans with band t-shirts like Iron Maiden. He is usually smiling or laughing when he is not trying to ‘fix’ things.
Personality: first impression would be ‘this kid is crazy’ because he will most likely be imitating something stupid he saw on Jackass. He enjoys making jokes at other people’s expense and his favorite catch phrase is ‘that’s what she said’. He is normally seen long-boarding with his hoard of loyal followers that he calls ‘the family’. [The Family: a cult-like group of his closest friends] second impression would be ‘this kid is perfect’ because he, though he will deny it, is unbelievably charming and can hypnotize anyone when he decides to act ‘normal’. He knows exactly what to say and when to say it. When he sees things aren’t going his way he will start speaking in a slower, calmer voice and he will explain how he understands how you feel and then proceed to tell you a story about how he’s been in the situation before. Most people will fall for this bullshit because he has gotten so good, no one can tell when he’s lying anymore or when he is trying to get something. Everything he does will be to ‘better the family’ and ‘keep the family together’. He might make you feel like you’re important but that is only to get you to open up and to join or stay with ‘the family’. Recently many of his followers have been leaving him or challenging his authority. So you will most likely see him deep in thought or scheming with one of his obsessive followers.
Past: though he was born in America, he spent a few years as a kid in Peru. In Peru he got himself into a lot of mischief. His parents tried to abandon him at a store but he eventually found his way home. One day in Peru found his mom cheating on his dad but he was too small to understand. When his father found out his father tried to get him to beat his mother. When they moved back to America, he was always the weird kid no one wanted to talk to. He ended up getting sucked into gang life with drinking, guns, and drugs. Eventually he was able to break away and that’s when he started ‘The Family’.
Family Life: His parents still live together except they are constantly fighting. His dad works on the other side of country so he is constantly traveling back and forth. His mom stays home and takes care of his 4-month-old baby brother. You will normally see his grandparents at his house too. They are very strict Catholics who try to keep him in line.
(Source: characterlogblog)
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Writing Prompt #2
write a story/poem/whatever that goes with the song
Not Your Birthday by Allstar Weekend
(Source: writers-blockparty)
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Writing Prompt #3
write a story/poem/whatever centered around an old house. Have the main character be a little boy (age 6-9). he gets trapped in the house just before demolition.
(Source: writers-blockparty)
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Writing Prompt #8
write a story/poem/whatever where the main character’s theme song is What The Hell by Avril Lavigne
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Untitled Thought Monologue
I’ve just made a mess of everything. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve loved the past few months with my boyfriend. We are just so perfect for each other; he’s an aspiring painter and I’m an aspiring writer. Phoebe and Fabio, Fabio and Phoebe… We even sound perfect for each other. He’s given me all I’ve ever wanted yet I’m still not happy.
Everytime I’m with him I can only think about Diego. Diego, one of my best friends, stopped talking to me when I started going out with Fabio. A lot of my friends stopped talking to me when I started going out with Fabio. They told me that I really hurt Diego, and they said I must of been blind not to see that he liked me.
I waited around for months hoping Diego would be a man and ask me out. Then I found out he had a long-distance girlfriend living in Alaska that he was MADLY in love with. What was I supposed to think when I found this out. Was I supposed to be jealous? Was I supposed to want him more? He made it clear that he was unavailable. If I were to continue to chase after him it would be like chasing after the sun; I’d never catch him.
Fabio and I were always friends, but never good friends. So when he asked me out I guess I only said yes because he didn’t know me well enough to be afraid of my aggressive personality and I didn’t know him well enough to think he was a complete idiot like the rest of my guy friends. I don’t think I ever really liked him that way.
This is what I hate about being a writer; every situation I’m put in I think: what would happen if this were a book? but life isn’t a book. Life doesn’t follow cliched story-lines. Life doesn’t always have a happy ending. Not all problems in life have a solution that can be solved by a few words written by some poet who died centuries ago. I’ve made a mess of everyone’s life and there is no way I can repair the damage I have done.
(P.S. sorry for the awkward names, I’m not good at naming character)
what do you think?
(Source: writers-blockparty)
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Writing Prompt #12
write a POEM about zombies.
like an ode to zombies.
why we all should appreciate and love zombies.
(Source: writers-blockparty)
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Writing Prompt #22
write about the best day of your life to make it seem like the worse day of your life.
and vise versa.
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Writing Prompt #24
When their truck breaks down, a group of mercenaries steal some ever expanding gloop.
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