I’ve decided to make a masterlist of asks I’ve done to make them easier to find for you guys (and for myself). I split them into categories as best as I could by genre and topic. Also, some asks have some helpful tips in the notes as well to check out (some are marked but not all) and if you have anything to add that you think would help, feel free to reply or reblog with your addition. I’ll try to keep it updated with future asks.
Now without further ado, the strangest and most wonderful list I’ve ever made.
World Building
- Urban fantasy prompts/creating urban fantasy world (also linked under fantasy)
- Links to help with world building
- Creating a pantheon of gods
- Things to research when writing a historical novel (also linked under Historical)
- Using metaphors in descriptions
- Too much world building?
- Asking questions to develop a magic system
- Wizard school ideas
- Why magic would drain from a world
- Tips for descriptions
- Reasons for civil war
Character Development
- Writing confusion in your character
- Obstacles to character goals: traveling abroad
- Reactions to sadness
- Reactions to a devastating event
- Showing a character’s anxiety towards something
- Showing a character’s secret without revealing it
- Reasons a character would die for another
- Secrets in a character’s past
- Culture shock with loss of rules
- Growth of a trainee witch
- Characters provoking other characters
- Dealing with moving to a completely new place
- Why a 19yo would allow a strange boy to live with her
- Why a character would want a do-over in life
- Showing a character going from good to bad
- Possible good messages when the villains aren’t reformed
- Kid growing up surrounded only by adults
- Quirks for characters
- Showing friendship with reserved characters
- Introducing an antagonist
- Introducing side characters
Writing Different Types of Characters
- Writing antiheroes
- The reluctant hero
- Writing a violent character afraid of their mind
- Making an immoral character likeable
- Not a normal girl
- Sympathetic villain
- Making sure your character isn’t just a flirt
- Writing intelligent characters
- When your hero isn’t very heroic
- Confident characters
Character Family
- Visiting family for the first time
- Showing closeness in siblings (opposite twins)
- How a joker and a quiet character can become friends
- Daughter of a party organizer prompts
- Parent jobs where the kid needs to keep up appearances
- The mom that left comes back…a vampire
- Including character’s parents
- Why a character would leave another
- Sibling relationships
- character with an abusive father (and how to show fear)
Romance
- Writing a slow paced love story
- love interest vs the ex revamped
- Platonic male x female relationships
- Random places to get married
- Suspense and romance with a “different” male lead
- sad relationship prompts
- Asexuality and romance
- Mutual pining
- Romance with large age differences
- Childhood friends falling in love
- Fluffy unique first kiss
- Ways of showing commitment in characters (vampire edition)
- Friendship to romance
- Small situations for a couple story
- fantasy creature and human fluff
- characters meeting and falling in love during war
- Why best friends might fall in love
- Unlikely soulmates prompts
