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Questions to help develop your otp. Pt1.

I present a list if questions to help gain insight into your precious fictional couples.

What real couples could they be compared to ? Why ?

What fictional couples could they be compared to ? Why ?

Who normally cooks ?

What do they do when they're away from each other ?

Do they have nick names for each other ? What ?

Who's more likely to pay for dinner?

Who steals the covers at night ?

Who remembers things ?

Who cusses more ?

Who kissed who first ?

Who made the first move ?

Who started the relationship ?

What would they do if the other was hurt ?

How did they both meet ?

What are their common interests ?

What's the individual goal for each character ?

What are their common goal ?

Do their goals conflict ?

What's the core for each character ?

How do they reveal their core to the other character?

What are their relationship expectations ?

Does either have an addiction?

In what areas do they worry about each other ?

How would each character feel if they had to leave for a time ? How would they react if they divorced or broke up?

How do they handle dividing up chores and household duties ?

Who's the breadwinner of the house ?

Do they ever resent each other ?

What activities do they enjoy together ?

What activities does one enjoy that the other doesn't ?

How do they fight or defend the other ?

How do they express love for each other ?( Eg acts of service, physical touch, words of affirmation, quality time, giving gifts ? Etc)

What values do they both share ?

Who takes more responsibility for their actions?

Who's more likely to give in and compromise?

Do they feel the same way about money ?

What habits do they have that makes the other unhappy ?( Eg: angry outbursts, annoying behaviors?etc )

What do they find the physically attractive about the other ?

What accomplishments do they most admire in each other ?

What small physical details does each love the most about the other ?

In what little ways did they disappoint each other?

How does each behave differently around the other ?

How does love make each character act irrationally?

How can each character tell how the other is feeling? Are they good at it or bad ?

How does being around each other change their thought process?

What do they share and talk about the most ?

What do they do in silent moments? What are they thinking about?

How do they spend time together usually?

What habits do they have that annoy the other ?

How do they react when the other is hurt or upset ? Do they try to help and how ?

How do they spend time on each other's hobbies or interests ?

Dialogue prompt !

A : walks in nude.

B : sees A and flustered/ panics , turning around . OMG !! What are doing ?! Why are you walking around like that ?!!

A: oh , this ? I'm wearing my porn suit. ( Replying unfazed )

B: your what - YOU'RE NAKED !!?!!

A: Exactly.

* Based on a traumatic true story...*

25 Natural Enemies Prompts

Conflict is at the heart of a good story, and some characters seem destined to butt heads. Of course, in some cases, the same characters may also have a lot in common. Some of the pairings on this list could be friends who bicker about a particular issue. Most of them could be true adversaries. They could even be enemies who wind up becoming friends or falling in love. Try writing about one of these pairs.

a vegan and a steakhouse owner

a warrior and a pacifist

soldiers of opposing armies

two people on opposing political campaigns

an evangelical minister and an atheist

a celebrity and a tabloid photographer

a moderator on a website and an Internet troll

a neat person and a slob

two people in love with the same person

a conservationist and a real estate developer

a cat lover and someone who’s scared of cats

a jock and a nerd

a doctor and a faith healer

a prince and an anti-monarchist

a modest person and a person with no inhibitions

owners of two competing shops or restaurants in a small town

a small business owner and the CEO of a big retail chain

a city lover and an outdoorsy type

a fugitive and a U.S. Marshal

an eternal optimist and a pessimist

two people vying for the same promotion at work

a district attorney and a public defender on the same case

a spendthrift and a miser

a school principal or headmaster and a juvenile delinquent

a human and an alien invader

25 Writing Prompts to Make Your Character Feel Lonely

Some of these things wouldn’t necessarily make a person feel lonely, but all of them could make someone feel that way.

He invites people to his birthday party, but all of them either cancel at the last minute or simply fail to show up.

People keep posting pictures from a party that she wasn’t invited to.

He doesn’t have anyone to celebrate Christmas or Valentine’s Day with.

She eats alone at a restaurant.

He sits alone at the movies or a baseball game.

He’s getting divorced, and their mutual friends are spending time with his wife and her new boyfriend.

She gets Christmas cards from married couples with pictures of them and their smiling children.

He’s in a group of people who have a lot of in-jokes he doesn’t understand.

She realizes that the woman she considers a best friend doesn’t feel the same way about her.

A group of his coworkers never invites him along to lunch.

She misses the dog who used to sleep at her feet.

He looks out of the window of his new apartment and wishes he’d never moved away from his hometown.

She comes across photos or cards from a family member who has since cut her off.

He’s in a foreign country where he doesn’t speak the language well— or at all.

She’s working a night shift all on her own.

He hears his partner or wife compliment someone else profusely, but s/he never compliments him.

He texted three people, and none of them texted him back.

She was excited to be invited to a party, only to realize it’s a “party” where you’re supposed to buy stuff.

He wakes up from a dream where he’s with his ex, his long-distance partner, his family, or a new group of friends, and he realizes it wasn’t real.

After buying a nice new outfit, she realizes she has no one to go out and do things with, so she has nowhere special to wear it.

He joined an online dating service and no one is showing any interest.

There’s a snack item in the vending machine that nobody ever wants, and she relates to it.

He plays board games with himself as a child…or as an adult.

She always asks other people about their health, their families, and their work. Nobody asks her how she’s doing.

He talks to a virtual assistant or computer program as though it’s a real person.

Writing prompt.

During career day a child announces that he would like to grow up to be a supervillain, shocking everyone.

He is from the family of the most powerful super heroes.

LETS TALK ABOUT SPARRING

I’ve read a lot of fics, have seen many shows, and have watched many movies that are completely inaccurate when it comes to sparring. NOW, i know it’s fiction, and I greatly enjoy it nonetheless, but I would like to share a few things with you, as a person who trains in Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA). There are a few general things in this, as well as stuff more focused to a certain european weapon. (this is all Historical European stuff, obviously if you’re writing for a different region, this probably won’t apply that much.)

SPARRING

-you don’t practice with real sharp swords. Never. It’s incredibly dangerous, especially since sparring is trying to practice your killing/injuring skills. In older times, you would use wood, maybe wrapped in leather or canvas to practice. Today, you use weighted nylon swords/weapons, and you usually wear a mask while doing so. Steel is and was an option, but the blade will be completely dull, and the tip will be bent over itself.

-It’s practically impossible to knock someone off their feet while sparring, unless you are hooking your foot or weapon behind their leg. It’s hard to push back and cause someone to fall, since they can just retreat back a bit.

-YOU. DON’T. SPEND. HOURS. SPARRING. ESPECIALLY WITHOUT A BREAK. It’s exhausting, the most people usually go is 10 minutes before they have a break. During Training, you only spar for about 2-5 minutes before stopping and having a rest.

-You try your hardest never to cross your feet. It’s dangerous and it unbalances you. Your opponent can take advantage of you easily.

-Usually, you want to strike your opponent with the last ¼ of your blade, basically just the tip and a little below. That’s the sharpest point, and you get the most force behind it.

-Swords aren’t super heavy. Stop the giant, huge, I-can-barely-lift-this trope. Longswords are usually 3lbs. It’s not heavy when you pick it up. However, it gets heavy when you’re holding it up above your head for a while. Swords were not made to be heavy, especially since you would have to hold them up in battle for sometimes hours.

-It’s incredibly hard to engage in witty banter and such. You are constantly moving and trying to strike your opponent. Since it’s fiction, you can do what you want, but just know that trying to have a conversation while sparring is like trying to have one while running. It tires you out even more, and usually just comes out breathless and wheezy.

-Swords are not lightsabers. You cannot try and hurt someone with just any part of your blade. It will just annoy your opponent. Now, for sparring, you will want to focus on hitting your opponent with the edge of your blade, and you won’t really ever be trying to hit someone with the flat of your blade.

-In sparring, you will get hit. And get bruises. I count five from just 2 days ago. (Also reminder that bruises don’t form for 1-3 days.) If you happened to get a hard thrust to the ribs, they will probably fracture. It happens. I haven’t had it personally, but those who’ve trained longer have. The worst injury I’ve gotten is a bruise on my chest that didn’t fade for nearly a month.

-Grip!!! You don’t clutch your sword super tight. No. It limits movement. My instructor taught me to hold firmly with the thumb, pointer, and middle finger, and use the other two as more guiding fingers. You swing your sword with your wrist, not a big giant arm movement. That is tiring and slow. 

I will be focusing on using a one handed sword in this next bit, specifically a Scottish Regimental Broadsword. A basic sword to build off of.

-FOOTWORK. It’s not a super complicated series of perfectly planned out steps. It just isn’t. With Regimental Broadsword (which is what I will focus on, since it’s what I’ve trained with most), you have to have a good base (rear-weighted stance, front foot pointed at your opponent, back foot turned sideways), and then once you have that, you just have to move around and try not to get hit.

-Slipping. (Continuation of footwork). With a rear-weighted stance, the goal is to be able to move the front foot anywhere. You should actually be able to keep your front foot an inch off the ground without having to adjust your back foot. Slipping is when this comes in handy. If your opponent takes a swing at your front leg, you should be able to just slip it back to go next to your other foot, and swing your sword up to get your opponents head. Slipping is really important.

-Advance and Retreat (other continuation of footwork). While moving forward or back, you always want to feel the ground with a heel-toe movement, so you can tell if there are rocks or branches and such. Advancing, you want to move your front leg first. Retreating, your back leg.

-Traversing (last continuation of footwork)(maybe). Transversing is basically advancing in on your opponent in a circular motion. You’re trying to get close and personal. Reminder to not cross your feet. You will loose balance and probably end up getting whacked with a sword. Traversing is a spiral motion sort of. Your opponent can avoid getting trapped If they do it as well.

I will probably come back and add more soon, because there’s more I know, but can’t remember at the moment.

more otp prompts

"I'm not sure what to do with all these feelings for you."

"you're blind- you're so blind! why would i even do half the things that i do for you for anybody if i wasn't head over heels for them!"

"you really can't tell, can you?" A says. "I'm embarrassed by my feelings for you. I'm so dumb for keeping them alive. i love you. there. you heard it. happy now?"

"i wish i could spell your name with the stars."

"i think we both need a therapist to figure out whatever the hell this is." A mumbles against B's lips. "It's getting to my head."

"Me?" A asks. "Are you sure? Out of the billions of people out there, I'm the one you chose to love?"

"I'm not sure how long i can go on for without driving myself insane with all this love for you. Please just... just do with this confession what you will and set me free."

"I like how obsessed with me you are," A smiles. "Makes me feel like the most important person in the whole world."

"Stop smiling. It does things to me I'd rather not talk about."

Romance Masterpost

How to write it

How to write romance

Love Language - Showing, not telling love

Love Language - Showing you care

Honeymoon

Slow burn

Forbidden Romance (+ prompts)

Reasons for a break-up while still loving each other

How to write a wedding

How to create quick chemistry

How to write enemies to lovers (+ prompts)

How to write lovers to enemies to lovers

Arranged matrimony for royalty (+ prompts)

Date gone wrong

Academic rivals to lovers

Romantic Fall Date Ideas

How to write a polyamorous relationship

Milestones in a relationship

How to write age difference

Fluffy Kiss Scene

Reasons a couple would divorce on good terms

Prompt Lists

Romance Prompt List Part I + Part II + Part III + Part IV

Bad ones, unrequited, break-up Part I + Part II

Flirting - Successful and unsuccessful Part I + Part II

Two smart and also stupid people in love

Push and pull romantic prompts

Co-workers - Hate to love

Lovers to enemies

Love to hate relationship

Romantic One-Liners Part I

Smutty One-Liners Part I + Part II + Part III

Physical One-Liners Part I +  Part II

Jealousy + Things said during sex prompts

OTP Christmas Prompts

Fluffy Winter Holiday Prompts

Prompts about kissing

Romance Sentence Starters

Romantic Question Prompts

Domestic Fluff Prompts

Fluff Prompts

Romantic, non-sexual intimacy prompts

OT3 Prompts

OT3 ideas

Royalty Prompts - Loyal companion x Princess Romance

Royalty Prompts - Prince/ss x Commoner - Revealing royal heritage

Royalty Prompts - Knight x Princess

Fake Dating Royalty Prompts

Forbidden royal love prompts

Arranged matrimony for royalty

Arranged Marriage Royalty AU Events

Royal Arranged Marriage Dialogue Prompts

Hurt/Comfort Dialogue Prompts

Hurt/Comfort Prompts

Caring for their partner prompts

Roommates to Lovers Prompts Part I + Part II

Professor/TA Romance

Friends with benefits to lovers Prompts

Flirting Prompts - Oblivious and flirty

Teasing Prompts

Unrequited Love Prompts

Dramatic/Break-up Dialogue Prompts

Romance Dialogue Prompts – Uncomfortable with affection

Matchmaking Prompts

Valentine’s Day Prompts

Fake Dating/Marriage/Engagement Prompts

Fake Dating Dialogue Prompts

Fake Dating AUs

Fake Dating Prompts

Fake Dating Scenarios

Fake Relationship Break-up Prompts

Hand-holding

Kisses

Hugs

Touching

Physical Reactions

Casual Affections

Accidental Kisses

Seeking out physical affection

Love Confessions

Love confession - Screaming at each other

Drunken Love Confessions

Lovers being caught Prompts

Ways to say ‘I love you’

Love Triangle Ideas

Soulmates AUs

Second chance trope

Cooking/Baking Dialogue Prompts

Quiet movie night Prompts

Exes to lovers

Reluctant allies to friends to lovers dynamic

Best friends to lovers Prompts

Childhood friends to lovers Prompts

Co-workers - Hate to love (1 + 2)

Matchmaking at Work Prompts

Secret Dating at Work Prompts

50 Cute Date Ideas

Moving in together

Introducing partner(s) to family

Meeting the family Prompts

Proposal Prompts

Elopement Prompts

Parallel Universe Romance Prompts (x)

Lover being hurt Prompts

Relationship Problems

Relationship Changes

OTP Prompt Challenge

Enemies to Lovers Masterpost

‘Imagine your OTP’ Prompts

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soft prompts to make you yearn

resting your head gently on their shoulder

them running their fingers through your hair

them gently tilting your chin

and looking into your eyes

so that your eyes lock in a deep gaze

placing a soft kiss on their forehead

interlocking your fingers while holding hands

back hugs back hugs back hugs

embracing them from a sudden hug from behind

and whispering in their ears, “i love you,”

soft kisses on both cheeks and tip of the nose.

cupping your face in their hands and them telling you, “you. you are the one i love.”

How to write a kiss scene

requested by: anon request: How do I write a good kiss scene? As how do I describe it? What details or words would make it good?

What goes into the writing of a kiss scene?

details to incorporate:

the sensations in their stomach, their chest, and their knees

the way their breathing changes shortly before the kiss

the feeling of the other's hands

the texture of the other's clothing

the moment they realise they've reached the point of no return

the feeling they're left with after the kiss

words to use...

... to describe the kiss:

tentative

tender

hesitant

quick

soft

gentle

delicate

languid

feathery

familiar

exploring

hungry

heated

fiery

frantic

impatient

sloppy

messy

aggressive

... to describe how they feel about the kiss:

nervous

excited

giddy

anxious

apprehensive

ambiguous

surprised

reassured

certain

confident

relieved

eager

greedy

... to show what the lips do:

exploring each other

brushing over each other

locking

devouring

touching

sealing

pressing against each other

capturing

lapping

tasting

crushing together

travelling (the other's body)

trailing (down to the other's chin)

grinning into the kiss

caressing

lingering

... to show how their body reacts:

feeling warm all over

buzzing

humming

pumping/palpitating heart

clenching lungs

joy bubbling up

tingly stomach

warm chest

burning cheeks

sweaty palms

blood rushing through their veins

... to describe what their hands are doing:

tangling in their lover's hair

wrapping their arms around their lover's neck

intertwining their fingers with their lover

resting on their lover's hips

pressing into their lover's shoulder blades

cupping their lover's cheeks

touching their lover's chin

curling their arm around their lover's waist

resting on their lover's shoulders

grabbing their lover's collar

sneaking up under their lover's shirt

brushing over their lover's bare skin

lightly squeezing their lover's butt

focus on:

the sensations instead of what's physically happening. (the protagonists might very well not know themselves what is happening exactly, but they feel very precisely)

I hope this helps <3