Hey young writers! So, my admin. assist. (KelseyDragon17) and I were thinking: “What should our first post be?” We figured it had to be important. Nope. We decided to take a little different direction on this one. Do we think this is important? Heck yeah! So start taking some notes and save this for later because you are going to hear and see a lot of these terms on this site. Some pertain to writing, and some are just random nonsense that we still use on here because we cray cray. 😛

Writing Lingo 101

(a brief course on writing terms and abbreviations, as used by Young Writers’ Draft):

***Warning! Hashtags may be included as vital terms of communication between young writers!!!***

1. #canteven = this can mean something is so good that you can’t mentally process it, or it’s so bad that you don’t want to deal with it because it stresses you out. This can also be used interchangeably with #imdead or just #dead.
2. Character Phenotype Profile = This is the physical description of how a character looks. For example, a character’s height, eye color, hair color, etc.
3. Character Profile = This is a collection of your character’s likes, dislikes, basic information…basically, it’s everything your character would put in their About section if they had Facebook (which is actually possible and a useful character development tool, but we’ll get to that later…).
4. Character Sketch = this is a drawing of your character.
5. Concept/Story Art = This is art that depicts, inspires, or is based on your story.
6. CCR = Contemporary Christian Romance. This is a term used to describe a story that is set in present times and is a Christian romance story.
7. FF = Fan Fiction or Fantasy Fiction. Fan fiction is usually stories or excerpts based on popular book series written by fans. Fantasy fiction are stories that have magical/supernatural elements to them. Sometimes fantasy fiction stories take place in made-up worlds or places. You can decide which term is being used by looking at the context of the specific situation.
8. inspo = inspiration/ideas for story writing.
9. MAGIC = basically anything we deem is well-written, cool, amazing, terrific, rad…you get the idea.
10. POV = point of view. This term is used to describe the point of view of which something is written (1st, 2nd, 3rd person, etc.). There are some variations of this one that we will use. For example, “I wrote this scene in 3rdPL POV”. What does that mean? Well it means I wrote that scene in third (3rd) person (P) limited (L) point of view (POV).
11. #thefeelsarereal = The piece or writing I just read/wrote is very heartfelt and sweet. <3
12. THE STRUGGLE IS REAL = having a bad writing day. It’s even worse if it’s in all caps.
13. #YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS = our stamp of approval.
14. #whateven = what is happening? how did that happen? what the heck? That is unfair.
15. #writingwin = you didn’t fall apart writing your story today and actually accomplished something you had set out to do. For example, “I finished writing the second chapter of my book today! #writingwin”.

That’s about all for now. We use a lot of terms/phrases, but these are some of the ones that are used the most often. There will be a quiz on all of this later in life. Jk, jk, but at least now you know how to decipher our crazy writing lingo on here and therefore, maximize your understanding of what we are actually talking about in our posts. 😛

Til next time!

–YW (Young Writer)