WRITING ADVICE

"Always carry a notebook so you can write down ideas." Ram Arora (wrote this in his own words from ”Will Self”)

"Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money." - Jonathan Franzen (Shared by Collin Marshall)

"If you have an idea, write it down immediately. If you don’t write it, it could slip from your mind as easily as it could enter." - Jacob Worwa

"Invent the past. Worlds don't spring up out of nothing.  However things are, they used to be another way, and somehow they got from there to here." - Orson Scott Card on Creating Worlds. (Shared by Daniel Jungwirth)

"Become a killer of clichés. Clichés are predictable and cheapen your writing. Hunt down and kill any clichés. Be ruthless." - Mary Jaksch (Shared by Nithya Atla)

"Make your words sound natural." - Mary Jaksch, WritetoDone.com (Shared by Kaylee Chen)

"Let your writing be full, wild, and bad: the badder, the better." -Mary Jakcsh (Shared by Ahan Devgun)

"Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose." - Elmore Leonard (Shared by Sophia Reed)

"The adverb is not your friend"- Stephen King (found by Daniel Jungwirth and Ahan Devgun.)

“A writer gets to live yet another life every time she creates a new story.” - Pawan Mishra (Found  by Katie Sitrin)

"Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you." — Zadie Smith (Shared by Sabreen Khanikar)

The End by Kaylee Chen

This poem starts at the

                        End.

                                I am the poem.

I am The End.

            I would like to meet The Beginning

                                         I dream a lot about…

… The Beginning.

                            I wonder what she looks like,

...The Beginning.

                              The End

My Notebook by Kaylee Chen

This is my notebook.

                   I bring it everywhere.

                                                I write in it.

                                                          I express myself.

                                                                          I enjoy it a lot.

                            Sometimes

                                     It

                              Gets

                                     Boring,

Though.

                       My Notebook.

Provocative Sentence by Ahan Devgun

In the middle of the mist, I see magic in the moon.

Elements by Ahan Devgun

There have been elements

Since the beginning of time

Fire

A flame engulfing everything in its path

Nature

A flower sprouting in the springtime

Water

Raindrops dripping onto a wild and free lake

Air

A strong breeze giving life and hope to the world

Metal

A strong force that can’t be destroyed

Chaos

A wild force engulfing everything in its path

Yet there is one force that always survives

Order

They only thing keeping every element from being too wild

Potions I Loved From the HARRY POTTER Books by Mark Li

Felix felicis

difficulty: advanced

Add Ashwinder egg to a cauldron, then add horseradish and heat.
Juice a squill bulb, add to the cauldron and stir vigorously.
Chop up anemone-like growth on the back of Murtlap, add to mixture and heat.
Add a dash of tincture of thyme and stir slowly.
Grind up Occamy eggshell and add to mixture.
Stir slowly then heat the cauldron.
Add a sprinkle of powdered common rue.
Stir vigorously then heat the cauldron one last time.
Wave wand over potion in a figure of eight and say incantation ‘Felixempra!’

Draught of living death

difficulty: advanced

Add the infusion of Wormwood.
Add the powdered root of asphodel.
Stir twice clockwise.(thirteen should be used)
Add the sloth brain.
Add the Sopophorous bean’s juice.(crush using a silver dagger)
Stir seven times anti-clockwise.(Stir seven times anti-clockwise and add a clockwise stir)

Antidote to common poisons

difficulty: easy

Add 1 Bezoar to the mortar
Crush into a very fine powder using the pestle
Add 4 measures of the crushed Bezoar to your cauldron
Add 2 measures of Standard ingredient to your cauldron
Heat to a medium temperature for 5 seconds
Wave your wand
Leave to brew and return in 40 minutes with Pewter Cauldron, 34 minutes with Brass cauldron and 30 minutes with copper cauldron.

8. Add 1 pinch of Unicorn Horns to your cauldron
9. Stir 2 times, clockwise
10. Add 2 Mistletoe Berries to your cauldron
11. Stir 2 times, anti-clockwise
12. Wave your wand to complete the potion

Drink of despair

difficulty: astronomically hard (banned)

Pour Moonseed Poison into an iron cauldron and bring to a rapid boil
Grind dried Deadlyius Mushrooms into a fine powder and mix with Witch's Mummy Dust
Add powdered ingredients to boiling cauldron and stir erratically until dissolved
Remove cauldron from heat and allow to cool undisturbed to lukewarm
Place cauldron into ice and wait for the Moonseed's white glow to intensify
Stir the essence of Hemlock into the cauldron, stirring rapidly to prevent the formation of ice crystals
While still stirring, add the drops of Vitriol quickly and step back from the cauldron
The mixture should turn a bright emerald green while smoking violently. if the cauldron is not sufficiently cooled, the potion will bubble and spit - if not outright explode into a cloud of noxious fumes
if correctly brewed, the potion will freeze over before an explosive reaction can occur
Remove from ice and leave to warm to room temperature before decanting into a stoneware bottle

Elixir to induce Euphoria

difficulty: advanced

Add Shrivelfig
Add Porcupine quills
Stir four times anti-clockwise
Add a sprig of Peppermint to counteract side-effects
Add Sopophorous beans
Add Wormwood

Stir six times anti-clockwise

Love potion antidote

difficulty: advanced

Add four Wiggentree twigs, or until the potion turns green.
Stir until the potion turns orange.
Add castor oil until the potion turns blue.
Stir until the potion turns purple.
Add extract of Gurdyroot until the potion turns red.

Add Wiggentree twigs.
Add Extract of Gurdyroot until the potion turns purple.
Leave the potion to simmer till it turns red.
Add more gurdyroot extract till it turns green.
10. Stir till it turns orange.
11. Add seven Wiggentree twigs.
12. Allow to simmer till it turns pink.

Shrinking solution

difficulty: easy-o.w.l

Add five sliced caterpillars.

Heat till the potion turns red.
Shake the peeled Shrivelfig until it is ready (this is extra important, as if one tries to add it before it is ready the potion may emit noxious green gases).
Add peeled Shrivelfig until the potion turns yellow.
Allow the potion to simmer till it turns purple.
Add four rat spleens to the cauldron.
Add the minced daisy roots till it turns green.
Add five drops of leech juice.
Add more of the Shrivelfig, this time till it turns pink.
Add one sliced caterpillar.
Allow the potion to simmer till it turns green.

Polyjuice potion

difficulty: advanced(banned)

Add 3 measures of fluxweed to the cauldron (must have been picked on a full moon).
Add 2 bundles of knotgrass to the cauldron.
Stir 4 times, clockwise.
Wave your wand then let potion brew for 80 minutes (for a Pewter Cauldron. A Brass Cauldron will only require 68, and a copper one only 60.)
Add 4 leeches to the cauldron.
Add 2 scoops of lacewing flies to the mortar, crush to a fine paste, then add 2 measures of the crushed lacewings to the cauldron.
Heat for 30 seconds on a low heat.
Wave your wand to complete this stage of the potion.
Add 3 measures of boomslang skin to the cauldron.
Add 1 measure of bicorn horn to the mortar, crush to a fine powder, then add one measure of the crushed horn to the cauldron.
Heat for 20 seconds at a high temperature.
Wave your wand then let potion brew for 24 hours (for a Pewter Cauldron. A Brass Cauldron will only require 1224 minutes, and a copper one only 18 hours.)
Add 1 additional scoop of lacewings to the cauldron.
Stir 3 times, counter-clockwise.
Split potion into multiple doses, if desired, then add the pieces of the person you wish to become.
Wave your wand to complete the potion

Veritaserum

difficulty: astronomically hard

On the day of the new moon, pour Standard Potioning Water into an iron cauldron and bring to a simmer
Pour Vial of Ptolemy into cauldron with an anti-clockwise motion and allow to simmer for ten minutes
Stir Powdered Moonstone into the mixture one spoonful at a time, dissolving thoroughly
While the mixture simmers, carefully slice Adder's Fork lengthwise to divide the tongue into halves and drop into cauldron
Raise heat and bring mixture to a rolling boil
Drop Jobberknoll Feathers into cauldron, stirring clockwise one time between each feather
Remove cauldron from flame upon reaching a rolling boil
Quickly crush Sopophorous Beans with the flat of the blade of a silver knife and add to the mixture
Allow mixture to cool before straining into a bottle for maturation
Leave bottle in a dark, cool undisturbed location for the duration of the cycle
On the night of the full moon, place bottle in the moonlight to absorb the light
if this last step cannot be performed due to weather conditions, the potency will suffer to a degree

All of the above are taken from the following:

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) - GBA version Pottermore

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game) Mentioned in a broadcast of Potterwatch.

http://wandw.wikidot.com/potion:drink-of-despair :Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 18 (Birthday Surprises), Chapter 24 (Sectumsempra)

Wonderbook: Book of Potions; Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 9 (The Half-Blood Prince), Chapter 14 (Felix Felicis), Chapter 22 (After the Burial), Chapter 25 (The Seer Overheard)

Wonderbook: Book of Potions; Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 1 (Owl Post), Book of Potions - Chapter 4 (Beautification Potion), Half-Blood Prince (video game)

Writing by J.K. Rowling: "Polyjuice Potion" at Pottermore - J.K. Rowling's Thoughts; Pottermore, Chapter 12, Moment 2 - Polyjuice Potion; Goblet of Fire; Deathly Hallows, Chapter 5 (Fallen Warrior)

The glass house part 7 by Ahan Devgun

I was out in the fields of my childhood. I was skipping in a field using my air powers to float even higher.

“Aelysthesia, Aelysthesia.” My grandmother called me inside for dinner.

I started to race back to my grandmother’s tiny cottage in the middle of a field of emerald grass and ruby-red flowers, but suddenly the field started to catch on fire.

I saw dark haired elves bombing our fields. I started racing back to my home to warn my grandmother but suddenly the grass lit up in a wildfire. I ran faster and faster until I reached my grandmother’s house.

Suddenly there was an shriek inside the house. I quickly rushed in and my grandmother was trying to fight off three dark elves.

“Aelysthesia, my little wind girl, stay back.” Suddenly one of the dark elves used a trick that made my grandma fall to the floor.

“No, this can’t be happening.” My eyes widened in shock. My grandmother was dead.

Suddenly the dark elf who killed my grandma turned to another elf and said, “should we kill her?”

“No, she will be killed by the flames anyway, we shouldn’t displease the elf lord by getting blood on our hands.