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Jack:  Seriously?

I love the face Jack pulls when meeting Warwick Hamilton in S2 E2 Death Comes Knocking.  Confess I felt the same when Warwick became a marcher in Phryne’s “parade”.  Not one of her better choices, though I suppose he could be rated slightly above GtG in Deadweight or the Slave Leader from Framed For Murder. 

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Movies About Writers!

Hey, Tumblr followers! (All three of you. :P) For reasons, I am making a list of reasons that most movies about writers suck, and I would love for other writers to weigh in.

Here’s what I have so far:

1. They never actually write.

2. They never struggle, or they only struggle in the first ten minutes of the movie.

3. Most of these movies are about dudes.

4. They’re often portrayed as crazy and/or pathetic. 

What about you? What bothers you when you see writers portrayed in film and on TV?

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Phryne ‘attacking’ Jack in Ruddy Gore, for izzyandlouie. :)  I love this scene, when his breath stirs her hair. Yowza.

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A Special Wine

Now this… is a very special wine

Well, it’s more like grape juice at this stage but… it’s special, nonetheless

May I ask what’s so special about this wine?

-I crushed it myself.

-What with?

-With my feet. Mainly.

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Whenever I write, my writing feels clunky. Like, I'll want to write a character going through a rough time, but it just comes out "he was sad, he moved on." I feel like when a writer I admire writes like something like that, there is an element gained and it stays with the character/ story. Is this something that will get better in time, or is there something i'm missing? btw love your blog

I can promise you everyone’s writing is clunky in the beginning. Many of us here at FYWH have spent weeks or months on different drafts until we’re “happy” with it–and by happy I mean not completely disgusted.

Now, it sounds like the writers you admire have a particular style, but it may not be the style you naturally gravitate towards in your own writing. I love Virginia Woolf, but if I try to emulate her style it reads like a monkey flinging shit against a wall. 

Without a doubt, one of the hardest parts of being a writer is finding your own voice and making your own stylistic choices. Your voice as a writer is as unique as a fingerprint and the only way you find it is to keep writing, especially when it’s clunky. Sometimes, when I’m struggling with this, I’ll stop and say out loud:

 What the fuck am I trying to say?*

And then type as I speak my response. It helps me get something down that I can work with and it’s always a better, more stylistically consistent, version of whatever horrific word vomit I had been agonizing over.

-Graphei

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Joey

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For god’s sake just kiss her!

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What people think writing is like: careful planning and thought out plotlines

What writing is actually like: being possessed by an idea that you are constantly arguing with

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*hearteyes*

November 2nd

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Fall loving kittens.

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The fabulous Miss Phryne Fisher everyone :)