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Sweater Weather by Gabriela Tulian on Flickr.

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Magical stained glass

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I can’t begin to express my gratitude to Sadie and Dylan for giving us everything they had in order to tell this story. All Too Well The Short Film is out on YouTube, and showing all week at the AMC 13 theater in NYC. For you, from us.

http://taylor.lnk.to/ATWshortfilm

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Sarah West

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Instagram credit: autumns.mum

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Bejeweled video is out NOW! Directed by this tired tacky wench. Got to make this with my best friends The Haim Sisters, greatest of greats Laura Dern, icon of burlesque and glamour Dita Von Teese, genius and actual dame Pat McGrath and my partner in Midnights mayhem Jack Antonoff. Love you guys so much. Stay sparkly out there. 😘

http://taylor.lnk.to/bejeweledmusicvideo

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I’m enchanted to announce my next tour:  Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour, a journey through the musical eras of my career (past and present!) The first leg of the tour will be in stadiums across the US, with international dates to be announced as soon as we can! Feeling like the luckiest person alive because I get to take these brilliant artists out on tour with me: Paramore, beabadoobee, Phoebe Bridgers, girl in red, MUNA, HAIM, GAYLE, Gracie Abrams and OWENN. I can’t WAIT to see your gorgeous faces out there. It’s been a long time coming 🥰

https://verifiedfan.ticketmaster.com/TaylorSwiftTix

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I’ve been watching and reading craft advice for a long time now, and in my experience the writing community does not talk about clarity enough. Prose seems to take a back seat in general, but it wasn’t until a couple of years ago that one of my favorite writing Youtubers even talked about clarity.

Clear prose is everything. It’s step one. If you’re not writing sentences people can understand, that then becomes paragraphs people understand etc, you’re not getting anywhere. In fact, you’re failing in one of the few ways a writer can actually fail. But that’s okay, because conveying ideas clearly is a challenge we take for granted. We like to hop right to the complicated stuff and want to skim past the fundamentals as fast as we can. Guitarists have a similar problem–proper strumming technique and chord changes are sped through to get to the shredding part asap.

It’s not sexy, but if I was gonna tell absolute beginner writers anything it would be: forget that big, complicated world you’ve been daydreaming about, forget that huge cast of deeply developed characters you’ve been building, forget all the long, glorious, complicated, poetical sentences you’ve aspired to write. Forget all of that for now. 

Write something that makes sense on the sentence level. Work on communicating images and actions clearly. Work on basic cause and effect. Character A moves, Character B reacts to the movement. (Tons of new writers reverse the causal order more often than you think.) Clear motions, clear reactions, clear motivations, clear emotions, clear development.

The first thing Aaron Sorkin asks someone who’s just read his last work-in-progress is: “Did you understand it?” Not because he fancies himself such an intelligent/complicated/high-minded author, that’s not what he’s asking. He asks if they understood the story as he intended to tell it, if it made basic sense, and if any part confused them. Even after everything he’s written, he still prioritizes clarity.    

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Hey you -

Yes YOU.

It's OK- you're doing what you can, and you deserve to be happy.

Take a deep breath

Hold it

Let it out slowly.

Now go be weird and wonderful ✨️

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Scotland // Marina Weishaupt

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11/14/22 — some pictures that make it look like i’m not counting down the days until late March when the sun comes back

📖 To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

i also just did a really interesting Berkeley reading about calculus & god, so sometimes i don’t HATE the history of math aspect of my major

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day 12 of my autumn studying challenge!:

• do you have any studying methods you use? if so, share them with us (please *sobs*)!

writing is the only method i know :(. i can remember if i write what i’m learning and it also helps to read it out loud as if giving lecture. and that’s it *sobs again*.

-> today i just revisited some notes before my mid-term and let me tell you this: i rocked it ehehehe! then i treated myself with a filter coffee with millk before the next class :].

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Making a sketch (wireframe) of what my new project for my challenge will be! Creating a wireframe when making a webpage is important! You already do it in your head whenever you think "How do I want to design this page?" But what is a wireframe exactly in web design?

It's a 2D illustration of a page's interface that specifically focuses on:

- The space allocation and prioritization of content

- Functionalities available

- The intended behaviors of the page

Having a wireframe allows you to stick to your design plans and not go off on a tangent. In the workplace, this is used when the client gives you a set of requirements and the wireframe is the reference to those requirements and not just you adding things that the client didn't ask.

It's just one way to stay organised when developing your project!