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Your love for me

How wonderful is your way of loving me.. You ignore me when I 'm around. You don't bother to call me. You don't care that I am angry or upset. You always forget to tell me when you reach home. You don't give me any present on my birthday anymore. You are almost always busy. You don't tell me any of your feelings. What a great love that you don't need me to be with you. You just say I love you too and wise as I am I always believe it.

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"I should listen to my heart"

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Even if you are the reason behind my tears

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No. Thanks for asking.

Are you okay?

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Yet they never come

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How dumb are you?

"I love someone who forgets about me the moment I disappear from his view"

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Happy Birthday Kim Tae Hyung Shi❤️

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Is this her picture you use?

anyway who wants to see The Nightmare Salamander that slithers in through my ear every night to feast upon my dream and memories?

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Yes..finally.... .my interest....Human Pikachu..

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Oh my god..."with stones as breasts"

Loki was fully capable of transforming into Frezya but he chose to make Thor the bride while he became her friend.

Tell me he did not do this for humour.

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I didn't know that...thats even funnier...considering Heimdall

Loki was fully capable of transforming into Frezya but he chose to make Thor the bride while he became her friend.

Tell me he did not do this for humour.

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Hey thanks for the tip on Sangorski's Morte D'Arthur at the end of Chivalry, I found a copy of it on the internet and honestly, even knowing what it would be, I remain astonished that such a book even exists. I have collected Arthur books for years and Sangorski's is now maybe the most beautiful thing I own. And the cover is so comparatively unassuming, I can only imagine how it must have felt for you to have found it in the wild and to have opened up to those pages without any warning at all. Thank you also for Chivalry, of course. I read it the moment I opened the box weeks ago and slept with it under my pillow that night, which is a response to the work I do not fully understand. I carried it around for a few days after. I remain at a loss for words. Maybe someday I'll figure out something coherent to say. All else notwithstanding, I suppose I will say it was a shock for me to see the Hope-Moncrieff volume on page 3. I bought that very edition of Romance and Legend of Chivalry a few years ago, the set of which it is a part is one of the great jewels of the book collection. Your rendering of the cover is amazingly faithful.

This is one of the best compliments I have ever received.

Thank you.

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Good Canada👍

They are ending the blood donation ban for men who have sex with men.

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For Novice Writers: the quick test for Are You Being Scammed Or Not...

I read a sad case today of a young writer who had had her story rewritten into illiteracy by a so-called publisher, who then abused her in email when she wrote to complain. She wsn’t getting paid for her story – instead she was actually buying copies of the anthology to show people that she had sold a story. And I thought, it is time to remind the world, and to enlighten young writers, about…

Yog’s Law: 

Money flows towards the writer.

That’s all. All writers should remember it.  When a commercial publisher contracts a book, it will pay an advance against royalties to the writer. Money flows towards the writer. Literary agents make their living by charging a commission of between 10 and 20% on the sales that they make on behalf of their clients, the writers. When advances and royalties are paid by a publisher the agent’s percentage is filtered off in the direction of the writer’s agent but the bulk of the money still flows towards the writer. If a publisher ever asks for any sort of financial contribution from a writer, they’re trying to divert money away from the writer, in direct contravention of Yog’s Law. If an agent ever asks for up-front fees, regardless of what they call them (reading fees, administration costs, processing fees, or retainers), then they are trying to divert money away from the writer, in direct contravention of Yog’s Law. It’s a brilliantly simple rule. We should thank James D Macdonald for it in the best way there is. Buy his books

Money flows toward the writer.

No, that doesn’t mean that the author should get paper and ink for free, or that he won’t pay for postage. It does mean that when someone comes along and says, “Sure, kid, you can be a Published Author! It’ll only cost you $300!” the writer will know that something’s wrong. A fee is a fee is a fee, whether they call it a reading fee, a marketing fee, a promotion fee, or a cheese-and-crackers fee.

Is this perfect? No. Scammers have come up with some elaborate ways to avoid activating it. But it’s still a good and useful tool, and will save a lot of grief. Any time an agent or publisher asks for money, the answer should be “No!”

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WEBSITES FOR WRITERS {masterpost}

E.A. Deverell - FREE worksheets (characters, world building, narrator, etc.) and paid courses;

Hiveword - Helps to research any topic to write about (has other resources, too);

BetaBooks - Share your draft with your beta reader (can be more than one), and see where they stopped reading, their comments, etc.;

Charlotte Dillon - Research links;

Writing realistic injuries - The title is pretty self-explanatory: while writing about an injury, take a look at this useful website;

One Stop for Writers - You guys... this website has literally everything we need: a) Description thesaurus collection, b) Character builder, c) Story maps, d) Scene maps & timelines, e) World building surveys, f) Worksheets, f) Tutorials, and much more! Although it has a paid plan ($90/year | $50/6 months | $9/month), you can still get a 2-week FREE trial;

One Stop for Writers Roadmap - It has many tips for you, divided into three different topics: a) How to plan a story, b) How to write a story, c) How to revise a story. The best thing about this? It's FREE!

Story Structure Database - The Story Structure Database is an archive of books and movies, recording all their major plot points;

National Centre for Writing - FREE worksheets and writing courses. Has also paid courses;

Penguin Random House - Has some writing contests and great opportunities;

Crime Reads - Get inspired before writing a crime scene;

The Creative Academy for Writers - "Writers helping writers along every step of the path to publication." It's FREE and has ZOOM writing rooms;

Reedsy - "A trusted place to learn how to successfully publish your book" It has many tips, and tools (generators), contests, prompts lists, etc. FREE;

QueryTracker - Find agents for your books (personally, I've never used this before, but I thought I should feature it here);

Pacemaker - Track your goals (example: Write 50K words - then, everytime you write, you track the number of the words, and it will make a graphic for you with your progress). It's FREE but has a paid plan;

Save the Cat! - The blog of the most known storytelling method. You can find posts, sheets, a software (student discount - 70%), and other things;

I hope this is helpful for you!

(Also, check my blog if you want to!)

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One of the major differences between a pet dog and a cat is that you train the dog while the cat trains you😼🐶