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Hozier - Francesca

❝ My life was a storm, since I was born, how could I fear any hurricane? ❞

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HOUSE M.D. 2.17 — All In

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Bothering the beast

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The Princess Diaries (2001) // The Kelly Clarkson Show (2024)

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A MOMENT OF ROMANCE 天若有情 (1990), dir. Benny Chan

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Peter Ferguson (Canadian, 1968) - The Grotto at St. Michel (n.d.)

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local woman died and came back wrong. for attention.

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Paul "I-won't-take-it-personally" Atreides

Dune (2021) / Dune: Part Two (2024)

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no idea if it's my hormones, what I've seen in the news lately, the weight of living the past few years, or just because it's Judi Dench...but this impromptu performance really made me cry for a good ten minutes, no kidding.

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making a collection

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by Tim Allott

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i got three sets of beta notes back!

and it's looking like there are no major overhauls needed! which i was worried about like imagine doing a complete rewrite of a book and then needing basically another one like i was paranoid lol.

i need to dramatize three scenes (without increasing my word count lmao good luck future me) instead of summarizing like i have them now. i need to show more about my FMC's parental relationships. i need to make my villain's reasons for doing a couple of things more clear (without giving it away completely). i have some clarity things to tackle. i need to tighten/streamline chapters 3, 5, and 7 (3 & 7 were brought up by one beta and 5 was brought up by a different beta and it was a chapter i was thinking about rewriting before i sent things off). and i love fragments too much (this is true i really do but there's just too many lmao).

2/3 find the last chapter to be a solid close while 1 feels like it's not quite an ending which is what i was unsure about before sending so i'll wait and see what one more person says (there are people reading who just wanted to read without swapping anything and i wasn't expecting anything back from them tbh, but one said they were late but still planned to finish so i'll see how they feel about it). this is one thing i'd have to brainstorm to figure out how to fix while the others above i know pretty much what to do.

two of them said that they towards the end and just started reading????? and forgot to critique?????? including one saying they got to the last five chapters and read it in one sitting (all of my chapters except the 1st one are like bare minimum 3k words) ????????? these bigger plot point chapters i have seem to be doing exactly what i need them to (all three called out each of them which is exciting!). everyone seems to like my characters, the plot, and the world overall.

so overall, i have some work to do, but the rewrite def seems to have fixed any major, major issues (i never got betas for that first draft as it was but there were def major major issues lol). i was going to leave the line edits and going from 104k/105k to 99k (...or trying to lmao good luck future me [2]) until after the next beta round (the goal is to send it off at the end of may) when it's just me left, but i think i'll do some of it before then. anyway, i feel pretty good and will prob write out like my more concrete plans/chapter-by-chapter plans starting on the 1st.

hope you (and your own writing) are doing well! <3

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Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

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One massive, legitimate way to improve as a writer or artist or in any creative endeavor really, is to become absolutely obsessed with something and to allow yourself to be weird about it. Genuinely mean this btw.

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obsessed with this letterboxd review for CHALLENGERS (2024) by rocky/WAYSTIAR