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Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

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How the setting looks in my head:

How the description comes out on the page:

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A very useful demonstration of the importance of sentence length.

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Writing advice from my uni teachers:

If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.

Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.

Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.

Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.

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There'll be a moment when you realise you're 27 when yesterday you were just 17; and you wouldn't be able to tell how a decade passed away and your life got divided into before and afters. The fury of youth will subdue and nothing will really change but everything will feel different when you look at old photographs and blurry videos taken on cheap mobile phones. Scents will remind you of childhood and certain friends you don't talk to anymore, hangouts will become reunions and mom's burnt pie will become the best food you ever had. And I know on some days you won't be able to show anything of those 10 years but I hope you remember to breathe, and let go of the knot in your chest. I hope you go out in the sun and live a little, because tomorrow is 37.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned

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By Yolo Akili on twitter

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im so enamored with stories that portray love as something soft and kind because i do think that love at its core is an act of kindness. its part of the reason i prefer the idea of growing into love instead of falling in love because when i think of growing into love i think of a garden, like love is something to cultivate, to tend to daily, a steady progression of growth with some setbacks, a few dying leaves here and there, having to move to a bigger pot and a spot with more sunshine, but it’s still something that at the end of the month, or a year, or a decade, or a lifetime you can look at and see the product of your dedication, see exactly what it means to pour your heart into something. i just! love reading about kind love!

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the undone cowboy writes to his sweetheart by silas denver melvin (click for better quality)

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so weird how in english some words are really just used in expressions and not otherwise… like has anyone said “havoc” when not using it in the phrase “wreaking havoc”? same goes for “wreaking” actually…

reply with more, i’m fascinated

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I haven’t met all of me yet.

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Body Language around the world.

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I’ve been seeing an increasingly large amount of people get into fic binding lately, which is fucking amazing! I love each and every one of you guerilla publishers! With the history of fandom takedowns, purges, and the bull shit legislation corporations try and start every few years, it’s so good that fics are being given permanency. 

I’ve noticed that fic binders seem to be focused on longer fics, ones in the 50k onward range, which makes sense and is great because these fics absolutely deserve to be put into print! But, the thing is, my favorite fics have almost always been short one-shots, and no one seems to be talking about binding them.

So! I’m gonna show you how to bind short one-shots.

Keep reading

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Dorianne Laux, from Facts About the Moon

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so weird how in english some words are really just used in expressions and not otherwise… like has anyone said “havoc” when not using it in the phrase “wreaking havoc”? same goes for “wreaking” actually…

reply with more, i’m fascinated

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Writing Prompts

1. “I’m not taking advice from someone who ran into a door once.”

2. “Have y’all ever heard the concept of teamwork before?”

3. “Repeat after me. ‘I love myself because I’m rad as hell.’”

4. “You’re just jealous of my exquisite outfit!”

5. “No! Come back here! I am going to make you look elegant!”

6. “I dunno man, I just think the aliens are out there. They probably have really cute alien dogs too.”

7. “Over yonder, into the forest as thick as the ocean itself, lies the truth. The truth of the kingdom.”

8. “So, we are pirates now? I guess that’s pretty cool. I’m down.”

9. “I said, I LOVE YOU AND YOUR FACE!”

10. “The wedding is taking place at a lazer tag arena.”

11. “I’m here to pick up my dog, their name is Carrot.”

12. “I bet you couldn’t go one day without saying that word.”

13. “Ever wondered what it would be like to be a tree?”

14. “Interesting, I never did look at it from that angle before. How peculiar indeed.”

15. “I AM GOING TO YELL NICE THINGS AT YOU! I LOVE YOUR HAIR! IT IS VERY SHINY!”

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Ooh neat idea to use:

Fae/elves/etc that are very poison proof. One of the reasons you shouldn’t eat their food is because 80% of their diet is deadly poisonous to humans.

The main reason to do this? So you can draw deadly plants and fungi that look really cool and colorful and wild in the food. Something that looks super tasty but which you obviously know by looking is deadly.