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#Prep_toberChallenge Day 4: How You Plan Outlining my ass off this year! This involves creating a story codex for world mechanics, characters, magic system, etc., a digital scene outline, and a timeline/time-braid with Dan Wells' seven-point story structure applied to main plot, subplots, internal arc, antagonist + secondary characters, and backstory. It's working brilliantly so far! https://www.instagram.com/p/Boh4eazF-pGY5Fz_TqpfS4g0eOtyWqWxQQuqHA0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=zkrg2cwj574o

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I don’t think anyone really knows how a story takes shape… There is a before, made up of fragments of memory, and an after, when the story begins… My mother liked to use the word frantumaglia—bits and pieces of uncertain origin which rattle around in your head, not always comfortably.

A Paris Review interview with Elena Ferrante.

For more celebrated writers’ insight into the craft, go here. 

(via explore-blog)

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HK Project 

developed by Koola & Viv  |  Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux  

A cat adventure game set in a city inspired by Kowloon.  It’s still in really early development, you can follow the dev log here.  

via PixelProspector

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She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.

Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl who circumvented Fairyland in a ship of her own making (via bookaddictiion)

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We say we are all equal in Bar-Selehm, but you know as well as I do that that is not even close to being true. You cannot simply take people’s land, property, freedom from them and then, a couple of hundred years later, when you have built up your industries and your schools and your armies, pronounce them equals. And even when you pretend it is true, you do not change the hearts of men, and a great deal of small horrors have to be ignored, hidden, if the myth of equality is to be sustained.

Mahweni Nation head Farrstanga Sohwetti, in Steeplejack (2016) by A.J. Hartley (via beyondvictoriana)

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Previously, I’d only seen the first two panels and assumed it was the complete comic.

This version is much better.

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cc: @slow-motion-shadow

Boston Dynamics’ latest giraffe robot is just trying its best, you guys

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There’s a cryptid personality quiz created by the cryptid wiki people! if you have ever dreamed of knowing which cryptid you would be, now’s the time. I got ahool, put your results in the tags :^)

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Democrats in the House of Representatives continued their sit-in overnight and into Thursday morning, calling for votes on gun control — despite the fact that in the middle of the night, the GOP defied the protest to pass a Zika funding bill and then adjourn for July Fourth.

The sit-in began before noon on Wednesday, when House Democrats took to the floor. Chanting “No Bill, No Break” and waving posters with the names of victims of gun violence, the Democrats vowed to allow no House business to happen until there were votes on two gun control measures.

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan quickly called the House into a recess and turned off the video cameras on the House floor, saying that is standard practice during a recess. (The AP notes there was a House protest in 2008, when Republican representatives occupied the floor and called for a vote to expand oil and gas drilling. During that protest, then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi similarly called a recess and turned the cameras off.)

House Democrats Continue Gun Control Sit-In

Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images Charles Bolden, staff assistant of Rep. Robin Kelly (D-IL), holds a poster with pictures of gun violence victims from Chicago on Wednesday.

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Paris Smart City 2050

by Vincent Callebaut

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Constance Wu talking about meeting with Asian-American writers

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Watch: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s UPenn commencement speech will move you to tears.

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Yesss, teach me your secrets, olfies.

PBS NewsHour has a new science video series called ScienceScope - and their first episode is all about smells!

Scientists, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the White House Brain Initiative, are trying to understand how smells travel, and how we detect them. They simulate the turbulent wafting of an order with dye in water. The hope is that this research will lead to smell-detecting robots that could replace search dogs. 

Images courtesy of PBS NewsHour/Brian Gill/Nsikan Akpan

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Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love and love cannot be killed or swept aside

Lin Manuel Miranda (2016 Tony Awards)

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Tom Licence has a Ph.D., and he’s a garbage man.

When you think of archaeology, you might think of Roman ruins, ancient Egypt or Indiana Jones. But Licence works in the field of “garbology.” While some may dig deep down to get to the good stuff — ancient tombs, residences, bones — Licence looks at the top layers, which, where he lives in England, are filled with Victorian-era garbage.

Studying what people threw away 150 years ago, Licence is getting to the bottom of an important issue: how much we throw away, and how to change that.

“We dig up rubbish,” says Licence, who is the director of the Centre of East Anglian Studies at the University of East Anglia. (His doctorate is in history.) “We’re interested in what people threw away and how we became a throwaway society.”

Digging Up The Roots Of Modern Waste In Victorian-Era Rubbish

Photos: Rich Preston/NPR, Lauren Frayer for NPR, Courtesy of the Museum of Brands, Packaging & Advertising