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this reddit thread of living your silliest life is so so good

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Your first draft is not shit or hot garbage

It's compost, and you just gotta let it sit to ferment and rot in order to get good soil to write your next draft.

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Human beings b like. *sits and stares peacefully at a fire* *sits and stares peacefully at the ocean* *sits and stares peacefully at a sleeping animal*

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I have … a tip.

If you’re writing something that involves an aspect of life that you have not experienced, you obviously have to do research on it. You have to find other examples of it in order to accurately incorporate it into your story realistically.

But don’t just look at professional write ups. Don’t stop at wikepedia or webMD. Look up first person accounts.

I wrote a fic once where a character has frequent seizures. Naturally, I was all over the wikipedia page for seizures, the related pages, other medical websites, etc.

But I also looked at Yahoo asks where people where asking more obscure questions, sometimes asked by people who were experiencing seizures, sometimes answered by people who have had seizures.

I looked to YouTube. Found a few individual videos of people detailing how their seizures usually played out. So found a few channels that were mostly dedicated to displaying the daily habits of someone who was epileptic.

I looked at blogs and articles written by people who have had seizures regularly for as long as they can remember. But I also read the frantic posts from people who were newly diagnosed or had only had one and were worried about another.

When I wrote that fic, I got a comment from someone saying that I had touched upon aspects of movement disorders that they had never seen portrayed in media and that they had found representation in my art that they just never had before. And I think it’s because of the details. The little things.

The wiki page for seizures tells you the technicalities of it all, the terminology. It tells you what can cause them and what the symptoms are. It tells you how to deal with them, how to prevent them.

But it doesn’t tell you how some people with seizures are wary of holding sharp objects or hot liquids. It doesn’t tell you how epileptics feel when they’ve just found out that they’re prone to fits. It doesn’t tell you how their friends and family react to the news.

This applies to any and all writing. And any and all subjects. Disabilities. Sexualities. Ethnicities. Cultures. Professions. Hobbies. Traumas. If you haven’t experienced something first hand, talk to people that have. Listen to people that have. Don’t stop at the scholarly sources. They don’t always have all that you need.

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"Stop saying 15 year olds with weird interests are cringe, they're 15" this is true however you should also stop saying adults with weird interests are cringe because who gives a shit

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1850s Tumblr Dashboard Simulator

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It really makes me sick to see people giving money to penny weeklies when Franklin's expedition STILL has not been found 😭 There are good men out there trapped in unimaginable temperatures and literally all that's needed is a little more funding for another rescue mission yet all you guys seem to care about are your vulgar little stories...

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the franklin expedition is dead as hell

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Disgraceful thing to say but I'd expect nothing less from a M*lville fan

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Sorry for posting so much about Tom Gradgrind/James Harthouse from Hard Times lately. It turns out that I was getting arsenic poisoning from my wallpaper? Anyway I took a seaside stroll and I'm normal now. Check your walls y'all

#whyyy did i assume they were committing unlawful actions together like where did i even get that from lol #hard times isn't even that good by dickens standards tbh

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Just painted this

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RIP Napoleon... you may have been unable to conquer Alexander's Russia but you sure as hell conquered Alexander's bed

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HERITAGE POST

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How does this have less than 100k notes you could literally not avoid this post back in the 20s lol

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poets just aren't dying young in mysterious water-related incidents like they used to :/

#as useless and degenerate as i find 'the living poets' and i'm glad we're finally moving on from them #i have to agree with op in this respect

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I finally got a daguerreotype of myself ^_^ Porcelain urn for scaling

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i think i hauve consumption

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They found oil in the ground??? WTF. THIS IS LITERALLY THE WORSTTTT. FUCK MY LIFE FOR REAL THIS TIME

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I swear this website has 0 reading comprehension skills. Darwin NEVER claimed we "evolved" from apes like if one of you guys actually bothered to open his new book you'll see all his arguments are backed up by evidence. He actually makes a lot of sense

#sure there's nuance like i don't fully agree with all of it #but his general theory of natural selection seems pretty sound imo

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Of course these are the finalists lmao this website is so predictable. Anyway vote Heathcliff if you dont i'm going to assume you're a phrenologist

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It's not problematic to acknowledge the fact that Heathcliff was a brute like he literally killed dogs in case you forgot. Anyway #rochestersweep

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I love the implication here that Rochester never did anything cruel either. He literally locked his wife in the attic and lied to Jane about it 😭 like that was a pretty significant thing that happened

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And? God forbid women do anything

#why'd you have to pit two bad bitches against each other #anyway i'm not attracted to men but still went with rochester #bc in terms of living quarters thornfield hall > wuthering heights easily

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Not the Russian tsar dying immediately after hartgrind became canon

#i know dickens hasn't technically confirmed it yet but like. SOMETHING was strongly implied ok #see: my previous post #dickensposting

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LORD HELP ME. THE BODY LANGUAGE. THE WAY THEY'RE LOOKING AT EACH OTHER. AHHHHHH

#this installment!!! im-- #dickensposting #i can't fucking cope #dickens wants to KILL us he wants us DEAD....

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⭐️ newamerican

Hi guys sorry I haven't been posting lately it's been so difficult getting to California 💀 I'm finally here now though just need to find a pickaxe and soon I'll be digging! :-) wish me luck lol

#gold #gold rush #gold rush grind #california #adventure

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Betty Busby, a textile artist based in New Mexico, uses quilting to explore scientific themes.  Her large and often spectacularly detailed pieces represent biological processes, including cell division and the growth of plants and other organisms.

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Thinking back, I remember the beginning as though it were the ending scene of a movie, fading out at the edges when it’s over. The dedication shines bright-lettered on a dark screen before the credits start rolling.

It was the last time we went camping as a family, and I know now that we won’t be doing it again. My siblings and I spent the weekend complaining of mosquito bites and smoke in our eyes. But when I think about those few days, I hardly recall the overpowering smell of bug repellent and rocks underneath the tent as we slept.

I only remember that closing scene; the six of us in a circle around the campfire. My youngest sister tossed dry moss into the flames while my other sister guarded her eyes from the ensuing smoke. My older brother sat chatting with my parents and I sat there too. Somehow alone even though I sat within the same circle. Closed in on myself, inaccessible to the others.

That evening as the fire burned hot and bright, I used my knee as a desk and wrote my first memorable story. It was scratched out on printer paper with a dull pencil which had an eraser so old that it’s function was lost. My hands were shaking and I wondered if I should even show my family at all. The concern of their opinions almost overwhelmed me.

I replay the final moments of this scene often in my mind; reading my story out loud and drinking in the laughter and joy it brought my family. The joyous sounds fueled my pride in my work, and erased my fears of what they would think of my writing.

I wrote like my life depended on it, and in my memory it did. I felt as if I could not be a good writer if my audience didn’t like my work.

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the "came back wrong" trope except like... they didnt. like this mad scientists wife died, and so he studied necromancy, brought her back, and she came back and it all worked. like she came back exactly the same as she was before with literally no difference. but the scientist guy is like "oh no... what have i done.... shes Different now!!!! she came back Wrong!!!!" and shes just like. chilling. reading a book. cooking dinner. shes just so so normal but in the guys mind hes like "oh shes soooo weird" but shes just normal

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There's also at least ten good band names in here

Gravity is mutual attraction between all things with mass and energy

Determines the motion of planets, stars, galaxies, light

Gives weight to physical objects

Moon's gravity responsible for sub-lunar tides in oceans

Guides the growth of plants through gravitropism

Influences circulation of fluid in multicellular organisms

May play a role in immune system function and cell differentiation

Curvature of spacetime caused by uneven distribution of mass, causing uneven masses to move along geodesic lines (general theory of relativity)- most extreme example is a black hole

Has infinite range, but effects are are weaker as objects grow further

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This old research sheet I found on gravity almost reads like poetry

Gravity is mutual attraction between all things with mass and energy

Determines the motion of planets, stars, galaxies, light

Gives weight to physical objects

Moon's gravity responsible for sub-lunar tides in oceans

Guides the growth of plants through gravitropism

Influences circulation of fluid in multicellular organisms

May play a role in immune system function and cell differentiation

Curvature of spacetime caused by uneven distribution of mass, causing uneven masses to move along geodesic lines (general theory of relativity)- most extreme example is a black hole

Has infinite range, but effects are are weaker as objects grow further

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Gravity is mutual attraction between all things with mass and energy

Determines the motion of planets, stars, galaxies, light

Gives weight to physical objects

Moon's gravity responsible for sub-lunar tides in oceans

Guides the growth of plants through gravitropism

Influences circulation of fluid in multicellular organisms

May play a role in immune system function and cell differentiation

Curvature of spacetime caused by uneven distribution of mass, causing uneven masses to move along geodesic lines (general theory of relativity)- most extreme example is a black hole

Has infinite range, but effects are are weaker as objects grow further

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There's a story I've been toying with for a while. Every time I come back to it it dissapoints me. There are some decent bits but altogether it feels incomplete. Still, I make some changes and let it sit, because I feel like next time, maybe, it could be good. And this time, when I came back to it, it hit me: this story feels incomplete because it's not a story, it's an ending. There needs to be a whole lot more story to make anyone care about the characters at that point.

I was afraid of having to let this one day. Of saying goodbye to the characters and setting I keep wanting to revisit, because it doesn't hit right. But now I am energised and motivated to write so much more story, because I know that for all my rephrasing and moving things around, I still haven't given it the chance to exist.

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The number 1 writing lesson I still need to learn, probably by repeating it to myself every time I sit down at a keyboard: Sometimes chapters do not turn out the way I want them to. Sometimes I might think they're bad. Sometimes they are bad. But at least if they are done, the next chapter will be better. The story as a whole will be fine.

Sometimes all a chapter has to do is exist so that all the future chapters can exist too. And that's completely fine.

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“In that predicament, if I’m lucky, I’ll remember the observation, usually attributed to Joan Baez, that “action is the antidote to despair.” People tend to quote this in the context of political or environmental activism, but it applies to everything else, too: an overfilled inbox, a cluttered garage, an intimidating creative project or overdue tax return. If you can get yourself over the gap between knowing what you need to do and taking an action, things can only get better from there. Which means that at least the nature of the immediate challenge is clear: not to “become more productive” or “get motivated” or “make a plan for the month” or something like that, but just to do one thing to address whatever situation you’re in. […] If you can approach your daily life in this way for a while – as a sequence of momentary, self-contained, eminently doable actions, rather than as an arduous matter of chipping away at enormous challenges – you might notice something profound, which is that, in fact, this is all you ever need to do. You can make your way through life exclusively in this manner. (As E. L. Doctorow said of writing, it’s “like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”) And not just that: actually, it’s all you ever could do. There is no achievement, in the history of human civilisation, that has ever been accomplished by any means other than as a sequence of doable actions. In the end, it isn’t really a question of “breaking big projects down into small chunks.” It’s more a matter of seeing that “big projects” are nothing but psychological constructs, quasi-illusory entities summoned into existence by taking a particular view of what our lives really consist of – which is moments, and the actions that unfold in them. After all, in any given moment, we’re never actually “working on a big project” or “addressing a major challenge” or anything similar. We’re always just taking an action. And then another. And another.”

— Oliver Burkeman, How to get out of a rut