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5 Ways to Use Sound When Writing

Sound is one of the most powerful ways to get into a scene, and when utilized can help your writing flow easier. Below are my favorite tips for using sound to kick you into writing mode (from least to most obvious).

5. Make the sounds of your scene on your computer.

Credit for this idea goes to friend/classmate Annie (who is awesome).

With an app like White Noise, you can actually create the sound of your scene. Characters are walking near a harbor? No problem. Character’s are sitting by a fire? You got it. Place yourself in the center of that scene and use the sounds to help you become fully immersed.

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YA Book Covers of 2014 Part 1/4 

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Yoooooo book nerds

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small things to do that make your mind feel clearer

close all your internet tabs except the one you’re using

delete all your text messages

delete negative people from social networks

throw some things away. just throw them away

tidy your desk. make a blank surface

drink 3 glasses of water

open the curtains

wash your face and brush your teeth

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For all those Supernatural fans on tumblr will you please reblog this. It’s for my friend who is in the hospital who want to meet the cast!

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Developing the ability to piss other people off (or even to RISK pissing them off) without knuckling under is pretty much the Holy Grail of emotionally abused kids, I think. We are programmed to respond at the first sign of displeasure, and we don’t have the faith in ourselves and our decisions to weather the storm– or even a mild sprinkle– so we tend to freak out as if the world was ending if a cloud crosses the sun. We freak out about the possibility that we’re wrong, that we’re doing the wrong things, that we’re making the wrong choices, that we’ll make someone angry, because there’s this awful certainty lurking at the back of our minds that says “If you do the wrong thing, you will be in TROUBLE.” And being in TROUBLE is the worst thing, ever, because that part of our brain is forever three years old where our parents are our whole world and being in TROUBLE is the end of everything. It takes a lot of practice to gain that sort of gut-level knowledge that we’re strong enough to handle this stuff and that the world doesn’t end if someone else is angry at us. It’s not an innate quality that some people have and some don’t; people who grow up in non-abusive homes learn it when they’re young, is all, and the rest of us have to learn it when we’re grown up. And it sucks, and it’s not fair, and it’s not fun, but there’s no getting around it, and you can do it, you CAN. You can piss people off. You can be wrong. You can fuck up. You can do stuff that everyone thinks is weird. AND IT IS ALL OKAY. The world won’t end. You will still be a good person. And the likelihood is that most of the things you do WON’T be wrong, and WON’T piss people off, and WON’T be up-fuckery, and WON’T be weird, but if it is? The hell with it; fix it, if necessary, and move on.

PomperaFirpa @Captain Awkward (via ladysaviours)

Well that hit me right in the gut

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"the Holy Grail of emotionally abused kids" TELL THEM. 

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it took me a long time to learn that making someone mad or letting someone down was not going to literally make them kill themselves every single time

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Wow. I haven’t thought about this but this is definitely me. Hope this sheds light on someone else!

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My teas will never be this organized 

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If you loved:

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Divergent by Veronica Roth

The Giver by Lois Lowery

Maybe you should try one of these!

The Selection by Kiera Cass

Matched by Ally Condie

Delirium by Lauren Oliver

Wither by Lauren DeStefano

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

The Host by Stephanie Meyer

Unwind by Neal Shusterman

Legend by Marie Lu

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Feed by M. T. Anderson

The Maze Runner by James Dashner

Gone by Michael Grant

Across the Universe by Beth Revis

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

The City of Ember by Jeannie DuPrau

For the Win by Cory Doctorow

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Heir Apparent by Vivan Vande Velde

V for Vendetta by Alan Moore

Attack on Titan by Hajime Isayama

X-Men: Days of Future Past by Chris Claremont and John Byrne

The Handmaid’s Tale by Magaret Atwood

Fahrenheit 451  by Ray Bradbury

1984 by George OrwelBrave New World by Aldous Huxley

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The problem that needs to be fixed is not kick all the girls out of YA, it’s teach boys that stories featuring female protagonists or written by female authors also apply to them. Boys fall in love. Boys want to be important. Boys have hopes and fears and dreams and ambitions. What boys also have is a sexist society in which they are belittled for “liking girl stuff.” Male is neutral, female is specific. I heard someone mention that Sarah Rees Brennan’s THE DEMON’S LEXICON would be great for boys, but they’d never read it with that cover. Friends, then the problem is NOT with the book. It’s with the society that’s raising that boy. It’s with the community who inculcated that boy with the idea that he can’t read a book with an attractive guy on the cover. Here’s how we solve the OMG SO MANY GIRLS IN YA problem: quit treating women like secondary appendages. Quit treating women’s art like it’s a niche, novelty creation only for girls. Quit teaching boys to fear the feminine, quit insisting that it’s a hardship for men to have to relate to anything that doesn’t specifically cater to them. Because if I can watch Raiders of the Lost Ark and want to grow up to be an archaeologist, there’s no reason at all that a boy shouldn’t be able to read THE DEMON’S LEXICON with its cover on. My friends, sexism doesn’t just hurt women, and our young men’s abysmal rate of attraction to literacy is the proof of it. If you want to fix the male literary crisis, here’s your solution: Become a feminist.

The Problem is Not the Books by Saundra Mitchell (via becketted)

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Good morning =)

#goodmorning #coffee #startyourdayright #instagood #happy #instadaily

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Patronus

I was doing some serious thinking the other day and it hit me. Everyone in hp has an awesome patronus. I mean awesome. What happens if you get like a whale? All the patroni would go and fight for your friends and yours just chills there munching on some krill, "it's ok man. No more sadness. You're cool."