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franzkavkas · 1 day
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Franz Kafka, Diaries
March 27, 1912
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petaltexturedskies · 2 days
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Last night I took a long walk because the temperature was almost as warm as a Spring evening, soft and balmy and beautiful. The smell of the earth rose in the stillness like a dream cloud.
Anaïs Nin, in a diary entry written c. January 1921 in The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1920-1923
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flowerytale · 8 months
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The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1944–1947
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drisnow · 1 year
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I’m a different man when I’m alone in my car
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derangedrhythms · 6 months
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I know the horror of primal feelings, obsessions.
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath — 29th September 1959
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tendermimi · 8 months
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— Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923
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soracities · 4 months
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To love — is to see a person as God intended him and his parents failed to make him.
Marina Tsvetaeva, from Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922 (trans. Jamey Gambrell)
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mournfulroses · 4 months
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Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Henry and June: From “A Journal of Love” -The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1931-1932)
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tamsoj · 10 months
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May Sarton, from Journal of a Solitude
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writingwithfolklore · 11 months
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Fictional Notes and Letters
                Notes, journal entries, lost letters, a book tucked into the back corner of the store—written hints and exposition can show up in storytelling across many forms. Given how useful and easy as it is to divulge information through perfectly scattered journal entries or a conveniently timed newspaper article this form of sharing information is a common trope across storytelling. Because of this, it can feel cheap or unearned.
                So here’s how to use written hints without making your readers feel cheated:
Don’t overuse it
Unfortunately this is the long and the short of it. The more information you have through written mediums, the less realistic or earned it will feel. If you can, keep this trope down to once or twice in a piece. If you can convey that information another way, choose that instead.
2. Create purpose behind its creation
Not only does the writing have to have the relevant information you need to convey, but it has to have a purpose for existence. Remember that people write notes to remember something, something they’d be likely to forget. If you can’t think of a reason someone would need to remember (or would believe they might forget) a piece of information, don’t convey it on a note. Journals are made to review someone’s day or emotions, it’s unlikely someone would journal about the government’s secrets (and even more so, scatter the pages around in an order for the protagonists to find to pace out said information—I’m sorry, I’m throwing just a little bit of shade at the indie horror community ;))
                If it’s not news worthy, it shouldn’t be in the news, etc. and so on. Think about why your written material was created, and by who, and how it ended up where it did.
3. Place it behind a barrier
This is a bit of a sneaky trick, but hiding your written hint behind an ‘effort wall’ is going to make it feel so much more earned to gain. Maybe the journal they’re looking for is within a locked desk, and the characters have to break in to get it. The sticky note with the password is in the suit pocket of the antagonist (they just happened to leave at the dry cleaner that morning). The binder of secrets is behind three security guards and a locked door.
                Any effort your protagonists have to make to gain the information is so much better than just happening to find it, and could trick readers into believing the information was more difficult to gain than it was.
4. Don’t make it too convenient
Lastly, make sure the characters don’t just learn what they were looking for, but a little bit less, and a little something else. If they need to know exactly who was at the party in 2005, maybe they don’t find a list of names, but rather a photo album of people they then have to do a bit more work to identify. The written hint should be that—a hint, a start of a greater solution. If it’s the end, a lot more effort should have come before.
                Good luck!
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franzkavkas · 2 years
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July 1st-5th, 1914
Franz Kafka, Diaries (1914-1923)
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petaltexturedskies · 5 months
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Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. IV: 1944-1947
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flowerytale · 3 months
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The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1920–1923
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dailykafka · 1 year
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— October 6, 1915 / Franz Kafka
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derangedrhythms · 3 months
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What can I do with this want.
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath — 3rd January 1959
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tendermimi · 1 year
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Søren Kierkegaard, Diaries 1813-1855
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