#two assignments are due

[valewritessss]

Holy fuck I was convinced today was Monday

[dr-gl0rbiez]

okay, this is basically an oc at this point but i dont care!!! If i says it’s darry, it’s darry!!!!/silly

Okay, first, drag queen darry!! While i do think that the idea that darry’s second job is stripping is incredibly funny…..Him being a drag queen is just a bit better. Let him dress up in pretty make up and dresses and dance around!! One night, he didn’t wipe off the lipstick completely, and his brothers thought he finally found a girlfriend. He just rolled with it cause he’ll be damned and dead before his brother’s find out aboit his second job!!/silly

The reference is solely for the outfit, and even then, i didnt follow it!! I cjanged the colirs, how it fits, all that jazz. Anyway, the final thing is a quick doodle of gloopert (from arcade’s soda blog) and two-bit communicating through brain waves only stinky little hungry stupids can understand. Anyway, that’s it!!! I might post another art dump on the mr glorbiez page i have, but whatever. Maybe!! Maybe not!! No clue yet, dont have any pistable art as of recent. @kalied0skull !!! I lied when i said your choice was for absolutely nothing/silly!!!

[wheresjouno]

‘What Do You Look Like?’ Pt. 1

(Probably Pt. 1/1 if my life continues on this track tbh)

Anyway I’m not at all experienced at drawing comics so excuse the whack ass panelling 🎃

[kaysdenofchaos]

hha lowkey not looking forward going back home from college anymore

regardless of how it turns out im kinda realizing that this election like. probably broke my last bit of hope i can keep a relationship w my trump supporting asshat of a brother

i just wanna feel safe man.

[swiftzeldas]

Hey, I don't appreciate being ditched like someone's bad date.

alex krycek + the x-files (season 2)

[yandere-yearnings]

do u have any writing tips dar??? Ur stories are immaculate

nonnie?? that's so sweet of you to say, thank you😭🩷 in general, a lot comes to mind bc there's so many different components to writing (i.e dialogue, characterisation, structure,, even mindset!!) so if you want to hear abt anything specific pls lmk🥺 for now tho, i've summarised a few across the subject that i think are helpful, and they will be below the cut bc i'm shit at explaining things, so i ended up writing a lot hhh

i also wanna point out that these are just things that i've personally made note of over the years from my own experiences + being friends w/ other writers, but that doesn't mean they will apply to everyone!! more than anything, i always believe that you shouldn't let other ppl dictate how you do and enjoy things, so if smth works for you and you like it, there's nothing wrong w/ that even if it contradicts an opinion you got from some rando on the internet (a.k.a. me😔💔)

Know your game

I'd like to say that in writing, there's a vein of liberty that isn't echoed in very many other creative fields; a lot of the times you can go in blind, and still make something of it because the nature of fiction is liquid — if you can imagine it, it can work. So to say, I find that nine times out of ten, room for improvement doesn't necessarily lie in the content of someone's writing, and more so its execution.

You could play a desultory game of chess without knowing all the rules, but if you wanted it to be your best match, you'd have to be aware of every move you could make, no? What you do from there then becomes a matter of choice, and choice is a landmark divider between doing something and being good at doing something. There's a difference in omissions due to lacking the technical knowledge, and omissions made because you are aware they are optimal.

Knowledge on the fundamentals of literature will always serve you, and that isn't to say you have to study all forms and contexts, but if you want to write a story, for example, it will always help to know the common elements of one. Grammar, punctuation, structure — brushing up on those things will build your toolkit, and once you've got that, you have the self-autonomy to decide what to use from it. My three favourite writers only use commas and full stops, and their works are, on all levels, spectacular. Still, if you asked them how to use a semi-colon, they'd be able to tell you.

Appreciating the basics will also tie into your creative exploration as a writer, which is a cornerstone in developing your distinctive writing style. I doubt a person in any type of craft hasn't heard a variation of know the rules before you break them, so studying until you do, inside out, remains beneficial to both new and old writers alike.

2. Have a starting point

This tip is fairly applicable to a range of different types of writing, and how one would practice it depends strongly on individual preference and styles of working. Some people like to plan things out thoroughly whilst others, including myself, like to dive in headfirst, and there's nothing wrong with either approach. The commonality between both types of writer is that regardless, they will have at least a vague idea of where to start from — a scene that they've bullet-pointed prior, a lyric that resonated with them, a mental image, an emotion or even just a single word that everything branches from. What all these details achieve is writing that has motion, because you have something of substance to piggyback you to an end point (the establishment of which is also important, but I will not be covering in this post).

3. Decide a structure

Again, this can be done both comprehensively or as simply as just having the thought to adhere to a certain method. As you gain more experience as a writer, you'll begin to understand what works best for you and create a system of your own, but starting out, there are a number of templates that have already been established by writers that you can follow, and find by researching. What matters most is that by using one — whichever it may be — you're turning your text into a story.

As an example, I'll detail two that I use regularly, in their simplest forms for the sake of brevity:

A linear narrative moves from point A to point B, and from point B to point C, etc. and all subsequent points build on the previous ones until your goal is reached. It's a system that works well for shorter pieces because it has a definite structure, like a length of spine and its individual vertebrae (and although we're talking about writing here, I think Newton's Third Law of Motion sums it up very well: every action has a reaction.)

A coalescing narrative considers all points as separate elements that may or may not always interact, but all contribute to the end point to different extremes. It's a useful template for creating depth in a piece, but due to its complexity, is better applied to longer projects.

They are visualised respectively below.

4. Iterate

If you think of your first draft as a block of clay, everything you do to it will equate to it being moulded and shaped, and if you think of your first draft as a skeleton, everything you do to it will equate to flesh being put on the bones. If you want your piece to be the best it can be, there's a sort of detachment you must have from it, where you won't have the fear of changing it until it is in the image of what you have intended. Write and rewrite, add things, take them away, make a separate copy for every edit if that makes it easier for you, but keep working it until you are happy.

Iteration doesn't just apply to drafts — chapters, paragraphs, sentences and even singular words can be given the same treatment. When you pick up the habit, the process becomes second-nature and you'll find that the first lines you put down are the ones that make it into the final piece, and that is in light of sorting through the renditions unconsciously. Additionally, you don't have to do things in one sitting; sometimes taking a break and coming back to your writing with a fresh outlook is valuable.

5. Analyse and apply

One piece of advice I always see given when someone asks how to improve their writing is to read more, and though it is — at its core — a tip worth acknowledging, it always comes across as unserviceable to me. There is nothing that reading will change for you if you are not actively practicing the things you learn, or even actively learning to begin with. So to address it as a matter of semantics, I feel it's best put as studying the writing of others, as opposed to reading.

If you have a favourite author, go over their works twice — once as a reader to identify what you like about them, and then again as a writer to identify why you like those things. To put it into context, if I read something and decided that I enjoyed how clear and easy to understand it was, I'd do a second pass to figure out the attributing qualities. Perhaps it's the use of punctuation, chosen sentence forms or even the simplicity of words used. My first tip of knowing different literary fundamentals is complementary here, because it makes the analysis and application of isolated features that much more smooth, and also means you'd be able to adapt them into your own style instead of just copying the other writer, which is what you want to avoid.

(Some writers I personally recommend studying are @ozzgin, @monstersholygrail, @aayakashii and @urprettylildoe for readability and clarity in execution, @moyazaika, @carnivorousyandeere and @purerae for characterisation and dialogue, @suiana and @unhappy-last-resort for engaging plots and concepts, and @sabotsen and @lirational for word choice.)

[gremlin-boah]

Saw this on pinterest, and...

Love ya Sean <3

[monostardust]

Wait I just like realized this. This is a very serious and genuine question. Who is the top between Armand and Daniel? Like? Bro's have both bottom energy. So like how? Who? You know what I mean?

[the-gayest-show]

im takng this studio production class where one of the assignments was to fully develop a studio show (picture like quiz shows, news shows, etc. live television content) for production. wanna know what my dumbass submitted as a literal last resort because i had no original ideas?

a literal rehash of May I Have A Word. different name. different words (because girl ain't no one in my grade getting tripped up over the word perspire) and the works. no one ever knew. i probably commited plagiarism over the most niche game show that comes inbetween wordgirl episodes. hell. where i live (before i started pirating WG) i'd never seen May I Have A Word segments in my life.

no one suspected. no one said a thing. because who the fuck is gonna refer back to the word show segment that lasts one minute each? as far as they were concerned, it was an original idea, albeit odd in nature.

the production went smoothly ish, if yall were wondering. i didn't know when we'd start producing my show and came so unprepared that i was nervous the whole way down. i had to make cue cards out of the back of one of our rundowns. i was pacing back and forth. we had a bunch of trip ups. the graphics i had planned out wouldn't export to the (very old and odd) software that we use for graphics. so like. totall zoinked out, but it worked somehow! it was my first time manning a show and also playing as the host. so like 8/10 for effort.

yeah so that's how May I Have A Word saved me in a class. the entire damn show. i had to alter a few things though:

3 rounds bc the show is like 7 minutes long

im too unprepared to make videos for every fucking definition (look guys i finished the entire assignment in one day after procrastinating. bare w/ me) so i skiped that and replaced it with example sentences.

doing retakes is weird in these shows bc you kinda already know the answer....

obviously as mentioned before i had to look up harder words for the challenge to be hard. so yeah learnt new words too

2 contestants instead of 3 for reasons relating to classroom resources

the prize was a tim hortons giftcard because thats all i had in my pocket (literally) and i was once again unprepped for the shooting day

so uh yeah thanks autism, turns out liking the word show was good for smth

[ffcrazy15]

I need a whole fic where the Cerritos is mistaken for the Enterprise by some type of alien with very high intelligence but very poor visual recognition, for whatever reason.

And Freeman either can't or is too scared to convince them that they're not the Enterprise, so she starts desperately assigning everyone to various roles. Boimler gets assigned as Data, and since he and Mariner are the only people on the ship who play string instruments, the captain orders them to put together some sort of "symphony" because the aliens have heard that that's a thing on the Enterprise.

And it's just Mariner and Boimler frustratedly trying to figure out how to combine her electric guitar skills and his traditional violin skills into something suitably "symphonic" (i.e. thematically trying to combine her more lax/modern way of doing things with his more strict/traditional way).

[anothermonikan]

five pebbl e.... hai how are you been my friend

They're actually making me do my degree at university.

[snakesandstone]

Diversity win! This couple is about to have the world's first lesbian divorce!

[dawnthefluffyduck]

I think i doubt my ability to work faster under stress too much

[tweetsongs]

sometimes u gotta put ur two chronically ill kings together

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[Image ID: The "I Think We're Gonna Have To Kill This Guy, Steven" meme with Qiyan Agula from Clear and Muddy Loss of Love and Cale Henituse from Lout of the Count's Family. Qiyan has a hand on Cale's shoulder and is saying: "I think we're gonna have to kill this guy, Cale-nim" and Cale is saying "Damn." Behind them is a out of focus Raon, a baby dragon. /end image ID]

[odstacle1]

ethel cain voice Its Just Not My Year!!!!!!