#unspooled

[rustbeltjessie]

Today’s library haul: Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar by Cynthia Carr and Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareable by Rob Drew.

[waderockett]

On an episode of the Unspooled movie podcast, film critic Amy Nicholson mentioned that Adam West played a James Bond parody in a Nestle Quik commercial, and that deadpan delivery with a touch of mischief led to him being cast as Batman.

[ashleywritesstuff]

From the Sci-Fi 5 Archive: Happy birthday to funny man, Paul Scheer! When I wrote this last year, I determined that he probably doesn't sleep based on his extensive resume.

[caeliflammae]

anne rice said "erotica", the fans said "oh hm this is horror and abuse! let's turn this into a deeply upsetting character study about how abuse can create cruel people who perpetuate cycles."

iwtv (2022) writers said "this is a literal fucking saw trap" the fans said "but what if they were in love <3"

[opens-up-4-nobody]

@sockgarter :-]

[inkskinned]

hey it's nanowrimo. i have tips bc i've done it about 34 times.

Don't edit. Ever. Stop it. If you just decide to start a new project half thru this one with all new characters, no problem. pick up and keep writing as if you'd already written the first half of that.

"but i spelled it wrong" whatever. "but the grammar" whatever. make it exist first. no time for sense. think like you're working on a typewriter. no backspace. only forward go.

Don't re-read further than a paragraph or two backwards. "did i mention the gun before?" listen - it doesn't matter. if you need there to be a gun there, the gun is there. put it back in once you finish the book.

"i forgot the specifics of X thing i already wrote" whatever. change it, make a note/comment to figure it out later, and just write what makes sense for the moment. "no raquel it's legit the characters name and origin" idc that character is now reborn as Claudius from Elsewhere. it's fine.

only you see your mistakes. nobody else knows. one of the ways writing and dance overlap - only you know the choreography. nobody else will know if you miss a step, so just keep dancing and pretend you meant to do it like that.

it's an illusion that you need to write linearly - from point A to point B to point C. Nah; that's just timeline propaganda. I've written a LOT of books out of order and just reordered them once i've finished. if you have a scene you'd LOVE to write but can't get there yet because of plot, just fuckin write the scene. I've always found its easier to establish "point F" "point J" and "Point A" and then wiggle my way between those scenes.

write what you WANT to write. 230 pages of smut? of well-researched discussion on bread? whatever. the point is to strengthen muscles however you can.

if you miss a day, a week, whatever. not the end of the world. we all have dry days. also time is a myth so u can do this challenge whenever u want.

as soon as you try to write for a specific audience, you kill your voice. you are writing for yourself. stop thinking about how people will take ur book. it don't matter. what matter is u, enjoying writing. i luv u.

play to your strengths. i have characters talk so much because i don't know how to write a plot if it kills me but i'm really good at dialogue so.

i love a flight of fancy. write a poem in there. shift tactics and write in code. keep it fun for yourself.

see what happens if you shift something major about ur main characters - gender, wealth, superpowers. or if you change point-of-view. or if you kill everyone in a big explosion. do NOT edit anything before this or after it. often these little weird one-off exercises teach me what interests me about what i'm working on. it is never what i thought. plus it is a fun way to add like 1k words.

stretch.

it's for fun and for practice. stop doing that project if it's giving you anxiety. once my nano was literally 50k words of half-started stories. just things i tried and tried and tried and wasn't able to flesh out. oops. but i am now 50k words of a better writer.

add dragons?

read books/listen to books on tape/etc. people often make the mistake of "buckling down" to just write. you need inspiration. you need to like. fill up on words. you need to remember how it feels to lose yourself in a story.

i don't have the time or space to really talk about this in this post but a lot of creative people turn to drugs/alcohol because it can help you be more creative. this is harmful, and walking a blade that only cuts deep. if you notice you and your loved ones are turning more to substances, please know i love you and i hope you are able to get help soon. i feel like this almost never gets mentioned because it's kind of a hazy underbelly to art. you are always more important than the work.

on that note. drink your fukin. water.

don't talk about a story until you've finished it. once you tell the story, it exists already, and isn't about discovery. i usually have a very canned "haha we'll see" response.

grapes :) tasty snack.

i love you be free.

[miz-chase]

Local convalescing alien makes compelling arguments for sneaking their niece off to New York

How about that queerplatonic kissing show

[mjmikaelson]

#BENELOPE

— NEL & BEN

moodboard inspired by the story “unspooled thread” by @velvetcovered-brick @writingwhilecaffeinated

[drill-teeth-art]

I love evil freak women. Unspool as a wrestler!/

[inkblotdemon]

I closed the ranks, and I doubled back // But, you know, I hated to close the doggone door on you.

[allyriadayne]

been pondering the blacks too. just like the greens don't know how to connect to the other even if the understanding IS there, to me the black suffer almost from the opposite of this. their dynamic is seemingly more healthy and balanced than the greens that is true but this episode showed a lot of misunderstandings between them, how they can't see past the surface.

of course the biggest one is daemon and rhaenyra. neither of them can see the other too clearly. too wrapped up in both the war and in their new roles as queen and king consort. viserys hanging over them like a guillotine waiting for any to point out an insecurity in the other. rhaenyra resents daemon for putting her in viserys' place and daemon resents rhaenyra for believing what viserys did about him. i thought you were different!

which in turn makes daemon too angry to acknowledge his own daughter who is as eager as him to participate in the war effort, but he can't see her! he's too angry about past deeds, the same as rhaenyra. "i think i hate him", says baela because daemon has ignored her and her anger comes from mostly the same place as rhaenyra, they can't see that daemon's loyalty, his love, is about his actions. he's going to harrenhal to win the war for ALL of them. to daemon that is more important than hugging his daughter.

then later, when baela is with jace they engage in a conversation about fathers. jace's "he loved us. I think" is very telling on his insecurities about his place in the family and how, again, past deeds, cloud his understanding in the present. and it's so interesting that baela says something along the lines of her understanding, but she doesn't really! she doesn't know what it is to have such a dark shadow like jace. and he realizes because he immediately says that he misses luke. the only one who he *think* could understand him.

and forgive me for following this jace thread but he can't trust that rhaenyra will understand either. they don't see face to face at all. when he comes to report his travels in the past ep, he can't go beyond the queenly face she has put up, so he follows her lead and acts like just a prince and not his son. until it's too much and he breaks down. he's just a boy!

[jaggedjot]

In order to not speak of Lestat for “twenty-three years”, Louis would have had to painstakingly curate or completely smother any acknowledgement of his early life as a vampire, Claudia, and the events that led to him and Armand leaving Paris. Being with and loved by Armand requires Louis to cease to exist outside of him.

[beyondthespheres]

My Body Unspooling by Leo Fox, Silver Sprocket, 2024

[vivirrins]

The party of an Underdark-focused homebrew game I'm starting with my friends!

From left to right: Scrivener (Death domain Cleric), Vivyne (Beast Master Ranger), Wisp (Archfey Warlock), Kalaniss (Soulknife Rogue), Rylimar (Oath of Vengeance Paladin), and Shwoomy (Circle of Spores Druid)

[sharpth1ng]

STU MOTHERFUCKING MACHER (only for Billy tho)

Literally YES. I basically have nothing to add, this is so well written, theres just not enough blood left in my brain to form a response

[thus-spoke-lo]

hey did you guys know if you want to write a fic, you can't just keep letting it play out in your head like a movie for days and days until you forget the key points and dialogue? you have to actually, like, write it down somewhere? this is news to me and let me tell you, i am shocked.