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A novel worth reading is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility, of what human nature is, of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
Susan Sontag, The Art of Fiction No. 143, from The Paris Review, issue no. 137
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don’t make other people’s decisions for them. apply for the job you don’t think you’ll get. let them decide if you have the skills they’re looking for. tell that person you like them even though you think they’re out of your league. let them decide if they like you. stop trying to predict and control everything. bring what you have to the table. let the rest go.
consistency consistency consistency
"You're right. It's storytelling. And this church, it's not medieval. We're in New York. It's neo-Gothic 19th century. It has more in common with Disneyland than Notre Dame. And the rites and rituals and costumes, all of it." WAKE UP DEAD MAN (2025) dir. Rian Johnson
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grabby hands. poems that are structurally awesome recs?
forgive me this is about to be a pretty random list, based mostly on what i can remember right now (not at home so can’t look at my shelf)
dunt: a poem for a dried up river - alice oswald. i love long poems that use variation on repetitions well. and this is one of those. also alice oswald’s book-length poems dart, memorial, and nobody
medicine (in the hatstand union iirc) - caroline bird. uses strict and tight rhyme/metre/repetition to create chaos
alphabet - norman cameron. it’s two perfect ballad stanzas where the sequence of words follows the alphabet. technically very impressive to me
nets - jen bervin. book length collection of erasure poems of shakespeare’s sonnets
interview with a sonnet - a.e. stallings. i have posted about this before but it fucks
midnight - katharine towers. is this poem incredible? probably not. mostly i am just very fond of it. but it is a really good example of a poem whose life comes from one perfectly placed unmetrical syllable. hot
elizabeth marie young - aim straight at the fountain and press vaporize. the whole book. these are like. nonsense poems that are almost not nonsense. but im kind of obsessed with how most of them blur from prose poetry to a slightly wonky resolution into rhymed uh. third paeon tetrameter. it’s good
and like. all of w.s. graham. he has this way of writing sentences where every new clause or line makes you reanalyse (?) how the sentence up to that point has worked. w.s. graham one of my favourite poets everrrrrr
help. i forgot the man of double deed
Write if you can.
If you can't write: Edit.
If you can't edit: Outline.
If you can't outline: Brainstorm.
If you can't brainstorm: Rest.
Writing is many tasks. Do whichever ones you can handle and you'll still be making progress.
Sometimes knitting is making stitches and sometimes knitting is untangling yarn. They both move the project forward even though only one actually looks like progress.
You literally have to take this one wild and precious life and wrangle it into something that’s worth waking up every day for
Has anyone noticed that translating poetry is not easy
It's kind of like if you were in unrequited love with the crossword puzzle
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maybe growing up is just becoming who you were at 14 again but learning how to love her this time
Show, don’t tell
"Show, don’t tell" means letting readers experience a story through actions, senses, and dialogue instead of outright explaining things. Here are some practical tips to achieve that:
1. Use Sensory Details
Tell: "The room was cold."
Show: "Her breath puffed in faint clouds, and she shivered as frost clung to the edges of the window."
Tell: "He was scared."
Show: "His hands trembled, and his heart thudded so loudly he was sure they could hear it too."
2. Focus on Actions
Tell: "She was angry."
Show: "She slammed the mug onto the counter, coffee sloshing over the rim as her jaw clenched."
Tell: "He was exhausted."
Show: "He stumbled through the door, collapsing onto the couch without even bothering to remove his shoes."
3. Use Dialogue
What characters say and how they say it can reveal their emotions, intentions, or traits.
Tell: "She was worried about the storm."
Show: "Do you think it'll reach us?" she asked, her voice tight, her fingers twisting the hem of her shirt.
4. Show Internal Conflict Through Thoughts or Reactions
Tell: "He was jealous of his friend."
Show: "As his friend held up the trophy, he forced a smile, swallowing the bitter lump rising in his throat."
5. Describe the Environment to Reflect Mood
Use the setting to mirror or hint at emotions or themes.
Tell: "The town was eerie."
Show: "Empty streets stretched into the mist, and the only sound was the faint creak of a weathered sign swinging in the wind."
6. Let Readers Infer Through Context
Give enough clues for the reader to piece things together without spelling it out.
Tell: "The man was a thief."
Show: "He moved through the crowd, fingers brushing pockets, his hand darting away with a glint of gold."
7. Use Subtext in Interactions
What’s left unsaid can reveal as much as what’s spoken.
Tell: "They were uncomfortable around each other."
Show: "He avoided her eyes, pretending to study the painting on the wall. She smoothed her dress for the third time, her fingers fumbling with the hem."
8. Compare to Relatable Experiences
Use metaphors, similes, or comparisons to make an emotion or situation vivid.
Tell: "The mountain was huge."
Show: "The mountain loomed above them, its peak disappearing into the clouds, as if it pierced the heavens."
Practice Example:
Tell: "The village had been destroyed by the fire."
Show: "Charred beams jutted from the rubble like broken ribs, the acrid smell of ash lingering in the air. A child's shoe lay half-buried in the soot, its leather curled from the heat."
There's more:
I would give anything to get a virtual lunch note from my grandpa
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fucking amen
Cory Booker has been talking in the senate for over 20 hours now
He’s not filibustering. He’s protesting the current administration.
For those of you from outside the US or those of you who didn’t pay attention in government class, in the US senate there’s really no limit to the amount of time a senator can speak. So sometimes if they don’t want a bill to pass they just. Don’t stop talking. To hopefully get past the deadline to vote on a bill. This is called filibustering.
Senator Cory Booker isn’t doing that. He’s disrupting “the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able”. Just in protest. This doesn’t usually happen.
He’s less than 20 minutes away from breaking the record of the longest speech given on the senate floor
Cory Booker has officially broken Strom Thurmond’s record for longest speech on the senate floor and he’s still going
For those of you wondering what he’s been talking about this whole time, his staff wrote down a bunch of stuff for him to read like stories from people across the political spectrum opposed to what the administration is doing. He’s also been telling personal anecdotes about meeting important civil rights leaders and other democratic senators have been pausing him for “questions” but the questions have been as long as a small speech and have both served the purpose of giving him a second to sit down and updating him on the news that he’s been missing while he’s been talking.
He has yielded the floor at 25 hrs and 4 mins. His eyes are so wide they look like they’re going to bug out of his skull so I don’t blame him for stopping. He said to go out and get in some good trouble.
it's worth noting that Strom Thurmond set the record filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and Cory Booker is one of only 14 Black people to ever serve in the US Senate.
