Crows write, too.

writers really will spend twenty minutes pacing around the kitchen thinking “this scene is genius” and then sit down to type and suddenly remember approximately three words and one emotional vibe

I'd be tempted to make this a thing myself. Compose a little poem that instructs the reader to do exactly that - get the dish as a gift, give the dish as a gift, keep it in rotation, don't leave it on your shelf <3 - and get some oven dishes from goodwill or something, have them professionally engraved (do they do that? is that a thing you can do?) and then put them into rotation. The dishes I cook are dogshit at best but I want them into rotation.

I am stealing this so hard, it seems so violently Midwest but would fit in any medieval setting

I think I would love to have a list of all the things that fit that category. Seems violently midwest but would fit in any medieval setting. I'm 100% sure that it would be absurdly long and I would love reading it.

as a rule it's always more interesting when two people who know each other outlive a third person that they both loved and then their relationship becomes So Much Weirder and more emotionally fraught, entangled, and charged when that third person dies

"oughh I follow this blog for weeb stuff not internet radio promo" here. gensokyo radio.

oh and also I have to plug yggdrasil. it's cute.

if u like folk and/or roots music: wumb.org !!! it is AD-FREE it has ZERO MORNING TALK SHOWS it is on air at 91.9 FM in the BOSTON AREA but streams WORLDWIDE on the WEB it is perfect.

Also if you search for student radio stations at almost any university you can listen to all sorts of crazy stuff for free!

Maybe niche but for any Irish speakers or learners out there, Radio na Gaeltachta streams online and is a great way to listen to some Gaeilge without YouTube.

All of these resources are fantastic, but I wanna give a specific shoutout to Raidió na Gaeltachta streaming online - and I say this as a person who works in Irish-language visual media - if you wanna gainna better grasp of spoken Irish and how the language is used in casual settings, Raidió na Gaeltachta is the way to go, not visual media 😬📻😁

got a phone that runs android? get yerself radiodroid.

Morgan Freeman had his first breakout roles in his 50s. Leonard Cohen debuted at 33. Toni Morrison published her first novel at 39. Vera Wang entered fashion design at 40. Penelope Fitzgerald published her first novel at 58. Louise Gluck won her Nobel prize at age 77. Edward Said wrote Orientalism at age 42. Charles Bradley debuted with his first album at 62. Those people are literal legends, and no one would think they arrived late. They just arrived when they were ready. You have time to do the thing. You have time to hone your craft on the thing and create something you are truly proud of. You have time

the most annoying people are people who don't understand storytelling. they be like "oooo how convenient that this thing happened to the main character in the very beginning". yeah no shit. that's why the story begins here

I'm sorry but "plot armor" is the stupidest fucking concept. "He should have died" honey there are people who survived skydiving accidents. Have you never been party to a tragedy? The old alcoholic survives the accident and the promising teen is killed instantly? "It's unrealistic that this character survived while the other characters died" shit that is about the most realistic thing there is. Ask anybody with survivors guilt. "Of course this character lived until the end" yeah that's a thing that happens. Some people live, and other people die. Stories are made up. Which part of this is unclear?

[encountering a new mlm ship] right. and which one would die in childbirth and which one would be the alcoholic widower who inflicts lifelong trauma on their child due to their rageful and all-encompassing grief?

takes you by the hand. please please please if you're stuck on your WIP or you can't figure out how to progress the scene PLEASE skip ahead. skip a few lines ahead. skip until the next Thing you can think of happens. skip to it skip to it skip to it. you may uncover what you were missing in the midst of your next scenes and you may discover that just transitioning straight to Next Part works flawlessly. skip it. don't sink. skip.

Orson Wells was fully convinced he could fight god and nothing that ever happened in his life could’ve convinced him otherwise

The rookie mistake in fiction writing is assuming that short stories will be easier to write than novels because they're smaller. No. This is the equivalent to thinking that it's easier to make a pocket watch than grandfather clock. Short stories are complex engineering problems.

You need to find a way to pack all of the things that a story needs into a tiny like box without it overheating.

people talk about and excerpt the smutty passages from like romantasy booktok hits or whatever and sometimes it's to be "lol look at this embarrassing porn" and other times it's like a self-serious lit person being like "well certainly one can infer that the books' explicit erotic content is much of their appeal 🧐" but nobody is willing to do the real work of like actually discussing why these scenes are bad at being pornography and not sexy or titillating at all. i mean i guess clearly they are successfully this for probably literally millions of people so that's not quite the right phrasing. but it's like the reason i don't read this stuff isn't because it was written to be jerkoff material it's because it's lousy jerkoff material. and it's lousy jerkoff material in ways i actually think are somewhat interesting to discuss from a craft perspective such as an abundance of cliche and a tendency for individual character dynamics to disappear once the fucking starts and an overreliance on banal physical description of insert tab A into slot B. but nobody is ready for this conversation because either they think it's embarrassing or morally wrong that romantasy jerkoff material exists or because they have extremely low literary standards for jerkoff material. everybody on earth it seems falls into one of these two categories except, of course, Me And My Mutuals

living in a small town is like. you cannot park within 4 blocks of the post office because the town only has on-street parking. you awkwardly wave to everyone in the grocery store because they all recognize you. you live vicariously through social media because there is nothing to do other than hiking within 300 miles. going to a slightly bigger town two hours away once every three months to go to Costco is the most exciting part of your life. you've walked most of the dogs you see out and about. people ask you about church gossip while you're on the clock at work. there is not a single job in the town that pays enough for you or anyone else to save money and move away.

huge fan of ship dynamics where person a does not know how desired they are and person b is about to pop a blood vessel about it