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Recently, there have been a lot of people asking me how I write, how I do the thing with the words, asking me to give them advice and I thought rather than making a huge list of things you can do to get better at writing, I would combine their requests with a little something I’ve been meaning to do for a while.  So, here’s how not to write, or things to avoid if you want to produce good writing.  ———— I’ve had this bone to pick with the tumblr rp community for a long while, and since sleep seems to be avoiding me at all costs, I thought I’d put some of the dead time to use, be the devil’s advocate, and pick this damn bone: over-done, blatant-thesaurus-abusing, purple prose.  If you’re looking for nice, DO NOT PASS GO; DO NOT COLLECT $200 because in all honesty, I’m 1-800-DONE with a lot of the writing I see being praised on tumblr rp.

             she replies, smiling at him.  she readjusts the straps of her bags on              her shoulder, and then turns and starts leading him towards the lab. 

                 ❝ it's not that far from here, so you'll be dry and clean soon! ❞

             true to her word, the walk isn't a long one  –– maybe five minutes or              so  ––  and then they're in the space  where she spends most of her              life. she moves around the other works in progress around her,  and              glances   over   her   shoulder   at   the   guy   she'd   knocked   into. 

                           ❝ try not to touch anything, if you can. ❞ she says.                            ❝ sometimes the inventions are a bit –– unstable. ❞

              she stops in  front of her area,  and sets her things  on  the counter               before  she unlocks  and  begins rummaging  around in  her locker.  

         a quirk of his brow, as his gaze lifts over her shoulder to view the small litter of people, groaning and tired, searching about for smoke or any signs of danger.

   she says, the turns to the building and squints at it through her glasses. 

     ❝ no smoke, so i'm going to go with the latter. ❞ 

   she shrugs, then turns her gaze back on him. he's handsome –– really handsome. and tall. she's gotten so used to towering over everyone that it's always a bit refreshing when she's the same height as someone, even in 4-inch heels. at this point, the fire department arrive and begin having a conversation amongst themselves. she points them out to him. 

     ❝ and i'm pretty sure that guy wouldn't just have taken off his helmet if he was about to rush into an inferno. maybe something tripped the alarm. ❞

   but he's right, it is really chilly out here, and she really should've grabbed something more than her pullover ( not that it's doing much for her legs, which are exposed to the elements by her sleep shorts ). she shivers a bit, and crosses her arms across her chest.

     ❝ it looks like they might be here for a little while –– do you maybe want to pop into the cafe down the road? ❞

❝ are you sure?  because i do  some fashion  design  on the side, i'd have something that'd fit you back in the lab, if you wanted to come with me to get it? ❞ 

she  pauses and  stands back up,  everything  secured once again, tea aside.

So I went searching in the hopes that maybe people have already started making scripts to fix Tumblr’s fuck-ups update, and there are already a couple out! Bless you guys.

There’s not many unfortunately but hopefully that will change as more time passes for people to make the scripts and undo this mess that Tumblr has thrown at us — again.

You will need the Stylish extension to install these. Get it here for Chrome; or here for Firefox.

Post/Reblog/Close Button Swap (Swaps the post/reblog/close buttons to their original positions)

Old/Smaller Tumblr Header Font (Replaces Tumblr’s new, ‘giant’ header font with the smaller one from before the update)

Tumblr Text Edit Always Visible (Moves the text-editing tools like bold and italics on the left side of the post underneath your icon, so you no longer need to highlight text to edit it)