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@donayahaymond
Sometimes writing is like having an enormous lake in your head, and you want to get it out of your head and into a proper place for a lake so other people can come and go swimming and ride jet skis and stuff, except all you have to move the lake is a teaspoon. So youâre just sitting there frantically flinging water out of the lake with your teaspoon and telling people, âGuys, this lake is going to be so cool when itâs done,â but it will never be done. There is so much lake.
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This man is truly a gift to the world
the thing about writing fantasy stories is that language is so based on history that it can be hard to decide how far suspension of disbelief can carry you word-choice wise - what do you call a french braid in a world with no france? can a queen ann neckline be described if there was no queen ann? where do you draw the line? can you use the word platonic if plato never existed? can you name a character chris in a land without christianity? can you even say âbungalowâ in a world where there was no indian language for the word to originate from? is there a single word in any language that doesnât have a story behind it? to be accurate a fantasy story would be written in a fantasy language but who has the time for that
Tolkien had the time apparently
LIsten. Linguistics Georg, who invented over 10,000 conlangs each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted.Â
Since there is a full moon on Christmas this year, any relative that âcanât make itâ to the Christmas dinner is probably a werewolf.
Some advice for when youâre writing and find yourself stuck in the middle of a scene:
kill someone
ask this question: âWhat could go wrong?â and write exactly how it goes wrong
switch the POV from your current character to another - a minor character, the antagonist, anyone
stop writing whatever scene youâre struggling with and skip to the next one you want to write
write the ending
write a sex scene
use a scene prompt
use sentence starters
read someone elseâs writing
Never delete. Never read what youâve already written. Pass Go, collect your $200, and keep going.
This is the literal best writing advice I have ever read. Period.
Special note: âKill someoneâ means kill someone in the story. Please do not kill random real life passers by every time you hit a block. My lawyer says misunderstanding writing advice is not an acceptable defense. See you all in 25 to 50 years.
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Lynne, the Lady Spring, wears these.
Whenever I have a chance I go to Wat Rongkun/Rongkun Temple, nicknamed the White Temple. Most Thai temples are all gold and glittery with multicolored accents. Not this one. Itâs different in a number of other ways, too.
The area around the entrance is designed to look like one of the Buddhist hells. Thai Buddhism believes in multiple hells; though since you only spend ten thousand years or so in one, does that make them more like purgatory?
Anyway, youâre not allowed to take pictures inside, but thereâs this epic mural. EPIC MURAL. One wall shows heroes and villains battling it out among disaster and chaos. These heroes and villains include Superman, the Terminator, Harry Potter, Doraemon, Hello Kitty, Lara Croft, Neo from the Matrix, on and on. Every time I go back there are new ones. The temple is still a work in progress. That entire section is about to be devoured by a demon. Its mouth surrounds the door of the main building. Two other walls show virtuous people on curly, pink and blue clouds, looking serene and worshipful, being carried above stormy seas full of fish that get bigger and toothier along the way. I noticed a stingray because why not. They are flying towards the requisite large Buddha statue.
The temple is located in Chiang Rai, Thailandâs northernmost provincial capital. My other favorite Chiang Rai attraction is a perfect complement. Itâs called Baan Dam: The Black House. My post on that is coming soon.
reminder series: bleak yet comforting thoughts.
i specifically chose animals that are (or believed to be) extinct due to human influence: thylacine, great auk, baiji, west african black rhino, golden toad, dodo, passenger pigeon, and quagga. there are many other species i could have included. the plants are also based on extinct species, but i found much less information about extinct plants, unfortunately.
the text doesnât necessarily relate to each animal or their extinction. itâs all basically the same idea: letâs all be nice to each other, because today, the universe is vast and incomprehensible, we are all suffering, we are all going to die, and weâre all in this together. for today.
iâm busy for a couple weeks with conventions, but after that iâm considering a companion series with ancient extinct animals, so feel free to send me your favorites :)
the phrase âcuriosity killed the catâ is actually not the full phrase it actually is âcuriosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought it backâ so donât let anyone tell you not to be a curious little baby okay go and be interested in the world uwu
See also:
Blood is thicker than water The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.
Meaning that relationships formed by choice are stronger than those formed by birth.
Letâs not forget that
âJack of all trades, master of noneâ ends with âBut better than a master of one.â
It means that being equally good/average at everything is much better than being perfect at one thing and sucking at everything else. So donât worry if youâre not perfect at something you do! Being okay is better!
These made me feel better
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Thereâs been an interesting byproduct of self-centered responses to these ESW supercuts:
âThis film is problematic.â âBut I like that film.â âRight. Same here. I was just pointing out th-â âI LIKE THAT FILMâ
The video does not mean in any way you canât enjoy TFIOS, nor that enjoying it is an inhumane act, nor that John Green is a bad person (quite the opposite, in fact). It simply means that this is another of countless films that features almost no people of color. TFIOS is a product of systemic racism not a cause.Â
I hope some of the people who watch these videos are working in Hollywood or will eventually be working in Hollywood. I hope they make those people think âwhite is not default.â And in turn I hope that thought extends into âstraight/male/cis is not default.âÂ
Art that reflects society is responsible art.
John Green doesn't mention anyone's race in the book, and most writers have very little control over film adaptations of their work anyway. Makes me think of how Neil Gaiman turned down an offer for a film based on Anansi Boys because they wanted to whitewash the cast. It's a book about the son of Anansi. You know, the god well-known in multiple parts of Africa.
(Also you can totally love things while being conscious of their issues. I love Lord of the Rings. Read-all-the-books-in-a-week-at-age-11 kind of love. Went-to-each-movie-on-Christmas love. My-first-fanfic-ever-age-12-love. I could also go on for hours about how while the books are a product of a white man born early enough to have fought in WWI, the films have no such shred of an excuse for their casting choices. Yes, I love the actors they cast. But I really don't like how nonwhite actors were only given the option of playing orcs, goblins, Urukh-hai, riders of giant elephants that Legolas shoots in the face, etc.)
More importantly: well said, Jeffrey Cranor, and that realization that diversity simply reflects life and that straight/white/male/cis are not naturally "defaults" of humanity is one of the reasons I love Welcome to Night Vale so much.
Most importantly: Dylan Marron is very close to perfection. Go watch the videos. And, like, everything else he's ever done, including the bank commercials because they're cute.
Surreal Saturday
Last week we brought you the first fourteen pages from the third volume, La Cour du Dragon (âThe Court of the Dragonâ), of Max Ernstâs 1934 surrealist graphic novel Une semaine de bontĂŠ (âA Week of Kindnessâ). Today we present the next sixteen pages in this surreal narrative of smoke, dragons, wings, lizards, and ⌠well, what exactly is going on with that leaf thing?
awolfbeneath maxwell-demon freudensteins-monster incredifishface notpedeka hello-leeanne123 museofcherry
I feel that you folks, especially will appreciate the absurdity and artistry of this post. Enjoy.
Adorably tongue-in-cheek. Cracked.com is my favorite, but sometimes Buzzfeed nails it.
wolf cry
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why is it always that the sign that the robot/AI is becoming ~*too human*~ is when they fall in looove
give me a robot who realizes theyâve ~*exceeded their programmed parameters*~ when they get incredibly emotionally attached to their favorite movie and start writing fanfiction about it
#a robot who gets a pet and suddenly this small animal is more important than their programmed mission #a robot who discovers they really REALLY like chocolate #a robot who accidentally breaks a household appliance and cries in frustration #a robot who is woken up by their programmer and mumbles âfive more minutesâ #god there are so many human things for a robot to do #I LOVE IT GIVE ME ALL OF THESE STORIES (via equalseleventhirds)
or even better; a robot who encounters a problem, attempts to find the solution, makes it worse, and then continues attempting to fix it until their programmer arrives to find them banging shit together and swearing
#ReTurning
It feels like eons since I've posted to this blog. My twitter has suffered even worse. That's what not publishing anything new in three years does to you. Ironically - genuinely ironically - getting a BA in English with a Concentration in Creative Writing significantly reduced my publishing efforts for the last year and a half of college. I was busy revising and trying new things. Then I graduated and it was all 0.O ADULTHOOD. But now I have a new contract with Eternal Press! The book is called Seasons Turning. It's not part of the same series as the previous five were, and it's definitely not YA. Synopsis and samples soon.
