apple turnover

it was Evelyn Carnahan (later, O’Connell) from the hit films The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy Returns (2001)

Part 2!

US: 2,959,064.44 square miles (7,663,941.7 km2)

Australia: 2,969,907 sq mi (7,692,024 km2)

And the person above has the impact of the Mercator projection completely backwards: North America and Europe appear much larger than they actually are due to their latitudes. Most notably Greenland looks like it is bigger than Africa! (It isn’t.)

In the picture below, the pale blue is Mercator and the dark blue is actual size:

And here is Africa vs Greenland:

First, it's a key tool to being able to identify what you actually like about the media you enjoy, which can help you replicate or reflect those things in whatever way works for your story without also replicating things that aren't working.

For example, to be able to identify and understand that I find the romance stronger than the other major plot arcs in a book I enjoy--and thus tease out what in the romance I find successful--I have to be able to criticize the plot of it, even though I enjoyed the book overall. It doesn't mean I enjoy the book less, it just means that I am able to separate out what didn't work as well (and why) from what did, so I can more effectively analyze and understand what did work (and why).

Second, it helps you remember that even good or enjoyable things are imperfect, and something need not be perfect to be good or enjoyable. Defeat the perfectionist that lives in your brain.

Last, to improve your own writing, you both need to be able to criticize it and productively receive criticism of it without hating it in the process, which means you need to have internalized that idea that criticism of a thing does not equal dislike of it. You also just have to be willing to criticize things without feeling bad about it, and to take criticism without feeling bad about it 

I always look at cookbooks for people who have no energy/time to do elaborate meal preparations, and roll my eyes. Like, you want me to stay on my feet for long enough to prepare 15 different ingredients from scratch, and use 5 different pots and pans, when I have chronic fatigue and no dishwasher?

These people seem to get it, though. It's very simple in places. It's basically the cookbook for people who think, 'I'm really bored of those same five low-spoons meals I eat, but I can't think of anything else to cook that won't exhaust me'. And it's free!