Reflection of the Mind

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ways to get away with no attribution:

-dialogue immediately follows the character’s action:

Alex looked up from his laptop. “Have you seen this article?”

-dialogue immediately precedes the character’s action

“I can’t believe you didn’t tell me this earlier!” Cassandra flung the newspaper across the room.

-dialogue is bouncing between two characters and we know who started (cut this with action or attribution every 3 or 4 quotes, though, so the reader doesn’t lose track)

“We’re working on it,” Wilder said.

“Oh, really?”

“Really. We should have definitive results this week.”

Akkadian

Arabic

Aramaic

Church Slavonic

Egyptian (hieroglyphics and Demotic)

Elamite

Ethiopic (Ge’ez)

Etruscan

Gaulish

Georgian

Gothic

Greek

Hebrew

Hittite

Latin

Mayan (various related languages/dialects)

Old Chinese

Old English

Old French

Old Frisian

Old High German

Old Irish

Old Norse

Old Persian

Old Turkic

Sanskrit

Sumerian

Syriac

Ugaritic

if you’re anything like me, working on a computer is a dangerous thing. i’ll get distracted by everything - that one email i should respond to, all the pictures of my dog, tumblr, and so on. I recently discovered an amazing resource to stop that.

it’s called writer’s block, and is free to download! 

when you open it, it shows this screen, where you can choose either a time limit or word goal

then when you start, it opens a document that fills the entire screen like this

and you cannot quit the app or open anything else until your word/time quota is filled. i just wrote half of my english speech that i’ve been putting off all morning, and it took only 20 minutes!