swans gathered for you

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the contents of the letter under the cut if anyones curious:

An amazing recent fossil discovery: a whole school of fish! A single slab of limestone from the Green River Formation in North America contained 259 fish of the extinct Erismatopterus levatus species. They lived between 56 to 34 million years ago.

On the top half, there’s five different people who have stitched the video as different fantasy creatures or adventurers sitting in a tavern and singing along to “Soldier, Poet, King” by the Oh Hellos. All of them are in full costume.

On the lower half, a man in modern clothing stares in shock, with the caption “middle aged man who walked through a portal behind a burger king”

If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.

Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.

Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.

The “talking animals that have culture/societies” genre of books