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Reblogged victusinveritas
Writing advice from my uni teachers:
- 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.
- Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.
This is legit good writing advice, especially the first bullet point! In playwriting class we did a bit where every bit of dialogue had to be an accusatory question and it was glorious.
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But when I say the “wholesome and funny” YouTube short I have been handed of students surprise showing their teachers 10+ year old photos of themselves and most them were emo/goth in some way and every single one now has medium brown beach waves and is wearing head to toe beige and immediately screams and hides the photo like it’s the most embarrassing thing in the world is a hallmark of a deeply insidious tendency to associate socially acceptable WASPy aesthetics with maturity and responsibility and perpetuates the idea that everyone grows up, “gets right” and becomes the most digestible unobtrusive heterosexual I’m “taking it too seriously”
“It’s not that serious” oh but it issssss because every day we perpetuate the idea that non-conformity of any kind to the white straight middle class standard is inherently immature and gets “left behind” when someone becomes a socially acceptable adult
This idea that maturity is conformity is everywhereeee if you look for even a moment
Reblogged victusinveritas
british towns will be called Fuckmouth or whatever and people will just go with it
obsessed with this
i literally live 10 miles from shitterton and i can confirm that the council had to replace all of their signs with rocks because they kept getting stolen.
i dont want to be in a fandom that critisizes the choices of fictional characters like they are human beings. i want to see THEORY and ANALYSIS and STORY STRUCTURE and CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT!! I WANT PARALLELS AND MOTIFS AND VISUAL CUES!!! They're not REAL they are TOOLS so stop acting like they are people who made bad choices and should be punished. of course they made bad choices!!! that shit is funny and cool to watch!!
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#i just watched a youtube video about the way these were funded and maintained in japan#and how they largely are hemorrhaging money and are propped up by the main stations from major cities#many are closing because of that but in the early days#so many tracks were built that it was cheaper and useful to simply maintain them since the expensive part is building them#unfortunately#because the expensive part is building them#when they are damaged due to natural disaster it is not affordable to rebuild
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Reblogged oldbookist
I have seen some incredible literary/media analysis on tumblr over the years, but most of the arguments I've seen made by people who got a terminal master's degree "in fandom" are unimpressive: an excuse to play with your blorbos for academic credit, a thesis that works backward to justify your faves rather than looking clear-eyed at the canon/cultural studies/history, and then being emotionally prepared to complicate your appreciation.
It is like Biblical archaeologists who start from the premise of literalism and then twist any discovery into evidence of the LORD's strong right hand. You are not engaging open-minded with the possibilities of the historical record, which means your work is at best corny and at worst misinformation.
Bad scholarship has the effect of making you look worse than if you did it as a hobbyist. At least we amateurs are not trying for institutional clout.
Reblogged speckledsolanaceae
calvin and hobbes
"You misspelled Weltanschauung" is one of the funniest punchlines I've ever encountered.
one of my faves
but don’t worry folks, he DID hate the business world more than the art world. barely
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look at them. you took a perfectly fucked up couple and made them normal. why would you do that.