Left it in my other blog...

May 1

Chris Cobb, an artist based in San Francisco, has created an amazing installation in bookshop called Adobe Books- he catalogued every single one of the 20,000 books by color. The project is titled There is Nothing Wrong in This Whole Wide World. They were arranged by hand over a 10 hour period, and he enlisted the help of 16 volunteers. Such beautiful results, they transformed the bookshop overnight.

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I’m sorry, but how the fuck do they find shit??

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Apr 19

stillnotanonymous:

godtricksterloki:

bekahboo2391:

Where has this been all my life!?

I’m half expecting an angelic choir to come on at any second.

No.

‘Said’ is absolutely fine when trying to convey information in dialogue. You overuse these speech tags and I might throw something, she said crabbily.

There seems to be this anti when it comes to ‘said’ or ‘says’ or whatever tense one writes in. Why? I guarantee you notice a whole lot more when people try to avoid using ‘said’ deliberately, than when they sometimes pepper the text with an interesting speech tag.

‘Pepper’ being the operative word as it is supposed to make the dialogue interesting and emphasise a specific emotion or dramatic moment.

Long live Said.

And ‘smirked’, ‘beamed’, and ‘trembled’, aren’t fucking speech tags, so fuck this, seriously.

I’m with Mel; a bunch of these ARE NOT speech tags. And while “says” and “said” can be overused and should be varied, it doesn’t have to be varied with other speech tags, and overusing emotional cues that aren’t show, don’t tell is bad writing.

Er, I may feel strongly about this.

Apr 16

“To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.” Roland Barthes (via ryandonato)

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Apr 13

thadiusmestopheles:

Always use the Oxford Comma…

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Apr 7

kikiarty:

what i mean when i call a character perfect is “wow look at how flawed you are, how broken and three dimensional and well written. look how much of a disaster you are and how you are constantly torn between right and wrong and you make so many mistakes along the way wow look how human you are”

so basically when i say they are perfect what i mean is thank god they aren’t

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Apr 2

imaginarycircus:

theparisreview:

The book-lover’s dilemma, via Rena Maguire.

For more of this morning’s round up, click here.

When is the answer ever not “Yes”?

Mar 24

fiyerro:

i’ve been angry about this for my entire life

Mar 15

laugh-addict:

Do you ever just read other people’s writing and then look back at your own and go:

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Mar 13

Fic writing questions!

So reblog this if I can pop into your box and ask you questions about writing (You can probably make a version for art, too). And you can ask them to me if you really want to.
Specify fandom if you want for any of the questions.
1. Which is your favorite of the fics you've written for X fandom?
2. Favorite piece overall?
3. Which was the hardest to write, in terms of plot?
4. Which has the most "you" in it, however you'd define that?
5. What is an image/set of images that you're particularly proud of?
6. Idea that you always wanted to write but could never make work?
7. Least favorite plot point/chapter/moment?
8. Favorite plot point/chapter/moment?
9. Favorite character to write?
10. Favorite line or lines of dialogue that you've written
11. If I'm showing off just one of your pieces to someone, which one should it be?
12. What WIPs do you have going now? Are you excited about them?
13. Are there any things that might have happened in any of your stories, but you changed them at the last minute? (So-and-so dies, they don't actually kiss, main character has long extended ballet-based dream sequence, etc.)
14. Would you want to write canon for any of your fandoms (like be hired by showrunner to do an episode)? Which one?
15. Does font matter to you when you're writing a draft?
16. 3 favorite comments ever received on fanfic.
17. Any mean comments? How'd you deal with it? Who laid the smackdown?
18. If you could go back and revise one of your older stories, which would it be?
19. Do you make up scenes at work/on the bus/at the gym? Who are the characters that pop up the most? Do you write them down?
20. Go nuts, and talk about writing. <s>Or write me a little ficlet-whatsit using a character/image/line I shall now specify: </s> Go wild.
Go on, my chickens, and ask each other questions

Mar 10

“

During the act of reading engaging fiction, we can lose all sense of time. By the final chapter of the right book, we feel changed in our own lives, even if what we’ve read is entirely made up.

Research says that’s because while you’re engaged in fiction—unlike nonfiction—you’re given a safe arena to experience emotions without the need for self-protection. Since the events you’re reading about do not follow you into your own life, you can feel strong emotions freely.

[…]

The key metric the researchers used is “emotionally transported,” or how deeply connected we are to the story. Previous research has shown that when we read stories about people experiencing specific emotions or events it triggers activity in our brains as if we were right there in the thick of the action.

”

New study by Dutch researchers confirms previous theories that reading fiction makes you a better person by expanding your capacity for empathy.

Also see how storytelling makes us human.

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Left it in my other blog...

Yes, the one from LJ, DW, Twitter, and everywhere else I signed up to. Mostly, this tumblr is about Hawaii Five-0 and Alex O'Loughlin. I try to tag everything; I will always tag spoilers and NSFW posts. Also, I like frogs. And coffee.

Fic writing questions!

Yes, the one from LJ, DW, Twitter, and everywhere else I signed up to. Mostly, this tumblr is about Hawaii Five-0 and Alex O'Loughlin. I try to tag everything; I will always tag spoilers and NSFW posts.

Also, I like frogs. And coffee.