Writing is the way I proccess, and reading is the way I escape.
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I made the Queer Book Club blog earlier than I thought I would.
So go here and complete the poll in the sidebar and hopefully next week we can start reading!
(First pick is between Malinda Lo’s books.)
It’s tied and we need to choose one by Monday! So if you haven’t voted yet, please do.
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“A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
~Thomas Mann
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Q:when's the next tattoo chapter coming out? I check every day for it, and I hope you're okay and everything <3
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Sorry about this! Um, I really don’t know, actually…. I’m working on other stuff right now because I was starting to get tired of writing Tattoo. I just need a break from that. But I am still working on stuff. So yeah. Hopefully I can make something available soon, but we will see.
“Do you want to go for a ride?” and I never say no. “I know exactly where were going” and I nodded my head. We listened to the radio and talked about anything and everything and we got to this tiny little island and we drove all the way until the road ended. We smoked a cigarette and enjoyed the scenery. Tiny little things like this kind of makes life worth living. Those rare glimpses of beauty, when you’re able to notice that the sky is blue and how fine the sand on the beach is, or how round the rocks are and how white the snow is.
Look how simple it is, this small gesture from someone I never meet outside of the hospital, someone who works here - he was bored so he asked me if I wanted to come so that he had an excuse to get away from work. This tiny little thing made my day.
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I find that, when writing bios, it’s really helpful to look at a list or a chart like the one above. Picking two or three traits from each chart and building a character based around them will give you a really interesting bio, because they will serve as a reminder that characters need depth and dimension.
Independent and clever.
VS.
Independent, clever, pretentious, and stubborn.
The first combination doesn’t come with any flaws, whereas the second will provide a more dynamic character.
HEY GUYS, this showed up on my dash this morning, and I thought it would be helpful if any of you are writing characters and don’t want them to come out as picture-perfect Mary Sues! :)
One thing I’d like to add, though, is that you should make sure the character traits don’t conflict in an oxymoronic way…. for example: Ambitious and lazy, or patient and impulsive. WAT. (Believe it or not, I HAVE seen it happen before! Don’t do it!!)
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If you can quit, then quit. If you can’t quit, you’re a writer.
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The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it’s about and why you’re doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising (“but of course that’s why he was doing that, and that means that…”) and it’s magic and wonderful and strange.
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Source: writingquotes
Your Brain on Fiction
“The brain, it seems, does not make much of a distinction between reading about an experience and encountering it in real life; in each case, the same neurological regions are stimulated. Keith Oatley, an emeritus professor of cognitive psychology at the University of Toronto (and a published novelist), has proposed that reading produces a vivid simulation of reality, one that “runs on minds of readers just as computer simulations run on computers.” Fiction — with its redolent details, imaginative metaphors and attentive descriptions of people and their actions — offers an especially rich replica. Indeed, in one respect novels go beyond simulating reality to give readers an experience unavailable off the page: the opportunity to enter fully into other people’s thoughts and feelings.”
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Source: The New York Times
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