Whole-heartedly BEGGING writers to unlearn everything schools taught you about how long a paragraph is. If theres a new subject, INCLUDING ACTIONS, theres a new paragraph. A paragraph can be a single word too btw stop making things unreadable
Ok So I’m getting more notes than I thought quicker than I expected! So I’m gonna elaborate bc I want to.
I get it, when you’re someone who writes a lot and talks a lot, it’s hard to keep things readable, but it’s not as much about cutting out the fat(that can be a problem) so much as a formatting issue.
You are also actively NERFING yourself by not formatting it correctly, it can make impactful scenes feel so, so much better. Compare this,
To THIS.
Easier to read, and hits harder.
No more over-saturated paragraphs. Space things out.
@s1ld3n4f1l WAIT WAIT WAIT SO TRUE LITERALLY LITERALLY
YES! Okay!!! THANK YOU FOR SAYING THIS!
As an English AND a Journalism major, I feel this SO FUCKING HARD!
In journalism, a “graf” is NEVER more than four sentences at the very MAX and two or three sentences on average.
Anytime you change the subject in the slightest, or if you have a quote, you start a new graf.
I noticed I was applying this, in a slightly milder way, to my English/Creative Writing AND TRIED TO UNLEARN IT to go back to what I was taught in high school which is DUMB
I mean, the whole point of journalistic formatting is to make it easier for people to read, and therefor hold their attention for longer. It’s literallywhat it’s made for.
Any way, moral of the story, paragraphing is SUPER important.
I saw this in the tags with @grayathena and I wanted to explain a couple things about Ollie.
I’m not upset about this comment, because you are 100% correct. If I could start over again, I would’ve kept Oliver as an indoor cat.
We got him as a rescue. His mom was abandoned by her family and he was outdoor with no human contact for the first 10 weeks of his life.
While I call him “my cat” he was technically my parents. We live in the country side, and my step dad has only ever known outdoor cats and thought it would help Ollie adjust better to give him the freedom.
Since Ollie had most of his survival skills from when he was abdonned, he LOVED being outdoors. Hunting and sunbathing were his two favorite things. However, I have no doubt that if we had actually made an effort to train him to be indoors when he was still young, he could’ve been.
But it always worried me. He’d come home quite frequently with little cuts on his ears and neck (thankfully nothing too deep). He got worms frequently from eating birds, mice, and squirrel and was on worm meds quite often. He wasn’t as socialized as he would’ve been if he spent more time around us.
It wasn’t until after Ollie’s death and my twin put her foot down about our other cats, her cats, being indoor cats that my mom fully realized. Even then, my step dad still didn’t seem to understand and kept “accidentally” letting them out.
Learn from my mistakes. Keep your cats indoors and PLEASE use more humane methods of pest control as poisons and fatal traps can easily kill domestic animals too.
Good morning! And Happy Pride, my lovelies! ❤️ Whether or not you’re out in personal lives I am so so proud of you as a person for being who you are ️❤
It feels a little weird bc I know I’m not going on here for most of the day and that I’ve got until noon (though church is from 9 to 11) but anyway hi I’m still here for a few hours lol
Hey quick question: do you guys think I should change my pfp before I leave or not? And if I do, should it be Surprised Pikachu Kix or another Kix pic?
Gonna give the chapter a listen, so it should be up in about an hour, hopefully!!
I totally forgot my family was going bowling and we left when I was halfway through so I’ll listen on the way there and try to upload from my phone for once ig????
Gonna give the chapter a listen, so it should be up in about an hour, hopefully!!
I totally forgot my family was going bowling and we left when I was halfway through so I’ll listen on the way there and try to upload from my phone for once ig????
I say this lovingly and as someone who calls herself a nerd but he really is. Every time I write his POV he’s talking about research and wanting to be a medic since he was little and looking up more medical things in his free time and cross-referencing not to mention the puns and medical humor
That man is definitely a nerd
How did I forget to add the fact that he literally uncovers Palpatine’s plan just like Fives but with Less clues than Fives bc of Fives trying to not get caught oh my life
Like dude that’s a lot of research to do, especially while actively trying not to die in campaigns
I say this lovingly and as someone who calls herself a nerd but he really is. Every time I write his POV he’s talking about research and wanting to be a medic since he was little and looking up more medical things in his free time and cross-referencing not to mention the puns and medical humor
