odinsblog:

Excellent thread on how culture vultures and those who perpetrate vocal blackface are rewarded socially and in Hollywood. Mocking or appropriating Black culture is rewarded, but actually being Black is not.

runcibility:

musingsofaraven:

thehappysnail:

iplaytolosebitch:

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Holy fuck

This works best if you keep windows closed.

Another design is using 2 20x25x1 filters, taping them to the sides of the box fan and then to each other so they sort of make a triangle, then cutting cardboard to make a top and bottom to the triangle.

This was discovered as a more effective design during the 2020 US west coast fires.

https://tombuildsstuff.blogspot.com/2013/06/better-box-fan-air-purifier.html

Better Box Fan Air Purifier

If you live on the west coast of the United States, fire season is coming and this is vital.

ehlihr:

kim kitsuragi sketch

kendrysaneela:

vergess:

voidpants:

transmechanicus:

possiblyfrogking:

transmechanicus:

6 hour workday maximum i’m not kidding, if it can’t be done in that timeframe it doesn’t need doing.

this doesn’t apply to jobs like childcare

If i worked in childcare and my 6 hours were up i would start putting babies in ziploc bags and shipping them to Turkmenistan listed as endangered fruits and vegetables

tumblr user possiblyfrogking somehow completely unaware of the concept of shift work

It applies more to jobs like childcare, elder care, and healthcare, where there should be 4 hour direct-care shifts with 6-hour supervisory shifts. That means quintupling staff and making sure that all of that staff gets the same or better pay to the current rate, and that’s how it should be.

The human brain cannot focus correctly on complex tasks for more than 4 hours, or simpler tasks for more than 6 per day. It can’t. That’s not how neurology works.

The fact that we’ve been conned into thinking the mostdifficult,highestvalue work tasks in the modern world (caring for those in need) should be done with the least regard for actual safety and effectiveness is obscene.

Capitalism fucking rots your soul, and convinces you that the most delicate and difficult work should be done by people too impoverished and exhausted to even see straight.

Shut the fuck up. Get a shorter work day and take a nap, then maybe you’ll be able to see how backwards that line of thought is.

In my childcare job we work in 9 hour shifts with an hour lunch break (so 8 hours technically but we’re there for 9) cause the nursery is open for 11 hours it would be MUCH better to work in 6 hour shifts cause guess what happens? Some of the workers get tired and end up snapping at the kids when they don’t deserve to be snapped at because they’re so exhausted. Make shifts shorter it’s more pleasant for the kids and the adults

charlesoberonn:

I feel like a better rule than “Show, don’t tell” is “Express, don’t state”

Because a lot of people interpret “show don’t tell” as “use visuals instead of dialog” or “play out scenes instead of referencing/describing them” which is an arbitrary rule that doesn’t communicate well what the issue is.

What I mean by “Express, don’t state” is that the facts of your story should be conveyed through the story’s elements instead of stated in the story.

If a character is depressed or guilt ridden, it should be expressed through their attitude, their actions, their decisions, their reactions, etc. instead of stating “this character is depressed”. Whether it’s done through dialog or a visual of a rainy cloud doesn’t matter, because it’s still conveyed directly to the audience instead of being evident in the text itself.

In fact, sometimes having a character describe a scene or a diagnosis or whatever using dialog can express a lot more than showing the scene itself.

rabbits-of-negative-euphoria:

if you’re looking for great and diverse advice on how to write unfamiliar subject matter, google “what hollywood gets wrong about [topic]”

I’ve been doing this for years with everything from pregnancy to house fires to addiction to terminal illness. all your results will be from people who have actually been through it, and you’ll find that none of them have the exact same experience, but they all agree on one thing: the media gets it wrong

boilingheart:

for the love of god if you’re writing deaf/mute characters and they’re using sign language to talk PLEASE use quotation marks, don’t do just italics or brackets or whatever other thing it is people do. sign language is STILL A LANGUAGE. just because it’s not spoken doesn’t mean it’s not real dialogue. if you’re writing someone speaking spanish, do you write their dialogue like ‘[the flower district is down south,] she said in spanish’ like NO!!! IT DOESN’T WORK LIKE THAT, USE QUOTATIONS MARKS AND JUST SAY THEY SIGNED.

just know that you can describe their facial expressions! or how flowy their hand movements are, if they move excitedly or animatedly when happy, if they’re slamming their hands and moving aggressively when angry, how their brows scrunch or how rigid their hands get, you can still be creative and describe what they’re conveying even though they’re not using a spoken language. watch videos of people signing! look at how beautifully expressive it is! it is a LANGUAGE, treat and write it like one. use quotation marks

malglories:

for all you writers out there:

donjon has tons of generators. for calendars. for demographics of a country and city. for names (both fantastical and historical) of people, nations, magics, etc.

this site lets you generate/design a city, allowing you to choose size, if you want a river or coast, walls around it, a temple, a main keep, etc.

this twitter, uncharted atlas, tweets generated maps of fantasy regions every hour.

andvulgar allows you to create a language, based on linguistic and grammatical structures!!! go international phonetic alphabet!!!

friendlytroll:

incurablenecromantic:

Sometimes people like to write things about florist’s shops.  Here are two things you need to know, the most egregiously wrong things.

1. It makes no fucking sense to sketch out a bouquet before you make it.  Every individual flower is different in a way that cannot really be adjusted the way other building materials can be adjusted, and each individual bouquet is unique.  Just put the fucking flowers together.

2. No one — in months and months of working at the flower shop — has ever cared what the flower/color of the flower means.  No one’s ever asked.  It’s just not something people tend to care about outside of fiction and it’s certainly not something most florists know.  You know what florists know?  What looks good and is thematically appropriate.

Here’s an actual list of the symbology of flowers, as professionals use it:

Yellow – for friends, hospitals
Pink– girls, girlfriends, babies, bridesmaids
Red – love
Purple – queens
White – marriage and death (DO NOT SEND TO HOSPITALS)
Pink and purple – ur mum
Red, orange, and yellow – ur mum if she’s stylish
Red, yellow, blue – dudes and small children
Blue and white – rare, probably a wedding
Red and white – love for fancy bitches

Here are what the flowers actually mean to a florist:

The Fill It Out flowers:

Carnations– fuck u these are meaningless filler-flowers, not even your administrative assistant likes them, show some creativity
Alstroemeria – by and large very similar to carnations but I like them better
Tea roses – cute and lil and come several to a stalk, a classy filler flower
Moluccella laevis – filler flower but CHOICE
Delphinium– not as interesting as moluccella but purple so okay I guess
Blue thistle – FUCK YEAH, some fucking textural variety at last!  you’re getting this for a dude, aren’t you?
Chrysanthemums– barely better than carnations but better is still better
Gladiolus– ooh, risky business, someone understands the use of the Y-axis, very good

Focal points:

Long-stem roses – yeah whatever
Lilies – LBD, looks good with everything, get used as often as possible
Hydrangeas – thirsty fuckers, divas of the flower world and rightly so, treat them right and they make you look good
Gerbera daisies – the rose’s hippie cousin, hotter but no one admits it
Peonies – CHA-CHING, everybody’s absolute favorite but you need guap
Orchids – if this isn’t for a wedding you’re probably trying too hard but they’re expensive so keep ordering them

You know what matters?  THE CUSTOMER’S BUDGET.  THAT’S TELLING.

-$20 – if you’re not under 12, fuck off, get your sugar something else
$30– good for bouquets but an arrangement will be lame
$40– getting there, there’s something that can be done with that.  you can get some gerbs or roses with that and not have them look stupidly solo.
$50 to $70 – tolerable
$80 – FINALLY.  It sounds elitist but this really is the basic amount of money you should expect to spend on an arrangement that matters.  That’s your Mother’s Day arrangement.  You’re probably not going to spend $80 on a bouquet.
$90 to $130 – THE GOOD SHIT, you’re likely to get some orchids
$130+ – Weddings and death.  This amount of money gets you a memorial arrangement or a handmade bridal bouquet.  Don’t spend this on a Mother’s Day or a Babe I Love You arrangement, buy whosits a massage or something.

Miscellaneous:

• Everything needs greening and if you don’t think that you’re an idiot. 
• As a new employee, when you start making arrangements, you can’t see the mistakes you’re making because you’re brand new and you’re learning an art form from the ground up.
• With a few exceptions customers don’t have a clear plan in mind.  They want you to develop the bouquet for them.  They want something that will delight their little sweetbread but you’re lucky if they know that person’s favorite color, let alone flower.
• Flower shops don’t typically have every kind of flower in every kind of color.  Customers generally aren’t assed about that.  Most people don’t care about the precise shade of the rose or having daffodils in July, because they’re not boning up on flower language before they buy.  That would imply that they’ve got a clear bouquet in mind and, again, they don’t.
• Being a florist is essentially a lot like what I imagine being a mortician is about.  You’re basically keeping dead things looking good for as long as possible.  You keep the product in the fridge so it doesn’t rot and look horrible by the time the family gets a whack at it, and in the meanwhile you put it in a nice container.

Anyway that’s flowers.

this is magnificent and I love hearing about ppl job feilds

datsderbunnyblog:

Can I say something about my experience with chronic pain representation in fiction?

A trope that is very common with characters who live with chronic pain is a well-meaning able-bodied person always encouraging (and often nagging) them to rest or to use mobility aids or use pain relief/remedies etc, and the disabled character keeps resisting their help or advice.

This isn’t inherently a problem, and I do like seeing it/writing about it from time to time. If you interact with people who live with chronic pain, this is very likely to be something you experience, because people usually feel as though they want to help and don’t quite know how. However, one thing that is very rarely explored well is a character’s motivation for resisting that support.

Sometimes, the side effects of pain medication are unbearable. Especially when we are used to the pain, it can be easier to maintain that equilibrium than to gamble with side effects that may be worse than the pain or may be simply more difficult to cope with or more obstructive to what we are trying to do.

Sometimes, a mobility aid is just plain cumbersome. I rarely use a walking stick on stairs, because it is awkward, I have to concentrate on not tripping over the stick as well as my own feet and all in all the benefit just isn’t worth the trouble. If I know I’m going to need two hands free to use an umbrella or open doors or use my phone while I’m walking, I may choose not to sacrifice one of my hands to use a cane. That’s my judgement, and it is more accurate than an outside perspective.

Sometimes, especially for people with fluctuating and/or global pain conditions (like CRPS, ME etc), using a mobility aid like a walking stick will simply shift the pain from the leg to the arm. Again, our judgement here will always be better than that of a nondisabled person.

Often, and this is the most important one to me, drawing our attention to back our pain when we desperately need to ignore it is often incredibly unhelpful. This part is more nuanced and by no means one-size-fits-all, but it is something that people who have never experienced chronic pain will never understand fully, so they need to be aware of it in writing.

It is not the same as an acute (temporary) injury like breaking a bone. You can’t just imagine the last time you were injured and then imagine what it would have been like to have been injured for longer. It’s a completely different ball game that requires completely different coping mechanisms.

We don’t push through pain because we’re being professional martyrs for the sake of it, we push through because we have things we need to do that won’t get done otherwise. We don’t have the luxury of acknowledging pain all the time, because if I tried that I would have been spending every waking moment thinking about it for years. Some of us are never, ever pain-free in our entire lives.

So please, when you’re writing about characters in chronic pain and their interactions with nondisabled folks, please consider that nondisabled advice isn’t always right, that we know our bodies better even than doctors will, and that nagging disabled people to change their own behaviour without their consent may not be as helpful as you think.

Above all, remember to give us representation where we have agency and motivations completely unrelated to our disability, because we do.

elletromil:

anchored-in-high-tide:

Reblog to save a writer’s sanity (the last bit that’s left)

holorifle:

here is a super helpful website for this kinda thing!

the first result isn’t always the one you’re looking for but when you press enter it’ll give you a ton of words related to your query that’ll probably have what you’re wanting, or something better

here’s some examples:

what-even-is-thiss:

*wakes up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat*

WAIT IT’S CALLED A THROW PILLOW

spiderrrling:

I am a(n):

⚪ Male

⚪ Female

Writer

Looking for

⚪ Boyfriend

⚪ Girlfriend

An incredibly specific word that I can’t remember

@solrosan calling you (and me) out but also this looks really helpful

silverhand:

naamahdarling:

jewfrogs:

this is so mean but sometimes i see published writing and suddenly no longer feel insecure about my own writing ability. like well okay that got published so im guessing i dont have much to worry about

I have a friend who is an editor, and gets submissions of mostly poetry and short stories.

I have had a glimpse into her slush pile, and let me tell you, the contents were unbelievable and immediately disabused me of the notion that reading through submissions is in any way glamorous. People have the nerve to submit unhinged paranoid ramblings, fetish porn, and a seemingly endless supply of poems about masturbation.

I no longer feel like my fiction is somehow an imposition on the people who read it. It may be forgettable, but at least it isn’t typeset to look like sperm.

Do not be afraid to submit your work. Your competition is not only worse than you think, it’s worse than you ever imagined.

Do these three things to get to the top of the slush pile:

1. The place has a style sheet. Use it. They say they want your MS in 16.5 point Papyrus italic with 0.8 inch margins all around, guess what you’re doing before you send it off? Save As, reformat, send it. In the absence of a specific guide: Courier 12 pt (Times New Roman if you must), double spaced, align left, tab 0.5 at each new paragraph.
2. Check the word count. Don’t submit novellas to 2500 word short story venues. BTW, you format the MS in that old style above because the question isn’t literal words. Courier 12pt double spaced gives you 250 words per page for typesetting purposes. 2500 words is 10 ms pages, 5000 is 20 pages, etc.
3. Don’t send your romance to Analog or your war story to Harlequin. If it’s a cross-genre story, be sure there’s enough of what the publication is focused on to interest them, but breaking through is hard if that’s not something they usually do.

That’s basically what every single editors’ panel at every con I’ve ever been to has boiled down to. And invariably, someone tries to get up and argue with them, not realizing it’s not a discussion.

Bonus tip: Don’t be in any way cute in your cover letter. Just the facts/Luke Skywalker’s message to Jabba the Hut in ROTJ.

Enclosed/attached is my story <Title> for your publication <Magazine>. It is x (rounded to the nearest 500) words. I can be reached at <email> (that you check regularly and isn’t likely to dump things into spam) and <phone>.

(If submitting a hard copy: The manuscript is disposable. A SASE is enclosed for your response./A SASE is included for return of the manuscript and your response.)

Thank you for your consideration.

If submitting a novella length piece or greater, a brief and completesummary is appropriate.

In the midst of an interstellar revolt against an evil galactic Empire, vital weapon plans fall into the hands of a farm boy on the edges of the galaxy. With the help of an aging warrior from the Old Republic, and a smuggler with a dark past and his imposing alien copilot, the four set out to deliver them to the rebel forces but are instead flung into a rescue mission to save the beautiful princess who stole the plans as worlds are destroyed by the might of the Empire’s weapon, the Death Star.

Captured by the Death Star on route to deliver the plans, they manage to escape the base with the princess, the old warrior sacrificing himself to make this possible. As the Death Star approaches the rebel base, they use the captured plans to stage a desperate final stand. In a fierce space battle of single-pilot ships over the surface of the moon-sized weapon, the farm boy manages to make the critical shot with an unexpected assist from the smuggler, destroying it.

Never under any circumstance put a cliffhanger into a query letter summary. There is no faster way to get the entire MS binned than doing that.

Happy writing.

PS “Top of the slush pile” means into the top 25% of manuscripts received. Three quarters of the submissions don’t take the trouble to do even those three basic steps.

Now, that still means 25/100 submissions or 250/1000 submissions, but it still improves your odds and forms the basis for starting a relationship with the publisher for the next piece you send them.

PPS This is obviously about prose. Poetry certainly has its own submission rules, and I know none of them. If you’re writing poetry, find out what they are.

thebaconsandwichofregret:

bigscaryd:

prokopetz:

Bad: Fantasy protagonist is able to make contemporary pop culture references because they’re secretly from our world.

Good: Fantasy protagonist appears to be making contemporary pop culture references, but they’re actually references to storytelling tropes from their own world that conveniently have very similar connotations to the real-world tropes they resemble in spite of stemming from totally different contexts. The explanation for this is longer than the works in which they appear.

Better-than-Best: they’re actually making nearly-incomprehensible references to their own culture, but though Herculean effort Your Humble Translator has found appropriate references that the reader will understand. They will tell you about this, at length, in footnotes and appendices.

God authors who make up elaborate cultural references to tell us about in lengthy footnotes and appendices are so fucking sexy and I love them so much.

chaos-monkeyy:

revakah:

al13ngal:

headspace-hotel:

headspace-hotel:

tip

go to this website

click the phrase generator and do this

endless supply of dnd spells

Some are more helpful than others, but hey.

Part 2

Sorry but if someone says “shredding surgery” or “unhinged decay” while looking at me I’d fucking die before they even finish casting the spell

Fic title generator

dirtied cry

punishandenslavesuckers:

Sometimes the real tragedy is watching heroes burn themselves to the ground because no one will step in and tell them they have value outside of their inevitable death fighting for good.

Heroism of the front-line kind is not sustainable and the compact a hero should have with their society is eventually someone or something else moves forward and tags them out.

So much of heroism in stories and life is tunnel vision and the inability to step back because no one else is stepping forward. My favorite stories are the ones where the hero is on their last legs… and someone new (who was allowed to grow because of the time the hero helped buy) steps forward and pulls them out.

yonderlands:

I think the thing I love most about fanfiction is that no two authors will ever have exactly the same understanding of a character. If you gave multiple writers the same situation with the same characters, none of them would write the same thing or have the characters react in the exact same way, yet every time it would still be completely believable. Every author understands, relates to, and connects with characters in a different way and that will always show in their writing because they’ll bring out certain aspects of a character’s personality that others won’t even pick up on, and still the character will be written in a way that rings of how they were originally in whatever piece of media they’re from. Nobody will write the same thing with the same characters, even if they’re using identical prompts or tropes, and it provides so much variety and enrichment and it’s honestly just a beautiful thing to see how differently everyone views their favourite characters while simultaneously seeing them the same.

slumpyspaceprincess:

she-who-fights-and-writes:

lemon-embalmer:

lemon-embalmer:

fantasy characters: “Geez”

me: who the fuck spread Christianity there

this two-years-old shitpost just gained a hundred notes who the snickerdoodles dug it up

W H A T

@rogha

demytasse:

ironinkpen:

When writing couples, I like to use the Kiss Rule:

• If they have to kiss for you to know they’re in love, you’re not writing a romance right.

I couldn’t agree more with this. As someone who has been married for 7 years (together for 9), kissing hardly proves anything of love, at least on its own. The starry-eyed lover type of intimacy is cute, but using it exclusively is like eating fondant off a cake. It’s sweet, looks polished and pretty, but lacks robust the flavour of combined elements — fillings, frosting, toppings, and the cake itself.

It’s gestures often overlooked, silent acts of respect without calling attention to them. Subtleties mixed with the obvious.

The good, bad, and the ugly.

• playful banter, ribbing, insults/backhanded compliments
• recognising ticks/tells and how to respond (e.g. specific throat clear before they speak)
• tolerating inconsequential bad habits (e.g. puts dishes beside dishwasher, not in it)
• listening to the same stories multiple times as if they were new
• developing similar quirks (e.g. particular laugh)
• inside jokes
• mock fighting, mini competitions
• blatant honesty, humble apologies, knowing when to drop an argument
• saying nothing/talking for hours
• tending to illness or injuries
• pokes, pet/pats, head/shoulder bumps, bites, tickles, cuddling, long gazes, stroking hair
• grooming, restraighten clothing, touch up hair, brush off crumbs
• singing and dancing together
• understanding your partner’s hurt rather than just apologising
• trust and respect
• knowing how to cheer the other up, how to piss them off, humour them
• reassurance (e.g. I’m here to talk, you’re doing a great job, your insecurities don’t define you)
• associating sights, smells, touches, songs, phrasing, etc with them (e.g. “I saw a pigeon today and thought ‘is this my partner?’”
• hating dumb things they do, but finding them hard to live without and secretly loving them
• compromising, sacrificing, reciprocation

Love is unspoken, tolerant, and a spectrum of emotions.

It’s accepting that you’ll fuckin’ hate their entire being at times, exclaim with vitriol, “god, you’re so fucking annoying” while you smile and know that it’s trivial in the grand scheme.

It’s real. It’s healthy. It’s fun. That’s what I try to encapsulate in my sappy romantic fiction because realistic fluff is so much more gratifying.

I hope this helps.

bloodraven55:

bloodraven55:

discourse about redemption arcs would vastly improve if instead of always asking “is this character redeemable?” people started asking “what message would it send to redeem this character?” and “would it be logical or satisfying on a narrative level to redeem this character?”

also i am begging people to realise that redemption is not the only possible kind of development for a villain. they can progress without it being a positive change. it’s so boring and restrictive when the only reaction to a new bad guy is debating “will they be redeemed or not?”

notajellymadebutler:

windymischeif:

leaking-fountain-pen:

abyssal-glory:

sindri42:

pocketyhat:

theosartisticthematics:

catto-kun:

monstersandmaw:

harpsicalbiobug:

cayliana:

gehayi:

morathor:

dickless-mic:

crockpotcauldron:

Boring old werewolf instincts:

Sexual jealousy

Constant aggression

Rigid hierarchy

Must win sports

Homophobia And Sexism Is Normal™

Eat people

Cool new werewolf instincts:

There is no five second rule

Corvids are friends

Hang out as a pack

Karaoke

Gotta pee

Also consider:

Separation anxiety

Unconditional love and loyalty

Being able to sleep in almost any situation or position

Irresistible urge to chase squirrels and rabbits

Hating the vacuum cleaner

Wanting to do everything with friends

Loudly and repeatedly announcing to housemates that someone is at the door

Long, shouted conversations to other werewolves across the neighborhood (bonus points at 2am)

Taking advantage of any and all free food

Werewolf-vampire solidarity

Fighting any animal that trespasses into the backyard

Boundless energy

Too much energy

Eating out of the trash if it smells tasty

Being bad at sports because you don’t want to let anyone else take the ball from you. Then destroying the ball in front of everyone because you want to make a point

Trying to fight things 10x your size like a fucking idiot

Being unable to hold a grudge for more than a few hours

Trying to make people feel bad for you over mundane things that aren’t actually that bad. And somehow succeeding.

Snoring

Needing to try a bit of your friends’ food, even if you’ve tried it 5645674 times before and have never once liked it

Getting way too friendly with random strangers

Being in a love-hate relationship with water

Digging. For no reason.

Thinking you’re a badass despite being a hyperactive ball of emotions and hedonism

Loud sobbing while pressing yourself up against the sliding glass door at your friends who locked you out because they were tired of your bullshit and wanted some goddamn peace and quiet

Okay this one is a gem:

“ Loudly and repeatedly announcing to housemates that someone is at the door “

No alpha/beta/omega werewolves because science figured out LONG ago that that concept is, for wolves, incorrect.

@margoteve@followmetoyourdoom

So most of these are very dog oriented, which makes sense to me, since dogs are just wolves that have co-evolved with us for thousands and thousands of years BUT I wanted to add a few that are wild wolf based:

• Multigenerational households!
  
• Kids get really excited when someone comes home with groceries
  
• “I can HELP put away the food!” “Oh, and have you whisk away the ice cream like last week? I’m fine, dear.”
  
• Love to travel and follow food trends
  
• Mostly very social and must have roommates/family/significant other/kids/friends around
  
• However, not uncommon to travel alone for periods of time, especially after leaving home
  
• Big friendly communal meals with lots of ritual around who gets served in what order
  
• “Let grandma take her pick of the turkey first. It’s respectful, and she won’t take kindly to you cutting the line.”
  
• Full pantries, stocking up on basics, the kind of people who always have extra oatmeal, or batteries, or a jump cable
  
• Can hold conversations using body language and eye contact without saying a word
  
• Cuddlers, especially with the social group
  
• Yelling to get everyone to gather, and phone chains for anyone who lives further away
  
• Lots of singing, the pack has a bunch of favorite songs that everyone knows by heart, and some may be song writers
  
• “Can you smell this? Does this smell weird? Does this smell good?”
  
• Lots of candles and incense with unusual scents
  
• Passing houses and farms and land down through generations
  
• Love home renovation
  
• Communal child care and sometimes communal nursing
  
• Kids are all really into wrestling and being outside
  
• When someone is ready to leave the household, the younger they leave the further they tend to travel. Someone who leaves at 18 might go to another country, but someone who leaves at 26 might just move a town away.
  
• Whether someone moves far or close to home, it’s not unusual to move back in at home a few times before settling down
  
• “You know the futon is always open for you. Your cousins are in your old bedroom, but you’re always welcome!”
  
• Kinda grumpy about neighbors pushing property boundaries
  
• “Why do they have to let the damn mulberry tree hang over OUR driveway?”
  
• Good endurance runners
  
• Late walks at night, naps in the middle of the day
  
• Really playful, especially with kids
  
• Lots of rough housing and board game nights!
  

I’ve been looking for the one with the wolf-aspects added for a while and I found it again! Reblogging for A+ extra wolfy content!

@theosartisticthematics

I love love love everything about this

@dserpentes

https://tapas.io/episode/1559785

@leaking-fountain-pen

FINALLY GOOD WEREWOLF CONTENT

@jellymadebutler This is 1000% the Wolf Pack

Omg 1000%!!! I love all of these!

pippastrelle:

ghostzzy:

reminder to myself about the process of drafting & revising:

• first drafts are for making it exist
  
• second drafts are for making it functional
  
• third drafts are for making it effective
  

This is the most important thing I’ve learnt in writing my novel. Have fun the first time but know your first pass isn’t going to be perfect

tjswritingstuff:

writer-zero:

corystssides:

Sometimes you just have to start 13 shitty wips in order to get to a story you really wanna write.

I… have never considered a mindset where I don’t feel guilty for coming up with a new WIP once a month and then giving up on it within the first 3 chapters.

An idea is just that an idea, it’s not an obligation. You don’t have to force yourself to write something you don’t believe would be worth reading. Ideas are cheap. They’re a dime a dozen.  You can start a million of them if that’s what it takes to find the one you want to work on.

wafflewrites-blog:

So… I found this and now it keeps coming to mind. You hear about “life-changing writing advice” all the time and usually its really not—but honestly this is it man.

I’m going to try it.