May 2013
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Fuck Yeah Character Development!: Writing Tips... →
bookgeekconfessions: Romance is a popular genre, but it’s often handled quite badly. Relationships that would be unhealthy - even abusive - are frequently treated as normal, even desirable. So, here’s a list to help you avoid some common pitfalls. Make sure the characters have…
May 16th
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“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a...”
– Joss Whedon (via azestforlife)
May 16th
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May 16th
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This was a photo that Felice Fawn posed on...
foundstrength: fuckyeahletgetsfit: workoutmotherfucker: copequinn: and she uploaded that saying “breakfast ^_^” … Just can’t seem to get it right, can we society?  Wow Another reason I’m not on facebook. I’m also nervous about tumblr for the same reason, though.
May 13th
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May 9th
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May 8th
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When Harry Met Sally
Sally: He just met her... She's supposed to be his transitional person, she's not supposed to be the ONE. All this time I thought he didn't want to get married. But, the truth is, he didn't want to marry me. He didn't love me.
Harry: If you could take him back now, would you?
Sally: No. But why didn't he want to marry me? What's the matter with me?
Harry: Nothing.
Sally: I'm difficult.
Harry: You're challenging.
Sally: I'm too structured, I'm completely closed off.
Harry: But in a good way.
Sally: No, no, no, I drove him away. AND, I'm gonna be forty.
Harry: When?
Sally: Someday.
Harry: In eight years.
Sally: But it's there. It's just sitting there, like some big dead end. And it's not the same for men. Charlie Chaplin had kids when he was 73.
Harry: Yeah, but he was too old to pick them up.
May 2nd
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April 2013
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Apr 27th
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“Who the hell said you no longer had it in you?”
– Charles Bukowski (via raspberrying)
Apr 22nd
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a Quest is a trip to accomplish a task. an Adventure is a trip without a destination. a Journey is when the trip is more important than the destination.
Apr 22nd
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Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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“Young men need to be socialized in such a way that rape is as unthinkable to...”
– Mary Pipher, Clinical Psychologist and Author, Reviving Ophelia (via loveyourchaos)
Apr 14th
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Apr 10th
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rigor samsa
dictionaryofobscuresorrows: n. a kind of psychological exoskeleton that can protect you from pain and contain your anxieties, but always ends up cracking under pressure or hollowed out by time—which grows back again and again until you develop a more sophisticated interior structure, held up by a strong and flexible spine, built less like a fortress than a cluster of treehouses.
Apr 9th
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“I didn’t really notice that he had a funny nose. And he certainly looked better...”
– Judith Viorst (via butterfliesandbloodfeuds)
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March 2013
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reference for writers: Teens and Dystopias →
lyrics-are-poetry: writeworld: by Scott Westerfeld for BookForum’s Dystopia issue, summer 2010 Literary dystopias flourish at the extremes of social control: the tyranny of too much government, the chaos of too little. Every 1984 or Fahrenheit 451 is balanced by a Mad Max or A Clockwork Orange. Or to put it simply, dystopian literature is just like high school: an oscillation between extremes...
Mar 7th
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“The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.”
– Juliette Lewis (via chazkeats)
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February 2013
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Feb 19th
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“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in...”
– John Berger Ways of Seeing   (via funeral)
Feb 18th
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Feb 17th
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“You are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy.”
– Andrea Gibson (via thatkindofwoman)
Feb 17th
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Feb 14th
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“Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is...”
– “Why fiction is good for you” in The Boston Globe (via aaknopf) see also: why it’s never just a book/tv show/movie representation matters (via dearjimmoriarty)
Feb 12th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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January 2013
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Fear Cuts Deeper Than Swords: Ultimate Writing... →
thelastrplord: a massively extended version of ruthlesscalculus’ post General Tips Joss Whedon’s Top 10 Writing Tips Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone 34 Writing Tips that will make you a Better Writer 50 Free resources that will improve your writing skills 5 ways…
Jan 29th
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“The aim of art is to embody the secret essence of things, not to copy their...”
– Aristotle (via phytos)
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December 2012
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“I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am.”
– Sylvia Plath (via loveyourchaos)
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Dec 19th
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“There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take...”
– (via butterfliesandbloodfeuds)
Dec 19th
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Skúffuskáld
icelandiclanguage: In relation to the poetry posts, there is this Icelandic word skúffuskáld, which means someone who’s secretly a poet. It literally means “drawer poet”, someone who writes poetry but chugs it all into his desk drawer instead of showing it to people.
Dec 16th
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Dec 13th
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“You see failed vocabulary in the adult world so often, and it’s often because...”
– Daniel Handler (via 667darkavenue)
Dec 13th
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heavenly vocabulary
Agape: Divine, self-sacraficing, and unconditional love, such as the reciprocal love between God and humankind.   Apotheosis: The glorification of a leader (especially in Ancient Roman times) to holy status.  Angelophany: The actual appearance of an angel to man. Deus ex machina: Literally ‘god from a machine’ in Latin, refers to an Ancient Greco-Roman stage device in which a deity’s statue...
Dec 11th
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Chaz Keats: If authors were lovers to the English... →
thegestianpoet: Wilde would whisper flowery sweet nothings in your ear during foreplay but then have his very dirty way with you Fitzgerald would spend like an hour bragging about how good he was and then come much too soon Shakespeare would make up positions on the spot but they’d be…
Dec 10th
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“I’m a wretch. But I love, love.”
– Jack Kerouac (via thatkindofwoman)
Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 6th
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Dec 5th
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Download free fucking books! →
nachosauruz: A fuckload of classic literature: 1984 by George Orwell A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Aesop’s Fables by Aesop Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll Andersen’s Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud...
Dec 5th
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Dec 4th
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