Hopping and bouncing, through the internet I am jumping: Art related stuff, drawings, sometimes photographies, and a bit of the Tumblr randomness
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Writing requires discipline, but disciplined writers are not necessarily prolific. Most good work gets produced over time, sometimes many years, allowing the writer to grow with the material, to allow her world, her command over craft, and her psychological maturity to coalesce at just the right moment to produce something of value. This process often involves dreadful periods of not writing, or, worse, periods of writing very badly, embarrassingly badly. As time passes in a writing life, the writer learns not to fear these arid periods. The words come back eventually. That’s the real discipline: to train the mind and heart into believing that words come back.
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Be willing to wait. In the meantime, write when you don’t feel like it. If you can’t write, read.
Monica Wood, The Pocket Muse (masculine pronouns changed to feminine)
I needed to hear this today.
(via savetheteaboy)
And again today.
(via one-bite-at-a-time)
(See also: the Law of Undulations)
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For the Writers out there: Common Injuries And How To Treat Them
In my experience, RPers and Writers alike enjoy one thing: Making characters suffer. This little guide is supposed to help you with keeping injuries and the First Aid - in case you want to patch your character back together - realistic.
I am no medical professional, but I dare say I picked up a thing or two during my First Aid school-medic training ;)Under read more for length! Also, trigger warnings for blood, I suppose?
Calanthe and the Nightingale: Avoiding vampire cliches ask (Rebloggable Version)
Oh, this is something I’ve been wondering myself recently, too. I love the idea of vampires and all the things you can do with them as characters/plot devices, but they’ve just been done to death recently and I’m terrified of…
Calanthe and the Nightingale: 8 Kinds of Awful Writing Advice by Susan K. Perry
1. Advice that demoralizes you. One young poet despaired when a teacher told her to put her poems in a drawer for ten years before sending them out. That advice plays into a paralyzing perfectionism. You can usually manage to see your words through fresh eyes in…
(Fuente: blogs.psychcentral.com)
Writing Advice by Anne Rice
No truer words were spoken!
Screenwriting Tip #1045
Keep your villain’s motivation consistent. Don’t let them be driven by plot. If they start working against the hero instead of for themselves, that’s when you know something’s gone wrong.
This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals—sounds that say listen to this, it is important.
Gary Provost
(via psych-facts)
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Screenwriting Tip #1020
One trick to making your protagonist more empathetic: don’t let them talk too much about themselves. We’re conditioned to react badly to people who always talk about themselves. And this way, when your protag does open up, it’ll be even more emotionally effective.
