Abby's Writing Corner

Hello friends! I am a mess like the desk in my background, but I know God will take care of me. I just graduated college, have a full time job, and I am wanting to become a freelance writer. I am hoping to use this as an outlet for comedy and writing. I...

[emmajiqrubini]

I cosplayed Edna Mode from The Incredibles at Holiday Matsuri and needless to say I spent the day hunting down characters with capes and getting irrationally angry at them

[loubuggins]

This makes me irrationally happy

[abbypandahat]

This looks like fun!

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Writing tip

If you’re struggling to write, find yourself distracted during a writing session or just can’t seem to think of what comes next, I highly recommend writing sprints.

For those of you who don’t know, a writing sprint is where you write as much as you can within a certain amount of time: 5, 10, 15 minutes. You could even go for the 1k30min challenge.

The point of the sprints is to write as much as you can. It doesn’t matter about the quality. It doesn’t matter if your spelling is atrocious or if anything makes sense. The point is building your word count. Set the timer on your phone, and just type.

I do a minimum of 2 1k30min a day, and my writing output has increased from barely 600 words a day, where I’m distracted by the internet or struggling with what to write, to 2500+ words a day.

I plan to continue using sprints whenever I write because it helps me focus. I challenge myself to do better, to write more and with each sprint it gets easier.

Has anyone else here tried writing sprints?

[fidoruh]

@abbypandahat

[thehobbutts]

cnn coming through with the facts

[abbypandahat]

#standingwithrefugees

[buzzfeed]

Fun fact, there are only two days in your life that won’t last 24 hours.

[fallontonight]

- Jimmy Fallon’s Monologue; January 30, 2017

[abbypandahat]

YASSSSSS!!!! I would read all of these! Cannot wait for his memoir to be published!

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Shakespeare, but every instance of “alas” has been replaced with “aw shit”

 “Aw shit, poor Yorick!”

-Hamlet, Act 5 Scene 1

“Aw shit, that love, so gentle in his view,

Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!“

-Romeo & Juliet, Act 1 Scene 1

“O, no! Aw shit, I rather hate myself

For hateful deeds committed by myself.”

-Richard III, Act 5 Scene 3

“Aw shit, poor country, almost afraid to know itself! It cannot be called our mother, but our grave.”

Macbeth, Act 4 Scene 3

[watertightvines]

“Aw shit, thou hast misconstrued everything!”

Julius Caesar, Act V Scene 3

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@jeynegrey

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@dukeofbookingham

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“Aw shit, fifteen wives is nothing!”

Merchant of Venice, Act II, Scene 2

[fidoruh]

@abbypandahat @zokugaku-chameleons @scorpio-am

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Millennials, let’s be the generation that ends the “bitterly criticize the youth” cycle. When we’re old, let’s embrace and nurture them and commend them for facing challenges we might have created.

[abbypandahat]

1000 times agree with this! It’s like the older generations forget what it was like to be our age or they don’t take into account that we live in a very different time than they did. I hope to not be this way when I am in their position. It starts now with the younger people in my life.

[abbypandahat]

Hello Internet!!

I’m back with wifi in my studio apartment! It’s so great to be back. Now @fidoruh can send me all the things and I will be able to look at them everyday!

On a sad note my bf is no longer on tumblr so that means I only have two followers that are people I know from real life. Not sure how much I will do on here because I mostly use instagram and such but I hope to continue using this like a blog. Also a space for creativity and laughter as I had before.

Thank you!

[abbypandahat]

Sorry and Life Update

Sorry for never being on here! Since I moved out of my parents in June I have not wanted to get the internet. Partially because I didn’t want another bill and partially because I had other things to take care of and needed a break from the internet. I have data on my phone but tumblr is not as easy to use on there. I plan on getting internet for my apartment in January as my New Year’s goal is going to be to go back to school for my masters degree (last year’s goal was to move out of my parent’s apartment and I did that so yay adulting). Also will start writing more and posting again in the New Year poems and etc.

Let’s hope 2017 is better than 2016! *Early celebratory cheers*

[weeping-wandrian]

why the fuck does english have a word for

but not for “the day after tomorrow”

???

[zeplerfer]

Because you’re not looking hard enough! ;)

Overmorrow = the day after tomorrow

Ereyesterday = the day before yesterday

Example: I defenestrated my brother ereyesterday. I shall defenestrate my sister overmorrow! Because I hate my family and also windows.

[wantcookie]

english has some of the best examples of stupidly specific words, tbh

Rhotacism (n): excessive use of the letter “R”

Lingible (adj): meant to be licked

Whipjack (n): a beggar, specifically one who is pretending to have been shipwrecked

Yerd (v): to beat with an object with a stick

Roddikin (n): the fourth stomach of a cow or a deer

Balbriggan (n): a type of fine cotton, most often used in underwear

and my personal favorite

Cornobble (v): to slap or beat another person with a fish

[somewhatgreatexpectations]

This makes the English nerd in me extremely happy.

[trisabelle]

Who even made these words I’m going to cornobble them

[adamatronic-deactivated20170419]

My dick is lingible

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there is a dictionary that has all of these stupidly specific and obscure words and a whole lot more. It’s absolutely beautiful.

[fidoruh]

@abbypandahat

[abbypandahat]

I had to cover my mouth from dying of laughter at the library. I wouldn’t want the librarians to cornobble me.

[abbypandahat]

This book was amazing just like the previous one I read by Sandra Kring: The Book of Bright Ideas. The Life of Bright Ideas filled in holes from aforementioned novel and developed characters and new story lines so well while ending in the most bittersweet way possible. The last several chapters brought me to tears though; partly for the characters and partly for me because I knew the story was almost over. These novels teach about friendship, family, love of others, and love of self through character interactions and some hilarious/bittersweet moments. #summerreading #love #sniffles #bookdrunk

[rejectedprincesses]

TO BE CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK - check back next Wednesday for the second half of the story…!

(shout-outs behind the cut - more details available in footnotes at the main site entry)

Keep reading

[abbypandahat]

This is freakin awesome!

[explore-blog]

Neil Gaiman on why we read, the power of cautionary questions, and how speculative storytelling enlarges our humanity

[just-shower-thoughts]

Jewish law says that pork should not be consumed. For Christians, Jesus made it permissable. So in a way, Jesus brings home the bacon.

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@fidoruh @jimmyreedworld

[webofgoodnews]

Have some faith in humanity!

[mydemisee]

THE LAST ONE.

[setbabiesonfire]

I reblogged so fast for the last one.

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I’ve seen many cruelties in this world, but those are small in comparison to the kind light shown by many. This makes me cry because it shows there is hope for this world.

[fuks]

[abbypandahat]

@jimmyreedworld Here is a new take on this joke!