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Anxiété climatique
Vendredi dernier, le 27 Septembre 2019, fut la journée historique de la grande marche pour le climat. Des gens de partout (plus de 6 millions selon les statistiques!) dans le monde se sont mis à manifester pour signaler à leur dirigeants que pour eux, l’écologie est importante et qu’ils reconnaissent les changements climatiques comme étant une crise sur laquelle ils doivent travailler activement…
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write for the audience you want, not the one you’re afraid of
La tour et les abeilles
La tour et les abeilles
Avant de commencer, je voudrais juste souligner que j’ai écrit cet article de mon propre chef sans que personne ne me l’ait demandé. J’ajoute d’ailleurs en toute honnêteté que je n’ai moi-même demandé de permission à personne.
Un des sujets chauds en ce moment aux Îles (pour moi en tout cas), c’est ce projet de construction d’une nouvelle tour de communications par Bell Mobilité au…
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ATTENTION WRITERS
Google BetaBooks. Do it now. It’s the best damn thing EVER.
You just upload your manuscript, write out some questions for your beta readers to answer in each chapter, and invite readers to check out your book!
It’s SO easy!
You can even track your readers! It tells you when they last read, and what chapter they read!
Your beta readers can even highlight and react to the text!!!
There’s also this thing where you can search the website for available readers best suited for YOUR book!
Seriously guys, BetaBooks is the most useful website in the whole world when it comes to beta reading, and… IT’S FREE.
HEY! BECAUSE OF OP, THEY CREATED A SPECIAL WELCOME IF YOUR FOUND THEM THRU A TUMBLR WELCOME, ITS A YOUTUBE VIDEO.
They also sent me this; which was super cool
*slams reblog button*
@findingtallahassee holy shit! This is cool!
“Authors retain all rights to works posted on BetaBooks, and can add or remove content at their discretion. BetaBooks makes no claim to any of the work posted on the site.”
Incase anyone was wondering
Thank you for sharing! Especially about the copyright protection
This is fantastic! I’ve shared it with all my writer friends and hope that they have a ton of success!
2019 Mass Effect Relationships Week - Fanfic Prompts
As part of the Mass Effect Relationships Week, or #MERweek, being held by @cactuarkitty to celebrate all relationships within the original Mass Effect trilogy and Andromeda (all kinds of relationships - romantic, platonic, friendships, bromances, familial, enemies, frenemies, working relationships etc.) I was asked once again to put together a fun set of optional fic prompts for writers to have some fun with.
The week runs from July 1st to July 7th and is for both the original Mass Effect trilogy AND Andromeda. Remember, these prompts are all optional - so have fun with them! :)
As always please be sensible and sensitive when writing fics - tag for appropriate triggers and follow all of the main MERweek event rules on @cactuarkitty‘s blog.
The Prompts
Day 1: Tall Tales
All relationships have those stories. You know the ones. Those famous stories. The good ones. Like the time Shepard took down the reaper on foot. Or Kaidan got involved in the Vorcha mafia. Or the time Vega got drunk and kissed Steve. What? It happened. It totally happened.
Day 2: A Night on the Town
A lot can happen late at night. Maybe Down a dark alley … or maybe in a bar. Enemies can meet for that final fight. Friends can have hilarious adventures. And lovers can do what they do best!
Day 3: A Friend in Need
You can take this prompt where you want to. A genuine plea for help on the battlefield, a moment of kindness in which one person realizes how much they love the other. Go nuts.
Day 4: Gifts
What monster doesn’t like getting a present? But who knows what’s inside of that box, and what it might lead to …
Day 5: Extreme Emotions
Write about a moment when emotions between your characters became a little extreme. Did their relationship become stressed? Did things get hot? Did loves almost break up? Drama, angst, smut, fluff - everything is on the table!
Day 6: Confessions / Secrets
Relationships are all about confessions … or the things we don’t confess. Go on - tell me a little story about your characters deepest darkest secrets.
Day 7: Real World AU
Let’s have some fun for our final day! Time to drop your characters into an alternate universe story set in the real world. Hey - it’s all optional. If you don’t want to, you don’t have to! ;)
Please make sure to tag your post #MERweek2019 in the first five tags so we can reblog and share it. Have fun! Please check out @cactuarkitty‘s blog as she will be posting the main MER Week post some time on the 3rd June. And @rock-paperback-scissors who has some amazing art prompts! ♡
Reblogging as the dates have been updated. MERweek is now running in the first week of July!
Don’t let writing become a chore
Learn how to take planned breaks
Plan reward when you reach your goals
If goals are time framed based, make sure they’re realistic. Nothing is more discouraging then thinking you’re failing
Engage with other writers who are positive and excited about their work.
Read books in your genre of passion. Remind yourself why you’re writing one!
Have more than one project to jump to if one starts to get stuck.
Make writing time special, with snacks, music, candles - things you ONLY let yourself have during writing time.
If your schedule allows, try writing at the same time every day. If its a habit, you won’t drag your feet as much.
Talk to other writers! Tell them why you write! Even if you just scream it into the void that is Tumblr, writing it down and putting it into words is a powerful reminder of why you want to complete this project.
Add your own, because sometimes writing starts to feel bogged down to me too, and I could always use more help
Le dernier voyage de Victoria
Le dernier voyage de Victoria
Je suis le gars faire son travail depuis chez nous et je vois Victoria être traînée jusque dans la cour où je n’ai pas le droit d’aller. Julie est assise dans le siège passager, mais ce serait un peu trop de dire qu’elle m’accompagne : elle est branchée à son cellulaire.
Je me doute bien que Julie n’est pas là pour moi : elle veut la petite voiture, celle dans laquelle nous sommes assis,…
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Travaux forcés
J’ai quelque chose de très important à partager et qui nous concerne tous.
Au moment où j’écris ces lignes (mardi le 26 février 2019), cela fait une semaine jour pour jour que la grève étudiante a été votée dans ma faculté (celle des arts, à l’UQAM).
Il est possible que certains d’entre vous se demandent quel est le rapport avec les Îles, ou même l’insularité (parce que Montréal a beau être…
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reasons it’s okay to unfollow someone on tumblr:
they make you uncomfortable
they interact with someone you’re uncomfortable with
you’ve lost interest in their content
you want to.
reasons it’s okay to try and guilt people for unfollowing you:
there are none.
nobody has to follow you, they can stop at any point if that will make them more comfortable or their hobby more enjoyable. people do not owe you continuing to follow your blog or an explanation if they choose to stop for whatever personal reason they may have (especially if you’re only passing acquaintances but even if you’re friends). i could be sad and confused about someone unfollowing / soft-blocking me, and that doesn’t mean they’ve done anything wrong or owe me a reason to justify their choice. you’re never obliged to interact with me, and it would never be okay for me to coerce you into it. as a community we preach self care and treating people with respect but then try to interfere with or punish people for taking care of themselves.
feel free to reblog this if you don’t believe in making people feel obligated to follow you, and, you genuinely support people keeping their dashes comfortable and fun for themselves, even if that sometimes means not having you on it.
Pression L’autre jour, j’expliquais à quelqu’un pourquoi j’ai arrêté mes études après le CÉGEP pour en arriver à …
*sips tea* Let this spread all over Tumblr.
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
Just in case this needs to be said:
It’s the first draft. Use the word “suddenly.” Put as many dialogue tags and adverbs as you want. Say “he saw” “she remembered” “she felt” “they wondered” as many times as you need to. Put the em dash there, put in too many commas, use semi-colons with reckless abandon. Type in [whatever] instead of thinking up a title for something. Just write it. If you worry too much about the particulars, about all the advice posts you’ve seen saying whatever you’re doing is wrong or not good enough, you won’t get anything done. It will slow you down as you go back and try to reword what you just wrote to make it better, proper. The first draft doesn’t have to be perfect. It just has to be done. And when you get to the end, you’ll find that all those “mistakes” are just clues for your future self to put together to make it all better.
Putting in adverbs and certain dialogue tags are a note for you as to who is saying something and how they’re saying it. When you’re editing, you can make sure it shows through the story instead. The word “suddenly” is a reminder to make things more abrupt. The first draft is just you mapping out where you want to go and how you want to get there. Don’t waste time trying to get it 100% right now, because then it will never get done. Don’t think too much– just write. Save the thinking for editing later.
The first draft doesn’t have to be perfect. It just has to be done
If you’re reading this: this is your sign that your WIP is worth writing, is worth the effort, and that you are doing great. Keep going, take breaks, reflect. But do not lose sight of how far you’ve come on this project! You can do it!
Everyone struggles with this feeling.
But you know exactly how much work you put into your art, how many hours and how much care and love went into your pictures and no matter the amount of likes or retweets you get, you KNOW the worth of your work.
Seven years after, I see you again 😚
Guys this completely changed my writing, heed it. I often do an entire draft just looking at sentence variation and oftentimes the results are absolutely transformative in the difference.
