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love-diaries

“Sometimes you only forgive a person because you can’t imagine not having them in your life.”

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poemswords

“Oh darling, you don’t have to please everyone.”

— (via love-diaries)

quotemadness

“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”

— Graham Greene

poemswords

“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”

— Rumi (via philosophyquotes)

movemequotes

“You need to consider the future and think, ‘What might my life look like if I were caring for myself properly? What career would challenge me and render me productive and helpful, so that I could shoulder my share of the load, and enjoy the consequences? What should I be doing, when I have some freedom, to improve my health, expand my knowledge, and strengthen my body?’ You need to know where you are, so you can start to chart your course. You need to know who you are, so that you understand your armament and bolster yourself in respect to your limitations. You need to know where you are going, so that you can limit the extent of chaos in your life, restructure order, and bring the divine force of Hope to bear on the world.”

— Jordan Peterson, via 12 Rules for Life (Pages 62-63)

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Tumblr, Native Hawaiians need your help!

So the gist of it is the construction of the 30 meter telescope on top of Mauna Kea is starting. Its peak is 4,207.3 m above sea level, making it the highest point in the state of Hawaii. Which is why it is deemed the perfect place for the telescope. The only thing is, Mauna Kea is sacred land, our ancestors never built on top of Mauna Kea and for good reason. Sacred land is to never be messed with. It's a burial ground for native Hawaiians' most revered ancestors, and believed to be a peak created by the gods as a place from which humans can ascend to heaven. A lot has been taken away from native Hawaiians and there is already telescopes built on Mauna Kea we do not need anymore desecration of our land. Please help me and my people by signing this petition. Sharing it will help our cause a lot. Follow @protectmaunakea

greatmindquotes

Learning never exhausts the mind. - Leonardo da Vinci

prokopetz

Writing tip: the purpose of chapter breaks is to divide a work up according to breaks in narrative flow, not to slice a work into arbitrarily equally-sized chunks.

It’s okay to have a chapter that’s ten thousand words long followed by a chapter that’s five hundred words long.

It’s okay to have a chapter that’s one sentence long.

Heck, one of the most famous and well-regarded novels in the whole of the world’s literary canon has a chapter that contains no text at all.

The only reason you’d ever want to try to make chapters equally sized is a. you’re writing for serial publication in a printed magazine and have a fixed page count to work with, or b. your jerkass high school English teacher insisted upon it. In any other circumstance, go wild.

h-brook-writes

I have to remind myself of this continuously. I once butchered a perfectly good draft because I was worried about chapters being too long and too short, and I was trying to smush them all into 3,000 words. It totally ruined it and I’m glad I have an earlier draft from before I made those edits, because it actually completely fucked up the pacing and tone of the story.

aidenjaxwrites

oh shit this just really helped with me being stuck in itht. I was really worried about how short the chapters are on average. Thank you op!!

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This is also really good advice for breaking up paragraphs in a larger text (especially non-fiction). You want to start a new paragraph where there’s a new idea or a shift in the train of thought–not just because you’ve written five or ten sentences or whatever. Break your ideas down into pieces that are going to help a reader follow your logic.

thatdisasterauthor

If you want a more modern example of good use of varying chapter length, check out “Salt to the Sea.” The author uses chapter length to control pacing FANTASTICALLY well. (Warning, though, it is a very heavy historical fiction book and involves a lot of death.)

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“There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you. And there are others who will understand — without you even speaking a word.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

Sometimes going through the worst is the best.

You learn about yourself in many ways you don't even know.

The world will continue without you, so pull yourselves together and continue fighting.

Find yourself and pick up your values.

#Thaba

heartweary-writing

Quit reaching and dreaming for that distant star on the horizon. Once you reach it, you’ll only find it to be so cold, it burns. Instead, live for the fire in front of you: the fire of your life. It may cast shadows, it may grant burns, but most of all, it gives light.

J. K. L