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Erm…looks like we’re trending again.

Why?

@neil-gaiman I definitely need “Why? Love.” in your handwriting (and your signature) as I want it tattooed on me. It’s the answer to everything, when 42 won’t quite cut it.

neil-gaiman

Take your pick!

mchiti

STOP AL GENOCIDIO 🇵🇸

peacefulandcozy

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naiveasf

guerrillatech

silly-slacker-person

There are political newspaper comics that aren't this succinct

myjetpack

My latest cartoon for Guardian Books.

sulfatto-deactivated20241018

mayonezli

el gato

Best trick I ever picked up. Seriously.

catastrophe-jones

I have also learned this is great for [PICK A COOL NAME FOR A SHIP] and [LOOK UP THE FACTS ABOUT OXYGEN LEVELS] and [WHAT’S THE WORD] and [DOUBLECHECK CHARACTER’S EYE COLOR] and ALL KINDS OF THINGS.

Anything that isn’t critical in the moment, and could be filled in later while I’m currently trying to burn through writing pages that will be lost if I don’t get them out right now? Brackets.

betweentimeand42

This is seriously the best advice, and it really helps put it into perspective that the first draft is just that- a draft. There’s no reason to agonize over a particularly tricky bit of writing when you could just leave it in brackets and skip to the good parts, the parts you’ve visualized. I also use brackets for [fact-check this], [use a stronger verb], [is this in character?] and other notes as I write, just so I don’t forget what I want to work on when I go back and edit.

petermorwood

Note the good sense of [brackets] not (parentheses).

Parentheses AKA round brackets can appear in fiction, usually as an afterthought in a character's thoughts or narration (as I saw them used just recently), but square brackets hardly ever do.