no strings on me

"Or would that happen to be the incident on Flight 1343 out of Chicago where you drank 17 tiny margaritas, you took your pants off, stood up on the drink cart and sang, quote, "I'm a sexy monkey."

[cityrun]

me, starting a new game: i’m gonna be evil this time

me, 5 minutes into said game: Being Mean Is Not Nice

[deathshepherd]

[tastefullyoffensive]

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“Wanna go for a… walk?”

[bleedandcry]

why do puppies sound so funny

[bleedandcry]

update: this is him now

[oh-archivist]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

[saltysheltie]

[aelizel]

trying to steer dialogue towards a certain plot point while trying to make it sound natural

[fixyourwritinghabits]

The struggle is real. 

[commanderbanana]

me: well i’ll call the college after i go to the store and then i can work on my project and then go to class

mom: we’re just going to go to the store before class so we dont have to take two trips

guess i’ll just call tomorrow

[commanderbanana]

.

[mothsplaining]

I lov them

[commanderbanana]

“overnight delivery”

[worldwithinworld]

When you are writing a story and refer to a character by a physical trait, occupation, age, or any other attribute, rather than that character’s name, you are bringing the reader’s attention to that particular attribute. That can be used quite effectively to help your reader to focus on key details with just a few words. However, if the fact that the character is “the blond,” “the magician,” “the older woman,” etc. is not relevant to that moment in the story, this will only distract the reader from the purpose of the scene. 

If your only reason for referring to a character this way is to avoid using his or her name or a pronoun too much, don’t do it. You’re fixing a problem that actually isn’t one. Just go ahead and use the name or pronoun again. It’ll be good.

[roane72]

Someone finally spelled out the REASON for using epithets, and the reasons NOT to.

[futureevilscientist]

In addition to that:

If the character you are referring to in such a way is THE VIEWPOINT CHARACTER, likewise, don’t do it. I.e. if you’re writing in third person but the narration is through their eyes, or what is also called “third person deep POV”. If the narration is filtered through the character’s perception, then a very external, impersonal description will be jarring. It’s the same, and just as bad, as writing “My bright blue eyes returned his gaze” in first person.

[tryforce-deactivated20211211]

me, a writer, staring at one sentence for 10 minutes straight: i don’t know what’s wrong with you but i don’t like you

[commanderbanana]

i need more diverse pastel or colored pencils for my final 2 art projects and idk what to choose. i can buy 132 pencils for fuckin $70 or like 20 pastels for the same price. but if i buy pastels the projects will probably take half as long because getting that sort of intensity with pencils is so tedious. but i can probably only get the color gradient i want with the pencils. but the final project is going to be damn enormous and its so much easier to smear pastel everywhere. but if i smear pastel everywhere im going to need a load of different greens as well as grayscale pastels. im so lost

[commanderbanana]

Ok but where's the romance option for Dr. Carlyle

[writing-prompt-s]

Write a story about a day in the life of three roommates. However, one of them uses only cartoon logic/physics, one runs on the logic of 80’s/90’s sitcoms, and the last is every action-movie hero cliché rolled into one person.

[commanderbanana]

Did this app actually manage to get worse while I was gone???

[commanderbanana]

I meant to revamp this blog and find a bunch of people to follow and then Andromeda came out. Oops.