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teaboot

I hate it when your parents are like “I know you better than you know yourself!” Like no you don’t

teaboot

Like oh, you’re an expert on the inner machinations of my psyche? Name three of my top ten existential dreads

heckacentipede

“But I raised you!” Ya and the only version of me that you know is the one I carefully crafted so that you wouldn’t ask me questions because it became obvious early on you couldn’t handle the honest answers

corsolanite

Opening of the new Pokémon anime series, Pocket Monsters!

ghitathepanda

Pokémon Trainers in Galar: *panicking while getting chased by wild Pokémon in the Wild Area*

Digimon Tamers from the World games:

passionforpasta

Danielle Nierenberg, President of Food Tank, shares a sustainability pro-tip in honor of Earth Day. Instead of wasting leftover pasta water by pouring it down the sink, you can save it, let it cool and use it to water your plants. The starchy H2O will give them a beneficial nutrient boost and help them grow. Just be sure to avoid using cooking water that has been salted or seasoned.

smalltownsustainable

This also applies to leftover water from boiling spinach, potatoes, and hardboiled eggs, according to Reader’s Digest.

saturnineaqua

this definitely is an amazing thing to plants, it gives them a boost like NOTHING that can be bought in stores. ive had an orange plant that didnt bloom for years and then gave them some pasta/potato water twice a week, and now its blooming like crazy , pretty much over night. and plants that were looking kind of drawn are looking BEAUTIFUL!

anexperimentallife

The director of cybersecurity from the Electronic Freedom Foundation is offering to help women who have been threatened with compromise of their devices.

littlewitchlingrowan

I better see EVERYBODY reblogging this

werewolbachia

"autistic people read things too literally" yeah, maybe when we're kids. veteran autistics go through years of mistreatment and read literal statements as passive aggressive instead

vampiresarmand

“Hey guys are you ready to beat the shit out of me!!???”

patch444

So, James Baxter visited my university…

Congrats, Griffin.

You now have a fursona.

underhillwriter

Yes, I do teach creative writing: your opening scene

The opening scene is the most important piece of your novel. This scene determines whether your reader is pulled in or puts the book down. Here are some important do’s and don’ts.

DO write it as a scene, not a data dump. You may have a fantastic premise, a marvelous alternate history or post-apocalyptic world or magical realism to die for, but if you don’t engage your reader in an actual scene, you will bore them.

DO write a scene that immediately introduces a character that the reader can root for. Yes, I know Stephen King has had great success introducing victims that are then shortly afterward killed off. That’s a horror trope and we expect it. But if you are caught up in world-building and haven’t dreamed your way into a character who is worth following through 100,000 words of writing, your story is pointless. I have read many pieces of fiction by would-be writers who can’t grasp this essential concept, and without exception, they fail to engage the reader.

DO introduce the stakes right away. In case that’s a challenge that needs some exposition to develop, create some immediate stakes (a life threat works) that keep the tension high and the reader engaged until you can lay out the larger stakes.

DO begin in medias res, which means “in the middle of things.” Most beginning fiction writers make the mistake of starting too early in the plot. Meet the monster on page 1.

DON’T include a flashback in the first chapter. Work on a scene, which means time is NOT compressed. It should include dialog, action, description, setting, and interior monolog. Keep everything happening within that scene for at least the first chapter. You can bring in a flashback in Chapter Three.

DON’T shift points of view within a single chapter. Let the reader establish a strong bond of interest (even if it’s with a POV villain) over the course of a whole chapter.

DON’T open the story with your character waking up unless it’s because she’s got a gun in her face (or a knife to her throat – you get what I mean). We don’t need to follow a character through their mundane daily routine.

DON’T be coy. Beginning writers often have this idea that they need to hold back on revealing all their secrets – what’s in the box, who’s behind the curtain, where they’re going next, etc. Their well-meant plan is to slowly reveal all this over several chapters. Trust me on this one: tell your readers instead of keeping it a mystery. You WILL come up with more secrets to reveal. Your imagination is that good. Spill it now, and allow that revelation to add to the excitement.

heywriters

@coffeerebagels So, should I make my character literally meet the monster at page 1

Funny, that’s the part I remember from this too.

You can.

You don’t have to.

The monster can be figurative and not yet full-grown.

@tygermine I like starting my stories in the middle of a conversation

Do it, bruh. Just make sure it’s the right “middle” of the right conversation.

Tbh, these “dos and don’ts” are little more than good suggestions because many good books don’t start out with all of these. Some good books follow some of these suggestions very well! Some genres practically require them! But “not all books” (man, that phrase is ruined) need to follow every writing “rule” perfectly. It’s impossible.

Just, when you pick up a “bad” book with a lame beginning, it probably needed to follow a few of these and would’ve turned out much better.

If your beginning needs help consider these suggestions. If your beginning is doing just fine, you feel, keep these good suggestions around for the next book.

Not following these suggestions does not make it a bad scene/book.

Not following these suggestions does not ensure readers drop your book.

Not following these suggestions does not mean you’re a bad/lazy writer.

Write what you like, but when you’re editing/revising, take out this list and consider which suggestions your opening scene might benefit from.

elricsyao

If you could hear me scream. I found this on twitter and I’m not sure who made it but it’s hilarious

kongu2525

Its an experience

incendavery

better now than never. better a little than none.

najikasun

Best characters:

(Feel free to add more)

•Pure of heart, dumb of ass

•Asshole who is always sort of an asshole but has soft spots for certain people, things, or places

•Gentle Giants who are afraid of their own power and are very careful and awkward and cute

•Biggest bad villain intent on wreaking all crazy havoc on everybody because they’re just. Bored. and being evil is fun

•Chaotic neutrals who don’t know what side they’re on, ever

•Robots who learn to feel and love and learn

me-and-my-gaster

I’ll add: • that one grumpy type that tells everybody they are always alone but somehow they adopt half of the characters and they’re their children now.

xxtc-96xx

Redeemed bad guy trying to learn how to not be bad and has to be taught by all the good guys, hilarity ensues

original-honeychiles

Read this and save a life - YOUR OWN

From a surgical nurse and certified CPR teacher:

Please pause for 2 minutes and read this:

1. Let’s say it’s 7.25pm and you’re going home (alone of course) after an unusually hard day on the job.

2. You’re really tired, upset and frustrated.

3 Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to drag out into your arm and up in to your jaw. You are only about five km from the hospital nearest your home.

4. Unfortunately you don’t know if you’ll be able to make it that far.

5. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy who taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.

6. HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE? Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.

7. However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.

8. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.

9. Tell as many other people as possible about this. It could save their lives!!

10. A cardiologist says If everyone who gets this mail kindly sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we’ll save at least one life.

11. Rather than sending jokes, please... contribute by forwarding this mail which can save a person’s life.

12. If this message comes around you... more than once… please don’t get irritated... You should instead, be happy that you have many friends who care about you & keeps reminding you how to deal with a Heart attack.

please take the time and boost this post by reposting it and sending it to those you love because we all need to understand how to quickly deal with heart attacks

thosevesuvianthots-deactivated2

Hope you all stay safe.

the-real-numbers-deactivated202

Thinking about that guy that created a cleanroom in his local makerspace and built an entire gene therapy from scratch, making a virus that supposedly delivered the ability to digest lactose and then SWALLOWED IT LIKE A MAD SCIENTIST AND CURED HIMSELF OF LACTOSE INTOLERANCE, EATING TWO CHEESE PIZZAS TO PROVE IT

the-real-numbers-deactivated202

The balls on this guy

the-real-numbers-deactivated202

Anyway we need more of these people

the-real-numbers-deactivated202

To reiterate, this guy created a virus FROM SCRATCH to change all of the cells of his stomach lining. And then he SWALLOWED it!!. And it worked!!! Amsmzkdkejshdmxidkdhdjwjdodjfh I could never

cerothenull

The craving for Cheese unhindered is a powerful thing

oriax

kelssiel

this guy: if i had lactose intolerance i would simply cure it

this guy, eating a block of cheese: rip to y’all but i’m different

pianoaround

amuseoffirebane

Reblogging this again because I found info!

This is 2/3 of a band called Too Many Zooz (they’re lacking their trumpeter here), the song is called ‘Flightning,’ and the genre is “brass house” (which i think they made up but hey i dig it). They have a handful of songs on Spotify and just successfully Kickstarted their first full-length album.

gvayaba

this song as the opening to a new anime by Shinichiro Watanabe honestly

pomp-adourable

These guys are CHARACTERS for a Watanabe anime.

running-with-toast

I seriously love these guys, because they’re so interesting from a music-theory perspective. Their use of intense beats, syncopation, deep bass, and blaring harmonics borrows a lot from modern club music

they’re basically playing dubstep on traditional instruments. Seriously, listen to some tracks with all three of them together, and tell me that’s not what they’re doing