Thoughts from the heart, feelings from the mind.

[feelingsfromthemind]

Let me hide my scars a little longer. Let my tears be just a trick from the light and not my pain escaping it’s cell. I need your hand to hold mine but I fear you’ll notice the shaking. I want you to hold me but I think I’m unable to stop my heartbeat.

I loved you when you didn’t. I held you when you fell. I took pieces of me to keep you together not noticing how I was falling apart. Now you are good as new, you smile brightly as I just crumble down.

CML

[inky-duchess]

Fantasy Guide to Addressing Nobility

It can be hard to remember how to properly address your noble or royal characters when writing a fantasy court. Here is a quick guide:

1. King/Queen:

Usually addressed as either “Your Grace” or “Your Majesty”. Consort (married to a ruler and not reigning in their own right) can be addressed the same. Sire or Madam can be used also.

2. Prince/Princess:

They are addressed as “Your Highness”. They are NEVER addressed the same as a King or Queen

3. Duke/Duchess:

These are addressed with “Your Grace”. This was a common term also used by royalty before Henry VIII got to big for his codpiece.

4. Earl (Count)/Countess:

Are almost never referred as the “Earl of Narnia” but “Lord Narnia”.

5. Lord/Lady:

An easy one. They are called “My Lord” or “My Lady”.

6. Emperor/Empress:

These may be equal to a King/Queen for status but the have a grander title. They are only addressed as “Your Imperial Highness/Majesty”

I hope this helps when writing your court or fantasy novel.

[motivation-and-fitness]

[motivation-and-fitness]

[feelingsfromthemind]

[feelingsfromthemind]

...heeding the words I’d been rehearsing for days now, Please, don’t hurt me, which meant, hurt me all you want

Call me by your name

[feelingsfromthemind]

Can't help but wondering if this

Is the last time that I'll see your face

Is it tears or just the pouring rain?

[feelingsfromthemind]

[feelingsfromthemind]

To be human is to love even when it gets too much, I’m not ready to give up

To be human-SIA

[feelingsfromthemind]

Just be quiet, say nothing, and if you can’t say “yes”, don’t say “no”, say “later”. Is this why people say “maybe” when they mean “yes”, but hope you’ll think it’s “no” when all they really mean is, please just ask me once more, and once more after that?

Call me by you name

[shareaquote]

Every person I’ve ever loved has some how become toxic to me. A living, breathing reminder of why I was always better off alone. I love too hard, too quickly and then sometimes I don’t love enough. I guess I’m just bad at love.

Kristie Betts (via wordsnquotes)

[fyp-psychology]

33 Unusual Tips to Being a Better Writer

[wnq-writers]

culturenlifestyle: via James Altucher

Back in college, Sanket and I would hang out in bars and try to talk to women but I was horrible at it.

Nobody would talk to me for more than thirty seconds and every woman would laugh at all his jokes for what seemed like hours.

Even decades later I think they are still laughing at his jokes. One time he turned to me, 

“the girls are getting bored when you talk. Your stories go on too long. From now on, you need to leave out every other sentence when you tell a story.”

We were both undergrads in Computer Science. I haven’t seen him since but that’s the most important writing (and communicating) advice I ever got.

33 other tips to be a better writer:

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[feelingsfromthemind]

How would you feel if I told you I love you?

[wordsnquotes]

My nerves are bad tonight. Yes, bad. Stay with me. Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? I never know what you are thinking. Think.

T.S. Eliot, “The Waste Land” (via wordsnquotes)

[feelingsfromthemind]

Time will pass no matter what we do so might as well spend it doing something we enjoy

[feelingsfromthemind]

I can't write a better love story than the one I live with you

[feelingsfromthemind]

Your lips are the only ones I want to kiss