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avo0930

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TECHNOBLADE 🎂 i miss him sm recently

phillip-bankss

grug dont have to change!

what-even-is-thiss

I hate I when I get an idea for a novel. Like oh no here starts the slow sad slip n’ slide to dissapointment again.

what-even-is-thiss

You ever been 30,000 words and hundreds of research hours into a project when you realize hey wait a minute. I don’t like this. This is bad.

fassina

Ok adding to this though that even though it is extremely relatable, this is a KNOWN thing with professional writing. 10k is often referred to as "having a pot boiling" or "having a stew" - it's the point where you often see an idea coming together and it's exciting! But THEN... 30k-50k is the point where that fun has to start coming together. In theatre, it's usually week 3 of a 5 week rehearsal period where you have to stop talking about the play and really get it all up on its feet and cohesive. In art, it's committing to what are going to be the final visible layers of colour and texture, in sculpture the moment where you're truly at the point of no return with carving out the shape.

It usually feels really bad. Because this is the point it becomes real craft. It's so, so difficult to really be able to identify if it's truly not going to be anything or you're just in the hardest part of the process, and really the only way to know is to... write through it. Write it badly. Or, if you really can't, put it in a drawer and come back to it after a few months of breathing space. Remember, you can fix so much in the edit, but you can't fix nothing!

(I say, fully looking at my latest draft of my book and considering throwing it in the bin. But my editor said exactly this to me, so I'm passing it along.)

tjalexandernyc

this is 100% true. I've written 6 complete novels at this point and every single time around the 40k mark I feel lost in the woods. Nothing seems to be working. I feel awful; I can't sleep. I keep going even though I'm convinced I'm going to fail. And then... It's like leaving a tunnel and getting back out in the sunshine. Stuff starts coalescing. Things that weren't working have obvious fixes. I "can write" again, except I was writing the whole time. It just felt hopeless in the moment. It's not. You just gotta get out of the woods.

ariaste

Ah yes the Slough of Desponds. Professional author with 13 books, and this is normal for me as well. (Checking for tension issues usually helps!)

sainamoonshine

Lmao I literally wrote a whole blog post abt it once.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/writing-advice-1-82451675

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myfanwywood

Put baby in pelican mouth poster. For you

rat-king-they-them

rat-detector-24-official

Rat detected. Make him jiggle.

mutipede

Holy shit I assume everyone is doing an up and down jiggle and maybe a side to side jiggle but if you jiggle your phone forward and backwards he jiggles in and out, too

scratch-meowt

my hottest take

keeper-of-the-flames

Counter point, those machines can make me a peach sprite.

pusheenthenerdcat

guys did you know the tech in that nefangled machine revolutionized preemie healthcare

maimonideznuts

pusheenthenerdcat

yeah the guy who invented them made incredibly precise infusion pumps (as opposed to gravity fed ivs) which not only meant they could give medications to teeny tiny babies safely, it's also used for insulin pumps and portable dialysis machines. the key element is that it's a peristaltic pump so the liquid stays in sterile tubing for safety

(unholy drink cloaca uses it to dispense precise amounts of flavored sugar syrup)

hedgebotherer

Then how the haters loved him,

As they shouted out with glee,

"Unholy Drink Cloaca

You'll go down in history!"

naamahdarling

You DON'T get this on any other site in quite this format.

tanadrin

would be fun if language acquisition echoed language evolution a la recapitulation theory. kids going through an indo european phase.

jadagul

https://xkcd.com/2567/

tanadrin

fuuuuuck there really is an xkcd for everything

bigscaryd

Quick put an animal book in front of him and ask him what this guy is

nordenflycht

there's an xkcd for that also

keepcalmandcarriefischer

orcbara

i know most leftists agree that everybody should have a right to food, water, shelter, and healthcare but i think a vitally important fifth pillar is privacy. people should not be compelled to be tracked, monitored, or to share personal space with others to access their other essential rights

lyinginbedmon

"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" is and always has been fascist rhetoric everyone.

homoqueerjewhobbit

"Who sets the definition of 'nothing to hide?'"

tedisfishing

funi in my head, stupid in execution. Anyway, happy pride.

sadomarxist

ruckuscauser

curlicuecal

Ok I'm losing my mind because there was a children's picture book I vividly remember from my childhood in which a mole does a series of tasks for other animal villagers and in the end he is given an award for being "a helpful mole"

And I *thought* the name of the book was "the helpful mole" but the internet is telling me this book does not exist

Less confident in this part, but I vaguely remember it being a series of hole-in-the-bucket style tasks, where the mole needed a new spoon to eat his porridge, and at the end of his helpful mole tasks they awarded him a silver spoon. It was probably British, and I think the art style was somewhat like the Mouse Soup books.

Does anyone else know what I'm talking about?

curlicuecal

Good news: I asked my mom and she remembered the book!

Bad news: she couldn't remember the title or author

Good news: she thought she still had a copy!

Bad news: she looked all over and couldn't find it

Good news: she was able to figure out what it was with some web searches!

Apparently it's from a series of books about a fox called Basil Brush. He has a friend named Harry the Mole.

And the book in question is..... Basil Brush Gets a Medal!

Look at him!

The helpful mole!

curlicuecal

No but seriously "helpful mole" has been part of my vocabulary for basically my whole life and I am only now finding out this is not the well known referent I thought it was

Like yes I use this for my kid all the time, but I have called grown adults helpful moles to their faces.

Wwwwhat do you suppose they made of that. Lmao 🤣

kyleblackpaw

Visit Original Link

Well as long as we’re talking about the ancient internet, who remembers this.

drphaffot

derinthescarletpescatarian

… I just realised that some of my mutuals are Too Young to get flashbacks from this. I hate the internet.

moniquill

Robot Unicorn Attack is from 2010. The window for ‘ancient’ keeps getting smaller. Anyway, All your base are belong to us.

firespirited

I’m a simple person, i see the delightful duo that are flamboyant and nerdy Erasure, and reblog to share the love. Whether you discovered them via a scrubs episode or a flash animation, seek out more. It’s all wierd and wonderful.