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Seven years after, I see you again 😚

Guys this completely changed my writing, heed it. I often do an entire draft just looking at sentence variation and oftentimes the results are absolutely transformative in the difference.

officialleehadan

This is very very good advice, and absolutely worth following. Read this. Read it again. Follow it. Your writing will get much, much better.

veilebaslayancumleler

whenever i see this post i am like goddamn this is so true

theclonewriter-blog

“This is your daily, friendly reminder to use commas instead of periods during the dialogue of your story,” she said with a smile.

onewordtest

“Unless you are following the dialogue with an action and not a dialogue tag.” He took a deep breath and sat back down after making the clarifying statement.

joehywheelah

“However,” she added, shifting in her seat, “it’s appropriate to use a comma if there’s action in the middle of a sentence.”

tenoko1

“True.” She glanced at the others. “You can also end with a period if you include an action between two separate statements.”

cj-amused

Things I didn’t know

prismatic-bell

“And–” she waved a pen as though to underline her statement–“if you’re interrupting a sentence with an action, you need to type two hyphens to make an en-dash.”

jawnwats-deactivated20160713

You guys have no idea how many students in my advanced fiction workshop didn’t know any of this when writing their stories.

kat-snow2613

Reblog to save a life

everythingfox

(via)

artistic-octopus

40ouncesandamule

They really want some grandbabies, don’t they?

eurig-morgan-deactivated2017121

Baby armadillo plays with his toy

puppy95

Are you fucking kidding me

figpal

i have never been happier

divineoil

:)

ouroborosmotifs

most of the time everything sucks but when the sky is blanketed in dark blue-grey clouds after heavy raining and the sun starts to peek through the clouds so that the tops of trees glint pale green and every white structure is starkly, blindingly silhouetted against the sky i’m ok.

ouroborosmotifs

like this

hortensius-deactivated20240909

enough with hills to die on. i climbed this hill to Kill

thelovelyghostwriter

It's October 3rd.

thoodleoo

you’ve all heard of “faithful translations” now get ready for “unfaithful translations” where i make my translation say whatever the fuck i want because i think the source material sucks ass

doubleca5t

weirdcultstuff

I love being an adult because you know what actually happens when you run your car into a curb and scratch up the bumper?

Nothing. You get it fixed, or you don’t. Whatevs.

You know what actually happens when you are depressed or sick or on your period and don’t cook dinner?

Nothing. You still get to eat something, nobody scolds you, it doesn’t have any real bearing on your future success, and you don’t get soft shunned for a week by your family.

You know what actually happens when you break stuff, forget stuff, get sick, fall asleep, are rude, miss a flight, don’t know how to do XYZ thing on fixing cars or canning food or whatever, lose things, get lost because you can’t read a map and forgot to charge your phone, buy the wrong groceries, plant the wrong plants, not make your bed, make your bed wrong, jump on your bed, sleep on your bed, eat crackers in your bed, have emotions literally anywhere?

Nothing.

Nothing happens.

No one is mad.

No one can hurt you, and if they do there are laws saying they can’t and that it’s an actual crime with legal consequences.

All there are are outcomes and different paths and different problems and different situations and you just bumble your way forward into dealing with those and that’s it. That’s the whole thing. It’s not the wrong choice, having problems isn’t indicative of your inherent badness or inadequacy or lack of applying yourself. It’s just life, and it’s happening to literally everyone.

I’m not even kidding.

You just do stuff and nothing bad happens. Walk around existing? Nothing bad will happen. Wild.

You can cry. In public. And the most likely outcome is not that you will get taken away to receive the beating of your lifetime, it is that people will mostly ignore you and some will be kinder to you. 🤯

randomslasher

On Saturday I got pulled over because it turned out I'd been driving on expired tags for a year and hadn't even noticed.

I got told to "take care of it soon please" and let go with a warning. Today I went to the DMV and paid a $5 late fee along with the 2-year fee for registration, got new plates and stickers and that was that.

A year late. No big deal. No one was shocked or appalled. It was just a thing that happened and then I took care of it. No biggie.

Turns out, people expect you to make mistakes because they're people and they make them too. More often than not, you can just fix them and move on.

theriu

Thank you for this lovely positive post!

feminist-pussycat

I need to remember this 😚

glassesmcfancyhair

Guys, even the “big stuff” is fixable.

Do you know what happens if you forget to file your income taxes one year (look, I was still drinking pretty heavily, I forgot a lot of things that year)?

Literally nothing, the IRS has a little section on their site that reads “did you forget to file? Just file within 3 years to avoid any fines.”

People mess up. We make mistakes. There is almost always a mechanism to fix them.

It’s going to be ok.

priestessshizuka-deactivated202

posting my werewolf meme here too bc it needs to be said.

#werewolf

achillesselfshipsalot

Father: You must've mistaken me for somebody else..

Edward: You just.. Look like my father.. Hohenheim

Father:

Father: HE GOT LAID?? HE A C T U A L L Y HOOKED UP??

#lol #MADE ME FUCKING SCREAM

hannibalism

shawn and gus screaming is peak comedy

oedipiphany

#cant believe tumblr worshipped bbc sherlock when pysch was right there#cant believe /i/ worshipped bbc sherlock when PYSCH WAS RIGHT THERE @bayleafpaprika