a woman of multitudes @lavieendonna - Tumblr Blog

Hey gang! It’s been a hot, hot minute since I’ve posted anything anywhere; but I want to get back into writing and compiling my works some place so I’ve started a brand new blog over at @calchella !

For anyone still active in our 5 Seconds of Summer community (or just the writing community in general), I’ll be sending all my works that way with new stuff coming soon :)

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goth-queen

allsadnshit

Realizing I can't just shut down and push everyone away the second I feel misunderstood if I want to actually grow as a person and learn to tolerate discomfort enough to try new things and make my dreams come true with my own two hands

kosmogrl

don’t take my defeatism too seriously I will always begin again and again no matter what

kosmogrl

I might sound miserable most of the time but at my core I’m a very hopeful person

aquatariuswriter-deactivated202

Words to remember:

-No one’s going to see your first draft. -Your first draft is just a really detailed outline. -You can edit later. -Your first draft is just you telling your story to yourself. Editing is making it presentable to other people. -Your writing isn’t going to improve if you sit there and stare at the paper. -Your writing WILL improve if you continue to write. -You have enough time. -Inspiration and motivation are not necessary to write. Just nice. -Yes. It’s garbage. Keep writing anyway. -No one cares how bad your first draft is. -Edit later. -You’re doing fine. -Don’t stop writing. -Read. -Writer’s Block is a concept and not real. -Write anything you want for five minutes. That’ll help the brain juice flow. -There’s always someone better and there’s always someone worse. -You are not as bad as you think you are. -Write whatever you want to. -If it makes you happy, that’s what matters. -You don’t have to show your work to people if you don’t want to. -You got this. -Go write.

inferior

Paradise by Max

rederiswrites

Look, it's simple. If a person has to actively work to make money, they're not "the rich" and they're not the problem. A surgeon making $200k a year still stops making money if they stop showing up to do surgery, because they're still selling their labor. The radical discrepancies in how we value different skills are certainly a problem, but the guy who makes money when he doesn't even get out of bed is the one making money on the value of other people's labor.

wiiildflowerrr

byjove

Every time a school shooting is perpetrated by a student, there is this discussion around how they were ‘driven’ to this point by bullying and loneliness due to their snotty peers. The truth is that their peers had every fucking reason to want to stay the hell away from them and often that ‘bullying’ was telling the teachers and other students about the jaw-droppingly violent and bigoted shit the kid was saying. The awkward gay kid with no friends who is intensely bullied is not the kid shooting up the school, the sweet nerd with a heart of gold no one has seen yet is not the kid shooting up the school. It is the angry, vengeful, hate-filled kid who has outcast himself from his peers by terrifying the fuck out of them. There were signs. There were so many signs. But every authority figure is afraid to ‘ruin a young boy’s life’ by intervening and fucking doing something.

byjove

Nothing makes me angrier than the “Minimum wage jobs are intended for teenagers, of course adults can’t live off the wages, they should get real jobs.” bullshit. Not only are you pro child labor but you’re pro underpaying children for their labor? Also, there are so many teenagers out there working to survive and pay rent and support themselves and their families and these jobs are fucking brutal. Pay them what they deserve.

isohels

My tummy doesn’t have to be cute. It holds my internal organs. My thighs don’t have to “crush men’s skulls”. I use them to carry myself. My stretch marks don’t have to be tiger stripes I earned. They came when I grew.

Stop.

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.

notesoftruth

Okay, but someone please explain question marks when followed by a dialogue tag. How do?

flootzavut

“The speech tag is still part of the previous sentence,” she explained, ‘so it isn’t capitalised.“

“What do you mean?” he asked. “But there’s a full stop as part of the question mark!”

She nodded gravely. “I know!” she said. “A lot of people find this confusing. But the speech tag belongs to the line of dialogue, it’s still part of the sentence, so it’s wrong to capitalise it.”

She reblogged the post again, because she had recently read far too many potentially enjoyable stories marred by poor dialogue punctuation.

dechart

I’ve only seen this post in screenshots till now..

eddiestarchild

NOICE. Can’t wait to use this

magpiefngrl

“There are two more ways"—she pointed to the blackboard—“to punctuate interruptions. One is with the em dashes outside the quotations marks to indicate continuous speech. The action occurs at the same time as speech. The other—” she sipped from a glass of water “—is em dashes within the quotation marks to indicate interrupted speech.”

heywriters

Thank you, because having more than one way to interrupt dialogue is not confusing at all lol (I’ve only seen em dashes inside quotations, the other way hurts my brain—I prefer commas).

aqueerkettleofish

“I didn’t end this sentence with a comma,” he whined, but the rules of punctuation had no pity.

remanence-of-love

podcastwizard

some royal jewels were stolen from the louvre which is unfortunate for historical reasons but you gotta appreciate a classic crime. so many crimes are online these days it’s nice to see heist culture is still alive