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Clean 🤍

@taylorswift @taylornation

#taylor swift

allthingseurope

Gorges du Tarn, France (by Patrick Demory)

lsleofskye

foxglovethings

No one asked for this one, but…

If you made lore for a character you’ve had since you were 16, and you’re in your 20s now and have a better grasp of narrative structure and power creep, you can just retcon the dumb stuff. Like you can do that for free. You’re not beholden to the junk you wrote 5 years ago, and you don’t need to justify removing it if it sucks.

screnwriter-old-deactivated2021

This is actually really valuable. Every writer should keep this in mind.

That’s also part of the reason you shouldn’t look back at your old writing and label it as pure trash. You didn’t know what you were doing back then. You do now.

roach-works

i’d like to suggest that changing a character based on embarrassment or shame is also a mistake, and changing a character because you’ve thought of something even cooler and more fun is going to work out a lot better for you as a writer. you always do better work when you’re actually enjoying yourself, and dismissing the childish, naive, unrefined parts of who you were can make you feel like you have to prove, somehow, that you’re a better person now.

but like, if you’re not having a good time anymore, that’s…worse.

ava-colemans-deactivated20220801

Kastle+Everything Has Changed

lullabyknell

Can I just… talk for a moment… about how much I love how, if you know them well, words don’t have synonyms?

English, for example, is a fantastic disaster. It has so many words for things that are basically the same, and I find there’s few joys in writing like finding the right word for a sentence. Hunting down that peculiar word with particular meaning that fits in seamlessly in a structure, so the story flows on by without any bumps or leaks.

Like how a shout is typically about volume, while a yell carries an angry edge and a holler carries a mocking one. A scream has shrillness, a roar has ferocity, and a screech has outrage.

This is not to say that a yell cannot be happy or a holler cannot be complimentary, or that they cannot share these traits, but they are different words with different connotations. I love choosing the right one for a sentence, not only for its meanings but for how it sounds when read aloud. (Do I want sounds that slide together, peaceful and seamless, or something that jolts the reader with its contrast? Snap!)

I love how many words for human habitats there are. I love how cottage sounds quaint and cabin sounds rustic. I love steadiness of house, the elegance of residence, the stateliness of manor, and tired stubbornness of shack. I love how a dwelling is different to a den.

And I love how none of them can really touch the possessive warmness of all the connotations of home.

Words are great.

madmadammagz

It's Invasion Day today so let us remember that Australia today was built on colonialism and stolen land. They saw a land that belonged to the Aboriginal community yet declared 'Terra Nullius'. Remember that we still have a long way to go in reparations towards our Indigenous people.

1-crazy-dreamer

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#arrow

lucifermorningstars

#arrow #Laurel Lance/Tommy Merlin

bijoharvelle

lemme just be a fandom grandma for a sec:

you’re allowed to just - not like a thing. be it a show, a plotline, a character, a pairing whatever. you just be like “i do not Vibe with this” and move on. you don’t need to explain your preferences, you don’t need to discover some way in which you can call the thing “””problematic””” to justify you not liking it. if something doesn’t spark joy within you, that’s absolutely valid enough.