[yesterdaysprint]

Janesville Daily Gazette, Wisconsin, January 26, 1950

[yesterdaysprint]

Washington C.H. Record-Herald, Ohio, January 27, 1950

The Newark Advocate, Ohio, January 28, 1950

The Post-Register, Idaho Falls, Idaho, January 26, 1950

[killjoyfag]

what happened in january of 1950 that several states decided to demand ghost rights

[lady-of-crowns]

[fragmentedink-archived]

[hardoncaulfield]

There’s a thunderstorm going on outside and every Romantic bone in my frantic little body wants to go outside and get soaked to the skin, there’s something so enormous and vital about being wet through with rain, or swimming in the sea, or leaning against a high wind. I was definitely put on this earth to die of consumption before the age of 25

[1960sdoll-deactivated20220108]

1960s french playlist ♡ part ii

cet air là // france gall

les chattes // geraldine

la madrague // brigitte bardot

pour la gloire // annie philippe

fleur de lune // françoise hardy

sous le ciel de paris // juliette gréco

le jeu du téléphone // natacha snitkine

dis moi que tu m’aimes // sylvie vartan

ces bottes sont faites pour marcher // eileen

des bises de moi pour toi // claude françois

et moi, et moi, et moi // jacques dutronc

ce jour viendra // theo sarapo

elisa // serge gainsbourg

[authentic-boredom]

[bebewrites]

wip page 01 - by @bebewrites

to celebrate 100 followers i promised to share the code i’m using for my fantasy wip! that follower count has now doubled, so thanks for following, friends! <3 this page is pretty simple to fill out, and all the colors and the font can be easily changed in the root section near the top of the code.

preview / code

includes sections for details, synopsis, themes/tropes, a quote, links, and scrollable boxes for characters, and extra info/world building.

you can check out more of my codes on my themes blog!

please like/reblog if you use! also please let me know if you come across any bugs and i’ll be happy to fix them. :)

[olllua]

[bitchesofostwick]

me: okay time to jump into the action scene

me: don’t say it

me: don’t say it

me: don’t say it

me: don’t say it

me: don’t say it

me: don’t say it

me: don’t say it

me: don’t say it

me: … “SUDDENLY”

[mlwangbooks]

My go-to fixes for this:

but before [Character] could [verb], ACTION!

[Character] was about to [verb] when ACTION!

but no sooner had [something] than ACTION!

but just as [something boring], ACTION!

BANG!/CRASH!/BOOM! ACTION!

“Character dialogue starting some sentence about–” ACTION!

Character’s internal monologue starting some sent– ACTION!

Narrator starting some– ACTION!

… ACTION!

Why extend your readers the courtesy of a ‘suddenly’ except to vary sentence structure?

[fromthelighthouse]

Anne Sexton, You, Doctor Martin.

[lilicrevere]

Remember when the fucking Notre Dame burned down and everyone knew instantly and it was over every single news outlet?

Well there’s been a massacre going on in Sudan for DAYS and NOBODIES COVERING IT!

So there is currently a media blackout in Sudan to try and coverup the horrors taking place:

Stop what you’re doing and please reblog this. Innocent people are being murdered, people are trapped, have no internet access, and are being raped by the dozens on the streets of Sudan.

The death toll is estimated to be over 300 civilians. And the fact that not a single major news outlet is covering this is horrific and disgusting. Please help get the word out about Sudan!

[thecollectibles]

Art by Varguy

Instagram

[teacupwriter]

I think it’s important to praise and uplift writers who don’t write pretty. Prose that sticks close to the ground is valuable, wonderful, and yes, still takes a lot of work to compose. Think of stories like houses. Ornately-decorated Victorian homes are lovely, so are palaces with sprawling gardens. But I love a small, snug and plainly-built story, where I can make myself at home for a while.

If you write honestly, you can tell a beautiful story. Even if the writing itself is not. It may not make for eye-catching excerpts and quotes, but plain writing isn’t necessarily boring or bad. Sometimes the best way to tell a story is to tell it simply, and I think that’s important to remember.

[kaatiba-archive-deactivated2020]

for a writeblr, i sure do barely write anything

[frognonbinary-deactivated202412]

i’ve been doing my homework on how to break into a writing career and honestly. there’s a Lot that i didn’t know about thats critical to a writing career in this day and age, and on the one hand, its understandable because we’re experiencing a massive cultural shift, but on the other hand, writers who do not have formal training in school or don’t have the connections to learn more via social osmosis end up extremely out of loop and working at a disadvantage. 

[frognonbinary-deactivated202412]

like, i didnt know about twitter pitch parties!! i didnt know about literary agents and publishers tweeting their manuscript wishlist, in hopes that some poor soul out there has written the book they really want to read and publish!! this isnt some shit you learn about in school! you really need to know the ins and outs of the writing community to be successful! 

[frognonbinary-deactivated202412]

for anyone interested, here’s what i’ve learned so far in my quest for more writing knowledge:

1. Writer’s Market 2019 is a great place to start– it gives you a list of magazines and journals that you can send your work to depending on the genre as well as lists a shit ton of literary agents that specify what genres they represent, how you can get in contact with them and how they accept query letters. this is a book that updates every year and tbh i only bought it this year so i dont know how critical it is to have an updated version  

2. do your research. mostly on literary agents because if you listed on your site that you like to represent fluffy YA novels and some asshole sends you a 80k manuscript about like…gritty viking culture, you will be severely pissed off. always go in finding someone who you know will actually like your work because they’re the ones who will try to advocate for you in getting published.

3. learn how to write a query letter. there are slightly varying formulas to how you can write an effective query letter. you’re also going to want to get feedback on your query letter because its the first thing the literary agent will read and based on how well you do it, it could be the difference between them rejecting you outright and giving your manuscript a quick read

4. unfortunately, you’re gonna want to get a twitter. Twitter is where a lot of literary agents are nowadays, and they host things like twitter pitch parties, where you pitch your manuscript in a few sentences and hashtag it with #Pitmad #Pitdark, some version of pit. a lot of literary agents and publishers will ALSO post their manuscript wishlists, which is just the kind of books they’d like to represent/publish, and they hashtag this with #MSWL (it is NOT for writers to use, only for agents/publishers)

5. connect with other writers, literary agents, publishers at book events. you will absolutely need the connections if you want to get ahead as a writer. thats just kind of the state of the world.

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“I hear rustling in your dark magic; the old seas of midnight.”

— Yvan Goll, tr. by Donald Wellman, from “Unreal as Mist,” written c. 1940

[psychotikos]

[valleyhowler]

I thought I’d grow out of vampires but here I am grown loving every anemic goth bat bitch I see