Michaelaa742

Just a normal girl that's bad at biology and writing bios and prefers books to blockheads.  I like to write things, and this is where they come to life. I'll let you figure out what that means for yourself. If you want to check out what I've written head over here: www.wattpad.com/user/michaelaa742

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[butchamy]

Story idea when you try to actually write it:

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Story idea when you first rewrite it:

Getting closer to what you saw in your head, eh? Keep at it!

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Your story when somebody else sees it:

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hhhhhHHHHHHH

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This is a lovely post. It goes to show that when we percieve our own work, most of us have some type of insecurities about our own talents. 

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This.

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proofreading my own writing like wow.  u sure do love those commas, buddy.  what if u tried to cool it with all those commas, pal.  all those run-ons, friend.  why don’t you tone it down, my guy

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Elizabeth Bennet + books

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Reblog if you love when this happens :). 

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okay not only is this twitter account fucking gold but its also so accurate i could cry

[talesofthestarshipregeneration]

the fair trade latte fuckery hath slain me. 

[upontheforemostship]

The only thing that can make this better are these two tweets from the girl behind Guy In Your MFA:

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when you’re reading fanfiction and you get so involved in the story you start imagining different scenarios in that same universe and then it’s fanfiction fanfiction

[michaelaa742]

“Ever is a funny word,” I replied, referring to the town name. “Nothing lasts as long.”

               “How do you know?” she said softly, the slightest of smiles upon her face. “You won’t be around here as long as ever. You have no idea what could last.”

Check out chapter 17 of Out of the Frying Pan on Wattpad for more!

https://www.wattpad.com/234876629-out-of-the-frying-pan-17-olive-you

[michaelaa742]

Out of the Frying Pan - .16 The Wurst Day (on Wattpad) http://w.tt/1Veen0R 

“I was high as a motherfucking kite, and I don’t realize that my grandparents are in the next room visiting for the afternoon, right? So I walk straight into the house yelling at the top of my lungs─ Oh, hi Mrs. Davis.”

[michaelaa742]

Out of the Frying Pan - .15 What Ales You? (on Wattpad) http://w.tt/1WMQ9sR 

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Woody Allen is holding a copy of The Bell Jar as he is perusing his girlfriend’s bookshelf: “Sylvia Plath: interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality.” Here, Allen seems to be implying that young female readers of The Bell Jar just don’t get it; they misconstrue the actual content behind the novel, and instead come out seeing the book as romantic. The reality, of course, is in fact the opposite. Yes, many young women relate to The Bell Jar and see themselves in the character of Esther Greenwood. Stories about young women within this particular context (that analyze the abusive and sexist ways society treats them, as well as looks into women with mental illnesses) are rare and, as such, it is hardly surprising that women relate to it. Additionally, as I have discussed here, many women also enjoy the novel because they see the level of skill and intellect that was put into it, oftentimes more so than many critics have. Plath herself said that she had no patience for “cries from the heart that are informed by nothing except a needle or a knife,” and yet more often than not the actual critics seem to forget this. Instead, they say that because the novel was the autobiographical story of someone with a mental illness, it is allowed to be brushed off and doesn’t merit grand literary analysis. Then, when the novel is popular with the very demographic it is focused on, critics then tell the fans they are romanticizing a tragic story because they relate to it, and then label the novel itself as inferior because of the way it resonates with young women, a group of people that society loves to mock and ridicule. The reality, of course, is simply that in The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath is saying things that are true. She is telling an honest story about her experiences being a woman with a mental illness, and also just a woman in general. And her story isn’t pleasant, or sweet, or any of the things young girls are “supposed” to believe. It’s incredibly unflattering to men at large, as it calls out the multitude of sexist and truly horrible things they do to women on a regular basis. The fact that the novel is autobiographical just makes it that much worse in the eyes of men: she’s not even fabricating these incidents, because they are essentially her real life.

Romantic Misinterpretation: The Bell Jar in Pop Culture  (via fairytalephoenix)

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[dreamsuggestion-deactivated2019]

how to get rid of writers block

find some love and have it taken away from you.

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Your protagonist is mortally wounded and needs to get out alive. How? (more)

@neil-gaiman came in and gave us some writing prompts. Get writin’!

The Sandman: Overture Deluxe Edition is in stores now.

[writingbox]

A very useful demonstration of the importance of sentence length.

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My writing is full of lives I might have led. A writer imagines what could have happened, not what really happened.

Joyce Carol Oates (via psliterary)