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This guy knows what he’s talking about. He’s one of the lead writers for Leverage and if you ever watch the series on DVD, do yourself a favor and listen to him talk about how the scripts got written. Some of the advice he has is stuff I use all the time: 1. Don’t introduce an important plot person or thing after the first half of the story. 2. Always tie up loose ends. 3. Introduce important things in the middle of unimportant things. 4. If you have to infodump, find an emotion to tie it to and it will seem less like infodump and more like a motive rant. Seriously this guy knows how to write.

#writing tips

twinsand

I wonder why her? Why not, say, a streetlamp for all we have in common? She’s chiffon and satin ribbons. I’m raw meat and razor blades.

#sansa x sandor #sandor clegane #sansa stark

aethosial-moved-deactivated2021

black people, please take care of yourselves. please take care of your health. please take care of your mind. please take care of your spirit.

i understand if your soul is not at peace. i understand if you are exhausted. just, please take care of yourselves in these dark, hateful times and surround yourself with people who understand why.

butterscotch-veins

any black followers and friends, a thread of mental health resources if you need them can be found here!

silkygoldmilkweed-deactivated20

She is GRIEVING.

She feels hard done by and that he ought to have given (or taken?) more rather than leaving her somehow bereft and resigning her to a life where the only action she gets is from her whiny epileptic developmentally delayed cousin!

She feels that she was entitled, almost, to something more from the Hound. As Robin wants 100 lemon cakes and five stories, Sansa Stark (currently not at home) wants more cruel-mouthed kisses from Sandor Clegane.

GURL

#sansan

bighound-littlebird

Hay I'm after some sansan fic where Sandor is a proper asshole. It never feels natural for me that he be overly nice and loving so early on. I don't mind him changing but my suspension of disbelief is wrecked when the first things that come out of his mouth are anything close to a decoration of love or affection. The guys damage runs deep, it has a lasting effect.

The Girl from the North Country by wandering_gypsy_feet

The Warrior's Test by Vermilion_Sunrise

Heavy by Helholden

The One with the High School by JRA3933

Tattooed Flowers by 8Clarify8

Northern Lights and Midnight Sun by Ownsariver

Lost and Found series by Nevermore_red

Eye of the Beholder by hardyfatal

The Gift of Mercy by Pansansan

Shouldn't series by Nevermore_red

Her Liquor’s Top Shelf by Helholden

The Calling by wonderland

The Look by Ladytp

The smith's daughter and the Hound by Maroucia

#sansanfic

busterposeys

at what point in history do you think americans stopped having british accents

libby-on-the-label

lesbian-state-of-mind

Actually, Americans still have the original British accent. We kept it over time and Britain didn’t. What we currently coin as a British accent developed in England during the 19th century among the upper class as a symbol of status. Historians often claim that Shakespeare sounds better in an American accent.

tyleroakley

fanboyingoverdemigods

whAT THE FUCK

nopeabsolutelynot-deactivated20

I’m too tired for this

nethilia

Always add in the video that according to linguists, Native southern drawl is a slowed down British.

T’ be or not t’be, y’all.

sogayitwrites

Fun fact: Same thing happened with the French accent. French Canadians still have the original French accent from the 15th century.

Êt’e ou n’pô zêt’e, vous z’auts.

monticellomarshmallow

I’ve been trying to find this post for months. I’m freakishly obsessed with this and want the truth of what early colonists sounded like.

lumikinetic

They sounded like cowboys apparently

expressing-emotionalism-deactiv

So does that mean whenever an American is cast for a period piece set in Colonial America or Britain, that’s actually more historically accurate than casting a British actor?

wind-the-music-box

Wh….

aphony-cree

The accents of New England states (New York and Massachusetts are the most iconic of that category) developed after England changed their accent because they had thriving port towns that had daily interactions with English sailors

crimsondomingo

I’ll never forget my semester in England, taking a Shakespeare adaptations class, watching different versions of the plays, the Professor brought this up one day, “Do you want to know who sounds the most like Shakespeare in this class?” Pointed at me.

ladywolfmd

pureimagineering

Here’s one of the reasons I don’t buy the cynical interpretation that Ariel gives up her identity for a man.

This screencap comes from her introductory scene. She’s searching through a shipwreck for human artifacts–which is her passion–when suddenly she’s attacked by a shark.

While fleeing, she accidentally drops her bag full of artifacts right in the shark’s path. Without hesitating, she chooses her passion over her safety, risking her life for a dinglehopper.

The girl is an anthropologist who studies humans. That’s her passion, that’s how she spends her time…that’s her identity.

Sure, Eric is the catalyst that leads Ariel to changing her species and leaving her family–he certainly intensifies her feelings–but they’re feelings she already has, and they dictate most of her life.

If Ariel had the chance to become a human before she met Eric, everything that we know about her suggests that she probably would.

recovering-academic

Ariel is an anthropologist, I stand by this

itswalky

Triton: Fuck your passion! Ariel: okay

animentality

it took me a second to understand the brilliance of that last reblog

jellyfishjulie

Y’all I read a lot of scripts. And the one note I give over and over and over and over to the point that I can pretty much copy and paste it from one review to another…. let your characters lie. Let them omit, stumble, and circumvent. Allow them to be completely unable to express what they’re feeling. Make them unable to admit a truth. Let them sit in silence because they can’t think of anything clever to say! Let them say the exact wrong thing!

Dee Rees talks about it in her BAFTA lecture (which you should ABSOLUTELY WATCH): that what your character actually says should be three degrees of separation away from what they mean to say.

I read script after script after script where characters articulate their needs, desires, and objectives with perfect accuracy off the cuff 24/7 and there is not one single human person on this planet who is actually able to do that. This is the #1 thing that’s going to make your script sound stilted and the #1 thing that’s going to make shit difficult on your actors. Let them shut up, and let them lie.

fuckyeahisawthat

This!! In real life no one says what they mean. We say we’re fine when we’re not. We keep secrets because the truth is painful or embarrassing. We fight over stupid shit that’s a stand-in for what we’re really upset about. We don’t say what we want or need because recognizing, let alone vocalizing, our wants and needs is hard.

If your characters say what they mean all the time, you, as a writer, are robbing yourself of so much power to affect the audience. This is true in all writing but especially in dramatic writing, where everything in the character’s interior life has to be externalized in some way to be known. You can create intimacy by allowing the audience to see something your character hides from other characters. You can create tension by letting the audience know the character has a secret or has told a lie they don’t want revealed. You can create catharsis by allowing the character to finally say what they’re really thinking at a key moment.

You’re also creating a much more interesting text for your actors because you allow for the presence of subtext. If you’re someone who directs your own material you’ll start to realize how little you actually need your characters to say to make it clear exactly what’s going on with them. What starts as a monologue in the first draft may, in rehearsal, become a single line, which in the final cut becomes a shared glance, and the audience will still know exactly what you mean.

kimbureh

I love this. thank u so much for pointing this out so concisely, it explains so well why some lines have an insane impact, while others feel just meh

bookishdiplodocus

Reblog the writers’ fortune cookie for luck!

redeadepression

Guys I reblogged this and then wrote an 8000 word story I didn’t even have a solid plan for. Reblog this shit.

rachelrogers11

Need this

Update: just tackled rewriting a draft I hadn't been feeling much motivated to complete...it works!

qveenofthorns

exclusive deleted scene from 8x05

rachelrogers11

Someone write it

littlefeatherr

The Hound’s Fangirls by ~Heliotropa

rachelrogers11

Love this

#the hound

blossomfully

“In my dreams I am kissing your mouth and you’re whispering ‘where have you been?’ I say, ‘I’ve been lost but I’m here now. You’re the only person who has ever been able to find me.’”

— Sue Zhao

#sansanfic #love quotes