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[scarecade]

i am afraid of people who reblog things with no tags. not even any identifiers like the show it’s from or anything. just silence. what are you thinking?? hello??

[scarecade]

you know what understandable have a good day

[what-even-is-thiss]

I think a lot of writers might benefit from giving themselves permission to get weird with format.

Use second person, drop classic rising action and climax format, write backwards, just sit in a moment, tell all you want and refuse to show, make an entire book that’s just one run on sentence, reject tropes, use all tropes, cliche yourself to death, produce something that’s completely gibberish. Break all the rules of marketability. Become ungovernable.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Write a story that just takes place inside one pathetic little person’s head. Do it. It’s enrichment in your enclosure.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Do the writer’s equivalent of playing with finger paints. Do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it

[what-even-is-thiss]

It’s the middle of the night and I should be sleeping but listen. Listen. Just get weird with it. Open your soul up a little bit. Like actually don’t worry about it being palatable. I’m serious. Get weirder. Get weirder right now. I’m demanding that you get weirder right now. It’s not your responsibility to make your reader feel good. It’s your job to make art, goddamnit. Make art. Make weird art. Open up your third eye and eat an entire cheesecake.

[ollieofthebeholder]

I used to be obsessed with writing The Perfect Novel. I followed every rule, every convention, every step. I worried over word choices and deleted and rewrote sentences until they were perfect.

And then I made a throwaway joke about a character in a story (who was a writer) and a book she had written.

And then NaNo was coming and I didn't have a plot in mind.

And then that line jumped out at me.

And I said I couldn't do that, because it wouldn't work.

And then I decided to try it anyway.

And that is how I ended up writing roughly 30,000 words of a book titled The Questions of My Life, which was about the 2000 US Presidential election (and would have eventually also covered 9/11 if I had continued it) from the perspective of a fourteen-year-old boy in the form of his diary written entirely in haiku.

Genuinely. Get weird with it. Write something nobody in their right mind would ever want to read. It's fun, it's cathartic, it's free, and it primes your brain to realize that you're Allowed To Write That Thing You Want, Actually, because a universe that would allow something like that to exist isn't going to protest whatever else you came up with.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I think a lot of writers might benefit from giving themselves permission to get weird with format.

Use second person, drop classic rising action and climax format, write backwards, just sit in a moment, tell all you want and refuse to show, make an entire book that’s just one run on sentence, reject tropes, use all tropes, cliche yourself to death, produce something that’s completely gibberish. Break all the rules of marketability. Become ungovernable.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Write a story that just takes place inside one pathetic little person’s head. Do it. It’s enrichment in your enclosure.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Do the writer’s equivalent of playing with finger paints. Do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it

[what-even-is-thiss]

It’s the middle of the night and I should be sleeping but listen. Listen. Just get weird with it. Open your soul up a little bit. Like actually don’t worry about it being palatable. I’m serious. Get weirder. Get weirder right now. I’m demanding that you get weirder right now. It’s not your responsibility to make your reader feel good. It’s your job to make art, goddamnit. Make art. Make weird art. Open up your third eye and eat an entire cheesecake.

[ollieofthebeholder]

I used to be obsessed with writing The Perfect Novel. I followed every rule, every convention, every step. I worried over word choices and deleted and rewrote sentences until they were perfect.

And then I made a throwaway joke about a character in a story (who was a writer) and a book she had written.

And then NaNo was coming and I didn't have a plot in mind.

And then that line jumped out at me.

And I said I couldn't do that, because it wouldn't work.

And then I decided to try it anyway.

And that is how I ended up writing roughly 30,000 words of a book titled The Questions of My Life, which was about the 2000 US Presidential election (and would have eventually also covered 9/11 if I had continued it) from the perspective of a fourteen-year-old boy in the form of his diary written entirely in haiku.

Genuinely. Get weird with it. Write something nobody in their right mind would ever want to read. It's fun, it's cathartic, it's free, and it primes your brain to realize that you're Allowed To Write That Thing You Want, Actually, because a universe that would allow something like that to exist isn't going to protest whatever else you came up with.

[wounded-minecraft-screenshots]

Works of Washigashi Park

[wounded-minecraft-screenshots]

@glittergluedrinker i hope you know how cool these tags are. i love this build to pieces and your analysis made me smile :D

[distant-saves]

Hi! Tortie here! I'm the one who built the "cat" and the copper tree! This is my first proper collaboration with @wounded-minecraft-screenshots

MASSIVE appreciation for the tags based on my work. It's refreshing to hear a such thoughtful analysis of my contribution to MC-related surrealism.

As for what either of them mean.. I'm not at liberty to say ;) but like any abstract sculpture, I think the meaning of each and what their purpose serves is entirely up to interpretation.

Both builds, unedited, as I was really proud of them.

[its39raccoons]

somebody who doesn’t watch dirk gently’s holistic detective agency, explain this

[daynuhnuh-deactivated20181226]

BB8 has messed up for the last time

[bugwolfsstuff]

I'm choosing to believe this is canon to pjo because its funny

[aaaaalice]

Zeus only does one joke per century, but it's always the joke of the century

[bugwolfsstuff]

He canonically is good at telling jokes according to percy's greek gods

And singing and dancing, which I bet also pisses off Apollo😭

[wolfythewitch]

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[digitalkiddo]

If you're writing anything involving cons, scams, heists, or morally questionable characters who are very good at lying, here are some free resources I've been using for research. Saving you the "why is this in my search history" anxiety.

1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.

2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.

3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.

4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.

5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.

Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.

Reblog to save for later. Your WIP will thank you.

[sambarnetts]

[inkbi0tic]

[subtlehysteria]

May I add some Bloody to your Mary with a dash of Adrian-Simon bestism?

[sashimi55]

Human bodies are so weird like the upper half consists of every single vital organ and the lower half is legs

[dambiex]

[enki2]

[clowndraws]

mimicry

[crafteeauthor]

Imagine Eva Stratt years after sending her favorite guy to boss around to space. Getting the logs and recordings and finding out that her guy made first contact with sapient alien life and it IMMEDIATELY started bossing him around too. Like what if you surrendered your dog and it got adopted by an alien instantly. Happened to my girl Eva Stratt

[depsidase]

[pirateprincessjess]

I was told that I’d get used to not having a headphone jack. I still want a fucking headphone jack. I hate that phones don’t have them. It’s stupid and awful and I hate it

[monster1994]

happy june everybody i hope you get fucked and/or sucked this month

[kazokuhouou]

what if we don't wanna be?

[monster1994]

then i hope for peace