don’t make a promise you can’t keep

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[starrybouquet]

harm and mac: a series ↳ JAG 2.15 Rendezvous

[byelacey]

it's illegal to not say "oh big stretch" when your dog does a Big Stretch

[sg1]

Stargate SG-1, 03.22 Nemesis

[smileyobrien]

for @cdr2002 :)

[antlered-vixen]

I am so tired of short-attention-span, trim-the-fat culture. All writing advice these days is for how to write like Chuck Palahniuk. "Cut 'think', cut 'feel', cut 'wonder' - only action, only pushing forward, show and move and move and move." What if I could emulate this style, and still don't want to? What if I want to write like Henry James, with three paragraphs of introspective musings between each dialogue line? The music advice is, "make it shortform, make it Tik-Tok compatible, make it punchy, hit the refrain as soon as possible." What if I want that 10-minute prog rock piece? What if I want that symphony? What if I want it slow and luxurious and lazy? Movies. Series. Poetry. Bodies. Everything is "trimmed trimmed trimmed trimmed, stripped bare, you have three seconds to win me over, make it airport chic." I don't want to win you over, then, I guess. I want the fat left it. I want the pleasure and the indolence and the indulgence. Fuck this art-advice that's always "your art needs Ozempic."

[orangepinkandgreen]

Chuck Palahniuk is one of the worlds best authors of all time there was absolutely no reason for him to be mentioned in this post lol. Have you even read RANT? If you think his writing is anything like how people write on tiktok you clearly haven't read his work.

[kedreeva]

His name absolutely belongs mentioned in this post, as he's the one who gave the advice that OP is directly talking about:

Which is advice written directly by Chuck Palahniuk about how to write like Chuck Palahniuk, which is a style that OP doesn't want to emulate.

Popularity ("one of the world's best authors") isn't necessarily the same thing as writing well. Eragon was popular. I couldn't make it past the first few pages because it was poorly written. Anne McCaffrey told beautiful stories about Pern, but I always found her writing itself to be dry and difficult to swallow. Steven King is hugely popular, but his writing can also be dry at times. James Patterson has his name on a lot, a LOT, of popular stories that.... Well. Aren't really his, or at least weren't actually written by him. Would I take advice from any of them about how to write? No, probably not, unless it actually suited my style.

It's common right now for TV series to have 8-12 episode seasons, when we used to have 22-24 episode seasons. To tell the story in the shorter period of time, a lot of the "fat" gets trimmed, but if you've ever cooked meat you know that the fat is where the FLAVOR is. I desperately miss 22-24 episode seasons. I miss the trope episodes that don't particularly affect the plot. I miss that style of storytelling, and it's largely been sacrificed for the go go go trim the fat style OP references.

And the thing is, their advice isn't necessarily bad advice. But the message often comes out like OP says: "this is the only good way to write, and if you do x or y or z, it's bad writing."

And that's not necessarily the case. Maybe it's writing you don't like, and that's fine! Not every piece of writing is for every single person. But there are people who enjoy styles that aren't necessarily popular. That don't do what that advice orders them to do.

And those other styles, the slower and more expensive are fun and good and popular with many people still. The advice to cut things out is only good advice if that's the style you're looking to emulate. OP clearly isn't. And clearly there are plenty of people who agree that that style is not for them, either.

[rahleeyah]

Chuck doesn't belong in the post bc op (and poster above) have fundamentally misunderstood what he's advising lmao he was saying don't use the words "he thinks" not bc he wants writers to "only write action" and trim the fat - he's advocating for removing simple snappy "thought" words and instead FILLING the writing with details that show the reader what the character thinks/loves/believes, and why. His advice is don't say "she loved him" but add in details that show love without taking the short cut of only using the one word love. He wants the writing to be fat!!! To bulge with the sensory details of love instead of being trimmed down to the word itself. His quote has been taken entirely out of context here. Chuck was advocating for writing more, writing slower, adding more details. The quote the screenshotted text is taken from literally ends with "in short - no more shortcuts":

[stealingpotatoes]

pinterest reposters i no longer have extensive beef with you for i have been informed of a much worse threat to the court of lady normalgirl: people who put my art through AI filters and THEN repost it to pinterest

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[the-spoopy-ghost-of-raejin99]

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[ohwhatagloomyshow]

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[charl0ttan]

something i actually just realized on call w some friends recently is how crazey it is that your online friends are as many as thousands of feet above or below u right now. like if you teleported to their location without changing your height above sea level, well your fucked in some way basically

[charl0ttan]

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[rosieandthemoon]

unhinged old book and pamphlet covers that I can’t stop thinking about

[hackerchickbodyy]

[sandersstudies]

I had this freshman tell me she “couldn’t” audition because she was too scared of the stage, and might have a panic attack. I asked how she felt about walking around onstage in costume and not saying any lines. That was fine. I was like okay awesome let’s lay some groundwork now and maybe senior year you can have like three lines!

[sandersstudies]

I remember this kid who came into an audition and froze up, just couldn’t speak. Competent reader and speaker but when people were watching she couldn’t do a thing.

We cast her anyway, in a chorus role. Offered her lots of support and encouragement and kindness and grace.

At the next audition she whispered. Anyone who had never seen her before would have thought she was the most nervous kid there. But the directing team was abuzz afterward. Did you see? She did it! Once or twice I could actually almost hear her! Amazing.

Got cast again, in a chorus role. She’d been making friends with the other kids, and they offered her encouragement too.

And the next audition we said wow I can hear her! She’s speaking! Let’s give her a handful of lines! She can do it!

Anyway as a mentor in the performing arts these things are huge wins for me. Some kids are competent and confident performers at 7 or 8 almost by nature. Others, even much older kids and adults, have to make progress by inches. But progress is exciting! The only place to go is up!

[sandersstudies]

If a student is encouraged properly, theatre is one of the best sources of self-esteem, self-reflection, and both spontaneous and rehearsed eloquence/comprehensibility that there is. It truly could be considered a cornerstone for communication disciplines of all kinds if it just attracted the right people to teach it. (Unfortunately a lot of people are attracted to directing for a sense of power over others, and not an interest in mentoring and coaching.)

[ellakas]

reblog to thank ur mutuals for providing enrichment to ur enclosure

[rockabillywife]

Lyrics and gifs are all we have

[starrybouquet]

having the most PMS-y day ever, everything sucks and life is hell and everyone but Meeee has it together and I've cried like 3 times today (I cry like once every few months usually) and I am gonna sit in a dark room on my couch and cry more about it!!!!!!

(also im queueing this bc while i like venting I do not enjoy being perceived in this state. so by the time you see this I surely will have forgotten the genesis of this post)

[wetslug]

remember that tos episode where it was suggested that scotty had CTE and killed three women but instead it was jack the ripper and he was an immortal formless alien and to fight him they gave the entire crew ketamine ?? we should start letting screenwriters do crack again i miss the good old days