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[darkmacademia]

my new desk set-up has got me feeling very productive.

[apoherm-deactivated20231020]

ig: herdrafts

Despite being forced to stay inside my apartment, I luckily got my book mail before this mess started and I’m enjoying my currently readings all day long. I started with If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio, I wanted to take a break from classics and complex readings with a fast paced and intriguing mystery. I like underline and write down after sentences and words I’ve found fascinating and full of poetry for my own writing exercise.

[exitwound]

thinking about the quote “life is short. art is long” and how tragic it is that art lasts forever, but we don’t; how there will always be more books unread than read, more music unheard than heard, more paintings unseen than seen, and when i die, there will be countless more that i will never even have the opportunity to love and cry over and feel, because it certainly seems that there is more worth feeling in the world than time to feel it.

[florizels]

“Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.”

— Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

[macrolit]

Beautifully aged paperback classics Sylvia Plath, Albert Camus, Carson McCullers, Jean Rhys, Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster

[life-and-law-studies]

December 20, 2019 // Solstice Eve

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ig: herdrafts There is nothing more gratifying for a methodical person when everything goes according to plan from the beginning of the day until the sun set. I’m talking about a long day of various and indispensable readings, writing their reviews which is my main purpose when I enjoy a book, and continue my languages study on my own. It isn’t something of great relevance but usually all these tasks can’t be carried out in a single day. I’m proud of my little efforts !

[garadinervi]

Galileo Galilei, February 15, 1564 / 2019

(image: Galileo Galilei, Sidereus nuncius, facsimile of the 1610 edition)

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[southernstudyposts]

4.15.2019. Monday.

I enroll in my Fall classes later today! I’m taking cell biology and introduction to personalities, which personally sound 1000x more interesting than physics. And as an extra bonus, I get to keep my amazing Latin professor for another semester!

Omi

[redxwritingxhood]

When you get the advice to “read more” to get better at writing, it’s not very concise and really sounds unhelpful after the third time you’ve heard it. So here, this is what you’re getting out of it (besides grammar or whatever):

You observe the way a story is organized and how it achieves its flow

You become familiar with tropes and archetypes

Story structure becomes an easy to recall memory, and every novel you’ve ever read becomes a reference book

You develop how you write stylistically, the things you hate and the things you try to emulate

You gain the skills to critique books in a smart manner, and therefore can recognize flaws in your own works that you remember bashing a novel for

[loved-the-stars-too-fondly-deac]

This is such a great list! I def want to emphasize that learning how to emulate style is not the same as copying. You have your own way of writing, and it will eventually form the more you practice. You will inevitably pick up small things from every author you read, and that’s okay. It’s all those little things put together that starts to build your own unique voice. Also, pacing. The more you’ve read, the more easily you can recognize when a story is moving well, no matter how much “action” is or isn’t in it. Once you know how that “feels”, you can start pulling it off in your own writing more naturally.

[studyblrhermione]

📒🌿✨⚔️🐉

8.7.19 // 3:00pm

participating in G’s N.E.W.T.s readathon this august! i’m a ravenclaw studying to be a magizoologist 🦉🕷🐉 these are the books i’ve chosen based off the prompts and i’m super pumped ⚡️

[britanniainalbion-deactivated20]

It’s already August and it’ll be a pretty busy month which culminates in the bicentenary of Prince Albert’s birthday. 

[mythwoven]

Alternate universe where I literally just to go to school forever (for free) so I can just learn about art and literature and history and languages for 100 years. No job skills. No credit requirements. No student loans. Just learning.

[galina]

Reading about love, pretending, artificial intelligence. I love these warm summer mornings, sitting on the bed with the balcony door open and a fresh pot of coffee ☕️

[tawnygrisette]

i just bought this copy of little women and found this inside. i love it when books have inscriptions, it makes them feel that little bit more personal 

[joyce-grad-deactivated20191013]

me and a friend spent the morning in the garden of our favourite second-hand bookshop. it started to rain so we were huddled under the awning, feeling content surrounded by hot coffee and new reads.