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[herssian]

at which point into your habit of drawing two people as a means to relax and/or entertain yourself do you admit that you ship them

[blamemma]

I have to ask because I just know u will give a perfect answer, but do u think the lando to rb rumours are founded on substance and do u think it will happen?

i personally think that in celebration of the record-breaking weekend, grandpa has been taking some substances and isn't quite compos mentis and is really getting a little delulu in what he's been saying

[awed-frog]

Do you have any writing craft book suggestions? I've never taken a professional class and I feel like I'm missing out on understanding some of the mechanics of what makes a story flow

I’ve never taken writing classes either, so I don’t know how much help I can offer. Most of what I know about stories comes from analysing good ones in uni - which automatically means that sometimes when I’m reading a book, I’ll notice when things aren’t exactly right. But applying that to your own writing is, of course, a different matter.

The two books about writing I have on my shelf are Beginnings, Middles & Ends by Nancy Kress and a Collins guide on Writing Fiction, but if you’re wondering how to turn interesting characters and half a plot into a novel, there’s plenty of stuff online as well. Most novels, for instance, use what’s called a ‘three-act structure’ - here is a template.

Something like this can work well for any story, because the nodes can be adapted to what you’re writing. In a romance, for instance, the inciting incident can be a gorgeous guy splashing coffee on our protagonist, while in a thriller it will probably be a murder. Obstacles can be something as ‘mundane’ as a mom grounding her daughter all the way to a murderous merman locking up our heroes in a soon-to-be-flooded cave.

While the three-act structure is very common and generally efficient, there is more than one way to structure a story. You could start by going through the writeblr or nanowrimo tags here on tumblr, or watching online videos, but whatever you do and whatever you learn in theory, I think it’s good practice to start recognizing those things in books you read. 

(Plot points, character tropes and story structure are also easy to pick out in movies, especially blockbusters.)

If you want to be a writer, don’t read blindly, just for the sake of knowing how a story will end. Take your time to pause, or re-read a favourite book, and try asking yourself: Why did this work? Why was I shocked or surprised? Why was I expecting this turn of events? Why was I so desperate for them to kiss? This is something I do a lot, usually during a second reading, and I find it very useful. Of course - even when you understand what works, it’s not easy to apply those things to your own writing, but the only way to write better is to write more - there’s no escaping that. 

[smonksthemuse]

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Maybe he was a small-time thug who was “rescued” by Palpatine after trying to rob him?

or maybe Palpatine ‘adopts’ a young Maul in as an ‘orphan’ because he knew it would look good; “that politician Sheev Palpatine took in an abandoned zabrak boy to raise as his own; what a kind, generous, good man! we should vote for him!” that sort of thing.

Palpatine wouldn’t have treated Maul as a slave like Anakin, because people knew about Maul and would expect to see him in public occasionally, and if Maul looked mistreated that would be bad for his image and career. But that doesn’t mean he wouldn’t be emotionally abusive toward him, and very restrictive in a lot of ways.

so Maul probably ended up running away as a mid- to late-teenager, maybe even leaving the planet, and Palpatine did the whole ‘I love my son, I’m worried about him, if you have information call this number, Maul if you’re listening I love you and I’m sorry’ thing for the cameras and pretended to be ‘sad but soldiering on in his duty as a politician’ and all that.

maybe Maul meets Savage during this time, I don’t know. but eventually he goes back to Naboo and Palpatine, he’s an adult and it’s been years and Palps has all but forgotten about him. he says ‘I’m gonna live here a while, or you know I could go to the press and tell them exactly why I left’ and Palpatine is like ‘you wouldn’t dare, and no one would believe you, there’s no proof’ but still that sort of accusation could be damaging. so he lets Maul hang out in his house and Maul doesn’t let anyone know he’s back and they both make life a living hell for Anakin.

[crowsovercity]

I heard that the sims 3 is way better than ts4... should i get it

[kitwilsonsass]

okay

the raging piece of plush has a body

it’s not perfect, but it should be fine once he’s stuffed

he still needs a tattoo which i’m still torn on even doing, and i have to sew on a little ring as well. then it’s clothes/head/hair/face. all the hard but fun stuff. i wanna TRY to at least get the form of the boots done tonight before i forget how to do the foot pieces again. bah.

BAH I SAY

[yellowsubiesdance]

i have a big dumb crush on the girl who works at the starbucks near my school (i feel like i've talked about this before) and god i don't want to waste my money on starbucks but i would willingly go there every day to see when she works