The Writer and The Whale

This is a dumping ground and file cabinet and [TOP SECRET] cosmic inventory for stuff and stuff related to my (many) writing sojourns. Call me Camilla, by the way. Oh, and the whale's name is REVOLVER, and he's just a dote. A good friend of mine gave him to me. You'll love 'im, I promise. He likes vanilla things.

[thewriterandthewhale]

*comes crawling back in after a frankly disgraceful amount of time* edit: *sob* No wonder the password wasn't working. I changed it because I forgot it last time. I'm a smart one, I am.

[thewriterandthewhale]

You've disappeared. :O

Ack. I'm sorry this must be latest reply in history. I . . . kinda disappeared? Alright. I really disappeared for a while there. I've been swamped elsewhere, and honestly I was a bit lazy about logging back in because of a lapse in memory when it came to my password . . .

Anyway, I'm edging back. I actually have something finished (gasp!) related to my poem "Julian Dives" over on Figment that I need to polish and start uploading.

[allyofrp-blog]

so you've got a theme and a plot. you know that the next step is building the characters that will fuel your roleplay. characters make the setting and situations come alive. without characters there would be no roleplay, simple as. but writing them isn't as easy as slapping down a personality under a couple of nicely edited photos. you've got to captivate. here i've provided several links to resources that will help in this process.

[allyofrp-blog]

a website to provide those snazzy symbols everyone is using.

a list of 1000+ surnames.

a first name generator. (make sure to select english in the categories.)

a list of 1000 girls names based on popularity.

a list of 1000 boys names based on popularity.

100 positive personality traits.

100 negative personality traits.

a personality generator.

100 character quirks.

a means of relaxation. (put it on over your favorite writing songs for best results.)

[thewriterandthewhale]

The Writer and The Whale turned 2 today! Haha, I coulda sworn it's been longer than that. 

[noten]

I really can’t wait for winter because then I can start wearing the other 97% of my clothes 

[rpthemehelper]

So sometimes Microsoft Word is all you need to write but my thoughts tend to be a rambling mess so I need a piece of software which helps me organize my thoughts and writing. These are a few I’ve tried and tested and work well for me.

[rpthemehelper]

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[asian-deactivated20130821]

*tears up*

[k-lionheart-deactivated20171126]

Get ready for the Disney movies, people.

[sparklerogers]

So I’m reading the article and then this:

For example, there is the tale of a maiden who escapes a witch by transforming herself into a pond. The witch then lies on her stomach and drinks all the water, swallowing the young girl, who uses a knife to cut her way out of the witch.

German fairytales are so brutal. (I love that)

[emilyjanepitchiner-deactivated2]

[smashalash]

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WHY DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS CAT BEFORE

HER NAME IS TAMA AND SHE’S THE STATIONMASTER AT A TRAIN STATION IN JAPAN SHE GREETS ALL THE PASSENGERS AND SHE HAS HER OWN OFFICE AND SHE’S PAID IN CAT FOOD AND SHE IS A FUCKING EXECUTIVE OF A FUCKING RAILROAD STATION 

AND LOOK AT HER

the trains are decorated with cartoon versions of her since she’s their mascot as well

MAN YOU GOTTA TALK ABOUT THE TRAIN MORE TOO THOUGH!!

FOR ONE THERES A LITTLE LIBRARY INSIDE WITH CHILDREN’S BOOKS!!

AND TAMA THEMED COUCHES AND BACKBOARDS!!!

AND THE FRONT HAS WHISKERS!!!

TAMA IS SO POPULAR THAT TOURISM FROM TAMA BASICALLY BROUGHT THE ENTIRE TOWN BACK FROM THE BRINK AND SAVED THE RAIL LINE!!!

I MEAN CHECK THIS OUT!!

A TAMA CAFE!! AN ENTIRE TAMA GIFTSHOP!! TAMA NOTEBOOKS TAMA BAGS TAMA EARRINGS MORE TAMA STUFF I NEVER GOT PICTURES OF!! THERE IS SO MUCH TAMA !! THIS GODDAMN CAT!!

[moderndaywarriorsawyer]

This cat has done more in her life than I ever will with mine. Dang.

[word-stuck]

serendipity

[astrotheyge]

when you spell a word so wrong that spell check is like i dont know what to tell u man

[transparent-galaxy]

[fulllblownrose-blog]

It’s too hot *opens window* in comes 20 flies, 8 spiders, 17 daddy long legs, 50 moths, 3 dragons and 12 Jehovah’s witnesses.

[zedonist]

and a partridge in a pear tree

[rj-anderson-deactivated20160805]

…the neat sorting-out of books into age-groups, so dear to publishers, has only a very sketchy relation with the habits of any real readers. Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table.

C.S. Lewis (via muralofsolitude)

[grassburrqueen]

*slams book closed*

*breathes quickly*

*SCREECHES*

*breathes heavily*

*re-opens book and continues to read*

[thewriterandthewhale]

NOOO. ZIVAAAAA.

[takeshitakenji]

“Someone should write a book where the main character slowly falls in love with the reader.”

[nomiros-deactivated20190302]

Last line of the book : “Please, don’t close the book, I don’t want to die”

[jykinturah]

oh my god

[maslab]

I’d just like, keep the book open and tape it to a wall.

[overdramaticntrue]

I’m almost afraid to want it.

[taking-the-tardis-to-asgard-dea]

John Green, we’re waiting.

[tin-pan-ali-deactivated20191216]

“So I guess this is it, isn’t it? There are no more chapters, right? You said we were getting close and that was a while ago.”

I stared up into the sky, it was the same old sky there had always been, except for some rainclouds that hadn’t been there a few minutes ago. It wasn’t raining, but they were still floating up there, grey and dismal.

You begin to ask me something. “Don’t ask me how I know, I just do. Things just feel really final right now, like the downward slope is starting to level out. Eventually… We’ll hit the back cover, right?”

I sat down on a bench- had that been there a few minutes ago? It was hard to tell.

“Did you say yes? I think I heard you. Your voice keeps getting harder to hear.”

Thunder rumbled, but… It wasn’t like the thunder I’m used to. It sounded like you, and it sounded sad. From one of the clouds, a single drop of rain fell on the grainy wood of the bench.

“… You’re crying, aren’t you? I’m sorry, I’m really sorry. I wish I could change this. I wish I could reach where you are.”

Thunder rolled again, and behind it was a voice. Your voice.

“Me? I’ll be fine, I think. I don’t know if this has ever happened before. I don’t really know what happens when you… close the book.”

You ask me if I’m afraid.

And oddly, I’m not.

“No, actually. Because… Whatever happens to me when you close the cover… You can always open the book up again, right?” and that’s when the answer hits me, the realization jolting me to stand again. “That’s it, isn’t it? You can open it back up. The words won’t change, but I’ll still be here. You can meet me all over again, and I can meet you, and everything we have will come back.”

It’s raining now, and the clouds have merged together, and in them, for the first time… I see you. 

You are the most beautiful person I have ever seen in my entire life.

You’re crying, but it’s quiet, and maybe that was the sound of your tears hitting paper.

I realize that we don’t have a lot of time.

“Listen- before it’s all over- I want you to know that everything, all of this… Even being over, it was worth it. It was worth it to meet you, to get to know you. Even if when you close that cover and I disappear- it was all worth it. I love you.”

You love me too, I know it, I can feel it, just like for a moment I can feel what it would be like to hold your hand.

There is a very long pause, and I realize you’re prolonging what has to happen.

“You can do it.”

For the first time, you have to be the hero. You have to close the book so we can keep going. And I believe in you.

The sky gets darker, slowly, but then it gets light again, and your face is still up in those clouds. You open your mouth and for the first time I HEAR you, not just feel what you’re saying or understand you in my own head, your voice comes through the pages in your world and into the reality of mine, and it reverberates and I can hear every little nuance, down to the hitch from you crying.

“I’ll never forget you,” you say. “I’ll come back soon.”

The end.

[themeeg]

SOMEONE DID AND NOW IM EMOTIONAL

[caffine-addict-deactivated20200]

Plot Twist: 

“I love you.” She whispered softly closing the book. Her fantasy must end and he must die with it no matter how great their love. Tears fell from her eyes, landing upon the hard worn cover of her most beloved book. The book in which lied the love of her life. The book that loved her back. She ached to open it again but she could not continue like this. She must move on and live a life not in her precious book. Sobs racked her body as she walked to the self, hesitantly sliding her beloved book into the shelf. It was only for a time, she told herself. That she would come back again and read the story of her love again and that she may fall in love again. Whipping her eyes she turned toward the door, but froze in her tracks. A man stood there, concern lining his every feature. She knew that face. It was exactly as she had pictured it, from every line of his jaw to the exact color of his eyes. This can’t be possible.

“Why are you crying?”  Oh, his voice. That was his voice. It was as soothing as she had imagined. Her knees grew week and her mind went numb. She struggled for words as he approached her slowly, he knelt before her and touched her cheek, worry etched in his gentle movement. “What’s wrong? Has something happened?”

She could only choke out, “You’re real?”

[queenhaggis]

I’M SCREAMING

[ellensomething]

FUCK IT GOT BETTER

[elletromil]

I don’t remember if I rebloged it the last time I read it, but since I cried even though I already knew what was going to happen, it deserves to be here again if I did.

[princess-gumball-deactivated201]

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