They Called Me Peaches

“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.”

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Self portrait

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Stop

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Ernst Haas, Reflection, NY, 1957

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/09/world/europe/french-love-letters-18th-century.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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Johnny Cash poses in front of the Dixie 576 locomotive in Nashville. Photographed by Michael Rougier for Life magazine, October 1969.

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Andrew Rovenko - The Shuttle

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via @una-lady-italiana

[crisisofinfinitemultiverses]

Daredevil & Elektra by Alex Maleev

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[roane72]

Best trick I ever picked up. Seriously.

[catastrophe-jones]

I have also learned this is great for [PICK A COOL NAME FOR A SHIP] and [LOOK UP THE FACTS ABOUT OXYGEN LEVELS] and [WHAT’S THE WORD] and [DOUBLECHECK CHARACTER’S EYE COLOR] and ALL KINDS OF THINGS.

Anything that isn’t critical in the moment, and could be filled in later while I’m currently trying to burn through writing pages that will be lost if I don’t get them out right now? Brackets.

[betweentimeand42]

This is seriously the best advice, and it really helps put it into perspective that the first draft is just that- a draft. There’s no reason to agonize over a particularly tricky bit of writing when you could just leave it in brackets and skip to the good parts, the parts you’ve visualized. I also use brackets for [fact-check this], [use a stronger verb], [is this in character?] and other notes as I write, just so I don’t forget what I want to work on when I go back and edit. 

[petermorwood]

Note the good sense of [brackets] not (parentheses).

Parentheses AKA round brackets can appear in fiction, usually as an afterthought in a character's thoughts or narration (as I saw them used just recently), but square brackets hardly ever do.

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[tearyourpetals]

Courtney Love photographed by Mario Testino - 2006

[yesterdaysprint]

The Winchester Star, Kansas, September 20, 1929

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[doubletalkinjives]

June 6, 1985 ♪ The Troubadour

⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣“We played our first live show with the ‘Appetite for Destruction’ lineup. The bill at the Troubadour included Fineline, Mistreater, and, at the very bottom, Guns N’ Roses. Slash’s high school friend Marc Canter—he turned out to be part of the family that ran Canter’s Deli—came and shot pictures. He made prints of each of us the next day so we’d have head shots to put up in the places we played on our tour.”—Duff (excerpt from his autobiography, “It’s So Easy: and other lies”)

📸 Marc Canter⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

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[saltriverroad]

Pray for America