At Them Crossroads Again

randomly collected thoughts and ideas to keep myself inspired and motivated to keep writing. You only fail if you stop writing.

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This is a project I have had in mind for quite a while now. My writing career has always been very inconsistent. In then out again and back in to leave and out again for X amount of time wasting I needed to indulge into before I inevitably return to the keyboard and multiple pens and multiple notebooks I cannot and do not wish to ever leave behind.

The writing world changed and I am having a bit of a struggle making sense of it but if that's the way writers get writing done these days, bring on Affiliate Marketing and content creation.

It is better than the alternative.

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In writing, epithets ("the taller man"/"the blonde"/etc) are inherently dehumanizing, in that they remove a character's name and identity, and instead focus on this other quality.

Which can be an extremely effective device within narration!

They can work very well for characters whose names the narrator doesn't know yet (especially to differentiate between two or more). How specific the epithet is can signal to the reader how important the character is going to be later on, and whether they should dedicate bandwidth to remembering them for later ("the bearded man" is much less likely to show up again than "the man with the angel tattoo")

They can indicate when characters stop being as an individual and instead embody their Role, like a detective choosing to think of their lover simply as The Thief when arresting them, or a royal character being referred to as The Queen when she's acting on behalf of the state

They can reveal the narrator's biases by repeatedly drawing attention to a particular quality that singles them out in the narrator's mind

But these only work if the epithet used is how the narrator primarily identifies that character. Which is why it's so jarring to see a lot of common epithets in intimate moments-- because it conveys that the main character is primarily thinking of their lover/best friend/etc in terms of their height or age or hair color.

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To elaborate a little, switching back and forth in a scene describing the "blond-haired man" instead of using the character's name makes it increasingly hard to for the reader to connect to who you're talking about. This is a fatally common trope in fanfiction that really, really under-serves the reader.

To you, the writer, it is so boring to repeat the character's name over and over again. But to the reader, that fades into the background. When you need clarity in a paragraph and don't want to endlessly repeat pronouns, just use the character's name. It's so much better for your reader.

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May 3, 2020 - The ultimate collection for anyone who loves Macaroni and Cheese. . See more ideas about cooking recipes, recipes, macaroni an

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If anyone starts complaining to me about how hot it is today, this will be my reply. Every time

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Today was the first heatwave day where there was straight-up sunshine and warm summer heat on this spring day of late May.

We still aren't working yet and we are adjusting to the second phase of confinement... Slowly and progressively getting the green light to re-open services and businesses that were shutdown.

Testing the waters of what it could be like to fully end the lockdown.

We'll see in two weeks what these new relaxed measures have brought on healthwise.

Day by day. Gotta admit, the heat and fair weather makes everything much more bearable.

Made the most of the outside and even got to go for a refreshing dip in my mom's pool.

Usually I wouldn't swim at 74° but today's heat made it a welcome cool.

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I'm a Twit! Clarification on Twitter accounts

I’m a Twit! Clarification on Twitter accounts

Follow Me on Twitter   (Natacha G. Filion)

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Follow Me on Twitter: Quotes & Notes Journal

So a very confusing “conflict” surfaced when I linked my Twitter for Quotes and Notes Journal   I am a total geek freak who loves quotes like a crazy person so I made a fun page and a fun WordPress to keep it all together, it’s not a priority and it’s basically storage for those pearls of quotes…

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A Note on My Twitter (I'm a Twit)

A Note on My Twitter (I’m a Twit)

Follow Me on Twitter   (Natacha G. Filion)

So a very confusing “conflict” surfaced when I linked my Twitter for Quotes and Notes Journal  a blog I created because I am a total geek freak who loves quotes like a crazy person so I made a fun page and a fun WordPress to keep it all together, it’s not a priority and it’s basically storage for those pearls of quotes I fish out of the “interwebs”

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Someone Somewhere Needs to Hear This

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Easy reading is damn hard writing

 Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly

Stephen King

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There's no need to talk about it because the truth of what one says lies in what he does

Bernhard Schlink

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I will look at the past but I will not stare at it

M. Spio