Sexy And Sad Time w/ Dorks

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[mylifeisroosterteeth]

you know what you shouldnt do? constantly tell your child how expensive they are to take care of. because eventually, that child gets scared of asking for money, and doesnt feed themself at school, doesnt go places with their friends that require money, because she doesnt want to be expensive. it really does get into their minds, that theyre too much money and that they shouldnt do anything.

[jigglypuffsvevo]

[highschoolering]

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”

-J.K. Rowling (via highschoolering)

[sixpenceee]

Sir Nicholas Winton is a humanitarian who organized a rescue operation that saved the lives of 669 Jewish Czechoslovakia children from Nazi death camps, and brought them to the safety of Great Britain between the years 1938-1939.

After the war, his efforts remained unknown. But in 1988, Winton’s wife Grete found the scrapbook from 1939 with the complete list of children’s names and photos. Sir Nicholas Winton is sitting in an audience of Jewish Czechoslovakian people who he saved 50 years before.

WATCH FULL VIDEO HERE

[sixpenceee]

This post gained more than 100,000 notes in over a day. One of the most powerful things I ever posted. 

[yamguchii]

THINKIN ABT YAMAGUCHI IN THE NEXT EP MORE LIKE

[sunshineparkers]

Badass Yamaguchi

Reblog if you agree

[tsuyukami]

*muffled sobs about Iwa-chan the ace of my heart and apparently everyone else’s too*

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[tsuyukami]

Did someone say Suga Appreciation time

[haikyuusituationsblog-deactivat]

So my dash did a thing.

[figmas]

he’s beauty he’s grace

[differentstuffsdaily]

[gaiabamman]

Drafting a novel; a step by step guide

Are you up to the challenge?

I wrote 4 books so far, 2 are published and are doing quite well. So what’s my drafting method? 

The first draft is the hardest part of writing a novel. Too bad you have to do it first ;) 

Trick 1: keep telling yourself that you can do this, because you can and nobody else can write YOUR story <3

After writing 4 books (five really, but two were mashed into one) I came to the conclusion that the best method to draft a book is to vomit it all out. It does not matter where you start, it does not matter that you’re not sure about present or past tense, point of view, and even your plot. Just write. 

Trick 2: Start with the scene that’s nagging at you the most, the one you can’t wait to write.  

Trick 3: never stop. 

Writing a first draft is like creating the canvas for a painting. It’s plain if not messy, it might suck and be full of mistakes. Who cares? You will rewrite the whole thing many times over before anyone will read it. You are gathering the ingredients for a recipe.  As you write the characters will take more and more defined personalities, some scenes will start to shine. Vomit it all out, you will decide what to keep later.

Trick 4: make it fun! Sometimes I get bored with a scene and just drop it half way through. I just jump to the next exciting scene I want to write about.  That’s okay, I might go back to it later or likely I will take it out entirely ;)

Trick 5: Don’t worry about word counts, separating chapters and scenes. My draft are almost twice as long as the finished product, sometimes more. I’ll cut all the dull parts out and rewrite the good scenes. I will change chapters many times over.

 Trick 6: focus on whatever you’re better at, be it dialogue, descriptions, or whatever you tend to do more. Do whatever you need to pull through. 

Later as you revise you will work on balancing the structure of your story, polishing the plot, adding clues, deepening characters, adding descriptions, building moods, trimming dialogues. 

My drafts are a mess, and that’s okay. They are full of typos, scenes are disjointed, some abandoned. I have a plethora of characters, most of them useless. Dialogues drag. There are few descriptions and sometimes there’s no sense of place at all. I’m drafting book 5 now and I can’t decide if I’ll use present or past tense, so it’s a terrifying jumble of both. 

BUT! As you keep vomiting ugly words you will see two things happening: 1-Characters will start acting of their own will, acquiring more definite personalities, 2- the plot will start to unravel and you will uncover themes and secondary plots that keep popping up in your scenes. Eventually you will feel you ran into a conclusion, some sort of wrap up. Now, you can look at your ugly creature (the first draft) and turn it into a masterpiece!

Polishing the draft! 

Now we can REALLY have fun. Why? Because you have something to work with, you know where the story is going, you which characters are worth keeping.

NOW YOU CAN WRITE A NOVEL, BUT YOU COULD NEVER DO THAT WITHOUT A (TERRIBLE) DRAFT!

HOW?

1-Decide your tense and point of view and be consistent. 

2-Reorder scenes to build up toward one (or more) climax, add clues, build up moods. 

3-Remember that every scene needs to move the story forward! If it’s just a funny line, a nice description, or a cute scene edit them out and save them for later. You can reuse them to plump a scene that is needed.

4-For every character you created ask yourself: do they move the story forward? Are they necessary? Do I really need 3 brothers or is one enough? 7 friends or 2? (This is the phase I call character massacre). Half of the characters in my drafts don’t make it to the novel.

5- For every scene you keep give  a sense of place, a brief description of where we are, what does it feel like. Don’t drag descriptions, but use all five senses (sound and smell are very important). 

6-Polish your language, replace adverbs with better verbs (crawl rather than walk slowly etc…), avoid words like “really, even, that” sometime they are necessary, but they tend to be overused. Choose one good adjective rather than three approximate ones. READ! You will learn great vocabulary.

7-Work on your “show don’t tell”: avoid verbs like “look” and “feel” and replace them. Don’t tell us what something felt like or looked like, show us. Rather than “he seemed upset” make him frown, biting his lower lip. Rather than “she looked sad” make tears twinkle in her eyes and have her look away.

8-Go back to chapter 1 and make it phenomenal. Make sure you start with a “hook”. Make the reader curious about a circumstance, a character, intrigue them.

Oh, look! You just wrote a novel! ^_^

GBA

PS

I’m often asked if I use “outlines”. Sometimes. Sometimes I write them and don’t follow them. Whatever works!

PPS

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[somepiecesofmyheartandsoul-deac]

“That day she flinched when I accidentally brushed my hand against hers,” he said, “as though it actually hurt.” “And I started to pay more attention to her since that day. I began to notice how she would rarely speak of herself or should I say, she would not tell you much when you asked her about herself. She would just tell you to find that out for yourself.” “I began to notice how she would feel uncomfortable when happiness was present as if she was unfamiliar with it, as if she was afraid of it. It’s funny, as she would smile and laugh like she was the happiest girl alive.” “But,” he said, “not everything is what it seems to be. She can go around and paint smiles on souls, while drowning in an ocean of sadness inside.” “If you asked her about what happiness was, she would start to talk about something else as if to avoid the question. Perhaps it was easier for her to talk about sadness since it could be quite an addiction.” “I guess she had long forgotten what true happiness felt like,” he said quietly, “And somehow, I want to change that.”

L.W. // Forgotten Words #79 // On the sad girl who loved the rain (via somepiecesofmyheartandsoul)

[ctrl-alt-write]

I feel bad for the next boy who loves me. He will never hold certain parts of me that I reserved for you. He will never know the things you took from me, he will never get the opportunity to touch pieces of me I left at your place. He will struggle to find the secrets I store away. He will never touch my mind as well as you. I feel bad for the next boy I love. I will not be complete. I will not remember to call him when my show is over, I will always be too tired. I’ll never pay attention to the way he flicks his fingers while he waits, I will never notice the way he slightly digs his palms in my back when he is sad and needs a hug. I will forget to ask why his favorite color is his favorite color. I will not find interest in the same way I found interest in the way you saw the world. The next boy who loves me will be so much better than you. He will make sure to ask how my day is. He will never make me feel less than number one to him. He will be everything I ever wished for as a little girl. He will love me passionately. He will forgive me for my spilled words, he will never forget to tell me how beautiful I look with my messy hair. The next boy I love will be so much better than you. I will never second guess him. I won’t doubt what his intentions are. I will breathe in and out to the steps he takes my way. I won’t have to talk to him about the things that hurt me, because he will know they hurt me. I will find happiness in his crooked tooth. I will find my happy places in the rain with him. I will be okay not seeing him for two days because I will be secure. I will be secure.

The way I loved you was pointless and dangerous (via ctrl-alt-write)

[killing1me1softly1again]

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[cosmicwizdom]

Cut negative people out of your life. The people you spend time with influence your attitude and thoughts more than you think.

- unknown (via quotelounge)

  (via quotelounge)