Pseudo Writer

I'm using this blog for my writing and for personal things as I see fit. This is a sub blog so I won't be able to follow anyone back. Sorry.

[writingmonster]

The second half of the first story for my short story collection, Beauty is a Beast is up on my Substack. Give me a read and reblog if you enjoyed!

Glass Gardens, continued

{Beauty is a Beast- Story 1; Part 2}

[writingdose]

[nondelphic]

the feminine urge to abandon the novel and start a newer, hotter, less emotionally demanding novel

[caruccio]

The smell of books

[glassfrogforest]

[alunaloverworld]

[nondelphic]

i’m not procrastinating. i’m allowing the story to ferment. like kimchi. or a crime scene

[a-book-of-creatures]

Book that was good: I liked it 👍

Book that was bad: this sucked 👎

Book that I wanted to like but which failed to live up to my hopes: I am going to write 10,000+ words explaining exactly why this book wronged me

[nondelphic]

unfortunately my story needs a middle. i personally think this is excessive

[writers-bane]

How it feels to finally string 5 coherent sentences together after a writing block

[whatagrump]

Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.

[thewritinggrindstone]

And!

“If you’re breaking dialogue up with an action tag”—she waves her hands back and forth—”the dashes go outside the quotation marks.”

[writing-is-a-martial-art]

Reblog to save a writer’s life.

[jaydove-writes]

Thank you

[localcanadiancryptid22]

Oh my god thank you. No wonder grammarly keeps complaining about my punctuation when I boot my writing up into word counter

[sorrrowfull]

[handweavers]

i'll never understand why people who don't read books want to write books like just plainly it's so confusing it's like if you didn't listen to music at all but wanted to be a musician it doesn't make sense

[pumpkinsae]

Both of these books look REALLY interesting... The first one isn't available until the fall, but the second one is available now. :x I might poke to see if libby has it, if not, I might check local book stores (before poking amazon.) I love books about plants.

[macrolit]

Recycle Bookstore San Jose, CA

[cat-esper]

"there's no platonic explanation for this" WRONG my characters are staving off the heat death of the universe through the power of friendship

[voguely]