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AU: When Harry arrived at Neville’s Christmas party he did not expect to run into old Professor McGonagall.
WHO MADE THIS?!
Something just happened to my heart just now.
I need to go cry.
Oh my god!
under the cut is 50+ gifs for a moodboard that involves an angsty/love/hate kind of relationship. I got a it out of hand and added a few sarcasm ones in there as well cause i’m trash. anywho, if you found this helpful then a like/reblog would surely make me happy.
After putting my writing on hold for several weeks, I decided to jump back in. I expected to find all sorts of problems with my story–inconsistencies in the plot, lack of transitions, poor characterization–the works. But what began to stick out to me was something to which I’d given little thought in writing.
Filter words.
Actually, I didn’t even know these insidious creatures had a name until I started combing the internet for info.
Filter words are those that unnecessarily filter the reader’s experience through a character’s point of view. Dark Angel’s Blog says:
“Filtering” is when you place a character between the detail you want to present and the reader. The term was started by Janet Burroway in her book On Writing.
In terms of example, you should watch out for:
I’m being honest when I say my manuscript is filled with these words, and the majority of them need to be edited out.
Let’s imagine a character in your novel is walking down a street during peak hour.
You might, for example, write:
Sarah felt a sinking feeling as she realized she’d forgotten her purse back at the cafe across the street. She saw cars filing past, their bumpers end-to-end. She heard the impatient honk of horns and wondered how she could quickly cross the busy road before someone took off with her bag. But the traffic seemed impenetrable, and she decided to run to the intersection at the end of the block.
Eliminating the bolded words removes the filters that distances us, the readers, from this character’s experience:
Sarah’s stomach sank. Her purse—she’d forgotten it back at the cafe across the street. Cars filed past, their bumpers end-to-end. Horns honked impatiently. Could she make it across the road before someone took off with her bag? She ran past the impenetrable stream of traffic, toward the intersection at the end of the block.
Of course, there are usually exceptions to every rule.
Just because filter words tend to be weak doesn’t mean they never have a place in our writing. Sometimes they are helpful and even necessary.
Susan Dennard of Let The Words Flow writes that we should use filter words when they are critical to the meaning of the sentence.
If there’s no better way to phrase something than to use a filter word, then it’s probably okay to do so.
Read these other helpful articles on filter words and more great writing tips:
Everything you love is here
disney channel original movies â TWITCHES TOO
when people say “frozen is the first Disney movie to have sisters saving the day with love power”
Fangirl Challenge: 15 pairings | Cat & Gene Donavan (Seventeen Again)
I should have come home instead of giving you that divorce[…]I let you get away woman. I’ve had to live without you for twenty years. I’m gonna let you know something. I’m never letting you go again.
Danittanyrph presents an FC pack of the flawless, HARMONY, as seen on the hit Fox tv show, Glee and played by the beautiful, Lindsay Pearce.
This pack contains a download of 69 GIFS of Harmony, as seen on the show. All of these gifs are sized 160x160px, HD, usable on Tumblr and were made by us, so please don’t claim as your own or use in gif sets as these belong to danittanyrph.
In the second (graphic) download, you can find 36 ICONS of Harmony which were all made by us (so do not repost) and there are 128 LOOKALIKES, collected and edited by us. Please reblog and like if you found this post useful.
Rachel & Brody + sharing secrets
↳ “Tell me a secret. Something that you don’t want anyone else to know.”
Shannon L. Alder (via ohlovequotes)
The Nightly Show, June 22, 2015
All cops should have body cams with a button that they are told shuts off recording. But it doesn’t do anything.
except to log that they tried to shut if off
Omg. Genius.
