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SemperIntrepida

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RONIN. WILL WRITE FOR BOURBON.
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WIP progress update: Not much to report! lol

I'm still working on chapter 5 and my word count is close to 24,000. Progress has been slow. It's been over a year since I wrote fresh new words on the regular—hey I was busy editing Breaking—so that set of writing muscles is out of shape. My day job also isn't helping, and the past few days I've only had the energy to fire up Helldivers 2 and shoot the shit out of some bots and bugs.

#wip: irredeemable
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One of the ways I coach writing students to character-build is to start with a physical object. In the context of historical fiction, this might mean starting with an era-appropriate item. For instance, if your setting had oil lamps, begin by describing one of these lamps. Then imagine how your character interacted with it, and how, and when. Build a whole scene for them starting with that physical piece of setting, considering what is revealed about them as a person in this specific slice of their everyday life. Do they like the smell of the lamp oil? Does it cue a memory? Are they excited to light a room for a gathering, or relieved to be alone with a book? Character building might also start with the body itself. I learned the basics of boxing so I could describe how Alma moved in a fight, or how it felt when she threw a hook: the pull of the muscles in the side, back, and arm; the way the body twists like a corkscrew to build power from the hip for the thrust of the punch; the satisfaction of landing a solid hit. As I wrote more and more of Alma, the emotions on top of the physical—her deeper characterization—responded to the movements of her body, helping me build her specific way of seeing and moving through the world.

—Katrina Carrasco, on the Importance of Female Physicality in Fiction

#nodding my head yes to all of this#katrina carrasco#on writing#commonplace book
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ladyshinga

Tech bros who think digital is forever and that uploading your consciousness to a computer is immortality crack me up. Like bro, you'd be "immortal" on the computer for like a year until your own company sends out some software update that makes you incompatible and whoops, there goes TechBro.soul into the great Recycling Bin in the sky

#it's true tho#i've worked in IT for nearly 25 years#it's a LOT of work to migrate legacy data into newer systems#these chucklefucks think googleflixbookstasoft aren't going to announce a new soul format every 5 years?#pay up or get deleted chump#just look at what google's done with the webp and jpegli image formats
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nervebynerve
“The daily routine of most adults is so heavy and artificial that we are closed off to much of the world. We have to do this in order to get our work done. I think one purpose of art is to get us out of those routines. When we hear music or poetry or stories, the world opens up again. We’re drawn in — or out — and the windows of our perception are cleansed, as William Blake said. The same thing can happen when we’re around young children or adults who have unlearned those habits of shutting the world out.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin 

#always reblog#ursula k le guin#storytelling#commonplace book
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