#Repost @prideofgypsies
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My lunch break. FINALLY 20 attempts at least. On the 45 with @soill slopers Sorry about the cussing. But I can’t help it. I LOVE CLIMBiNG #dirtbagforlife #metallicahelpmesend #fuckyourchair. aloha j
Where normal people have a heart, Neil McCormick has a bottomless black hole. And if you don’t watch out, you can fall in and get lost forever.
Useful if this is how you think, though often I don’t see the outline until after the draft is written, because after awhile one just internalize this kind of stuff from all the media one ingests. Point is, use if helpful, ignore if not.
This is EXACTLY how many shows on television plot their episodes, though it’s usually through a five act timeline:
1) Introduction to the characters and the mission/adventure.
2) Mission begins. Protagonist establishes cursory allies and foes. Some sort of complication to the plot at the end of Act II.
3) Protagonist and friends deal with complication of the plot. Gears up for another go at the goal, but falls short in some way, usually related to protagonist’s personal journey.
4) Critical information needed for climax is discovered. Protagonist angsts, then rallies.
5) The lead up to and the final resolution.
Because studios sometimes require a 6 act break for extra advertising, the last coda is usually related to season arc/character development. But generally speaking, this is the structure a lot of screenwriters use.
Three things that are true:
- Anything you don’t create deliberately you create inadvertently.
- Things you create inadvertently tend to be the first idea your brain reaches for.
- Your first idea is almost never your best idea, because it will inevitably be influenced by the last thing you read or saw, or will clichéd and obvious. That’s how your brain gets warmed up to a problem; it reviews common solutions first.
One of my biggest revelations was that writing is both the act of constructing beautiful sentences AS WELL AS the act of being imaginative, of thinking up characters and story and knitting them together in a clever way. We are so blinded by the romance of the act of sentence construction that we forget that the imaginative part should get our time and attention too. You can call it “planning” or “outlining” or whatever. I call it dreaming.
Make time for your imagination to produce the best story it can.
@writerlyn, your followers might like this.
The outlining system I was roughly taught on!
(Source: helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com)
have you ever wondered how many fictional characters you’ve absorbed into your personality
He had the usual Dublin drawl, but with an open edge, like a kick, at the end of it. Breath of the west, Jim thought.
Mary Ruefle, “Impresario”
ugh yes, i love when people ask me for recommendations!
PoetrySharks in the Rivers by Ada Limón
“… dearest, can you tell, I’m trying to love you less?”
What Love Comes To by Ruth Stone
“We are balanced like dancers in memory,
I feel your coat, I smell your clothes,
Your tobacco; you almost touch me.”Beautiful in the Mouth by Keetje Kuipers
“One minute I’m becoming
myself, the next I’m forgetting how.”Little Stranger by Lisa Olstein
“In the second chamber
of my fourth heart
down to the left of the third valve
is the room I keep for you
for me to think of you.”Animal Ballistics by Sarah Morgan
“I am dressed in layers of trains.
I showed up
with no pulse in my voice,
loose change,
stark naked.
My heart, calling from a phone booth
in the rain.”Novels
The novel I’m reading right now (and the only novel I’ve read in a while) is The Round House by Louise Erdrich!
Also, currently at the top of my poetry bucketlist is Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón, Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong and Pelican by Emily O’Neill so that’s what I’ll be reading next.
no one asked lmao but i’m feeling this so here’s 9 movies that describe my aesthetic
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (2004), moonrise kingdom (2012), whip it (2009), coraline (2009), suspiria (1977), practical magic (1998), clueless (1995), hocus pocus (1993), jurassic park (1993)
A classic table of accidental lexical gaps in English, from Language Log.
My frail, tanned, tottering, dazed rosedarling
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (via girlglimmer)
Juliane Koepcke, 17, was sucked out of an airplane after it was struck by lightning. She fell 2 miles to the ground still strapped to her chair and lived. However, she had to endure a 9-day walk through the Amazon jungle before being rescued by loggers. She was the sole survivor of 93 passengers and crew in the December 24, 1971, crash of LANSA Flight 508.
This real life final girl
The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.
Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity! (via nostorybook)