Katherine Frances's Blog, page 341
July 18, 2015
“I’m going to do as many regular push ups as I can, and then I’ll switch to girl push ups, but...
“I’m going to do as many regular push ups as I can, and then I’ll switch to girl push ups, but I–” she started, but he interrupted.
“Assisted push ups,” he corrected.
She paused. “Assisted push ups, yeah, politically correct, right,” she agreed, her tone like that of a person who was going along with an exhausting charade.
Now it was his turn to pause as she got into the push up position. “Aren’t you offended by girl push up?”
She looked up at him from below an arched brow, elbows bent and knees against the floor. She gave the faintest eye role and purse of her lip before her face relaxed, and she sat up on her knees, eyes going distant.
“My mom took care of the farm,” she finially said, not looking at him. “She scared away the monsters. And later, the boys. She drove a stick-shift, and she taught us how to clean the shot gun.” Finially she looked up at him, features calm and pensive. “I’m not offended by girl push ups.”
This might not make much sense, but which one of these is the correct one to use as a title? - The Good Girl's Guide to Being Bad or - The Good Girls' Guide to Being Bad (It's about one person, I'm just really bad with grammar and unsure)
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Since it’s about one good girl, it’s The Good Girl’s Guide to Being Bad.
Basically The Good Girl’s Guide to Being Bad would be for any story that chronicles one “good girl”’s actions or a guide from one person calling themselves a good girl/the Good Girl.
The Good Girls’ Guide to Being Bad would be either if it was a story about several girls (think either a group’s story like Pretty Little Liars or intersecting or parallel stories like in Love Actually or Babel) or it’s a guide addressed to all “good girls”.
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July 17, 2015
"How many ways
can my body hold the sky—
until it breaks free
of my chest."
can my body hold the sky—
until it breaks free
of my chest.”
- Michelle Tudor (via wnq-writers)
"The ending has to fit. The ending has to matter, and make sense. I could care less about whether..."
- Carrie Jones
(via maxkirin)
Okay so I bought a book to read… but I’ve been marathon watching hp instead…...
Okay so I bought a book to read… but I’ve been marathon watching hp instead… what is wrong with me? That is also why I have been absent for the past 48 hours, if you were wondering. I’m sure you weren’t.
realrandomsam:
k-frances
answered your question “In about a month from now, I’m going to start...
k-frances
answered your question “In about a month from now, I’m going to start college again after…”It’s my last semester coming up. 18 credits. Internship. 0.0 excitement edged in terror is accurate I thinkYou can do it! Go go go!
I appreciate the sentiment :)
July 15, 2015
This is actually quite a big question, so I understand if you don't have time to answer it... In your opinion, what are the worst, most insidious tropes which fiction writers really need to stop using? And the most overlooked ones, which you wish people wo
Honestly? There’s no such thing as an overused trope. Tropes are tropes for a reason - they help us tell stories. That being said, I don’t like it when tropes are used just because they’re common, or easy - there still has to be some meaning behind what you’re doing.
For example, the “new kid at school” trope. There’s a huge difference between taking a character and transplanting them in the middle of a new situation and that having some meaning to the plot and doing that just because it’s an easy way to start a story.
This is actually quite a big question, so I understand if you don't have time to answer it... In your opinion, what are the worst, most insidious tropes which fiction writers really need to stop using? And the most overlooked ones, which you wish people wo
Honestly? There’s no such thing as an overused trope. Tropes are tropes for a reason - they help us tell stories. That being said, I don’t like it when tropes are used just because they’re common, or easy - there still has to be some meaning behind what you’re doing.
For example, the “new kid at school” trope. There’s a huge difference between taking a character and transplanting them in the middle of a new situation and that having some meaning to the plot and doing that just because it’s an easy way to start a story.
