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"Some people sayThat courage is roaring lions And conquering our deepest fears.But I have found my..."

“Some people say

That courage is roaring lions

And conquering our deepest fears.

But I have found my bravest moments

Come from taking one step forward

When all temptations are telling me

To take 3 steps back.”

- Recovery is Courage (Don’t give up), lesbellesmarguerites (via wnq-writers)

"More than ever, we are a migratory species, and I wonder why we walk the earth without exactly..."

“More than ever, we are a migratory species, and I wonder why we walk the earth without exactly inhabiting it—the way we sometimes look at each other, but don’t see. We can’t really touch or feel time. It evades our five senses. But looking at place, it’s possible to perceive time, and to move through it. Place is timebending. We have a tendency to exoticise distant places, but there is no mundane spot on this earth. My corner bodega was likely once upon a time a nursery for pterodactyls.”

- Quintan Ana Wikswo
(via mttbll)

I won't bring it up again.

writeworld:

Writer’s Block

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Mission: Write a story, a description, a poem, a metaphor, a commentary, or a memory about this sentence. Write something about this sentence.

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"They say that everything beautiful eventually fades.But no matter how many Sunsets I watch turn..."

“They say that everything beautiful eventually fades.

But no matter how many Sunsets I watch turn

from golden into black, or how many stars I

watch die away into the dead of night,

I always seem to find myself

wondering how it would

look in the colours

of your

eyes.”

- Fading Poem #1, lesbellesmarguerites (via wnq-writers)

White Spirits and White Supremacy

writingwithcolor:

The society in my fantasy setting is religiously/spiritually build on nature spirits, which they used to regard as gods. They moved away from that a bit now, but the spirits are still holy. The group of protagonists is mostly POC, it also includes a spirit who can turn herself human. She is a mountain spirit, her physical form is a red griffin. When she turns human she turns into a red-headed white girl and I’m worried this might come off as a form of white supremacy as the spirits are still regarded as holy in the story. The problem would be easily solved by showing that spirits turn into all kinds of humans (which they do), but the story doesn’t really allow for it without it feeling forced. Should I change her design or am I just overthinking?

Thanks a bunch for your time and effort :)!

It’s not necessarily white supremacy and as long as there’s other spirits who have PoC-coded human forms, you’re on the right track. However, you’ve noted there’s little room to allow that to show without being forced (how so, I wonder?) In any case, you could easily make this spirit a red-headed woman of color. 

Not only is it a fantasy story of your making, so they can look however you want, but note: red hair is not exclusive to white people. At all.

~Mod Colette

   I’m not a POC, but as a writer I had another suggestion that might also work. If you don’t know how to show there are other races in the human forms of spirits, could you perhaps have the mountain spirit give a brief explanation of her physical form? I don’t think this would feel forced necessarily depending on how you do it. When she is first introduced in her human form, you might have her say something along the lines of “the spirits can manifest in many forms, many taking human forms of all genders and races. This is my human form.” I know you didn’t ask for my opinion, but I just thought this might be an effective way of telling your reader that not all the spirits are white without having to divert the story away from the plot too much.

A queen is supposed to be practical. She’ssupposed to be sensical and thoughtful, and she should...

   A queen is supposed to be practical. She’s
supposed to be sensical and thoughtful, and she should never make
decisions on the whim of her heart. But that’s exactly what she had done,
and for all the guilt she felt, for all the betrayal that seemed to weave
together and drape itself over her like a palpable new form of existence, she
couldn’t help but gaze up at him where he sat beside her on the bed. She
was in awe, and it was a tremendously bright
feeling, to be in awe of another person who is also in awe of you.

—snipit from Desiderium: The War Without

Hi one quick question, in a light Y.A novel is it bad to break the fourth wall by saying 'you' in the narrative?

It’s probably not the best idea, but it’s not horrible either. Really, it all depends on the execution.

lastnightsreading:David Levithan at Books of Wonder, 6/6/15

lastnightsreading:

David Levithan at Books of Wonder, 6/6/15

Structure of Quote Attribution

writeworld:

archraven1 said: Hello, thank you for your amazing blog! Please can I know: do we put “said” before or after the character’s name? Like, is it “Ben said” or “said Ben”. Is there a preferred way in Britain because I’ve seen different books doing it differently. Thank you! xxx

The Short Answer

It’s either way.

“I am going to lunch,” said Ben.
“I am going to lunch,” Ben said.

They’re both grammatically sound.

The Long Answer

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