Katherine Frances's Blog, page 448
October 11, 2014
"…there will be longer trips to travel. Farther and much more...
"…there will be longer trips to travel. Farther and much more dangerous places to go." —- Desiderium: The War Within by Katherine Frances, Chapter 7
Original artwork retrieved from here.
"…there will be longer trips to travel. Farther and much...
"…there will be longer trips to travel. Farther and much more dangerous places to go." —- Desiderium: The War Within by Katherine Frances, Chapter 7
Original artwork retrieved from here.
"You just spent 30 days writing around 1,600 words a day. It will be terrible. There will be places..."
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October 10, 2014
October 9, 2014
Tumblr Follower Technical Problems
Help! Does anyone know why this would be happening? A few times now I’ve gotten a new tumblr follower and yet my number hasn’t gone up. So I counted (I don’t have that many followers and yes I was determined to get to the bottom of this) the list of followers to see if it was correct…. and its way off! It’s like 20 short of the number which is a few short of what if should be because it hasn’t been going up when people have added me… I don’t know why this would be happening. Does the follower list not show all your followers? I counted twice guys… I’m so confused and I can’t find the answer anywhere.
mythandrists:
1. Anyone who says “write what you know” either...
1. Anyone who says “write what you know” either doesn’t know what they’re talking about or doesn’t know how to form a sentence. Know what you write. Do your research, but don’t think that just because you haven’t done your research yet doesn’t mean you’re not qualified to write about whatever you want. Don’t pigeonhole yourself. Pigeonholing sounds like a bad sex position, anyway.
2. Write badly. Write terribly, obnoxiously, fearlessly, write complete garbage, write melodrama, write too many details and extra scenes you’re going to have to cut later. Here’s a secret: Everyone’s first draft is shit. Yes, even Kerouac - have you read On the Road? Give yourself permission to suck. Write badly on purpose, but write badly in the way only you can write badly. Revision is for final drafts, not first drafts.
3. Semicolons are beautiful, but only if you actually know how to use them. Learn how to use them. Then use them. Don’t let your creative writing professor tell your that your poetry looks like an essay when you use actual punctuation; your creative writing professor is not you. Your creative writing professor doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
4. Except that your creative writing professor does know what he’s talking about. Listen to him. Learn from him. Write down all his advice in your notebook, but when it comes time to start writing - close the notebook.
5. Write every day.
6. But if you don’t write every day, don’t beat yourself up about it. Don’t beat yourself up, period. Self-loathing is antithetical to writing, unless you’re Gerard Manley Hopkins, but trust me, you don’t want to live the way Hopkins lived.
7. Stop thinking so damn much. Blare the music when you write; sit in a crowded coffee shop; drink; let yourself go. The first draft doesn’t want to be constrained; the first draft wants to be put on the page. The first draft wants a word count, not a rubric.
8. You’re always allowed to slam the door on someone who’s distracting you from your writing. Unless that person is a tax collector or your mother. Never slam a door on your mother unless she’s a drunk.
9. Everything has been done before. Get over it.
10. Love what you do. If you burn out, if you don’t love it anymore, either quit or find a way to love it again. Don’t do it for anyone else - no one’s paying you to be a writer. Pay yourself. Pay yourself in interesting characters and immersive plots and worlds you wish you could play around in. Give your writing to yourself. Treat it like a gift from you to you, because if you don’t love your final draft, no one else will, either.
awkwardsituationist:
one stormy night my girlfriend saw what we...
one stormy night my girlfriend saw what we thought was a dead sparrow below our balcony. he was barely breathing, covered in ants and completely blind.
we brought him home and put him in a box. after spending a night in our bedroom, he woke us up with high pitched tweeting. we tried feeding him, but without any luck, so we placed him on our balcony. he continued tweeting non stop for three hours.
finally, his father found him and started feeding him. he brought his chick huge bugs and bread every 10-15 minutes all day long for two weeks straight.
he was getting bigger every day, but he was still blind. i called a vet, and he told me to try simple eye drops. it worked like a charm! he even started hiding from us behind our flowers. soon, his father started showing him how to fly trough the window.
one day he just left – we knew this day would come eventually. we became really worried because that same night, and for the next few days, there was really stormy weather. however, three days later, he came back and fell asleep in one of our pots.
photos and text by tomas banišauskas
Not really bookish or about writing bu it’s too precious not to reblog
