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clintpereira:docloudscomeinpurple:writing tip: don’t tell us your character’s backstory. don’t...

clintpereira:

docloudscomeinpurple:

writing tip: don’t tell us your character’s backstory. don’t tell us what your character is thinking. don’t tell us what your character is doing. don’t tell us anything. the reader should simply look at a blank page and be suddenly overcome with emotion.

Good tip. I know a lot of writers who cry uncontrollably when they see a blank page, so I’m sure that feeling will translate directly to the reader.

veronicaleighauthor:

veronicaleighauthor:

“oooh i need junji ito to write me an essay” okay so youre a little baby so youre a little baby waby…

rapidlydecayingcorpse:

rapidlydecayingcorpse:

“oooh i need junji ito to write me an essay” okay so youre a little baby so youre a little baby waby who needs mommys help

not junji ito. where did he come from. this is supposed to say chatgpt

This book was practically orgasmic to read. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

This book was practically orgasmic to read. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

I love other writers so much because every writer I’ve ever met is genuinely and utterly deranged on…

writingwithrxd:

I love other writers so much because every writer I’ve ever met is genuinely and utterly deranged on a level only writers can achieve

Can’t even wrongly aggrandize the influence of lousy terf authors anymore, because of Roke.

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mask131:

I saw again another post implying that J.K. Rowling “invented” the idea of a “school for wizards/school for witches” in fiction… *sigh*. Again, while Hogwarts definitively marked the cultural landscape and changed our modern vision of what a “school of sorcery/magic school” is supposed to be… Rowling invented nothing, and there were many, MANY, magic schools in fiction long before the first Harry Potter book was released. As much in fiction for adults as fiction for children. Let me recap some big points:

The Invisible College, from Diana Wynne Jones’ The Tough Guide to Fantasy Land, one year before Harry Potter - AND which forms a parody/reference to most of the schools listed below.Wizard’s Hall, from the titular Wizard’s Hall book by Jane Yolen - six years before Harry Potter.Groosham Grange, from the novel of the same name by Anthony Horowitz, nine years before Harry Potter.The Unseen University, from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld - 14 years before Harry Potter.Miss Cackle’s Academy for Witches, from Jill Murphy’s The Worst Witch, 23 years before Harry PotterThe island of Roke, from the Earthsea series by Ursula K. Le Guin - 29 years before Harry Potter.We can even go back to Dom Daniel, from T.H. White’s original version of The Once and Future King, 58 years before Harry Potter.

And I am not even counting the various “magic colleges” and “sorcery academies” that appeared in role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons long before Harry Potter came out…

Conclusion: Hogwarts is interesting and influential… But not inventive.

Feeling like reblogging this old post of mine, and please do look in the notes and reblogs there’s a lot of interesting suggestions and additions

Can’t even wrongly aggrandize the influence of lousy terf authors anymore, because of Roke.

Pretty sure you just posted the back cover blurb that will attract the right readers there. You…

rotten-whispers:

Hmmm having difficulty figuring out how to advertise this novel

Would you like to read a dark fantasy novel that alternates between 10 POV’s of the most cursed people known to man, who keep making the worst possible decisions and fucking their love lives up, and also there’s a lot of gore and toxic yaoi

Pretty sure you just posted the back cover blurb that will attract the right readers there. You needn’t obscure the risks of a risky book written for the few, if a typical reader tried it they’ll hate it anyway and give you a bad review from a ludicrous perspective and wrong expectations. Say it all up front just like in that post and you stand the best chance of finding readers who will want that exactly.

Or to quote my own character, “I’m not dressed in black to scare people off, I’m dressed in black to attract others who dress in black. But the scare is nice too.”

guillotined-cinema:The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick)

guillotined-cinema:

The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick)

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