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Currently reading The Shining, @land-of-reads is my book blog if anyone wants to read along with my…

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Watched Doctor Sleep and decided it was time.

Oh dang this guy has two other books!

Poor Danny can’t clear his mind from nightmares now, because of Roque.

My copy (left) is old enough to have typos, recent edition on the right-

“His name was Horace Derwent and though he was not Howard Hughes, here are five pages of similarities down to the bra he invented.”

Currently reading The Shining, @land-of-reads is my book blog if anyone wants to read along with my slow liveblog.

RIP Balder :(

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ALT

it came to me in a vision

Been thinking about hot rod horseshoe crab all day

RIP Balder :(

Not unreality, just an author I recommend in a big way:

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Not unreality, just an author I recommend in a big way:

Please consider reading the works of Baroque Forrest. Tales from a Mall for wacky sci-fi satire, Boxes for dark sci-fi horror. You can find links and more info here- https://www.tumblr.com/rotten-whispers

My dad told me about all the myths and strange things in them, reading them from Edith Hamilton or…

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people who learned about greek mythology due reasons that DONT involve having read percy jackson at 12 freak me out, like what the FUCK was going on in your life that you found out that zeus turned into a pigeon to woo his wife like HOW

Percy Jackson didn’t exist when I was 12, but a lot of other cool books involving mythology did

my mom read Greek myths as bedtime stories

The mythology books at the library had shiny gold patterns on the cover

My dad told me about all the myths and strange things in them, reading them from Edith Hamilton or World Book didn’t really have much more to add but I read them all the same. And then there was Bulfinch…

Ground Effect vehicles possibly?

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Ground Effect vehicles possibly?

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Tips from a Beta Reading Writer

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This one’s for the scenes with multiple characters, and you’re not sure how to keep everyone involved.

Writing group scenes is chaos. Someone’s talking, someone’s interrupting, someone’s zoning out thinking about breadsticks. And if you’re not careful, half your cast fades into the background like NPCs in a video game. I used to struggle with this so much—my characters would just exist in the scene without actually affecting it. But here’s what I’ve learned and have started implementing:

✨ Give everyone a job in the scene ✨

Not their literal job—like, not everyone needs to be solving a crime or casting spells. I mean: Why are they in this moment? What’s their role in the conversation?

My favourite examples are:

The Driver: Moves the convo forward. They have an agenda, they’re pushing the action.The Instigator: Pokes the bear. Asks the messy questions. Stirring the pot like a chef on a mission.The Voice of Reason: “Guys, maybe we don’t commit arson today?”The Distracted One: Completely in their own world. Tuning out, doodling on a napkin, thinking about their ex.The Observer: Not saying much, but noticing everything. (Quiet characters still have presence!)The Wild Card: Who knows what they’ll do? Certainly not them. Probably about to make things worse.

If a character has no function, they’ll disappear. Give them something—even if it’s just a side comment, a reaction, or stealing fries off someone’s plate. Keep them interesting, and your readers will stay interested too.

I have a couple new blogs:

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I have a couple new blogs:

@land-of-reads · Lost in the Land of Reads

@oozing-carbon · Oozing Carbon

The first is a blog for books and comics I’m reading, the second is a blog for my pencil drawings where they appear without any photoshop colorization or editing.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s 1989 introduction to “Revolt of the Cockroach People” by Oscar Zeta Acosta…

From Hunter S. Thompson’s 1989 introduction to “Revolt of the Cockroach People” by Oscar Zeta Acosta (1973), written after Acosta’s disappearance and presumed death. The last portion was quoted in the Gilliam film of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

I have a new blog for my pencil drawings without any significant computer modifications, no…

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I have a new blog for my pencil drawings without any significant computer modifications, no colorization, no dodging or burning, no cleaning up spots, just the original pencil image in black and white.

Oozing Carbon