Sara Raasch's Blog, page 533
August 5, 2013
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Irish advertisement against homophobic bullying.
Beautiful.
Started to tear up
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This.
August 1, 2013
more cookie time: Here's Your Mary Sue
Looks like this essay was needed, so I went ahead and did it. Not sure I said everything I wanted to say, but I tried.
So, there’s this girl. She’s tragically orphaned and richer than anyone on the planet. Every guy she meets falls in love with her, but in between torrid romances she rejects them all because she dedicated to what is Pure and Good. She has genius level intellect, Olympic-athelete level athletic ability and incredible good looks. She is consumed by terrible angst, but this only makes guys want her more. She has no superhuman abilities, yet she is more competent than her superhuman friends and defeats superhumans with ease. She has unshakably loyal friends and allies, despite the fact she treats them pretty badly. They fear and respect her, and defer to her orders. Everyone is obsessed with her, even her enemies are attracted to her. She can plan ahead for anything and she’s generally right with any conclusion she makes. People who defy her are inevitably wrong.
God, what a Mary Sue.
I just described Batman.
Wish fulfillment characters have been around since the beginning of time. The good guys tend to win, get the girl and have everything fall into place for them. It’s only when women started doing it that it became a problem.
READ THIS I BEG OF YOU.
FUCKING. NICE.
I mean really
behindthebloom:
It’s here! It’s finally here! The first...
It’s here! It’s finally here! The first finished copy of CROWN OF MIDNIGHT!
Lucky for you, we’ve still got a few galleys left. We’ll pick three people who reblog this post and follow us here on tumblr to win them!
THE PRETTY.
July 31, 2013
When you wake up not because your alarm went off or your cat is sprawled on the floor singing you his song of hunger, but because you WANT to work on your WIP.
And up until now all you’ve felt for your WIP is loathing and hatred and smoke-filled rage, days of tears and blood and nights of sweet relief from the horror of your computer, and you were beginning to think this book would be nothing but a reflection of your inner struggle and readers would feel your revulsion seeping out of every word but finally, now, this morning, you felt the glorious whisper of satisfaction brush across your cheek and you awoke to the startling yet comfortable-as-if-it-had-been-there-all-along epiphany that you are madly in love with this book, yes, and it is madly in love with you.
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July 24, 2013
Writers on Wednesday: Sara Raasch
Welcome to another Writers on Wednesday! I’m thrilled to bring you an interview with Sara Raasch. I met Sara through the YA Valentines, and I’m delighted that she stopped by today to talk about h…
