Sarah Barra's Blog, page 58
June 27, 2014
"We don’t get to choose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it."
- Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Darkness (via b-ookquotes)
"I’ve read all the books and the new one, City Of Heavenly Fire, too. If they asked me to do the next..."
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Jamie Campbell Bower on The Mortal Instruments series [x] (via dailyjamiebower)
aw.
(via cassandraclare)"Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a..."
- William Knowlton Zinsser (via writingquotes)
How the internet helped me with english as a second language
I’ve been studying english my whole life, being spinish my mother language.
At school I didn’t pay much attention to the useful tool they where teaching me, so I let it shrink in my brain for 3 years.
During most of that time I started to use the internet for almost everything in my life. Most of the things that interested me were in english (and at the time I was studying physiology and neuroscience so I needed to read papers in english).
I started to use all my electronic devices in english, and understanding the way people wrote on posts, comments, etc (that it’s completely different from what they teach you on a classroom)
So I learned a lot on the internet and also how to write fast and still understand what people were saying. (with bad grammar and horrible cohesion).
It is useful, thou. To know how language function in the current period of time. My father came to me asking me to read an email response one of his colleagues sent him. Was a quick and short answer which actually answered all the questions my father asked. I explained to him how his colleague answered everything in such short email and he was confused for the lack of language. But that’s how most of the communications works know. Fast and simple.
Still, don’t forget to used the language properly. Any language. I like to keep my brain working on learning more than one language and try to use it well before start using it in a colloquial way.
maxkirin:
+ DAILY WRITER POSITIVITY +
#050
Stop beating...
#050
Stop beating yourself up over all the days you didn’t work on your story. Focus on what you can do today.
Sit down, and write.
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"YA doesn’t need rescuing. All it needs is a change in the way people talk about it."
- No, The Fault In Our Stars Is Not Young-Adult Fiction’s Savior by Mary Ann Badavi
(via knitmeapony)
June 25, 2014
number86:
geekophiliac:
neonreverberations:
"Who’s your favorite character?"
The dead one.
*in...
"Who’s your favorite character?"
The dead one.
*in the Les Mis fandom*
Come again?
*in the Supernatural fandom*
Like, dead or “dead”?
Me: talks about fictional characters as if I know them personally
"I’m just gonna ignore that"
- Me, talking about the last book in some trilogy, probably (via viserrion)
