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teresapalmer1x1: So, in response to a shockingly poor, and frankly offensive, ‘how to’ that’s been circulating my dash, here’s my take on playing a character with bipolar disorder. We all know I’m not an expert, what I am is a third year med student with experience in working with people with a number of physical and mental health problems, and my mother also happens to have bipolar disorder. Please like or reblog if this is at all useful, and please help pass around an accurate representation of this disorder and hopefully retract some of the negative and stereotypical nonsense that’s been flying around as of late. Read More A useful article to read. :) 

teresapalmer1x1:

So, in response to a shockingly poor, and frankly offensive, ‘how to’ that’s been circulating my dash, here’s my take on playing a character with bipolar disorder.

We all know I’m not an expert, what I am is a third year med student with experience in working with people with a number of physical and mental health problems, and my mother also happens to have bipolar disorder.

Please like or reblog if this is at all useful, and please help pass around an accurate representation of this disorder and hopefully retract some of the negative and stereotypical nonsense that’s been flying around as of late.

Read More

A useful article to read. :) 

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writeworld:

Anonymous asked: I absolutely love your blog (: I’m pretty young, but I know that I want to be a writer when I get older. I think that this blog could give me some great writing ideas!(:

Why not be a writer now?

-C

Brilliant advice. 

I agree. Yes. Why not be a writer now? Is there something that will happen later in life that makes one more ‘writerly’ than who you are right now? I wish I had started writing earlier. 

I wish someone had told me to. 

I started writing ten years ago—because someone told me that I couldn’t. It is the singularly defining moment in my life where I actively decided to do something to prove that I could—and found it so rewarding that I just couldn’t stop. I was well into my teens when I heard that. I wish I’d started earlier. 

Best of luck to all of you new writers out there. Go ahead and write. Rock this world. It needs more people like you inside of it. 

Cheers!

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Fuck Yeah Character Development!: What To Do When You Have No Plot

writingbox:

Sometimes you want to write, but you have no plot ideas. Perhaps your fingers are itchy to write, you want to meet a submissions deadline, a character is bugging you to tell their story, or a single image, phrase, or scene is sitting heavy in your head. But you still can’t find…

This is the BEST advice I’ve ever read for handling that elusive plot moment, when you have that perfect moment in your head and have no idea on earth what to do with it/about it. Worth a reread or three. 

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