Writer In Progress

oliviatheelf: Great quote. Frames and cages should only be...

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:30:11 -0400

Great quote. Frames and cages should only be used when you’re trying to pack things up and move it to a new place and even then, you should think very carefully about it.

What a lovely image.

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:27:26 -0400

What a lovely image.

teresapalmer1x1: So, in response to a shockingly poor, and...

Sun, 05 May 2013 23:38:39 -0400

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.

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A useful article to read. :)

writeworld: Anonymous asked: I absolutely love your blog (: I’m pretty young, but I know that I...

Sun, 05 May 2013 23:36:20 -0400

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!

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

Sun, 05 May 2013 23:32:15 -0400

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.

bottledstarlight: beatpie: Cherry blossoms in full bloom at...

Sun, 05 May 2013 23:30:18 -0400

bottledstarlight:

beatpie:

Cherry blossoms in full bloom at Mount Yoshino, Nara, Japan

So I really thought this was ‘shopped, but my dorm mom back in Japan confirmed this is a legit picture. She said something about 30,000 sakura trees cover the mountain. SO. JEALOUS.

WOW, wow, wow. I SO wish I was there. So gorgeous!

leslieseuffert: Taylor Allen There’s something...

Sun, 05 May 2013 23:29:18 -0400

leslieseuffert:

Taylor Allen

There’s something inspiring about this, when you think of it in terms that we all have an amazing world inside of us, in our heads, in our hearts and buried deep inside of our soul. Some people see it and some people don’t, that’s where you get friends and then you have “soulmates”. Lovely image!

leslieseuffert: Taylor Allen I feel just like this sometimes...

Fri, 03 May 2013 16:32:36 -0400

leslieseuffert:

Taylor Allen

I feel just like this sometimes with the crazy imagination in my head.

geewizzard: by *daniellieske Inspiring stuff to write about.

Fri, 03 May 2013 16:31:57 -0400

geewizzard:

by *daniellieske

Inspiring stuff to write about.

WOW. what a cool image.

Fri, 03 May 2013 16:31:27 -0400

WOW. what a cool image.

melmelmarie: d’awwww Adorable. That’s all I have to...

Fri, 03 May 2013 16:30:59 -0400

melmelmarie:

d’awwww

Adorable. That’s all I have to say.

green-tea-and-pearls: Oh my goodness I’m in love! Tea party...

Fri, 03 May 2013 16:30:26 -0400

green-tea-and-pearls:

Oh my goodness I’m in love!

Tea party time! I SO want to be here…with tea, a book, a journal and chocolate.

thespacegoat: • Accidentally close a tab? Ctrl+Shift+T reopens...

Fri, 03 May 2013 16:25:27 -0400

thespacegoat:

• Accidentally close a tab? Ctrl+Shift+T reopens it.
• Bananas release dopamine, eat them when you’re sad.
• CTRL+SHIFT+ESC is the one handed version of CTRL+ALT+DEL
• Don’t brush your teeth hard, it makes them sensitive and removes enamel.
• Don’t like spiders? Put citronella oil on your walls and they will not go there.
• Drink one glass of water for every alcoholic drink you have, you’ll get drunk without getting a hangover.
• Get clear ice cubes by boiling water before freezing it
• Heal paper cuts and immediately stop the pain with chapstick.
• If you accidentally write on your dry erase board with a permanent marker, scribble over it with a dry eraser marker to remove it.
• If your shoes smell, put them in the freezer overnight, it will kill the bacteria.
• Make bug bites stop itching with a banana peel.
• Make a paper longer with 12-point text, but 14-point periods and commas.
• Need to get around a blocked website at work? Try replacing the http:// with https://
• Never send your resume as a word file (unless asked) Instead, print it to a pdf file, it’s much cleaner and professional looking.
• Pick a flavor of gum you don’t normally chew, and chew it while studying during a test.
• Place a piece of bread in a container with your homemade cookies and they will stay soft.
• Put a dry towel into a dryer with wet clothes, they will dry faster.
• Put toothpaste on a pimple and it will dry out.
• Practise fake smiling in the mirror every day before going to work/school, you’ll genuinely start to feel happier.
• Rub canola/olive oil on knives before cutting onions, you won’t cry, alternatively chew gum and you won’t either.
• Short on time with a wrinkled dress shirt? Hang it up in the bathroom to steam it flat.
• The night before, place things you don’t want to forget the next morning on top of your shoes.
• Use hydrogen peroxide to remove blood stains from clothing.
• When cleaning windows use newspapers or coffee filters instead of paper towels, they will not leave streaks.
• When microwaving bread products/pizza put a glass of water in with it, it will keep your bread for going spongy.
• When you move into a new place you’re renting, take pictures of any and all damage, then post them on facebook (privately if preferred) so you can use the reference date as proof you didn’t do it.
• When searching plane tickets online delete your cookies prior, prices go up when you visit a site multiple times.

Randomly useful things to know!

ecogboutique: Image source: Dragon Tree… by Jeremy Cram This...

Fri, 03 May 2013 16:22:12 -0400

ecogboutique:

Image source: Dragon Tree… by Jeremy Cram

This makes me wants to write about tree fairies.

Photo

Fri, 03 May 2013 01:11:59 -0400

Pretty!

Fri, 03 May 2013 01:10:06 -0400

Pretty!

Lovely reminder.

Fri, 03 May 2013 01:06:31 -0400

Lovely reminder.

deviantbirds: Night Owl by *AngelaRizza I have to reblog this...

Thu, 02 May 2013 17:55:48 -0400

deviantbirds:

Night Owl by *AngelaRizza

I have to reblog this because its awesome! And owls are cool.

WriteWorld: What is Editing?

Thu, 02 May 2013 17:54:22 -0400

WriteWorld: What is Editing?:

anidealwriter:

Editing doesn’t just mean to fix your comma errors and check your spelling. It doesn’t just mean making sure you don’t have any run-on sentences. Editing involves looking at your whole piece of work and making sure that it makes sense.

When I began editing my web series,…

This is what editing needs to be.

gothiccharmschool: I need this painted on one of my walls. I...

Thu, 02 May 2013 17:50:35 -0400

gothiccharmschool:

I need this painted on one of my walls.

I wish my notebooks had this stamped all over them.