First and foremost I'd like to thank terrorcandy for being so wonderful and brave and articulate and just. A truly good person. One day I hope we can hang out.
breath-taking photos.. i am in love with the interior of that mall. it's like walking in a palace! i also love the winter sun old world feel of these photos. there's a lot of warmth to these photos. i want to imagine running in the snow, through the trees, with the sun breaking through. /ramble
your grandmother is lovely. I WANT TO GO TO RUSSIA.
Thanks Lynn! You always leave the best comments <3333 "Old world feel" is a great way to put it, the sun and snow and beech trees cause peaceful feelings! When everything melts though you see there is a lot of trash under there lol
Hm perhaps for dis gay story I should take all helping-verbs out of the dialogue. So authentic! Russian Guyovitch!! It make better. Anecdote: My grandma tried Grey Goose and was all, "Ugh! This barely even burn your throat! Is it watered down?"
ohhhh what beautiful photos! *A* I love your old art, and that mall is insanely gorgeous!
mmm not that I'm qualified or anything, but I guess the advice I would give depends on what you're writing? And what exactly do you want to work on? Though as you allude to, any kind of writing practice is a good start.
The quality of this art!!!!!! Should have gotten me a lifelong art school career, but alas I don't think anyone was paying attention TAT broken dreams. Also communism didn't perceive art-making the same way, art had to serve a purpose, which by definition made it just like. "Design." 1930-1970 saw some TREMENDOUS design though!
I am writing about 18,000 words of a SSBB short story. Third person limited, uh, gay.
"Distancing" works really well for me. Otherwise my brain starts going in circles. I even lose sleep over stories and puzzles and projects. It's pretty lame haha. Distancing helps distill all that head-junk into workable material, magically somehow in the unconscious. I think there's a term for this phenomenon that Arthur Conan Doyle might have coined (?).
I actually try my very very best to stay away from the thesaurus. Which is not always effective since I end up using too many words anyway but. Sometimes the perfect one is just like. "house" or "ran"
Writing major in the heezie fo sheezieultimademonMarch 27 2011, 15:43:07 UTC
1. Pick a time each day that you dedicate 30 - 60 minutes to writing. Same time each day, and try to keep the location the same.
2. Anne Lamott taught me about the 1 inch picture frame. You only need to write as much as what you can see through a one inch picture frame (in a single sitting, that is to say). EL Doctorow also said something similarly: Writing is like driving at night. You can only see as far as the headlights go, but you make an entire journey only seeing that far.
If you haven't read her book on writing, Bird by Bird, I recommend giving it a whirl
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For the 1 inch picture frame, it's more of a technique to overcome writing blocks and get ideas flowing. You can, however, imagine your story as a painting on your wall, and choose one scene or chunk of dialogue and work through that. The spirit of it, as I gather, is to not overwhelm and discourage yourself with a writing project.
Yeah, editing and the likes is tricky, especially when you're trying not to embarrass yourself (been there, done that!). I've gotten pretty used to having my work criticize. I had to do workshops weekly for my undergrad, and there were many nice things going on (artists have delicate egos where I went, and were very careful when critiquing other's work), but the professors weren't shy about pointing out things that they felt needed improvement. I never felt my ego crushed by that. It also helps that I had my work criticized quite vigorously when I was teaching in Korea. No filter on those fine folk, let me tell you!
I would write by hand when I was working retail! It's interesting, but my OCD makes me freak out over inability to delete/replace. A lazy generation haha
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i also love the winter sun old world feel of these photos. there's a lot of warmth to these photos. i want to imagine running in the snow, through the trees, with the sun breaking through. /ramble
your grandmother is lovely.
I WANT TO GO TO RUSSIA.
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If you go to Russia you should crash with us :D
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Is vodka! It make better!
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Hm perhaps for dis gay story I should take all helping-verbs out of the dialogue. So authentic! Russian Guyovitch!! It make better. Anecdote: My grandma tried Grey Goose and was all, "Ugh! This barely even burn your throat! Is it watered down?"
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mmm not that I'm qualified or anything, but I guess the advice I would give depends on what you're writing? And what exactly do you want to work on? Though as you allude to, any kind of writing practice is a good start.
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I am writing about 18,000 words of a SSBB short story. Third person limited, uh, gay.
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I actually try my very very best to stay away from the thesaurus. Which is not always effective since I end up using too many words anyway but. Sometimes the perfect one is just like. "house" or "ran"
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2. Anne Lamott taught me about the 1 inch picture frame. You only need to write as much as what you can see through a one inch picture frame (in a single sitting, that is to say). EL Doctorow also said something similarly: Writing is like driving at night. You can only see as far as the headlights go, but you make an entire journey only seeing that far.
If you haven't read her book on writing, Bird by Bird, I recommend giving it a whirl ( ... )
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Yeah, editing and the likes is tricky, especially when you're trying not to embarrass yourself (been there, done that!). I've gotten pretty used to having my work criticize. I had to do workshops weekly for my undergrad, and there were many nice things going on (artists have delicate egos where I went, and were very careful when critiquing other's work), but the professors weren't shy about pointing out things that they felt needed improvement. I never felt my ego crushed by that. It also helps that I had my work criticized quite vigorously when I was teaching in Korea. No filter on those fine folk, let me tell you!
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I would write by hand when I was working retail! It's interesting, but my OCD makes me freak out over inability to delete/replace. A lazy generation haha
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