antiandrogen:

i’m glad my mom caused most of my childhood trauma instead of my dad so my therapy sessions can pass the bechdel test

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suditalia:

grocery store: *plays some funky 80s song*

my poor mother: please dont

me, immediately dancing in the middle of the aisle:

Originally posted by mrthisbody

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thebibliosphere:

jj-flemings-writing:

ariaste:

sarahtaylorgibson:

audacityinblack:

sarahtaylorgibson:

Writing a novel when you imagine all you stories in film format is hard because there’s really no written equivalent of “lens flare” or “slow motion montage backed by Gregorian choir”

You can get the same effect of a lens flare with close-detail descriptions, combined with breaks to new paragraphs.

Your slow-motion montage backed by a Gregorian choir can be done with a few technques that all involve repetition.

First is epizeuxis, the repeating of a word for emphasis.

Example:

Falling. Falling. Falling. There was nothing to keep Marie from plunging into the rolling river below. She could only hope for a miracle now, that she would come out alive somehow despite a twenty-foot drop into five-foot-deep water.

Then there’s anaphora, where you write a number of phrases with the same words at the beginning.

There were still mages out there living in terror of shining steel armor emblazoned with the Sword of Mercy.

There were still mages out there being forced by desperation into the clutches of demons.

There were mages out there being threatened with Tranquility as punishment for their disobedience, and the threats were being made good upon.

Mages who had attempted to flee, but knew nothing of the outside world and were forced to return to their prison out of need for sustenance and shelter.

Mages who only desired to find the families they were torn from.

Mages who only wanted to see the sun.

This kind of repetition effectively slows the pace of your writing and puts the focus on that small scene. That’s where you get your slow pan. The same repetition also has a subtle musicality to it depending on the words you use. That’s where you get the same vibe as you might get from a Gregorian choir.

Damn I made relatable reblog- bait post and writer Tumblr went hard with it. This is legitimately very good advice. 

For more neat tricks (aka figures of rhetoric) like epizeuxis and anaphora, read THE ELEMENTS OF ELOQUENCE by Mark Forsyth. It’s both educational and delightful, not to mention overflowing with wry wit. Great book. 

Holy shit.

Forsyth’s other books, “The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language”, and also my firm favorite “The Horologicon: A Day’s Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language” are also well worth the read if you have the opportunity.

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lukas-langs:

the fbi agent watching me get every question wrong on duolingo through my computer screen: this bitch dumb as fuck

sweetbabyraysgourmetsauces:

Gushers has the perfect opportunity to profit off this tide pod craze and release giant gushers but instead they just continue to post stupid memes on Tumblr and otherwise do nothing new at all

averagefairy:

billy joel: slow down, you’re doin fine, you can’t be everything you wanna be before your time.

me, laying on the floor sobbing: thank u

kitfisto:

i’m moving to chernobyl need some piece and quite

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albatris:

richietoaster:

Are you a “can’t write dialogue” writer or a “can’t describe anything” writer

I initially thought this said are you a “can’t write dialogue” writer or a “can’t write anything” writer and I was like yeah

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