A year or so back I treated myself to an original of a @tomgauld cartoon, and each time I look at it (above my desk) it still makes me smile.... so I thought I'd share it with you all. Enjoy!
Feedback is extremely welcome. This is a loving document, it can only be honed and get better with loving input from other users. What are your best tips for #creators?
We've been housesitting on and off for 5 years now. And along with pets, we care for a bunch of old, and often very eccentric, houses with little quirks that we've learned to acclimatise to quickly.
Which is why, when a lovely British crime fiction author drove up to meet us in person for the first time yesterday and needed to use the loo, we directed him upstairs and forgot to tell him "Whatever you do, DO NOT pull the toilet door fully shut or you'll be trapped in there for all eternity."
So... anyway... Last night, we locked a famous British crime fiction author, who we'd just met, in the loo and had to completely dismantle the door...
Being British and of the stiff upper lip variety, he did not yell or try and beat the door down.
In fact, it took me looking at the clock after THIRTY FREAKIN' MINUTES and saying "He's been a little while--OH FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK" at the top of my voice and sprinting to the top of the stairs to hear the odd plaintive rattle, while Tony went to find a screwdriver.
I would like to state categorically, that we did not deliberately try and lock a beloved British author in our bathroom. It's the house's fault. Not ours. Honestly. I haven't even read Stephen King's Misery the whole way through!
(I'm not really sure he believed us, but he let us buy him dinner at the pub to make up for it, so that's okay I guess.)
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I have a BA in English lit, an MFA in playwriting, experience working in theater. I've had plays and books produced and published respectively. I even wrote freelance erotica.
I'm a new-ish #writer from Australia. I'm currently working on my first novel, on it’s fifth draft. It'll be the first in a series. I love this story and my characters and hope to publish it once it’s finished.
Not gonna lie. I can use some help. I am available to draw or write something for you. I am in a bad spot right now because I have an unresponsive client with over $400 of work on hold.
Attn women #writersofmastodon: applications for #storyknife writers retreat are open until 8/31 - APPLY! I spent a month here last fall and it was a phenomenal affirming productive time (you can also just nap for a month if that’s what you need). The application process is straightforward and not inordinately time consuming.
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A dear friend of mine threw a birthday party for his sweet youngling - a princess party.
There she was with all her friends. Tiaras, cutsy dresses, and of course plastic foam swords. Those ladies need no knights.
However, adults are stupid, and think a man dressed as a dragon would spruce up a perfect gathering of powerful shield maidens.
Have you ever seen how a lot of kids react to Santa? They cry in fear.
The same thing happened here.
Utter terror in her face. She quivered, she gasped.
#PennedPossibilities 294 — What, to you, are the most important elements of good writing?
I'll keep it simple and singular: /Transparency./ Good writing fades into the background and lets the story flow into the reader's mind with a minimum of friction. Anything that makes the reader aware of the words on the page instead of the story interferes with getting your message across, and should be avoided. All good writing stems from this principle. How you implement it is up to you.
It’s the subconscious ones that you don’t need to explicitly teach native speakers, because they give us such insight to how the language centres of our brains work.
In English, examples include:
Why tock-tick sounds wrong (something to do with the vowels)
Why red, little house sounds wrong (we have a very structured way to string adjectives and we all implicitly know it)