Tribblicate
I'm a writer with a gay agenda. 18 and liberal as fuck. Sometimes, amidst the constant flow of reblogs, I post some insightful wisdom. Stick around and see. :]
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I don’t know why, but I’ve had these little obsessions when it comes to writing. Like certain phrases that MUST be in SOMETHING that I write SOMEDAY.
- “Into the rift.” (Some sort of title for a chapter or something. Maybe a song or album? Not that I can write music but, still. I love the phrase! I don’t know why.”
- “All that I’ve done…” (I don’t know why, but this phrase just…speaks volumes of sadness to me. I plan to use it somewhere! Or maybe “Everything I’ve done…”)
- “This is it. This is…war. They’re after us and everything we know. We’re the last front, the line between victory and…annihilation. They’ve taken my friends, and family. But they won’t take my world. I don’t know about all of you, but I’m fighting. To the last man if I have to.” (I envision this as a mini-rousing speech that my main character makes in the seventh installment of a series I have mapped in my head. They’ve gone to war, it’s the full on apocalypse, and she has the opportunity to address the troops.)
- “Life’s too short to squabble with your boyfriend about what happens after.” (This is a line I thought up while I was thinking about how important atheism, and the atheist community is to me, and how boys I date might not share those ideas and beliefs, and for me, I’ve never been one to argue about religion with someone I sleep with. This is probably gonna be in a blog post somewhere down the line.)
- “It looks so authentically eye-like…” (I said this to a friend and knew I had to incorporate it somewhere)
- R: “You know I have to stop you.”
D: “I know you’ll try.”
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D: “You know I have to do this.”
R: “I know you’ll try.” (I just love ironic echos. It’s a great way to show character development and the changing situations in a work.)
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If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.Ernest Hemingway, about minimalism.
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One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you’re maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.Stephen King, “On Writing”
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I guess it’s hypocritical because 65% of what I do here is post porn, with 25% being politics, 5% being activism and the remaining 5% having to do with writing, so.
But I can’t help it!
Yes, politics is a very frustrating and fascinating thing for me. And yeah, writing is my one true passion in life, and activism is obviously very important to me (particularly having to do with the LGBT, Feminist and Atheist Communities) but I love naked boys. I can’t help myself. They’re just too cute.
In a related story, Tommy Tribble is a shameless, shallow whore.
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Post reblogged from Living ღ Dead
Whether it be fanfiction, original stories, drabbles, songs, poems, books, or anything that has to do with creative words, then reblog. Let’s gather all the writers of Tumblr together.
I suck at it but I try :S
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Link reblogged from oliver yeh
There are a million opinions on this. Below the p&c list from The Editor’s Blog (hit the link for more detailed understanding behind the list:
Pros
- Introduces elements that might be difficult to introduce through dialogue or through exposition without an info dump.
- Can reveal character motivation.
- Can quickly establish tone.
- Can quickly set up questions in the reader’s mind.
- Can provide story direction or focus with only a few words.
Cons
- Delays the start of the current story.
- Forces readers to think about elements or characters or events that might not come into play for a long time in the current story (or might not have a part in the current story line at all).
- Can divide the reader’s focus.
- Can set the story off in a direction different from the one intended by the rest of the story.
- Can keep readers from becoming fully involved in the now of the story as they try to figure out what the prologue has to do with other story events.
- Prologues are out of favor. Readers (and publishers) might bring their negative impression of prologues in general to yours in particular.
The blog post finishes with, “Do whatever works for the story. If a prologue works and entertains, keep it. If it doesn’t meet this criteria, toss it.”
I will admit, I usually skip reading a prologue and jump straight into a story. It’s rare that I ever turn back.
I actually really dislike prologues. While it’s true that there are stories where prologues work—or are even necessary—most of the time, amongst new writers like me (do I still count as new if I’ve been working at it since I was ten? o.o), it’s done incorrectly. Prologues often come off as amateur or lazy to me. Idk. What do I know.
