“Can I touch your hair? It’s just so unusual!”
“Can I touch your brain? It just did something so unusual!”
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SFC SMF
I tried to write an SFC* but ended up with an SMF* and I don’t even know if it’s a failure or a success!
* SFC=Strong Female Character, SMF=Sexy Mother Fucker
Resignation
“I quit!” he said with resignation.
Spaceship
Spaceship:
“The Knock-Out”; Dreadnought of the Fearless class…
If your book isn’t good enough, you aren’t close enough
“If your picture isn’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.”
Robert Capa, War Photographer
Get what he means?
Can you see him with his camera in hand edging closer to the exploding bombs and spurting machine guns? Can you see him get close to the victims and their suffering and sorrow? Can you see him get close to the ones being responsible?
Now apply that to your book project.
Are you close enough to the characters? The pain, anger, pleasure, fear? Are you daring to go close enough to yourself?
Zip it and Zip it
A: OMG! This XML-document is indented! It’s gonna take forever to send it!
B: Zip it and zip it!
@Test: Are you mocking me?
Total programmer nerd humor:
@Test: Are you mocking me?
The But/Therefore Technique of Plotting
Find boring scenes that may not belong in the story by listing the beats (scenes, maybe in some cases chapters) of the story, and if you can put a “but” or a “therefore” between two of these beats, you’re good to go.
If on the other hand you have to put an “and then” between them, you’re in trouble and likely creating a story that isn’t entirely glued together and as cohesive as it could/should be.
Escaping Windows Folders
I’m trying to escape Windows folders, but I’m stuck!
DELETE WITH STATS 10
You know you’re in trouble when you find yourself wishing the DELETE-clause had a WITH STATS 10 setting…
Talkwards 