Aspiring to Be

Henry Rollins (via cirea)

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Richard Bach, Illusions

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writeworld:

Writer’s Block

A picture says a thousand words. Write them.

Mission: Write a story, a description, a poem, a metaphor, a commentary, or a critique about this picture. Write something about this picture.

Be sure to tag writeworld in your block!

writingbox:

Sometimes you want to write, but you have no plot ideas. Perhaps your fingers are itchy to write, you want to meet a submissions deadline, a character is bugging you to tell their story, or a single image, phrase, or scene is sitting heavy in your head. But you still can’t find the whole story.

So what can you do?

• Start with characters: find their names, their backstories, their relationships. Create detailed descriptions, draw them, build their family trees. Get them interracting, put them into a room together, or bump them into each other in the street. Read their diaries, their love letters, their bank statements. Get to know them inside out. This is one place where you may find your story.
• Start with a world: create your map, name the towns, lakes, forests, and mountains. Work out the trade routes, position the markets, the ports, and the industry. Find the history, predict the future. Draw out the borders, bring war, re-draw the borders. Get down to street level and see who lives there. Walk the streets yourself. This is one place where you may find your story.
• Start with a room: stand in the middle of a room and open your eyes. What does the room look like? What’s in it? How many doors and windows are there? What is the room used for? Who uses it? What has happened here, and what is going to happen here? This is one place where you may find your story.
• Start with an object: pick something up into your hand. What is it? What is it used for? Who owns it, and who owned it before them? What is it worth, either monetarily or sentimentally? Has it been lost, found, stolen, given away? Why is this object important? This is one place where you may find your story.

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fuckyeahbookarts:

The Book Vase (by YOY Design)

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schnitzy:

Paper Typography Project by Sabeena Karnik

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aseaofquotes:

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

Submitted by thehiddenabyss.

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scribbles-and-wanderlust:

Got any recommendations for YA Summer Books? I’m going to write a blog post about some good summer-esque reads. Light, set in the summer, set in the South, or just plain something that makes you think of summer. Anything with male protagonists as well would be great! 

This includes young adult protagonists that are shelved in the adult section for one reason or another. Ex: Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman is a fantastic summer read, with a YA protagonist, but shelved in adult fiction.

So my list consists of…

• Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman [x]
• The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen (just about any of her books would do) [x]
• The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E Smith [x]
• City of Bones by Cassandra Clare [x]
• Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour by Morgan Matson [x]
• Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares [x]
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith [x]
• 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson [x]
• Guardians of Time trilogy by Marianne Curley [x]
• The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay [x]
• Abundance of Katherines [x] and Paper Towns [x] by John Green
• Variant by Robison Wells [x]
• Beautiful Creatures series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl [x]
• The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han [x]
• The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (cause sometimes middle-grade is just the ticket) [x]
• The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks [x]
• The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper (also a YA/MG book) [x] 
• Beastly by Alex Flinn [x]
• I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore [x]

Thank you Amber, Melody, Jaime, Abby, Cassie, Cara, Hannah, Sam, and Martha! 

Got any recs?

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Geirangerfjord, Norway (by tommipictures.de)

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victoriousvocabulary:

SLUMGULLION

[noun]

1. a watery meat stew; an inexpensive stew.

2. a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.

3. a beverage made weak or thin, as watery tea, coffee, or the like.

4. the refuse from processing whale carcasses.

5. a reddish, muddy deposit in mining sluices.

Etymology: Americanism; compare Scots, Hiberno-English gullion - quagmire, cesspool.

[Emilio Ferrari] [Karen Owens] [Chris Piascik]

Happiness comes with a steep price,

Or that’s what I learned from you.

To be happy I have to give up my identity,

I have to relinquish the right to be unique or different.

Serve the group. Do what we say.

                                                             That is the only way.

Fuck no. I refuse to conform.

I will be me, even if that means,

I will now be alone in my suffering.

The group will never own me again,

I’m done being its little bitch,

                                                   even if that makes me one in their eyes.

Power is gained by control,

                                              so how does it feel to have lost your power over me?

infinite-paradox:

No fear !

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