December 2008
“One kind word can warm three winter months.”
– Japanese Proverb (via enquotations)
Breaking the Story
8secondsofawesome:
Here are two resources to break your story and get writing:
Blake Snyder’s 15 Point Beat Sheet
Pilar Alessandra’s On the Page
Another one is to map out your story on around the hours of a clock (heard here). Tell a part of the story every 10 minutes (or less) turning it at the end of each section.
The process is the same. Start big and drill down into the details.
Now,...
“I don’t get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life...”
– Chris Rock (via rainier)
After some long discussions carried on in my brain, I’ve decided I’m going to buy the Canon EF 50mm F1.8 lens for my Digital SLR. It’s an ok prime lens, the quality can be abit meh at times (especially bokeh) but for now it’ll have to suffice for the time of photography work I tend to do. I just needed something simple that I could replace my shitty lens kit I have. A sharp...
“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to...”
– Audrey Hepburn (via racheldorn) (via blondielove) (via aminamania) (via becausewhy) (via unicornology) (via littlemiss) (via rainier)
November 2008
“A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.”
– Helen Rowland (via skysignal)
very true.
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“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately...”
– Elisabeth Foley (via jessicachu) (via sailingonthesea) (via unicornology)
“As in Bringing Up Baby, opposites attract. No. 663, like the Cary Grant...”
– Chungking Express: Electric Youth by Amy Taubin. (via ladysnowblood)
Questions to consider:
unicornology:
when attempting to write a reflective commentary about your work(s).
“Agents, editors [and] interviewers will expect a writer to be able to communicate the uniqueness and energy of their own work, and so it is important for writers to be able to their critical-creative skills in this way.” - Amanda Boulter
What is the novel or story about?
What is/are the theme(s) of the story?
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