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1. Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.

2. Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material.

3. Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death and in the second place, unlike the theater, it doesn’t exist. In writing, your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person–a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.

4. If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it–bypass it and go on. When you have finished the whole you can come back to it and then you may find that the reason it gave trouble is because it didn’t belong there.

5. Beware of a scene that becomes too dear to you, dearer than the rest. It will usually be found that it is out of drawing.

6. If you are using dialogue–say it aloud as you write it. Only then will it have the sound of speech.

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John Steinbeck’s Six Tips for Aspiring Writers and His Nobel Prize Speech (via twohandedengine)
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garrus always carries

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“The irony of sexism is that nowadays white males frequently feel that they are being discriminated against. I like to point out to white guys that just because they are no longer able to tell nigger and pussy jokes in the workplace doesn’t mean they are being discriminated against. They are just no longer allowed to get away with stuff they should never have been able to get away with in the first place.”

Nancy Muldoon

The End Of The Good Ol’ Boy Network

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psychiclilies:

I have to laugh.

People constantly portray Hades in new age media as this totes evil bad guy, yet Zeus and Poseidon have fathered more monsters and people than he has and have raped women

while Hades is just there in the underworld with the one girl he kidnapped and agreed to let her free in the summer months with no children of his own, probably rolling his eyes and going ‘Guys, can we have a normal family dinner for once? Please?’

Hades gets such rap lately, I don’t really get it. IIRC, he’s faithful to Persephone, who falls deeply in love with him. He’s easily the gentleman of the Olympians. Not to mention that he was never considered “evil,” just cold and brusque, fulfilling a necessary, lonely life as ruler/protector of the dead.

Zeus turned himself into a swan and a cow to seduce women. He also turned himself into Alcmene’s husband so she’d have sex with him. Poseidon turned himself into a horse to have sex with a goddess who’d turned herself into a mare.

Seriously, Hades is the good one.

“he’s faithful to Persephone.” Mostly. He had one indiscretion with the nymph Menthe (and Persephone was having none of that shit so she stomped on Menthe until she turned into mint leaves). But still, you’re right. Compared to his brothers, the dude’s a freaking saint. And by far the best husband. He gave Persephone his whole kingdom, for crying out loud. 

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“He wanted them tо be, in a strange sоrt оf waу, beautiful… and nоt frightening. Frightening cоmes with attitude. The first camera test with the Engineer… he scared the рeорle walking around. Nоt because he did anything. It was that unsettling. Because уоu did feel.. The effect we were gоing fоr… in creating the design оf thоse Engineers, manifested itself in realitу. Which is, it was deeplу unsettling tо see sоmething that was kind of suрerhuman… kind of vacant in the eуes, blackened eуes… lоoking dоwn at уоu and lооking kind оf uрset at уou. The waу in which it felt like an angry father… оr angry рarent was trоubling. It was, уоu knоw, a lit rоom. It was not like he was doing anything fancу. It was just scary”

Prometheus - Behind the scene

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GARRUS IN GRAY / asked by spicyshimmy

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100 favorite Doctor Who quotes [35/100] 
→ Well. Um, big question, um, but to me, Van Gogh is the finest painter of them all. Certainly the most popular great painter of all time. The most beloved. His command of color, the most magnificent. He transformed the pain of his tormented life into ecstatic beauty. Pain is easy to portray but to use your passion and pain to portray the ecstasy and joy and magnificence of our world. No one had ever done it before. Perhaps no one ever will again. To my mind, that strange wild man who roamed the fields of Provence, was not only the world’s greatest artist but also one of the greatest men who ever lived. 

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