Hey Btw, Here's A Piece Of Life Advice:

God!! He's so pretty!!

Eye contact.

Enigmatic echoes of Sulfur’s tears, ‘Kawah Putih’ whispers the story of Bandung’s untouched volcanic lake.

Hozier Unreleased Songs

Pre-Debut

Wasteland, Baby!

Unreal Unearth

A lot of fiction these days reads as if—as I saw Peter Raleigh put it the other day, and as I’ve discussed it before—the author is trying to describe a video playing in their mind. Often there is little or no interiority. Scenes play out in “real time” without summary. First-person POV stories describe things the character can’t see, but a distant camera could. There’s an overemphasis on characters’ outfits and facial expressions, including my personal pet peeve: the “reaction shot round-up” in which we get a description of every character’s reaction to something as if a camera was cutting between sitcom actors.

When I talk with other creative writing professors, we all seem to agree that interiority is disappearing. Even in first-person POV stories, younger writers often skip describing their character’s hopes, dreams, fears, thoughts, memories, or reactions. This trend is hardly limited to young writers though. I was speaking to an editor yesterday who agreed interiority has largely vanished from commercial fiction, and I think you increasingly notice its absence even in works shelved as “literary fiction.” When interiority does appear on the page, it is often brief and redundant with the dialogue and action. All of this is a great shame. Interiority is perhaps the prime example of an advantage prose as a medium holds over other artforms.

fascinated by this article, "Turning Off the TV in Your Mind," about the influences of visual narratives on writing prose narratives. i def notice the two things i excerpted above in fanfic, which i guess makes even more sense as most of the fic i read is for tv and film. i will also be thinking about its discussion of time in prose - i think that's something i often struggle with and i will try to be more conscious of the differences between screen and page next time i'm writing.

had an idea last night

No I still haven't gotten over this

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📸: charles.reagan

Toxic Family Dialogue Starters

"Why do you always have to make everything so difficult?"

"You'll never understand all that I've sacrificed for you."

"Can't you see how much you're hurting me with your selfishness?"

"You only think about yourself, don't you?"

"I should have known better than to expect your gratitude."

"You’re just like your [mother/father]—you only care about yourself."

"Stop being so sensitive; I was just joking!"

"No one else will ever put up with you the way I do."

"You think you're better than us now, don’t you?"

"I guess I just can’t do anything right by you."