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well. i wrote a poem about how weird life is.

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are you ok? i noticed that you havent posted here or anywhere else in a while. miss you!

Hi! That’s so sweet of you to check on me. I have been gone for a while, you’re right, but I’m okay and have also been writing away!! I have a few stories that I’m excited to share, but they don’t quite have endings yet, which is a bit of a puzzle to work through. I’ve learnt my lesson with Taken by Surprise so am determined not to get stuck halfway through this time. But these stories I have planned are also a lot of fun, so fingers crossed I’ll be sharing more with you very soon! Feel free to suggest any ideas for one-shots in the meantime. I need something to spark my imagination so I’ll see what I can do!

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Writer Issues

Writers Corner for more writing memes.

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I am about a third of the way through my writing course, and I have been so proud of the work my students are doing! In just four weeks their stories have already become noticeably stronger and some of them are really going above and beyond applying the principles (some of which took me years to figure out 🤪😭😆)

One of the neat parts for me is actually making the visuals for the classes, which has surprisingly opened my eyes to new connections. In the writing community, we are often being told we need to pick concrete measurable goals for our protagonists (with good reason), but I personally believe abstract wants can be just as important as concrete goals. And would you believe it, the abstract want is actually usually closely tied to the theme.

P.S. Do I really get to dissect famous stories and make visuals of them and talk about writing and help people with their stories for work? 😍

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If you like frogs. Or possums. Or cool builds. Or happiness. This is the video for you.

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Introducing Loreteller

Allow me to introduce this project titled "Loreteller".

I have been curating writing tools, nuggets of psychology wisdom, mental models, and story bits for the past decade. I have a background in information systems and creative writing, and have worked in branding and design for a ton of companies.

Corporate marketing psychologist by day, but a creative writer by night: I'm building an expansive world for my novels and curating these tools along the way. In fact, there's a ton of knowledge gatekept by marketers and designers regarding character psychology, compelling writing, and narrative hooks that deserves to be shared.

Loreteller is the synthesis of years of piecing together mental models, plot structures, and narrative systems. Built for brand designers, dungeon masters, marketers, novelists, and storytellers of all kinds - and I'm exciting to share it.

What if you had an encyclopedic list of every aspect of character, plot, personality, and brand?

When I first started my career as a writer, that certainly didn't exist. I hope these tools inspire your own creativity and stories.

Whether you’re a marketer by day, novelist by night, dungeon master by weekend, or all three, these tools are designed to give you the express route to making smart narrative decisions. Or at least, to think outside of the box!

Charactercrafting, storysmithing, themeweaving, worldbuilding, gameforging - there's a ton of info to benefit from, and I'll be sharing bits of it on Tumblr.

See the full list of tools and guides here: https://free.loreteller.com

Let me know if you have any questions!

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How To Draw A Horse - a comic by Emma Hunsinger

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"the curtains weren't blue on purpose. why should we care?"

my love! let me ask you this - did you eat breakfast today? this tiny moment in your life. just think about it. did you?

for some of you, the answer is yes and for some of you it is technically and for some of you it is does coffee count. some of you reached for cereal or gmo-free overnight oats or frozen waffles or 3-day-old pizza. sometimes we eat the same thing, every day, for weeks. i get tired of eggs randomly, only to go back to craving them desperately. i'm cuban; i take my coffee like my father showed me, very milky and sweet.

some of us ate in a hurry. some of us hate eating breakfast but if we don't we will get nauseous later. some of us took our meds first or took our meds after. some of us have a kitchen 5 feet wide and sometimes it's the biggest room in the house. some of us are confident there will be food in the pantry and some of us flinch and say well, the paycheck is coming. some of us turn on a podcast while we eat or we scroll our phones or write in our diaries.

some of us are choosing, specifically, not to eat breakfast. some of us are too busy. some of us are pretending we "just forgot," but we are ignoring the warning signs that everything feels too-heavy. some of us are so consumed with anxiety or grief that we can't eat. some of us can't stand up long enough to make our coffee. some of us have no table to sit down and eat.

i cannot tell you what an artist "meant" by their choices. but they did have to make a choice, conscious or otherwise, to give you information. to give you a little bit more light. each of these choices are little stars of data; connecting speckles for you to weave through, drawing a line.

you cannot use a mirror in a dark room. for some of us; we will not care that the curtains are blue, because that will just be a data point and not enough light to see by. for some of us, the blue curtains will be the same as our childhood bedroom. it will make us seasick. for some of us, blue will be the color of frostbite. it might look like a pixel up close; but from a distance, oh! the picture blooms.

i cannot tell you what will stick out for you. what will carry meaning. some of you will read the sentence "i didn't have breakfast today" and say "this means nothing." some of you will read that and say "oh, me neither." some of you will say "this means the character is probably a little grouchy." some of you will say "oh, i wonder if they're okay. why didn't they eat anything?" ... art is a mirror. i am holding hands with you, over space and time, and asking you to feel something with me.

i want you to read my work and find a blue pair of curtains. i want you to read my work and find things in it that i never imagined placing. i have no way of knowing what will resonate with you, that's true. and maybe i just was hungry while i wrote this, and thinking about the eggs in my fridge. but if you found meaning, that meaning is yours. it cannot be erased just because i didn't "intend" it. you created a different world by interpreting my work. it's collaborative! that's beautiful! that's stunning!

just! imagine looking at the night sky and saying - it's stupid to have a favorite constellation or a favorite star. they're just there.

because here's the thing - across centuries and cultures, we look up. we still find meaning in the stars. these beautiful, lovely scattered accidents. are you looking? they call. and we look back and say oh! of course we are!

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trying hard not to be controversial here .. trying not to step on any toes but ……… i like some things 😳 and i………. dislike some things 😳 and. sometimes i even . don’t care about stuff 😳 Please dont hate me im sorry

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huge fan of lesbians actually

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Obsessed with Neil Gaiman's new Tumblr bio

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seeing a lot of "why would i reblog anything i don't have something to add" like

sir this is the user-circulated content site

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‘don’t you want your favourite character to be happy???’ no? i want my favourite character to be interesting. i want me to be happy. which sometimes involves my favourite character being in exquisite agony

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The amount of brands joining Tumblr is truly scary (check out @brand-directory to see a list and block them all) so we'll need to do more than just post cringe. We need to get the least brand-friendly possible. Everyone post your freakiest most NSFW cringe shit. It's time for cock is one of my favorite tastes it's time for pussy in the scarmophogus. Keep fucking shooting they need to all leave here screaming (and remember, don't engage with brands, not even to make fun of them)