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Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927
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this artwork was commissioned by @fairyloot character is Cass from the ACOTAR book series by @sjmaas hope you all will like it xoxo
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I LOVE THESE AND FOUND THEM HERE!!!
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CHATEAU Bookshelf and Books for The Sims 2
These are 4to2 conversions from Felixandre Chateau Set Part 5, medium poly. The bookshelf is a deco object with 19 slots (found in surfaces-shelves). The books work like a functional bookcase, but you can put them everywhere you want. 10 recolors for every object.
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unreliable narrators my beloved. reading from the perspective of a liar who’s deliberately obfuscating their depiction of the world my cherished. relying on the reader to ascertain their true intentions my dearest. books that trust their reader’s intelligence my treasured. stories that question the nature of the narrative itself my darling
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Kill Your Darlings
This is another one of those common pieces of advice that gets traded so often it’s somewhat lost its meaning, similar to “write what you know”. Kill your darlings doesn’t mean ‘kill your favourite characters’, or even ‘take away what your characters love most’ (though that’s good advice for your midpoint.)
Kill your darlings means ‘get rid of what’s not serving you’. That may be a character you like but ultimately adds nothing to the plot (or adds something another character could easily also add), a plot point that is exciting and fun but takes the story off the rails, or even as specific as a line of dialogue you love but just doesn’t fit into the conversation anywhere.
It means, even if you love it, if it isn’t serving your story it’s gotta go. Cut out the fluff. Kill your darlings. In work that’s intended to be professional, this is incredibly important (fanfic writers and people just writing for yourself, you get to do whatever you want haha).
To make this easier, I keep a separate document I call the “graveyard” where I put everything I cut out of my draft. Scenes, lines of dialogue, or even ideas I had to strike all end up in the graveyard where they’re safe. This way, if I ever want to use them in another project (or they end up working out after all), they’re somewhere I can find them again.
What’s another piece of advice you find gets taken out of context or misunderstood?
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You gotta admit, they look pretty good together.
This is my YA trilogy about a traumatised teenage assassin trying and failing to live a normal life in a fictional closed city in Yorkshire. If you've been looking for YA with no romance, morally ambiguous (or outright terrible) characters, tons of murder, revolutionary librarians, poison, Esperanto, loving descriptions of street art, and varying degrees of critique of the military and the arms industry (from subtle to overt as the trilogy continues), then this might be the series for you. The Butterfly Assassin and The Hummingbird Killer are out now; Moth to a Flame will be released on 23rd May. Full details of all of them are on my website.
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Haunting the halls of used bookstores wailing "Do you have any Tanith Lee?" like a ghost asking for her children.
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Imagine reading a fictional novel and coming across a person you actually, literally know. I wrote about this in my new IG post.
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“You can't overestimate the stupidity of the general public.”
— Charles Bukowski
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Then the three minutes of black and white are over and what's left is the story of human beings and air, something we hardly ever notice or think about, something we couldn't live without.
Ali Smith, Spring
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