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Hey kids, wanna learn what signs of botulism look like?

#psa

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(reposting this because I wanted to add more context)

There's a chapter in Shadecursed called "Never Write a Chapter About Travel" where the characters are traveling.

In general, never writing travel time is a good rule to follow, but sometimes things happen during travel that the reader needs to know. Or hell, sometimes you just really want to write descriptions about travel and you can do that! Just be prepared to cut those scenes if you feel like you need to (IE, you intend to publish and the word count is getting out of control, or your beta readers say they skimmed that part, etc.)

So it's up to the author to kind of learn these things. Most travel scenes can be glossed over with a single line saying "they traveled to a place." And it's really up to the genre and the audience you're writing for, too. Legends and Lattes has pacing that's too slow for me, but there are soooo many people who love it. And the author knew who they were writing for, and went with that.

Sometimes I write for different audiences, too. I just wrote a re-telling of Masque of the Red Death, which is SUPER heavy on description. I have one friend I KNOW will hate it, because she often skims over description, and that's OK. But I have another friend who is really into horror and dark fantasy, and she loved it.

I will say that A G E N T S are looking for a certain type of book, where the pacing is as described above. If you are intending to submit to an agent for publication, most of them are going to want you to follow that rule. There are some out there that will let you get away with some stuff, but agents are looking to capture the widest audience, and right now, that's people with short attention spans.

BUT. It's really important to understand these guidelines so you have the ability to break them properly. In my example above, the chapter title is a tongue-in-cheek mockery of that "rule." That chapter is necessary, but I KNOW there's a guideline that tells me not to write chapters about travel.

Because I know my audience, and because I know it's necessary, I did it anyway.

"Don't waste your reader's time" is a great way to look at things. You know your reader. Study what they want and give it to them.

I hope this makes more sense than the last time I posted. The TL;DR is really to know who you're writing for.

And if it's for yourself, fuckin GO FOR IT. :D

PACING IS ABOUT LOAD BEARING WALLS.

*staples violently to my own forehead*

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That one staring at its mama 🥹

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For WDG on Patreon - an elegant little sketch of Jahrd if he were in something of a loosely-inspired Wuxia-type story. Not a genre I have much experience with, but I can admire the pretty.

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This Post is GenAI

Hey everyone. Just wanted to warn y'all about a post that's going around being tagged/labeled as "photography," but it's just shitty AI. It looks like this:

If you've reblogged this, please delete it. Generative AI is theft, and in order to create this, OP had to steal from other artists.

There's a few ways to tell, but the easiest way is the anti-gravity stream of water coming out of the faucet. Water goes down.

#generative ai #artificial intelligence #photography #landscape photography #ai bullshit #techbro bullshit

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its really cool that we discovered glass which is the material that doesnt have any chemical reactions with anything in the universe very useful for doing chemistry due to being able to put things in it to contain chemical reactions and never having it react with the things that are in it due to it being completely and entirely unreactive to every chemical

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#hahahahaa #accurate

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Animal reference photo compilation concept test!

I've been saving this project for a new website I'm planning, but that's been delayed by the grindstone of capitalism, so I'm going to set up this part early. This is the concept test for a repository of reference photos of a whole bunch of different species of exotic animals.

For every 50 or so photos I take of an animal, there's generally only a couple that I like and are also in focus and also framed correctly. But that led me to realize... all those slightly blurry or off-center photos are probably a great set of references for people interested in general shape/form/movement for their art! So I'm setting up of the idea before fully committing the time into making it happen.

I've been going through my photo backlog and pulling out the shots I think will be useful for art references. Lots of them show posture, facial movement, close-ups of feet or eyes, and walk cycles, but also other behaviors like jumping or drinking. They're not perfect - there's often stuff out of focus or reflections on the glass - but I think they'll still be useful for art?

The link below is to the Dropbox where I'll host these photos until I eventually get that new website/project up and running. Right now I've got folders of four species uploaded for this test: California Condor (CW for carcass feed photos), Jaguar, Komodo Dragon, and Moose. Please go check them out and tell me what you think!

~~WADTT Animal Reference Photos Dropbox Link~~

What I'm looking to learn from y'all is:

Is this type of reference photo repository useful / worth doing?

Do these photos work or are they too blurry/wonky/there's too many?

What things would make a project like this better? (Caveat, it has to stay on Dropbox for now).

If this turns out to be as useful as I'm hoping, and the photos work, I've got a whole bunch more species to upload.

#These are SUPER helpful! Yes! This is worth it!

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MY FIRST ONE STAR RATING!

I don't usually check Goodreads for various reasons (most notably that some of the reviews there can be harsh as fuuuuck LOL) but it looks like I got my very first one-star rating.

I thought I'd be more upset than I actually am, but it's more of the semi-obsessive part of my brain is more upset that I don't have any two-star reviews because now the collection isn't complete anD THE COLLECTION NEEDS TO BE COMPLETE

#writing #goodreads

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Just checking.... We all pronounce Miette like My-TAY in our heads, right?

#Mee-ett

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so apparently “asexual reproduction” is no longer the preferred scientific term, so if anyone makes a sponge joke or whatever just scream “IT’S AGAMETIC KNOW YOUR SCIENCE” and throw a textbook at them

#I was gonna comment on the pronunciation #so thanks to the person who put it in the tags #'a' meaning 'without' #and 'gamete' meaning 'without gamete' #which are the haploid cells #which contain one set of chromosomes #these are the egg and sperm in mammals for example #anyway this is cool and you should all know it

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1 am thinking abt the triassic cuddle once again and getting sad. The Thrinaxodon was in a torpor and wouldn’t have woken up before it drowned in the rain. The Broomistega was badly injured and dying. Neither of them ever actually knew each other but their last moments are curled up together and immortalized in stone Hggggm

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Anyone who tried to wield the legendary sword would instantly turn to dust. Your country uses this as a method of execution. Little did you know, you were the chosen one it was waiting for.