hi i'm emerald! (she/her) i’m a senior in high school and i love the studyblr community! i just switched this blog (my main) to a studyblr so please give me some patience!public health/epidemiology major + spanish major!
So I guess we all spend too much time on Youtube or the internet in general. To be honest, a lot of time is wasted, but there are also fun and entertaining ways to educate or motivate yourself - that’s why I’ve collected my favorite YouTube channels that could potentially be interesting to the studyblr community. I tried to differentiate the channels using a few bullet points. Hope this is helpful!
Mainly study-related
Holly Gabrielle: university, (vegan) lifestyle
Rhiannon: a lot of motivational study with mes
Ruby Granger: study with mes, books
studyign: videos about studying, origanization, productivity
studyquill: studying & organization
StudyWith Me: the name says it all
UnJaded Jade: studying & (vegan) lifestyle
WaysToStudy: everything about studying & organization
General Knowledge
The School of Life: philosophical answers about life
What I’ve Learned: unconventional knowledge
NutritionFacts.org: health & nutrition information
(Every channel, excluding The School of Life and NutritionFacts.org, is hosted by independent individuals.)
Feliz Día Internacional de la Mujer ♡ Happy International Women’s Day ♡
el ocho de marzo 8 March
la mujer woman
la niña girl
la amiga, compañera friend, companion
la novia, la esposa girlfriend, wife
la feminista feminist
la idea feminista feminism
igualdad de género gender equality
derechos de las mujeres women’s rights
emancipación de la mujer feminist/women’s movement
liberación de la mujer feminist/women’s movement
sufragio femenino, voto femenino women’s suffrage, women’s right to vote
estudios de género gender studies
la celebración celebration
unido united
trabajadora hardworking
la historia history
sociología sociology
Brevity is difficult to accomplish. For me, it takes several rounds of edits. For authors more experienced than I, it might take less.
Stick to your point. Don’t keep all your dumped thoughts on paper. Find the point of all those thoughts and edit them down to a singular point.
Don’t waste words. So I found these edits from that one action chapter I spoke of in my Writing Effective Action Scenes post. Here is both the unedited and published versions.
Theosodore is right. My anger is my strength. If there was anything that could ever persuade me to fight in a situation that seems beyond hopeless, it is seething rage. The rage takes me back to the barn where Colette was trying to teach me how to control my fire. I almost had a grasp on the tempting flames then, almost felt like I would have had full control had Colette not invaded the blackness of my thoughts. Now that feeling is back, and this time, I have the fear just underneath the skin of my palm. All I have to do is snap my fingers and–
Published version:
Theosodore is right. My anger is my strength. The feeling takes me back to the barn where Colette tried to teach me how to control my fire. I almost had a grasp on the tempting flames then. Now the feeling is back. I focus on it, drawing the anger down into the skin of my palm, letting it heat my skin until it’s almost unbearable. All I have to do is snap my fingers and–
Notice that the published version is two lines shorter than the unedited version. There was no reason for me to repeat that “seething rage” could help her fight, when “My anger is my strength” is enough to signal that all it takes is anger. I also didn’t need to repeat that the RAGE helped her remember. That’s treating my readers like they’re dumb. Then “I ALMOST had a grasp on the tempting flames then” is all that needs to be said. Readers can already infer why she couldn’t grasp her flames from a previous chapter. As for the next sentence, it was edited to emphasize her anger. So the published paragraph says more than the unpublished paragraph, yes?
Don’t think about word count, but value. Having a 100,000 word novel (this is often only accepted for sequels) doesn’t mean you’re being wordy. Oftentimes it means you’re developing your world and characters more from the previous book in the series. So think about the value of each word you’re using.
Passive voice. This can add unnecessary words. Sometimes you can’t avoid passive voice, but oftentimes you can.
Passive voice: Canes and wheelchairs are used by people who have some form of physical disability.
Active voice: People with physical disabilities often use canes or wheelchairs.
Not only did I change it to the active voice, but I also cut out some words.
Use strong verbs instead of adverbs.
I ran quickly to the door.
Use I dashed to the door instead. ‘Dashed’ has more urgency than ‘I ran quickly.’
Avoid redundancy. Refer to the ‘don’t waste words’ point with the unedited version. The third sentence is redundant.
Use punchy sentences. Long sentences aren’t a sin, but if you can convey your point in fewer words, do it.
Unedited version of a scene in When Stars Die: A loud rumbling breaks through the shadows, hurling my entire back back into the present, where I’m dodging fire while being subjected to cruel words.
Published version: A loud rumbling breaks through the shadows, hurling me back into the present as I make a hard turn to dodge another ball of fire.
Don’t say something over and over again. Not only does this assume your readers are dumb, but you only need to state your point once. The sequel to When Stars Die is still going through revisions, but my publisher caught me on this one. He even said I’m treating my readers like they’re dumb, so even I’m not perfect.
Keep your sentence structure varied. Don’t use long sentence after long sentence after long sentence, unless there is a stylistic reason for this.
Experience is your ally. Just keep writing and receiving critique from experienced writers.
Thursday’s post will be about using commas. So many of my editorial clients struggle with how to use these.
I hate the stereotype of you can’t be social and smart like um no I’m gonna go to parties and stay up all night and go to concerts and crowd surf and I’m still gonna work hard and get an A+ in all my classes.
17/100 days of productivity | guess who hit 1000 followers today?! I’m genuinely so thankful and happy right now so thank you to everyone who likes my photos and follows me | these notes are from further maths on chi-squared test for association are inspired by @studyquill
Staying healthy during the academic year is VERY important!! I’m on the quarter system at UCLA which leaves NO time for students to get sick and miss class. Thankfully I haven’t had any medical issues that have kept me from missing weeks of class, but prevention is key!
Here are some tips I followed last year to feel my best for schoooooool.