there are calcified layers of shame in my soul that you could carbon date like rock strata
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If your enemy is an unjust person, why do you think that proof of injustice will bring about a change?
William Stafford, Sound of the Ax: Aphorisms and Poems
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getting home is so epic it's like lol i'm home
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gentle reminder you can rise up from everything. you can recreate yourself. nothing is permanent. you are not stuck. you have choices. you can think new thoughts. you can learn something new. you can create new habits. all that matters is that you decide today and never look back.
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Some of my favorite hobbies are counting my chickens before they hatch, putting all my eggs in one basket, crying over spilled milk, barking up the wrong tree, and above all, doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
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the intimacy of knowing what someone's hands feel like
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“Im not dignifying that with a response” gets me every time. Im not acknowledging tht stupid ass shit
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Writing advice from my uni teachers:
If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.
Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.
Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.
Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.
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I AM SORRY FOR WHAT I HAVE DONE
Brad Rohloff
Commercial Engraving on Machete (Materials Study)
2014
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ever have a passing comment someone said to you lodge in your mind and start to fester like a splinter you can't dig out?
in this case it's my best friend telling me, during our last phone call: "I met someone, and I wasn't sure if I should tell you... I know how hard things have been and I didn't want to be a source of more shittiness in your life."
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We need more creepy and wet lgbt representation
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