#writing two paragraphs of analysis

[infernaltenor]

missed their exact one year anniversary of the aquarium date but i figured id redraw it late anyway

#jshk #jibaku shounen hanako kun #tbhk #toilet bound hanako kun #mitsuba sousuke #minamoto kou #my art #mitsukou #god i love these two #i have not caught up on the manga btw i got busy graduating from high school nd going to college #and technically i shouldve been #writing two paragraphs of analysis #but theres gay people to draw so i drew the gay people #aquarium date makes me sooo unwell btw #im still not over it #ok. its 2am. i have class at 12:30 i should sleep.

[aquapede]

w,ould you forgive me if i started babygirlposting about him

#talk tag #not normal. #the two characters taking up so much space in my mind rn are both royalty people are going to think im a monarchist (joke) #actually the contrast between the two of them is insane. #me writing paragraphs of analysis on the princess and her symbolism and character vs. i think its funny how hes a horrible person <3

[lu-is-not-ok]

The only reason I haven’t been going off making post after post about Canto IV is because there is So Much in it that has been making my brain go fucking hyper mode to the point that I feel like I would explode trying to share it all.

Here’s a taste though of the insanity it has inflicted upon me. Under cut cause spoilers.

This is all about Hong Lu by the way.

The only reason I haven’t made a single Limbus Theory video is because I can’t video edit for shit. Otherwise I would be channeling my inner MatPat so fucking hard right now.

#limbus company #limbus company project moon #lcb spoilers #lcb canto iv #lcb season 2 #limbus company spoilers #lu speaketh #why yes i did write a whole paragraph of analysis over Two Lines Of Dialogue #i am mentally unwell how could you tell

[mari-lair]

I think a lot about your analysis about Aoi and nene and also can't help but think that Nene is not really the kind of friend Aoi need (They are adorable together don't get me wrong)

(For context: Aoi and Nene empty friendship)

I feel the same, I am glad my feeling was communicated there :D

Their interactions can be very cute, adorable truly, but I cannot see it being good for Aoi in the long run. At all. Which is very sad since they value each other so much.

#I think the two being adorable is the root of... a really big problem I didn't address in that analysis but that is connected #I was going to explain it here about how most of their relationship is in nene's pov and other things that seems small but that #pile up and slowly paints a depressing image. But I realized halfway through writing my paragraphs that I don't really want to? #cause it would be a long analysis that involves hunting aidairo's twitter arts and a lot of panel collages on a subject I am not hyped for #I currently don't like aoi and nene's relationship. At all. Is not something I want to spend hours talking about like my other analysis #I don't know when I would be in the mood to talk about them or if you even want my personal issues with it?? since you already agreed #that nene ain't the kind of friend Aoi need. So I decided to keep it short instead of not replying for idk how long #still... sorry for rambling in the tags T-T and thank you for leaving me an ask! #I love when my analysis makes others gain a new perspective on something! #tbhk

[wataeicentric]

Akira please... All a girl really wants to know is the answer to the age old question of were Wataru's birth parents neglectful, and his adoptive parents are nice but just bad off money wise, or are they practically as bad as each other?

#i will be happy whether we get Wataru dragon scout or Wataru lookback tomorrow #but please god let it be the lookback. #theres so much evidence to suggest both of these things but Wataru's the biggest liar in enstars #so no matter how many paragraphs of analysis on every little detail we have i write #i always go back to the quotes and look at them from a different angle #then think #hang on a minute #that could be interpreted from a completely different angle... #and then i write another paragraph of a different option #happyele im begging you #akira please #tell us why he is the way that he is. #tell us why he doesnt know his name in santuary #and why he says to eichi #'if they truly didnt love you they might have done something like throw you away without even giving you a name' #because those two things alone paint a very vivid picture of his childhood in my mind #and oh there are so many more colours to paint with!! #but im looking at akiras composition from every angle possible and cant quite capture it properly.... #eichi tenshouin #ensemble stars #wataru hibiki #enstars #hibiki wataru

[e77y]

Literally only have one more assignment due tonight before spring break tomorrow... and it's just a final draft I need to add 50-ish words to...... and it's so easy.......... and I don't WANNAAAAAAAAAAA

#I have been procrastinating so hard on this it's actually a little unreasonable #it's such an easy topic 😭 #and I'll have a whole week to chill after this #but brain says no #I have two hours to write a tiny paragraph of grammar analysis (with like 50% direct quotes). girl help #hardest thing I've ever done.... I'm god's weakest soldier............ sniffle #<- sarcasm #🤓posting

[justablah56]

every time I make a post that then gets someone else to ramble on and better explain and expand on what vague thing I was saying I'm sitting here rubbing my hands together like a super villain like yeeees you've fallen right into my trap , I get to read cool analysis abt a thing I was thinking about but couldn't verbalize well AND I get notifications every time someone adds onto it yeeees

#just blahs #legitimately my favorite thing #anyways thanks to those two people who added their own paragraphs to my grant post im in love with you #this has happened a couple times before and every time im absolutely edtatic i love reading character/whatever analysis #bcs i can't just . write thoughts . abt a character . i just cant do it . #but if a make a post that has just enough comprehendablity that someone ELSE can say THEIR thoughts abt my thing #its great #i love it dearly #never stop

[isabelguerra]

i’m making a new post 4 this bc i ended up thinking way harder than i thought i would which resulted in writing a small essay on fucking johnny jhonny. so i’m going to put this the tag and make everyone look at it. bc hes a cool character. heres the og post ok enjoy ily

@spoopyspoony i mean yea if we were dealing with ch1 johnny maybe. but we’re not, so i’m operating on 1 very important key factor here: we’ve ALREADY SEEN johnny not telling things to his friends!

this starts during hitball, the games’ ending is our as catalyst. we see that the words and actions of both hijack and max- hijacks bully/‘good violence’ monologue, max getting his arm broken to save a guy whos only been a jerk to him- begin sowing self doubt in johnny’s view of himself and his archetype role as School Bully. we even see this in action during the rope scene, ollie asks if somethings bothering him and johnny brushes it off in favor of deflecting. when ollie is mistakenly believed to say they wont use violence to get information out of ed, johnny jumps at it. we SEE ollie and rj give each other side eyes at his weird behavior. they dont pry, which is nice of them. but it also means he’s not talking to them, or anyone, about whats bothering him until we get to the ed scenes. there’s a lot going on in the ed scenes that i’m not gonna go into because it gives me a headache but my point is that johnny told a TOTAL STRANGER abt his teenage dodgeball-induced ego death crisis before he told rj, who is Right There.

‘yeah but johnnys fine by the end’ johnnys fine by the end bc he goes back to being cool w/ hurting ppl if it means his friends would still like him and everything stayed the same. u really think tht if it ended w him actually giving more entertainment to the idea ‘should i stop being a bully?’ instead of bouncing back immediately, if he was still made to question his friends’ love for him if he changed, he’d have the same happy outcome? miss me w that 

so ultimately it’s not that johnny doesn’t trust his friends enough to tell them this secret/problem, but that their good graces and friendship mean SO much to him that we see him start to not tell them things if he believes it would jeopardize that friendship.

‘ok but thats why johnny wouldn’t tell his friends about THAT. its still doesnt answer why he wouldn’t tell them about THIS’ good point! here’s what we know: johnny LOVES his friends. johnny would do anything for his friends. including putting himself in harms way and keeping things from them if he’s worried it’ll negatively impact the existence of their friendship. so i’ll counter: ‘johnny has no reason to tell his friends about this shit’? no dude johnny has EVERY reason not to tell his friends this shit! his friends ARE the reason! johnny’s so ride or die that he’ll die if it means his friends can still ride.

forge’s little soliloquy on ch5pg97 hints at a perspective of spectral existence that’s much more grim than the ‘cool superpowered kids fight ghosts’ premise we’re led into the comic with. soooooo if this new change in his life were to. say. put himself or his loved ones in danger. actual, non-teenage, ‘my-last-medium-met-her-end-as-a-result-of-this-world,-and-there-is-nothing-that-can-ensure-you-will-not-meet-the-same-fate’ danger. or! not even put them in danger! just simply lead him to believe that them just KNOWING that danger exists for him, and there’s next to nothing they can do about it? to have the friends he cares so much about constantly worried about him? if they knew, a whole lot would change. to johnny, i think that guilt would be pretty tough to deal with

well. they cant worry if they don’t know, yeah?

#i dont always LIKE zacks writing but im still gonna look at it seriously and respect them as a writer. begrudgingly. #paranatural #johnny jhonny #character analysis #my writing #i had to retype this because my phone glitched and deleted two paragraphs and wouldnt let me undo the delete and i am so mad. #this isnt meant 2 be a shutdown btw i just LOVE character studies and really digging in to what makes them tick #taking them apart and putting them back together like a watch. #so if uve got a counterpoint or smth i missed genuinely id LOOOOVE 2 hear it this stuffs so much fun 4 me #im a literature studies minor. i study the literature. leeterachoore #anyway all this to say 'yes isabel and johnny ARE more similar than we give them credit for yes they WOULD be a good duo and yes i DO ne #ed them to talk. will it happen. no! but i can sit here and have fun with my little notes documents. wish fulfillment #ngl i really thought about Not typing all this. and instead writing 'my au my rules rule 1 i do what i want' #i did not end up doing that. evidently. #johnny disease

[jnixz]

*Sits here contemplating once again on how psychic specialties and more commonly used powers can say something about the characteristics of a character, even just from the first game

from markmanship/psi-blasts being something that channels aggression into a more focused controlled and productive outlet as a step forward in achieving a goal. It is trained in a level that has different sides but all fundamentally the same in its design, with a literal target as the goal to be reached

to levitation, a power that comes more easily to the person when they are able to maintain lighter and more positive thoughts at a level of consistency, like having a little spring on their feet when in a good mood and being able to reach something somewhere like a boost in energy. The mindscape encourages a lively energy and litters with small challenges that rewards to the next section and back-up boosters to encourage moving forward whenever they fall down.

then there’s the counselor that encourages using physical capabilities and punching through things to get to the end, with a mindscape that appears harsh and a voice that eggs on to move (punch punch punch), pushing to complete a challenge to prove oneself worthy -- and again at a much more nightmarish level, although this time it turns out that communicating and understanding helps reach the end far more than fighting can

then we get an elder who is an teleportation expert that is quite literally and figuratively all over the place, a comedic and bizarre atmosphere fitting for the word play it serves. It is essential for a teleporter to land where they intend to, a freedom that like stretching out wings in the sky, to go where there where before quicker than anyone else can. With the pieces scattered, he is everywhere yet stuck in one place. 

He teaches all the other powers but never lets any visits to his mind. But bit by bit the need to be at right time at the right place seem to be coming closer, even when one doesn’t realize it at first 

(He questions why he feels the need to keep an eye on this kid like this, when he could just do it the way he does with the rest of the campers. One surprise little spoon-bender shouldn’t be all that different. But in each little training, a question itches at his mind. Something nags at him he can’t quite reach just yet)

And then when he is alone, by the campfire with all seven faces and a name, he remembers. 

Right time, right place. He doesn’t stay there for long.

Up till the kid calls him again (Right time, right place.)

then things start coming along together at last*

This game is so good you guys

#psyn rambles #this has been thought of before #but also just rethinking about it has caused me to write down two more fic ideas whoops #analysis #psychonauts camp counselors #ofc there is pn2 too but its still super cool that even back then in pn1 this level of design is on point #just a very cool way to think about the person and the powers they can express more easily #its got that kinda sciencey empathy(?) side to it thats integrated for psychics i think #also pardon if some parts are incohenrent my brain just runs between mental connections a lottle too fast for me to articulate #this was a musing turned writing-- though i suppose both go hand and hand together #blame my fav look at his paragraph its almost as long as the previous 3 paragraphs #tag-rambling #sleepy ramblings

[treecakes]

this book review is kicking my ass i literally hate writing

#i love analysis but i hate writing it it just sits in my mind and i think it #i’m terrible at putting thoughts into words #good news is i only have another two hundred words or so to write. #i have like. maybe three paragraphs i want to write so it’ll probably end up being around 1200 words…? #idk. i literally have nothing to discuss for the last two chapters within the ethnography. i’m just gonna chunk the last three or four #chapters together they’re all kind of discussing the same idea

[dahlia345]

Hate hate hate writing essays. Let me present my thoughts in bullet points or even a mind map, let me use arrows they’re important!!

#I have my points and my quotes and my analysis in my plan but putting them into sentences is excruciating #i acc don’t mind writing essays too much it’s just cause the criteria and structure for a level English is so rigid that it’s hard hit them #all without sounding longwinded #though tbf the satisfaction of having finished a well written essay is insane #unfortunately I’m only two paragraphs in

[fridayyy-13th]

^ live footage of me rn

#friday chats #tw vent #not like a super terrible vent or anything i'm just. tired. and mad at myself. #so like a couple weeks ago i was given an assignment for my british lit class right? #to write a research essay based on one of the texts we've studied this unit. two weeks to do it. easy peasy. sure. #i figure that's plenty of time and leave it to work on my other homework (bc there's always other homework i'm an honors student) #oh wow lookie there it's due this weekend! great! so i start work on it #and then i can't find any research to bolster the question i'd formulated. it would have just been my own analysis #and we're required to have four sources. so that's that out the window. #the weekend passes and i'm officially in ''late assignment'' territory #and it's the last week before spring break so i'm swamped w/other work and midterm tests and everything #so yesterday my friend and i call to work on ours together (we always proofread each other's stuff/give each other pointers and whatnot) #and i'm just lost on what my essay should be about. any sort of question i could explore. #she has something of an idea for hers but not much. so neither of us get ours done #the assignment fully closes tonight #so we try again. i manage a half-hearted intro paragraph with zero direction and one source #and then i just hit a wall. the sources i'm looking at don't give me any new insights or ideas and i've got nothing #with two hours to the deadline. so i'm thoroughly fucked #i keep trying and just. yeah no not a thing. and if you notice the timestamp on this post it's past 12am #guess who didn't finish his essay 🙃 #this is the fucking SECOND TIME THIS HAS HAPPENED. what the FUCK #fanTASTIC start to my spring break y'all. and the only way i can communicate the specific feeling i'm feeling is through a homestuck gif. #can i just sink into the earth. that'd be great #at least now that it's over i don't have to worry about it anymore. i mean there's the guilt obviously but i don't have to *worry* #God. my mom's gonna be pissed #if i follow this train of thought any further it's gonna fall down a spiral of responsibility and college and career stuff #and i don't want to deal with that right now #so i'm just gonna stop talking. and either go read an angsty fic and cry for catharsis or just go to sleep. we'll see #i hate getting all personal on the internet but i'd rather yell to the void than bottle it up so. here we are

[sonnywortziks]

yknow since i reblogged that post about getting a bad grade in your friend’s favorite movie. last month i dragged two of my friends to go to the intro to film history viewing of double indemnity w/ me and both of them ended up only giving it 3 stars on letterboxd… no one understands me

#shoutout to toxic straight people and to whatever the fuck walter and keyes have got going on #and to letterboxd user sakana1 for getting it #i ended up writing like two paragraphs of analysis in my notes app but honestly just go read their review #they already said it much better than i could #double indemnity

[dduane]

Do you have any recommendations on what to do when you can’t write?

I’ve been struggling to write for years, but telling stories is all I want to do. I have ideas and plots and characters all figured out! But actually getting the words onto paper? I just can’t do it. There’s a mental block or something getting in the way.

I want to write, I so badly do. I want to tell my stories! But no matter how hard I try, no matter how much I love the story, the words never work properly. I can day dream scenes up perfectly, but as soon as I’m near paper the words all vanish.

I guess what I’m actually asking is: how did you defeat the blank page?

Well, first of all, I can confidently tell you that your storytelling per se is working just fine. You just told me a perfectly cogent story right there, in writing. So that's good to know.

Now let me put your mind a little at rest by telling you something reassuring about the Writer's Brain:

It's not the sharpest knife in the block, if you take my meaning. It can be tricked. It can be fooled. It can be bamboozled into working when it doesn't want to... sometimes with embarrassing ease. (And this approach is, by and large, far preferable to sitting around over-analyzing one's interior life to figure out what went wrong with your developmental process somewhere in the dim lost past. Just hornswoggle the silly thing into working and then do the analysis later, if you can be bothered.)

Sometimes just changing something basic in the process the Writer's Brain is expecting is enough to make it lose the plot (so to speak...) and let you get on with work. And in your case I'd say, more or less immediately: Have you tried telling the story to yourself out loud, recording it, and then transcribing the recording?

Because this problem is a commonplace among storytellers. Sit them down in the pub and give them tea or a drink and start them going, and you'll get half an effortless hour of hilarious prose about What The Cat Did In The Middle Of The Night or When The Neighbors Were Fighting In The Street Again Yesterday. But show them blank paper, or an empty screen, and (now that the pressure to perform is suddenly in place) they freeze.

So try doing an end run around your writing brain. Borrow or otherwise procure a little recorder of some kind. (Or if you've got a smartphone, add a voice recording app to it.) Go get comfortable somewhere and get yourself into that daydream state, and then—making sure the recorder's on—start talking.

It doesn't have to be perfect unblemished prose. The pursuit of that comes later, after draft zero-minus-one. Just tell the story... or some of it. Or a fragment of it. Even a few paragraphs is a triumph, in a situation like this. You may, during the recording, have to talk yourself into the story stage by starting out talking about something else first. Let that happen.

Then when you're done recording, listen to it and transcribe it (typed or handwritten, as you please).

And maybe a day later, do this again. And a day or two later, once more. And so forth.

You're going to have to keep at this, because your Writer's Brain may start suspecting what you're up to, and try throwing spanners into the works. (Its favorite being "Oh, this isn't working, I may as well give up..." Pay no attention to that nagging little voice behind the curtain. Just keep doing what you're doing. Persistence is a superpower.)

The thing to keep reminding yourself, as you settle into this process, is that sooner or later the WB's resistance is going to flag, because you really do want to tell stories. It does too. What you have to teach it is that—to coin a phrase—resistance is useless. :)

Anyway: give this a try. You'll need to be doing this daily for at least a couple of months to find out whether it works or not. So let me know how it goes.

(BTW: once you've broken through the barrier, you may well find that dictation is a good routine way for you to generate your first draft. At that point—should you feel inclined to go a little higher-tech than recording and hand transcription—let me recommend Dragon Anywhere. This is a month-to-month subscription version of Dragon's flagship text to speech program—the one @petermorwood and I got Terry Pratchett to use when he started having difficulty typing. I use Anywhere a lot, on days when it's easier to write stretched out or lying down than it is sitting up. It transcribes what you say, and then you can just email it to yourself and cut-and-paste it into your writing document. Very handy.)

Hope this helps!

#writing #writing advice #the Writer's Brain #storytelling

[what-even-is-thiss]

Tips from a former English major and English TA:

Reading the text actually does help you in the class believe it or not and we can tell when you haven’t read it. Sometimes we’re just too tired to call you out on it. Your awkward silence in class speaks volumes.

That being said, if you don’t have time because life happens read at least two different summaries or analysis pages online. Preferably more. One source will rarely mention everything your teacher asks you about.

Other tricks include reading the last sentence of every paragraph or reading every other page

The reason you’re being forced to take an English class when you’re not an English major is to help you come up with arguments when there’s no strict data set to follow and no one correct answer. If your school allows for alternatives to this sort of category like film analysis or art history that you think you’d like better, take it. The goal of GE classes is to turn you into a well rounded and educated person. Not to torture you.

If you’re reading works in translation and don’t want to take the time to learn the language but you also want to get a more accurate idea of the nuances of the original language, read three different translations of the work and compare them. Reading translators notes and reviews of translations by experts is also helpful. In some more rarely translated works translators notes and reviews may be all you have to work off of.

When you’re writing a literary essay you’re entering an ongoing conversation that’s been going on since writing has existed. A tradition that’s existed since before Aristotle. And you’re just as smart as that guy. Add something to the conversation. Participate. Bigger idiots than you have done it.

Chat gbt is really bad at literary analysis and often gets facts wrong. We can tell when you use it.

Everyone has different levels of understanding of the history of literature even within the professional world. People specialize for a reason. Nobody is expecting you to have read everything. An expert in medieval Irish literature isn’t going to have read the same things as an expert in post-colonial west African literature who won’t have read the same things as a general expert in contemporary Asian literature. Being “well-read” is subjective and means something different to everyone. English classes often show you where to start and how to research stuff related to literature and analysis. Especially if you are an English major it’s easy to get overwhelmed early on but you get used to accepting that you can’t know everything. And that’s fine. Just focus on finding your niche. Or maybe you don’t have one and just want to sample everything. Or maybe you’re just here for general knowledge. That’s fine too.

[coffeebeanwriting]

15 Writing Tips from Authors

1) “You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.” - Joss Whedon

2) “First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow them.” - Ray Bradbury 

Coffee bean’s analysis: Letting your characters lead the story can result in an authentic, character-driven story, full of real conflicts and natural emotion.

3) “Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.” - Jeanette Winterson

4) “Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.” - Isabel Allende 

Coffee bean’s analysis: In order to write or eventually share your story with the world, you have to sit down and do the work, even if your brain is empty. Once you show up, the creativity has a chance to spark.

5) “All bad writers are in love with the epic.” - Ernest Hemingway

6) "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo Da Vinci

Coffee bean’s analysis: Being able to turn a complex idea into simple words is harder than one might think— but can elevate your writing. Not everything needs to be epic or overly flowery.

7) “Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life.” - Anne Lamott

8) “I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged.” - Erica Jong

9) “Don’t write at first for anyone but yourself.” - T.S Eliot

Coffee bean’s analysis: Perfectionism will kill any chance you have at having fun and finishing your novel. Let go of that pressure of being perfect and do not worry about being judged. Write for you.

10) “Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.” -Henry Miller

Coffee bean’s analysis: Don’t overwhelm your schedule with trying to write a ton of projects at once. Focus your energy into one (or two) at a time.

11) "A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it." - Edgar Allen Poe

12) “Every sentence must do one of two things— reveal character or advance the action." - Kurt Vonnegut

Coffee bean’s analysis: Even if you’re writing a novel, this advice is brilliant. Whether it’s a sentence, paragraph or whole chapter... make sure they are meant to be in your story. Keep your scenes tidy and thematic, building towards something.

13) “Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” - Anton Chekhov

Coffee bean’s analysis: When writing a novel, give your reader details so that they can picture the scene in their head. Don’t do too much telling (though it has it’s places).

14) “It is perfectly okay to write garbage— as long as you edit brilliantly.” - C.J Cherry

15) “If it sounds like writing … rewrite it.” - Elmore Leonard

Coffee bean’s analysis: Allow yourself to write messily and worry about editing later. Once in the editing phase, if your writing sounds stiff, rewrite it so that it sounds natural.

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