YAYAYAY CONGRATULATIONS!!

YAYAYAY CONGRATULATIONS!!

GUYS HOLY SHIT I JUST FINISHED MY FIRST DRAFT!!!!!!!!!!

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☽ 𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔠 𝔞𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔱𝔦𝔠 (x) ☾

EVRYBODY EVERYBODY EVERYBODY one of the barn cats had kittens recently. We just found a litter 2 days ago, living separately from the rest of the cats (we have a bunch of barn cats who live on the porch.) The babies had eye infections and needed to be brought in and taken care of, and we decided it was best to nust track down the mama and keep them all inside for now so that we can keep treating them if need be.

Photos will never fully capture how cute they are. I have been sitting here watching them all get comfortable to sleep.

Just a little something I though of that might encourage some interactions around these parts. Feel free to use these daily prompts and ideas on your own page! Don't forget, if someone comments on your response, try to comment on their's!

Meet the character Monday: Introduce us to one of your characters!

Tip of the world Tuesday: Tell us something interesting about the world your character lives in. Go deep into your world lore/building

WIP Wednesday: Post a paragraph from your current wip. Make sure to comment on other's works!

Thirsty Thursday: Talk about one of your ships in you WIP. If there isn't any romance involved, talk to us about the kinds of relationships your character has with other characters.

Fun fact Friday: Give us a random fun fact about a character/setting/etc.

Sit down Saturday: What do your character's do in their downtime? What are some common recreational things people do in your world?

Source Sunday: What inspirations did you draw from for your WIP

Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

Okay so I wrote this research paper in the fall of my Freshman year. I am currently taking two public speaking classes (long story short is that because I'm an honor's student I basically have to take the same class twice, and I'm just knocking them both out in one semester) and both have given a "talk about anything" assignment, so I'm reusing this research paper.

It's a topic that's fascinating to me, and I know I did good research and wrote a strong essay. That being said, every time I present this topic, I feel dumb as fuck because it's admittedly a little silly. But this was one of my OG brainrot subjects and I will talk about it every chance I get.