MUST APPRECIATE

MUST APPRECIATE

TURN ON THE AUDIO

This is the funniest video ever 😂

kind of tempted to leave a review every time i go through someone’s ff.net/ao3 and reread everything but i also dont want to freak people out with the wave of emails

fuck the consequences

Our DM’s Guide to D&D Classes

First off, you wrong cause that’s a Cascoon, not a Silcoon. 

Second off, BITCH YOU CRAZY FOR SAYING SILCOON AND CASCOON BE BAD

According to a poll of over 50,000 people, nobody likes the following Pokemon

In an attempt to prove that every Pokemon is somebody’s favorite, the Pokemon subreddit conducted a survey that received 52,000 responses. Of the 807 Pokemon on the survey, Silcoon, Gothita, Eelektrik, and Yungoos were the only ones to receive zero votes. Receiving the most votes were Charizard, Gengar, Arcanine, and Bulbasaur.

this might be weird to ask, but how do I critically look at another person's writing and implement what I like in their writing in my own writing? I've been having trouble improving in my writing, and frankly Im not sure how to go about doing that, even. It's easy to see what I like about another person's writing, but hard to pinpoint exactly why...

THIS IS NOT WEIRD TO ASK. It is, in fact, the most important question EVER.

How to Read Like a Writer

Re-read. If you get halfway into a chapter and think, Wow this chapter is super creepy–I wonder how they did that. Or get to the end of a book and think, I feel the poignancy of the fragility of human life in an inherently volatile economic system–I wonder how the writer made me feel that way… Go back and re-read that shit.

Read slowly. When you read like a reader, you read pretty fast. When you go in for your second, or third, or fourth re-read of a passage, chapter, or book that you want to know more about, read it slowly. Really. Slowly.

Read for technique, not content. Readers read for content (”In this paragraph, Damien gave Harold a classified envelope.”). Writers read for technique. (”In this paragraph, the writer made me feel curious about the contents of the envelope by giving sensory details about its appearance and weight.”)

Ask the right questions. They usually start with HOW: How did the writer make me feel? How did they accomplish that?

Read small. Did a chapter make you feel sad? Find out WHERE EXACTLY. What paragraph, sentence, or WORD did it for you? Was it a physical detail? A line of dialogue? A well-placed piece of punctuation? Stories are made of words and sentences. Narrow it down.

Practice. Reading like a writer is a skill that takes time to develop. Over time, you’ll get better at it!

How about y’all? Anything to add to this list? I made it off the top of my head so I’m sure I’m forgetting something. What have been your experiences with learning to read like a writer?

Hope this helps!

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