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Lily Annelise evans

“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart!”

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HOW TO WRITE BLACK CHARACTERS

1.  Write them.  Simple.  Don’t attempt to focus on one dynamic of what YOU think black characters are or what you’ve been told by a tumblr post.  Black people, in general, are not a monolith.  We’re diverse.  We’ve experienced similar experiences.  We’ve experienced different experiences.  Some of us grew up sheltered,  some of us have not seen explicit racism in our daily lives.  Some of us have,  some of us have been through it.  Some are children of immigrants,  some are not.  Some of us grew up in affluent families,  some of us have not.  We’re allowed to be sad,  angry,  upset,  whatever emotions on the spectrum of human emotions we all go through.  I don’t care.  Your Black characters are allowed to express an array of emotions,  just like your white ones.  

Black people don’t even speak the same.   AAVE comes with regional variations.  What does that mean?  Black characters from Georgia will not speak like Black characters from California.  Who won’t speak like Black characters from London.  Etc!  Write dialogue and stop googling “Black slang” or whatever I know ya’ll be doing.

Stop trying to focus your characters on “How to be Black” manuals.  Just learn how to develop your fucking characters properly.   No amount of research will ever give you the full experience of what it is to be a Black person.  Period.  I don’t care how many PSAs tell you to “do your research” or whatever post circulating around for notes.  You’ll never truly understand – you think you can,  but you won’t.   Therefore,  you should first,  focus on writing and developing an amazing,  brilliant,  multi-dimensional character.  With a personality!

Literally if you attempt to write a Black character and it’s just — likes: protesting, dislikes: racism.  Middle name is Woke.  You’re probably writing a shitty character,  you’re writing a caricature of what you think Black empowerment should be and you’re trying to overcompensate for the lack of depth.  Simply put.  Don’t write caricatures.  Write characters.  Shut up and write good characters.  Please.  Thank you.

2. Don’t use the n-word if you’re non-black.  Simple.  This ain’t a game.  

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Resources for finding literary agents

It’s always a good idea to begin your research as early as you can, because A LOT is still not enough. When you round up your data, make sure you check out every website, twitter, or other networking site an agency might have.

To jump-start your research, here are all the resources I’ve compiled over the process of my own querying journeys (also, these sites are free, and a few of them have donation pages or additional services if you do find them helpful):

Agent Query – is a great website with a database of agents. AQ also has additional resources like how to submit to a literary agent and how to write a query.

Query Tracker – is updated quickly, especially when agents close to submissions for periods of time. QT has individual message boards for each agent page so writers who are querying can see approximate and recent response times that other writers are getting. Additionally, agent pages also have graphs and lists of clients and other useful things.

Absolute Write – is a forum for writers that has a whole branch for members to discuss agents, response times, goings-on, so on and so forth. Other helpful threads include workshopping chapters and queries – which, if you’re fairly new to querying, is highly recommended.

Literary Rambles – is a blog run by Casey McCormick and Natalie Aguirre, and they post really sweet, in-depth profiles and blurbs from interviews of literary agents in the YA (young adult), MG (middle grade), PB (picture books) and CB (chapter book) realms.

Writer Beware – is sponsored by the SFWA (Science Fiction Writers of America) with support from the MWA (Mystery Writers of America). They update with publishing scams and schemes and traps with advice on how to spot and avoid them. They also have a blog and a facebook page.

What to do when you’ve finished your manuscript – is advice I put together to help writers to prepare their manuscripts and submission needs. Many writers begin querying before they’re ready.

Avoiding publishing scams – another quick tidbit of advice on steeling oneself against the temptation of “too good to be true” offers. The aforementioned sites are linked here as well.

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Me: You don’t need those aesthetic tags, its an unrealistic pressure on rp

Also me: Make fifty deep tags from one song off Greatest Showman we die like men

u kno what im tired of???

feeling the need to come up with fancy ass tags for my rp stuff

like i get ur character was forged from steel or whatever but im tired

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。・ template psd sixteen by templatepsds ゜+.*

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+ as requested, here’s a simple template psd based off an iphone lockscreen.

+ the file is 400x708px.

+ since i don’t have the original font and i can’t purchase it, i used an alternative called Roboto, which you can download here. I used Roboto Light and Roboto Thin, so be sure to download those specifically. 

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Me holding back tears : let’s get this money

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Look, sometimes murders of crows will blacken the sky at your coming and ravening wolves are gonna follow in your wake, and you’re just gonna have to deal with that, and everybody else in the Costco is just gonna have to deal too

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do you ever just want to grab someone in one of your classes

and pull their face close and whisper

“I am ten times smarter than you will ever be, your opinions are both ill-informed and unoriginal, the career path you are headed on is so overdosed with barely competent imbeciles like you that you will be incapable of finding a job, and incidentally your shoes are clashing with your outfit in a way that cannot even be called deliberately bad. so shut. the. fuck. up.”

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The Parent Trap (1998) dir. Nancy Meyers

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Look, sometimes murders of crows will blacken the sky at your coming and ravening wolves are gonna follow in your wake, and you’re just gonna have to deal with that, and everybody else in the Costco is just gonna have to deal too

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I didn’t know cheetahs meow I’ve always thought they roar my whole life has been a lie

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“She is not mine. I don’t think she could ever be anyone’s. She doesn’t want to be owned. That’s what I love most about her.”

— (letters my grandpa wrote about my grandmother)

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01/10/18 // October  [IG]