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A lot of fiction these days reads as if—as I saw Peter Raleigh put it the other day, and as I’ve discussed it before—the author is trying to describe a video playing in their mind. Often there is little or no interiority. Scenes play out in “real time” without summary. First-person POV stories describe things the character can’t see, but a distant camera could. There’s an overemphasis on characters’ outfits and facial expressions, including my personal pet peeve: the “reaction shot round-up” in which we get a description of every character’s reaction to something as if a camera was cutting between sitcom actors.

When I talk with other creative writing professors, we all seem to agree that interiority is disappearing. Even in first-person POV stories, younger writers often skip describing their character’s hopes, dreams, fears, thoughts, memories, or reactions. This trend is hardly limited to young writers though. I was speaking to an editor yesterday who agreed interiority has largely vanished from commercial fiction, and I think you increasingly notice its absence even in works shelved as “literary fiction.” When interiority does appear on the page, it is often brief and redundant with the dialogue and action. All of this is a great shame. Interiority is perhaps the prime example of an advantage prose as a medium holds over other artforms.

fascinated by this article, "Turning Off the TV in Your Mind," about the influences of visual narratives on writing prose narratives. i def notice the two things i excerpted above in fanfic, which i guess makes even more sense as most of the fic i read is for tv and film. i will also be thinking about its discussion of time in prose - i think that's something i often struggle with and i will try to be more conscious of the differences between screen and page next time i'm writing.

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Okay, based on the recent polls/random spin wheels that have been going around, who are you in this DnD/TTRPG isekai world?

DnD Race, Subclass + Level / Class, Your Role in the Isekai World

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ily moobloom

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Goodnight.

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:)

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I hope the "What if Disco Elysium was about a witch finding her cat in the mountains" post never leaves the gaming discourse vernacular. It will never not be funny to me bc it's got all the Gamer Entitlement™ levels of CoD bros throwing hissy fits about "woke" shit but instead of being couched in far right reactionism it's the exact kind of "Kingdom of Conscience" style liberal outrage at anything with conviction and beliefs that DE waxed on about. Like even chuds who get mad that the game calls you out for being racist interact with the themes of DE better and understand them more than Cat Lady did.

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you, and the wretched thing you walk the earth in

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hi americans

as a fellow USian if you are sitting around feeling stressed or hopeless or whatever you happen to feel abt the election, i would like to draw your attention to sara's fundraiser.

i have been working with sara through operation olive branch since june of this year. in that time, sara and part of her immediate family were able to evacuate to canada after being trapped for months in cairo. the funds we have raised for them helped make this possible, but her family's fundraiser has stalled quite a bit in the last few weeks

right now her family is at ~$1500/$25k CAD goal

these funds will go towards defraying the costs of living in canada, helping sara and her sisters return to school, and rebuilding what they have lost over the last calendar year.

the US political system may be a hellish nightmare but i do sincerely believe that we as individuals and as small collectives can care for and uplift each other even in the darkest historical moments. if you are able to give to sara's fundraiser, it would be much appreciated. if not, please share with your networks especially over the holidays. regardless of who wins the bid for presidency, we don't have to stand by and let US imperialism aid and abet a genocide.

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hi, don't scroll. i'm coming at you with a list of palestinian fundraisers who very, very urgently need our help. please donate if you can, and reblog to boost. thank you!

najah al-haila, vetted by gazavetters (#49), 4,192€/80,000€

youssef alaa al-yazji, vetted by gazavetters (#87), 20,839kr SEK/200,000kr (1$=10kr)

dima rashed al-dahdouh, unvetted but RIS is clean, 506€/30,000€

heba's family, vetted by association through safaabed8, 2,920€/40,000€

siraj abu dayyeh, #219 on the vetted gaza evacuation fundraiser list, $89,084 CAD/$150,000

ola's family, #205 on the vetted gaza evacuation fundraiser list, $57,887 USD/$85,000

nour alanqar, vetted by 90-ghost, 23,757€/40,000€

ola ferwana, vetted by gazavetters (#60), 10,782€/35,000€

belal salem, vetted by 90-ghost, $1,276 USD/$20,000

abood and his pregnant wife, vetted by mohiy-gaza, $22,314 USD/$40,000

youssef al-habil, whose son has recently been hospitalized on account of a respiratory illness, #406 on the butterfly project list, 23,774€/30,000€

abdulsalam al-anqar, vetted by gazavetters (#4), 8,228€/50,000€

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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

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Well, you heard it here first, folks.

Little side comic for my SBCF24 debut, Sacred Bodies.

ba'it babies? important.

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oh! it's lesbian day?

Play swept up, my tiny Twine about murderous girls in the desert:

And Get Seen Tonight, my scifi Texture game about a cop falling for her torch singer informant (the cover art has my old name on but it's so pretty that I don't want to change it; it works best on mobile, as the sizing of the button text goes weird on some browsers):

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Mods? Take him to the stump of his favorite childhood tree.

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what is your number 8 song on your on repeat playlist?

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Fresh memes here, get 'em while they're hot