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I am 100% convinced that “exit, pursued by a bear” is a reference to some popular 1590s meme that we’ll never be able to understand because that one play is the only surviving example of it.

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Oh lord I just had the weirdest interaction at a Starbucks this is going to sound completely fake but I need to tell people:

Random woman: Hey could you buy me a drink? All I have is change.

Me: Sure!

[I open the door. She follows me inside]

Me: So what do you want to drink?

Her: Could I get a cappuccino? With an extra shot?

Me: Of course.

[I grab some yoghurt out of the cooler]

Her: So what do you do?

Me: I'm a writer!

Her: what do you write?

Me: I run a blog about the occult. Cults. Stuff like that.

Her: (Noticably wary) Like magic?

Me: yeah!

Her: Do you practice magic?

Me: I do.

Her: Do you practice Jesus?

Me: I do not.

Her: Do you know that if you practice magic you go to hell and if you practice Jesus you go to heaven?

Me: I do.

[EXTREMELY awkward silence]

Her: Are you still going to buy me a coffee?

Me: Of course!

[I order the drinks and she doesn't make eye contact with me or say thank you]

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The funniest thing about Star Trek: The Original Series is William Shatner being completely unaware of how bisexual his portrayal of Kirk was coming across – especially when you look up interviews with the rest of the cast and it becomes clear that Shatner was literally the only person on set who didn’t pick up on it.

The second funniest thing about Star Trek: The Original Series is how angry Shatner gets when people bring this up.

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this is THE funniest tiktok story i’ve seen like ever i made the worst noise irl

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If u want to write a story about a character that's just you but hotter with a dark twisted backstory and magical powers and a pet falcon or something, I think u should just go ahead and do that. Who's gonna stop you? The government?? Fuck the police.

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my little brother came into my room last night to tell me that he was gonna sew a stack of my mom’s saltine crackers together through the little holes and then left again

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Honey, we need to talk about the invitations. BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | S4E9: Something Blue

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Portrait of a Lady on Fire (dir. Céline Sciamma)

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Small physical things that give your characters personality

How they smile

What their “tell” is for lying

Posture

Volume of speech, if they’re verbal

Nervous tics

How much eye contact do they make

In a group conversation, how close do they stand to others? Are they off to the side just listening and occasionally speaking or are they right next to people?

When standing, what do they do with their hands? Talk with their hands, cross their arms, put hands in pockets, prop up against the wall, etc

The sound of their footsteps

Nonverbal greetings: do they wave, nod, hug, glare, punch, high five, something else?

How do they get others’ attention? Raise hand, clear throat, etc

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“I have a mental illness”= generic, vulnerable, people judge you for it

“My bloodline is cursed to fight unseen demons”= heroic, fairy tale-esque, too weird to be open for further questioning

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Legit’s Dialogue Writing Masterpost

Writing good dialogue is hard. Whether you’re a novice writer or you have plenty of experience, dialogue is one of those things that takes more time and effort to polish to a shine than you may realize. 

One of the big reasons good dialogue is difficult is because most of us tend to write the way we speak - which is both good and bad. Good because you want dialogue to flow naturally, to a degree. Bad because you want dialogue to be interesting as well as natural-sounding, which means that you have to find a way to make your dialogue pull double duty in text. It has to sound like it was spoken by real people, yes. But it can’t simply be dropped into the text the way that real people actually speak. 

So, without further ado, here are some resources that you can use to help you write better dialogue. 

Basic Dialogue Writing Resources

https://www.standoutbooks.com/6-insanely-good-dialogue-tips-from-your-future-literary-agent/

http://writetodone.com/10-easy-ways-to-improve-your-dialogue/

http://www.thecreativepenn.com/2012/10/04/dialogue-mistakes/

http://www.romance-ffp.com/the-seven-most-common-dialogue-mistakes/

http://www.screenwritersutopia.com/article/68334a30

http://mythcreants.com/blog/distinguishing-characters-in-dialogue/

http://www.writersdigest.com/writing-articles/by-writing-goal/write-first-chapter-get-started/how-to-balance-action-narrative-and-dialogue-in-your-novel

http://creativewritingguild.com/tips-tricks/9-tricks-for-writing-organic-dialogue/

Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction Dialogue

https://pagesunbound.wordpress.com/2012/12/13/writing-rambles-writing-fantasy-dialogue/

Creating Slang and Swears in Fantasy and Science Fiction

http://www.writing-world.com/sf/dialogue.shtml

Dialogue in Historical Fiction (+ Some Resources)

https://litreactor.com/columns/turning-a-phrase-how-to-write-historical-dialogue

https://writinghistoricalnovels.com/2013/12/07/on-writing-dialogue-in-historical-novels-by-kathleen-benner-duble/

Miscellaneous

Writing a Child’s/Young Teen’s Dialogue

Dialogue and the Telephone

Formatting Internal Dialogue

Dialogue Exercises

Here are some exercises for those of you who want to work on your dialogue.

http://madammayo.blogspot.com/2011/03/dozen-dialogue-exercises.html

http://writingexercises.co.uk/dialogue-generator.php

http://www.faberacademy.co.uk/news/2015/11/creative-writing-exercises-dialogue/

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Someone tries to stab a character

-with a sword, a stick, a needle, a fork? 

-is it with killing intent or did someone just lose their temper? 

-bonus: have it be a surprise for everyone and in a public place 

-chaos bonus: there is blood everywhere

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Know what I’m salty about?

In all my art classes, I was never taught HOW to use the various tools of art.

Like yes, form, and shape and space and color theory and figure drawing is important, but so is KNOWING what different tools do.

I’m 29 and I JUST learned this past month that India Ink is fucking waterproof when it dries. Why is this important? Because I can line something in India Ink and then go over it with watercolors. And that has CHANGED the ENTIRE way I art and the ease I can create with.

tldr: Art Teachers: teach your students what different tools do. PLEASE.

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Shakespeare plays as screencaps from The Good Place

As You Like It

Comedy of Errors

Cymbeline

Hamlet

Julius Caesar

King Lear

Macbeth

Measure for Measure

The Merchant of Venice

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Much Ado About Nothing

Othello

Pericles

Richard II

Richard III

Romeo and Juliet

The Taming of the Shrew

The Tempest

Troilus and Cressida

Twelfth Night

The Winter’s Tale

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“For The Plot,” I whisper, deleting a rad detail that no longer works as tears fall from my eyes

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some fucking resources for all ur writing fuckin needs

* body language masterlist

* a translator that doesn’t eat ass like google translate does

* a reverse dictionary for when ur brain freezes

* 550 words to say instead of fuckin said

* 638 character traits for when ur brain freezes again

* some more body language help

(hope this helps some ppl)

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i’ve been doing my homework on how to break into a writing career and honestly. there’s a Lot that i didn’t know about thats critical to a writing career in this day and age, and on the one hand, its understandable because we’re experiencing a massive cultural shift, but on the other hand, writers who do not have formal training in school or don’t have the connections to learn more via social osmosis end up extremely out of loop and working at a disadvantage.