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I actually can't stop thinking about how the losing party last election dressed like vikings and tried to break into the white house and the losing party this election are sharing suicide prevention hotlines

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i always forget how much of a hell getting up in the morning during the cold months is until im trying to get dressed taking frost damage like ough augh ugha oagh uagh

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Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life

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Distinguishing Between Character Perspectives

                I’m sure many of you are already working on projects that have multiple characters that hold perspective (as in, we follow the story from their eyes), or you will someday. Whether you do it chapter by chapter or just intentionally head-hop, distinguishing between perspectives of characters is important both for clarity to the readers (we want to be able to hop into any part of the story and know who we’re with) as well as for conveying character!

                We do this through building the narrator with the character’s voice.

                Whether you’re writing first person, third person omniscient or limited, or even second person, your narrator is going to have a voice. This voice is the voice of the character you are following.

                Narrator voice works almost the exact same as how you would write your character voice. Your narrator is going to tell the story matching the attitude and background of their character. Background will influence the kind of words they use, the way they see the world, and how they would comment on it. In an easy example, if your character doesn’t swear—their narrator definitely wouldn’t, unless the character swears inside their own thoughts but not out loud.

                Attitude is telling personality through voice. Take for example, your character has just walked into the bar:

                “The bar was filled to the brim with sweaty drunks falling over each other, barely cognizant of the drinks they were spilling--much less so the people around them.”

                Versus

                “Upbeat dance music filled the bar. A crowd had formed in the middle of the floor, people cheering and dancing together like the rest of the world hardly mattered.”

                Same situation, far different attitude.

                Your narrator for different characters will use their tone, their word choices, and convey a specific and unique outlook on the world. All of this conveys their character in an intimate way (the narrator is almost like their inner-thoughts or literally seeing through their eyes) and will make reading works with multiple perspectives far more interesting!

                (However, this also applies even if there’s only one perspective!)

                What are some unique choices you made for your narrator/characters’ voices?

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This is why writers abandon stories. It’s not that we don’t love them, it’s because we don’t want to love them alone.

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musings on august        

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A Black Panther feeds his son at the “Free Huey” rally in Oakland, California. February 17, 1968.

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Louise Glück, from an interview with poet in Poets & Writers

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the unbearable heaviness of girlhood / Su Xinyu / Lucie Brock-Broido

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I love you and I like you.

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Writing Description Notes:

Updated 12th July 2024 More writing tips, review tips & writing description notes

Facial Expressions

Masking Emotions

Smiles/Smirks/Grins

Eye Contact/Eye Movements

Blushing

Voice/Tone

Body Language/Idle Movement

Thoughts/Thinking/Focusing/Distracted

Silence

Memories

Happy/Content/Comforted

Love/Romance

Sadness/Crying/Hurt

Confidence/Determination/Hopeful

Surprised/Shocked

Guilt/Regret

Disgusted/Jealous

Uncertain/Doubtful/Worried

Anger/Rage

Laughter

Confused

Speechless/Tongue Tied

Fear/Terrified

Mental Pain

Physical Pain

Tired/Drowsy/Exhausted

Eating

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I’m so sorry, but Colin and Penelope painstakingly learning to love every. single. part. of each other — especially the parts that are vindictive, and petty, and jealous, and angry — in such a delicate and early (!!!) point in their romantic relationship does such a supreme justice to their love story that I can never, never wish the Whistledown plot was diminished. (Benedict and Francesca subplot, absolutely. Whistledown, no.)

Because really, how fucking romantic is it, that they both go into their marriage willingly, with their eyes wide open and only their trust in each other that this will all be okay, somehow, to hold onto?

It’s so beautifully ironic that the two greenest, most naïve, most “puppy love” of all the Bridgerton couples actually has the most mature depiction of a deep relationship and connection in the show; that it was through them that they managed to highlight how love is always a choice. It’s such a fantastic juxtaposition, especially for two characters who “have never been taken seriously”.

As they say, the goal is to laugh forever with someone you take seriously. Oh, my sweet, sweet Polin. 🩵

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lady whistledown coming out of retirement only when cressida attempted to disparage edmund and violet’s relationship is so real of penelope. she said you had the audacity to question my comfort ship and you think i’d let that slide.

her toxic trait is that any slander against edmund and violet is taken as a personal slight against her. she said there will never come a day where i’m not ready to go down with this ship, they’re my ultimate joy and comfort.

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Does anyone really think that if Polin is living across the street and Pen still has a column that we aren't going to see them so so so much? We WON. our couple is going to be the most winning couple for the entire series. Pen has been proclaimed the heart of the show by mult higher ups now. She is staying put.

Anything else you wanted? Fanfic has. Ao3 is a perfect place to find what you are looking for, or to write and post yourself.

We are going to get so much from them. Children, gossiping, dancing, guiding Gregory and Hyacinth, comforting and laughing with Benedict and Francesca, being bestie triad with Eloise, being at weddings and (masquerade) balls and teas, and living happily!

Please be happy. They gave us so very much. So so much.

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penelope: i'll give you an annulment and free you from this marriage

colin:

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Upon yet another re watch, episode one really is wild because I feel like we all forgot how much of a little romantic dork Colin was for the first two seasons. Like this man was still the younger brother of his two older brothers, he was seen as immature, kiddish, and too young to really be a man.

His whole journey season 1 is setting up how he wants a romantic connection but is deceived for his naivety in this situation despite warning.

His journey season 2 is to try and become a man, having traveled, trying to gain purpose and prospects through investing and being a protector to the feathering tons he feels noble. Yet he still wonders what the point of it all is: ie, he’s missing the heart of his purpose which is to love someone undyingly.

Season 3 everyone is so shocked when he shows up, looking older, looking and acting confidence and suave and flirtatious something he NEVER was before. They are shocked and also not mocking him for his travels and he knows now not to even divulge his passion for it because he knows while his family loves him, they do not truly care for the inner workings of his mind. Leaving him still missing something. That something is a true partner.

I just feel like we all really truly forgot how Colin was never the one to be smooth, the one to know the exact thing to say and when, or even the confident hot one. The man spent hours talking about plants he saw traveling to his ex’s husband for gods sake like this man is not suave he is dorky and adorable. He had always been dorky younger brother of the two catches in the Bridgerton house. Forgotten amongst the diamond of the season, the viscount, and the flirtatious artist. Who was he? He had no clue.

He wandered and came back a new person hoping people would now accept him and clearly he feels it has worked because everyone praises him for it! So when his facade starts to crumble around Pen, and when she throws back at him that he has put on this mask of a person, and tells him she just wants the true man she loves, for once Colin is feeling seen for who he actually is. I think that is why he kisses her so aggressively after the “I love you!” Statement by the modiste. He’s seen, and loved. Now he just had to figure out how to accept the lady Whistledown stuff.

All I’m saying is people don’t get Colin and I will die on the hill that he deserves more praise. He’s far more complex than people give credit and I love his character.

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Let's talk about that I love you reaction

Let's talk about the above 2 scenes.

Scene 1: Marina tells Colin that she loves him as she is trying to deceive him into marriage. She is then caught due to Lady Whistledown and Colin confronts her. When she is confronted about her deception, she is not apologetic. She states that she had no choice, that he was her best chance and she had no one to guide her in a better direction and she will not be shamed by him.

When he asks about her telling him that she loved him she tells him that she held him in the greatest esteem. Meaning that her declaration of "love" was also a lie. Everything he thought he knew was a deception.

Scene 2: Pen admits to Colin that she has always loved him. Not out of deception or lies, but something she meant. Now lets go to the confrontation. Colin confronts her about her lies, and Pen owns up to them, she is apologetic and admits that she knows how much damage she has caused. She does not give him any excuses for what she has done, but meets each of his questions with the reasons she did what she did.

When he asks her what good is he to her, lets remember, after Marina lied to him, even her love she declared to him was a lie, so now when confronting Pen, he has these same scars, these same wounds. How much of Pen's deceptions are lies. Is her love also part of the deception?

And thus when she loudly declares she loves him, not once, but twice, he is rocked. it stops his world on its axis and pulls him right out of their fight. This is what stops him in his tracks and and ends in their make out right there on the middle of the street. Because her love was not the lie. She was NOT Marina.