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robwmay:

Ladies and gents of tumblr, I am now a gorram publisher!

You’ve seen the posts, you’ve heard the rumours and you answered the call! Finally, the UKZDL’s first published book is here! 
It’s a collection of awesome short stories and poems written by members of the league, all to do with zombies…
If you own a kindle, go check it out. If you have a smartphone, go grab the kindle app and then go check it out. If you have neither a kindle nor a smartphone, then…..I’m sorry, you will have to miss out on the glory…. next time!
See! Go grab a copy!

The UK Zombie Defence League has gone LITERARY ON YO ASS. One of my poems is in there! I’m published now! I shall earn shiny pennies because of a thing I wrote! SO EXCITING

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for future reference writing

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startrek-marysues:

that70srpc:

I find that, when writing bios, it’s really helpful to look at a list or a chart like the one above. Picking two or three traits from each chart and building a character based around them will give you a really interesting bio, because they will serve as a reminder that characters need depth and dimension.

Independent and clever.

VS.

Independent, clever, pretentious, and stubborn.

The first combination doesn’t come with any flaws, whereas the second will provide a more dynamic character.

HEY GUYS, this showed up on my dash this morning, and I thought it would be helpful if any of you are writing characters and don’t want them to come out as picture-perfect Mary Sues! :) 

One thing I’d like to add, though, is that you should make sure the character traits don’t conflict in an oxymoronic way…. for example: Ambitious and lazy, or patient and impulsive. WAT. (Believe it or not, I HAVE seen it happen before! Don’t do it!!)

Reblogged from Humble Master of the Universe

neil gaiman writing writer writer what you know I love your mind

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Only write what you know is very good advice. I do my best to stick to it. I wrote about gods and dreams and America because I knew about them. And I wrote about what it’s like to wander into Faerie because I knew about that. I wrote about living underneath London because I knew about that too. And I put people into the stories because I knew them: the ones with pumpkins for heads, and the serial killers with eyes for teeth, and the little chocolate people filled with raspberry cream making love, and the rest of them.

You’ve had twenty years of living, and dreaming. You probably have a fair idea of what it’s like to experience emotions, and to go places, and to do things, and to change. You’ve wondered about things you don’t know. You’ve guessed. You’ve hoped. You’ve probably lied — oddly enough, similar skills to those you’ll have used in convincing a teacher that you actually did do your homework but it was stolen by an escaped convict dressed as a nun will come in useful in writing fiction. Ditto for the skills involved in writing a passing grade essay on something you know absolutely nothing about. Relax. Fake it. Mean it.

And you don’t need to figure it all out before you start writing. You can figure it out while you’re writing. Or you can fail to figure it out; that’s allowed too.

Reblogged from Neil Gaiman

writing note to self for future reference

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poetry writing chaos theory fate destiny love butterfly effect

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Chaos theory

I’m writing a poem about chaos theory. Specifically, about the butterfly effect.

There are some interesting parallels shaping up between ‘destiny’ and ‘sensitivity to initial conditions.’ If you think about it, whether a relationship is going to work or not is often decided by traits inherent in the people prior to the establishment of that relationship.

Maybe we could have made different choices, or maybe it wasn’t “meant to be,” and the complex system we call the universe just carried us away from each other, as inevitable and unpredictable as ink swirling through water.

This is why normal people sleep, isn’t it. It’s because otherwise this happens.

sweet merciful zeus jeph jacques AI robots civil rights equality writing

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jephjacques: UN Hearing On AI Rights

jephjacques:

The subject of this debate is whether AIs are “people-” whether they possess the same degree of personhood as humans, and whether that entitles them to the same rights.

You have heard all the arguments for and against the consciousness, intelligence, free will, and cognition of artificial…

Oh my binary lord, this finally happened

Jeph, I love everything that you choose to be.

Reblogged from jephjacques

for future reference writing psychology

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Using Real Psychology in Your Writing

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beautiful writing word nerd

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Funkenzwangsvorstellung

dictionaryofobscuresorrows:

n. the instinctive trance of a campfire in the dark, spending hours roasting and watching as it settles and sinks into the ground like a heap of shipwrecks whose sailors raise their flickering sails trying to signal that the prevailing winds of your life are about to shift, that the edge of the Earth is real and looming just a few years ahead, and that your marshmallow is on fire.

I can’t get over the loveliness of these definitions.

Reblogged from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

writing poetry idle scribe

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Idle Scribe: Storm

anidlescribe:

“Haha, did you see that?”

As she speaks, her finger trails down my nose in a lazy line, coming to rest on the edge of my smile.

“Yes, I saw. This storm is really something huh.”

“I knooowwww…” She rolls onto her front, propping herself up on her elbows, hands supporting her chin. “I like it…

So this is my new writing blog. I’m not going to cross-post very often, but I just like having it all in one place… Please check it out if you’ve liked my poetry in the past, it’d be great to get some feedback!

Reblogged from Idle Scribe

poetry writing avatar idlescribe

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New av, what do you think?

Decided that restrained and dignified wasn’t working for me.

Going for ‘vivid harlot’ instead.

Now that I’ve lured you in with dramatic and interesting talk of avatars,

I have a new blog! It’s for my writing. I’m going to put mostly poetry in it. Here it is.

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