Twaeggy - The World Is At My Feet And I Am Standing On The Ceiling

to 134 more years of the never-ending cycle of first meetings and comfortable domesticity

to holmes and watson, in all their forms

I will always remember Christopher Lee as that horrifying moment in the LOTR commentaries where Peter Jackson says he started to direct him on how to act like he’d been stabbed and Christopher Lee goes “no no peter dear, when someone is stabbed like this, THIS is how they look, they don’t make a sound, air just leaves them all at once” and peter jackson remembers in that moment that lee was in the secret service and just slowly backs away.

Notice how every science fiction movie or television show starts with a shot of the location where the story is about to occur. Movies that take place in outer space always start with a shot of stars and a starship. Movies that take place on another world always start with a  shot of that planet. This is to let you know where you are. Novels and stories start the same way. You have to give the reader a sense of where he is and what’s happening as quickly as possible. You don’t want to start the story by confusing the reader.

David Gerrold (via writingquotes)

Edit A Month: Killing Your Darlings

Edit-A-Month is resumed!

Eveyone has to cut something they love. It is inevitable, the burden of being a writer. In order to improve the general story, you have to remove bits that drag it down. Making those decisions, though, is a tough choice, and sometimes it’s tougher to even know where to start. Here are things to look for when killing your darlings:

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countdown

16 days to 2015 and I still think I’m in 2012

I love the phrase “what the entire fuck” because it implies that there exists some scenario that warrants only a “what the partial fuck”.

Major Depression: Slight Dysthymia: Slight Bipolar Disorder: Moderate Cyclothymia: Very High Seasonal Affective Disorder: Slight-Moderate Postpartum Depression: N/A http://www.depressedtest.com/