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Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library. John Waters -
Woke up to find a Chinese company who I’ve dealt with previously has successfully billed my credit card four times for goods not ordered. It’s a lot of money. Credit card company says – “wait for the good to arrive, then see if you can return... -
Paul Whybrow posted the thread Thought for the Day Collect books, even if you don’t plan on ... in Café Life.Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library. John Waters
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I feel that the need for physical descriptions depends on the tone of the writing. I've done lush, detailed physical character descriptions when that suited the style, but my preference is for action, background, or personality descriptors. A... -
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I'm partial to describing a character by describing their space and their actions. Here I'm introducing the Prior from the point of view of the protagonist: A massive desk of dark, timeworn wood stood at the center, its surface gleaming...
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Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke and Bone: P1 "Snow and Stone and Ghostlight, Karou's own footsteps and the steam from her coffee mug, and she was alone and adrift in mundane thoughts: school, errands." (Now we have a good idea of her age.) P2...
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New blog post by Rachel McCarron Everything Has Changed Monday January 11th, 2016. I awoke to a text from Becky. Shit. What? I checked the Guardian website to find the top headline: David Bowie dies of cancer age 69. Suddenly it all made...
