Linkdump, mostly about writing
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jadislefeuShow vs. Tell: Lessons from Wake of Vultures has an interesting take on the well-worn adage "Show, don't tell": If something important changes, render it on the page (show). If nothing changes, summarize it (tell). It claims to illustrate with examples, but ime they're too spare to demonstrate anything. I'll have to think about this more.
An interesting twitter thread about How Not To Write Supporting Characters In Shipfic (or, in her own words, "How to Avoid Making Your Main Couple Accidental Psychopaths")
The Mysterious Discipline of Narratologists: Why We Need Stories to Make Sense at Tor.com is a very interesting piece about how stories work. I think I'll want to muse on it more. the audience has a set of shared communal knowledge makes me think of how Alex's interpreting program discusses extra-linguistic knowledge (which has become something of a household catchphrase). They seem to be fairly conceptually similar.
Tor.com is offering a new short fiction newsletter
The Wii Shop Channel's closure marks the death of a piece of Nintendo magic-- I'm not that surprised about the channel shuttering, because over christmas helping my mom I discovered that the YouTube app for the wii no longer works and the NetFlix app stopped working this month, but wow. That's the end of some kind of era. (I ended up helping my mom buy and set up a Roku, since she could no longer use her wii as a hilariously low-res set top box. Seriously, it was like 480p, on like a 60" television, it was so funny.)
The Story About The Story: Or, How Writers Talk About Their Books by Chuck Wendig
25 Steps To Being A Traditionally Published Author: Lazy Bastard Edition (Guest Post By Delilah S. Dawson). I just like reading about writing, even if posts like this make me increasingly sure that I am not cut out to be an author (of novels, anyway, I still harbor dreams of short fiction publication). (Though it's entirely possible that my badly managed mental health is the one saying that and I'd be more up for it if I was less A Mess With No Insurance To Do Anything About It.)
25 Humpalicious Steps For Writing Your First Sex Scene, By Delilah S. Dawson (Author Of Wicked As She Wants). When I wrote my first sex scene, the hero accidentally removed the heroine’s corset three times, which made me sound like an idiot with a corset fetish. AS IF. I'm amused. Also (partially) potentially applicable to fanfic sex scenes.
Tucker Leighty-Phillips interviews Ursula Vernon is a website with truly abysmal formatting, fucking pale grey text on a white background, what the fuck. I used the 'white background with black font' bookmarklet from this incredibly useful page to render it bloody readable. Anyway: And a lot of the messages that do come across by what I’m retelling I choose to change, like in the snow queen version I did, if there’s a moral to the story it was the dude chosen by Hans Christian Anderson was an absolute douche bag and you could do better. I guess that’s a moral. Love me some Ursula Vernon. And The Raven and the Reindeer was a great book, with lesbians, A+ highly recommended. This is a fun interview because Ursula is inherently interesting and hilarious, if you can get past the TERRIBLE DAMNED WEBSITE. God, who the fuck chose this font color. Why.
An interesting twitter thread about How Not To Write Supporting Characters In Shipfic (or, in her own words, "How to Avoid Making Your Main Couple Accidental Psychopaths")
The Mysterious Discipline of Narratologists: Why We Need Stories to Make Sense at Tor.com is a very interesting piece about how stories work. I think I'll want to muse on it more. the audience has a set of shared communal knowledge makes me think of how Alex's interpreting program discusses extra-linguistic knowledge (which has become something of a household catchphrase). They seem to be fairly conceptually similar.
Tor.com is offering a new short fiction newsletter
The Wii Shop Channel's closure marks the death of a piece of Nintendo magic-- I'm not that surprised about the channel shuttering, because over christmas helping my mom I discovered that the YouTube app for the wii no longer works and the NetFlix app stopped working this month, but wow. That's the end of some kind of era. (I ended up helping my mom buy and set up a Roku, since she could no longer use her wii as a hilariously low-res set top box. Seriously, it was like 480p, on like a 60" television, it was so funny.)
The Story About The Story: Or, How Writers Talk About Their Books by Chuck Wendig
25 Steps To Being A Traditionally Published Author: Lazy Bastard Edition (Guest Post By Delilah S. Dawson). I just like reading about writing, even if posts like this make me increasingly sure that I am not cut out to be an author (of novels, anyway, I still harbor dreams of short fiction publication). (Though it's entirely possible that my badly managed mental health is the one saying that and I'd be more up for it if I was less A Mess With No Insurance To Do Anything About It.)
25 Humpalicious Steps For Writing Your First Sex Scene, By Delilah S. Dawson (Author Of Wicked As She Wants). When I wrote my first sex scene, the hero accidentally removed the heroine’s corset three times, which made me sound like an idiot with a corset fetish. AS IF. I'm amused. Also (partially) potentially applicable to fanfic sex scenes.
Tucker Leighty-Phillips interviews Ursula Vernon is a website with truly abysmal formatting, fucking pale grey text on a white background, what the fuck. I used the 'white background with black font' bookmarklet from this incredibly useful page to render it bloody readable. Anyway: And a lot of the messages that do come across by what I’m retelling I choose to change, like in the snow queen version I did, if there’s a moral to the story it was the dude chosen by Hans Christian Anderson was an absolute douche bag and you could do better. I guess that’s a moral. Love me some Ursula Vernon. And The Raven and the Reindeer was a great book, with lesbians, A+ highly recommended. This is a fun interview because Ursula is inherently interesting and hilarious, if you can get past the TERRIBLE DAMNED WEBSITE. God, who the fuck chose this font color. Why.
