A Man And A Woman
and on and on. Mostly because I want there to be writing wherever this little bit's going to end up showing.
Anyways, if you guys have questions... then ask the hell away.
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This is so great. LET’S KICK IT UP A NOTCH!!11
I just want to add that for some reason this comic makes the vowels ㅔ and ㅐ somewhat more confusing than they really are. There is very little functional difference between the two. Simply, they’re both pronounced like ‘e’ as in ‘beg’ or ‘end’ or whatever. Technically there is a difference (ㅐ is “longer”), but you don’t hear it in day-to-day speech. So anyway, instead of the typical English pronunciation of Batman with that English ‘a’ vowel, we would say it more like ‘Bet-men’ (…and technically-technically, the ‘t’ is aspirated so it has its own syllable: 배트맨).
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Q: I have been thinking about the story lately but not very actively? I guess I've been thinking about how to improve and elevate it and like make it into a real piece of function fiction, you know? I don't want it to be a fluff piece.
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no, it has to be more than fluff. I haven’t really though but I’ve been working on the other story, mostly due to creative writing though but still. There are a lot of things that I want to change I like where it’s headed.
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Ew Nick would NOT wear one of those tacky surfer necklace things. But this is an interesting story? I never really look at people and think of my characters, so it’s pretty cool that this happened haha.
Ok, it wasn’t exactly a surfer necklace. but he had some sort of necklace. I know. It was so freaking out of no where. And I don’t even look at people either, I didn’t even think that much of the guy until he left me alone to go get his equipment and then for some reason it dawned on me. I think though it was in his manner of moving. and his hair, that was the first thing I noticed. And then after that everything else just made sense too.
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GAH!!!! Perfection
So you know that as writers we, you know, create people that we expect to never ever meet because they’re in our head and we know everything about them because we created them. RIGHT?? how many writers ever in any way imagine meeting their characters in real life?? I know I do!!!
So today after class I was craving some fake, but totally yummy, mexican food. i.e Chipotle. So I’m parking the car right in front of Chipotle in the South Shore center and this guy in a black ford truck stoppes right next to my car as if he were waiting for me to move to park in my space. I kept trying to park and then I hear that he’s shouting, trying to get my attention and so I lower my window and he’s talking about how he can fix something on my car or whatnot. So I finish parking and he parks his car and comes over saying how he could easily fix these three dents in my car in like a minute right then and there.
Now, at first I was skeptical because, I mean really, how often does this happen? and so I thought it was a scam and everything so I was trying to get him to leave me alone but then my friend, who was there, said that her friend had to pay like $500 to get a dent out of her car and this guy fixed it right then and there in the parking lot and it took no more than five minutes all together and there were three dents and I was there watching him do it. So while he leaves to get his equipment from his car or something I’m just standing next to my car waiting for my sister to come back from the back to pay the guy and then it just occurred to me. This guy was just, if not practically identical, to my character. I kept thinking that over and over. And then I really paid attention to him.
I kept thinking about the first time that my protagonists meets the character this guy is supposed to be and how he first approaches my protagonist. AND I’M LIKE: FUCK WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN HIDING??
And I think of this commission that pocket-picasso has done of the character that I’m talking about and I’m just yes. yes they are practically identical. I mean, this guy had a much more pronounced jaw than the guy in the commission but still. And they have the same hair, the (real) guy even looked Greek (in my opinion) and he was wearing a leather jacket, just like my character, and he had this surfer choker necklace and I was like “Nick would so totally wear this” and everything. I mean he wasn’t exactly like my character, Nick, but he was uncommonly like him. For Christs sake! he’s a mechanic! just like my character and actually, I wouldn’t be surprised if my character goes around parking lots fixing people’s cars in seconds. Even the guys car was the type of car that I think my character would have. And then I started wondering if he had any tattoos. That would be freaky if he did. Even his accent, he had one though not very noticeable.
So the guy gave me the phone number of the shop where he worked and he was telling me about all the things that he could fix in my car right in my driveway if I wanted, saving me almost half of what I would pay (so he says, but I’m going to look up prices and compare just to be safe, if I ever consider calling the number he gave me) with other mechanics.
So yeah. that was a half hour of my day. And it was totally awesome!! and after I was just completely dumb founded because it was only after, when I didn’t have to focus on what he was doing to my car, that I was really seriously realizing how similar this guy and my character was. And at one point I kept thinking “god has sent me an angel”. Of course I don’t want to really see the guy again, otherwise I might start to depict how different they are and so depending on what I find I’ll be disappointed. But I just kept thinking that if my story was ever published and then turned into a movie I seriously wanted this guy to play my character—despite the fact that the guy’s a mechanic not an actor. I was freaking out so badly and my friend was just looking at me like I was crazy but I couldn’t contain my enthusiasm.
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Advice on Writing From Writers
“Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Begin with an individual and you find that you have created a type; begin with a type and you find that you have created—nothing.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Don’t ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out.” ~ Charles Bukowski
“Breathe in experience, breathe out poetry.” ~ Muriel Rukeyser
“A short story must have single mood and every sentence must build towards it.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe
“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.” ~ Saul Bellow
“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.” ~ T. S. Eliot
“Fiction is a lie, and good fiction is the truth inside the lie.” ~ Stephen King
“Good fiction is made of what is real, and reality is difficult to come by.” ~ Ralph Ellison
“The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That’s not true with non-fiction.” ~ Tom Wolfe
“You cannot write well without data.” ~ George Higgins
“Listen, then make up your own mind.” ~ Gay Talese
“Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
“Write without pay until somebody offers pay; if nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.” ~ Mark Twain -
Complains
Ok, I hate it how in english classes you write essays and in the beginning of the semester you grade on the essays are horrible but by the end they’re pretty good, BUT come the next semester and the next english teacher and for some reason your teacher’s like “can’t you write good essays?” and then your like, “what the fuck was I being taught in my last english class?”
It’s like you go from one english teacher to the next and they all give you shitty grades in the beginning because your previous teacher was a dumb ass when it came to teaching you how to write essays and by the end you do good only to have your next teacher say the same thing about your current teacher when it comes to writing.
And I say this because I just go a shitty grade in my first essay of this semester.
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ok, I know this isn’t the intentional effect this picture is supposed to have BUT, if you’re a whovian then you know what I’m thinking about right now.
“are you my mummy?” Dr. Who
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