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2025.02.02 05:40 earnyourstories 41m drunk and chatty. Let's hang out on cam
Hey guys I'm all around the general nerd. Let's talk about nerdom, I'm kind of bored and lonely tonight.
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2025.02.02 05:40 Fairytaleautumnfox Story of Snowglobe
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2025.02.02 05:40 arrbby- Hotel
Now she’s saying she doesn’t want to get a hotel she wants an Airbnb bc they’re prettier and she feels safer🤦🏻♀️if she has the means to get ANYTHING it doesn’t matter what, what matters is she gets away from him like girl make haste!!!! U can’t be picky when ur escaping a dangerous situation
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2025.02.02 05:40 InvestmentOk1702 Pain man… cba anymore
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2025.02.02 05:40 mick89146 Time for benefit approval from Phillipines?
Greetings all - I applied in early Oct 2024 for retirement benefits - I received acknowledgement of receipt and that processing would be done in the Philippines - the website says I am in processing Level 2 for over 4 months - does anyone have recent experience or insight?
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2025.02.02 05:40 Nika13k They done stole my mysterious lair! Can't Have Shit in fort dorf.
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2025.02.02 05:40 DemeaRisen Humble! Hear our pleas!
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2025.02.02 05:40 LooseIndependent8074 it's a sunny day
I don't really know if this is liminal but ok
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2025.02.02 05:40 Reasonable_Corgi5508 Trabajos de morgue ¿Viste algo?
Gente que trabajo en una morgue como era el contacto con las personas fallecidas? Sobre todo con las mujeres jóvenes alguna ves vieron algo fuera de lugar?
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2025.02.02 05:40 jimmysofat6864 Throwback to the Moondrop Spaceship: The redefinition of the $20 price bracket over the years
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2025.02.02 05:40 silcener626 I thought I'd hate this, but it's actually good, 8/10
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2025.02.02 05:40 DestinyNoticer 😴Destiny is OFFLINE!😴
Thanks for watching, see you next time!
the double n and backslashes are how you create new lines.
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2025.02.02 05:40 Patsboy101 “I fell into a burning ring of fire!”
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2025.02.02 05:40 Convenientjellybean Safe to remove steel rod?
 | So I have a concrete wall in a 1950s house, the window was extended down to make a walkway, but here’s a steel rod remaining. Anyone like to hazard a guess if it’d be okay to remove the steel rod? It’s about 10mm diameter The opening is about 1.5m wide 2m high, wall is about 5.5m long submitted by Convenientjellybean to AusRenovation [link] [comments] |
2025.02.02 05:40 SHREMegaFan444 Best RPGs for a horror gamer?
What are the best RPGs for a horror gamer? They can be RPG horror games or RPGs with horror elements. I would love to play both.
I play on PC through Steam. Some of my favorite games are: 1. SOMA 2. Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Alan Wake, Dead Space 3. Bloodborne, Dark Souls, Lies of P, Elden Ring 4. The Witcher, Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, Cyberpunk 2077
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2025.02.02 05:40 Huge-Dealer-1224 A preferable alternatives to the disgusting Lakers trade
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2025.02.02 05:40 Used_Fix6795 Just broth...
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2025.02.02 05:40 AdventurousHat5360 PSO VR - Forest 2 / HUmar Avatar Release and Project Update
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2025.02.02 05:40 Remarkable_Flan7865 What shoe is this
Can anyone help me figure out which shoes these are? Thanks!
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2025.02.02 05:40 selenelils0723 Tsuki - Cute moment
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2025.02.02 05:40 Icantseegood My takeaway feels so weird
I see I go really inside but anyone have any advice or drills for this?
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2025.02.02 05:40 QuickRundown It’s over.
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2025.02.02 05:40 UnhappyCounter9132 New got him and he will bite me if I put him away he hates my mom and eveyone else but me I think he has DPD
He hates his enclosure and every time I put him in his cage he hisses till I pick him up and let him on my bed what do I do?
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2025.02.02 05:40 Conductor_Neko Sharing some craft book recommendations by topic
Preface:
I’m just an amateur writer and by no means an expert, but I wanted to share a list of craft books I’ve read and explain who I think might benefit from reading them. I know people have asked about craft book recommendation in this sub, so I figured I’d share my little guide in case it helps a fellow writer out.
Note: This list is by no means comprehensive, and only includes the books I’ve read and would recommend.
The Writer’s Mindset:
Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande
- A book whose author herself declares that it is meant to be read before getting into craft books. It is not a book on theory or writing advice, not a book on writing, but rather about how to be a writer. It talks about the various reasons why writers seem to struggle to write and why they get frustrated and abandon it prematurely.
- The most useful advice I got from this book was on how to build up our writing muscles. Brande preaches something akin to what a lot of people today call Morning Pages, an exercise where one writes stream of consciousness first thing in the morning until they hit three pages or hit their assigned time limit. Once writing morning pages becomes a simple activity rather than a struggle, she adds on the exercise of choosing a different time each day to write where we will dedicate at least 15 minutes to writing non-stop. It should be done at a different time each day because we want to build it as a skill rather than a habit, so that we gain the discipline to commit to a time too write and be able to write continuously for the duration.
For General Advice:
My Personal Recommendation: Steering the Craft by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Short and sweet with lots of practical exercises. Le Guin provides plenty of examples from famous works that demonstrate each technique and she focuses on the prose above all else. I think some texts get too bogged down on definitions of what the various tenses are and types of dialogue and lose sight of the prose itself. Steering the Craft avoids this and uses clear and simple language to get its points across. By far my favorite beginner book on writing.
- At first I put this under the books on revision, but despite its title being geared towards editing, I think it does a great job breaking down the components of writing in general. It covers topics such as Show and Tell, Characterization and Exposition, Dialogue Mechanics, Interior Monologue, etc. It also features my favorite description of show vs tell from any craft book; it renames them as scenes vs narrative summary respectively which I found much more useful way of distinguishing which one to use in a particular section of a story.
For Beginners, and those who want a no-frills approach: Drake’s Brutal Writing Advice: Dynamic Story Creation in plain English by Maxwell Alexander Drake
- Written in a very-informal and easy to read way, it describes story structure as having two distinct parts: the Invisible Layer (the theme) and the Physical Layer (the actual plot events). Less time is devoted to structuring plot arcs and more emphasis is placed on balancing the plot events with their underlying emotional significance to the reader.
- Technically written for script writers, but much of it holds true for prose. Truby describes his 22-step story structure outline with relevant examples from famous movies. The other topics such as Character and Scene Weave are also worth reading. If you’re struggling to plot your story and need something more developed than the basic three act structure, I’d give this a read.
- I wasn’t sure if I wanted to include this one, since I’m not sure I’d recommend it personally. It utilizes the three act structure as its base and then provides a beat sheet for the flow your plot should follow at a very granular level. It features checklists and examples to clarify what each beat should look like. To be clear, I think it presents the information it is trying to convey very clearly and is easy to follow along, but I personally think it’s too formulaic. I found The Anatomy of Story to give enough structure while still being flexible, but figured I’d put this book here for those who find this approach appealing.
If you want to learn how to give depth to your characters: The Emotional Craft of Fiction by Donald Maass
- This book emphasizes that your characters may not be real, but the feeling they invoke in your readers are. It then delves into how to make readers go on an emotional journey of their own and how to give meaning to your plot. Technically this book is not specifically about writing characters, but will achieve the same effect. There are 34 sets of exercises in the book related to a specific technique, each with multiple bullet points of questions for reflection. Honestly the exercises alone make this book worth it for me, and I often come back to them when I’m struggling to flesh out my characters.
- I picked this one up recently and was pleasantly surprised. The main thesis of the book is that a reader wants three key things from the hero; to believe in the reality of the hero, to care about the hero’s circumstances, and to invest their hopes in the hero to solve this problem. Each of these three gets a deep dive and gets into very specific ways of achieving them and I found it very helpful for fleshing out a character I was struggling with. It doesn’t bother with things like “how old is the character” or “what’s their favorite color?” It instead discusses more relevant aspects of a character such as “do they use a particular metaphor family in their speech?” and “what is their default argument tactic?”
The comprehensive guide on which P.O.V. you should use and how to use it: Point of View, What’s the Point? by Maxwell Alexander Drake
- Another book from this author, once again the writing style is very casual and easy to follow. It covers more than you ever thought you wanted to know about the types of narrators, points of view, and tenses. Most craft books will dedicate at least a chapter to this topics, but this book expands upon it in great detail to cover nearly 300 pages. If you do want to deep dive into the types of P.O.V.s, I highly recommend this.
Best starting point: Steering the Craft by Ursula K. Le Guin
- I already covered this above as my beginner recommendation; many of its exercises will help with crafting better prose even if it’s not strictly at the sentence level.
- As the name suggests, a book written entirely in short sentences about writing better at the granular sentence level. Great for improving the clarity of your sentences and has some good advice in general while practicing what is preaches (aka the whole book is indeed written entirely in short sentences).
- For those who really want to break down their sentences into types and clauses, this book covers sentences by noun phrases, dependent clauses, branching sentences, syntactic symbolism, etc. The book is very informational and crammed full of examples of each type of sentence, but it is very technical and rather dry. It’s one of those craft books that definitely appeals to a particular breed of writer, particularly those that love grammar.
How should each of my drafts look?: Refuse to Be Done by Matt Bell
- Bell describes how he writes and rewrites his novels in three drafts and what he specifically aims for with each draft, techniques he uses to aid in the rewriting, etc. It does talk about editing techniques a bit, but doesn’t delve too deeply, which makes it a good overview of the general revision process.
- This book is divided into three parts: Preliminary Problems (like style, presentation), Dialogue, and The Bigger Picture. It goes over specific aspects of text, what the common problems you might find look like, then gives solutions to improving them and exercises to follow along and use to dissect your own work.
- A checklist in the guise of a book. Its table of contents is broken down by the categories of Point of View, Style, Characters, Narrative, Dialogue, Description, etc., then lists the questions you would ask yourself when revising. For example, under Character, one of the questions to ask is “Do you make a claim for a character that you cannot demonstrate? It then lists a page number where you can see examples and a more in depth description of the problem. This isn’t a book to read straight through, but is a wonderful reference.
Simple & Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers by Jacques Barzun
- Covers topics such as Diction, Tone and Tune, Composition, etc. More technical and granular than something like Steering the Craft.
- A classic; the technical information is more towards the back of the book while the first half focuses more on story telling and writing as a whole. The exercises at the back in particular are very good, but the book overall is rather verbose. Personally, I think this book could discourage a beginner writer who starts with this, and I feel other texts cover the same material as this in a more clear and concise manner.
- A collection of essays, letters, and interviews from Delany. This is another one of my favorites, and it covers a lot of ground. It covers topics such as what differentiates good writing vs talented writing, gives additional craft book and prose author recommendations, gives examples of the same plot being written with different structures, talks about experimental writing, and how the world of writing today compares to the world of writing in the past.
Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses
- Rather than talking about the writing process itself, this book covers the role of workshopping your work with peers. In particular, it gives great examples of different types of workshops and how to run them, what should be expected of the participants, and revision exercises. The chapter on redefining craft terms was also great at clarifying terms like tone and what purpose each of the concepts is meant to serve in a piece of writing. The revision exercises at the back are useful even for a solo writer, and I think a lot of the advice on workshopping is valuable for giving one-on-one feedback if you don’t have a writing group.
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
- Biased as I am as a Murakami fan, I still think this memoir is worth reading for prospective writers even if you haven’t read his work. This is the book I wanted Stephen King’s On Writing to be. The book covers topics such as the concept of originality, who you should be writing for, the lifestyle of a writer, and insights into Murakami’s own draft writing process.
- Putting this here even though it’s not my personal favorite, and like many others when I first picked it up, was disappointed that a good chunk of the book is a bibliography. There is, of course, lots of good advice to be found here, but it feels very stream of consciousness and can be hard to find info on specific aspects of craft because there aren’t any headings to guide you. It’s still a classic and could be worth picking up, especially if you’re a King fan.
- The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
- A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
- Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
- Words Are My Matter by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling by Philip Pullman
- Reflections: On the Magic of Writing by Diana Wynne Jones