Jaime Callahan

thehappyfangirl: peachymints: For character development of...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:35:20 -0400

peachymints:

For character development of course.

I miss my OCs right now.

*snerks* Reblogging for RUdi - this is what we do to our AU fanfic!

"If you’re feeling lost, bone-sad or heartbroken or hopeless or astray, get up. We cannot move..."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:14:31 -0400

““If you’re feeling lost, bone-sad or heartbroken or hopeless or astray, get up. We cannot move forward until we stand up.””

- Victoria Schwab, “A message to the lost (myself included)”, on her blog

Psych, 7x11, “Office Space”

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:29:12 -0400

Psych, 7x11, “Office Space”

HOW TO FINISH A BOOK

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:28:25 -0400

maureenjohnsonbooks:

I answered this question yesterday, and have been asked to make it rebloggable. SO HERE IT IS:

I write a lot, I’ve been told by a lot of people that i’m good, some say i’m even good enough to get published. My only problem is that i reach about half way into the book, or long story and i start thinking to myself, Why am i doing this? Will it be good enough for people to read? then i delete the file or throw away the pages i was working on so i never actually finish it. Is this something all writers must face? and do you have any advice on how to push past it?

createyourlifeaway

It happens to me. It happens to pretty much everyone I know. Any writers who DO NOT go through this…they keep quiet about it.

Many people labor under the illusion that, for some reason, all your writing should be awesome right away or you should give up. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The trick to finishing a book? Is finishing it.

The trick to getting through the middle? Is working through to the end.

The trick to pushing past that point? Is to abandon ALL FEAR of being bad. Wrap your arms around the idea of being bad.

MOST THINGS are bad when you are first learning or doing them.

DARE TO SUCK at it. The world will not explode if your draft is bad. Or even if the book is bad when it’s totally rewritten and done. You need to be really bad for a long time, so GET COMFORTABLE WITH IT. Seriously. Not a word of a joke or a lie.

Think about it. If you were, say, playing the violin, would you expect to pick it up and INSTANTLY BE GREAT AT IT? No. You will suck at it until you learn how to do it, and you learn how to do it by sucking at it for a long time and practicing. The same with sports, and dancing, and other instruments, and really many, many things in life.

Many people who are FAMOUS FOR WRITING write terrible things EVERY DAY. They do not worry. Writing a thing badly is often a critical step on the path to writing it well.

If you give up, it does not get finished.

So do not give up. Keep going, even through fear and the annoyance and the boredom and the blocks and the crisis of talent and all of those things. They are ghosts in the mist. Just walk right through them. It sounds both hard and simple, I know, but that is the way.

"Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this..."

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:19:58 -0400

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”

- Stephen King (via resurrectionofannabellee)

"When drafting a book, one of the first things I write is the last page. Not the last chapter or..."

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:19:25 -0400

““When drafting a book, one of the first things I write is the last page. Not the last chapter or scene. The last moment. It’s my lighthouse.””

- Victoria Schwab, on twitter

"Fiction is one of the best educators you can ever have about how to live a meaningful life, how to..."

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 12:26:42 -0400

““Fiction is one of the best educators you can ever have about how to live a meaningful life, how to relate to people, how to grow, how to find your place in the world.””

- Justine Musk, “how reading can help you through your life crisis”, on her blog (via Stephanie Burgis)

"You don’t really understand an antagonist until you understand why he’s a protagonist in his own..."

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 18:36:39 -0400

“You don’t really understand an antagonist until you understand why he’s a protagonist in his own version of the world.”

- John Rogers (via thedavidkane)

tenlittlebullets: doktorwer: Did you really believe...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 13:09:33 -0400

tenlittlebullets:

doktorwer:

Did you really believe that?

#I love it because martha is all ‘you’re such a fucking idiot’ #and she laughs at the master #she laughs at the fucking psycho who has been destroying earth and who kept her family prisoners #she laughs at someone who could kill her any second #she makes him look like a moron #she takes the power away from him and she turns the tables (via iceinherheart-kissonherlips)

YES THIS IS WHY THIS IS MY FAVORITE MARTHA MOMENT

Also, two thoughts (neither of them new, but I never connected them before) just clicked in my head:

The first thing: Martha is in the Doctor’s role in this episode. Not just that she’s the one saving the day, but TO THE MASTER AS WELL. He puts all his energy into capturing her, defeating her, humiliating her, because he doesn’t want to admit he was ever afraid of her. The Doctor’s spent a year being boring and of no interest to him no matter how hard he prods. It’s incredibly telling that by the end of the year, he’s tormenting the Doctor to try and get at Martha through the people she loves, instead tormenting Martha to get at the Doctor. Martha is the Master’s true archenemy in LotTL, at least for the first three-quarters of it.

The second thing: Mind of Evil. The one thing the Master fears most in the universe is the Doctor laughing in his face.

And when Martha takes on the Doctor’s role, what does she do? THIS GIFSET, YOU GUYS.

I love Martha.

"After a while, the characters I’m writing begin to feel real to me. That’s when I know I’m heading..."

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 21:12:28 -0400

“After a while, the characters I’m writing begin to feel real to me. That’s when I know I’m heading in the right direction.”

- Alice Hoffman (via booklust)

"Fans of the first film really wanted to find out what happened to Peggy afterwards, so Marvel are..."

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 18:05:03 -0400

“Fans of the first film really wanted to find out what happened to Peggy afterwards, so Marvel are also making a short film, which is basically ‘What Peggy Did Next’, which will be shown at Comic-Con and be on the DVD extras of the second film (Captain America: The Winter Soldier). So as well as doing a bit in the new film, I’ve got a whole new spin-off short film. It has been great to be back in training with the stunt coordinators, kicking some butt again.”

- Hayley Atwell (via fyeahlilbit2point0)

A chorus of angels just began singing….

(via therearecertainshadesoflimelight)

I gotta just stop for a second and read this again and have a big dopey grin on my face because, goddamn, Marvel, you are doing it RIGHT. Ten years ago, no studio would have done SHIT for Peggy Carter post-movie, but Marvel’s going, “What’s that? You liked her lots and thought she was interesting? Here, HAVE A TINY MOVIE.”

Plus, you seem to be continuing making efforts to diversify your casting by bringing in characters like Sam, and bringing back Heimdall and Rhodey (in the biggest role he’s had in an Iron Man film with 3), and you’re courting Zoe Saldana for Guardians and continue to take original character back stories that have a bit of a sexist tinge to them now (a bunch of your females were models or actresses or nurses, and Betty Ross was just the general’s daughter) and making them scientists (Sue, Betty, Jane, and Jean Gray) while still keeping some characters with their original back stories (Mary Jane is still an actress) because you seem to get that women can have ALL KINDS OF CAREERS.

You not only handed Pepper Potts Stark Enterprises, but you never, ever played the “the business is failing and Pepper is blamed” card. In fact, you have always played, “Pepper is fucking awesome at business and life card.”

You also cast Sitwell with a Latino actor without making some big thing of it (same as you cast Hemidall), and you went with Ult!Fury and Samuel L. Jackson and every time you’ve put a woman in a dangerous situation, she’s gotten to save herself in one way or another (and sometimes just straight up completely).

You all don’t always bat 1000, but you seem to be aiming for it like crazy, and I really appreciate the hell out of that.

(via sweaterkittensahoy)

WANT.

Vic is my favorite and my best. (Longmire, 2x01,“Unquiet...

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 22:43:00 -0400

Vic is my favorite and my best.

(Longmire, 2x01,“Unquiet Mind”)

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Sat, 01 Jun 2013 21:34:16 -0400

Sad face. I love Eleven. (I’m sure I’ll love Twelve...

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 21:27:48 -0400

Sad face. I love Eleven. (I’m sure I’ll love Twelve too, but changing Doctors is always difficult.)

"Cut like crazy. Less is more. I’ve often read manuscripts–including my own–where I’ve got to the..."

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 09:16:11 -0400

“Cut like crazy. Less is more. I’ve often read manuscripts–including my own–where I’ve got to the beginning of, say, chapter two and have thought: ‘This is where the novel should actually start.’ A huge amount of information about character and backstory can be conveyed through small detail. The emotional attachment you feel to a scene or a chapter will fade as you move on to other stories. Be business-like about it.”

- Sarah Waters (via octemberfirst)

"A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur...."

Fri, 31 May 2013 19:36:36 -0400

“A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal the true source of our actions.”

- Jane Austen, Becoming Jane (via theinvisibletruth)

A True-To-Life Tale Of Bonafide Darling-Killing

Wed, 29 May 2013 07:31:07 -0400

A True-To-Life Tale Of Bonafide Darling-Killing:

terribleminds:

On the killing of one’s literary darlings:

Comes a time in every writer’s life that he’s gotta look at the work in front of him and he’s got to say, “This thing is thick with peacocks…”

"Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk...."

Tue, 28 May 2013 18:32:50 -0400

“Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You’ll find what you need to find. Just read.””

- Neil Gaiman (via thatkindofwoman)

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Sat, 25 May 2013 08:32:33 -0400

"Why did they train Luke up and not Princess Leia who was cooler, and had more to fight for, and was..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:27:48 -0400

“Why did they train Luke up and not Princess Leia who was cooler, and had more to fight for, and was less screwed up? Patriarchy!”

- John Green in his newest Crash Course video (via kinuimani)