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theatlantic: Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tips on How to Write a Great Story 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. 2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. 3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water. 4. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action. 5. Start as close to the end as possible. 6. Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of. 7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia. 8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages. Via Brainpickings/Reddit [Photo: AP]

theatlantic:

Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tips on How to Write a Great Story

1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

4. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.

5. Start as close to the end as possible.

6. Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.

7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

Via Brainpickings/Reddit [Photo: AP]

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What’s the fair-to-not-fair ratio of this situation:

She’s not my typical, physically, but whoa is she amazing. And she’s, like, a Christian. A Christian drummer/guitarist/singer/awesome town person. There’s just something about the way she talks, how she moves, I want to be near her. Physically, emotionally, mentally, physically, physically. Oh gosh, she’s doing push ups in my living room.

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Oh my gosh.

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Insane belief in my own ability to manifest things, insane belief. We are creators, we create with every thought, every word; every moment is pregnant with the next moment of your life.
Jim Carey, when asked how he got through his most discouraging times on Inside The Actor’s Studio. (via thedame)

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There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
Henry David Thoreau (via blueskiesfluffywhiteclouds)