Nonsexual Intimacy
For Asexual Awareness Week, Elizabeth Barrette, aka ysabetwordsmith, posted a list of types of nonsexual intimacy that I found really interesting both as an asexual and as a writer:
I find that, when writing bios, it’s really helpful to look at a list or a chart like the one above. Picking two or three traits from each chart and building a character based around them will give you a really interesting bio, because they will serve as a reminder that characters need depth and dimension.
Independent and clever.
VS.
Independent, clever, pretentious, and stubborn.
The first combination doesn’t come with any flaws, whereas the second will provide a more dynamic character.
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Shannah’s favorites are 6, 7, 8, 13 and 18.
(Source: allyoxin3)
(Source: createwhatyouimagine)
Every writer is a thief, though some of us are more clever than others at disguising our robberies. The reason writers are such slow readers is that we are ceaselessly searching for things we can steal and then pass off as our own.
Joseph Epstein (via herwrittings)
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him to the public.
Winston Churchill (via amandaonwriting)
Everything stinks till it’s finished.
Dr. Seuss (via myquotelibrary)
A writer’s duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.
Zadie Smith (via amandaonwriting)
In science there is a dictum: don’t add an experiment to an experiment. Don’t make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the tale, the plainer the prose should be. Don’t ask your reader to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.
Ben Bova (via amandaonwriting)
