February 2012
160 posts
Kurt Vonnegut's Tips for Writing Short Stories: →
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water
Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.
Start as close to the end as possible.
Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and...
Anonymous asked: why are you so pretty?
“Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (via bookoasis)
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I want my memoir to be known as a collection of...
Where each few years is a different story that is full of all of the wondrous things that few would savor and most would overlook
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via thenocturnals)
