So there has been a lot of Supernatural hate going around lately. Hating on Sera, Jared, Misha, et al. I say it is well past time that we put all of this hate aside and just enjoy the show that we all love.
I personally enjoyed season 6, and am absolutely loving season 7 so far. Many people think…
THIS. Let’s have all the love in the fandom!
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Cas is clearly in horrific shape, enough to come down off his soul-high and be mostly himself again. He’s scared, and in that much pain.
But he didn’t come until Sam prayed. The state he was in, he was practically collapsing, but he felt like his bridges were burned more than…
This GISHWHES business is starting to worry me. What in God’s name have I signed myself up for?
After I saw the post in The Threes community on LJ, I took myself over to the website. I saw the freaky video. For the life of me, I can’t understand what Misha is saying in…
From one of the best blogs in the world, boingboing!
Creation begins all over again … .
- 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 sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
- 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.
- Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck 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.
The discussion at Reddit that goes with this is illuminating, and worth your time.
Commas are one thing but flagrant misuse of APOSTROPHES is what will kill me.
It, puts, commas, where, they, don’t, be, long.
To be honest, I have used the Oxford comma all my life. Why are people making such a big deal about it? Just use it. It makes more sense.
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