Five writing tips from Barack Obama
… or, how Yahoo News landed an advance copy of David Maraniss’ Barack Obama: The Story.
A friend sent Obama a manuscript for editing, Obama wrote back with five tips:1) “Careful about too many adverbs, particularly describing how people speak (Paul asked disbelievingly, etc.) It can be cumbersome and a bit intrusive on the reader”2) “Resist the temptation of easy satire…Good satire has to be a little muted. Should spill out from under a seemingly somber situation.”3) “Try to get the basic stats on the characters out of the way early {Paul was 24} so that you can spend the rest of the story revealing character.”4) “Think about the key moment(s) in the story, and build tension leading to those key moments.”5) “[W]rite outside your own experience…I find that this works the fictive imagination harder.”
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my life without Korra:
I don’t celebrate my birthday, but the crew put together a nice card for me anyway a short while back. This excerpt is Ryu’s hilarious and bizarre drawing. Not sure what Bolin’s intentions are here… The Meelo tag line is my favorite part.
Guys, please. Can we not turn into this?
This kind of shit has ruined other fandoms- let’s remain one of the good ones.dear anon,
you are patheeeeticccc
srs tho guys: calm yo tits
I am not amused by this anon. Go away.
The finale is in less than a month, do we really want this season to go down like this? We all love the show, let’s tearbend together about the ship we all love: PLOTxCHARACTERS.
I’m a strong advocate for removing tax exempt status for religions. Tax their churches, synagogs and temples. Tax exempt status for religions is a scam that has made people like Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, the church of scientology and others, wealthy beyond measure.
Elie Saab’s haute couture is lovely
(Source: devotron, via holeyrustedmetalbatman)
TL;DR. “I have never felt the warmth of another human body, ever.”
Internalized misogyny: being so seriously affected by the patriarchy that you are actually comfortable with your gender roles, to the point that you would enforce those roles on others.
If a woman is comfortable in strict female roles, THAT’S WONDERFUL! I think France goes WAY TOO FAR with their laws concerning Hijabs. If a woman is comfortable with her life, that’s AWESOME! Feminism is not about “saving” people and making them not shave, have lots of sex, dress ‘promiscuously’ (because that’s a quantifiable thing and all) be lesbians, or any of these other stupid myths. It’s about how none of those intensely personal aspects of your life mean shit to anybody else but you.
Who is this person and how can we run them over with a tank full of radioactive waste.
Ya, oppression is totally just like a line at a deli, and libfems only want to serve trans*women first. It’s not like humans are capable of seeing the intersection between how cis women and transwomen are oppressed. Nope.
