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"You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway." — Junot Díaz (via amandaonwriting)

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Tomorrow, I leave for a quick visit to New York, because I’m ridiculous like that. It’s for a housewarming/late birthday party, and I’m super excited to go!

That + I’ll have to do some serious NaNoWriMo catching up when I get back on Sunday.

And since I’d like to not get outrageously carsick during my many hours on the bus this weekend, I pretty much won’t be on tumblr until Monday-ish. Probably. I might cheat a little on Sunday night. We’ll see.

jomarch:

Thanks to NaNoWriMo, I now have the opportunity to report weird typos again.

So far, tonight:

• “Stoor” instead of “store”, which is even worse when you consider that I don’t say it like that, with the long “oo” sound. I don’t even know.

• four o’cock

I know, I know…

Thanks to NaNoWriMo, I now have the opportunity to report weird typos again.

So far, tonight:

• “Stoor” instead of “store”, which is even worse when you consider that I don’t say it like that, with the long “oo” sound. I don’t even know.

r-dart:

A little comic about doing the dishes and death.

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"Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one-third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over." — Junot Díaz on “Do you think you alienate readers when you use Spanish in your books?” (via iamincoherent)

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"I don’t think it’s terribly controversial to note that women, from a young age, are required to consider the reality of the opposite gender’s consciousness in a way that men aren’t. This isn’t to say that women don’t often misunderstand, mistreat, and stereotype men, both in literature and in life. But on a basic level, functioning in society requires that women register that men are fully conscious; it is not really possible for a woman to throw up her hands and write men off as eternally unknowable space aliens — and even if she says she has, she cannot really behave as though she has. Every element of her life — from reading books about boys and men to writing papers about the motivations of male characters to being attentive to her own safety to navigating most any institutional or professional or economic sphere — demands an ironclad familiarity with, and belief in, the idea that men really are fully human entities. And no matter how many men come to the same conclusions about women, the structure of society simply does not demand so strenuously that they do so. If you didn’t really deep down believe that women were, in general, exactly as conscious as you, you could probably still get by in life. You could probably still get a book deal. You could probably still get elected to office." — Jennifer duBois, Writing Across Gender (via k-nuty)

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dearheart17 replied to your post: Up for writing an entire novel in a month?

Good luck!

Thanks!

(I’m gonna need it…)

Up for writing an entire novel in a month? 

I’m not, so I am excited to be participating in NaNoWriMo with Andrew this year.

We both didn’t think we’d be able to write a whole novel on our own, since I’ve got an internship and a part-time job (and a weird propensity to feel way more tired than I should), and Andrew is teaching English at a high school in Korea, on a Fulbright Fellowship.

Instead, we’ll be writing a novel together, alternating chapters and points of view. (Check out Andrew’s great post for more on what we’re writing about.)

This will make it possible to do NaNoWriMo at all, and will also be a fun exercise in joint authorship. Along with creating something together, this project will also be a way to keep in touch with a good friend. 

Look out for occasional updates as the month progresses, and good luck to any NaNoWriMo participants out there!

dearheart17:

Very relevant to some people I know

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An excellent skype conversation about life and the future and everything, that eventually culminates in excited planning about a joint NaNoWriMo project?

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Aboriginal Petroglyphs Destroyed by Vandals Armed with Acid and a Drill

“To my absolute horror, I could see what kind of damage had been done…I just couldn’t believe it.”

“The vandals used a truck to get to the rock and suspects they used a power washer to remove the lichen covering the symbols before spraying acid on the paintings and drilling away the carvings with a rock bore or hammer drill.

“We have been violated, future generations have been robbed and the world has been deprived of the ancient knowledge contained within these artifacts,” Knowlton wrote in his report. “This urgent matter must follow a formal plan of action at all levels.””

Aboriginal Petroglyphs Destroyed By Vandals Armed With Acid and a Drill - ICTMN.com

I can’t even think of obscenities strong enough to convey how disgusted and horrified I am. I don’t have the words.

Who the fuck does something like this?  WHO THE FUCK DOES THIS THAT DELIBERATELY?

What the fuck goes wrong in a person’s head and/or heart, such that they are so opposed to the notion of markers of cultural history that they will take the time and effort to specifically go out of their way to destroy it?  Does not compute.  Does not compute at all.

This has 66 notes.

A gifset of a woman cutting up some shoddily constructed mass-market books has over 7000, with graphic and horrible death threats.

Let that sink in, tumblr.

No words.

AT this point I am not  even sorry. This world is going to shit and will fall to dust because we deserve it.

PETROGLYPHS

That is thousands of years of tradition of connection of culture , CONNECTED TO THE PLANET 

TO THESE PEOPLE

and instead of thankingw hatever heavenly earthly being you know that we are even allowed access to the wonders of this creation?

LETS ACID SPRAY IT!!!

I hope one of em falls in said tank or drops it directly on their genitalia and dies.

I would like it if a case of festering oozing pustules covered the vandals bodies perhaps combined with an intense itching situation.

ALSO

“Knowlton [Piikani First Nation] pointed out in his report that this is just the latest in a string of vandalized pictogram and petroglyph sites in Alberta and thinks someone is out to destroy evidence that could prove the Blackfoot First Nations had a written language before European migration.

“I suspect the link to this destruction is to nullify my long held claim that the Blackfoot had a written language before missionaries arrived, which could force archeologists to rewrite history,” Knowlton wrote in his report.

Read more:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/09/18/aboriginal-petroglyphs-destroyed-by-vandals-armed-with-acid-and-a-drill-134572 http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/09/18/aboriginal-petroglyphs-destroyed-by-vandals-armed-with-acid-and-a-drill-134572#ixzz26uvBana3”

I see you racist colonialist assholes. I see you. 

Fucking disgusting. This is absurd. Human history connects every single person on the planet. How does anyone ever arrive at the decision to destroy art, art that not only builds up knowledge and appreciation for the people who came before us, but also art that was in no way harming another soul? -A

But…WHY?!

I mean, right off the bat, without really thinking about it critically at all, it breaks my heart/pisses me off in the following obvious ways:

1. These are important pieces of culture and history that should be respected and that has personal meaning for some people and that should have a more general meaning for everyone.
2. This upsets me the way that defacing paintings and that moment when Jo realizes that Amy tossed the manuscript she was writing for her father who’s off in the American Civil War into the fireplace upset me. How could you do that?
3. Who thinks, “Huh—what First Nations people really need is MORE DESTRUCTION AND OPPRESSION!!!11!!1!!!!” What is this bullshit?

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‘The Baseline Is, You Suck’: Junot Diaz on Men Who Write About Women  

watery-tart:

The Atlantic: It sounds like you’re saying that literary “talent” doesn’t inoculate a writer—especially a male writer—from making gross, false misjudgments about gender. You’d think being a great writer would give you empathy and the ability to understand people who are unlike you—whether we’re talking about gender or another category. But that doesn’t seem to be the case.
Junot Diaz: I think that unless you are actively, consciously working against the gravitational pull of the culture, you will predictably, thematically, create these sort of fucked-up representations. Without fail. The only way not to do them is to admit to yourself [that] you’re fucked up, admit to yourself that you’re not good at this shit, and to be conscious in the way that you create these characters. It’s so funny what people call inspiration. I have so many young writers who’re like, “Well I was inspired. This was my story.” And I’m like, “OK. Sir, your inspiration for your stories is like every other male’s inspiration for their stories: that the female is only in there to provide sexual service.” There comes a time when this mythical inspiration is exposed for doing exactly what it’s truthfully doing: to underscore and reinforce cultural structures, or I’d say, cultural asymmetry.

(Source: The Atlantic, via sarahsaysbegood)

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