Jared Goring 🇨🇦 🇺🇦

This is tomorrow, for anyone in the Vic BC area! Come on out, have some snacks, learn how to make a notebook from scratch! Everything is provided, everything is free.

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Looks delicious!

"Kid-friendly" means and always has meant "does not upset vindictive parents". The Silver Age of Comics was not the result of concern for children- it was the result of fear that a moral panic would destroy the entire publishing industry.

Idea: potato chip with half as much seasoning, but put on both sides of the chip so I don't need to guess which fucking side is supposed to face toward my tongue.

To my Canadian friends, an acquaintance started a petition to allow US transgender citizens to claim refugee status here.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

If you’re Canadian please sign it.
If you’re not, please share ❤️

This makes me happy, this whole thread. I'm sitting here cackling on the couch instead of doing anything useful at all, and honestly? Fucking excellent.

All very cool - but especially this one, damn, I love it! The linework, the expression carried almost entirely by the eyes and tilt of the head; this is so cool. I'd buy this book, definitely!

A portrait doodle of a puffy haired tiefling with a pentagram necklace

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Heck? Dang! (Very complimentary)

Hahaha I read that immediately in his voice too XD

OH SO SUSTENANCE IS A CRIME NOW YOUR HONOUR? IS IT? IS IT?!?

Not sure if I'll be in a place to partake, but I want to spread awareness of this! Collective efforts are great!

Hmm, a good point - although probably at *some* point of the "eating" process, there's a murder, eh?

Might make for a hell of a court defence if not… XD

"Your honour, I did not kill that man, I only ate him. The defence rests."

Good plan having a rubric with some actual numbers! Like a style guide for that work.

It can make a really big difference to the overall feel of the piece - and consistency I think especially helps it go unseen. Makes the readers never notice it's happening, but you still get the effects!

Mina, a large grey and white tabby, curled up in a circular hammock. She's so tightly curled and in such a fashion that her face is hidden, her head tucked nearly underneath herself, so add to present a nearly featureless expanse of grey, brown, and white fur. Like an organic, furry, round pillow.

📷 Legend says there is a cat in here… somewhere…

(Note: for clarity's sake, this is sardonic; I murder neither babies nor toddlers, only consenting adults of course.)

You know what, I've been convinced. I'm finished with murdering babies.

From now on I'll only murder toddlers.

A truly clever person should be able to simplify explanations, rather than pontificating eloquently but indecipherably - are they smart, or trying to look smart?

Consider sentence length and structure, not just word choice! Character quirks! Do they like "moist" or hate it?

Use your words!
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Think about things like "Is this their native language?" and, if not, "How does it differ from their native language?" This could lead to changed sentence structure; where does the object go, or the verb, relatively?

Consider what their character is, but also how they're trying to appear.
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Consider things like slang and jargon - which means considering further, culture. Where did they grow up? Have they borrowed any terms? What culture are they in now? What counts as formal, or informal?

It's not just about one character - it's about everything they represent, too.
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This might sound very obvious - "This character is smart so I'll make them use big words" is hardly news - but, I want these tips to be applicable across a wide range of writing familiarity, and also want to mention how this might go further than just "big words == smart".
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Word choice and sentence structure can provide good characterization - both in dialogue, and potentially out of it, depending on choice of narrator.

Is your character erudite, or short-spoken? Verbose, or limited in vocabulary?

These map to other things!
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…I come up with such great ideas for writing tips sometimes at work, just to completely and utterly forget them the moment I clock out… XD

Temporary is definitely key, haha - not gonna be good if permanent!

Little-known fact that this poster clearly does know, the shark is actually called "Jaws' monster" or just "the shark" - Jaws is the name of his creator.

There can be worse things than stepping away from yourself for a minute - or at least, I think so.

Thank you so much, you've helped my day be a little bit better - by sharing, and by letting me share too.

You can't intentionally improve if you never acknowledge the failing.

"I've never done anything wrong" isn't a redemption story. "I have done these things wrong; this is why I thought they were right, or why I did them even though I knew they were wrong, and this is why I now understand them to be wrong; I have done these things to try to improve," could be.

The sad part is, if they owned up to it? It could maybe - theoretically, hypothetically - end up being okay.

I do believe that redemption can exist, but it requires a journey that acknowledges and tries to repair or at least offset the ills that were done in the past.

Very bright sunshine through several different layers of different cloud types, each at different altitudes, adding up to about three-quarters of the sky being covered by the other quarter shining through blue and bright.

📷 Today's dawn.

Vibrantly, brilliantly, gorgeously, unrelentingly, bordering-on-painfully bright, and with such a lovely array of clouds!