And on the sixth day of overview week, we have…outlining!
Naming your Story
How Do I Choose a Title? From @theticklishpear
Coming Up With Titles from @clevergirlhelps
Novel Titling Tips from @writinghelpers
Novel Planning
CJ’s Novel Planning Guide from @cjcogan
Novel Planning from @theticklishpear
Transform Raw Inspiration into a Novel Plan
NaNo Prep: How to Make A Timeline from @nanowrimo
Outlining Methods
The 10-Point Plot Model from @theticklishpear
The Snowflake Method for Designing a Novel
How to Create a Special Snowflake (No, Really! Creating Fiction Through the Snowflake Method) from @plotlinehotline
The Plot Maker via @amandaonwriting
Question-Based Steps to Story Structure
Making Your Murder Board (or, Creating Fiction Through the Mind Map Method) from @plotlinehotline
Creating plots with the zigzag method from @1000storyideas
Lock Plot System from @fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment
10 Outline Techniques for Writers from @1000storyideas
Creating Your Own Story Structures from @oliviapaigewrites
The Strength of a Symmetrical Plot (Ring/Chiastic Structure) from @letswritesomenovels
A Few Different Ways to Sketch Out A Plot
Create an Awesome Plot Outline
The Madwoman’s Outlining Technique
Pantser Outlining Methods
How to Plot Even If You’re A Pantser
DIY MFA: Mapping Out Your Story
DIY MFA: Unconventional Outlining Techniques
Chuck Wendig: Humorous Plot Outline (Warning: Crass)
Details of The Roses of Heliogabalus, 1888, by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912)
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“But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work. We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing.”— Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (via autistpsyche)
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Exactly
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In the Italian city of Verona, local street artist Cibo paints colorful wall art full of appetizing food over neo-nazi graffiti (x)
“It’s my civic duty, and my right … honestly I feel like have a right to cover [erase] these kinds of things. Since I’m doing a public form of art, I have to take care of my city and … it’s like my own art gallery. How do you explain a swastika to a child? How do you do it? It’s impossible. It’s a racist message. And it’s not okay .”
mother nature stepped in on this too because just the other week a tourist died climbing Uluru. leave it alone.
This is off-topic for my blog but here are three reasons why you shouldn’t climb Uluru:
- it’s dangerous, people have died climbing it and many more have been injured.
- it damages the rock, you can see where the trail is because of all the wear and because there’s obviously no bathrooms on top there’s a whole lot of rubbish, used toilet paper and tampons on top further ruining the environment for future generations.
- THE TRADITIONAL OWNERS HAVE ASKED YOU NOT TOO. Imagine if people were climbing, shitting on and leaving used tampons on a site significant to you (a church, war memorial, a place of cultural significance i.e. the Louvre.
I will also add that there’s plenty of other stuff to do around there: a tour about the cultural significance of Uluru and the surrounding area, a walk around the rock and watching sunrise and sunset on the rock.
Also btw it’s called Uluru not Ayer’s Rock now.
Aboriginal elders in conjunction with the Australian government are taking away the rope that allows people to free climb and starting guided tours around the region telling people about the origin stories that make Uluru so sacred to them. They want your tourism! They want to share their stories! They do NOT want you to clamber over and damage their ancestors.
no offense but “family is the people you choose to surround yourself with and love you dearly” will literally ALWAYS be a better theme and a better concept than “love the family you were arbitrarily stuck with because they’re related to you”
When people tell stories about how their parents beat them, it’s always interesting to see their face change because they expected me to say “me too lol” but I instead say “I’m really sorry. You didn’t deserve that”
Last time a co worker who also has West Indian parents was telling me in a joking way how he remembers being beaten with a belt because lied about his report card. As he was laughing it off and saying he deserved it, I just said “wow that’s awful hun. You didn’t deserve that.” And his whole face changed. Like it hadn’t occurred to him that it’s messed up that a part of remembering his childhood is remembering how badly it hurt to be beaten so badly at such a young age.
Another time I had a friend, non West Indian parents, who talked about how she made a mess on a dress that her parents got her. It was really expensive apparently and she spilled red juice on it. She talked about how she was ordered to take the dress of and was beaten with a belt too without any clothes on. And she was laughing and said “I was a bad ass kid lol” and I said “no hun you were just a kid”. And she looked at me and immediately stopped laughing and just sat there like “yea…I was just a kid. I don’t know why they did that to me”
My mom was raised in a household where she was beaten so badly….I just don’t understand how she is so loving now growing up in a home where she got so little love. They called it discipline, but once she became a social worker she began to see that it was abuse. That she grew up terrified of her parents, although they thought it was respect that my mom felt. It was fear.
We have to get comfortable challenging what is often seen as cultural norms. We have to be a generation of people who are not ashamed to say “I would never beat my child”.