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Paint like Michelangelo! What a great idea!
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Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tips on How to Write a Great Story
1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.
5. Start as close to the end as possible.
6. Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
7. 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.
8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell 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.
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Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tips on How to Write a Great Story
1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.
5. Start as close to the end as possible.
6. Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
7. 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.
8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell 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.
Via Brainpickings/Reddit [Photo: AP]
Roomhate
You want passive aggressive?
How about I trap a rabid animal and set it loose in your room?
No, you may not use my tea sifter.
I hid my favorite coffee mugs from you.
I played the Canterbury overture 40 times last night just to see if you would hum it the next morning.
Do you really expect me to be O.K. with you leaving your shit laying around in the living room? It is a communal area of the apartment. Stop being such a territorial bitch and let me use my love seat and my foot stool.
Oh, sorry. My friend with the loud laugh kept you up the night you supposedly had a migraine? Kinda reminds me of that time you were blasting Smash Brothers at 2am. Weird how that works out.
Do not go into my room and borrow shit from my book case.
You are dirty and disrespectful
You are self centered and offensive
I would rather live with the pot-smoker again.
At least he had class
