Give A Man A Guitar And He’ll Play For A Day, Teach A Man Guitar And Today Is Gonna Be The Day That

to 134 more years of the never-ending cycle of first meetings and comfortable domesticity

to holmes and watson, in all their forms

And the sea rushes in to take away your grief. The salt burns but it is clean, and you ache but you are whole, and the dawn– it glistens on the horizon. You stumble to the shore, and the ocean kisses your heels. You will carry your pain with you, but you can still hear the waves in your ears. 

by Lazette Gifford

Description of main characters in first draft stories often fall into two wide categories — far too little or way too much.  Writers see their characters and they want their readers to see them, too.  However, sometimes they can go too far in description, especially in the main character.

What?  Don’t you want the reader to see the main character just as he or she is?  Yes, you do.  However, you need to consider two things about readers.  First, they have vivid imaginations and can ‘see’ characters without every detail drawn in.  Second — and the more important of the two — the reader wants to connect with the main character in some way.  This may mean that she wants to see the character as herself or she may want to imagine the character as a favorite star.  If you give too much description, you erase that connection.

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Polished Malachite Stalactite - Copper Crescent, Congo

this is the arrow of destiny. reblog this and see what comes up next. this person/saying/thing will have something to do with your future

first I was afraid

This happened this morning and I have been thinking about it and laughing to myself all day. 

Love Letters From Your Writing (via Electric Lit)