Latest posts tagged with #GoodWriting on Bluesky
"There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story, read sometimes for the words--the language. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book."
- Stephen King
#books #reading #stories #words #goodwriting
I'm really enjoying it, too. The characters and stories and production design stay with me.
But I had to turn on the captions to catch all the dialogue. 1960s thru the 90s, it was vital for actors to speak clearly. Everybody's really mumbly these days.
#goodwriting
#Iwannahearit
SPOILER WARNING FOR THIS POST. Talking about Frieren Season 2 and a certain review. Does destiny make it all moot? No! It makes it even more heartbreaking. She had a choice to turn away, but still opted to go. So, it may not have been chance, but willingly breaking your own heart. #GoodWriting
A screenshot featuring the legendary "Long Dick Johnson" line from Fallout New Vegas. In it, the character Cass is saying to the player character: "Nobody's dick's that long, not even Long Dick Johnson, and he had a frucking long dick. Thus, the name.".
If only I could write like this...
#gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #goodwriting #fallout
The semi-colon is dead; long live the semicolon ... #semicolon #punctuation #grammar #goodwriting #onwriting #WritingCommunity ninamunteanu.me/2021/02/28/t...
Defending the em-dash ... #onwriting #AIgen #punctuation #goodwriting ninamunteanu.me/2026/01/11/o...
Let’s talk honestly about what #goodwriting really means. And why chasing perfection is one of the fastest ways to lose your momentum and your joy. You have permission to make a mess.
#WritingCommunity #AuthorSky
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“The secret of good writing is to say an old thing a new way or to say a new thing an old way.” #GoodWriting #WritersLife #TrialLawyer
An image of an 8-runged ladder leaning on a green wall lit by a ray of sunshine. Beside the ladder is a text extracted from a book on writing tips describing how good writers know how to climb up and down ladders — a metaphor appropriate vocabulary selection. At the top are words with abstract meanings. At the bottom are words of simple utility that represent objects and are easily modified by adjectives. Compare “freedom” and “literacy” at the top with “bloody knives” and “baseball cards” at the bottom. The writing tip is to beware of the middle rungs, where words such as “bureaucracy” and technocracy” loiter. Source: Clark, R. P. (2016). Writing tools: 55 essential strategies for every writer (10th Anniversary Edition). Little, Brown Spark.
Picture of a book cover titled “Writing Tools”. Clark, R. P. (2016). Writing tools: 55 essential strategies for every writer (10th Anniversary Edition). Little, Brown Spark.
A book open to page 107 of a paperback book showing the source of text in the main image of this post. Clark, R. P. (2016). Writing tools: 55 essential strategies for every writer (10th Anniversary Edition). Little, Brown Spark.
#writing #writingtips #writingsociety #writingcommunity #goodwriting
Good writers deftly move up and down a ladder of language.
Page 107.
Clark, R. P. (2016). Writing tools: 55 essential strategies for every writer (10th Anniversary Edition). Little, Brown Spark.
I never expected to feel sorry for Cory or cheer him on at all. #TheMorningShow #GoodWriting #CharacterArc
If you have never read any of Carol Shields books, you're missing some great writing. Here's a #bookbrowse review of Swann, which this reviewer describes well. #books #reading #literature #canadianwriter #goodwriting
Knocking over the kids ice cream and doing nothing about it tells us a lot about this character. #GoodWriting #TCMParty #BlindSpot
What is 'good' writing is entirely subjective and will vary from one reader to the next. No reader is better at detecting some universal 'good' standard. Too often what we see in reviews is access to bullying by persons who never bothered to read a work.
#writingcommunity #booksky #goodwriting
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
–Charles Baudelaire
#quotes #writers #poet #prose #writingcommunity #indieauthor #books #booksky📚💙 #succinct #fantasy #goodwriting #brevity is the soul of #wit
"The choices we made in Hell had aftershocks we are only now beginning to understand. How would history paint us for the path we've taken?"
Narrator - Diablo IV Season of Hatred
#Chilling
#Prophetic
#DiabloIV
#Wordsmith
#GoodWriting
Carroll Shelby gets lit on fire, put out, and when everyone is gawking wondering if he's okay, he's perplexed and agitated, "FINISH IT! FILL THE TANK!"
Shelby needs everyone onside here, and so he asks the pertinent question (the ONLY pertinent question, he'd have us believe), "AM I ON GODDAM FIRE?" And, as he asks it, the answer is actually no. Once they twig to that, and what that means, he's got them all back on board and working as a team again. Carroll Shelby is driven and maniacal, but he's also a consensus builder (of SORTS; he's sort of more of a bully sometimes, and I think Howard Roark is the natural comparison point, literarily speaking) and a leader, or what he thinks is a leader. He sees the value in bringing people along, however forcefully, to his point of view. Versus Ken Miles who doesn't GIVE A FUCK what you or anyone thinks about anything.
Sheepish, halting, awkward; these people are the opposite of Shelby, who is determined, decisive and a man of action, both in rhetoric and in deed. But he doesn't hate them for being different from him. He knows how to speak to them, even if it's a little harsh for my taste. It was the era, and he is a Great Man, of sorts. We'll meet a few more, too, like Henry Ford II, another Great Man who compares unfavorably to the Great Man we've elected to follow in this narrative.
I read this as "... are you fucking kidding me right now?"
#ShowDon'tTell
#GoodDialogue typically isn't advancing #plot, it's revealing #character & motivations. I think of #exposition as a sometimes-necessary evil, but the joy of #goodwriting & #dialogue is when it's showing, not telling, us
Here, #CarrollShelby so clearly determined, willful
#alttext
Writing is hard, but good writing is worth it! ✍️✨ Every word you craft has the power to inspire, connect, and transform. Keep writing, keep growing! 💪📚 #WritingCommunity #GoodWriting #WritersLife #Inspiration
"When I read the news, no," she said.
"When I see small children, yes. When I listen to talk radio, no. When I fly on a plane, yes.
When I take Amtrak and go through North Philadelphia and see how people have to live, no. When I sit in my kitchen in the winter with coffee and watch the sunrise […]
How indeed? 🙁
Context: The character Indra on being trapped into a crew aboard a fishing vessel as a slave laborer and subsequently murdering one of his guards.
"How was I to know there was a hole in the world that I could fall through, like falling through an open manhole? That I could fall […]
Finished watching #SquidGame season 3 last night. If you weren't sure yet, let me just say that this show is 100% an allegory for late stage capitalism.
#squidGame
#netflix
#goodWriting
🕊🕊🕊🌹🌹🌹 Moyers shall be missed!!!! #GoodWriting #GoodWriter.
“Montrose will not trouble you. His quarrel is with me.”
“And you revel in it! The great man against all!”
This #script is fucking dynamite! 🧨
#FilmSky #Film #moviereview #RobRoy #goodwriting
The Greatest Villain Monologue of All Time
#stampy #stampylongnose #stampylonghead #stampyslovelyworld #mcyt #mcytclips #minecraft #minecraftclips #minecraftnostalgia #nostalgia #nostalgic #hitthetarget #villain #goodwriting
It’s gotta be perfect, it’s just gotta! Doesn’t it?
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And it doesn't feel like a phone book despite the seemingly constant introduction of new characters. #Goodwriting
I'm going to say something scandalous. Here it is... it's coming: #Writing is easy. It's true. I can sit down at my computer any moment, day or night, and pour out words. THOUSANDS of words. Gushing from the faucet of my brain. You know what's NOT easy? Good writing. #goodwriting is HARD. AF.
