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Oct 17, 2010

8 Rules for Writing a Short Story.

Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.
Start as close to the end as possible.
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.
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.
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.

— Kurt Vonnegut

(thanks for the email, jeff!)

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Oct 14, 2010

tfail:

pencilsforever:

suicideblonde:

Stop Motion Drawing: Sugar Skull by Paul Alexander Thornton

Intricate, beautiful work all done with Bic ballpoint pens. See it happen.

the world stopped while i watched this video

indeed.

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Sep 09, 2010

via google image search

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Jul 27, 2010

“ I can’t remember the first time I came across Max because, like any good dysfunction, it was as if he was always there. „

Susannah Breslin

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Jul 18, 2010

This is a digital painting I came across years ago that I absolutely love. I have no information about it, except I can recall it was a collaborative work in which one artist started with a few basic elements, then passed it to another who modified several of the elements, who in turn passed it to another, and so on.

I wish I could find the story once more, which posted each artist’s contribution so you could see transformation throughout the creative process.

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