Hi, I’m A Writer. My Hobbies Include Not Writing. 

I wasn't talking about getting love. I'm saying that if you ask the gods for things like wealth, health, love, and wisdom; you should give something just as equally valuable. Now a days milk and honey doesn't really count as sacrifice like back in the days. Back then jt was the source of people's livelihood. Now we give it just as a little gift. I think that if we are to ask something from the gods it should be something out of our comfort zone, a real sacrifice to modern age humans.

1.) You don’t have the guts to talk about this without the Anon filter, so I’m not totally convinced you’re not trolling me

2.) We don’t live in the Dark Ages anymore, we don’t do human or animal sacrifice. We don’t dismember ourselves. Anybody advocating these things is dangerous.

3.) If you feel like you need to give your god $500 and a new car in order for it to be valid or whatever, don’t let me stop you.

I’m gonna be over here with all my fingers and toes thanks.

What is "dreampunk"? I've head of it recently...& how would one go about writing a dreampunk novel?

It’s like if you took the plot of Inception, the logic of Alice in Wonderland, the setting of Bladerunner or Suckerpunch or any of the Bioshock games or Dune or whatever, and then put them all into one story.

This genre is extremely specific and there isn’t much out there in terms of literature, so I can’t really give examples of what’s been done and what tropes are necessary. At this point it’s kind of a hit or miss when entering the genre. The main requirement is that you include something relating to dreams/nightmares, but that doesn’t automatically make your story dreampunk.

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Steve Rogers did, in fact, realize that something was off when he saw the outline of the woman’s odd bra (a push-up bra, he would later learn), but being an officer and a gentleman, he said that it was the game that gave the future away.

*cracks neck* my time has come

A comic based on this poem

What's the difference between asking for advice (Bird) and asking for help (Badger)? I see them as kind of the same, especially since a lot of my problems (medical stuff, writing, etc) aren't ones people can really directly help with. I usually ask for help/advice and then handle the actual task myself. If someone does offer to directly help, it's an unexpected bonus, like my friend offering to help get something from IKEA. I was just asking if she thought it would fit in my car.

There's some overlap, but it sounds like you're more on the Bird end of that Venn diagram.

"Do you think this would fit in my car?" -> asking for advice

"Will you come with me in your pickup?" -> asking for help

It's possible that you don't usually think of ways people can help you directly, because that's not how you usually do things! I can think of ways people might directly help with the writing process, for example (beta readers being the most common example of your friends/peers giving hands-on help), but there's actually a book I wanna dig up and quote for this so bear with me.

From Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

I’m friends with Brené Brown, the author of Daring Greatly and other works on human vulnerability. Brené writes wonderful books, but they don’t come easily for her. She sweats and struggles and suffers throughout the writing process, and always has. But recently, I introduced Brené to this idea that creativity is for tricksters, not for martyrs. It was an idea she’d never heard before. (As Brené explains: “Hey, I come from a background in academia, which is deeply entrenched in martyrdom. As in: ‘You must labor and suffer for years in solitude to produce work that only four people will ever read.’”)

But when Brené latched on to this idea of tricksterdom, she took a closer look at her own work habits and realized she’d been creating from far too dark and heavy a place within herself. She had already written several successful books, but all of them had been like a medieval road of trials for her—nothing but fear and anguish throughout the entire writing process. She’d never questioned any of this anguish, because she’d assumed it was all perfectly normal. After all, serious artists can only prove their merit through serious pain. Like so many creators before her, she had come to trust in that pain above all.

But when she tuned in to the possibility of writing from a place of trickster energy, she had a breakthrough. She realized that the act of writing itself was indeed genuinely difficult for her . . . but that storytelling was not. Brené is a captivating storyteller, and she loves public speaking. She’s a fourth-generation Texan who can string a tale like nobody’s business. She knew that when she spoke her ideas aloud, they flowed like a river. But when she tried to write those ideas down, they cramped up on her.

Then she figured out how to trick the process.

For her last book, Brené tried something new—a super-cunning trickster move of the highest order. She enlisted two trusted colleagues to join her at a beach house in Galveston to help her finish her book, which was under serious deadline.

She asked them to sit there on the couch and take detailed notes while she told them stories about the subject of her book. After each story, she would grab their notes, run into the other room, shut the door, and write down exactly what she had just told them, while they waited patiently in the living room. Thus, Brené was able to capture the natural tone of her own speaking voice on the page—much the way the poet Ruth Stone figured out how to capture poems as they moved through her. Then Brené would dash back into the living room and read aloud what she had just written. Her colleagues would help her to tease out the narrative even further, by asking her to explain herself with new anecdotes and stories, as again they took notes. And again Brené would grab those notes and go transcribe the stories.

Isn't that the most Badger secondary workflow you've ever heard? 😂

“How seals move on land” -bubbubbubbubbubbub-

do u ever finish an episode of a tv show online and think “man that wouldve been a bad cliffhanger to wait a week for!” as you click the next episode