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  ray bradbury’s lists for creative writing

  Ray Bradbury suggests in Zen and the Art of Writing, to let a writer’s mind list “random” words (he listed nouns) to help fuel their imagination. From the list, he suggests one might glean insigh...

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  the collected writing advice of kurt vonnegut

  The last place you’d expect to find writing advice is in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ journal Transactions on Professional Communications. Yet, there it was. In t...

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  charm city [wip intro]

  Also posted on tumblr | twitter GENRE: Sci-fi > Dystopia > Political Satire POV/TENSE: third-person, limited | past tense THEMES: fate vs free will | man’s obligation to a society he royally...

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  unleashing natural creativity

  “Being stuck on one [project] is an opportunity to work on something else.” Recently, this Ted Talk gave a name to something I’ve been thinking about for months: slow motion multi-ta...

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  center & resize images to screen on AO3 [tutorial]

  I notice a lot of people enjoy posting images on AO3, banners or art, but are forced to deal with the lack of customizable options in the default AO3 editor. Below I will show you how to make a worksk...

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  stolen fruit [fic]

  An Unhitched-inspired side-fic … This fic concept was inspired by a few of my fellow Fannibals asking quite mightily for the little number below to make an appearance as a hitchhiker in my 1970s...

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