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Rated M (for now. Might go higher). Fake Dating. AU - Canon Divergence. AU - Everyone lives/nobody dies.
Summary:
In the wake of diplomatic efforts after Odium's defeat, everyone in Urithiru is way too concerned about who's dating who. Kaladin and Renarin hatch a plan to find their own peace.
So, I follow this “bad commercial interior design” Facebook page and-
The voices in my head.
2000 was almost 14 years ago 2000 was almost 14 years ago 2000 was almost 14 years ago
hey op guess what
oh nevermind you’re died
it does stress me out a little - perhaps for different reasons depending on my mood - that so much writing advice i see floating around feels like... just really irrelevant to almost every book i have ever loved and also any book i've ever read that's more than like a couple decades old lol. post brought to you by thinking about being in middle school and reading on a writing forum somewhere that double adjectives were bad and finding myself unconvinced by this assertion and then reading tender is the night at age 20 and thinking "oh, i see, it's just that you have to make sure that each adjective is doing something different and that their pairing is a surprise that makes each of them more interesting as a selection" ("From Nicole flowed a vast tragic apathy" - no offense but i would not trust the taste or advice of someone who would cut either of those). nowadays i would also amend that to add like "well unless some kind of excessive repetition is precisely the point as with the litany of adjectives that describes rosemary when we first meet her, big bright bold etc. etc. etc." but i basically think i was right and i am not really amenable to arguments that i am wrong because of how much i as a reader like reading fitzgerald's exceptional ear for the well placed double adjective, and of my general belief that i don't believe in trying to write like writing that you don't like because why would you. anyway that's a small detail and possibly a niche topic (it certainly has the ring of something passed around as gospel but i don't recall seeing it out in the wild often). but it does actually go for like most writing advice i have seen out in the world.
Yes yes yes this is so true of most writing advice. My own pet peeve is "head hopping", which contemporary writing advice mostly considers a mistake to be avoided, but it's only a mistake when done stupidly and without intention. Used deliberately of course it can be extremely good, much better than sticking rigorously to your third-person limited.
Like 98% of writing advice could be replaced with "you can do this thing but you should do it well and not badly." Which is not very useful and would also threaten the livelihood of people who give writing advice for a living.
Favorite adderall review
You have to watch the dosage.
You have to watch the dosage.
Kaladin put his own back toward Adolin, preventing either of them from being attacked from behind. “What are you doing here, bridgeboy?” Adolin hissed from within his helmet. “Playing one of the ten fools.” Adolin grunted. “Welcome to the party.”
Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance
Adolin: Better a six-way duel with the bridgeboy than a three-way date
Kaladin: *only mild panic*
Writing in my brain: Beautiful flowing sentences full of powerful phrases and enigmatically witty dialogue.
Writing on the page: They did the thing and said some stuff. There was snark.
