Yep.
Love this movie
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Lauren Morrill
YA Author
Head on over to MTV.com’s Hollywood Crush blog to catch the exclusive premier of the book trailer for Sarah Dessen’s new novel, THE MOON AND MORE, which comes out June 4! It will make you crave summer so bad, you’ll be slathering on the sunscreen while you watch.
If I wasn’t already gonna buy The Moon and Mode (already read a galley, and spoiler alert! It’s awesome), this trailer would certainly do the trick. So summery!
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A must-read for stay-at-home authors
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Most friend person!
My buddy Kat, who I finally met IRL while in New York last weekend, showed me this book and now I absolutely can’t wait to read it
Reading it, loving it, getting annoyed about having to be at work doing work things because it’s preventing me from reading more. I love books like this—surreal, funny, full of cussing that feels rhythmic rather than extraneous…books like this were made for me. And hella other people, but I usually just think about me. Reading is a selfish hobby that way.
I love books that challenge YA norms (probably one of the reasons I was so into Crash and Burn by Michael Hassan). Can’t wait for this one.
Is Taylor Swift currently the world’s best pop star?
Look at this live TV performance.
LOOK AT IT
(kindly bought to our attention by @paulblades)
I LOOKED. I LOVED.
Today is Taylor Swift day at the library. I’ve decided.
This is magical. MAGICAL.
Whichever way you turn, female characterisation is a minefield. Male characters tend to get away with so much more. I loved writing Jonah Griggs (from Jellicoe) but Jonah killed his father, bashes up Ben and stomps on his fingers, shoves Taylor up against the wall in rage, yet I rarely read a negative comment about him as a character. Evanjalin in [Finnikin of the Rock], on the other hand, has been criticised many a time and called manipulative and a liar. I think we are so much tougher on our female characters.
Melina Marchetta, “On Writing: Melina Marchetta on Heroines” (via annaverity)
Dude. It’s so true. ‘She’s stupid’, ‘she’s mean,’ ‘she doesn’t consider his feelings enough,’ ‘she’s too into him,’ ‘she’s smart in the wrong sort of way,’ ‘she’s too fake,’ ‘she’s a bitch,’ ‘she’s a slut,’ ‘I wanted to slap her.’
I have not gone a day since I was published without hearing this about one of my female characters or another.
In the end the specific negative comment doesn’t even matter: what matters is the deluge of negativity.
I have not ever, ever received said deluge for a guy character.
The message is very clear.
It’s like ‘She didn’t write it/she shouldn’t have written it/she wrote it BUT’—except it’s a list criticising a girl’s existence in the story. She existed, but she shouldn’t have. She existed, BUT.
*applauds Melina*
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“Sherlock Holmes makes you look at the world in the way you do anyway as an actor – as a rich canvas for observation.”
Okay, so he smokes. Whatever. (I really wish he wouldn’t.) But I don’t understand why he lets photographers take all these moody, romantic photos of him smoking. Not because I expect him to be a role model. But because I expect intelligent adult human beings to acknowledge what a painful, poisonous habit it is — to not buy into the lie of its glamor.
re: the smoking thing … YES! If you’re going to be an intelligent grown-up who smokes, that’s on you, but I at least expect you to be ashamed of it.
this looks like a fabulous summer plan, Sarah Dessen and all
a coke
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How I’ve spent the last hour …
Blunderbuss Pumpkinpatch.
Bentobox Lumberjack.
Bindi-sue Suckerpunch.
Benadryl Humblebrag.
Bumbershoot Disconap.
Breakfastlunch Suppersnack
Bumblebee Incometax.
Bendybits Tumblrtag.
Gigglefit Slipperypatch.
Reminiscing …
amazing
…and write it, too!
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Make the creation of the work the most important thing. Make writing a practice you honor. Make the routine of writing the method by which you build yourself a home. You have no control over who likes your work or doesn’t it, who accepts it or rejects, if it sells or not. The only thing you do have control over is the actual writing. If you have a writing practice then you can endure rejection, jealousy, and bouts of despair. You will have shelter. You will be too busy writing to get knocked out of the game. I wrote for fifteen years before I was published (I’m talking after college, not this “I started writing when I was five” business.) I was rejected a lot. I felt kind of invisible and displaced because I spent most of my time working at jobs that weren’t really “me.” But I also had this very solid relationship with my work, and that’s why I was able to persevere, and perseverance is everything.
‘Nantucket Blue’ And An Interview With Author Leila Howland!
Love this quote from Leila Howland. Also, Nantucket Blue was the perfect beach book, and made me a little homesick for New England summer.
Try not to worry so much about what you are going to do with your life. You are already doing what you are going to do with your life, and judging by your gownedness, you’re doing all right.
On that topic, there are many more jobs out there than you have ever heard of. Your dream job might not yet exist. If you had told College Me that I would become a professional YouTuber, I would’ve been like, “That is not a word, and it never should be.”
