Peacock Fashion - Photographer Charles Freger
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Already reblogged this but reblogging again because of amazement.i’ve been going back to old drawings in my sketchbook that i once deemed as “duds” and completely obliterating them into new pieces of “art”.
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The world that surrounded me disgusted me so I chose to invent one of my own
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The best writing advice I have ever received.
Stop writing for a day, for a weekend. Take a break and simply read. Finish a book. Finish a whole series. If you want to write short stories, pick up a short story anthology—there’s an anthology for every genre, every tradition, every style you can imagine. If you fancy yourself a poet, read lots and lots of poems by your favorite poets.
Spend time in bookstores of the local, independent sort. Get to know the staff. Read the books they recommend. Ask them what they think of books that they have read. Sit in the back corner by the windows and fall asleep with a book. Sleep until one of the bookstore staff wakes you up. Dig books out of the bargain bin, off of the sale carts sitting outside on the sidewalk. Read books you wouldn’t typically read.
Read non-fiction. Read memoir. Learn about people, places. Write about the things you learn about. Read history books and then write fiction set in the background of the events therein. Read every book your college professors assign. If you don’t have enough time to read them during the semester, bring them home on breaks. See what works. And what doesn’t, because face it, an awful lot of those books are going to put you to sleep.
Learn a language. Even if you will be writing in English, learning another language will give you new ways of thinking, new ways of seeing the world. Stick with it until you are able to read literature in that language. Read haiku in Japanese, learn onomatopoeia from the first lines of the Odyssey in Ancient Greek, immerse yourself in magical realism in Spanish. Take the lessons you learn and carry them back with you.
Write as if you were reading. Emulate your favorite writers. Read Virginia Woolf and try to write a piece in stream-of-consciousness. Read Jonathan Safran Foer and try to blur the lines between past and present, reality and fantasy. Read J.R.R. Tolkien and describe your own fantasy world as if you were drinking tea and smoking a pipe in an English drawing room. Read your favorite writers and try to write like them. Everyone has influences. Sylvia Plath said that her style was inspired by Woolf, and it shows. Your own style will grow out of the things that you read.
Learn from the words of others. Read sincerely, and let the ideas flow seamlessly into your writing. Or, drag them kicking and screaming into your inkwell. Learn. Because you can’t teach yourself how to write well. No one person can. But every writer who has ever splashed ink on a page or every storyteller who has ever sung epics around a campfire has something to teach you. You just need to listen.
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