Scribblings of a Mad Writer

ronweasley:

the way it should be, famous songs from animated movies performed in the language of the place the stories are set in or the character’s mother tongue {listen}

i. hellfire (the hunchback of notre dame) - french; ii. once upon a december (anastasia) - russian; iii. a whole new world (aladdin) - arabic; iv. bare necessities (the jungle book) - hindi; v. i see the light (tangled) - german; vi. can you feel the love tonight? (the lion king) - zulu; vii. i’ve got no strings (pinocchio) - italian; viii. i won’t say i’m in love (hercules) - greek; ix. it’s tough to be a god (the road to el dorado) - spanish; x. under the sea (the little mermaid) - danish; xi. i’ll make a man out of you (mulan) - mandarin; xii. when you believe (the prince of egypt) - hebrew

This is totally awesome. A bunch of these songs are better in the actual language versions (I’ll Make A Man Out Of You immediately comes to mind as does Once Upon A December). Some of these are just wonderful experiences and some are just hysterical. Under The Sea in Danish is so surreal that there are no words. Sebastian is so NOT Danish! snerk…
Fair warning, the volume fluctuates on several of these. So be prepared to shift things from song to song.

the way it should be, famous songs from animated movies performed in the language of the place the stories are set in or the character’s mother tongue {listen}

i. hellfire (the hunchback of notre dame) - french; ii. once upon a december (anastasia) - russian; iii. a whole new world (aladdin) - arabic; iv. bare necessities (the jungle book) - hindi; v. i see the light (tangled) - german; vi. can you feel the love tonight? (the lion king) - zulu; vii. i’ve got no strings (pinocchio) - italian; viii. i won’t say i’m in love (hercules) - greek; ix. it’s tough to be a god (the road to el dorado) - spanish; x. under the sea (the little mermaid) - danish; xi. i’ll make a man out of you (mulan) - mandarin; xii. when you believe (the prince of egypt) - hebrew

This is totally awesome. A bunch of these songs are better in the actual language versions (I’ll Make A Man Out Of You immediately comes to mind as does Once Upon A December). Some of these are just wonderful experiences and some are just hysterical. Under The Sea in Danish is so surreal that there are no words. Sebastian is so NOT Danish! snerk…

Fair warning, the volume fluctuates on several of these. So be prepared to shift things from song to song.

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1 day ago -

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Marry your best friend. I do not say that lightly. Really, truly find the strongest, happiest friendship in the person you fall in love with. Someone who speaks highly of you. Someone you can laugh with. The kind of laughs that make your belly ache, and your nose snort. The embarrassing, earnest, healing kind of laughs. Wit is important. Life is too short not to love someone who lets you be a fool with them. Make sure they are somebody who lets you cry, too. Despair will come. Find someone that you want to be there with you through those times. Most importantly, marry the one that makes passion, love, and madness combine and course through you. A love that will never dilute - even when the waters get deep, and dark.

N’tima (via barbieandken)

I absolutely believe this and this is what I follow. My wife is my best friend and knows me best in all the world. We laugh all the time, and our lives are filled with such happiness. I have never had this in my life, not to this degree.

I was engaged before to someone who was my best friend but I screwed that one up so I deserved losing that relationship. In my next two marriages, I married my best friends at the times but life is not always kind nor are all best friends the same. Poppy is the best friend I have ever had and my first fiance was the second best, so I must be doing something right.

So long as you don’t do something totally stupid to screw things up, if you marry your best friend you will be together forever and it will still not be long enough. Be their friend, be their love and never move from that. With that as your guide you can never go wrong.

I love you Poppy and I am the luckiest woman in the world!

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1 day ago -

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A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.

Junot Diaz (via livelearnandpanic)

Ain’t that the truth.

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3 days ago -

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Okay, so on to chapter 28, where I get to have more fun and be mean as usual. Loads of enjoyment in the story for me. And yes, the messed up wrist has caused some issues with both editing and writing, slowing the whole process down massively. I mean, I finished 28 today, as opposed to several days early as is usual. This is irritating.

But this is crazy… at least the story is going well.

Fanfiction.net: WITB

AO3: WITB

3 days ago

memyselfandironman asked: TAG, you’re it! The rules are to state ten random facts about yourself. Then send this to the fifteen nicest people on tumblr.

Well… apparently I’ve been tagged. So I guess it’s time to spout random facts.

1) I can sing Rainbow Connection in Kermit’s voice.

2) I ate pickles for the honor of my country.

3) The first computer I ever got to play with used punch cards.

4) I’ve been all over Europe and miss it quite a lot.

5) I sold balloons and frozen orange juice bars when I worked at Disneyland.

6) I really love coleslaw sandwiches.

7) Due to Poppy’s influence and her Potter fanfic, my first fanfic that I ever wrote was Hagrid/Aragog.

8) I have played every part in the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

9) In fifth grade I climbed mountains for fun.

10) The eight years I have been married to Poppy have been the best of my life, despite all the other insanity that has occurred.

11) I am terrible at math despite getting a 660 on the quantitative portion of the GRE.

6 days ago -

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Clearly I am a bit touched. I had an idea last night, a fun idea that tickled my fancy. It could have been the pain, the pain killers, who knows, but the idea was to write a crossover fanfic between Harry Potter and the series I am writing. This is not a joke, I am like really doing this. Like I mentioned, I haven’t even found a bloody agent and I’m writing fanfic of my own stuff? And it’s fic from far later in the series, so the girls are teenagers. Thankfully I can write moderately spoiler free since I know all the spoilers considering they’re my bloody spoilers but OMG what kind of crack am I eating?

And my last post, where I first mentioned this… it was favorited by One Teen Story, a YA magazine with some really cool stuff. WTH? I had never even heard of them and then… surprise! I have no idea how they even came across my post but woah… very cool. Makes me feel like Tegan and Bailey actually have a chance out there in the real world, which I am dearly hoping for.

Anyway… I have 668 words of this utterly insane fic written. I am so not right in the head. Granted I think the whole thing is hysterical but still… WTH?

1 week ago -

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You know… I guess I’m a bit messed up in the head and have been writing WITB too long while plotting and other planning on the next Tegan book. I kind of want to write a short fanfic where they end up in the Potter verse where Bailey spazzes all over people while Tegan is trying to reign her in, blaming this on some sort of colossal screw up. But the thing is… I want to write the end of Book Seven characters and not the Book one or Two characters and the amount of spoilers involved is just… there are no words.

Perhaps this is a bad plan… writing fanfic for your own story even before it is accepted by an Agent? what do you think?

1 week ago -

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Miso Head: Smaller Books

popelizbet:

karnythia:

deducecanoe:

librarean:

sunshinegames:

Today I helped a family new to the United States get library cards. After giving them the rundown on what a library membership means, I showed the kids the children’s area. The mother told them they could each check out two books. The smallest child, a girl of seven, picked out two small board books.

“Are you sure you don’t want a picture book?” I asked her, showing her a few new ones on display.

“Too much money,” she said.

“What do you mean?” I asked.

“These cost less, right? They smaller.”

It hit me what she was saying: she was trying to save her parents money by choosing the smallest books.

“Do you know what?” I said. “All of this is free, no money. You can choose whichever books you want.”

She turned her head to look at the shelves of books and gasped at the bounty. She wandered away without another word and I watched her pick up book after book, shuffling through each one, making little piles, studying each one intently.

I’ve never been more proud I chose this career.

Adorable.

Libraries ARE important. And the only people who think they aren’t are the people who have enough resources to get the things a library holds with money. The rest of us need the library and the librarian and people who don’t think the building, its contents, and the person are important are classist.

Oh god this story…libraries are so important. Also? I want to know what kind of heartless fuck thinks books aren’t important to kids.

Every time I get to “all of this is free, no money” something inside my heart both hurts and is soothed. Libraries for everyone.

Libraries are one of the greatest things mankind has ever invented. The idea that someone can come in and check out a book and return it for free as part of their membership of a community is just amazing. How can people miss how transformative, how remarkable, how awesome this idea is? This story drives it home more than anything else. If you’re down on Libraries you are down on mankind and the advancement of knowledge.

I will let you make your own judgements based on that statement.

1 week ago -

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So yesterday I was doing something right, for a change, and carrying a heavy thing to the trash with my left hand. As I lifted it into the can, bracing it with my right, something in my right wrist went pop and my pain flared to a nine. As a result I spent most of yesterday in pain and today I went to the ER.

It seems that I sprained my wrist and I didn’t even do anything fun to manage that. So I can’t type with it, or do much of anything at all. Yay… at least nothing is broken.

This might make some of the upcoming chapters of WITB a touch problematic. So much fun…

1 week ago

I’m posting this a little early seeing as my wrist is killing me and I am le tired. This was a fun chapter for me as I tried to do something subtle in the last sequence, something that I have lots of data to support why I did this and that it does indeed occur. I just wonder if people will catch it? That is always a big question in some of these chapters, do people get the subtle jokes or the tiny moments of fun, like the name of her owl, or the name of her parents owl. I try things and I am aware that they don’t always play well.

Well, here’s hoping that people like this interesting bit of fun I had. I enjoyed it which means I’ll probably do it again at some point. I’m like that. At least I figure out fun stuff for chapter 33, it’s going to be fun and the end might get me lynched. I am a fan of that for a chapter ending occasionally. However, if you do it all the time it loses appeal and the reader doesn’t care. Variety is the key.

So here you go:

Fanfiction.net: WITB

AO3: WITB

So for those that read it, did you like the subtle?

1 week ago

I have posted chapter 26 early because I am hoping to go to sleep soon. I am also doing this to ensure that my New Zealand readers get it on release day. Hey I was asked so I am trying to oblige. What can I say… I am trying to be nice.

In terms of writing, I am on chapter 33, which is awesome. I still have the lead that I wanted to have of about 7 chapters and it is going great. I can already see where the end is going so the story is on the downhill slope, which should be nice. All things come to an end and this will as well, once all the loose threads get tied up. I still have a bunch I need to get taken care of.

Anyway… here you go.

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2 weeks ago -

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roseinthetardis:

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2 weeks ago -

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One of the all time greatest Nathan Fillion lines ever.

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2 weeks ago -

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Posted another chapter of Written In The Body this week for a couple of reasons actually. 1) I got over 100+ favorites and over 200+ followers on Fanfiction.net, so that’s good. 2) May 2, Battle of Hogwarts. How could I not post something?

Fanfiction.net: WITB

AO3: WITB

The other fun news is that I am nearly done with chapter 31. Things are still going crazy in the plot and I am loving every minute of it. I can’t wait to see where it ends.

3 weeks ago -

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Busy day today. I wrote 6500+ words. That was great. I finished chapter 29, all of 30 and 1/3 of 31. Pretty epic for a single day. I was behind and now I’m not. That is a good thing. And with that my word count is over 150k. That is so awesome. This means that I might actually kick over 200k words with this story. That is pretty cool. I am excited about that. Go story.

3 weeks ago