Lissa

fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment:

So this is sort of an obsession with me, even though many times the movie isn’t as good as the book.

Regardless, here is a (unbiased) list of some movies and tv shows coming out based on books!

• June 21, 2013: World War Z, based on the novel of the same name by Max Brooks
• June 24, 2013: TV…

"A man’s bookcase will tell you everything you’ll ever need to know about him."

Walter Mosley (via amandaonwriting)

amandaonwriting:

Literary Birthday - 18 June

Happy Birthday, Chris Van Allsburg, born 18 June 1949

Quotes

1. I write for what’s left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head.
2. The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but it’s really a gift. A world that might have Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster is clearly superior to one that definitely does not.
3. I don’t think ordinary things are very interesting, so I try to imagine a world that is less ordinary.

Van Allsburg is an American author and illustrator of children’s books. He won the Caldecott Medal for Jumanji and The Polar Express, both of which he wrote and illustrated, and both of which were adapted for film. 

Source for Image

by Amanda Patterson for Writers Write

amandaonwriting:

100 Beautiful and Ugly Words

by Mark Nichol

One of the many fascinating features of our language is how often words with pleasant associations are also quite pleasing on the tongue and even to the eye, and how many words, by contrast, acoustically and visually corroborate their disagreeable nature — look no further than the heading for this post.
Enrich the poetry of your prose by applying words that provide precise connotation while also evoking emotional responses

Beautiful Words

• Amorphous: indefinite, shapeless
• Beguile: deceive
• Caprice: impulse
• Cascade: steep waterfall
• Cashmere: fine, delicate wool
• Chrysalis: protective covering
• Cinnamon: an aromatic spice; its soft brown color
• Coalesce: unite, or fuse
• Crepuscular: dim, or twilit
• Crystalline: clear, or sparkling
• Desultory: half-hearted, meandering
• Diaphanous: gauzy
• Dulcet: sweet
• Ebullient: enthusiastic
• Effervescent: bubbly
• Elision: omission
• Enchanted: charmed
• Encompass: surround
• Enrapture: delighted
• Ephemeral: fleeting
• Epiphany: revelation
• Epitome: embodiment of the ideal
• Ethereal: celestial, unworldly, immaterial
• Etiquette: proper conduct
• Evanescent: fleeting
• Evocative: suggestive
• Exuberant: abundant, unrestrained, outsize
• Felicity: happiness, pleasantness
• Filament: thread, strand
• Halcyon: care-free
• Idyllic: contentedly pleasing
• Incorporeal: without form
• Incandescent: glowing, radiant, brilliant, zealous
• Ineffable: indescribable, unspeakable
• Inexorable: relentless
• Insouciance: nonchalance
• Iridescent: luster
• Languid: slow, listless
• Lassitude: fatigue
• Lilt: cheerful or buoyant song or movement
• Lithe: flexible, graceful
• Lullaby: soothing song
• Luminescence: dim chemical or organic light
• Mellifluous: smooth, sweet
• Mist: cloudy moisture, or similar literal or virtual obstacle
• Murmur: soothing sound
• Myriad: great number
• Nebulous: indistinct
• Opulent: ostentatious
• Penumbra: shade, shroud, fringe
• Plethora: abundance
• Quiescent: peaceful
• Quintessential: most purely representative or typical
• Radiant: glowing
• Redolent: aromatic, evocative
• Resonant: echoing, evocative
• Resplendent: shining
• Rhapsodic: intensely emotional
• Sapphire: rich, deep bluish purple
• Scintilla: trace
• Serendipitous: chance
• Serene: peaceful
• Somnolent: drowsy, sleep inducing
• Sonorous: loud, impressive, imposing
• Spherical: ball-like, globular
• Sublime: exalted, transcendent
• Succulent: juicy, tasty, rich
• Suffuse: flushed, full
• Susurration: whispering
• Symphony: harmonious assemblage
• Talisman: charm, magical device
• Tessellated: checkered in pattern
• Tranquility: peacefulness
• Vestige: trace
• Zenith: highest point

Ugly Words

• Cacophony: confused noise
• Cataclysm: flood, catastrophe, upheaval
• Chafe: irritate, abrade
• Coarse: common, crude, rough, harsh
• Cynical: distrustful, self-interested
• Decrepit: worn-out, run-down
• Disgust: aversion, distaste
• Grimace: expression of disgust or pain
• Grotesque: distorted, bizarre
• Harangue: rant
• Hirsute: hairy
• Hoarse: harsh, grating
• Leech: parasite,
• Maladroit: clumsy
• Mediocre: ordinary, of low quality
• Obstreperous: noisy, unruly
• Rancid: offensive, smelly
• Repugnant: distasteful
• Repulsive: disgusting
• Shriek: sharp, screeching sound
• Shrill: high-pitched sound
• Shun: avoid, ostracize
• Slaughter: butcher, carnage
• Unctuous: smug, ingratiating
• Visceral: crude, anatomically graphic

Notice how often attractive words present themselves to define other beautiful ones, and note also how many of them are interrelated, and what kind of sensations, impressions, and emotions they have in common. Also, try enunciating beautiful words as if they were ugly, or vice versa. Are their sounds suggestive of their quality, or does their meaning wholly determine their effect on us?

From Writers Write

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for-the-love-of-the-words:

Expectation:

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