Writing

"How many stories do you see here, boy!?"

A communication medium that represents human language through the inscription or recording of signs and symbols.

You can view a list of everything I've written (for other people to see) here.

"My aim is to put down on paper  
 what I see and what I feel  
 in the best and simplest way."  

    - Ernest Hemingway

George Orwell's Six Rules for Writing

1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.
3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.
5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

Links

Dictionaries

StarDict Dictionaries
!Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
The Phrontistery - "Since 1996, I have compiled word lists and language resources to spread the joy of the English language in all its variety through time and space."
Careful Words - curated synonyms and historical quotations
Glossary of Literary Terms
Literary Terms and Definitions
Green's Dictionary of Slang - five hundred years of the vulgar tongue
Acronymy - can we define every word as an acronym?

Readings

A Neurodivergent Writing Guide - Has some overlap with the Neurodiversity page.
The Writing Center: Tips & Tools
Purdue Online Writing Lab
The Economist's style guide
Poetry Foundation
TV Tropes
Mythcreants - an online publication for speculative fiction storytellers. has put out some articles i appreciated
Blood Knife - a digital magazine about cyberpunk, sci-fi, horror, neon, knives, blood, and capitalism. has put out some articles i appreciated
good writers are perverts
alt-text as poetry
On Writing Skin Tone Descriptions
Writing Commons - peer-reviewed encyclopedia on writing
Screenwriting Info

Youtube

Extra Credits: Game Writing

Tools

StarDict - for your offline dictionary needs
RhymeZone
Fountain - plain text markup language for screenwriting
XKCD Simple Writer
This Word Does Not Exist
Trunkless - cut-up poetry tool
Wavemaker - i haven't tried it, but it's an interesting-looking tool for people trying to write, plan, and structure a novel

Data

WikiData
DreamBank
Corpora - collection of small corpuses of interesting data
every list .txt on my laptop

Other

Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Lexicon

bildungsroman: literary "genre" focusing on the psychological/moral growth of the protagonist from childhood to adulthood (coming of age), in which character change is important
carnivalization: the liberating, subversive influence of popular humour on the literary tradition
colophon: inscription placed usually at the end of a book, giving facts about its publication
delenda: that which is to be deleted from a text
epizeuxis: immediate repetition of a word or phrase, often for emphasis or catharsis
florilegium: a collection of excerpts from other writings
holophrasis: expressing a complex idea in a single word or phrase
marginalia: notes in the margin, margins of a book
palimpsest: manuscript from which one writing has been erased or rubbed out to make room for another
polyphony: a feature of narrative, which includes a diversity of simultaneous points of view and voices
portmanteau: word formed by merging the sounds/meanings of different words

"Who fucking cares about stories?
 I'm not really that interested in content. 
 I am interested in the 
 energy, velocity, inspiration and dexterity 
 with which you can tell a tale, 
 the alchemy of language. 
 I think stories are overrated."

– David Keenan

Art

Readings

Poetry

Eunoia by Christian Bök (Archive)

Memories

2024-11-10: "All my best writing happens within my head after staying up till 4 AM, and it leaves the second I try to record it." (Source)