thehellspawnhero:

light-up-the-night:

brood-mother:

toomanyfeelings:

sunderlorn:

FINALLY 👏 SOMEONE 👏 SAID 👏 IT. 👏 ALL OF IT.  👏ALL AT ONCE. 👏

(Thank you @fallingawkwardly​ for bringing this to my attention.)

Brandon Taylor is great.

while brandon taylor is p cool, actually stopping to address like half of these would bog your story down in some of the most fantastically pointless, reader unfriendly, and unnecessary detailing ever written since the silmarillion was slapped down on the intake desk at george allen & unwin, and amounts to little more than pedantic nerd-flexing, “how did they agree on a systematised measure of time”? are you KIDDING ME?? more like how the fuck could you possible convince your read that yes, it matters, please don’t go, just another 500 words on my in-universe ‘mathematics in the context of social sciences’ textbook that my illiterate character happened to be thumbing through. it’s important to work on your world building, obviously, but there is a pretty hard limit to what you need to show your reader, and when you cross that line, unless you happen to be the reincarnated soul of terry pratchett, it becomes flabby, boring, and distracting from the actual story. YES to getting rid of senseless misogynistic tropes and putting more effort into crafting your story, NO to including the fucking ancestral migrations of horses.

Like it’s great to address a lot of these, but honestly, unless it’s a key part of explaining major plot points, it belongs in like your unseen Bible of Your World™ or as fridge logic for the reader.

Sometimes, suspension of disbelief is the way to go so as to get on with the fucking story.

That’s why they’re called fantasy stories, not fantasy history textbooks. The reader is there to see people do things.

If you spend all your time artificially increasing your word count by going into every single detail that doesn’t actually develop the characters or progress the plot in some way, all you get is an uninteresting wall of text not unlike this collection of tweets.

(via shark-desu)