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having ocs is weird
some of them are just like ideas and concepts while others are like people living inside your head demanding a nice room and snacks and attention and occasionally they poke you in the feelings when you’re least expecting it
some of them you spend forever coaxing out from a dark corner of your mind with some candy and some of them are always up in your shit
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I give up I’m just gonna succumb to my ocean of ocs.
Me.
So much gpoy
oh look its me
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Tom Wolfe on his sociological approach to writing:
This attention to status … started when I was in graduate school and I was in a program called American Studies, which was a mixture of different disciplines but one [in which] you were forced to take sociology. I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline that didn’t have the noble history of English and history as a subject. But once I had a little exposure to it, I said, ‘Hey, here’s the key. Here’s the key to understanding life and all its forms.’ And the great theorist or status theorist was a German named Max Weber. And from that time on, I said this obviously is the way to analyze people in all of their manifestations. I mean, my theory is that every moment — even when you’re by yourself in the bathroom, you are trying to live up to certain status requirements as if someone were watching … It’s only when your life is in danger that you drop all that.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcexqo9eaE1qd9dz2o1_500.jpg)
Tom Wolfe on his sociological approach to writing:
This attention to status … started when I was in graduate school and I was in a program called American Studies, which was a mixture of different disciplines but one [in which] you were forced to take sociology. I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline that didn’t have the noble history of English and history as a subject. But once I had a little exposure to it, I said, ‘Hey, here’s the key. Here’s the key to understanding life and all its forms.’ And the great theorist or status theorist was a German named Max Weber. And from that time on, I said this obviously is the way to analyze people in all of their manifestations. I mean, my theory is that every moment — even when you’re by yourself in the bathroom, you are trying to live up to certain status requirements as if someone were watching … It’s only when your life is in danger that you drop all that.
And Neil congratulated Terry on a line that Terry knew he hadn’t written, and Neil was certain that he hadn’t written it either. They both privately thought at some point the book had started to generate text on its own, but neither of them will actually admit this publicly for fear of being thought odd.
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but what people don’t realize is that, when it comes to fictional characters, they are just as real to us as our friends or lovers or siblings or parents. it doesn’t matter that we can’t touch them or visit them or engage with them in conversation. what matters is that they’ve made an impact on our lives and that is what makes them real.
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Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.
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Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.
