Oh I don't actually finish a full draft and then start another one. More like drafts of a chapter or a scene. Some parts get drafted many times over, some not at all.
Yeah, same. Occasionally they'll be re-draft sections, but for every one of those there are equal parts that are relatively untouched.
Spring forward, fall back. If they're going to give an hour, then six moths later take it back, how ‘bout we just move the clock one half hour and call it even.
I don't mind it. Most clocks automatically reset themselves now, and this way we get more daylight. Otherise it would be pitch black for an extra hour after you get up half of the year, and after 4:00 the rest of the year.
Walking barefoot in the grass improves your eyesight. Pressure points attached to the eye nerve system get energized by your nature stroll.
This had me howling earlier. This is from the novel A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom by noted very serious author John Boyne: What happened was that he hastily googled something like "dye ingredients" to get a list of them to stick in this paragraph. I don't quite know how this passed his own scrutiny, never mind his editor's. The most common google result at the time was a list of ingredients for dyeing clothing in the video game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. "Sapphire, keese wing, Octorok eyeball, hightail lizard, red lizalfos tails, Hylian shrooms?" Yep sounds about right. Copy. Paste.
Oh yeah, you gotta be careful!! I don't remember the sepcifics now, but a year ago or so I was looking up some info for my story, maybe it was about guns? And several times I found myself on a video game website or blog. Sometimes it's pretty easy to tell, if it mentions infinite ammo or something, but sometimes if you're not careful it seems legit. Especially if you don't know anything about actual guns.
The author of Battle Royale knew nothing about guns and had only one or two Japanese airsoft enthusiast magazines to use for reference. After the first edition came out he was told that some of the "guns" in his novel were actually spare parts for toy guns, akin to a non-driver writing something along the lines of:
This guy was hanging out on my shop door when I opened this morning. He’s flipping huge. I put a ruler up to the glass, and he’s a little over three inches long, not counting the legs. I’m not sure if this is just a grasshopper, or the descendant of biblical locust.
The Aztecs were known for their many unique deities, but one of the most fascinating is Xōchipilli, the Aztec god of flowers, love, art, and fertility, as well as patron of homosexuality. Xōchipilli’s name literally translates into “flower prince." Xōchipilli was heavily worshipped during various religious ceremonies and festivals during the 14th and 15th centuries and has strong ties to the hallucinogens used during these events. Spoiler: Xōchipilli
Plague has it for the win... Have you ever contemplated the times you'd probaby have died without modern medical care? Assuming I'd have survived childhood illnesses, I can think of twice when I'd have been a goner for sure, including good old traditional female death by childbirth.
"kild by a fall down a flight of stairs at St Thomas Apostle" this sounds oddly suspicious. -cue "Only Murder in the Building" theme-
Dental infection? That shit can still kill you. I just noticed those were deaths for only a week. 5600 that they knew about. Gotta figure there were plenty more unaccounted. That's nuts. And tell me the one two down from "teeth" doesn't say "titfuck." Killed six of em. I mean, if you have to die....
