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I think they got rid of his fucking lashes
Like please tell me I’m not just going crazy it looks like he is MISSING HIS LONG LASH
06.10.22
“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.” —John Steinbeck
I am simply a fish, silently observing as my problems scream and tap the glass of my bowl. I wrote my first midterm today. My mantra: The curve will save me, and if it doesn’t it’s a fail-save exam. However, a B would be amazing.
6 Writing Tips From John Steinbeck
1. Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.
2. Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material.
3. Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death and in the second place, unlike the theater, it doesn’t exist. In writing, your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person—a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
4. If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it—bypass it and go on. When you have finished the whole you can come back to it and then you may find that the reason it gave trouble is because it didn’t belong there.
5. Beware of a scene that becomes too dear to you, dearer than the rest. It will usually be found that it is out of drawing.
6. If you are using dialogue—say it aloud as you write it. Only then will it have the sound of speech.
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
-John Steinbeck
“I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.”
—John Steinbeck
“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps fear of a loss of power.”
— John Steinbeck
‘And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.’ - John Steinbeck, east of Eden
my art
WE'RE FINALLY GETTING LOVECRAFT AND STEIBMNBECK BACK??? PLEASE SAY YES I WAS ROOTING FOR THIS SINCE THEY LEFT OH LORD.
I believe that Lovecraft is one of the calamities, him and Bram had tea together all the time back in the day before Fukuchi managed to take one of them down. The main palace in Romania was grand, Lovecraft will miss it forever.
Guild dancing for Christmas
Uykuyla dinlenemeyecak kadar yorgunum artık.
I think this will forever rattle around my brain.
James Dean as Cal Trask in “East of Eden”
Oh SteinCraft my beloveds
Day 5 of drawing bsd incorrect quotes until I become a comic artist GOD
original I found \/
This is totally out of left field compared to what I've been posting about but I rewatched "Of Mice & Men" a couple days ago and I totally forgot how fine Gary Sinise is
Holy crap hes so jsjbdjsihhegeiwbsbsm 🔥🔥🔥
my two favorite things in the whole world, steinbeck & newsies.
newsies (london production, 2023) / east of eden by john steinbeck