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Ik ben Martijn, software-ontwikkelaar bij DGMR Software, vader van drie bloedjes van kinders, liefhebber van taal, fantasy en science-fiction.
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sometimes i need to remind myself that i’m writing fanfiction for free and i’m allowed to have a…
nostalgicmess: sometimes i need to remind myself that i’m writing fanfiction for free and i’m allowed to have a shitty sentence or two
so many of my fics have remained buried in my drafts because i wrote the cool scenes first and then didn’t have “connective tissue”. but i’m freeing myself from that and just adding shitty “and then a week passed” or “they got to their destination” connections and just posting them and it’s so! freeing! try it!
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve agonized over a scene transition, only to fill in the missing space with, like, a sentence.
Write the parts you wanna write and then go in and slap scotch tape over the rest of it.
Sometimes when I’m feeling self conscious I’ll go and pull a book off my shelf to see how whichever author handled time transitions, and it’s really REALLY common that it’s just, like, “October came and went.” And that’s SO freeing. Just fast forward. Just do it.
It really does work.
Plus if the transition or passage of time isn’t interesting to write.. it’s probably not going to be interesting to read either. Just skip it.
Also yeah who cares about a shitty sentence or two even aside from that, honestly. Done is better than perfect.
Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway. They stayed long in that good house, fourteen days at least, and they found it hard to leave. Bilbo would gladly have stopped there for ever and ever- even supposing a wish would have taken him right back to his hobbit-hole without trouble. Yet there is little to tell about their stay.
- The Hobbit, J. R. R. “I liked [Gollum] better than all the other characters” Tolkien
COR BLOK / The Ents marching on Isengard _ More info from The Tolkien Library Store here
COR BLOK /
The Ents marching on Isengard
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More info from The Tolkien Library Store here
a gandalf inspired by cor bloks lord of the rings illustrations
a gandalf inspired by cor bloks lord of the rings illustrations
Software & code
Preview HTML
"Preview HTML" is a plug-in for Notepad++ which allows previewing a HTML page inside Notepad++ while editing it. (No longer maintained, source available).
HTMLTag
HTMLTag plug-in for the Notepad++ editor. (No longer maintained, source available).