After months of working as a freelance content writer, I didn’t have much to show for myself. No bylines under my own name. No reputation.
For most in the B2B marketing world, Mariya Delano didn’t exist.
But I was too scared to publish anything on my website, because it already got some traffic from posts that I commissioned some other writers to create. Posting on the site felt like a lot of pressure.
If you're not 'optically challenged' like myself, it's likely that sound is just one of those things you don't necessarily think about very often.
Consider however, the sound of the cars passing outside, the birds in the trees, the engine on your bus, car or train to work.
AS well as what your eyes tell you, there's an absolutely fascinating world to be found with the help of your ears, too.
The next time you're on a train, in the back of a cab or perhaps in a cafe drinking your beverage of choice, try closing your eyes and considering whether you can tell what's going on around you simply by the noises in your environment.
Is someone in loud shoes walking toward you and pulling out a chair at the next table?
Is the sound of the person who just got on the train one of someone who's happy, or just trying to get to work?
Sound-listening can be just as interesting as people-watching.
In any case, here's a little story I made about sound, and how I personally perceive it on a daily basis.
This #story from the #history#book "America's first cuisines" is wild. The entire thing is an old man and a goddess fat shaming some #aztecs while they sink into the ground for being too heavy. Still, the quote at the end is still profound because old age doesnt have to suck if you live healthy.
So I am a week into my #Zizek#Lacan#Hegel studies, through Zizek's lens. All good. I think Zizek's #philosophy of looking at Hegel through the Lacanian lens is seductive. That said, where I find the lens of Zizek lacking, and I now wish he'd not talk about these 2(3) things any more are:
I was a serious #catholic half my life, seminarian for minute, and an ordained deacon, still, even after I confessed my #atheism. So I get what he is saying. My atheism has never felt the same as #Dawkins or #Hitchens, whom we adore, and Zizek sneers. Slipping through the profound safety net religion and a transcendent, all powerful, personal god into the #existentialism of nothing was terrifying, it was my first experience of the "#real." This is it. This is all there is. The problem is it appears Zizek commits the #fallacy of #reification (if we understand it correctly). Clearly he knows it is #fiction, even if profound from a #psychoanalytic Hegelian #CriticalAnalysis, we get it we really do, but it is not real. The #event is real, and the fiction caused the event, but the fiction is still fiction. There is no God, IOP, that became an atheist. The #story Zizek emphasizes is powerful, the changing of the cosmos when #Jesus on the cross questions Gods love. Good story and that is all. Some RCC positions from recent popes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlBZy_iu0m8 and https://www.romereports.com/en/2021/09/14/full-homily-of-pope-francis-at/
So please, Zizek, can I say stay in your lane where you are brilliant, please.
A fictional story idea hit me while I was soaking my sore muscles in a hot, Epsom salt bath yesterday (I refinished all the cupboards) and now I’m seeing pointers to this #story idea everywhere.
Hello, Myth Lovers! Join us for Monday's theme: Children. Which myths feature children, infants, or babies? Write out a #story and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts.
Your character is scrambling through the wilderness and grabs a conspicuous handhold. They try to pull themselves up, But instead pull out a sword. There doesn't seem to be any way of putting it back.
Brahmoids: Story of My Mother Earth is a science fiction novel that canvases current events: the environmental crisis, climate change, the turbulent state of the world today, and, most of all, volatile, war-like situations....
I'm quite disturbed by the story from Charlotte Cowes and how she fell for a scam that had her give up $50K in under a day.
As you read I'm sure you'll see the "obvious" points where she could have stopped, but from the inside it's different. The only real protection is through reading case studies like this.
Please help yourself by taking some time to innoculate yourself against an insidious threat.
This may be a silly question, but how does one actually read short story collections? Is it the same as if reading a novel? Do you put the book down between every story? Do you look for connections between the stories? Am I supposed to read them linearly?
What is this story Reddit is censoring? (www.reddit.com)
See the link for details. What story are these people talking about?
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Brahmoids: Story of My Mother Earth is a science fiction novel that canvases current events: the environmental crisis, climate change, the turbulent state of the world today, and, most of all, volatile, war-like situations....