Things I do as a Writer
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Daydream
Cry
Complain
Wait for inspiration
Write
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Things I do as a Writer
Not write
Daydream
Cry
Complain
Wait for inspiration
Write
Not write
I made this instead of writing
why you gotta come for me like this
Hyphenated does not have a hyphen, but non-hyphenated does.
Buckle up, Harry Potter fans, because J.K. Rowlingās latest bombshell about the series definitely isnāt doing anything for inclusivity: The bestselling author has revealed that Dementors are the wizarding worldās version of Italians.
IĀ tried to tell this to people at work and could not get the sentence outĀ
this is the click hole article that saved my life
finally everything makes sense
Norse rune texts be like:
āThis is my name and i made this!ā
The end of the text
Sometimes,Ā āThis is very highā written high up on a tall thing.Ā
Oh yes. some other classics
āi built a bridgeā
āmy relative died, may [insert name of a god] protect their soulā
āMy relative was in [insert region]. Now they are deadā
āVague statement very carefully implieng there are shady people somewhere nearbyā
āThis the land were my house is located. I live here. This is my nameā
āSomeone i am related to died and now i feel am urge to write up our entire family tree on this stoneā
āFragmented textā
āThe scribe wants us to know that their runes are hella fineā
āThe scribes name is rƶdballeā
āBridge!!! I built bridge!!!ā (The bridge thing is a mayor obsessionā¦)
āI created a path for public use. This is my name, and this is the name of my entire family tree, also i list which regions my relatives visited. Also how some of them diedā
And the most classic one
āI was hereā
Percy, calm the fuck down Ā (x)
mary shelley: hey, you wanna go grab a burger king? me, percy shelley: Good morning, are you perchance tempted to acquire a Meaty Sandwich Royal?
The original āme, an intellectualā meme
percy shelley had a word count to hit
who told you that you could call me out like that
So last week I tried moaning every time I ate something delicious.
It was vaguely uncomfortable and unnatural
I actually love the idea of doing this trying out fanfic/literary clicheās out in real life, kinda wanna make up a list and undertake it as a challenge.
donāt forget to make your butthole flutter today
Guess someoneās eye color from 20 feet away.
Be careful with these. I started reading fanfiction three years ago and now I have to toe my shoes off to get my feet out.
But do you pad across rooms?Ā
Yes but I often give away my position when I huff.
FYI, Iām smirking at all yāall.
Iām resisting the urge to card my fingers through everybodyās hair.
This is as good a time as any to admit that right now I smell like coffee, sandalwood soap, and something uniquely myself.
Ah, but are you holding a breath you are unaware of?
I just stretched lazily and showed a strip of pale skin where my t-shirt rode up but there was no-one here to stare at it, speechless, so I donāt know if it even counted
I sigh thousand times a day. Hope that is enough.
I was forced to tear my eyes away, yet drawn toward this by my bodyās own volition.
i have ghosted my fingertips across countertops, along my own jawline, down the curtainsā edges. i am ghosting them across the nape of your neck, right now.
My tongue is battling for dominance, but thereās nobody else here so itās just squaring off on a Starbucks cup. The cup doesnāt stand a chance.
you know how mathematicians have the journal of recreational mathematics, right? where they publish stuff like, āoh i found this cool property of this one seemingly boring numberā, or,Ā āthis is literally nonsense but it sounds ~scientific~ā and itās all great fun to read?
well
behold, the journal of recreational linguistics
with such delightful papers asĀ ātennis punsā,Ā āanimals in different languagesā, andĀ āgifts from a homonymous benefactorā
excuse me while i go read all 50 volumes in one sitting
they even have linguistic magic squares im crying
@linguisticagglomeration
so when i was 7 or 8 iād āwrite letters to hermione grangerā and set them out on the piano in the living room every night with my stuffed toy owl and every morning iād have a letter from hermione back, sitting at the foot of my bed, and hermione and i corresponded like that for months and iād just like to thank my mom for writing out a āletter from hermioneā for me every single night
That is the cutest thing Iāve ever read oh my god
so when i was about the same age i got really into both ciphers and james madison (idk donāt ask) so i just randomly started writing these letters like i was james madison writing to my own spy ring, using all kinds of ciphers. constantly writing that WE MUST SWITCH CIPHERS THE BRITISH ARE ON TO US. and it wasnāt every night because the ciphers kept getting more complex, but it was about one every week for six months and my mother always responded. and she always found the letters, because i took to hiding them in increasingly more obscure locations because spies, obviously.Ā
i didnāt realize how much work this was until i snuck down late one night for a cookie. and saw my mother bent over my giant book of ciphers and muttering to the dog āis this another code or can she not spell?ā (i could not and still can not spell) and i was a bit angry at first but i kept watching and she KEPT AT IT. checking everything in that book against my letter and i never felt so loved. my mom with a full time job sitting up to figure out my silly letters said just because i enjoyed the game.Ā
i got her this bio of james madison a few years ago for xmas with a simple number substitution cipher on the inside saying āIn thanks for your dedicated years of service, your daughter and occasional President.ā She still has it pride of place on her desk next to the obligatory kid pics
so yeah cute mom story for the day.Ā
These are some of the best secret mom stories Iāve ever read, omg.
Strong words to use on a Resume
If you have ever had to write a resume for work or for an application, then you know the hardest part is figuring out what type of words to use that sound professional and and intelligent.
Example: If an application asks you if you have any relevant experience for a job at a day care center and you have experience, like you have babysat children. You would look at the words in the columns to see what words you should use that will help your resume stand out. You might put down āHave supervised and attended to children on a regular basis.ā
I hope this is helpful to you.
Now this is a great resume list of action words. Ā I love that itās broken down by types of jobs. Ā Saving for future use.
Book illustrations by Albert Dubout for L'Ingenieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche
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H.P. MINECRAFT
Study traces history of some of our favorite folk stories
GUYS THIS IS AMAZING
SERIOUSLY
6000 YEARS
STORIES THAT ARE OLDER THAN CIVILIZATIONS
STORIES THAT WERE TOLD BY PEOPLE SPEAKING LANGUAGES WE NO LONGER KNOW
STORIES TOLD BY PEOPLE LOST TO THE VOID OF TIME
STORIES
GUYS LOOK AT THIS
OH MY GOD YOU GUYS
GUYYYYYSSSS
āHereās how it worked: Fairy tales are transmitted through language, and the shoots and branches of the Indo-European language tree are well-defined, so the scientists could trace a taleās history back up the treeāand thus back in time. If both Slavic languages and Celtic languages had a version of Jack and the Beanstalk (and the analysis revealed they might), for example, chances are the story can be traced back to the ālast common ancestor.ā That would be the Proto-Western-Indo-Europeans from whom both lineages split at least 6800 years ago. The approach mirrors how an evolutionary biologist might conclude that two species came from a common ancestor if their genes both contain the same mutation not found in other modern animals.āĀ
Pricing your Art
So @dreriart made a post about commission pricing and I thought since it is doinā the rounds Iād copy-paste this thing I wrote on DA over to Tumblr because for some reason I ⦠never ⦠did that ⦠before?? So one recurring thing I see a lot in the art community in many different formats is āhow much should I charge for my commissions?ā What normally follows is a lot of bad advice. Terrible advice. So Iām here to give you some good advice and tell you all about how to value your skillset and price accordingly. This guide has been written with the intended audience of folk who are just starting out with commissions, but I hope it will encourage other artists to give themselves a fair wage and, of course, a lot of this can be transposed over to other creative professions as well. So letās answer the question of āhow much should I be charging people for work?ā The answer to this is deceptively simple. Here are the questions you need to ask yourself to form an appropriate response:
Where do you live?
How old are you?
For obvious reasons I cannot assist you with these. But once you have these you go to Google and you type in the following: āminimum wage per hour in <location name>ā Which is more than likely going to bring up an official government page for your area. Here is the one for the UK since that is where I live.Now what? Well. How old are you? Because some locations have different rates for those in different age brackets. But essentially all you need to do is get the following info: How much is the minimum wage per hour for my age in my area? Now that you have this, how long does a piece take you? You do not need to be exact. A rough guesstimation will do. This will form your base price of: Minimum Wage x Estimated Hours Therefore if I take five hours to paint a portrait and my min wage is Ā£7.83 then my base price for a painted portrait is Ā£39.15.
That is the absolute minimum you should be charging for your work.
And please take into considerations the following:
Working outside your comfort zone will up times taken on a piece.
If youāre working with traditional materials, how much for paper/canvas/paint/pens/etc?
Minimum wage is quite often garbage anyway.
Whenever I say this though, I often get a variety of responses in the negatory for this method. I have answers for each of them. So, letās run a sort-of-FAQ on this method shall we?
Iām not good enough to price that high.
Yes you are. Who says? Your government, for starters. Also me. Hereās the thing. No matter the quality of your art, you deserve a fair living wage for your work. There are lots of people out there with no understanding of the time, effort and tears that go into honing artistic skills. Digital art, making comics, mastering musical composition, sculpting, or whatever it is all takes time to learn and we are constantly growing and improving. And if someone wants to hand you money for what you are producing guess what? You ARE good enough. That is the proof right there. Another human being wants to give you cold hard cash for something that only you can make. If it puts a different perspective on things for you, think of job roles that would be traditionally minimum wage. Probably the one most people will go to is āburger flipping at McDonaldsā as an example of a low skill occupation that is stereotypically easy and for those who failed in life etc. etc. (spoiler alert: it isnāt, but thatās a journal entry for another day). Why should this theoretical failure of humanity earn more than you doing a job that āanyone can doā? Because art is absolutely more difficult than cleaning out a McFlurry machine (thatās a legit fact by the way: Iāve cleaned one of those and art is way harder). Also, art is a luxury product my friend. No one needs to be buying commissions of their MMO character. They want it? They can play by our rules. And they will.
My family member/friend/random internet guy said thatās too expensive and I should lower my prices.
Your family member/friend/random internet berk is a fucking idiot at best, or intentionally trying to get you to undersell at worst. Firstly, Iād be willing to bet that the person who said this to you is not an artist. If so, what makes them more qualified than another actual artist to tell YOU how to price yourself? Because you trust their opinion? Yeah, but what if their opinion is formed on a factually incorrect assumption of how much art costs/the time it takes to produce because that is a HUGE deal in our community right now. And what if they just want you to stay cheap because it threatens them? Or, as a consumer, want you to stay cheaper for their own selfish purchasing habits? What then? Tell them to fuck off.
But there is someone better than me charging less! Why should a client pick me over them?
Spoiler alert: there will always be someone better than you charging less. There are thousands of mega quality artists out there. Iām considered expensive for what I produce, especially as I live in a country with a currency that translates highly to other currencies. Yet people constantly ask me for commission work. So what gives? Here are some reasons why a prospective client might chose you over someone else:
You are nicer than they are.
You are faster than they are.
Youāre working in a niche sector.
They know you personally.
They like your art style better.
You have lots of good feedback.
A friend recommended you.
They arenāt even open for commissions right now.
They had a bad experience with that artist in the past.
Youāre easier to purchase from.
You have a larger following and purchasing from you exposes that audience to them by proxy.
There are lots of other reasons but price isnāt necessarily often the deciding factor for a lot of clients. Donāt spend your life being concerned with how other people are better than you or youāll never be happy. Ā Iām nervous about pricing so highly! What if no one wants my art?If a client doesnāt want to pay you a fair living wage for their luxury item purchase then thatās a client you can probably do without to be honest with you.Someone complained about my prices being so high! What do I do? Refer them to this:
Something worth noting is that minimum wage is normally used for people who are employed (not self employed). So people who work contracted 16, 24, 37 or 40+ hours per week for an employer.
Anyone who is not guaranteed work for a set amount of hours per week is absolutely within their right to charge well over the minimum wage, to cover those hours that they are not guaranteed.
Ever wonder why the plumber is so expensive? Or the electrician? The pc repair guy (Ā£60 to transfer my data? Really? All you do is plug it in and leave it for a few hours..)
Thatās why. Because most traders/self employed people donāt have work lined up 9-5 mon-fri (though itās great news if you do!). If my lovely pc repair tech only charged me Ā£20 to transfer my data, or Ā£5 labour (half an hour) + >insert price of laptop screen here< to repair my screen, heās never going to make enough money to stay open, because he doesnāt have people coming and going in his shop all day every day.
If youāre considering being a part or full time artist, then perhaps consider not just how many hours it takes you per piece, but how much of your time you want to spend on commissions. If you plan on spending 20 hours per week on it (not just the art itself, but consider things like liasing with customers and promoting yourself as well) then calculate the hours with the minimum wage (in the above instance, it would be 20 x Ā£7.83 = Ā£156.60). Then you figure in that week you can hopefully (and realistically) complete letās say, 3 commissions. That would be Ā£52.20 each. Already thatās more than the base price stated above (which I am not saying is wrong at all). But youāve covered yourself for the additional work and downtime hours, and given yourself a real expectation that of what income youāll be earning per week.
This is a TOP QUALITY addition to my post.