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Three Goblin Art
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JBB: An Artblog!
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
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Origami Around
祝日 / Permanent Vacation
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One Nice Bug Per Day
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
Sweet Seals For You, Always
Cosmic Funnies
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Not today Justin
❣ Chile in a Photography ❣
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@leelas-writing
for the love of god, write all the self-indulgent scenes you want. be utterly shameless about including every last fantasy. i know everyone likes to share quotes and quips about how miserably hard writing is, but please please try thinking of it as a joyful act where you get to be a messy human who makes art rather than some pain filled quest for icy perfection.
Me writing at age 15: what IF the story was about people KIDNAPPING teenagers and CRUELLY EXPERIMENTING on them and I had a NINE YEAR OLD accidentally KILL A MAN with unharnessed DEADLY PSYCHIC ENERGY
Me writing at age 25: what if a vampire was just a really good dad to his loving family and my characters had a whole conversation with a faerie about human music genres
The secret to writing relatable characters is to picture yourself in their circumstances, carefully fix in your mind exactly what information would be available to you in that situation, and figure out what the worst possible decision you can imagine yourself honestly thinking seemed like a good idea at the time is.
When people say “don’t write idiot plots”, that doesn’t mean never have characters make stupid decisions: it means don’t have them make decisions that are stupid simply because they’re convenient for the plot. Your characters’ choices should be well reasoned and well justified from their own perspective, and at the same time, from a hypothetical omniscient observer’s perspective the dumbest fucking thing you’ve ever heard.
to all my writer friends out there.
reminder to myself about the process of drafting & revising:
first drafts are for making it exist
second drafts are for making it functional
third drafts are for making it effective
This is the most important thing I’ve learnt in writing my novel. Have fun the first time but know your first pass isn’t going to be perfect
Slow burn but it’s written by an impatient person
This doesn’t affect the speed of the developing relationship at all, but does make for a very passive aggressive narrator.
Slow burn but the writer is angry about it
I did that thing where I was checking out a wip I haven’t touched in a long while, and before I knew it I was really sucked in and just reading it and enjoying it, and then it just fucking ended abruptly during a good scene and I nearly started screaming, and then I remembered it’s my own fucking wip and that means I have to be the one to fix this and finish it and I really really nearly started screaming and just asdfghjkl
Hey op, you didn’t have to come into my house, drag me out of bed, and proceed to drown me in my own bathtub
art…Hard
writing… hard
Okay, this never happens. I just sat down for a solid 3 and a half hours and wrote a fic from start to end in a draft format that closely resembles mid-draft as opposed to first draft. My concentration never wavered.
I’m afraid
Reblog for the concentration wizard to visit you and let you get super far in your WIP
Best response to anything I’ve ever posted
we @ writers
Asians are NOT basically white.
We have been trying to tell you this for so goddamn fucking long. We are NOT basically white, we don't get TREATED as basically white, and we are SICK of people assuming this.
If we were treated as "basically white", we would not be fetishized the way we are. We would not be infantilized. Our cultures would not be stereotyped and demonized and ridiculed. We would not be blamed for a fucking pandemic that was not our fault in any way. We would not be blamed constantly for the actions of the Chinese government when many of us aren't even ethnically Chinese.
We would not be SHOT because of our race. Our businesses would not be targeted because of our race.
We are often excluded from spaces designed to support POC because they think we're "basically white", or don't need that support. We are excluded from mainly-white spaces because we aren't Caucasian.
It's a fucking SHAME that it takes a fucking MASS SHOOTING for y'all to hear what we've been trying to tell you this entire fucking time.
We are not your pretty little waifu anime cuties. We are not your nerds or token characters. We are not your squinty-eyed caricatures. We are not your "communist virus".
We are not getting constantly stereotyped, put down, shoved aside, and chiseled down by white people into a box of what their "model minority" should look like, fetishized, treated as a joke, and murdered by white supremacists just for you to go and say we're "basically white".
Thank you for your time.
I feel like I need to say this, as I've seen some concerning fandom purity bullshit crossing my dash.
This blog is unapologetically pro AO3.
I support them and all they do, may they continue to do it for decades to come.
Oh no it can live there for free but I would like it to get a job
when your teacher says you can’t use first person pronouns in your writing
WAIT SHIT
Reblog if it's okay for people to come into your askbox and ask about your OCs
Even if I’ve never spoken to them, even if I don’t know them from a hole in the wall, even if they’re on anon, people asking questions about my OCs make my day.
Amazon Unveils a [Horrifying] Fanfic Publishing Platform
Today, Amazon announced the imminent launch of its newest endeavor, Kindle Worlds, a publishing platform for fanfiction. When I read the announcement, I was horrified, then angry, then sad. I want to take a moment to explain why this is such a tragedy.
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This is REALLY IMPORTANT guys. AO3 is so special as a platform. Don’t get suckered in by shiny features or whatever!
If you don’t feel like reading after the read more, here is the most important stand out of Kindle World’s TOS.
“By using the platform, authors give all rights to the work to Amazon, who can then license your elements to other authors with no compensation to the original poster.”
If you want to retain rights to your work, don’t use this site. Stick to AO3.
