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Art and stuff 

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I love fluffy bois For StarCat Studios @tennelleflowers

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playing around with the lineless style for future pieces

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Writing Tips I’ve Learned: Ideas

This isn’t really advice here, just some settings and concepts that you can look into in order to spur some ideas. I would try these ideas myself, but I have other things to do

-classic works mashup (including: plays, operas, novels, short stories, myths)

-south american or south asian mythology

-accurate medieval europe

-original fantasy (no classical fantasy creatures or tropes)

-classic-style speculative fiction (taking an outdated belief and playing with it as reality)

-classic dystopian fiction

-travelling back in time to the dinosaur times and filling in what science cannot tell

-alternate world histories

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Writing Advice That I’ve Learned: Coming Up With Ideas

I’m not one of those people that really struggles with this, but I know that there are others that want to write but just need something to write about. You kind of have to find your own method and sometimes ideas come out of nowhere. Some ways I have come with ideas are: 

-dreams

-personal life

-other stories

-new information that I’ve learned

-shower thoughts

All of these methods and many others are perfectly valid ways to come up with ideas. If you just can’t get ideas to come to you, you can hunt down ideas looking into a particular topic and exploring it to try to find some kind of narrative from it. If you are really stuck, take a public-domain work and try to find out how you would tell it in a completely different setting. You’ll be surprised what you can come up with.

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Writing Tips I’ve Learned: Realistic Writing

What I am going to talk about here is not realism that you hear about when people mention dark and depressing stuff. The kind of realism I’m talking about deals with believability and plausibility. This mainly pertains to fantasy or science fiction, but is still something very important to other genres such as historical fiction or dystopian fiction. Being believable or plausible doesn’t necessarily mean staying true to reality and avoiding anything atypical or weird. What it means is that the rules of the world you have developed are well thought-out, sturdy against scrutiny, and interesting. Of course, with historical fiction already has all of this done for you. These rules are necessary for making the world seem like a real place as well as the characters in it. If these rules are too loose or have severe logical flaws, then that is going to hurt the believability of what you have created. What helps the best regardless of genre? Simple, research.

One thing that helps is having a researched basis to draw inspiration from. Especially for fantasy, studying real-world societies and civilizations can give insights as to what works for a society to function and what possible quirks there could be to make it stand out. For science fiction or dystopian fiction, the purpose of the story is the most important for building the world it is set in. All good speculative fiction is not made to be a prediction of the future, but a reflection of the present. Once you know why you are writing the story, everything else stems from the questions that go along with it.

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Writing Tips I’ve Learned: Other Mediums

Now, on bit of advice I see floating around sometimes is that you should engage in other forms of art beside writing. This is one tip that I strongly support. It definitely helps your brain in general to try different things like drawing or music, but to writing it can even be more useful. It lets you think of different ways that your story can be told through and helps you even rethink how writing can be. As someone who is a film and animation nerd that loves drawing, sometimes it helps me fix my underwriting problem to imagine my scenes as being in a movie and what all the audience would see and hear. Likewise, thinking of your setting like a painting can help you bring out the vibrant visuals or thinking of a background music can help set the mood. Whatever works for you!

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Writing Tips I’ve Learned: How to Write Your Story

You will see plenty of people out there giving advice on things you should do or should not do and those are all well and good, but one thing that very few mention is that what might work for them may not work for you. The best thing you can do as a writer is to try these many tips and tricks to find out what works best for you and to find out what kind of writer you are. Some people work with rigid outlines, some with none at all. Some people like having a highly-developed world with every little detail noted and some people like to make things up as they go. Just try whatever you want to find what helps you best tell the stories you want to tell.

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A bit of a street view for one building along the Mediterranean Coast region

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Newest addition to the city: El Lobo Cantina!

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Another addition, taking inspiration and loosely based on African architecture

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First up, a little tea bistro in Chinatown! 

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Announcing a new project of mine! I will be creating a pixel artworks of a fictional tourist spot that I created for fun. More information will come up as I post more places.

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terpsichorian powers!

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The Rum Tum Tugger is a curious cat!

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another fake video game background

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playing around with old-style game backgrounds

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a lot like my own kitties