Reflection of the Mind

A blog to get the artist and writer inspired and fresh ideas going. Includes pictures, texts, music, references, and tutorials.

[actuallywatson]

“Yesterday is heavy. Put it down” - an anonymous six word story

[mu3y18mi]

ぽめお @pomeoooo

美しすぎる吉野山の桜を見てくれ

[fiona-glenanne-westen]

Writer problem no.1: Don’t use the word “said,” 5498 times.

Writer problem no.2: Also don’t sound like a walking thesaurus.

[unbearable-lightness-of-ink]

k, but—do use the word said. use ‘said’ over other descriptive verbs because it blends in and doesn’t distract the reader. if your dialogue is good enough, your readers will know if its being shouted or whispered or hissed or snarled or growled or what have you. you can use the fun words, but use them sparingly and intentionally. the less often you use them, the more impact they have. shoot for 90% ‘said’ or no attribution and only 10% fun attribution words.

ways to get away with no attribution:

-dialogue immediately follows the character’s action:

Alex looked up from his laptop. “Have you seen this article?”

-dialogue immediately precedes the character’s action

“I can’t believe you didn’t tell me this earlier!” Cassandra flung the newspaper across the room.

-dialogue is bouncing between two characters and we know who started (cut this with action or attribution every 3 or 4 quotes, though, so the reader doesn’t lose track)

“We’re working on it,” Wilder said.

“Oh, really?”

“Really. We should have definitive results this week.”

Leander slammed the file shut. “We needed results last week.”

[firsthome]

[itscolossal]

WATCH: Ingenious Hack for Sketching with Two Point Perspective Using an Elastic String [video]

[lunariagold-deactivated20230802]

Oh look… MORE AWESOME SHIT NOBODY TOLD ME IN ART SCHOOL

[hanfugallery]

Traditional Chinese hanfu by 合羽白

[fangirlssss]

Cole sprouse

[witchofeindor]

So I found this cool website for learning ancient languages

go wild

[hot-firebender-archive]

holy fuck

[twilight-blossom]

I just did a quick perusal of the Coptic resources on this site, and it has all the resources I’ve personally found worthwhile and then some. These are resources that took me months, if not years, to discover and compile. I am thoroughly impressed. The other languages featured on the site are:

Akkadian

Arabic

Aramaic

Church Slavonic

Egyptian (hieroglyphics and Demotic)

Elamite

Ethiopic (Ge’ez)

Etruscan

Gaulish

Georgian

Gothic

Greek

Hebrew

Hittite

Latin

Mayan (various related languages/dialects)

Old Chinese

Old English

Old French

Old Frisian

Old High German

Old Irish

Old Norse

Old Persian

Old Turkic

Sanskrit

Sumerian

Syriac

Ugaritic

For the love of all the gods, if you ever wanted to learn any of these languages, use this site.

[wondrousworldbuilding]

Might be useful for some of you.

[jamabushi]

Japanese Swords

[tarotartemisia]

[partydrugs]

skys down

[partydrugs]

Melania Brescia

[bled]

Colmar in Alsace, France (via vsco.co)

[uptional]

[danger]

“ 29/365zev and i took a long walk along the frozen marsh and river. while sliding around, we found these cracks frozen under a layer of new ice and only visible when the dust of snow was brushed aside.i think i might have to call these few weeks my blue period.” -  Aliza razell

[blackfashion]

Shot by: @kofmotivation Model: @kreayt

[studytothehd]

resource for procrastination

if you’re anything like me, working on a computer is a dangerous thing. i’ll get distracted by everything - that one email i should respond to, all the pictures of my dog, tumblr, and so on. I recently discovered an amazing resource to stop that.

it’s called writer’s block, and is free to download! 

when you open it, it shows this screen, where you can choose either a time limit or word goal

then when you start, it opens a document that fills the entire screen like this

and you cannot quit the app or open anything else until your word/time quota is filled. i just wrote half of my english speech that i’ve been putting off all morning, and it took only 20 minutes!

so yup, it’s called writer’s block and is free for both mac and windows. enjoy!

[idrathergoforgirls]

reblog to save a lazy ass