#corvo talks

[mbcorvo-author]

I was thinking to make a langblr sideblog since lately I'm in a mood to learn languages again... maybe posting stuff could keep me motivated? Idk.

I started thinking to relearn some stuff bc after 11? 12? years of not using it I need to refresh my French bc at work I struggled to speak (i still understand it spoken and written but I can't remember a dang word when i try to speak/write), and I wanted to prepare some phrases & such in German bc for the love of what's unholy it never stuck in my head.

Then I remembered that I went to university for studying Japanese (then I switched to cinema and then dropped bc lack of money) and that I loved to flex a bit with my Latin (but that's rusty af too)... and from there I'm falling into a rabbit hole and idk where to start at this point lmao

[mbcorvo-author]

I want to write again but sadly right now my brain can only conjure random loosely connected snippets and I don't know if I can work with them since most of them do not really "match".

So, I'm thinking to either make a sideblog and dump them there as story prompts for everyone... or make a sideblog only for some snippets of the setting I thought for my WTNV lookalike short story.

Which one could I try?

Snippets as writing prompts sideblog

Sideblog dedicated to that lookalike setting

Voting ended onJun 28, 2023

[mbcorvo-author]

Since I heard about the "CecilSweep" thing and remembered that I still haven't finished the book transcription of the first season of WTNV (I tend to get distracted when there's a lot of talking, so being able to read what I'm listening to it's the only way to not miss anything), I started thinking back to when as a child I loved trying to write a little newspaper about my area and trying to come up with random news articles...

And now I kinda want to give that a try again. Even if I feel it could be seen as some sort of WTNV rip-off.

But some random eerie/creepy news about some random places could be a way to try my hand at writing again...

[mbcorvo-author]

How to get back to the writing thing?

Okay, so, I want to get back into writing after all these forced pauses & such but I don’t know how to do it.

If jumping right into working again on “Beyond the Veil” or “In the Pits of Hell”, start something new like a short story or maybe start with something simple like searching for a prompt and then try to write something in any lenght for it.

Writeblrs & not, what do you recommend?

Returning to work on the wips

Starting something new, like a short story

Writing something random from a prompt

Something else (but what)

Thank you very much~

[mbcorvo-author]

TAG: 3 GOALS FOR 2020

Thank you @dotr-rose-love for the tag! I wish and hope that you will reach your goals for 2020 and take care of yourself!

Rules: Write three goals for 2020 and then tag 10 people.

Even for me, the goals aren’t writing-centered...but I’ll write them anyways.

1. Feeling good about myself...and maybe come out to my (few) friends.

I never liked myself. I hated my looks, I hated how people could perceive me, I cringed a lot looking at my pictures...getting to a level of getting rid of mirrors or avoiding them and also trying to not get pics of me and whatnot. I was also a victim of bullism back in the schooldays and that didn’t help. I needed a lot of years and the courage of looking up in internet to finally understand at least part of the reason of why I felt so wrong being me. I came out to my parents two summers ago. Well, I came out to my mother that during one of her breakdowns outed me with dad but he never brought the subject with me so I don’t really care what he thinks lol  And maybe one day I’ll be able to become the person I want to be, the person I am. But right now I settled for something similar that makes me feel more at ease... Friends only think that I simply changed my style... Aaand uhh...that’s it. Sorry for the blabber, for a “TL;DR” just look at the sentence near the number and that’s it LOL

2. Enjoy again all the things I always loved

Writing, reading, photography, gardening...I loved all of these things but I ended up losing a bit of motivation every year. It’s not easy trying to continue enjoying things when you are a depressed crow...so one of my goals is trying to regain my previous enthusiasm for the hobbies and things I love. I want to be able again to read all the books I have in my “to read” list without having to wait for the “right mood” to read them. I wish for being able again to write only because I love writing my stories, even if maybe no-one will see them. I wish to be able to take my camera and go to places to snap a lot of pictures like I used to do. I wish to be able to enjoy caring of my plants (when I’ll be back at my parents’ of course lol here in the town’s apartment I don’t have space for plants) without forgetting about them because my depression made me unable to do any kind of stuff.

3. Write again and being able to complete something...anything of my projects (current ones or past ones)

I already said in n°2 that I’d love to being able to write again like I did in the past, when I was a kid writing down tiny stories for school homeworks or my own adventures or some cringey self insert fanfiction. I want to be able to write again and not being stuck in a loop like when I was working on my sci-fi, where my low motivation made me fall in a world-building hell as an excuse to not continue working on plot and the story itself. I want to be able to work properly on “Beyond the Veil” instead of looking at it and going like “eh” while outlining the plot. I want to be able to work properly on my collection of short stories, or “In the Pits of Hell”...or whatever project I’ll start or bring back. So one of my 2020 goals is to get back the motivation that I had as a kid and start writing again from my heart without getting stuck, dropping projects or not being able to outline the basics for knowing how and where to start.

A lot of big stuff, but...who knows!

Tagging: bold of you to expect seeing me following the rules! I’m tagging anyone that gets across this post and wants to do it!

[mbcorvo-author]

Little update from your neighbourly crow~

Hey, I’m not gone away again! I’m still here, silently watching and judging you.

LOL just kidding!

I’m starting to adjust myself to the new schedule, as I started my month as an intern for the training course I’m following, and I slowly started to research again for my urban fantasy “Beyond the Veil”...so I decided to write this new little update for the ones that are still following me and waiting for some new content.

Returning back to research for the story, I thought that maybe to get the right inspo for the magic system and the witches/kind of witches I have in my story, I could research about the modern-day witches and their practices and spells, paganism and other similar stuff...and I ended up enjoying it?

I’m starting to learn some interesting stuff...and I also tried a couple of spells and looks like they are working? I know that they are more like placebo than actual spells, but feels nice so... I’m also starting to learn to read Oracle cards, even if my oracle deck is a bit different than the others I saw on the net. I’m still searching for a nice Tarot deck to get and start learning how to read tarots (in the past I had something really basic with only the Major Arcana but I can’t find it anymore, maybe it got thrown away or is forgotten in some box).

Sooo... there will be some changes in my witchy characters and some “hotfixes” here and there in my notes about what I’m going to change and how the new stuff will work! If something will change on the character pages I posted on here, I’ll reblog the edited version and maybe add in the reblog what I changed.

See you soon~

[mbcorvo-author]

It’s that time where I pop back into my blog to say SORRY. Sorry for my inactivity. Sorry for my endless being in-and-out of hiatus or how it’s called.

This training course is stealing me more time that I thought it would be, since I have to study, do projects, exams and stuff and in January we will start with a stage for a month and then another round of lessons before the final exams and (hopefully) some work placement or something like that.

Waking up at 6.30 am and not getting back home before 3.30pm and then having to do homeworks and house-stuff leaves me too tired to do anything else and I’m really, really, missing writing. I could try writing during pauses or the travel, but my brain is so tired that barely pays attention to the surroundings.

Tomorrow I have a day off thanks to a weather alert, so I’ll try to catch up on things I missed in these weeks (or month? I’m not sure).

I’ll do my best.

Sorry again.

[mbcorvo-author]

Sorry again for my inactivity but life got in the way as always.

I got the desktop but I still haven’t finished setting it up with softwares and transferring files (and I also lost a cable that would have helped, but I think that I’ll find it when I won’t need it anymore), then the job at the coffee bar became more tiring...still few customers, but with the time passing I started to see my boss as who really is: an annoying kid who is always late and spends time saying that he wants to go out with his friends instead of being stuck working. Also his dad often comes to check him up because he doesn’t trust him and spends time bossing around me and his son, also treats me like an idiot...I’m quite fed up. Luckily the training contract ends in the first half of July, so I only have to endure it until that day, and then I’ll say my goodbyes and restart my job hunt, hoping for something better...or with a pay that it’s worth it.

I hope to find something that would leave me enough brainpower to work on my wips.

Oh! With my friend (and her friends) I started a D&D campaign, so at least the saturday evening I’ll have something else to think about! I’m so hyped for the character I made that I’d really like to draw him...the problem is that I can’t draw and I’m only good at tracing and modifying a little bit after tracing, maybe I could search for some base lineart free to use and use it to try drawing something? So I would have a base pose already made and I’ll only have to add details and stuff? I don’t really know. And in the free time I should be writing, not trying to draw something.