#dragod

[buddy-barbados]

I still cant handle them treating this Dragon deity like a pet dog…he’s obviously a lil hedgehog get it together yuga love your hedgehog he’ll get more views that way.

(But seriously them filming him like a pet gives me life)

[eclairbrun]

Recently, it's come to my attention that I'm not very inventive with poses, likely in large part due to the fact that I'm bad at most of them. So I'm trying to do more drawings where I copy a pose from a photo or video frame rather than work without a reference. Stole this one from some moment or another of Geoff Castellucci singing Sixteen Tons (which I hummed the entire time I was drawing this).

[eclairbrun]

I got bored before I finished adding all the detail to the books.

[eclairbrun]

Recently, I’ve been in a weird procrastinating phase where I don’t want to work on revisions for WIP #1 because one of the main changes I’m thinking of for the next round of revisions is one I’m very hesitant to see through, and I don’t want to work towards finishing the first draft of WIP #2 because I wrote myself into a corner and didn’t realize it for like 8 chapters and haven’t yet figured out a fix for that yet that doesn’t involve scrapping a major plot conceit.

I still want to be some manner of productive, so I've been playing around with the characters in WIP #1. I do know more or less what to have happen in book 2 of that story but I’m reluctant to dive into it while I’m making all the changes I am to book 1, and also even though I love this story and think it’s one of my better works, I don’t want to invest too much into the sequel before I see what its chances of getting picked up for publication are.

So I’ve been writing for fun “fanfic” of WIP #1. It helps me keep the characters fresh in my mind, and I accomplish a surprising amount of world building this way through a combination of two things. First, the stories can linger for pure fluff purposes in locations that canon doesn’t dwell in long enough, giving me more time to really think through the location and maybe even consider a detail or two that I might want to put back in the canon story. Second, while I don’t have Tolkien’s ability to get away with a three page tangent about the world in the middle of the story proper, in a “fic” that only I shall ever read, I can spend three pages explaining the layout and history of a city as a drawn out precursor to explaining why it takes Murtagh over an hour to walk to Lure’s house if I feel like it. Who’s going to judge me? Me? I’m glad past!me wrote that so I can reference it when cobbling my world atlas together. 

Anyway I noticed through this procrastination that a character who I absolutely did not design to scratch a particular itch of mine but who kind of accidentrally came about as the character he is, and who I would not have expected to like... might be one of my faves. Like, on par with my darling protagonist. He keeps invading my fics and it’s a very weird way to learn about my own taste in characters.

[eclairbrun]

Gonna need a three month break from my story. Just realized an as of yet unrevealed character’s planned name doesn’t match the naming convention for his country.

[eclairbrun]

OTL

Prepping for round 2 of revisions and incidentally noticed something midway through the story where a character is stated to not know something that book 2 reveals they have firsthand knowledge of.

It’s a pretty easy fix, and it’s probably a holdover from the very first draft before I’d decided to expand this character’s role. I’m just annoyed that it survived the previous revision.

[eclairbrun]

Roughly 20% of the way through revisions round 1 and not trimming down my word count nearly as much as I hoped to. Now marking paragraphs that I like or that I think have a lot of character, but that I feel would probably be the next things to cut or else heavily condense.

[eclairbrun]

After having bastardized the name “Nathan” into “Nathien” to give my secondary protagonist a name that sounds non-generic enough for a fantasy without looking like I mashed a keyboard, I have lost the ability to write the name “Nathan” without having to stop and think first about how the hell you spell it.