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the whump fan’s dilemma

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Lift your spirits

Welcome to Build-a-Frog!

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Truth.

I thought there might be a lot of other people who would benefit from reading this, too.

(Original tweet.)

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writing advice: never italicize words to show emphasis! if you’re writing well then the reader will know and you don’t need them!

me: oh really??? listen up, pal, you can just try an pull italics from my cold, dead fingers

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This is one of those tidbits that should be added to history books. Just a brief insight into the everyday human dealing with the plague of 2020. A flash of humor and hope amid the emptiness of our homes, streets, and even hearts.

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Me: *Removes my cat from my lap to do something else.*

My cat: Father is...evil? Father is unyielding? Father is incapable of love? I am running away. I am packing my little rucksack and going out to explore the world as a lone vagabond. I can no longer thrive in this household.

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This is so true. We also nitpick about flaws. Lol. Comic thanks to Locehpo

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Wait no this is the wrong dystopian future we were meant to be gay outlaws in a nuclear desert

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This is something that really helped me today, and I think it could help a lot of yall, too.

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True in so many areas, writing included. It's always terrifying to start/ finish a piece of work.

How'd you become confident/motivated enough to start your own AU?? Im trying to start my own right now and keep doubting my artistic and storytelling abilities and wondered if you've ever dealt with that and how you got past it??

Okay. So.

Imagine you are watching a sunset with your friend. 

When suddenly your friend turns to you and goes

And you feel confused and a little bit speechless because you know - you KNOW that ‘running to the horizon’ is a useless task, because the horizon is just an arbitrary point that you will see in front of you no matter where you are, and you KNOW that the sun is not actually AT the horizon, so to speak, but is actually in outer space, VERY far away. Unreachable.

What do you say to this friend? 

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See, here’s the thing.

Often, artists lack confidence because they think they need to get to a certain point to be ‘good enough’. 

They have this idea that there is a point at which they will be Good Enough Storytellers, and Good Enough Illustrators. That they will magically get The Motivation to start their project and finish it. That there will be an Achievement Award popping up over their heads. That they’ll hear a level up noise and just KNOW. That they have made it. That they’re ready.

That idea is a horizon line. It’s a lie. 

That ideal “good enough” point is NOT something you can ever arrive at. You can run as hard as you want, but you will never end up at your destination. You will never catch up to it. 

You will NEVER have the full confidence to start ANY project. That’s the curse of being honest with your own art. NO artist has full confidence in their abilities. NO artist is ever truly ‘ready’ to start any of their projects. We are always looking at whatever we made and thinking ‘it can be better.’ We always see the horizon ahead of us, and it doesn’t get any closer.

Don’t expect yourself to ever be ready. 

Start anyway. Start now. 

STOP waiting to arrive at the horizon.

The starting line isn’t there. It’s wherever you are when you WANT to do a story! 

(I didn’t start my AU comic because I thought ‘gee, I think I can pull this off now that I’m a level 22 artist with equipped Digital Art and WACOM tablet ability!’. Because the thing is, you can have all the things you ‘need’ at your disposal and still roll a nat 1. You can be a great artist and still mess up a story and fail to get it across. And you can be a beginner artist and you can still pull off a GREAT story. You will improve as you do your story anyway. Just embrace the growth.)

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Yes. So much yes

Alan Burnett and Bruce Timm on Joker’s signature grin

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I need a hundred dollars. STAT!

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IT’S NOT ‘PEEKED’ MY INTEREST

OR ‘PEAKED’

BUT PIQUED

‘PIQUED MY INTEREST’

THIS HAS BEEN A CAPSLOCK PSA

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Truth.

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