#i finished hourly comics day today

[exchangersilverr]

OINJUCIE....

um uh. something happened i dont know if its good. a girl i know confessed she really liked us (US! PLURAL! SHE KNOWS) and i feel like crying in a good way. i had my life ruined and theyre willing to help me. i dont. know!??? I feel sick but excitedly?

i like songs!! i wanna hear! but this quote is from the book;

"That Night, I had come to the fatal crossroads. ...and from these agonies of death and birth, I had come forth an angel, instead of a fiend."

i guess i apply it to my own plurality.

- say 🍊 (command)

No oinjuicie here ú.ù

Oh!! Congrats! I'm not very good with words, and I don't know how to say it, but I hope this is brings nothing but good news for all of you. I know it can be a bit rough but I believe in you and I hope for nothing but good things.

I get ashamed because I like heavier stuff, and it doesn't seem like many other people do... I don't know. I get scared. I often feel like retracting it all.

That's true! That's what it is! It's protection, and while you choose how to view it, I think it's better to look at it more positively.

[saracastically]

hourly comics day! yesterday was kind of boring so i'm doing it today. today is not looking to be more interesting. stay tuned

[kcggggg]

part 1 of my attempt at hourly comic day (feb 1). I got sidetracked that night and did not finish but plan to today with the notes i took. be back soon.

[joonboree]

Trying to do hourly comic day today. Usually I post the finished product the next day or a few days later today I'm going to post as much as I can on the same day.

[prickly-problematic-programmer]

oops hourly comic day was yesterday but i didnt finish until today ^^’

i’ve really enjoyed trying new art things the past few months!!! loved trying my hand at this along with @gothmothart ! there’s quite a few hours that line up with their’s lol <3

[enbywerewolf]

Yesterday was hourly comics day. I did most of them yesterday, but was too tired to do the last two, so i finished today. Cheating is ok! Here's part one.

[missalyssaread]

I did in fact do Hourly Comic Day yesterday, though I had to finish up today because I got tired and my wrist was being a Jerk. I am never the speediest at HCD, but hey, at least I have been actually doing it the last couple years.

Though I did in fact have a nasty POTS flare all damn day yesterday, so most of this was drawn while spaced out and dizzy, which made me even slower than usual, huzzah?

[sleepymccoy]

I saw a few people doing this a couple days ago and it looked like fun! So I did it yesterday

I’m not sure if there’s some tradition to it, like a particular day, so I just picked my first day off work in the week, which is generally when I do a couple chores and errands and catch up on bits of design work. It’s my chillest day and has a nice tone :)

[spookbot]

hourly comic day 2021! I’ll update this post as I finish them.

[fox-teeth]

Two Points of Interest:

One: today is Hourly Comic Day! I’ll probably post two big batches of my hourly comics here, head over to my Twitter account to see me post them in real-time throughout the day.

Two: I’ve been having problems with my eyesight (dry eyes and astigmatism causing blurry vision, pain, etc--don’t worry I just started treatment) which unfortunately made it really hard to complete all my sketches for Goblin Week 2021. But I’m determined to finish them one way or another (including some uncolored 2020 ones I found) so get ready for Goblin Week the Sequel: it’s Goblin February Now this month.

[keh-arts]

Soooo ~ I got really tired on Hourly comics day about 10pm & just went to bed, then I had a chronic fatigue crash on Tuesday were I did nothing but watch Netflix & tweet about Phil the Groundhog (he saw his shadow, if you didn't know) & so I only finished this today! Better luck next year, I guess! (1) I know they're making follow up episodes of Dexter don't @ me - I don't expect it to fix my main issue unless it was ALL a DREAM - please no to that as well btw 2) BlackAAAAAAAAAAAdder ~ BlackAAAAAAdder ~)

[1ddiscourseoftheday]

Thurs 5 Sept 1/2

“Happy release day everyone, exciting stuff!”

Too right Louis! Kill My Mind is out and it's awesome and the world is all over it, hell yeah. KMM hit the charts high and climbed all day, hitting #2 on iTunes and getting great press, with LTHQ going hard on the global focus.

He did the first of many radio appearances, notably the Indie House Party spot, genuinely the Louis interview of DREAMS, a full hour of real music talk and respect and Louis just relaxing and talking about what he loves with someone knowledgeable and smart who takes him seriously as an artist, I'm... overwhelmed. And Louis playing music for us? Please just give Louis his own radio show I want this content always! He also did an earlier show, played the rom com game, fun stuff but no room to get into it sorry highlights below. The Notebook still isn't a rom com though, where's the comedy? Someone needs to talk to him and Harry about that.

MTV calls KMM "bigger slicker and rockier than anything he's ever done", and talks about his note of intention, Rolling Stone published a write up and tweeted about the song (as does Rob Sheffield, "KMM is the No Control sequel I did know I needed"), iHeart says "think LBD and No Control vibes with an Oasis twist," Euphoria calls the song "a new age Britpop banger that'll shine even brighter in a live setting" and Louis "your new Britpop icon," he got a twitter moment, Power Radio UK is gonna play the song hourly all weekend, and the Comic Relief breakfast footage is finally dropping, teased today and out tomorrow.

Louis says the song is about experimenting when you're young, fun nostalgia, and looking back at being juvenile. He says it can be read as being about a toxic relationship but mostly that it's about going through an experimental phase in your youth and doing things that might not be good for you but are exciting, about "... uh... being naughty" (it's at least in part about drugs like yeah I'm saying it. It is and you know it, fight me, and also who cares, it's not a big deal.) He says, "the next few songs I have coming out represent me as an artist," "this is the most comfortable I've felt musically," "this is the vibe from now on," about the song being loud and in your face, "as promised!" and that he is "proud and excited"- yeah! Us too!!

He thanks the fans more times and in more ways than I can count but yeah bunches of tweets, radio mentions ("they're smart yeah?" *taps head cutely*), re: the fan project of a BILLBOARD IN TIMES SQUARE (can you believe?!) he says, “so fucking incredible,” he did a thank you video, and a final tweet to finish out the day "even if I don’t always see you all I feel your presence and your backing" and signed off by saying fuck fandom factions with his emphasis on how much he loves ALL his fans.

An Arista release about KMM calls TOU “the first single off (Louis') album” and Louis said today that he wouldn't be playing Miss You in Madrid- he said he will play five new songs not counting KMM yiiiikkkes and OMG. He says he will be covering one of the songs he deleted on the radio show keep or delete game! (But not the Arctic Monkeys one so that narrows it down to what like three? My money's on the Libertines) (FYI I hope yall know I'm taking that day off just getting that out there now.) About the 1D ten year anniversary he says, "we should do something for that." And yeah what about those guys? Let's be real, we need a special section for this; he's talking about Harry. He's saying his name and casually talking about communicating with him! Asked about being in touch with the boys- he said he "saw Liam most recently," that he talks to him on the phone, that he hung out with Niall at Glastonbury, in fact he really gets into specifics and details for them both, exactly when and where, and then he says he hasn't seen Harry in "a while" but "I've been in contact with him recently, it's proper nice. Proper nice." Okay okay... by nighttime radio slots we had progressed to chatting about Harry's hair. He's asked about Harry's new haircut looking like his and he says, "I'll be telling him that yeah," and later, "I'll be sending Harry a text about his hair." Listen NBD right ....unless maybe you've been force fed a narrative of them not even being friends anymore for years. So are we seeing an end to that nonsense? HELL YEAH bring it on! A good start, KMM cowriter Jamie Hartman casually dropping the factoid that KMM was recorded at Shangri La, yes, the same studio where Harry was holed up to taking all those shrooms and recording HS2. Louis also named Japan as where he'd most like to go on tour, lol. Not mentioned once today: Eleanor or Freddie. I mean why would you mention your girlfriend during a whole radio segment about rom coms and romance amiright? Mhmm. I'm not saying we've heard the last of them but it definitely wasn't a focus today.

The lyric video exists and is cool and I don't have time for it but it shows him dressed as Liam Gallagher onstage, cute, and tells the story of a couple meeting at a Louis show and in the end smooching by a, uh, lighthouse. Maybe we'll have time for video analysis in full by the weekend? Let's go girls!

Finally, when promo was done for the day he parked himself on twitter to see what was up- he responded to a fan teasing about the Real Madrid shirt- “beaut shirt tho.” It was beautiful, the rainbow especially. He defended his height, ("to be fair he's a tall fucker"), says he liked Florence and the Machine, thanked Rolling Stone and various others and a few other things.

There were also lots of pics look go check a UA or something I'm done for I mean I also left out so much interview stuff and you all saw all this anyway! Whatever! Goodbye! Goodnight to Louis only THANKS FOR THE TUNE

[squigglegigs]

happy hourly comics day everyone! 👏✨ this didnt come out as neat as i would have liked and it was a rough mental health day for me today BUT!! i was able to finish them before the end of the day so!! that is something!

[willshakespearestudies]

Day 28 of 100: Days of Productivity

Today I used my "5-Minute Method" (which I'll make a post about tomorrow morning) to get a lot done today.

Tasks:

Turned in a Forensics Assignment

Took AP World Notes

Did a practice SAR on the Reformation

Did some Radioactive Decay Practice Problems

Worked on my Chemistry Study Guide

Started on my AP Test Review comics

Made 2 AP Euro Quizlets (one for Literature and one for -isms)

Studied for my Algebra test

To Do:

Do well on tomorrow's Algebra test

Do the English project

Do an Hourly Comic Day sometime this week

Go to Creative Writing Club tomorrow

Finish Brave, New World

Currently Listening to Greyhound by Calpurnia

15 September 2019

[lululawrence]

Hi, I was wondering if I could ask you about like, how often you write, and how much you write when you write. I always look at your writing and im like dammmn lulu is so well written and writes so much and I was just wondering how you manage to get it done and if you have any tips and advice for making the time and getting the writing done?

Hi!! I meant to answer this while I had my laptop out earlier today and forgot so now you get my likely very untidy phone type up of my thoughts. Apologies in advance hehe

So how often I write! It depends on the time of year. Usually once school is in session I write at least 4-5 times a week. It’s sometimes only fifteen minutes here and thirty minutes there, but I do try to get at least two or three good hour+ writing sessions in a week just because I emotionally and mentally do better with that and with the kids in school I have that opportunity more often. Once November comes along I write pretty much every single day because of nanowrimo. November is also the start of what I call my anxious season and writing is a BIG coping mechanism for me, so i write pretty much daily all the way until the anxious season is over. (Sometimes that’s mid January, sometimes that’s April. It varies.) then it goes back down to about 3-4 times a week until summer break and at that point who the hell knows??? I do get at least one or two good writing sessions in each week generally during that time though.

This is all going to be basically going out the window this winter though with baby #3 coming in January so keep tuned on that. Hahaha!

As for how much I write, it depends on a lot of factors. What I’m writing, how much time I have, what deadlines I’m working with, what my mood and focus level is like that day, how well I’ve been sleeping, etc etc etc. generally speaking I don’t sit down and tell myself how many words I wanna write. I might have a goal of “I want to finish this scene” or just “write as much as I can in the 20 minutes before I have to leave for appointment c” or whatever, but I don’t hold those in too high regard. If it happens it happens, and if not, maybe next time. The only reason I even know how much I write in one session or hour or whatever is because that’s how my writing support group chats are able to help cheer me on even if no one else is writing at the same time. I tell them my starting word count and when I’m checking back in, and then when I come back I give my end word count. If possible, I write for an hour at a time, so I come to know my usual hourly word count abilities etc. if I’m in a good vibe I can usually get anywhere from 1700 words an hour to 2200 words, but that obviously fluctuates.

ALSO. This isn’t how it’s always been. I used to do writing parties with writers far more experienced than me and they’d get numbers like I just gave you while I was struggling to write 800 words in that same time frame. I sent think I would ever get higher. But I wasn’t writing as frequently, I hadn’t learned the best writing practices for myself yet, I hadn’t found my writing groove, you know? I was still learning and growing and getting to where I am now, five years after I started. And I’m being serious right now, the comic sans trick works. Lol

As for how I get it done, it’s like i said in the previous paragraph. I learned what works best for me in loads of ways. Settings of where I’m writing plays a big part. I can write at home but I’ll be writing at least half speed that I would at the library or Starbucks. I write best in the afternoon but my other big writing groove time is between 7-10 pm generally speaking. I am HUGELY motivated by deadlines. If a fic doesn’t have an actual deadline, I have to make one up for it in my head or it won’t be written and if it is it’ll be so drawn out and I’ll drag my feet even if I wanna write it and love it and yeah. I also know I need to talk to people about my writing. I have to tell someone I’m doing it and have that feeling of reporting back to prove I did it cause I am a FUCKING LEO and I need other people to applaud me when I actually do what I set out to do. Haha all of these things combine and have been learned piece by piece for me over the years until I’ve gotten to where I am now. I was NOT this efficient before. I also did a stupid personal challenge of writing a birthday fic for every friend I was close enough to to know their birthdays one year which resulted in my writing over 42 fics in a single calendar year (I also had exchanges and other challenges I wrote for so there were hella deadlines and that taught me a lot about my writing limits, how fast I could write an entire fic, how to condense fics and ideas, and so on and so forth) and I felt like the insanity of that year opened every door and window for me writing wise. I feel like I can literally do anything I set out to do in fic writing now. I’ve also come to appreciate me writing fics for myself too though hahaha

SO. Tips!!! Keep going. Keep trying. Keep stretching and using those writing muscles and try new things. Find what techniques work for you. Is it motivation you’re lacking? Support? Rewards? Deadlines? Typing ability? Confidence? Figure out what you think is your biggest hurdle and try to rectify it. Try writing new and different things you haven’t tried before, even if they’re just drabbles. Just don’t let mental constraints of what you think you can and can’t do force you to stay in certain bounds because you learn from every experience and through time you’ll come to know how you work best as well. Keep swimming!

But also, keep reading. Reading gives me the biggest motivation. I love reading and giving comments to other writers who help entertain me and inspire me and cultivating relationships with other writers too. The writing community here in this fandom is SO deep and SO beautiful and loving and supportive. We are incredibly lucky and I love being a part of it. everyone here helps me keep going all the time and I love reading what they put out just as much as I love writing. So. I also recommend you continue reading as well. ☺️☺️

This is SO LONG and I apologize. I’d do a read more if I wasn’t on mobile. But I do hope you find this helpful or at the very least not boring!

What it all comes down to is this. Everyone’s process is different. Everyone’s speed is different. Part of the reason I can write so fast is I don’t edit as I go. I just. Don’t. I throw an entire sopping heap of messy writing at my betas and they clean it up and make it pretty. Others can’t work like that. They have to edit as they write which will naturally slow them down. So just also don’t compare yourself. You can always aim to improve, but in the end the numbers don’t matter outside of helping you attain your own personal goals.

Good luck!! You’re doing and gonna continue doing amazing things. I can feel it. ☺️😘😘😘😘😘

[laurellynnleake]

Part 2 of my comics for Hourly Comics Day 2019! You can read part 1 here and find other people’s comics by using the related hashtags here and on twitter (seems like there’s a fair amount of variation in which ones people are using). Also I drew the last two early before quitting for the night because I know myself too well, ha. And for the record I finished editing for half of these today, re: overexerting myself the day before! Even simple drawings like these take effort, haha.  

Featuring references to Merry Graves fka John Campbell, creator of Pictures for Sad Children and Hourly Comics Day, Bob the Drag Queen and Monet Exchange on their “Sibling Rivalry” video podcast, @cyelatm‘s beautiful EP 6 Wooden Walls with cover by @snout, and @voidburger @chip-and-ironicus and Snuggle Beast on their 2016 Gextra Life 24 Hour Charity Stream for Hurley Children’s Hospital in Flint, MI! I highly recommend getting into any or all of their work C: