#to try and help explain the concept

[zackstriker]

surrealism + abstract fiction writing sounds cool as hell dude!! is there anything especially neat you've studied lately? :0

omg i’m so glad you asked!!! i’m actually working on a novella rn that’s told in fourth person POV and it’s super hard.

as far as stuff i’ve learned: i LOVE using the “Ashamed I” pov which is when you use second person POV to tell a first person story. For example: “You had a hard day, counted three accidents on the interstate on the way to work. You didn’t see as many seagulls as normal. Lexi, your assistant, says it’s going to rain but you know she’s wrong. It hasn’t rained in weeks.” In this paragraph the “you” isn’t the you as in the reader, the “you” is a whole fleshed out character.

i’m working on destructuring the idea of the novel in a class rn and we’re reading No One is Talking About this by Patricia Lockwood (i’m actually meeting her soon bc i get to have dinner with her and introduce her at one of her readings as a part of my program) and it’s such an interesting read!! She was a poet before she wrote prose and you can really tell. i’ve never read anything quite like it!!

Anyways i’ll stop there bc i could pop off for hours and hours and hours about Weird Fiction and absurdism and avant-garde literature.

[crow-caller]

I really do think looking at bad writing is one of the best ways to learn about writing in general, especially for beginners.

the thing is, writing in general is highly subjective- a good sentence will be good in different ways to different people, or not impress someone at all.

a bad sentence? most people can spot bad sentences easy, especially if it is presented to them as 'here's an example of a bad sentence, let's unpack why.'

bad writing can also be very funny, which I think is again often more engaging than 'here's a work of literary genius go analyze it'. Like here's some bad writing from lightlark3:

The moment it was out of Horus’s grip, his body became bones. The flesh turned to ash. He became a corpse.

it's dumb as hell, but I think could foster a solid discussion when you ask 'why? what is the author intending to say? what about it makes it feel 'clunky'? How would you write the same idea?'

[socksandbuttons]

Will you be writing more stories involving Killcode and his kids? I like the stories you write 👍👍

nsdkjvs Thank youuu <333 and HMNNN Given i have a lot of lore stuff and convo's with all the kids and KC, maybe. Some i think would be better as comics but writing the Bean drabble did help with putting down things I do on purpose for how a character does something as well. (Such as KC not really drinking his coffee vs Eclipse who drank it all) Lil character stuff that would be good establishing how they interact is something I'd like to do.

[goldenshrikecomic]

Hello! GS is one of my favorite comics right now and a huge inspiration in my own journey of working on a comic. One of the things I find the most impressive is your paneling. Visually each of them are laid out in a way that gives this great flow, it feels really natural to imagine the pages in motion.

Would it be okay to ask what your thought process is on panelling, or just general advice/thoughts on setting up/laying out pages? I hope this makes sense

When I think about page layout, my number one question is what kind of panel I want the page to end with. It shouldn't cut the conversation or motion awkwardly, and ideally it should be something that acts like a hook that makes you want to click to the next page, like here:

It's all about getting from part A to part B. Part A, you're here. Where's the part B? The cutting point, the point where the page ends, where the chapter ends, and ultimately where the story ends.

What kind of story you want to make?

What kind of plot points you want to cover in your chapter?

How much content there is in this one page, does it forward the plot, relationships, or just show a side of someone you want seen?

You can go even smaller. Is this panel important? Does it need a full background? Could these three small panels of characters talking be one big panel? It'll save you time and look nicer.

You'll get it with practice! The old first pages of my comic wasted a lot of space, sometimes they still do. Don't stuff it full but don't get too loose! Don't be afraid of small panels, reserve big ones for big moments, like mother saying goodbye to her kid, or a yellow deer meeting a god. I see many starting comicers use very few panels per page, but this is a LOT of unnecessary work that builds up versus you including more panels per page. It's all about the bubbles. Bubbles lead everything. It's the silent pages that are the hardest.

Again, this is just how I do it. I bet there's tons of different approaches that work for the right people. Hope you find what works the best for you, best of luck with your project!

[sydmarch]

it was so stupidly difficult to find any nutritionist who has experience with arfid & takes insurance so after having to go through all these referrals my therapist sent me & jumping through hoops I lowkey hate the lady lmao feels like such a waste of time & energy

[moe-broey]

I am in the infinite abyss

[etapereine]

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[aidenwaites]

The thing about Halloween (1978) is when you don't watch Halloween (1978) for a few years you forget how good Halloween (1978) actually is

[imflyingfish]

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[slutforwings]

oscillating between 'if my professor doesnt know these terms she can google them like i fucking had to' and 'if i explain these terms i will reach my word count faster'

[elftwink]

being actually so serious I thought I knew what inflation was and then someone explained to me the concept of "greedflation"/price gouging and ever since then I feel like I must be missing something because everyone's acting like those are those are different things like?????? "greedflation is when prices are raised even though supplies cost the same because it will generate more profit for the seller" ok "inflation is that also but instead of saying the seller did that we say the Market did and it was unavoidable!! but yes the seller is bringing in more profit as a result" like??? is something material actually different between inflation and greedflation or is it literally just a kind of framing device. bc if there is something material I am not comprehending it

[mishkakagehishka]

Me when i dream of lil Mika but it's another nightmare

[foldingfittedsheets]

Something that literally changed my life was working with a friend on a coding thing. He was helping me create an auto rig script and was trying to explain something to me but his words were just turning into static in my brain. I was tired and confused and there was so many new concepts happening.

I could feel myself working toward a crying meltdown and was getting preemptively ashamed of what was about to happen when he said, “Hey, are you someone who benefits from breaks?”

It broke me.

Did I benefit from breaks? I didn’t know. I’d never taken them.

When a problem frustrated or upset me I just gritted my teeth and plowed through the emotional distress because eventually if you batter and flail at something long enough you figure it out. So what if you get bruised on the way.

I viscerally remembered in that moment being forced to sit at the table late into the night with my dad screaming at me, trying to understand math. I remembered taking that with me into adulthood and having breakdowns every week trying to understand coding. I could have taken a break? Would it help? I didn’t know! I’d never taken one!

“Yes,” I told him. We paused our call. I ate lunch. I focused on other stuff for half an hour. I came back in a significantly better state of mind, and the thing he’d been trying to explain had been gently cooking in the back of my head and seemed easier to understand.

Now when I find myself gritting my teeth at problems I can hear his gentle voice asking if I benefit from breaks. Yes, dear god, yes why did I never get taught breaks? Why was the only way I knew to keep suffering until something worked?

I was relating to this same friend recently my roadtrip to the redwoods with my wife. “We stopped every hour or so to get out and stretch our legs and switch drivers. It was really nice. When I was a kid we’d just drive twelve hours straight and not stop for anything, just gas. We’d eat in the car and power through.”

He gave a wry smile, immediately connecting the mindset of my parents on a road trip to what they’d instilled in me about brute forcing through discomfort. “Do you benefit from breaks?” he echoed, drawing my attention to it, making me smile with the same sad acknowledgement.

Take breaks. You’re allowed. You don’t have to slam into problems over and over and over, let yourself rest. It will get easier. Take. Breaks.

[ozzyfromthecafeteria]

they call me the bouncer on account of how hard i can bounce my leg

[obligatory-name-change]

once again thinking about sunandmoon from hit game fnaf: what if we just got rid of the gameplay loop

[watch-out-it-bites]

Agh......