#youll see improvement

[evienyx]

any advice for newbie fanfic writers or new writers in general? I always have trouble trying to "paint a picture/ describe a scene and happenings lol thanks :D

I feel like I say this every time, to the point that its like a cop-out answer, but, genuinely, you really do just gotta practice.

Its like with any type of art. You won't get better at drawing if you don't just draw. You won't get better at an instrument unless you play the instrument. I didn't really notice my writing getting "better," but looking back at the earlier chapters of Fractures and comparing them to my newer stuff, it's clear that I have.

Past that, I mean one thing I do is I read all of my stuff out loud. I try to see if the words that I've written put the right image in my head. "Painting a picture" is a hard thing to do with writing, and a lot of the time its less about the amount of words that you write and more about the way that you use a smaller amount of space.

Crack open a thesaurus. Don't use bigger, more obscure words just for the sake of using them, but find ones that might work better. At the same time, though, don't be afraid of common words. I use "said" quite a lot, even though a million English teachers will yell about how basic it is. Much of the time, though, the emotion comes from the actions the characters take outside of the dialogue tag.

There are a few things you can choose to focus on when it comes to "painting a picture" that will set an overall mood quite easily. One of the most simple and yet most effective is weather. Describing the sky, the time of day, what the sun looks like. It can add tension, or drama, or can even stand to emphasize the state the characters are in, like when its a nice day but they're going through something hard.

Everyone's going to have a different writing style, too. Sure, you can copy someone else's, but if you're just writing yourself without trying to emulate another author, you're going to have your own style.

Personally, I tend to do a lot of comparisons to describe things. I pinpoint a few details and call back to them throughout a chapter or a story. Oftentimes I like to get a lot deeper into the character's mindset and examine that for a good while before pushing the plot forward. One of my friends, on the other hand, is a lot more straightforward with her writing, sort of trying to tell it as it is. Both describe what needs to be described, just in different ways.

If you're really struggling with trying to figure out how to "paint a picture" in the reader's head, try thinking through the different aspects of the scene. Anything that you can describe. Then, pick what actually needs to be described to understand what is going on. The positions of the characters, the vague setting, things like that. You don't need to go super in depth, because the reader knows, even subconsciously, how to fill in a lot of the detail on their own. You really are just here to "set the scene."

As I said before, though, no matter what advice you take, the only true way to see solid improvement is through actively writing. It doesn't need to be stuff you publish, but I would encourage it, since feedback is an enormous help as well. Either way, though, just keep writing, and reading it back, and then writing again, and you'll see improvement, just as with any type of art.

(Also, and I mean this with my whole heart, for the love of god, Kill Your Darlings.)

(Thank you and goodnight.)

[humans-are-tasty]

[beannary]

part 5 of my still unnamed separated au!

one of these days this bad boy will have a name, but today is not that day

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[jamesbukkakebarnes]

Call me Steve Rogers the way I got Bucky's thighs on my mind 24/7 😩

[bigmammallama5]

pulling a 12 hour shift at the wood kiln this weekend kinda set me back with my shoulder/neck trouble i've been having. but i did go to pt yesterday and we tried dry needling for the first time (two in my left trapezius, on the top near my neck) and what the fuck. i dont understand how that all works and usually approach it with a healthy amount of questioning but my muscle released and i feel so much better. i didnt hurt when i got up today lol other than im sore where i got stuck (and yes im still doing my exercises im gonna get a good grade in dont screw your body up)

(we also think that muscle is the culprit for my nerve tingling in my hand, that reacted during the procedure and has also since improved)

[hollypies]

Can. Can you tell I. Can you tell I like the clown pants.

Anyway I call this outfit angry clown! I. I dont know why. But it's pretty cute ^^

Also tumblr fixed the ! Dashboard ! My art looks normal now lmao

[notahorseindisguise]

We understand your post just fine. You don't seem to understand how tumblr works. Your post wasn't funny. It is funny, with depth, now. If you hate it so much that people are riffing off it, unsubscribe from it. You don't get to control other people riffing off a post you've made. You screaming how no one understood it in the notes made me come back here go "Ah. Yes. No wonder, it's a child." And now I block you, because I don't want children on my dash, because they act like this. 👍

ok. i think you should kill yourself 👍

[mejomonster]

To get good at telling stories... writing stories... one must... practice by writing stories ;-;

[bootlegfrank]

How do you draw so good like omg it’s so good 😭😭😭

Thanks! There's no trick to it except pushing yourself :] I drew a shit ton as a kid, spent all my time drawing, and about ten years ago I got into fanart, and just drew and drew and drew art of the things I liked. I took art in secondary school and that taught me the importance of doing studies, of composition and all the different forms of contrast, and that helped push me along. Your style will find you, your anatomy will get better the more you practice, and all you really need technical knowledge on is technique. Google the different forms of contrast, look at classic paintings and explore the compositional shapes in them, think of art as more than just your line-art <3

[myriadsystem]

Ofmd is..not at all what i was expecting

Why did not a single one of you tell me that they were vaguely given pirate characters and told to improv about it and that most of them are bad at improv but really trying their hardest

Maybe i shouldve guessed but i was expecting like.. a show. Like a real show with written scripts not this (kind of awkward) bumbling around a scene for longer than is needed until the directors decide to spare us and show a different bumbling scene

Props to queer eye for the pirate guy who is trying his damn hardest, theres a lad who knows when to chomp on that bit but watching this show overall feels like a trainwreck. Like im still gonna watch if you get just the right amount of high and accept that this is an ongoing theatre improv scenario not a television or streaming style show then you can still have a good time i think, embrace the cringe and whatnot and i know you tumblr hoes love it so ill stick it through to the end but can someone please at least tell me that good omens is like.. a show with a script? When i get to it ive heard such good things and if its just more college improv id like to maybe skip it please i think ofmd is enough improv for me

[seagull-scribbles]

Being recognised and complimented by someone so talented and amazing just hits you somewhere

[tiktaaliker]

oh also here's just a shit ton of my old art i still think holds up that i dont think ive posted here yet? lots of ocs and a handful of blaseball guys hehe

[beautifullymacabre]

been a while since i posted here.

i feel my art is getting better.

i guess i've finally found the answer to my mother's fridge magnet- "i've suffered enough. when does my artwork improve?" when the artwork becomes the only way you can communicate your suffering. when conversational language fails you and all that remains is prose and paint. when your desperation to be heard drives you to create to survive, just as you breathe the air.

or perhaps it's simply the practice that comes alongside the hunger.

but doesn't that sound romantic?

[sillyfaggot]

watching your art improve over the last couple years has been so cool! you have such an interesting style and i feel like with every new piece i see youre getting more and more skilled

WAAUUUU..sniffles .. thank you anon :) this means a lot THANK YOU MMMWAH

[very-lucky]

Don’t delete your old art

Not out of disappointment that you were unable to create the thing that had perfectly envisioned in your mind

Not out of embarrassment that you weren’t at the skill level you are today

Not because you’re ashamed of the things that used to bring you joy

If you destroy all the evidence of the progress before, how will you discern that improvement has happened?

If you destroy the memories of doing something that brought you peace, what will you find to connect with that younger version of yourself? 

If you destroy moments in which you were celebrated, what will remind you that you’re still worth celebrating?

You can archive it. You can have it be just for you, but

don’t delete your old art.

[chisatowo]

I don't wanna draw it but imagine I'm beaming y'all an image of one of unit swap mmj's performances where Haruka and Airi are dancing together in a very coordinated fashion while Minor break dances several feet away from them and Shizuku is just bobbing in the back doing the macarena