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this is so mean but sometimes i see published writing and suddenly no longer feel insecure about my own writing ability. like well okay that got published so im guessing i dont have much to worry about

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my dec 1st was a woeful sunday: 218 words

writing challenge for dec if anyone wants to join:

join me in attempting to commit to min 200 words per day for the month of dec!

additional optional guidelines below the cut

I will be attempting to keep my words to the same wip that i usually struggle to work on consistently

I am only counting prose, not including any additional world-building/planning documents I may work on during this time

Minimum 200—I very much encourage myself (and anyone else who joins) to write more if you’ve got it in you day to day

that’s pretty much it! feel free to rb if you’re joining or comment your daily word counts :)

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Being obsessed with your own ocs is so so good for you i seriously can't recommend it enough

[tryingtowriteplease]

writing challenge for dec if anyone wants to join:

join me in attempting to commit to min 200 words per day for the month of dec!

additional optional guidelines below the cut

I will be attempting to keep my words to the same wip that i usually struggle to work on consistently

I am only counting prose, not including any additional world-building/planning documents I may work on during this time

Minimum 200—I very much encourage myself (and anyone else who joins) to write more if you’ve got it in you day to day

that’s pretty much it! feel free to rb if you’re joining or comment your daily word counts :)

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ready to alarm everyone with my spotify listening minutes again

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fascinating that when you tell people "you have to learn the rules to break them" when talking about drawing/painting etc everyone nods and agrees but the second you say "you have to read books if you want to write better" there's a horde of contrarians begging to be the wrongest people ever all of a sudden

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writing be like

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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u know what, even if my writing isnt the BEST, i still made it all on my own. like there was a blank word doc and i filled it up with my own words, my own story. i took what was in my head and i made it a real thing. idk i feel like that alone is something to be proud of.

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Here's to the people who can't get the words on the page. The people who are too tired after all life throws at them to write. The people who are blocked. The people who are burnt out. The people who can't write because of physical or mental illnesses. The people who don't know why they can't write. And the people struggling with all those other things that get in the way of writing and make it seem or be impossible.

You're still a writer, you're still an artist. And you matter. This world is better since you're in it. Thank you for wanting to write, even if you can't right now. I hope you and your words find each other soon.

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"Don't use Libby because it costs libraries too much, pirate instead" is such a weird, anti-patron, anti-author take that somehow manages to also be anti-library, in my professional librarian-ass opinion.

It's well documented that pirating books negatively affects authors directly* in a way that pirating movies or TV shows doesn't affect actors or writers, so I will likely always be anti-book piracy unless there's absolutely, positively no other option (i.e. the book simply doesn't exist outside of online archives at all, or in a particular language).

Also, yeah, Libby and Hoopla licenses are really expensive, but libraries buy them SO THAT PATRONS CAN USE THEM. If you're gonna be pissed at anybody about this shitty state of affairs, be pissed at publishing companies and continue to use Libby or Hoopla at your library so we can continue to justify having it to our funding bodies.

One of the best ways to support your library having services you like is to USE THOSE SERVICES. Yes, even if they are expensive.

*Yes, this is a blog post, but it's a blog post filled with links to news articles. If you can click one link, you can click another.

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Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

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conditions for success tonight are that i sleep through the night, my cat eats her dry food, and she doesn’t throw up (again)

hoping for the best anticipating the worst and we have work tomorrow. let’s go

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hi just quick “not dead” post on this page—think i take things a bit too seriously when i consider the inevitable “god people are going to READ this” part of writing which is literally part of why i started this (to get over that).

basically part of why i don’t post a lot is like the complex idea of wanting to share? but not wanting to spoil a final product? which is silly because nothing i’m doing right this moment is anywhere near a final product. anyways, will try to keep that in mind and share a bit more of my work

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anyone ever just manage to write entire spreadsheets of character worldbuilding without ever writing a single sentence of prose

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spending the entire day writing one paragraph