I want to add one thing to what @calidris already said!

A huge part of the chibi art style revolves around drawing soft, cute “baby” like features.  By making the head really big and wide, and making the body and arms/legs shorter and fatter, you can make your characters read more like chibis.  Also, something I’ve struggl…

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First of all, I really like how you approached the lighting in this piece!  Lighting is pretty hard, but the way you approached it is really fun and dynamic (which is pretty impressive considering that you’re new to digital art!).

One thing that I noticed is that the c…[Read more]

So, we’ve got a group NaNo-ing?

Me too, though not writing so much as editing “finished” books just sitting on the shelf.

Yep! Happy to have you join, even if you’re just editing a few things 🙂 I’m currently rewriting, I’m about 71k in. (I already had about 50k written before NaNo)

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Word count for today is 2513…[Read more]

This was a pretty inspiring comic.  Thanks for sharing this! (P.s where did you find this?)

Synth-wood, falsewood, lab-wood, imitation wood, fauxwood, bio-planking

Skog: Swedish for wood

Lemn: Romanian for wood

~There’s actually a thing called pseudowood that is sort of like artificial wood. But it is made up of wood scraps, and not completely synthetic materials. Plywood is a type of pseudowood.

~One type o…[Read more]

This is a good idea.

I think that most of what we try to hide is our pride, and I find that our culture (I’m guilty of this also) covers it up behind “Identity,” and “Expressing ourselves,” and “Being valued.”

If I can justify my wrong actions because someone else mis-treated me, or because they don’t “value” me, it’s…[Read more]

Tagging you guys separately so the spam filter doesn’t eat things up. XD

I don’t know if this is helpful, but Andrew Peterson has a way of describing both music and words in a way that is really moving. I’m not sure where you can find his stuff…it’s all throughout his songs and books.

That’s just what came to mind when I saw your post.

Does anybody want to do a word sprint?

That sounds like an awesome story idea, @edmund-lloyd-fletcher! I’m actually teaching through the original work with my 11th graders at the moment.

Hope the writing process goes well, @emgc! Glad you don’t need an outline to know where to take the story. 🙂

Sounds…[Read more]

@edmund-lloyd-fletcher @r-m-archer @emberynus-the-dragonslayer @naiya-dyani @eden-anderson

In first-person your narrato…[Read more]

How’s Camp going for everybody?! Are you reaching your word count? What’s one of your favorite things about camp during quarantine? 😀

Camp really didn’t start out that great for me. I fell behind in my word count and my project felt more like a weary burden…[Read more]

So, as you astutely observed, first-person by its very nature violates the rule of “show don’t tell.” However, it’s important to remember why that rule exists and what it primarily refers to – that is, things that we can’t literally see…[Read more]

For me at least, when I think of telling vs showing, I think of emotions and thoughts. You are telling me how you are feeling. It’s “I was angry and sad” instead of “My eyes burned. I swiped at my eyes with a clenched fist.” So “I did this. I went there.” isn’t <i>telling </i>to me. Those…[Read more]

Hey, sorry I didn’t get back sooner. Okay so, yeah, mine is not very cut and dry, but…

I finished writing my book last Sept. Because reasons, I wanted it released at the end of February. So between Sept and Feb I needed it edited, beta-read, formatted for Kindle and printers, blog tour set up, and book signing set up.…[Read more]

Thanks for starting up this thread! The NaNoWriMo 2019 thread was so much fun. 😀 And now I’m kind of feeling nostalgic. 😂 Anyways, best of luck to everybody doing Camp!

@r-m-archer That’s such a good idea! I wish I could do that, but unfortunately, I’m STILL working on my project from…[Read more]

I’m in. Or at least I’mma try!!

What do you mean by “what do you use”? Like, how do you plan it, or literally what do you plan it in, or what?

It’s definitely not a trade secret, but I know personally my timeline was definitely nothing hard and fast, so maybe that’s why you can’t get a real answer? 🤷‍♀️

Sorry it has been so long since I updated my status in bate reading ‘The Third Crown’. I’m finished the 2nd section and posted my notes to Google Doc at the end of that section. If you still want me to continue this, I’m ready for the next section.

Have a great day and thank you for your patience.
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We’ve launched a cool new feature on the forum called groups.

You can find them in the nav bar like so:

Groups are hubs for writers to gather around something they share in common. They include a Facebook-like feed and most of them also include their own forums.

So far there are three types of groups:
1. Word war…[Read more]

So I think that everyone so far, you and myself included, agree that voice is “Those aspects of writing which, intentionally or not, differ you from other…[Read more]

I was just reading an SEer’s blog and she said she’d just found her voice and it was “deeper and darker” than she would have thought.

That rang true. Finding your voice is similar to finding the “true you”. Society might have pushed you to be jocular, but maybe you feel most at home with sadness.

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I wonder if we might think of this in the context of actually coaching  someone… what would we tell them? As in, we’re there to help them… not just give advice from the side (that’s often a good and necessary thing, but I’d like to look at it from a different perspective, if only…[Read more]

*grins* Voice is one of my favorite things ever… and I’ll be following this conversation… and maybe add something at some point.

Things are pretty quiet around here mostly at the moment! What does everyone have planned for Christmas, and the new…[Read more]

@nuetrobolt Oh, really?! That’s cool…I didn’t know that. 😀

Yeah, my first time! It was fun being first-timers together! *high-fives*

@anne_the_noob14 Aw, I’m sorry. 😥 I hope you start feeling way better soon! ❤️

Summoning the…[Read more]

@edmund-lloyd-fletcher *nods* Yep 😀

Aww thank youuu!! And actually llamas are my favorite animal, after owls, so I love the Llama of Completion XD

Oof… Not great. But I did sleep off the headache I had Thursday night, so that’s good. Today my throat is still sore… but I’m coughing stuff up which always happens when I start to get over it, so that’s also good. *sighs*

I need 32,738 words today if I’m gonna win this XD Obviously that’s not…[Read more]

YES. AGREED.

YOU READ IT, TOO!!! 😀 😀 😀 AND YES I CRIED SO MUCH AAAAAAA Have you read Tyrant’s Tomb yet? There’s a death in that one that… *sniffs* I’m sorry… *sobs* I gotta go find some tissues… *hiccups* IT WAS AWFUL AAAAAA

YES. AGAIN, AGREED.

*nods* Yes. Yes, yes, YES.

And thanks so much for all the word warring you did with me! It was so much fun and  a huge motivation to me. You’re the best! 😍

@r-m-archer Thank you, Archer! ❤️ Keep up the good work!!

@kari-karast Thanks! Oooh, this snacks are…[Read more]

@edmund-lloyd-fletcher Yo, those are so cool! I want to try carving/whittling sometime, but I’m just so busy with other things I don’t have time lol

@eden-anderson 😀

*beams* Thank youuuuu!!! *sends virtual hugs and tea and chocolate and cool pens and stickers because everybody needs that*…[Read more]

@eden-anderson 😀

*beams* Thank youuuuu!!! *sends virtual hugs and tea and chocolate and cool pens and stickers because everybody needs that*

@naiya-dyani @eden-anderson

Verily, I’ve been straight…[Read more]

(I’m pretty sure I missed people, so if y’all think of anyone I missed, feel free to tag them. 🙂 )

In case you weren’t paying attention to the calendar, today is November 23. (at least for most of us)

There’s exactly ONE WEEK left to NaNoWriMo.

AGGHHHHH!!! *screams and chokes on my pizza*

NaNo is almost OVER.

That didn’t go by fast at all. *cough, cough*

I have seven days to get in my the last of my…[Read more]