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Taking a dip at the sunset

Let’s imagine it’s safe enough for them to hang out like that. And also that Barney is there.

This was a background practice :-)

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everything wrong with being an orphan btw, simply pick a struggle 🧡💙

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as an author how do you keep track of all the simultaneous action in a chapter as densely plotted as this? do you work backwards from key moments, think linearly through what the actors would all do, both? do you make diagrams or something?

as always your work is an inspiration even as the most recent updates have me utterly wrenched <3

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Everything is already scripted, so the work is all done there. The scripts are made from an outline, yes, and that looks just like bullet points of story turns and plot beats.

A chapter starts with a brainstorming session. I ask myself what the big movers in the story want, and then I ask myself how they are making that happen, and how everyone else reacts. Everything is character-driven. Everything. I think it's really apparent but the setting and story are structured so they take a backseat - not a distant spot in the trunk, but a backseat - to the character drama. That's how the world-ending Silver monster can wait outside for two-hundred pages while our entire cast sorts out its trauma. And because this is a setting where trauma turns into literal monsters and love turns into literal squishy powerful friends, all that internal character drama can and does have physical, tangible impacts on the external story.

So it really and truly does have to be handled at the same time for it to work.

I won't lie, it can be tricky bringing it together. Sometimes I underestimate how much space a scene is going to need, which is how chapters wind up ballooning so big. And even still, I'm often guilty of rushing the story too much. But I try my best :)

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"I still have nightmares about that cat."

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Waking up from a dream you were really engrossed in like "fuuuck I forgot to return my polearms to the priory"

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"I was recruited as an acolyte of Vaermina as a young elf. I had no real childhood to speak of... we weren't permitted to socialize."

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Shor shook his scaled mane...

...for he knew it would all come around again.

A less sketchy take on my giant Alduin design from before to celebrate my birthday, with more than a couple of new features :)

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She's me, I'm her.

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Dagoth Ur from The Elder Scrolls - Aluminum Foil Sculpture

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Fishn'

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just looked over to find my cat had somehow crawled into the sleeve of my jacket ???? fucking wheezing. the baleful worm

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Some G-Mans

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yayyyyyyyy

glados miku ^_^

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um. yeah