#and get off tumblr

[scamanderishredmayniac]

I was once called a curious writer, by someone who had read snippets of an original piece I was working on some many years ago. I had never heard of anyone saying that before at the time. It felt bizarre, I knew what it meant to be a curious reader, but not a curious writer. I’m not 100% sure, but I think it was because I was allowing readers to explore the character’s past story, exploring why they felt and behaved in a certain way. She said something about how she liked how I was building up character and giving back story. The reality was I knew these characters inside out, well sort of. They had history outside the story in my mind, and personality such that were not on the page. I imagined a whole set of people as though they were real in this strange town I had written about. I wanted the reader to explore these people, to see into the characters minds, and explore their world. I’ll admit I didn’t know everything about the town they were living in, and the only thing at the time I was exploring was the town and its history. The only thing I explored and was curious about in the characters, or at least 3 of them was their feelings for each other.

I hadn’t been in a relationship at the time, I hadn’t experienced falling in love and finding someone, and only added a sort of love storyline because a friend asked me too. So my curiosity as a writer was to explore that side of things. So maybe this reader saw that, I don’t know. I just got the gist that it meant something very good. I’m not even sure why I’m rambling like an idiot when i should be climbing into bed and going to sleep, especially when I said I wouldn’t come onto tumblr for a month. Oops! I just saw a friend had reblogged this, and it made me think of that comment left on my work. I don’t know why i had to share this ling rambly story, but I quite liked being called a curious writer. It’s been a long time since I got such a compliment that made me feel good about my writing.

Basically being a curious writer is apparently a good thing and makes one’s story interesting. And it should really be a widely spread piece of advice to potential writers to be curious of what you’re writing.

“Be curious about what you’re writing about” is not stock Common Writing Advice but it really, really should be. There are a lot of written works that fail due to the authors just being obviously incurious about what they are writing about.

[biowho]

Gaby Soto is a gift

Edit: I missed one!

[paintedcrows]

*through tears* HER LITTLE POG CHAMP

[jeanmoreaux]

adore how the evil boop is *the* expression of love when booping people like yes ofc i did waste precious seconds to press that stupid button for an annoyingly long time just to send you the most useless yet most specialest, weirdly aggressive boop <3

[soothedcerberus]

Cozy Alphys arts for Autumn! 🍵🦎

[waterthatsmoe]

First years shenanigans

Bonus jack

[vamprisms]

dear diary my teen angst bullshit has a body count

[who-is-page]

"You can't have [experience] because you don't identify as [label]!!!" how do I explain to people that experiences exist outside of and prior to the formation of specific language to talk about them

"You can't have [experience] because you don't think of it through [framework/explanation/etc]!!!" how do I explain to people that experiences exist outside of and prior to any formal cosmology, hypotheses, or explanation assigned to them

[doesephs]

spent six hours on boobalicious vi when i could have learned to backflip. my life is a joke.

[bonesmarinated]

Oh, baby, have you seen Amy tonight? 🔪

[classicsandfantasy]

Noooo, does something happen to Gavinor?

ok. renarin's gay jasnah's ace elhokar's direct descendants are all dead. so like Whoooo is gonna be ruling alethkar in forty odd years ?? dalinar and navani's mid fifties miracle baby ?? insane. adolin if you ever want to retire you better grab your wife and get down to business post goddamn haste cuz NOBODY is coming to save you

[pigeonneaux]

Dad and dog he said he didn't want

[chipper-smol]

[zorangezest]

1/3

here we go! the longest comic i've ever drawn and one of my favourite things i've ever made! and it's. for this crack transformers au. what have i done. ive spent so long on this

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[16th-of-a-twigg]

🐞🐈‍⬛🦊🐢 semi-formally bullied by @buggachat to do a screencap redraw of the newest Miraculous Ladybug episode. I also extend that request of seeing other artists do a redraw of the screencap to see these dorks in different styles! Ko-Fi

[txetnoc]

nothing specil today, (even though its christmas eve??) have this practice mango(mangel.. mangol.. mangle!) drawing!