#but also. i might need feedback as a motivation so we'll see!!

[sammyluvr]

so basically it's a really good thing that i was compelled to binge watch all of black dove in almost one sitting tonight because that means i officially have a series idea for sam that i pray on bended knee will continue to inspire and entertain me for the months and months that it will take me to develop and write... wrote down my bare bones ideas and i have a very long story arch broken down into the most vague possible like. three maybe four plot points. major plot points, luckily, but, you know. now i must work out every other little detail, especially the au and world building. will it be an au?? will it be an alternative supernatural plot??? you'll never know.... not for months likely LOLLL sorry <333

[urbigsockssmell]

Monster [Wendigo x Raeder]

DISCLAIMER!!! YOU CAN ONLY READ THIS BOOK ON WATTPAD AND AO3 UNDER @UrBigSocksSmell AND THE BOOK IS CALLED "Monster" UPDATES WON'T BE HAPPENING HERE ON TUMBLR ONLY THERE!!!

In your last moments before death, you make a deal with the Devil himself. To provide it with as much food as you can from your butcher job to save your life and the lives of everyone around you. Even if it knows the amount of food you can give it still won't be enough, it goes along with your plan for whatever reason of curiosity it has.

Monster [Male! Wendigo x Afab! Reader]

I update weekly on every Friday afternoon or Saturday morning/noon (CET time zone) depending on my schedule that week. I will inform you beforehand when I'm updating and if an update isn't happening that week.

You can read this book called "Monster" posted on the account @UrBigSocksSmell on different applications such as Wattpad, Ao3 and here on Tumblr. I recommend finding it on Wattpad since I'll update there before on any other platforms. It's my main hoe but don't snitch I'm cheating now, love♡

And special thanks to @a_non_ym_ous for inspiring me to write this. They wrote their own Wendigo book called "Heal me" which I highly advise you to read. It gave me motivation to write since it was such a cute monster romance. I'm only disappointed it had no smut in it but I'll probably include it in my own book. It might not be as good as you might think given I'm a fucking virgin but we'll see, we'll see.

Also, I made Y/N's parents their own characters. They aren't your real parents they are their characters in the story and you'll see why I mean that. If any of you have a problem with the uniqueness of what the have you can freely click off.

You are your own character and I do not own you(unless you're into that shit). I do not own any art used in this book, and possibly mentioned songs, places, or anything like that.

Please leave any sort of feedback. As a beginner author writing my first serious book it will help me a lot.

I don't know how to make a masterlist. You need a computer and mine is just dogshit trash so here is this.

[rplayford02]

Film Project: 1st Draft Feedback

A couple days ago Robbie sent over the first draft of the script so we met up last night and I gave him some feedback. We're currently at 8 pages so we'll need to try and get it down.

Pages 1-2

The first scene is brilliant, I love it. We've talked about the opening a lot so I think we both have a pretty clear idea on how it should look and yeah, I think the script's establishing the tone really well. I think we might need to check how to format the montage and maybe add in a few more details of what we're hearing e.g the narrator on the tv, (what is he saying?) and also me and Robbie discussed adding in a more significant mention of the secondary character Daisy at this point. I'm very aware this is probably going to take up more space on the page than it currently does so we'll see how much we can keep. (But I really want to keep it all!)

In terms of the conversation I suggested that Eli say less. We agreed that he's slightly too witty and sarcastic at the minute. Also that more emphasis should be placed on the fact that the 'Young Woman' is more preoccupied by her friends and her words to Eli are actually quite empty.

We've cut the 'Man' entirely. (For the space and also we agreed that it wasn't really communicating what Robbie was wanting to communicate.)

Pages 3-4

In terms of the conversation in the bathroom we went over character motivations. (Eli: jealous of Daisy, her friends, her ability to talk to other people; Daisy: pities Eli, wants to try and make friends - also we’re hoping to turn down the manic pixie dream girl vibes.)

We were also talking about whether it’s weird that he’s peeing while they’re talking so we might have him come out to wash his hands earlier. And then she’ll roll him a cigarette as an offer of friendship and then it’s at this point that he sees the symbol on the wall behind/next to her. Blocking this is going to be tricky but I think the more subtle and simple the better.

Pages 5-6

I love the narration!! But I think this scene probably last too long :/ We might repurpose some of this narration elsewhere in the script though e.g on the tv at the start, during the trance section.

The dialogue about the tattoo - Robbie had this idea to shoot from above, just a close up of the hand grabbing his wrist, completely detaching it from a person so that when we cut to the next shot there’s no one there and it’s as if he has imagined it, or it’s a projection of his inner thoughts or something. I haven’t explained that very well but anyway, it’s a cool idea and I can already visualise it working!

We’re also expanding the trance sequence and adding in detail but I need to think about how we want to visualise this.

Pages 7-8

We’re cutting this whole dialogue and trying to get across the same information in a more visual way.

I love the end speech but I was asking Robbie if maybe we can have a shot or a short scene at the end where we see Eli as he exists in reality. Maybe from Daisy’s perspective? I just feel like we a need a moment where we see that it is all fake, it is all in his head and actually he hasn’t got anything he wanted. In fact he’s just sunk further.

—

All of the criticism aside I actually really liked the script and I’m really excited about this project! I just hope we manage to get the crew to actually make it!

[loganofthenorth]

Me: Alright, everything's quiet, my physical needs have been taken care of, I want to write, and brain rot about my OCs isn't in the way. Let's get to work!

ADHD toddler that lives in my head: Give me five good reasons why we should work on the work in progress

Me: 1. We get positive feedback when we update this story, which really benefits our mental health, self esteem, and motivation to write other things

2. We ended the WIP on a cliffhanger last time we updated it and it needs to be resolved

3. There is no reason not to work on the WIP

4. Autism- *points at the Autistic hermit sitting next to me*

Autistic hermit: *waves while reading a Sanders Sides transcript, a book about dolphins, and an article about clementines*

Me: - needs a routine to function, and this is a big part of that

And 5. We are fortunate enough to have parents willing to support us so that we can make writing our full time career. If we don't actually write, those two- *points at Anxiety and Depression*

Anxiety: *pacing around with a list of problems to resolve in our projects and muttering about our lack of productivity lately even though we've been productive just in other ways*

Depression: *sleeping and not bothering us because we have enough dopamine from earlier mentioned comments and interactions on Tumblr to keep them at bay for the most part*

Me: - will make life harder for us by making me feel bad for wasting that support.

ADHD Toddler: 1. Yes, that's true, but if we keep writing the WIP I'll get sick of it and want nothing to do with it anymore

Me: But we're almost done, we only have a few chapters left.

ADHD Toddler: 2. We updated that, like, two days ago? Three days? Idk how time works. Days have just felt like weeks lately for some reason so it just feels like a long time when it isn't. They can wait. Also- *gets distracted by a squirrel*

Me: Are you done?

ADHD Toddler: Huh? Oh, right...

Me: ...

ADHD Toddler: ...

Me: Well?

ADHD Toddler: What was I saying?

Me: You said people can wait for a cliffhanger, then had another point.

ADHD Toddler: Oh, right. So, these people watch Sanders Sides, right? They're used to waiting like six months or lately more than a year for the next important chapter.

Autistic Hermit: Huh...

ADHD Toddler: 3. I gave you a reason when addressing your first point, we'll get sick of it if we don't work on other things too.

Autistic Hermit: They're... Actually using really good logic...

Me: I know, it's terrifying

ADHD Toddler: 4. Routine smoutine. I'd rather have poutine.

Autistic Hermit: There it is

Me: Yep...

ADHD Toddler: And, finally... *gets distracted by a lightbulb*

Anxiety: Whelp that's it we've spent an entire hour doing absolutely nothing, we're clearly not getting any work done tonight

Me: *sighs* ADHD, if I let you say your last point, will you let me work?

ADHD Toddler: Huh? What last point?

Me: Never mind. We're going to write a really cool story now, okay?

ADHD Toddler: Okay!

Me: *gets my IPad*

ADHD Toddler: This was fun, you should post it on Tumblr.

Me: Oh yeah sure!

ADHD Toddler: Oh, right! I remembered! 5. I don't see why you think you've wasted their support by not writing all the time. Last year you wrote, edited, designed a cover for, and self published a novel of your own in one year. While doing that, you also balanced friendships, worked on your mental health, wrote like, what, three full fan novels and are about to finish another one? Not to mention all the unfinished fan fics you have that made people happy, and all the role plays which might as well be novels. Just because you're not making money yet, and you're not writing every day, doesn't mean you're wasting the support you were given.

Me: ...

Autistic Hermit: Who the hell have you been talking to? Where has all this logic come from?

ADHD Toddler: We're hyper fixated on Sanders Sides

Autistic Hermit: Fair enough

ADHD Toddler: *gasps* What if we like, made our own you tube series but like, instead of aspects of the personality like Sanders Sides it's our different disabilities?

Autistic Hermit: You thought about that before

Anxiety: We don't have the same resources Thomas Sanders has to make it professional

Autistic Hermit: Like a *shudders* team of people to work with

Anxiety: *also shudders* Or space of our own to film in

Depression: *murmurs* Or the motivation to keep dedicated to that for long...

Autistic Hermit: Or the cameras, lighting, sound equipment, video editing skills, ability to make a polished costume,

Anxiety: we can't mask Autism's traits long enough to get a good recording

Depression: *murmurs* And we don't fit conventional beauty standards enough to do well in a video based algorithm...

ADHD Toddler: I guess we'll just have to find another way to make a series that gets us a fandom one day... You know, since the book we wrote didn't get immediate results so now I'm being petty.

Autistic Hermit: Our book series is a long term project. It will get more recognition as we continue to publish the series.

Anxiety: It would get more recognition if we made more adds

ADHD Toddler: But why make Tik Toks no one interacts with but two hundred people see when we could make Tumblr posts that no one sees but two people interact a lot with?

Me: *sighs* This is getting us no where

Anxiety: Stop typing on Tumblr and get to work or we might lose our ability to work forever

Autistic Hermit: But that doesn't make sense. We've gone a long time without writing before

Depression: *murmurs* We did get a lot worse at writing after that though...

Me: I think that's more because ADHD got worse during that time so writing became harder

ADHD Toddler: Yeah

Anxiety: *scoffs* At least they admit it

Me: Anywho, I'm tagging this now, clicking post, and then we will work on our WIP. My apologies mutuals for the long post.

[sunkaashi]

— OVERTIME

↬ Pairing. College!Atsumu x Manager!Reader

↬ Genre. Fluff. A hint of enemies to lovers if you look really closely.

↬ Warnings. Mentions of alcohol. I guess nothing else? Let me know if you think I'm wrong!

↬ Summary.  Atsumu Miya is hopelessly in love with you, but how could he ever catch your attention if all you do is ignore him? Well, maybe his plan starts to work out when he finds out that whenever he stays longer for practice, you have to stay too.

↬ Word count. 1.7k

↬ tris' note: I wrote this in the spur of the moment, but I had so much fun! feedbacks are extremely appreciated! if you wanna be added to my general taglist, fill out this form.

anyways, did you know that only hot people reblog the works they like? NO? well, now you do ;) jk, but reblogs help me tons and I'm very grateful for them <3

Sweat dripped down the back of ATSUMU's neck as he jogged around the college tracks for the nth time that afternoon.

"Just one more lap." He kept telling himself over and over again as if repeating it would make it any less of a lie.

But who could blame him when this was the only moment of the day that he could spend with you? When he just knew that, by the end of that turn, you'd be there to receive him, water bottle and towel in hand? If anything, that just drove him more and more motivated to get to the finish line.

Those seconds in which your hands slightly brushed off against each other's; the way you laughed whenever he tripped over himself, too tired to carry on; the sarcastic sneer on your face every time you scolded him for wasting your time, but still wouldn't leave. To Atsumu, that was his reward, better than any shining trophy.

"Oi! Miya!" Your voice woke him up from his trance as the blonde boy finally shot up a glance at you. He rested with his hands on his knees, chest going up and down in strong and unsteady motions, legs still trembling a bit from the training. "We've been here for almost two hours! Everybody has left already, and I want to go home for God's sake!"

Atsumu snickered at the way your voice got higher with each word, deflecting from his gaze while you said you wanted to leave. He also didn't miss how you knitted your eyebrows together just before going off at him, carefully scanning his shaky body.

"Ya could've left, ya know? I never asked ya to stay!" He replied, smirking a little while making sure to stare right into your pupils.

If eyes are the windows to the soul, that must be the reason yours were so beautiful to him. As he tried to get an answer through them, he also delighted himself in such a vision. That's why he was quick to notice their slight tremble at his remark.

"And leave you to die?!" Your voice, once again, cut him off of his daydreams. "You've been running for more than an hour after a pretty rough practice, if you go into cardiac arrest who's gonna call an ambulance?! I'm the team manager, I don't want any deaths on my back!"

In his defense, he was only there because of you, but — obviously — he wouldn't tell you that. He decided to just laugh it off.

"Well, that's something you don't see every day!" He teased.

"What?!"

"Yer’ worried ‘bout me!" Atsumu said, trying to suppress the smile forming in the corner of his mouth.

Even though his tone was playful, he knew something was off when his words were left hanging in the air, no snarky comments added to the back-and-forth banter you were both so used to.

Seeing your widened eyes, he started to question if he was right or, worse, if he had crossed a line.

You gulped down as if this would prevent you from spilling something you shouldn't say. Atsumu was dying to know what it was.

This had become a little routine of yours. Staying for a couple more hours after practice as you helped him out for a while. At first, he knew you're just doing your job, after all, you were there to assist the boys, it didn't matter who they were. Still, he couldn't shake the thought that maybe, just maybe, something had changed as the months went by.

He remembered it perfectly. It wasn't that long before that you used to curse him for making you lose such precious time of your day. He knew you had your reasons! Staying overtime underneath the unforgiving sun, having to catch up on your studies while sitting beside the filthy running tracks, surrounded by sweaty and dirty athletes.

Even so, it wasn't pleasant for him either. Jogging for endless hours, the summer heat consuming him as if hell were just around the corner.

Usually, he would run only half of those miles. But how could he stop? How could he stop knowing that the minute he did, you'd have to go home, and he would only see you the next day? No, he needed more time to win you over. He needed those small talks in between his breaks. He needed every single one of the few glances you exchanged every time he ran past you. He needed to hear you giggling at his jokes at least once more.

What once felt like dragging insufferable after hours, began to seem like less and less time over the weeks. Those little details were what made it all worth it. They were his private entrance to heaven.

And he believed that you might've been starting to feel the same way too.

He'd caught the way your lips curled up into a shy smile the last time he'd offered to walk you home. He also had noticed how your irises shined a bit brighter whenever he bought you food, worried because he knew you'd be there with him for those extra periods. He'd seen the way you laughed at his childhood stories just a tad too hard, always asking for another one.

Atsumu had always been aware of how he comes off to people: the arrogant self-centered jock. He never really cared about any of those things, but he did care about how you perceived him. The man just hoped that soon enough, you'd learn he was more than what others wanted him to be. Not a pretentious athlete, albeit a normal guy as any other, just with an ambitious goal set to his mind. And whenever you shared one of those intimate moments, he thought that, perhaps, you were one of the few people that actually saw him for who he was.

Still, that didn't make it any easier to admit the feelings he'd developed for you.

"Oi! Are ya alright?" Atsumu said, trying to catch your attention, a delicate expression laying on his countenance. "I'm sorry if I overstepped in any way, ‘kay? It was a joke, I promise." You didn't answer him just yet.

"Hey!" He proceeded, lifting your chin up so you'd look at him. "Now I'm the one getting worried 'bout ya! Snap out of it and get back to hating on me before ya realize I might have a heart!" Atsumu mocked himself, but shied away from your glare while doing so.

At least he'd made you chuckle.

“I always knew you had one, Miya." You said, rolling your eyes at the man. “I just didn’t know it worked!”

“Oya! That was mean!”

“Isn’t that what you wanted?” You asked, arching your brows.

“Well, maybe, but it wouldn’t hurt if ya were a little nicer to me once in a while!”

“Yeah? How so?” The words slipped past your lips without missing a beat, and Atsumu couldn’t help but wonder if the flirtatious undertone was something he had only imagined. He decided to take the bait.

“For starters...” Atsumu began, slowly making his way closer to where you were standing. “Ya could buy me a beer after we’re done here.” Was he crazy or did he really see your shoulders relaxing at his words?

“Oh, is that easy?” You responded in the same toying manner.

“Hold up!” He said, raising his hands to the air. “That’s just the first step!”

“And then what?”

“And then…” Atsumu continued, moving further towards your figure. “Then ya could let me hear that beautiful laugh of yers a few more times.” He completed, stealing a giggle out of you. “Just like that.”

“Great, so I’m halfway through it.” Your tone may have been monotonous, but your eyes told him otherwise. “Anything else or can we get this over with?”

“Maybe, while yer’ laughing, ya could finally realize that I’m not as bad as ya think I am.” He pondered, moving a loose strand of hair out of your features, clearing the view to your gaze.

“Now you wanna tell me what to think?” You scoffed, crossing your arms.

“Is just a suggestion! Take it as ya wish!” He winked at you.

“And what if I told you that I already did?”

“Ya did?” This time, he sounded soft, breaking out of the teasy character for a second.

“You’re not bad, Miya... Far from that.” 

“Well, that’s a shock.”

“You don’t look surprised.” You stated, pointing out the crescent grin on his face.

“Too much wishful thinking made me ready for this moment.”

“And what exactly is this moment… Atsumu?” The way you said his name, in a hushed voice, almost like a secret meant to be shared by only the both of you, gave him the green light he needed to go on.

“It’s when I finally kiss ya.” 

Atsumu was quick to grab your waist, pulling you closer to his chest, and finally closing the gap between you two. His gawk rapidly traveled from your mouth to your eyes, longing for a confirmation. It didn’t take a second after your subtle nod for him to merge your lips together, your body melting at his touch. His grasp was gentle, but firm, like you were something he treasured, something that he never wanted to let go of. And by the way you gripped onto his neck, the boy could tell he wasn’t alone in this.

Atsumu moved his palms all the way up your back, briefly running his fingers through your hair, but resting them upon finding your face. His tender touch cupped your cheeks in between his hands, pushing away just when he inevitably ran out of breath. 

"Do I still have to buy you that beer or is this nice enough for you?" You said, unable to repress a smile.

“Hm, I’m not sure… Why don’t you kiss me again and we'll see?"

© sunkaashi — 2021.  all rights reserved. do not repost, plagiarise it, translate it nor reproduce this post as your own.

[astra-novar]

Writer Troubles

This is kind of a rant post but still something I wanted to address.

You know the one thing that kinda bugs a writer? You get all these readers right? You see them reading the story, SO WHY DON'T THEY COMMENT? Like bruh, y'all underestimate how much writers need validation of their work. Especially if they're just writing it for free.

I might get some heat for this but I just wanted to address the matter. I'm sure my fellow Wattpad writers can relate.

Let me clarify that this isn't me trying to hound or force anyone to do anything. You have the choice to comment or not but I'm just telling you from the perspective of an author how it looks and feels like. Even if you may not care. This post isn't to guilt trip or shame anyone into commenting. Just draw an awareness of perspective.

As authors, we wanna hear what people think of our work. We wanna see how the audience reacts and genuinely feels about our content and how we've managed to make an impact. We wrote and started the work to begin with in order to tell a story. Or even possibly draw awareness to a matter by forming it in a work of fiction.

In my case, one of my Wattpad fanfics that's still in progress speaks on matters of domestic abuse in relationships which has been a recent issue in my country for the last few months. As well as a common thing for some people in the pandemic around the world. The purpose of me writing that fanfic was to bring awareness, give the audience an inside look to the mind of a victim (not saying that I am one), and understand why it's so hard for some people to leave. As well as to possibly help or comfort someone who may be dealing with the matter.

Writers have various reasons for writing that all have a degree of personal meaning/worth to them.

When people don't comment, we don't get the connection with our audience, and we don't know how people necessarily feel. Comments are the feedback on our work. And without proper feedback. how can we hope to improve the work or actually understand what our audience feels about? It often feels like no one's really reading your work or actually enjoying it even if you can see the numbers rising. Which can be detrimental to our motivation to update and can be a part of the reason why many writers either don't finish their works or may even delete them all together. For me, when I see a comment about my work, even if it's just a rave of how great my writing or chapter may be (Because let's be honest we'll always have those lovely comments that praise us as writers. Bless their souls I love them) that's the highlight. Even just one comment from one reader can make someone's day or keep that story going.

I understand not everyone will feel the need to comment. I also understand that as a writer I'm not obligated to expect anything from my readers. And my readers aren't obligated to comment. No one forced me to make this content for people right? Some may even argue we're lucky enough to have readers at all and should just be grateful for that. You're entitled to your opinion and if the world were a nicer place, all of us would wouldn't belittle/attack others for theirs and respect the difference of opinion since we're all different.

But I digress. That's not the point of this post.

I'm just saying personally as a writer, and for all the other writers who may feel the same as I do, our love for our readers is out of the question. Any fanfic writer, or any person who creates content for others, whether it be actors, musicians, artists (in every sense/media), Youtubers, etc., have an unbelievable amount of love for their supporters. We're grateful that we have them. But we want to hear and feel how what we're doing is making a difference or causing a reaction. That's all.

Personally I used to feel guilty for wanting comments and thought I should just settle for the readers I'm getting right? But it's fine to want more. I don't think it's greedy to want comments. And if anyone's felt the same, it's okay to want comments. So long as we're not forceful or rude in asking for them.

So bottomline, as you're reading a fanfic that you really love, just consider commenting. At least consider it.

That's all. Thank you for listening to my TED Talk. 😌👏🏾

[stayinzencity]

WIP LIST (Part 1)

Coming Soon! (This July)

update: hiatus for two months. Fluttering India: The Sequel will be posted on 23 July.

We've seen Minho and the gang travel to India before... which is why in his second visit to India we'll explore even more places and experiences!

Title: 두근두근 인도 (Fluttering India) The Sequel might have to change this later but i have no better ideas lol

Genre/AU: fluff, comedy, travel 

Member: SHINee's Choi Minho not sure who else might be in this hmm is there anyone you'd like to see?

Destination: India they went to the north in 두근두근 인도 so now i'm sending minho to south india

Arrival Date: July 23 2021

Event: Around The World in 31 Days world tour for the broke! pandemic friendly travel from the comfort of whatever device you use to access tumblr!

taglist: @sooibian ty for your interest <33 

A new job at LSM Inc. and you're on the research team that tests the prototype bots. They'll last no matter what they go through... but how much can you handle?

Title: forever we young

Genre/AU: angst, robot even if there are some softer scenes idk if i can tag it as fluff

Member: NCT's Sungchan

Release Date: late July i have a lot of writing to do eek

Collab: AI PROJECT #14320

Model: #JSC13901 of Series: #U4916.AI aahhhhhh emmy big brain who came up with this concept

teaser | moodboards

Title: breakfree

Member: NCT's Haechan (in a role based off Mystic Messenger's 707)

Genre/AU: heavy angst, mystic messenger

Release Date: late July ik this is months later than i initially said but i'm extremely excited about this one and fleshing out the characters and their world has been so much fun- now i just have to get the writing and stuff done eeeee

Collab: Dream Messenger this is the first collab i ever joined and nana's ideas are sooo cool

no but if you ask me about this fic i will love you

But what happened to...?

teaser

ah my beloved renjun historical au... this will be in the next set of fics i'll try to finish. the thing is most of the feedback i've gotten is from people who were already somewhat familiar with south indian culture (which is wonderful and it motivates me when i read your tags/comments!), so it'd really help if someone who doesn't know much gives it a read and let's me know what they think since i want this fic to be enjoyable for everyone. also i need to do more research. i didn't expect as much positive feedback as i got and it makes me want to work harder!

taglist: @nova-did-it @ki6hyun @jakeycore

teaser

since i decided to release this as a series, i want to finish writing most (ideally, all) of the episodes before i start posting them. it's going to take time but I'll be working on it.

teaser

as much as i wanted to write this series, it's on hold for now. i have a vague idea of what could happen but there's still a lot to plan and then writing- unless i get a break (unlikely), i doubt i'll have time for this and i can't prioritize it when i have fics to write for collabs and events.

@en-see-tee ♡

[n5md]

Cloudwalker

In our newly relaunched "Learn more about..." interviews, we switch up the continuity slightly and focus on just one release: Gimmik's Cloudwalker. Martin kindly agreed to answer a few questions to kick off what we'll refer to as v2 of the "Learn More About..." blog.

While Entre Les Chambres was the actual return of Gimmik to the public eye, Cloudwalker is more of a return to form. It is undeniably Gimmik; however, Cloudwalker treads some new ground for you. Can you shed some light on how the creative process changed from Entre Les Chambres / Deux Nouvelles and how those two albums might have influenced Cloudwalker?

Very well observed - they did influence Cloudwalker! Entre Les Chambres and Deux Nouvelles were both produced under technically limited circumstances. On top of that, I thought that no one will ever hear this material. Luckily it was not the case, and I got the chance to become a member of the n5MD family. When you produce with the idea that the material will never get released, it gives you a lot of room and space. You are not concerned about expectations. The music can flow and evolve freely. The calm nature of those albums helped that process. It was research where I experienced myself more as a witness than a composer. For me, that is a new approach. This approach was still the same when I produced Cloudwalker. That is the reason why the tracks are so diverse. Short Wave Memories and In My Family do not have anything in common, but that is the way they evolved, without me constructing anything. The most significant difference is that Cloudwalker was produced in a proper studio environment. Plus, I took a step into eurorack, which brings a very unpredictable element. And yes, that is Mutable Elements "Rings'' what you hear on In My Family. I was working on a self-generative patch with "Marbles'' when all of a sudden, the melody appeared...

I think you sent me In My Family shortly after you finished it, and it was one of the darkest days of the early pandemic; where our local government-issued curfews and such. It was the track that I needed at that moment; it brightened my day. It's very cool that the melody was a generative experiment gone right. I seem to remember you have quite a bit of the Mutable Instruments modules. Modular, to me, seems like a bit of a wormhole of experimentation. So, how do you stay focused when experimenting with new sounds and textures to bring, say, one of your Modular Nature tracks, which you have on your Youtube channel, to life.

Working with a modular system is entirely different. My approach is always a question. What will happen if I connect this with that and modulate with this? Then you start patching, and the results are entirely different from what I expected - a lot more exciting and better! In the beginning, I thought modular was about rebuilding synth voices. So I started emulating the signal-flow path of a 101 for a start. I missed the whole point of modular... A system has a life of its own and takes you to completely different places, and sometimes I do not even understand the results. (-: But that is not important. The decision to work with modular is to avoid walking down paths I have taken too many times when composing. What keeps you focused is your ear. The trick is to learn when to stop. In the beginning, I lost a lot of great patches when the result was already at 90%. When trying to reach 100%, my tweaks destroyed that patch's beauty, and I never found a way back to 90%. That happened a lot of times in the beginning. A modular system really helps to learn when to let go… (laughing). I chose Mutable Instruments because those modules are very focused on musical and harmonic results.

So, going back to Cloudwalker, how did it feel getting back to basics as far as Gimmik goes. People may not know that Entre Les Chambres and Deux Nouvelles were made for very personal listening. Care to shed a little light on those two, and more importantly, what made you want to go past those themes and bring Gimmik full circle for Cloudwalker?

Entre Les Chambres and Deux Nouvelles were NOT a conscious decision. Those were a necessity! The title Entre Les Chambres means "between two rooms", the space that is between two rooms. That is nowhere! It mirrors how I felt at that moment. There were many significant changes in my life, luckily nothing concerning my family, but still major changes. In order to cope with it all, I started making ambient tracks. It was the only thing that helped me to cope and focus again. The tracks happened by themselves. Listening to them and working on those albums was a calming experience. When they were finished, I played them to Chris, and he convinced me that he liked them. That led to the decision to make those first tapes. Later I sent them to you. Your reaction was very motivating because the music got released. With that motivation and getting back into a studio environment, the Cloudwalker tracks just poured out of me very quickly - it felt terrific to go back to the studio. My family gave me the time to work in my studio, and you and Chris gave very motivating feedback! From my perspective, this makes Cloudwalker my most important album so far, and I am very thankful for this chance! Another key element is that you gave me total freedom regarding artwork, choosing tracks, and their order. Just great!

Well, I knew going in that you know what you are doing. So I shouldn't have needed to step in and manage such details. For release prep, I'm available to take care of the details that an artist doesn't have access to or the working knowledge. You and Chris ran Toytronics, and you are a graphic artist as well, so I knew that you know the drill. If something was glaring or didn't work under the n5 stylistic umbrella, it is my job to say something, but I was pretty confident that wouldn't happen. I also know that after you completed the tracks, you took a great deal of time to get them to flow perfectly and also fit on four LP sides—your care in craft shows, and it's been great to work with you.

You brought up Chris, and there is an Abfahrt Hinwl remix on Cloudwalker, so; I'm going to ask. Are we going to hear some new Abfahrt Hinwl soon?

Thank you, as I said, that means a lot to me. And I still think that it is a fortunate situation. The AH RMX of Sailing Everest on Cloudwalker was just me, to be honest. That is why I used an abbreviation - AH. It is more a hint. It has a lot of the Abfahrt Hinwil ingredients. We tried to revive the project and realized that working over a distance via the internet does not work for either of us. The key of Abfahrt Hinwil was that we worked in the same room, at the same time, with the same equipment - listening to what the other one does - giving an immediate reaction. The most important point is communication, which has to happen immediately - you need to respond straight away, not with a delay. Today we find ourselves in two different life situations. We both would like to continue. After an online experiment, we realized it would be only possible when we visit each other and then work in the same studio. That is not possible at the moment, and Covid plays a significant role in that.

Ah, I see; Abfahrt Hinwil was you and Chris basically feeding off one another; also, there are cheques and balances, which is great to have. I completely understand why it would not be feasible to do it from a distance effectively. So, I'd like to pivot to these little builds I see on your Instagram. You recently sent me a pic of a peculiar little box that looks to be a synth. Assuming this is something you built (loving the stickering, by the way). What is this, and does it appear on Cloudwalker?

(laughing) That is a drone box handmade by a guy in Russia. Six oscillators, each one with a kill switch. Three standard range oscillators and 3 Sub. A very rough-sounding machine, great for drones. The filter sounds very nasty, just great. There is a little bit in the track Cloudwalker itself but washed out by Big Sky. The downside is that there is no midi, trigger gate, or voltage control. It is more of an experiment tool. The important parts of the track Cloudwalker have Mutable Instruments: Plaits and Tides 1, using the Sheep mode. Both outputs went into Warps, modulated by Stages. The little melody was played live on the Yamaha DX Reface, going into the Big Sky. It was all recorded live onto tape to 4 tracks to a Tascam 234. Then it was mixed the classic way, patchbay, fx, analog mixer main out to digital. 75% of the album was recorded to a Sound Devices MixPre-3 II.

It sounds like your Big Sky gets some action! Strymon makes some exceptional pedals. It seems like you can almost entirely make music out of the box if you needed to, which is excellent. So one last question: When we collaborated on the Cloudwalker one sheet text, you added something about the production tools "representing technology from 1958 to 2019," and I asked if 1958 was a type-o that needed to be corrected to 1985 when it was not. When people read that, I think they will be very curious as to what technology you utilized from that far back…

Yes, it is a great pedal, I love the sound and the fact that you get nice results very quickly.

1958- (laughing) There is an on oscilloscope from Russia, which can be seen in some of the videos on HIDDEN REALITY, and 2 vintage function generators. I got those old function generators from a close friend, he is an electronic engineer and professor for physics at a university. They got rid of all their old equipment, and he asked if I wanted to have something. He could not throw those old machines away, so he rescued them to his cellar. He changed the connections for me, so I can use them with the modular environment, using my standard patch cables. I used them a lot as modulation sources, as they can modulate extremely slow (like MI tides). But I have to admit that I got them for their looks in the first place…(laughing) - Those machines look like the machinery you see in Qs research center in old James Bond movies...

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I am Jonieza Manayaga, 18 years old. A Grade 12 Senior High School Humanities and Social Sciences student from University of Cebu-Main. In this blog you will get to know some entrepreneurs along with some of their character traits. This blog highlights some common character traits to successful entrepreneurs. A sample video is attached in each trait.

• Persistent & Self Confident

"As an entrepreneur, persistence and self-confident are important if you wish to succeed in today's competitive business world. Once you are willing to give it your all to achieve your business goals, you will become a much more accomplished entrepreneur and you will be able to build a much more stable, profitable company."

Jack Ma Yun

Jack Ma Yun, is a Chinese business magnate, investor and philanthropist. He is the co-founder and former executive chairman of Alibaba Group, a multinational technology conglomerate. 

Jack Ma Yun is a definite representation and example of a persistent and confident entrepreneur. An entrepreneur who doesn't quit and never surrender in making his dreams into reality. Despite numbers of failures and rejections, he never doubted himself. Despite no one believed he could be successful, the word "giving up" had never crossed in his mind. Instead, he kept on moving forward.

"It was so difficult  at that time, I was frustrated." -Jack Ma Yun

Believing on himself and being persistent in overcoming all the obstacles and hurdles in life are the main reasons why success is at the top of his palm. Because he believed he can, he did! 

See what power self-confident and persistent brought Jack Ma now.

• Goal Setter

"Setting goals for your business is incredibly important. It provides a clear path to follow and the motivation to reach a predetermined destination. Without goals, your business is just operating instead of achieving."

Ernesto Tanmantiong

Ernesto Tanmantiong is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Jollibee Foods Corporation (JFC), one of the world’s largest and fastest growing Asian food service companies with over 4,500 stores in 21 countries.

Setting goals and being specific with what he's wanting to achieve helped Ernesto Tanmantiong fulfill his dreams. Ernesto Tanmantiong is a goal-setter entrepreneur wherein he's really into pursuing his clear goals at a time. After unlocking the first mission, he then will continue to accomplish and make another set of goals. Dreaming big is what his brother had implanted him, which in result, made the success of their business even bigger. To an end where efforts are surely paid off.

 Jollibee came this far because of having clear and definite goals. Because of not only seeing the business the same as what he's seeing 10 years before and because of having the passion to excell.

• Committed

"Commitment is the one thing that will ensure you're successful in whatever you. Commitment is about having the courage to go through the unknowns, to stick to what is promised to the costumers as well as to the employees and to take full responsibility in every challenge that may come along your way."

Christopher John Kempczinski

Christopher John Kempczinski is an American business executive, and the president and chief executive officer of McDonald's Corporation.

As an entrepreneur it is always important to be committed with what you've promise. It is a must, most especially in an unexpected times of crisis. And in an entrepreneurship, costumers feedbacks really do matter. Through commitment, Christopher John Kempczinski was able to established what he has promised to his customers. Instead of feeling sad and worry for having numbers of competitors, he focus on meeting the needs of costumers and make sure that they we're able serve them in a way that is better than anybody else, as what has promised.

"Let's make sure that we're delivering to the costumers the very best product that we can do in a great experience because if we do that we'll gonna be successful no matter who were going up against so, that's our focus."- Christopher John Kempczinski

•Persuasion and Positive Networker

"Persuasion and being a positive networker are skills every entrepreneur needs to have. Successful entrepreneurs need to be persuasive. A persuasive entrepreneur is not only able to convince customers to buy, but also to create a strong network of connections excited about helping their organization or idea to grow and need to establish good working relationship in the community. "

Jose Cil

Jose Cil is an Executive Vice President and President, Burger King, of RBI, from December 15, 2014 until January 23, 2019. Mr. Cil served as Executive Vice President and President of Europe, the Middle East and Africa for Burger King Worldwide Inc.

Having these traits helped him tale actions that actually benefit costumers/people as well as the economy,despite the mental roadblocks  they might have that prevent them from doing so. They were able to adopt positive ways in influencing others with their different ideas and sell ideas easily amidst Covid-19.

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