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Did you know? I released two games this month!!
IRON VALLEY is a cozy solo ttrpg inspired by Animal Crossing + Stardew Valley.
ROLL FOR NOVEL is a book idea generator (which includes a novel-planning guide).
Both of these are available as Pay-What-You-Want!
🛒 My Ko-Fi Shop: https://ko-fi.com/mkirin/shop
🎮 Itchio: https://mkirin.itch.io
(Also, coming soon to DriveThruRPG)
#my books#my games#roll for novel#iron valley#solo ttrpg#solo rpg#writing#amwriting#writing community#nanowrimo#camp nanowrimo#how to plan a novel#story ideas#book ideas#creative
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Could you draft a novel in a month? Here’s how to nail NaNoWriMo
This post was originally written for the Writers & Artists Yearbook blog. I included it in a Nanowrimo roundup post and got a note to tell me the link was dead. So here it is, live and kicking. November is National Novel-Writing Month, aka NaNoWriMo. If you haven’t come across it before, it’s a worldwide cyber-event where writers tie themselves to their keyboards and aim to bash out 50,000 words…
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#first draft#how to plan a novel#NaNoWriMo#National Novel-Writing Month#outlining#pantsing#Planning#planning a novel#prewriting#research#write a novel in 30 days
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im sleep deprives so i sketched some of my goobers
#my art#furry#if ya wanna know the one in yellow shirt is named corrosion and the one in red tracksuit is named albedo#they all have stupid hair swoop because i didnt know how to design characters back then#now its a flaw they have to live with whomp whomp#i GOTTA finish the visual novel ive planned for like 4 years now about them
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@grubus taadaa? lol
Sooo ya know that little gif I posted? This whole thing stemmed from me letting things get too out of hand while drawing up the dream scene that was only going to be that tiny little image....I have no regrets.
Just in case here's the rant
WHAT THE FUCK! I DIDN'T EVEN GET TO KISS MY HUSBAND? WHAT A SHITTY DREAM! MENG MO COULD DO BETTER. WAIT, THE ORIGINAL NING YINGYING DIDN'T DREAM OF-OF THAT RIGHT? I WOULD HAVE REMEMBERED. I THINK I WOULD REMEMBER? FUCK. IT'S BEEN SO MANY YEARS. DID SHE? AM I GASLIGHTING MYSELF? DOES THIS COUNT AS GASLIGHTING? REGARDLESS, WHY THE FUCK WOULD MENG MO SHOW ME THAT? WAS IT BECAUSE I WAS PUT IN A WIFE PLOT? SO HE JUST...JUST AUTOMATICALLY DID THAT? LIKE A GLITCH IN THE SYSTEM OR SOMETHING? OMG! WAIT! DID BINGHE SEE THE WEDDING? FUCK! WAS THAT HIM THERE AND NOT JUST SOME FAKE? FUCK! WAIT! NO. HE WOULD STILL BE TALKING TO MENG MO... RIGHT? BESIDES, I’M A GUY! SO BINGHE WOULD NEVER WANT TO-TO...SYSTEM! DID BINGHE SEE THAT? WAS THAT HIM? SYSTEM! WHAT THE FUCK! WILL I BE PUT IN FUTURE WIFE PLOTS JUST BECAUSE I'M BINGHE'S BESTEST FRIEND IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD...
#svsss#scumbag self saving system#syonr#syonr spoilers#shen yuan of no relation#luo binghe#shen yuan#all the gay panic#is it still considered gay to dream about marrying your bff if you say no homo after waking up?#full artistic liberties with the inner rant#truly looking forward to see if/how sy will rationalize how wanting to kiss his best friend is totally not gay#blame Meng Mo?#but also like#Meng Mo for the win?#also#took a lot of inspiration for the wedding robs from the illustration in the English novel#they're just so pretty#well off to do what I had originally planned to make before reading chapter 40 lol#no regerts
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William Gibson's writing is sooo cunty and stylish....
#planning on finishing count zero today#i love the contrast between the 3 protagonists. itll cut back to Marly puttering around cyber paris hunting down artworks...yes girl#hes good at writing relatively varied female characters actually. im never sure how much Male Author writing to expect in a sci fi novel lo#Webber is really cool also....tough tobacco chewing merc lesbian mom who breeds dogs and fishes in her free time...
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While I think the moment in cql where Meng Yao– still bleeding from a stab wound in his chest btw– realizes Lan Xichen is in danger and decides to save the man who was so kind to him in cloud recesses is cute and all, nothing will ever beat the book for me. Little bookkeeper civilian Meng Yao, who has not had a serious chance to make his dreams of being a cultivator come true in fucking years, out of nowhere gets the fucking sect leader of Gusu Lan dropped right in his lap?
It's such a great example of Meng Yao's multilayered motivations to me. Because is civilian Meng Yao thinking of all the ways he can use this? Of the fact that having a great sect leader in his debt is the best thing that could happen to him? Duh. Obviously.
Is he very purposeful about appearing to Lan Xichen as a kind young man full of untapped potential, brave and willing to put his life on the line even though he really doesn't know so much about about cultivators, no sir, except a little he picked up here and there, because you see his father– 👉👈 Of course he is!
But the way through which he does that is... by actually saving Lan Xichen's life, at no doubt significant personal risk. The way he makes Lan Xichen believe he's kind and selfless is by... being kind and selfless. Just because he's doing it on purpose doesn't mean he's not doing it.
Is it lying if you want people to think you're nice and so you're nice to them? Isn't that just called being nice? Yes, he is very purposeful about how he appears to people, and very carefully crafts an image based on what he wants them to think of him, but most of the time he does that simply by... actually being the kind of person he wants to appear as. He still did the kind things he did, regardless of his motivations for doing them.
#mdzs#mdzs meta#meng yao#jin guangyao#lan xichen#rs: i wish it could've been you#I think for a guy like nmj the reason this 'fakeness' is scary is because it makes him unpredictable#meng yao COULD be nice to you because he wants you to think well of him and the best way to do that is simply being nice.#OR he could be planning to kill you later. you have no way of knowing which one it is.#but like... the existence of the latter– while obviously very troubling!– doesn't really make the former manipulation in and of itself#but both people in universe and the fandom frustratingly often take it as such#'i want this person to like me so i'm gonna be nice to them' <- this is not manipulation. this is just interacting with people.#anyway this dual motivation probably also applies to show meng yao. who is scrambling to find something else now that he's been banished.#but the reason the novel grips me so much is little civilian a-yao doesn't even *know* lan xichen yet.#it's the journey of this at first being very inpersonal- both as an opportunity and as a heroic act#(the impression he's giving being that he saved a stranger because he's just that kind of person 😇)#and over the course of their time spent hiding together becomes... very very personal.#meng yao coming in with a very general plan that he could charm any kind of person with and slowly adjusting it to fit lxc#but how is that so different from just... getting to know a person and realizing what kind of relationship you want to have with them?#I also just think it's cute to have a-yao get bonked over the head with the realization that this guy is so fucking NICE what the FUCK?#no way he's this lucky. good shit doesn't *happen* to him where's the catch with this guy??? hello???#lucky of course both on a personal level and for his practical goals. i loveeee both sides of a-yao's brain screaming in tandem
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full on feel like pjo tv s2 is not gonna hold up so they need to drag as much attention to the series as they can by using nico as a sock puppet w tsats2
im fully expecting the show to go the way of the movies. it doesnt help Sea of Monsters is almost unanimously the least favorite book of the first series. People frequently forget it even exists or what happens in it, especially more casual fans.
Heck, just look at how little fanfare the second season has gotten so far as compared to the build up to s1. I wouldn't be surprised if s2 totally flops. It would be a little funny.
#pjo#riordanverse#pjo tv#pjo tv crit#tsats 2#Anonymous#ask#im still sad theyre beating every dead horse in the franchise they can EXCEPT for the graphic novels#the poor graphic novels arent getting advertised AT ALL and the BoO one got cancelled#like. the graphic novels would actually be probably one of the best advertising avenues!#like. hey! you dont need to write a whole new book! just remind people of previous books and give them a way to refresh on it#and given how the first couple of graphic novels were a different artists i could totally see them doing a second version#just to make them all consistent. thatd make sense and be reasonable.#the show has also already kind of trapped itself in a corner in a couple of ways#for one they kind of screwed themselves over failing to plan for the actors. yknow. ageing.#Walker is already taller than like. most of the cast. Percy's gonna be TOWERING over Luke by TLO#i think the main trio is all like almost 16 already? and we're only on s2. its gonna be rough. they didnt think about it. they didnt plan.#also with how theyve been messing with plot and characterization theyre VERY quickly going to start running into hurdles#because they dont seem to understand the more you change earlier on. the less the later stuff will work without also needing change#because. it's dependent on what comes before. so we will very quickly be requiring either MASSIVE canon divergence or a lot of retcon#and retcon in the show is going to be VERY OBVIOUS#though i stand by itll be so funny if they solve too much too quickly in s2 just like the movies and it just ends on#''wait. crap. what are we going to do for s3 now. we solved too much too early. they have nothing to do''
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an annoyed Heart sketch that i kept coloring too much & now i have this
[alt versions below as always v ]
#chonny jash#chonnys charming chaos compendium#cj heart#-atlas art-#maaaaybe too bright? idk#fun lil fact. i made the sketch intending to make a bunch of talk/character sprites of hms like as a visual novel thing#not to make an actual thing over course. just for funsies#just to draw somthin & like for expressions n stuff#& if you know how i do art. i make 80 plans & halfway do 20% of them only to post 5#putting the rest as “ill do it eventually”#and then eventually never happens#yall remember Voice? or Ace? i am STILL trying to finish ref sheets of those guys#“youll see....eventually” as one guy said it#hopefully at least
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to the people who write summaries and wikis with thorough breakdowns of all the lore and media for a series that breaks it up into 20 different formats: you are doing fantastic work, may it remain intact and accessible well into the future, I owe you my life
to the people that decide splitting your series into 20 different media formats with critical lore in most/all of them is a good idea:
ARCHIVE YOUR SHIT IMMEDIATELY, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING.
#my post#the hill i will die on is “DO NOT EXODIA YOUR MEDIA IF YOU WANT IT TO SURVIVE. DO NOT ASSUME. DO NOT SPLIT THE LORE.''#Example one: FNAF. It is in an absolute cocomelon state of comprehensibility. this is why the fans are insane (/positive).#Example 2: RWBY / RoosterTeeth. Were it not for the work of fans preserving their media#we would have lost SO MUCH fucking work and effort.#Example 3: Project Moon. Comics and fan-works have been scrubbed from the internet because they put their foot up their own asses.#(which at the same time i have endless respect for. but when the lore is any amount spotty. if you use a COMIC to supplement.)#Example 4: BATIM. Putting any amount of lore in the NOVELS is asking for karma.#(FNAF is not immune to this. AT ALL.)#Example 5: *EVERY FUCKING ARG OUT THERE*. It is SO stressful trying to get into a series on a timer-#-that is ENTIRELY decided by how long its host service keeps its components functional#Example 6: Warframe. Half the lore is in YOUTUBE TRAILERS. Half is in INACCESSIBLE EVENTS.#THE STORY IS INCOMPREHENSIBLE WITHOUT THE WIKI.#all of this is exacerbated by streaming services deleting anything and everything at the drop of a hat#and certain medias (BATIM. RoosterTeeth. FNAF) just straight up DELETING THEIR SHIT. for REASONS.#YOUR LONGEVITY IS DOOMED TO A BRIEF EXISTENCE WITHOUT A BACKUP PLAN
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Meme dump yayyy🥳✨️
(off to make more now muhahaha >:3)
#SIGH WHERE HAD LILI DISAPPEARED TO THIS TIME? TSK TSK SMH 😔#Now now my dearest darling loyal subjects fret not~!!#your beloved princess shall answer all your worries away ~★#mwah mwah~<3#heh~🤭🩷#Soooo updated time!!! >_<#I'm on a road trip halfway across the country rn (was a fun bad idea..my cousins and I nearly had a heat stroke TWICE but it's soo worth it#...I'll hopefully be back by tonight because it's my grandfather's birthday tomorrow and we're planning a surprise party for him#Muhahaha >:3#* happy dances*#Anyways I had time to kill between crying while playing mystic messenger together with my cousin#(I'm making her do Saeran's route sjbqbjjbqjbqbj9ioqjqhiqohwu9wh9uwub I LOVE HIM I ADORE HIM HE WAS THE FIRST CHARACTER I EVER WANTED TO#MARRY HE IS SO DREAM HUSBAND CODED SIJSB8YWBUW MY POOR POOR SWEET ANGEL BABY YOU DESERVE SO MUCH BETTER#THE WORLD DOES NOT DESERVE YOU AAHHHIHSIHAIJIAJ AND OMG HIS ENDING SONG IT ALWAYS MAKES ME CRY SJOBSOJHJSH0SSUS0SSHU0IS0HISH0IS0JHSHJS0HIS0#EVEN IF YOU WERE AN EXPIRED LOLIPOP I'D STILL EAT YOU!! I'D ALWAYS EAT YOU AND ONLY YOU NO MATTER WHAT#I-I MEAN PICK YOU!!! I'D ALWAYS PICK YOU NO MATTER WHAT!! NOT TO SAY THAT I WOULDN'T CANNIBALISE YOU!!#GIVE ME THE CHANCE AND I'D LICK YOU UP I WON'T LEAVE A SINGLE DROP BEHIND O-OF THE LOLIPOP OF OFC NOT TO SAY I WOULDN'T DO THE SAME IF IT#WAS HIS C- I'LL STOP MUST CONTROL I CAN'T WRITE ESSAYS HERE OF HOW MUCH I LOVE AND WANT SAERAN AHHHH MY HEART🥺🩷🩷😭😭)#*cough cough*sooo anywho I'm normal now dw!!😇✨️ (/lie)#and us reading ORV (I'm on chapter 340 something rn and kdj is kdj and i just want to soksjnss9hsj9sbu that stupid squid (/affectionate)#and if I start ranting rn it would never end...#so expect like a 80000 words essay when I'm done with the full novel🫠)#I cleared out my phone gallery yayyy heh🥳🤭 and found so many RH memes that I never posted lmao#Oh!!! And I've noticed something even though I'm a Vin girly through and through#(as evidenced by the fact that my blog is quite literally a shrine to him)#I always end up making Crux memes more...That stupid green onion clown you're so easy to love😔🩷#Anyways Lili out now mwah mwah mwah 🩷🩷🫂✨️#♡{reanimated heart}♡#reanimated heart#reanimatedheart
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Today on the stream we rolled dice to generate a story idea--and then we outlined that whole novel! 🎲📔
Curious to see what my outlining process looks like? Watch the VOD or tune in for the next episode! 👾💕
#stream vod#vtuber#envtuber#writing#writing community#writers block#writeblr#outlining#how to plan a novel#Youtube
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Jashtober Day 22 - Cog "If thought itself is death, why not set pen to paper?"
+ here are some of the bg images, which i wrote out in a notebook myself !! Took too long writing em just to cover em up hehe
Both taken from sections of chapter 1 of 1984 :D !!
#chonny jash#cj gw#cj gwotnlh#gwotnlh#1984#simple one but also really fun !!#was PLANNING on getting images from a copy of the novel for the bg#but apparently the copy i thought i had was my sibling's library book they returned recently#so oh well#honestly feel like what i actually did works better though !! yay !!#collage bg ... fun to collect images for#just realized how much i yapped here mb /silly
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Spock looking at the security team Jim sent to pick him up, realizing it’s overkill for one errant Vulcan officer and that this means the admiral (not Jim) must be extremely irked, and then for basically the first thing Jim says to be “this is just like the Vejur incident”.
How afraid was Jim, that he sent the literal scariest security team he could to bring Spock back, either trusting that Spock would get the message and come back peacefully or that the security team would be able to subdue him and bring him back to the ship if he decided it was more important to try his luck with the Guardian.
Spock disobeying his orders isn’t even the first thing on Jim’s mind, when Spock’s back on the ship. It’s Vejur and Spock almost dying again and this simple feeling because he can’t lose Spock.
#I’m so wild about this and the fact that Uhura kept silent for Spock’s sake because she KNEW there was no way Jim was ok with that plan#spock on the planet’s surface alone preparing to do something that might destroy all the things about him that he values (his mind)#while Jim is frantically trying to find him on the enterprise#how utterly furious and frightened he must’ve been that they’d be too late#star trek tos#spock#jim kirk#star trek novels#time for yesterday#a.c crispin
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Potential Victober Reading List
Short List Bare minimum of books to meet every challenge
The Doctor's Wife by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (group read)
No Name by Wilkie Collins (a serialized book, book that plays with form, and a book by Wilkie Collins)
The Warden by Anthony Trollope (a book about religion)
An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde (Victorian drama)
Longer List If I want separate books for each challenge
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (serialized)
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (plays with form)
A Dark Night's Work by Elizabeth Gaskell (serialized)
Books It Might Be Nice To Finish This Month
An English Squire by Christabel R. Coleridge
The Three Brides by Charlotte M. Yonge
Extras Books I Have Around That I Might Be Tempted to Pick Up
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte (no way I'll have time for it, but it's such a pretty copy)
The Half-Sisters by Geraldine Jewsbury
On the Back of the North Wind by George Macdonald (I still need to read my copy)
Oscar Wilde's fairy tales (I just bought a copy at a book sale)
Verses on Various Occasions by John Henry Newman (I found it on the free ebook site yesterday, the religion prompt would be a good excuse to finally read Newman, and poetry seems like an easy place to start)
Ellen Middleton by Georgiana Fullerton (Just heard about this in a video this morning, couldn't resist downloading when I heard it praised and learned it was by a Catholic author)
#monthly reading lists#victober#since i'm heavily focusing this month's reading on that event i figured i'd give this list instead of the usual#though there are a ton of fairy tale retelling group releases this month so i might fit in some of those#since i plan an ambitious inklings challenge even the short list is going to be an unlikely undertaking#but i crafted this list so lovingly that i have to share it#i'm proud of how well i organized and prioritized and winnowed down options#i didn't realize just *how long* no name was#i loved the collins i read last victober so i *really* want to read another novel by him#but it might work better to replace it with the novellas in the second list#i was going to use 'the three brides' for the religion prompt#but i found the warden at the library and i'm really in a mood for paper books lately#and since it's much easier to get ebooks instead of paper ones for this challenge i'm taking the opportunity where it comes
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i wish i had the powers to convince myself that my writing is interesting
#trying to hop back into an attempt at a novel#and i have ideas and everything. plot plans even!!!!#but i am so emotionally disconnected from it and i just cannot get myself invested for anything#which hasn't really been a problem i've had before#how can i have PLOT PLANS but no CHARACTER FEELS#i feel like i've lost all the skills that once sustained me 😭#but also maybe i'm just perpetually exhausted from mid-30s-ism#dollsome's deep thoughts#i don't know if i'm ever going to be a writer y'all.#i'm starting to fear that all i'm ever gonna do with my life is be sleepy.
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Thinking of the Nie disciple that told Nie Mingjue it was Meng Yao who stayed behind to clean up corpses on the battlefield today.
Nie Mingjue didn't just randomly stumble upon poor lil meowyao eating bread in the novel, he was already looking for him to thank and reward him for his work.
That's what makes it so fun that nieyao's first conflict will end up being about someone else taking credit for Meng Yao's work.
And I'm sure that Nie Mingjue's actual opinions on plagiarism are a lot more nuanced, all we really get from him in this scene is "well you shouldn't kill someone over it!" which leaves a lot of room for what punishments he thinks are appropiate. But I bet that it isn't occuring to him in this moment that the only reason he knows Meng Yao at all, the only reason he got such a capable deputy, is that he noticed someone was taking care of the dead and cared enough to want to know their name. And then the Nie disciples didn't lie to him. The disciple he asked could have said "it was me, Zongzhu" to rise in the ranks himself, but he didn't. He went and asked others, who all also could have taken the credit, but they didn't. Someone saw Meng Yao working and decided to be honest about it and that simple decision is the catalyst for Meng Yao becoming Nie Mingjue's deputy.
Meng Yao can't just work hard to get results, others have to acknowledge that work. If they don't, it's as if he didn't do anything at all.
#i'm very proud of the phrase poor lil meowyao. i'm sure i'm not the first one to come up with it but i'm proud nonetheless.#mdzs#mdzs meta#nie mingjue#meng yao#anyway this isn't a nmj bashing post i think 'ok that's bad but don't do MURDER' is overall a pretty reasonable reaction#but the emotional disconnect is fun to ruminate on. I bet meng yao IS thinking about that moment while coming up with his fake-suicide plan#anyway i always laugh a litle whenever anyone wonder if meng yao looking a bit pitiful was all some master stategy to get nmj to like him#because like... no. no that would be a stupid plan and also involved way too many factors he couldn't control.#and also!! he was already doing something else to try and get nmj's attention. all of that fucking work!!#if you plan on getting nmj– guy famous for valuing merit and hard honest work– to like you what is more useful:#looking a bit like a sad little wet cat in case he comes across you? or. Working really hard and being more useful than everyone else?#ding ding ding it's the latter.#nmj is ALSO a bit weak for someone looking like a kitten left in the rain but that's not well-known at all and meng yao didn't know him yet#anyway the fact that that is his plan does mean he's very aware how much it hinges on other people not just lying and saying they did it.#i wonder what networking efforts lil heijan meng yao was doing. trying to make friends with all the other disciples.#walking the tightrope of being accomodating but not a doormat so people see you as someone to rely on rather than take advantage of.#as much as we know not everyone in the nie is as righteous as nmj it does seem like there is a culture of taking pride in your own work.#even the cultivators who bully him in the novel just seem think it's funny he's working so hard.#using someone else's actions to prop yourself up is kinda like admiting they're better than you. a wound to their pride if nothing else.
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