#trust me it helps

[uselessgay10101]

Seeing everyone complaining about Bolas 3 book cover is hilarious because they're here saying Mal and Tyril look horrible and so unlike themselves thanks to the HIGJ usage of AI. Others are complaining about Imtura! I get all that!

But here I am. A happy gay because Nia is looking like the beautiful goddess that she is

[marxstradamus]

Kirk was a real one for this

[alexrexed]

Heyy this kinda reminds me of my own challenge that I'm doing rn, which is basically to draw all 637 achievement card drawings from one of my favorite games. It really does help and after a while you can truly see how to improve your own style

The Copywork Challenge

Copywork is the practice of typing out another writer’s work, word by word, as they wrote it. Isn’t that copyright infringement, though? Why would you want to do that?

You’re, of course, not copying their story to publish it as your own. The goal is to get a feel for how the author works and become a better writer yourself.

For centuries, writers used copywork to learn to write well. Hunter S. Thompson typed out The Great Gatsby in its entirety to practice writing that he greatly admired. Jack London copied the works of Rudyard Kipling. Benjamin Franklin also used copywork to improve his writing.

When you copy another writer’s work, you really get to internalise the patterns they use in their prose. You get a much better feel for how they construct sentences and structure their arguments compared to just reading them.

Copying fiction is even more valuable. The best stories immerse you completely in their world when you’re reading them. The writing becomes practically invisible. As a result, you miss a lot of the cool things the writer did when reading them.

By typing out the story word by word, you learn how the writer structures their scenes. You’ll see how they weave description and action together.

The goal isn’t to perfectly imitate a single writer’s style — that would be impossible anyway. But as you copy the work of various authors, elements of what makes their writing great will seep through to your style.

Musicians start learning by playing their favourite songs — just listening isn’t enough. Artists paint studies of their favourite pieces — looking at a painting isn’t enough.

When you want to learn from your favourite writers, do some copywork — just reading their work isn’t enough.

The Copywork Challenge

This week, I want to challenge you to copy 1,000 words from a work by your favourite writer. It may be a short story, chapter from a book, essay or blog post.

It should take you about 30 minutes or so to get it done.

Take note of all the little things you will discover about their writing that you would otherwise miss completely when just reading through.

I set up a challenge in Writing Analytics if you’d like to join:

https://app.writinganalytics.co/challenge/6475b5d3e7b6ddfbda1472a9

Let’s do some copywork together!

[chloesimaginationthings]

The day FNAF Charlie Emily was shut out..

[egophiliac]

IT WAS ERIC AFTER ALL!!!! I'm so glad we got to meet him (before Vil snaps him away with those Infinity Gauntlets) (can't wait to see what happens when we get the matching Infinity Tiara to go with them, there will be no survivors)

(sorry to be so slow/rough lately, just got a lot of stuff on the ol' brain at the moment! alas, if only I could spend all my time drawing incredibly stupid characters I mean I do but)

[artist-rat]

some epilogue vibes (an excuse to draw some hugs. and my durge so many times)

[infinityyrp]

Just turn it off as soon as they get Nogi on the nemeton and pretend it's a cliffhanger!

[what-am-i-doing-in-this-fandom]

Fic Idea where Fiddleford helps Stan rebuild the portal, but Stan finds out that Fiddleford has a wife and he's like

"You have a WIFE?? That DIDN'T marry you to steal your car and money???? What are you DOING here???"

"Yeah, well.... She's better off thinking I'm dead somewhere....."

"A WIFE. That LOVES you. Get outta here and go explain yourself, Idiot!!"

"She and our son shouldn't have to deal with--"

"YOUR SON???!!?!!??"

Anyways, so Stan helps Fiddleford reach out and explain himself to his wife, but expresses that he wants to keep being in Gravity Falls, so his wife and kid go to live with them in The Shack instead.

Blah blah blah, bonding happens, Stan bags Fiddleford AND his wife and becomes a step dad, God bless 🙏

[lucabyte]

On autonomy, and what it means to be Obliged to Help.

Bonus:

[triaelf9]

"how do you enjoy *insert fandom here* I hear they're the worst"

Find the ppl who enjoy the thing you like the way you do. Ignore, mute or block the ppl who don't.

Ta-Da~

[tommylovingho]

bucktommy + hands

[ahllohehn]

i do art to do bullshit like this: hephaestus kid mumbo jumbo

about au au tag discord

[arkarti]

Helpy ain't havin a good time when Mark is around

Twitter: X

[petorahs]

an explanation of the side effects of the Terastal phenomenon

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

I always have a soft spot for characters who have a protective streak for another out of gratitude for their kindness towards them, but Charles’ protectiveness towards Edwin really hits a particular way because it’s so so apparent that it’s specifically about wanting Edwin to feel as safe and as comfortable around him as Edwin made Charles feel in his dying moments. I’m going to shatter like glass.

[my-heart-of-heart]

I’ve always gone back and forth about whether to picture Martin stabbing Jon in the front or the back because there’s such beautiful symbolic potential for both.

Like on the one had you’ve got the image that they’re cradling the knife between them, both holding it during perhaps the closest thing they’ve had to a true act of free will in a long time. Jon can’t press the knife in, but he can ease the blow for Martin. He can tell him it’s okay, that he forgives him even though there’s nothing to forgive. It’s horrible and painful, but it’s also setting them free. The blood would get on both of them as they held each other, and, at first glance, you wouldn’t be able to tell whose it was.

But then on the other hand you’ve got nothing coming between them, not even this, not even now. It’s Jon being killed by the same person in whose arms he’s currently finding comfort—and those two things are not at odds. It’s the potential that, if the knife is long enough, Martin could cut himself as well, but that doesn’t matter because his heart already broke with Jon’s anyway. It’s two people who have always found it so hard to trust taking the ultimate symbol of betrayal and turning it into a symbol of loyalty.

And I don’t know which I love more.