#workshop wednesday

[archerinventive]

Happy Workshop Wednesday.

This week was about making lattices for my indoor Bougainvillea, AKA Paper flower plant.

We have a neighbor trying to clear some invasive bamboo growing in the ground, and they've been kind enough to let me snag a few stalks.

I'm just happy I got these before the snow fell.

I'm also testing out growing English ivy indoors because no one can have too many plants. Just be careful with both these vines as they are known to be toxic to animals when ingested.

[unicorn-shieldmaiden]

Happy Workshop Wednesday!

Busy putting the finishing touches on this commission for delivery at Midgard Viking Fest in Arlington WA this weekend.

[mercurygray]

For a while during the pandemic I was regularly posting for WIP Wednesday, a midweek check-in about your writing projects. Eventually that scaled back to Workshop Wednesday, where I'd open my inbox to talk about my projects and everyone else's too.

I'm seeing a lot of people in my immediate circle talk about creative loneliness, and burnout, and a growing sense of…dissatisfaction? with their respective communities, and I want to do something about that. I'm not immune to these things either and while I really want to open my inbox for writing prompts, my soul of souls knows that's not what I need right now.

So - Workshop Wednesday!

Got something you want a second opinion on? Sense check on an idea? paragraph you’re just really proud of? Idea you want some help with? A pat on the back and a sign that says 'YOU'RE DOING GREAT AND I BELIEVE IN YOU!' Send it to my askbox - and if the idea of hashing out your idea in public does not appeal, DM me for my discord handle and we can talk there!

The Workshop is open.

[lunacreativeacademy]

Workshop Wednesday

Workshop Wednesday is a free hour long Zoom Session where like minded writers can exchange feedback on each other’s work.

The aim of Workshop Wednesday is to form a community that helps, inspires and supports other writers through feedback, word prompts and an exchange of ideas.

How It Works:

Every Friday you have the opportunity to submit a piece of work (up to 500 words) for peer review. This will be sent out to other participants of the session for them to critique. You will also receive a piece of work for you to provide feedback on.

During the session we will discuss each writer’s work and if there’s time discuss any issues that people may be having with their projects.

Learn more here!

[fleeceyang]

writing the script for my interactive audio game which i’ll narrate and record sound effects for myself. it’s gonna be a lot of work but i’m excited!

[jaskwritesthings]

wip wednesday

this is for @tenarha who's excitement for this wip is fueling me! its more of my accidental warlord jaskier/aiden lives au, i really need to think of a title for this. so far we've got 'honey i took over the continent' cause im incapable of having a serious title these days and 'blood and whiskey' which is from the mechanisms - high noon over camelot i think i've settled on aiden/lambert/jaskier. i was kinda torn between the aiden/lambert/jask and geralt/jask with maybe geralt/yen/jask but my outline kept swinging towards aiden and lambert so yeah

He’s got his head in his overstuffed wardrobe organising the flowing shirts and doublets by which would make Valdo cry the most when he wins the next competition when suddenly there’s a knife at his neck and a rough hand covers his mouth.

“Scream and you die,” a husky voice whispers against his ear, he can feel their teeth as they snarl the warning. Jaskier’s gaze flicks to the door, locked and bolted from the inside. He can just make out the window over his desk, closed as it has been all morning, but he knows it doesn’t have a bolt or a solid catch and could easily have been how his assailant clambered in.

His eyes find the bed where his ward is -

The witcher is gone from the bed. Which means the man at his back is the confused and concerned witcher who at his last memory was a prisoner of an evil mage. Of course, he came up swinging.

Where the hell did he get the knife though? Not important right now.

“You will answer my questions and if I don’t like your answers, you’ll drown in your blood, understand?” the witcher growls and Jaskier nods once and focuses on relaxing. It's quite impressive that the man is upright after such a long convalescence.

Significantly less impressive as under the slight weight of one relaxed bard, he practically crumbles, landing heavily on the floor. The knife slices a weak line against Jaskier’s throat, too blunt to do more than a shallow cut and answering the question of where the witcher got it, it's the fucking cutlery.

Jaskier and the witcher let out pained ‘oofs’ as they land.

[daddysboydean]

Happy Wincest Wednesday!

I've got a simple one this week. If you're like me, there's that one wincest AU in your head that you think about all the time, and you know you probably should write someday, but you also probably never will. I wanna hear about it. And I mean, if you have multiple, lay as many on me as you want.

(I'll accept all possible definitions of AU, for the record. From as simple as genderswap to completely different settings and timelines)

- @schizosamwincester

there are so many but i have this one, i call it ‘endverse au au’ bc its an au of 5x4 the end. basically due to angel fuckery, azazel still kills mary but he kidnaps 6mo sam and raises him to be lucifer’s vessel. john raises dean as a hunter in the croatoan world or something like it. things unfold more or less as they do in canon but deans even more isolated from the world as an only child, doesn’t have sam to keep him soft, and that feeling of missing something he had bc of mary is even worse bc now its sam too. the red string of fate is tricky though, they’re not supposed to be separated, dean has dreams about sam but he’s grown up and always in a white suit. so anyway john is on a hunting trip and hasn’t been home in a few days so dean sets out solo to find him and he meets castiel who’s human and a prostitute. smth smth castiel comes with dean on his search for john so it’s kind of an apocalyptic road trip fic that ends with the sam/dean showdown in detroit. destiel with wincest undertones.

[thekalpar]

WIP Wednesday again. My computer pooped itself this weekend so I spent time working on Cthonian Berserks while I waited for it to reinstall windows. Making progress.

[bakingmoomins]

look at my crisp granny stitch polygons that could do so many patterns and tilings

[orbleglorb]

gimme game show

this one took a second bc i was debating how much to share, bc i'll probably only post it on tumblr and i don't expect it to be too long. but it's not like im good at keeping wips a secret so

[please imagine a show name. it's essentially game changer but i don't want to just steal the name of the game and company this is based on]

[opening animation/cute little jingle]

NAT HUMMINGWAY [voice over]

And welcome to a very special Seattle Garages edition of [show]! Tonight's guests…

[The camera opens to a closed curtain, separating the set of the show and backstage]

NAT [V/O]

Blaseball player by day, YA author by night, musician whenever she manages to fit it into her schedule, it's Alaynabella Hollywood!

[LAYNA steps through the curtain, posing with a toothy grin and sharp claws for the camera, before she notices that Nat is not at the podium.]

LAYNA, walking stage left, towards the podium farthest from the curtain

Oh no.

NAT [V/O]

Blaseball player by day, wizard by night, graffiti artist when you're not looking, it's Magi Ruiz!

[MAGI steps through the curtain, full of nervous energy]

MAGI

And don't worry about where your car key–

[MAGI notices that NAT is not at the host podium]

MAGI, walking stage left to the middle podium

Ohhhh no. Okay.

NAT [V/O]

Blaseball player by contract, musician by all times of the day, not-mad-just-disappointed when you do something wrong, it's Teddy Duende!

TEDDY, from behind the curtain:

Why are you guys saying "oh no"?

[TEDDY carefully draws the curtain back a bit, peeks around theatrically, and then steps out and walks towards his podium, the one closest to the curtain.]

TEDDY

Oh. Okay. Sure. I'm sure this will be–

NAT [V/O]

And your host…

[alrightbuckaroo]

Happy Wednesday, everyone! Thanks to @lemonlyman-dotcom, @birdclowns, @thisbuildinghasfeelings, @bonheur-cafe and @carlos-in-glasses for the tags as always. Hope you don't mind me changing it up a bit this week and sharing something for the Old West AU:

Carlos is silent for a moment, before taking a swig of the moonshine. After swallowing down the bitter, burning taste, he says, “When I was fifteen, I called my father a bastard. I said it with a heat within me I didn’t know was there.” He takes another swig, this time letting the burn settle a little bit more. “Cursed at him, even took the Lord’s name in vein.” 

TK’s eyebrows raise slightly, he never would thought Carlos had it in him. Not only to go against God, but his own father. Carlos just didn’t seem the type. “What did he say?” 

Carlos pauses, staring up at the night sky. His eyes mirroring the moonlight that’s bathing them in a distant white light. “Nothing. He had been dead for two years.”

He looks over at TK, his eyes dewy and glazed over with repressed melancholy. “Being angry doesn’t make you evil, TK. It makes you human.” 

no pressure tagging: @reyesstrand, @strandnreyes, @heartstringsduet, @rosedavid, @cold-blooded-jelly-doughnut, @welcometololaland, @rmd-writes, @basilsunrise, @sanjuwrites, @orchidscript, @three-drink-amy, @paperstorm, @mikibwrites, @freneticfloetry, @ambiguouspenny, @catanisspicy @sanjuwrites, @chaotictarlos, @wandering-night19, @inflarescent and here's an open tag for anyone who wants to join in on the fun (tag me back, i want to read!)

[archerinventive]

Happy Workshop Wednesday.

Check out my sticks. :)

I've been saving these for years now, waiting on the right project, and finally found the one.

After a quick paint job. I wrapped these guys together to make one large piece.

I'll be using these as the base to my hanging fairy garden. Which will eventually reside in the studio.

I'm just working on assembling the mounting before all the dangly pieces get attached. :)

I hope you, too, are able to give new life to a piece in your collection this week.

Have a lovely rest of your evening.

[bialvindraper]

everyone hype me up to email all my tutors abt missing class last week

[mercurygray]

Hey, Merc — thanks for hosting Workshop/WIP Wednesday! I’ve been taking a break from Tumblr for a while (for a bunch of reasons I won’t bore you with), but for the last few weeks I’ve been working on a new writing project, based on the Canal+/BBC Marie Antoinette series and centered on telling the events of the first four episodes through Louis’s perspective. I’m so, so tempted to finish a chunk and then post it (because who doesn’t like feedback and positive reinforcement?), but I’ve told myself that I need to finish the whole thing before posting to lessen the chance I’ll lose steam halfway through and not finish the story. Considering the pace I’m going, though, it might end up taking a lot of the summer (I’m not even through Episode 1 and it’s already 8k). So mostly I’m just looking for some encouragement — or, on the off chance you think my fic idea is terrible, some gentle words of advice that maybe I should cut my losses now before I get much further… :/

This is a GREAT idea! One of the things I personally loved about the new Marie Antoinette was the way they drew out Louis' 'probably on the spectrum' side - those were all things that I knew about him but had never put together in that way. He obviously cares deeply about things going on around him but is so afraid to mess something up because his grandfather is already doing it better.

And the fact that he himself doesn't 'speak' much during those first few episodes doesn't mean that he doesn't have things to say!!

I'm so looking forward to reading whatever it is when you're done!

[workshop Wednesday and we're giving encouragement]

[rosicheeks]

YES! AUDITION!

YOU WILL BE THE BEST THEY HAVE EVER SEEN!

😂

[volivolition]

Welcome to WIP Wednesday!

Message to All Bitches: Please Survive

thank you!! i've added to Message, but it would be spoilers <3 so instead i offer you a bit i've written from Make it Home!

PAIN THRESHOLD [Failure] groans, face in his hands – We can't keep doing this. You need to sit down.

ENDURANCE [Failure] – That's pathetic. We just got- hrgh… started…

VOLITION watches as Endurance hunches over and swats aggressively at Hand/Eye Coordination as he attempts to pat his back. Volition sighs and turns back to the viewfinder – No, this is bad for us. Until we process that thought and gain an ability to compress our shit, we won't be getting anything worthwhile done out here. We could stand getting out of the rain, at least.