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General | Posted 8 years agoIn about three weeks, NaNoWriMo is going to take over my life as it does every year. This year I'm being even more absurdly self-indulgent than usual and am just throwing a bunch of my characters, including Sorrel, into a universe together and seeing what happens. It's probably going to turn into a pile of nonsense like it does every year, but NaNo has always been about the journey for me.
Before that happens though I feel like making a small list of ideas/goals here that I am otherwise likely to forget about in the incoming whirlwind of frenzied writing.
- I need to take like, a day, or at least a set of like four hours (with breaks of course) and dedicate it to studying how to draw anthro bodies. Specifically the digitigrade style that I prefer. Not to a state of anatomical perfection but just enough so that they don't look totally mangled whenever I try to draw them. I'm hoping that after that if I do at least couple of doodles a day I'll start to actually become comfortable with drawing more than just weird heads.
- I'd like to actually get Sorrel's visual details on paper in a way that at least somewhat reflects what's in my head. I've been meaning to do this for literally years and part of my hesitancy is that if I get it wrong I'll be stuck with it forever. I need to remind myself that's not true and I can change it whenever I want. I need to remind myself of that 200 times a day, probably.
- Similarly I'd like to do a sort of short story/scene that details some of Sorrel's history/backstory. I might end up actually rough-drafting that as part of nanowrimo and then refining it later.
- I'd like to do more short stories in general but I feel like I need some prompts. I'd feel weird doing them all about my existing characters/universes for some reason. It feels too personal almost. Does that make any sense? That probably doesn't make any sense.
- Some years ago I got somewhat involved with a furry 'self-hypnosis' community which mostly involved listening to some MP3s which attempted to change the way you perceive yourself. I don't know if any of it actually worked but I always found them very relaxing and focusing in the same way I enjoy listening to guided meditation files. I'm kind of playing with the idea of writing scripts for similar guided files that sort of take you on a little mental adventure in your preferred form. I don't feel like I have the voice/equipment to actually record the scripts but maybe someone will.
Anyway, that's all I can really think of right now. Time to go to work and pay the bills.
Before that happens though I feel like making a small list of ideas/goals here that I am otherwise likely to forget about in the incoming whirlwind of frenzied writing.
- I need to take like, a day, or at least a set of like four hours (with breaks of course) and dedicate it to studying how to draw anthro bodies. Specifically the digitigrade style that I prefer. Not to a state of anatomical perfection but just enough so that they don't look totally mangled whenever I try to draw them. I'm hoping that after that if I do at least couple of doodles a day I'll start to actually become comfortable with drawing more than just weird heads.
- I'd like to actually get Sorrel's visual details on paper in a way that at least somewhat reflects what's in my head. I've been meaning to do this for literally years and part of my hesitancy is that if I get it wrong I'll be stuck with it forever. I need to remind myself that's not true and I can change it whenever I want. I need to remind myself of that 200 times a day, probably.
- Similarly I'd like to do a sort of short story/scene that details some of Sorrel's history/backstory. I might end up actually rough-drafting that as part of nanowrimo and then refining it later.
- I'd like to do more short stories in general but I feel like I need some prompts. I'd feel weird doing them all about my existing characters/universes for some reason. It feels too personal almost. Does that make any sense? That probably doesn't make any sense.
- Some years ago I got somewhat involved with a furry 'self-hypnosis' community which mostly involved listening to some MP3s which attempted to change the way you perceive yourself. I don't know if any of it actually worked but I always found them very relaxing and focusing in the same way I enjoy listening to guided meditation files. I'm kind of playing with the idea of writing scripts for similar guided files that sort of take you on a little mental adventure in your preferred form. I don't feel like I have the voice/equipment to actually record the scripts but maybe someone will.
Anyway, that's all I can really think of right now. Time to go to work and pay the bills.
Setting up
General | Posted 8 years agoHere I am, making another attempt to get involved in furrydom. It's been so long since I interacted that my old fursona didn't really even feel like me anymore, so starting over seemed the best way to go. Hoping to make some new friends, maybe even some writer friends to keep me on track. Anyway, hello!
