Just Create - Herein Edition

[silvercat17]

(I was helping mom decipher lawyer-stuff from the 1900s)

What are you working on? What have you finished? What do you need encouragment on? Are there any cool events or challenges happening that you want to hype? What do you just want to talk about?

Chores and other not-fun things count!

Remember to encourage other commenters and we have a discord where we can do work-alongs and stuff, linked in the sticky

This month I'm hosting:
Pirate Fest on AllBingo - digital or nautical piracy themed prompts for anything you want to make

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[zenigotchas]

I did complete my month long drawing training arc, so not only do I now have a lot of pages in my sketchbook filled!! But I also notice a change in my technique and how I approach drawings. Am I some master now? No, but I did improve and that feels really good. I also learned a lot about scheduling and what does and doesn't work for me, so take THAT executive dysfunction! I've made a bunch of notes during this time and I'm happy about that too. Kind of amazing how much progress can be made even if you're just doing small things.

ANYWAY. I'm actually having fun brainstorming for my fiction now. The OG stuff is still in the early gestation period so it's a bunch of ideas being thrown at the wall to see what sticks, but at least I'm still fucking with it and making cards and rearranging/editing them is fun.

Sometimes it can be so fun to do that that you end up accidentally putting in so many details in another project that it goes from a 3 sentence fic into a very detailed look into someone's pysche with themes of trying to make positive change while remaining stuck in the past, social awkwardness and doing your best as a single mom who may or may not also be a bit of an irresponsible cop. Oh and the timeline for another one of my fics is finally being worked on. I need to do more with these things, I think I am not doing enough because I feel I could get them finished faster if I did.

I need to figure out my next plan of creative attack. With charts.

Also I keep procrastinating on random fandom posts I've been dying to do. Not like.... Analysis but close enough to that??? I just need to sit down and finally write about the game I'm currently playing and how its character and level designs add to the surrealist symbols the game is using to tell its plot and themes. And then I need to write about the manga I'm struggling to finish (because it sucks) and how I think other adaptations from the same series handled the manga's themes better.

AND THEN I need to make ANOTHER post but about all the albums I've been listening to because there's a lot! And there's a lot of neat themes to dissect from the songs! And–

Yeah you get the idea it's a lot.

Oh and I still need to draw more.

[a_natural_beauty]

I have been keeping up a pretty steady habit of uploading two pages of my webcomic Promised Memories a week. Right now I am on chapter 16.
I feel I need some personal motivation to get other art projects started on. I'd like to paint more.
And I do have a few more art projects related to a site I am on (Comic Fury) I plan on working on this week.

[matsushima]

I didn't think this was something I could show off because I go through yarn like it's going out of style but I finished crocheting a baby blanket. It's a defictionalization of the scrapghan the protagonist of my book makes. (I made a simpler version of the blanket as the "second draft" of the book but now that I've revised it and I'm starting to query I wanted to make one that reflects the blanket from the revised version I'm sending out.)

[aleteoryx]

i have been writing ducktales stuff for the fandom_empire challenge, and am considering replaying shadow point and maybe writing something for it, cause there's like no fanworks for it anywhere despite it being a really good game