IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

This video might have saved me from burning myself out.

Hey there, y'all!

Chances are, you want to be a creative entrepreneur. I'm here to help.

ETC---name reveal in one week---is the site for all modern-day creatives and creative entrepreneurs!

Most of you know me as a writer. It's in the username, so duh! But becoming a creative entrepreneur is currently one of my life goals. Hentai artists, rom-com writers, emo musicians, Etsy sticker makers, sexy saxophone players - all can be just that!

In case you're wondering, a creative entrepreneur is a self-made businessperson who uses their creativity to grow their business, become freelancers or just make money! Creative Entrepreneurs are living the lifestyle you've always wanted.

They can make profit from passion.

And you can, too. Just with a little... nudge.

While a lot of us want to get to that point---where our passion is enough pay the rent---not a lot of us are willing to put in the work. That work being research, of course.

ETC compiles all sorts of information on the creative industry, tips on financial literacy and productivity hacks in one place. Plus, each post keeps you up to date on current trends, figures and stats for the creative entrepreneur in us all!

Please reblog the post - it really helps get the message out about ETC.

If you (or someone you know) has found yourself stuck or paddling through piles and piles of outdated information, ETC is the blog for you.

And stay creative in all that you do.

Once the site's launched, I'll let you all know. See you next Sunday!

Continue to stay in touch with your loved ones. Stay productive on your passions.

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Thought it might be useful: a list of some novels with an average number of chapters & word count per chapter. source

Try stuff. Put plants in your room even if you aren’t the best at caring for them. Attempt that dessert recipe even if it turns out ugly. Listen to that music you’ve been meaning to try for a while. The world is full of infinite sources of goodness and the best thing to do it to try and find as many as possible.

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Fun writing fact that I will never shut up about: If you write a ton of garbage you’ll actually improve more than if you put your whole soul into a few select words

so in conclusion, write trash and it will become someone’s treasure. That someone could be you.

if you were popular in high school you aren't valid :/

people who were popular in high school are legally required to donate to my paypal

shoulda posted this on ig or something. aint no one on this site popular in high school

Oh hey it’s back on my dash perfect!  I was just thinking of this the other day!

OHOHOHO wow the Korean alphabet is awesome. The people who designed it were geniuses and were obviously incredibly schooled in the morphology and phonology of their language. HNNGGG

wow

여러분 모두 한국어 쓰세요 한국어 좋음  

한국어, 한글은 보면 맨날쓰는거지만 볼수록,쓸수록 예뻐요..참으로 곱구나’3’♥

ㅇ어머 (감동

짱 이쁜 한국어 쓰세요 여러분

굳

신기하게 가르치는군요 보고 신기했다 

FUN FACT!

IT WASN’T JUST ANY OLD DUDE WHO DECIDED, “HEY I WANT TO CREATE A KOREAN ALPHABET.”

IT WAS KING SEJONG, WHO ORDERED HIS ROYAL SCHOLARS TO CREATE THIS ALPHABET SO READING AND WRITING COULD BE ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE, EVEN THE PEASANTS. IT WAS PURPOSELY DESIGNED TO BE EASY TO LEARN.

SO SHOUT OUT TO KING SEJONG, WHO REALIZED BEFORE MANY OTHERS THE IMPORTANCE OF UNIVERSAL LITERACY.

YOU GO KING SEJONG, FOUR FOR YOU KING SEJONG

Wow, I wish I’d given it a look before. Korean is actually the most sensible, reasonably constructed writing system I’ve ever seen, and I’m the kind of person who casually browses http://www.omniglot.com

reblogging for later

TWO WITCHES WOVEN → Book two of the One Siren’s Soul series

The Diluculo’s crew sets off to return a magical artifact to its true guardians, their voyage drawing the attention of a rather peculiar pirate captain as it leads them directly into the heart of siren territory. But that’s not all that hinders them: war rides on the tides, and it’s quickly coming in.

genre – Historical Fantasy, LGBTQ+, YA pov – First Person Limited, Multiple themes – LGBTQ+, neurodivergent/disabled, and MCs of colour. Lost years, healing from trauma, learning compassion, family being more than blood and home being more than place. Pirate-y adventure and science-based magic! content warnings – Violence/death, fire/explosions, coarse language, mild body horror status – Just starting the first draft! playlist – The Curse of the Fold - Shawn James // Ship in a Bottle - Steffan Argus // It Happened Quiet - AURORA // As You Healed / The Guide - Vian Izak // All Is Found - Evan Rachel Wood // Run to You - Pentatonix // Daughter of the Sea - Peter Hollens // Will I Find My Home - Juniper Vale & Vian Izak // Gamblers of Romance - David Ost

Now links for more info! (And by that I mean mostly for the first book because I have yet to do anything for this book yet. ^^’)

Link Directory | General Tag | Excerpts | Worldbuilding Tag 

I’m going to be linking the OSS taglist in a reblog, but I’ll be making a new taglist for this wip, so please let me know if you’d like to be tagged for TWW!

wow wow wow I’m so excited for this!! I’m obsessed with the edit–it’s so different to anything I usually see and it dragged me right into the post. I think my absolute favourite bit is definitely the clause ‘war rides on the tides’ because it’s so evocative and tells you exactly what’s going on and it’s tense as fuck and sets the stakes and frankly is some SEXY WORDPLAY!! 😍😍 I’m so excited to see what you do with this book and the one before it; best of luck with this first draft! <3

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THANK YOU SO MUCH ALKFJLDKSJG. I was honestly really stuck on what I wanted to make this aesthetic look like, so this is really just me playing around with fonts and colouring until I liked it. ^^ I’m glad it turned out, though, and you’re right, I tried to go for something a little different from what I normally see!

And I’m pretty pleased with the logline, too! Gotta love me some cool wordplay~ Thank you so much hhnnnnn 💖💖

Hey, I'm looking for more writeblrs and bookblrs to follow!

Like/rb this and I'll follow you if I'm not already.

Also, if you've got a wip you want me to look at, feel free to put a link to any info about it here for me to check out!

I kinda feel like cancel culture is making it harder for me to write flawed characters. I want them to make mistakes and be irrational sometimes, and learn from that stuff (or not depending on the severity of it) but there’s this weight like “why is your character arguing here when the other person is right?” when the answer is “because they’re not rational right now due to x y z” or something like that.  I feel like I need to clarify in the writing exactly why a character is doing something to the point where it’s extremely “tell” and no “show” instead of letting the reader figure it out on their own.

I also just want to write characters that grow into better people but I’m scared of the readers who won’t move past the initial wrong-doings. Sometimes it seems like some people think if you’re not perfect now, then you never will be, and that applies to writing characters as well. 

We praise Zuko’s redemption arc all the time, and I agree that it’s great. I just wonder if the reception would be the same if it aired today with no changes. If as many viewers would still forgive him.

This was kinda inspired by a discussion of a show I saw. In it, it was clear that the two opposing sides were meant to have good intentions with not-so-great executions of varying degrees. Their reasoning for what they did made sense for their characters, but from an objective standpoint you can see where the mistakes were made and what might have been the best outcome if they had done this and that instead. But a lot of people are watching this scene with this expectation that one side should be 100% right and the other 100% wrong rather than the complicated situation that it is. I loved the scene because it showed the characters behaving like they would, without being forced into a black and white discussion. But some people are still looking at it like it should be a black and white discussion, and then saying it’s bad writing because character x is stupid for not doing this, why wouldn’t they do this, completely ignoring the personality and experience of the character themself.

This ended up much longer than I intended it to be, and kinda lost focus. I guess I just want characters to be allowed to grow and make mistakes and be irrational (as long as that makes sense for them and isn’t a forced attempt to drive the story somewhere).

no one tells you how much of life takes practice. not just writing, painting, running, singing, etc, but practicing how to make friends. how to make the right ones. getting practiced at how to be a good friend, a good sibling, a good person. practice identifying when people haven’t earned that. learning to recognize your right to rage and, eventually, how to offer mercy. so much of life is muscle memory, and i’ve begun to realize there are so many more parts of ourselves to flex and stretch and strengthen than those we’re taught in anatomy lessons

a post: *is spreading awareness about an important topic and honouring those who suffered*

me: that's really nice, i think i'm going to re-

someone under the post: EVERYONE has to reblog this. right now. i dont care who you are you better reblog this or you're going to burn in hell because you're a heartless and selfish asshole. fuck you.

me:

me:

Everyone has to reblog this. right now. I don't care who you---