Trying to do character age math with migraine is not recommended 0/10 will have a negative age parent again

Hardest: happy, low stakes scenes. Like, keeping tension and pacing when people are *happy* is just so difficult why can't they just be angsting forever-- Easiest: Dialogue, especially of the hurt/comfort variety. I am a child of fanfiction dot net, 90's JRPGs, and Buffy, and it certainly does show

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Some more, just to kinda show that I do have SOME range in what I can do. Yes, that map was hand drawn without any kind of mapmaker & boy was it a pain in the ass (but I enjoyed doing it to prove to myself that I could).

Haven't posted much #art lately so here's a post with some of it, both pencil & the digitally drawn. Really, the only difference between how I make my #DigitalArt on CSP vs #sketches is that I'm not afraid to mess it up by coloring it. I probably should use more effects for polish but I don't.

hi I'm happy (?) to report I can code themes for 100 pages of interview transcripts with a major migraine by virtue of energy drink, ice cap, migraine med, and raw will power despite said migraine's best efforts. ...I dread the assignment that needs heavy thinking tomorrow though now rip

I think I'm trying to color code the pov with these-- Jordan gets red, Kylie gets blue, and Maya gets purple. Let's see if I can stick with it (and yes, we're still with Ripple chapters somehow!) #WIPSnips

Okay this isn't marketing as much as funny side comment but I don't wanna clog the pinned thread: I like how it looks like a love triangle w/ Jordan, Kylie, and Maya, when Maya's aro and couldn't be less interested in either and demi!Kylie is denser than a rock. They're just all pov characters xD

Kylie- too high internal locus of control Jordan- too high external locus of control Maya ~~just right locus of control~~ - trust issues #writingprompt #writingsky

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ough.... im so tired but i managed to draw a little silverash.....

I think I'm trying to color code the pov with these-- Jordan gets red, Kylie gets blue, and Maya gets purple. Let's see if I can stick with it (and yes, we're still with Ripple chapters somehow!) #WIPSnips

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Well uh, Riyati book 5 has a full outline! So there's that. All praise hyperfocus and getting none of the other things I needed done this weekend done

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Something very weird with my writing/outlining process is I have a bunch of arbitrary rules: I need at least 40 chapters, at least 60k on the manuscript, generally shouldn't have 2 of the same character pov back to back w/o good reasoning and I'm realizing that these rules came about bc I'm

I'm still pushing to keep these with Ripple! CW's for this one-- implied child abuse (no young children though)

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...aaaand we're up to 5 main bullet points/events in Riyati book 6 now. I'm not moving to formally outlining it anytime soon, but uh. The ball do be rolling as I finish out book 5's outline here xD

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The cooler weather has been really helping, but man can I not wait for the 20th so I can get my medical botox again bc I'm getting tired of this every day nausea and annoying-level of pain that requires rest when I'm in the middle of a perfectly good hyperfocus

((for everyone's sanity -- including my own-- I promise to stop being a spam promo machine tomorrow, bear with me for one more day T.T)

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I'm almost done with this book 5 outline and *oh no* I wanna write it actually... I was supposed to be taking a break before diving into Recollection/bk4 dev edits in Dec...

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...okay I'm enjoying sharing snippets now that I finally put everything in Ellipsus. Trying to get a reasonable screenshot to post was causing more friction on snippet sharing than I realized, I'm noticing

I'm still pushing to keep these with Ripple! CW's for this one-- implied child abuse (no young children though)

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A study finds that deep sleep rewires the brain to eliminate anxiety. My own study suggests that anxiety rewires the brain to eliminate deep sleep.

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I enjoy these post games and am jumping in as well— 1 like = 1 song from my Riyati playlist 👀

I feel like it's been a sec since I mentioned it, but if you wanna see more Riyati updates (and/or cat pictures), come join the Official Riyati Discord @ riyati.ink/discord 💙 (No really, I need more people to share cat pictures with. And more people posting cat pictures. Just saying)

If you haven't seen this yet... you really should, it's so good!

Oh geez yes. This is either my best or worst writing quality depending on who you ask. Each pov has a distinct personality-- Jordan uses a ton of cursing, slang, and contractions, Maya is more distant and logical, Kylie is more emotion focused & tactical. Jordan is many's dealbreaker

"Why am I suddenly so tired?" I ask as I've been outlining for almost 10 hours straight with only a few breaks

here is what I have planned for this upcoming week. im looking forward to streaming some more before family comes to visit.

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If you haven't seen this yet... you really should, it's so good!

Needed to do my contribution to #Caturday and it got here!!! Fiona and Random have both smelled the proof and declared it their favorite whatever ever!

I moved my electric/heated keyboard mat to the desk instead of keyboard tray for something I'm working on, and Krishna has stolen like 60% of the mat now =.= sir this isn't your new bed, thank you

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I feel like it's been a sec since I mentioned it, but if you wanna see more Riyati updates (and/or cat pictures), come join the Official Riyati Discord @ riyati.ink/discord 💙 (No really, I need more people to share cat pictures with. And more people posting cat pictures. Just saying)

Let's see how long I can get away with just using Ripple *and* not having anything super, super spoilery with these snippets...

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