art takes hours to produce and seconds to consume so dont act suprised when artists get upset when their posts only get likes and no reblogs
similarly a piece of writing that takes a few minutes to read could have weeks of work behind it… dont take creativity for granted when ur getting it for free
I think all writers need a friend who will encourage their desire to write absolute garbage. Not necessarily something that is badly written, but like, stupid self indulgent bullshit. “Cringey” aus or crossover fanfics. Aus or crossover fics of your own ocs.
Writing that stuff is fun and is great practice, but sometimes I feel like “wow, this is hardly productive, why am I even writing this, who else would ever want to read this?” The answer is your friend who encourages your trash writing, that’s who. Write it for yourself and for them.
1: Origins! How did you come up with the concept for your OC?
2: Were they originally well received by the fandom? Or if they’re fandomless, did the RP community take to them right away or was it hard to get attention?
3: Has your OC gone through different incarnations during their stay on Tumblr? Were they reimagined or have they stayed the same all this time?
4: How do you get into your OC’s mindset to write for them? How do you find the muse for them?
5: Were you nervous about putting your OC out there? How long did it take before you decided to play your OC here on Tumblr.
IC Interaction Questions
6: What is your OC’s family situation? Do they get along? Do they fight? Or are they alone?
7: What does your OC look for in a friend? Do they value friendship a lot?
8: What does your OC look for in a significant other? Are they looking at all?
9: What is your OC like when at work? Are they diligent? Slacker? Do they get along with their co-workers?
10: How do they deal with strangers?
Inside the Muse’s Mind Questions
11: Is there a place they go to in order to escape the world, the stresses of life? What’s their favourite place?
12: What scent calms them? Reminds them of home or something soothing?
13: Do they have any favourite foods? Would they eat it all the time if they had the chance? What do they hate to eat?
14: Pet peeves. Tell us what would really tick them off. Do they have a Berserk Button?
15: Does your OC have any awful fears? Do they get paralyzed with fear or can they work through their fears?
16: What are concepts they value? Virtues? What do they look down upon?
17: Do they have any guilty pleasures? They embarrassed about them? Do they flaunt them?
18: Do they have a guilty conscience? Why? Did they ever do something they totally regretted?
Miscellaneous Questions
19: Have they ever been injured? Sick? How do they deal with it?
Hey friends and fam, look at the time. Another tiny little milestone!
There‘s now more than 250 of you following the everyday adventures of my OCs and my steady flow of gushing over hot manly turians, which makes me insanely happy ❤
So I‘d say it‘s time for another giveaway! Yeeey! *throws confetti*
GIFTS:
Two (2) lucky people will get a chance to win either a drabble/ficlet (100-1000 words, depending on my muse; pairing and prompt of choice) OR, since apparently my attempts at turian fashion are well received by many of you, I offer to draw two sets of clothes for your OC or a canon character of choice! As always, I‘m most used to writing/ designing for turians, but I can delve into other species as long as enough information and a template model is provided. I‘m shit at anatomy and not ashamed to say so.
In both cases, things will be discussed by PM and if you don‘t like surprises, I‘ll send you updates along the way 🙂
RULES:
– Giveaway runs until Sept 8th, 2018, midnight MET
– You must be following me. I‘ll check! New followers welcome but please don‘t just stick around for the giveaway (that‘s plain rude!)
– Of course no giveaway blogs
– Likes an reblogs both count. As many reblogs as you want but please don‘t spam your followers!
– Winners will be chosen by list randomizer (each of you gets an equal chance of winning) and will be contacted by PM
– If winners don‘t respond within 48hrs, I‘ll choose a new one.
So… thanks again for sticking around and good luck everyone ❤
Also forgot to say- if you follow me with a different blog than the one you reblogged/liked with please let me know, don‘t want to exclude anybody ❤
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