The Truth About Selling Fanart by KiRAWRa, literature
Literature
The Truth About Selling Fanart
Update notice as of January 17, 2013: I have given this guide a MAJOR overhaul. It was originally written over a year and a half ago, and since then my own views and understanding of copyrights has changed. I felt that this guide should reflect those changes, so if you read this guide in the past, please take a moment to look through it again as I have added MANY new topics, information, and sources. Unlike my first draft, I have also changed my viewpoint to neutral throughout this writing.
Update notice as of July 17th, 2015: Check out DeviantArt's new article on art theft, fanart, copyrights, and other relevant topics! http://protectart.de
20 Ways to Boost Your Creativity by illuminara, literature
Literature
20 Ways to Boost Your Creativity
1. Create something every day. If there’s one secret to productivity, this is it. It’s not sexy or exciting, but the bottom line is that creative masterpieces aren’t built overnight. They take time and dedication, and you will only make real progress if you work every day. If you haven’t formed a daily habit of creativity yet, start today. It takes about a month if you’re serious about it, and then it becomes second nature and you’ll never look back.
2. Value progress over perfection. Productive and perfect are not synonyms. Which would you rather be?
3. Accept that what you create won’t be perfect
4 Tips for Writing Your Story's Second Pinch Point by DesdemonaDeBlake, literature
Literature
4 Tips for Writing Your Story's Second Pinch Point
4 Tips for Writing Your Story's Second Pinch Point
Anybody Can Write a Novel 2.0 Chapter 6 “Plot Points” – Section 8 “Second Pinch Point”
“If you look at the great superheroes in any universe, you will always find that they have the very best super villains opposing them. It's because they are foils; they are people that the heroes play off of.”
-Jim Lee
The villain, the antagonist, adversity, and the struggle against them are the elements which define the hero, and often even the device by which the hero finds the strength to fight. Nowhere do we see this more clearly than in the Second Pinc