When hearing the term "tracing paper" by a non-artisan, it's often assumed that the *primary* and *only* possible use for such paper is to plagiarize other people's art. This stigma tends to remain with beginning traditional artists who have inherited this prejudice. In practice, the real uses of tracing paper are for the exact opposite. Tracing paper is just another useful tool of many that can help you improve your own original art. It's true that tracing paper is for tracing (obviously). But it's true potential becomes clearer once you look at tracing paper similarly to how digital artists use "layers", cut-and-paste, and "undo". It is a w

!HelloTharIdiot (https://www.deviantart.com/hellotharidiot) Welcome to the sixth issue of BibLITothèque: the Writer's Library! This issue is about a topic both exciting and terrifying: creating new languages for your story, in the vein of Tolkien's Quenya and Sindarin or Star Trek's Klingon. If you’re writing fantasy, sci-fi, or any other story in an invented setting, sooner or later you’ll run into the issue of whether or not to use made-up words and names. Conlang (constructed language) is complicated as hell, so this guide is geared toward making life as simple as possible. Good writing has few words doing a lot of work, and for the sake of your story, conlang