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This is a pretty cool tool for checking perspective, foreshortening, proportions, or anything else affecting the shape and composition of your paintings.
They're almost to their goal and have less than 12 hours left. I wish I'd learned about it sooner.
Check it out, and think about giving them a few bucks.
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Workshopping my novel first draft
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So, I'm posting my first draft of my novel at WritersCafe. It's slow going - I have about 3 times as much written as posted.
However, if you'd like to check it out and give me some feedback (here or at WC) I'd appreciate it.
You can find the posted chapters here.
As this is the first draft, I'm not particularly concerned with punctuation or spelling errors. I'm far more interested in your thoughts on pacing, story progression, characters, etc.
I have already noticed that my first few chapters had an excessive amount of passive voice. That will definitely be getting fixed.
However, if you'd like to check it out and give me some feedback (here or at WC) I'd appreciate it.
You can find the posted chapters here.
As this is the first draft, I'm not particularly concerned with punctuation or spelling errors. I'm far more interested in your thoughts on pacing, story progression, characters, etc.
I have already noticed that my first few chapters had an excessive amount of passive voice. That will definitely be getting fixed.
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Spent some time with Rembrandt this week
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My family and I went to this exhibition of Rembrandt works owned in America at the Minneapolis Museum of Arts.
They have some really great ones, including a pair of full size portraits. There were also a lot of imitations in the museum for comparison. Works created by Rembrandt's students and admirers were often attributed to Rembrandt by over-eager curators in the 19th century.
They also had an audio tour, which included free access to the files via wifi on a mobile device. I thought that was a nice touch, and very helpful.
They have some really great ones, including a pair of full size portraits. There were also a lot of imitations in the museum for comparison. Works created by Rembrandt's students and admirers were often attributed to Rembrandt by over-eager curators in the 19th century.
They also had an audio tour, which included free access to the files via wifi on a mobile device. I thought that was a nice touch, and very helpful.
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Technolust ruins word count.
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Yesterday's writing work was mostly plotting. Coming up with events I am sure will happen, and putting them in relative order by timeframe. Possibly not in actual book order.
Yesterday's "this is tangentially related to writing and will make me feel like I'm accomplishing something" work was scour the internet for timeline management tools, which turned into finding secondary writing suites that happen to have timeline and plotline management in them. And you know what? I didn't even find anything that I liked better than Celtx anyway.
Yesterday's "this is tangentially related to writing and will make me feel like I'm accomplishing something" work was scour the internet for timeline management tools, which turned into finding secondary writing suites that happen to have timeline and plotline management in them. And you know what? I didn't even find anything that I liked better than Celtx anyway.
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800 Words
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I've been very much putting off art, in all its forms.
In some cases, I have a decent excuse. My PC is down for the count, and until it gets repaired, digital art will be a trial at best. But that doesn't affect my ability to sketch on paper, to paint, or to write.
Yesterday I actually did something about it. I have had an idea kicking around in my head for a while, filling itself out, generating and answering questions. I decided I knew enough about it to get started, and wrote the first scene that I had a full idea for. It's the first event in the story, chronologically speaking. I'm not sure if it will be the first thing the reader sees, or if that event will be related later.
Either way, it was 800 words. 800 words I feel pretty pleased with, actually.
I'm not sure what I think about sharing the story. For one thing, I don't know if I'll be writing it in order or not. On the other hand, I don't operate that well in isolation on long projects, either. Perhaps I'll just assemble a group of alpha readers. Who knows?
Either way, we're off to see the wizard.
In some cases, I have a decent excuse. My PC is down for the count, and until it gets repaired, digital art will be a trial at best. But that doesn't affect my ability to sketch on paper, to paint, or to write.
Yesterday I actually did something about it. I have had an idea kicking around in my head for a while, filling itself out, generating and answering questions. I decided I knew enough about it to get started, and wrote the first scene that I had a full idea for. It's the first event in the story, chronologically speaking. I'm not sure if it will be the first thing the reader sees, or if that event will be related later.
Either way, it was 800 words. 800 words I feel pretty pleased with, actually.
I'm not sure what I think about sharing the story. For one thing, I don't know if I'll be writing it in order or not. On the other hand, I don't operate that well in isolation on long projects, either. Perhaps I'll just assemble a group of alpha readers. Who knows?
Either way, we're off to see the wizard.
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