Scribbled Fiction

If you didn't hear already, I published a new book back in August. So exciting! And I recently realized(due to reading a similar post by a friend) that I haven't shared much about the story or the characters to my blog in a while. So, for those of you who haven't read Robbing Centaurs and Other Bad Ideas , and even some of those of you who have and love some fun facts, let's talk about Wick. 1. Wick is a certified SoftBoi Out of the pairing, Wick is the soft child, and Archer is the savage. Wick just wants everything to work out and everyone to do what they're supposed to so that the world will be okay. He protects his friends and thinks all scenery everywhere is beautiful. He loves everything he sees. He's just a cutie. 2. He loves cooking For the first half of the book, Wick is something called a leshy(think walking tree people), and that's his natural form. But for various reasons that you will just have to discover when you read the book, he changes what

This is about to be your new favorite thing. I'm currently watching through Once Upon A Time with my sister, and I couldn't help but notice- Snow and Charming have a certain... something about the way they see everything. It's all 'love wins' and 'it'll be all right, I know it' and 'I believe in you'. It really grabbed my attention. I was about to label it as just standard character angst, but it wasn't. It was like angst, but... in the other direction, you know? I'm calling it light angst. As in, like angst but the other way. The opposite side of the spectrum. The other extreme, if you will. While regular angst, or 'dark angst' as we'll call it so we can tell them apart for the post, is a dedication to believing that everything is terrible, tragic, empty, you know the gist. Picture the opposite of that, and you have light angst. Unashamed, open dedication to the belief that everything is okay and will turn out for the better

Whether you recognize the term or not, we all know the trope of the single-trait character. These guys show up at least once in every book, movie, and TV show, and they're useful because they fill up space and they're easily identified. A single-trait character is someone who appears in a story and is recognized/identified by (you guessed it) a single, solitary trait. The tall one. The loud one. The one who loves soccer. Characters such as these are useful as background characters, and they're easy to tell apart because they each only have one characteristic to be remembered by. Aside from Jamie, none of the kids in Rise of the Guardians strictly have  any deep characteristics, but since we were already dealing with such a large cast of  characters,  none of the kids strictly *needed* a complex personality . Now, before we go into how to use a single-trait character, let's first talk about how not to use a single-trait character. As always, this isn't necessarily wr

So I've actually been an indie author(or working on being an indie author) for ages longer than I've talked about it or really had an online presence to mention it. I've wanted to be an author since I started getting into writing at age eleven, and I've always wanted to put my books into the hands of other people. Obviously, like the rest of us did, I eventually did my research and found out that doing what I wanted to do would be very hard, nearly impossible unless I really put my back into it. The world of traditional publishing involved a thousand steps I couldn't understand. But for a while, I thought it was my only real option, and it was what I pursued. There was a time where I desperately wanted to be a part of Harper Collins because I noticed they published almost all my favorite books at the time, and I considered them to be the  publishing house to go with. Bit of a shame that Harper Collins was basically ironclad and impossible to get in touch with. So I

This post is in defense of Cruella. Y'know, the Disney movie. Let's have some quick backstory. My sister and I saw the Cruella trailers, and frankly, it looked fantastic, so we took a Friday afternoon to see it after we both got off work. We saw the full movie, and while it had a few flaws like all movies, we walked away thinking it was a great movie. So now that I'm seeing so many people roasting it on social media, my brain is in a state of ?????? So here I am, ready to defend it for the awesome movie it was. For myself, I have to say that my only qualm with the movie is that it wasn't dark enough . Disney holds back their movies a little too much these days I think, which doesn't make any sense after they've already made movies like the Dark Cauldron or Maleficent. Watching Cruella, I got the feeling that the writers wanted to push it further and make it darker, but my suspicion is that Disney wouldn't let them, what with their 'audience standards'

 Hey hey! I haven't posted any art updates on here in an AGE, so here are some art things I've done over the last couple of months. Some doodles I did in my art notebook: a Draw This In Your Style that my sister suggested for me, some doodles of a cartoon character that has my new hair, and an emo girl? I guess? I copied the roses on her face from a Snapchat filter that looked super cute. My first time messing around with oil paints(yep, they take forever to dry), and a window painting I did for my mom for Easter. That window took so many pieces of tape and so much scissoring to get right lol. Tony Stank On the left, some haikyuu-inspired art that I did while I was messing around with my paint markers, and on the right a cute lil mermaid I did for mermay. I used the manga art of Ichigo Takano, who wrote the manga series Orange, for the art style on the mermaid. More mermay art. I used the prompts #mermaidizeafriend, #angelic, and #beached. it explode a self portrait