I love that I can expand my introduction to neopronouns course with excerpts from #InTheWatchfulCity 🥲
adding a comparison table for clarity for high-context worldbuilding vs. low-context worldbuilding to expand the context for this framework, which! includes! not “show don’t tell” but “show AND tell, this is what you would accomplish using each tool, neither is good nor bad”
“show don’t tell” is the quickest way to make my eyeballs roll straight out of my head, is it completely lost on people that the skill is called storyTELLing, they are modes not value judgments
aaaaaand expanded!! I now have a comparison table with a LOT more explanation of high- and low-context narratives; it’s too much to share in a screenshot, but here’s a preview! full explanation here: s.qiouyi.lu/lesson/high-co…
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purposely using the shitty paper so you feel less pressure to create something awesome, only half the time you create something awesome, but now it’s on shitty paper 💀
I think I’m gonna end up splashing cup noodles on this paper before I get any graphite or ink onto it, which is how you know it’ll definitely turn out good with the cup noodle spot in an annoyingly central location that will require more effort to edit out if it’s scanned
(1) as expected, holes in paper right where important element is ending up lol, (2) @MattHTaylor@weredawgz speaking of incomprehensible thumbnail sketches
what if I’m scared to write the thing I want to write!!
I think I’m also just frustrated because all of my characters have gradually illuminated themselves to me except the key deuteragonist who actually holds everything together—what are some techniques y’all have for getting a character to reveal themself to you?
this is both appearance and physicality but also personality and motives
big mood, feeling the novella calling me with some dark dualities and this is a Vibe
laughing because I drew two cards to drill down, one for each character, and I drew the same card, same reversal, after having put it back into the deck and shuffling it, and another card like drowning, everything tells me to write the hardest scene first, but I’m scared to!!