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New art!!!! I’ve been getting back into graphic design recently! 2024 is going to be my draw whatever I want without stressing era (I will probably stress)

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So, uh, I’ve been wanna to post about my writing, but I also love drawing, so, have some concept art!

This guy’s title is ‘The Wandering Lantern’, he’s a guiding spirit of the hearth and warmth in a permanently frozen tundra (called Nixarian in my notes). He’s also known as ‘The Man of the Moths’ or ‘Kindle Man’.

The idea for this guy is he’s a type of immortal, specifically of the reincarnates over and over variety. Specifically specifically, he goes through a maiden-mother-crone cycle.

Spawns in as a young man (apprx 20-22 yrs old) with a bow and quiver and actively hunts the various demons/undead/evil spirits of the mountains & tundra. As he grows into middle age, he wards off the undead with the bow and uses a lantern to guide people through blizzards and pitch black nights. As a small old man he forgoes the bow and is rarely seen, but the light of his lantern always sways in the distance, keeping watch over the people.

These or just concepts of him in his middle-age phase, I’m working on wise old man and hot-heated young man.

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Cardinals and Chickadees

A little backyard bird series I’m working on :)

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Got one more chapter, finished the grammar check, and sent out my newsletter last night, which was good enough for the day.

Today I'm making tiramisu cinnamon rolls and trying to finish the climax! The book has got to be done tomorrow!

I edited 13,850 words yesterday in a truly unprecedented fit of productivity and today I am so sleepy and depsite working on one of my favorite chapters, trying to get the words out of my brain is like trying to squeeze blood from a stone, there is simply nothing left in the noggin

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Cardinals and Chickadees

A little backyard bird series I’m working on :)

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The King of the Forest

... sees and hears everything.

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it's not that I need a quiet day or a day off exactly; it's that I need a pocket of time that exists entirely outside of linear time as we know it that would allow me to get things done without time passing in the real world, and frankly, I don't think that's too much to ask.

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It's been a 2 coffee and a nap kind of day and now it's 4pm and I'm eyeing up the black tea. hoping that sitting in the sun will fix me. photosynthesize the words as god intended.

I edited 13,850 words yesterday in a truly unprecedented fit of productivity and today I am so sleepy and depsite working on one of my favorite chapters, trying to get the words out of my brain is like trying to squeeze blood from a stone, there is simply nothing left in the noggin

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I edited 13,850 words yesterday in a truly unprecedented fit of productivity and today I am so sleepy and depsite working on one of my favorite chapters, trying to get the words out of my brain is like trying to squeeze blood from a stone, there is simply nothing left in the noggin

#etta rambles

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yoooo guys these wings my dad made look INSANE i can’t wait to try them tomorrow

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You need to draw and make art or else all the images will stay in your head and you'll get sick

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Suddenly struck by the need for a story about a Victorian lady naturalist who studies those cutesy Victorian flower fairies, but like, as a completely dead-serious scientific endeavor--just because they're adorable and feminine and impossibly twee doesn't mean they're not a vital component of the ecosystem, Bob.

#I need this in my life

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You Are No Chicken. Frank Paton (1856-1909)

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We're live! Doing some last-minute editing sprints tonight before I have to hand this manuscript off to my editor if anyone would like to join me!

#taglist reblog

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We're live! Doing some last-minute editing sprints tonight before I have to hand this manuscript off to my editor if anyone would like to join me!

#etta rambles #livestream #write-in #writeblr #writeblr community

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“Nobody’s going to want to sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours to get from New York City to LA.”

Me. I will sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours. I’ll sit on it for days. I’ll write and read and nap and eat and then do it all over again. I’ll stare out the windows and see America from ground level and not have to drive. I’ll see the Rockies and the deserts and cornfields and the Mississippi River and your house and yours and yours too. I’ll make up stories in my head about the small towns I see as we go along. I’ll see the states I’ve yet to see because driving or flying there is a fucking slog and expensive to boot. I’ll enjoy the ride as much as the destination. And then I’ll do it all over again to come the fuck home.