Here's a bonus sketch I did for @coyoteesquire-blog, featuring Nikola's medieval design! I took this as an opportunity to practice action poses. :3
Arrow showers are much less pleasant than April showers!
(人◕ω◕)(人◕ω◕)(人◕ω◕) Suzuko and Ayame are both runners. However, the question of who's faster is always up in the air. Ayame specializes in Sprinting, while Suzuko is an all-arounder specializing in other track things like the long jump or discus throwing. But in a full-blown race? ;;;;;;(人◕ω◕) Well it's a very neck-and-neck race. Ayame and Suzuko have tied and beaten each other often. The benefits of being rivals and friends. Yes. (人◕ω◕) There is no war in Ba Sing Se.
okay, you've convinced me to try sprinting lol! I always beat myself up for procrastinating on writing until it's too late in the day and then hating that I can't write for an extended period bc when I actually find the focus/motivation to write it's like 11PM. I think I (partly) procrastinate bc I *know* earlier in the evening I'll be too distracted by other stuff (texts, having to make dinner, wanting to watch a show or other stuff etc) to properly write. But if I only do it in bursts...it may work. Is there a specific app or anything you use or is really just set a timer on your phone and go?
That's exciting! I love watching writers try out new things!
I personally use the "Sprinto Bot" on Discord if you have your own server you can add it to, but literally any App or Clock can work for you. Just set the timer for 15, 20, or 25 minutes and just write. And then give yourself a break before doing another one, or call it done for the day if you just want to slide in something, yah know.
(25 minutes working, 5 minute break, is known as the Pomodoro Method, but as I mentioned in the other post I find 25 minutes too long, I start picking up my phone and getting side tracked. On bad days I also find 5 minutes too short a break. So it might take a few tries until you find a specific number combination that works for you)
Ultimately though, it may not work for you at all, but everyone I've talked into trying sprinting has at least found something from it to incorporate into their own specific writing toolset <3
I'm a night owl too, because of earlier in the day distractions, but if I start at 11pm I can usually run a sprint from 11:05-11:25, then have a 10 minute break, and then set another sprint to run between 11:35-11:55.
Which nets me 40 minutes of writing a night. And sometimes that's 200 words, sometimes it's 500. On really, really, good nights I can get as many as 900 words in 2 sprints, but I've not been doing that well recently.
Ultimately the number doesn't matter all that much, it's just a way for me to talk myself into doing something. It used to be that I'd go "Urgh, I've only got an hour left? I can't settle into writing and get a good chunk done in that time, I'll leave it until tomorrow" and weeks would go by like that. Literal months Rofl
But if I've got twenty minutes, I can set a timer and do 200 words. It's progress, and I'll take any forward momentum when I'm neck deep in the second act of a manuscript lol!
Did you know that sweatpants were invented just around a decade after the Titanic sank?
Émile Camuset created them in the early 1920’s for his sports equipment company, the Le Coq Sportif. By the 1932 Olympic Games, sweatpants were everywhere!
Worn by icons like Eddie Tolan, legendary track and field sprinter and the first Black athlete to win two Olympic gold medals:
And the unstoppable Babe Didrikson Zaharias, a sporting polymath who excelled at track and field events, basketball, baseball and golf. She also took home two gold medals in 1932.
Sweatpants’ popularity exploded during the 1960’s fitness boom, and they’ve lived rent free in our closets and hearts ever since.
A hundred years after their invention, let’s celebrate our humble sweatpants!
Iconic. Comfortable. Highlighting assets while covering a multitude of sins.
Any hurdlers wanna take my survey pretty please. I need a few more data points for my math project. I’m finding the correlation between hurdlers heights and their take off distance from the hurdlers. And then I’ll be trying to create a linear regression.
okay really funny clarith starting pact is going to make Me read pact more efficiently because i won't want 2 be outpaced and subsequently unable to read faer pact lb. arc 3 by the end of the night or ill explode