honhonhon: So many people have asked me for character design tips over the past couple of years. Here’s a whole list of rules I keep in mind with my own character designs. In no specific order: Simple is good. Streamline your design to its essence. The more shit you add on your character the more…
Read MoreSome will love you for who you are; others will love the mask you wear.
In a time of destruction, create something.
Maxine Hong Kingston
(via promptly-written)
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
E.L. Doctorow (via the-raven-series)
The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.
Terry Pratchett (via writingbonesblog)
You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.
Haruki Murakami (via promptly-written)
Sometimes when you meet someone, there’s a click. I don’t believe in love at first sight, but I believe in that click.
Ann Aguirre, Blue Diablo (via thelovejournals)
I read. I travel. I become.
Everyone’s biggest problem is that they fall in love with words rather than actions.
design-is-fine: “Blickensderfer 6” portable typewriter, 1906. Aluminium. Made by George C. Blickensderfer, USA. Via artsmia / Minneapolis Institute of Art Its rotating type wheel allowed for a speedy change in typefaces. Like our own laptop computers and tablets today, it helped revolutionize work and communication while on the go.
Read More
K. Evan Coles 