Effie Green

hell yeah ... "liquid" brush

Basically I'm wondering if I should even try to keep writing this thing in this day and age. Like is a prince/billionaire romance that tries to both have the social commentary and the romance too unbelievable to make for a viable story? Like am I TOO lost in the fantasy sauce?

#writesky #writing

Because the point is to directly interrogate the trope itself, in a way? Like can/should you be with someone who's this powerful in a setting this public? Isn't it terrifying and potentially dangerous? And CEO romances generally don't question the dynamic itself so the reader can ignore it easier.

Like they do fall in love, is the thing. Despite it all. But now, in these, uh, trying times, I'm wondering if falling for ultra-rich royalty on reality tv might be so outlandish that ppl just won't suspend their disbelief to buy into it anymore. And it's different from your regular "CEO romances"

as well as going into like the reality TV aspect of it and the loss of control of one's identity and privacy etc etc. Now I'm also going to get into social media and how everything must be dramatized, monetized and made into Content. But despite all that it was still meant to be a love story.

So I have a story which I've been trying to write since I was an older teen (I'm pushing 30) that's basically The Bachelor but in a cyberpunk setting with a prince as the bachelor. The protagonist is a working class cyborg barely scraping by. I wanted to explore class (obvs) and inequality (obvs)

I still haven't trained the speedy "this'll do" muscle which I'll need if I want to make this work lmao, and I'm already taking every shortcut imaginable.

I still haven't put in any decorative elements ... Maybe those might help spread out the text boxes and panels a bit??

But I also really want to pad it out as much as I can because I'm still being a bit too precious with each panel, and I imagine it'll get worse as I start to actually draw the characters and environments proper (right now it's just exposition with a bunch of unnamed ppl) 2/3

Goddd I need to talk to other ppl who make webcomics because I have no idea what I'm doing with these panels y'all. I'm doing the webtoon style page layout (super long, optimized for phone scrolling) and I'm like 95% convinced my panels are way too packed together. But I don't like dead air 1/3

I'm barely managing to make my art in the first place and yet I'm expected to also spend even more time trying to market it? Hell world.

Sorry I hate Instagram I'm losing my fucking miiiind

Hashtag romantasy kinky smut he falls first enemies-to-lovers dark fantasy she's the evil one breeding kink choking slow burn only four beds no more hashtags reels video learn to animate speedpaint booktook bookstagram trending sound post video engagement caption reach your audience kill yourself

r...rock's ?

I'm gonna say it: "Psychotic" is the new r******d and I'm really tired of even supposed "progressives" using it freely like it's a woke version of "crazy" or "insane." Esp when those same ppl will be like "no don't use those that's ableist!!"
As though using a literal diagnosis as a slur isn't lol

I dunno if I should post any screenshots from my #visualnovel wip. On one hand it's good to keep people informed of development progress. On the other hand it does fully look like ass, with placeholder backgrounds people will think are AI because I put a greasy "artistic" filter over them lmao.

All I could think when I saw that shot after Essek gets bonked and falls unconscious sexily

#themightynein #criticalrole #essekthelyss #tm9spoilers #tm9

There's something wrong with my book you guys. There are no shadow daddies or mating bonds? Instead there's a rage-fueled protagonist, a love interest who won't stop breasting boobily despite the horrors, and The Goo?

Help help help help

#romantasy #booksky #fae #webnovel #indieauthor

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Oh these are gorgeous! :O

Me clicking through the first ever build of my #visualnovel, reading the dialogue and watching the characters' expressions change: Weeee hahaha wooo I'm doing it I'm making a VN!! 🤗🤗🤗🤗

Me remembering I still have like 99% of work left to do:

I hate writing non-standard m/f romance, man. The hetslop enjoyers will be put off by my pretty princess male leads who couldn't dom a paper bag and the gays will see the m/f romantasy tags and a broad-shouldered guy on the cover and assume it's some ACOTAR/elf-flavored 50sog bullshit. I'm in hell.

Yesterday I finished the first page of my maybe-webcomic, and today I finished drafting the first chapter of my visual novel. (The demo will have two chapters.)
I have also applied for a 14 week course and bought a bunch of art courses off of HumbleBundle. Tiny progress is still progress, right? 🥺

I just finished the first page of my #webcomic, and here are my three impressions of this whole ordeal so far:
1. Actually, fuck this.
2. This shit is so ass.
3. And I'll do it again!!

Ommggg wish I could participate, unfortunately I have basically no promo material and I'm still just trying to finish the first chapter lmao. Still, I'll be watching this eagerly! 👀

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Anyway everybody go read my book right MEOW!! 😾😾😾

tapas.io/series/These...

#writesky #booksky #romantasy #fae #fantasyromance #fantasy #webnovel #tapas #slowburn

I'm very tempted to go see it but first I have to beat my self-consciousness into submission because I don't know anybody who would be down to watch it with me so I'd have to go alone lmao 😭

Ok joke over. I genuinely don't know what to call this thing though lmaoooo

Like what do we think about "We were arch-enemies but then we got amnesia and now we're in love?"

Or "My amnesiac arch-nemesis is actually hot? (I also have amnesia"

Or "My former enemy and I forgot why we hate each other and now we're kissing???"

I'm really tempted to give my maybe-webcomic one of those on the nose webcomic names, but I'm struggling to figure out exactly how to thread that needle of eyecatching, banal, and obvious, without also using every word in the dictionary to explain the premise.

Of course the same year I want to
1. Finish the first draft of one book
2. Get two thirds into the first draft of another book
3. Finish and release a demo for my VN
4. Apply for another round of college/find a job

I decide randomly to start a webcomic. Very cool very smart choice.