If You Write A Strong Character, Let Them Fail.

If you write a strong character, let them fail.

If you write a selfless hero, let them get mad at people.

If you write a cold-heated villain, let them cry.

If you write a brokenhearted victim, let them smile again.

If you write a bold leader, let them seek guidance.

If you write a confident genius, let them be wrong, or get stumped once in a while.

If you write a fighter or a warrior, let them lose a battle, but let them win the war.

If you write a character who loses everything, let them find something.

If you write a reluctant hero, give them a reason to join the fight.

If you write a gentle-hearted character who never stops smiling, let that smile fade and tears fall in shadows.

If you write a no one, make them a someone.

If you write a sibling, let them fight and bicker, but know that at the end of the day they’ll always have each other’s back.

If you write a character, make them more than just a character; give them depth, give them flaws and secrets, and give them life.

me: This new story idea is narrating itself excellently in my head. Let me go open a fresh document and type all this up.

also me:

also me:

also me:

me: but the words are in my head

me: why are the words not on the screen

After staring in bewilderment down at my foot for a minute and debating with myself whether I would look too silly in front of an empty room or not, I decided to test this concept. My foot does, indeed, fit perfectly between the crook of my elbow and my wrist.

A foot is roughly the size of your foot

It is but it’s often easier to use my forearm

It’s okay not to be strong.

Not sure that this really counts as a “cosplay”, per se, but I wanted to get in on the drawing-Varian-as-other-characters fun before the premiere.

You all know how much I love musicals (particularly, Frank Wildhorn musicals) and about a week ago, I stumbled across some beautifully-drawn Jekyll & Hyde animatics on YouTube. Just in time for spoopy season!  Then it occurred to me: “wait a minute…I can think of one other talented, but underappreciated, scientist whose well-intentioned experiments went horribly awry and sent him down an ironic path to villainy! 🤔”

And as they say, the rest is history.

Now I need to buckle-down and start seriously working on my submissions for CK server’s October event. xD

“average person has a near death experience 10 times a day” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person has a near death experience around 10 times in thier whole life. Milo Murphy, who stares death right in the face & gives it a cheery thumbs up over 10,000 times each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted