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insomnia-productions · 2 years

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14, 18, 22 for writers questions

Thank you for the ask!!

14 - Yes, I lend my books to people! I have them all accounted for, since my friends a pretty good about giving them back. I think the longest I went was 2 years before I stumbled across the book on a friend's shelf one day and went "OH this is just like the book I've been looking for for two years!" and then I opened it and it had my annotations inside

22 - I'm pretty organized, I think. I use Google Docs, and I'll usually have a section for general notes and rambling, a section for world-building, a section for character profiling and development (interviews, questionnaires, notes on the internal journey they should take), and then usually a second document for the full outline, and a third document for the actual writing. I'll also keep a folder in my laptop where I collect drawings I make of the characters, picrews of them, maps from Inkarnate, and moodboards from Milanote. OH and I also use Milanote for character development! I like having all of the most important information laid out in a visually pleasing and easy to read format that I can use as a quick reference instead of having to comb through an entire google doc.

18 - Okay, this was hard, but I've found a passage I'm really fond of. This passage is from a story my best friend and I wrote together two years ago (damn, two years ago). In between each arc, we would take turns writing interludes that shed light on each of our characters' pasts, or expanded on one of the side characters.

This was one of my interludes, about Francis, one of the suitors for my friend's protagonist (Elias). In the previous arc, Elias has just rejected Francis. (Elias doesn't know it yet, but he's in love with my protagonist, hehe). Francis started out mostly as a plot device, but I fell in love with him as we were writing. With this interlude, I wanted to explore what his life was like, and what happened to him after Elias rejected him and he left the story. This passage is from the day after he's been rejected. He's sitting in his family's orchards, surrounded by the bees they raise for honey, reading a book Elias gave him.

The book talks about ligaments and vibrations, and the way size and speed and form all dictate the shape of a sound. Francis thinks about the tremors that surround him, about little invisible lines in the air that make it so he can hear the birds, and his friends’ voices, and Elias’ rare and wonderful laughter.

He thinks the crescendo of a hundred translucent wings all buzzing at once produces the same frequency as the thrum of his heart.

He thinks, if he has his bees, he'll be alright.

This doesn't make that much sense out of context and it's hard to explain without just... reciting the whole interlude back to you lol but I really like the way the whole thing came together. Despite his negative experiences with both the bees and the world at large, Francis wholeheartedly believes that if you love the world, eventually, it will love you back. I'm just very very fond of him, and I like the way this passage sounds, and the way it sort of ties together his whole story.

The whole interlude is on ao3 if you're interested in the bigger picture... it's pretty short, only 1.5k: Little Things That Buzz

#writing #ask game #Sam :D

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islandgirl5311 · 3 years

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I made a map for my D&D campaign. please appreciate it, it took many hours.

also you might wanna open it in a new tab and zoom in. it's kinda big and tumblr ate it.

#dnd #fantasy map #dnd map #homebrew #i used inkarnate if you were wondering

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beanswrites · 2 years

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42nd POST EVERYBODY

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS HAPPENING

LET'S GOOOOO

I'M SO EXCITED

It's my 42dn post ya'll, which means it is my sole duty to give you some universe knowledge

Alright, ahem, here I go:

This site is the BEST site for name generating EVER and I use it for everything, so here you go if you are struggling with fictional or real names of places/people: https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/

If you know why 42 is such a great number you are a legend, I don't make the rules

If your drafts and requests are bothering you because they are unfinished, universe said to poke them with a stick. It works, trust me.

Psstt! You, yes, you! @everyonewhodoesanykindofwriting! Did you know that you can make your own continent for your story?? There are actually two ways: 1. It's called Polygon map generator, and it's really nice cause it randomises the continent for you, but you can also edit it! 2. If you like more work and to precisely get your own land, than Inkarnate is for you.

The universe has spoken and it said that if you are a writer who bashes people for requesting anonymously bc they are uncomfy with public requesting and you give them a hard time because of it you ARE a bad person

I know this one is pretty known but anyways if you have any word problems (like really, ANY), Wordhippo is the website for you. With being bilingual and not always remembering certain words for my writing, it helps a lot.

Alright so I'm not here to be a gatekeeping jerk and not explain to my wonderful followers why exactly is the 42nd post so important, so here is the explanation:

Basically there is this massive book series called "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" which came out in the 70's and my dad loves it, so he explained to me long ago why 42 is such a significant number for this book. The whole story is about people who were building a massive supercomputer on a distant planet for thousands of years. When it was finished, they asked the supercomputer what was the meaning of life (as one does) and the computer processed the question for ANOTHER few thousands of years. The final answer? Yep, you guessed it, 42.

So yeah.

Got excited because a 70's book series said 42 was the meaning of life and this is my 42nd post, as one does. At least I gave you some good writer knowledge!

#writing #writing resources #writing tips #the number 42 and other meanings of life #useful site #useful things #the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy #42nd post #so... yeah #thanks for reading #hope this helps #useful sites for writers

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theworldbrewery · 3 years

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DM Tool Review: Inkarnate

The site is inkarnate.com, you can find them on Twitter at @inkarnaterpg

I started using Inkarnate in the early fall of 2020. This is a map-making tool, designed for RPGs but flexible enough to be useful for fantasy writers as well. If you opt for one of the paid versions ($5 a month or $25 a year), you get literally thousands of art objects to work with, such as bridges, trees, skeletons, potion bottles, rugs, broken chairs and beds and walls; and they’re constantly updating with new art objects.

[image ID: a map I made using Inkarnate, designed to look like a vertical cliff side down which the PCs could climb. There are holes in the cliff side for a monster to burrow through and ledges for creatures to stand on. The ledges have snow on them. The cliff side looks like rock in different layers at a slight slant. end ID]

There’s a bit of a learning curve on Inkarnate, as you learn how different features function. The “masking” tool is the first one you’d use, and it creates the “foreground” on top of the “background.” On a combat map, the background might be the rock walls of a cave system or the chasm the players must cross, while the foreground could be the stone towers they’re hopping across or the floor of the caves. On a regional or world map, the foreground is usually your landmass while the background is the rivers, lakes, and oceans.

I recommend using a mouse or a drawing tablet to create your foreground/background, and to paint these features with the textures you want; doing it with a trackpad or a touchscreen can be slow. Inkarnate can also use a lot of bandwidth, and it gets laggy if you haven’t saved your progress in a while. If you don’t have a strong processor, this might not be for you.

That being said, if technology isn’t an issue for you, this can be a huge time-saver for a DM who likes a detailed map. The art objects especially have been wonderful for me, as I always want to establish where players might have cover, hide little set-pieces where they belong, and so on. I have, however, run into issues of scale from time to time; I often want a wall to be much longer than it is, but no wider; Inkarnate only adjusts the size of the art object proportionally. I can’t make a wall longer without also making it thicker. Also, if I’m working on a very large map for an entire dungeon, I often find I reach the lower limit of an object’s size before I get the object to scale, such as a potion bottle taking up half a 5-ft square. Granted, some of this is due to the limits of pixels, but I must admit I still find it frustrating.

Inkarnate has some wonderful features, such as the ability to select all “stamps” (the art objects) from the same category at once, flatten stamps to the foreground or background (so they are permanently fixed there), and adjust the size of a texture so I can make the wooden floorboards smaller or larger in relation to the size of an area. Altogether, it’s much faster than drawing detailed maps by hand, and I truly love the art-styles for the different types of maps, including their stamps. While there are occasional technical snags, I’m overall very happy with the paid subscription.

However, it may or may not be worth it to you to use the free version. You only get 10 maps at a time, and you have a much more limited selection of stamps. You also export at a lower resolution than if you have the paid version.

I almost exclusively use this for battle-maps, but as I mentioned earlier, it has features for cities/regions and entire world maps. There’s definitely a learning curve--the first few maps I made were cluttered and pretty ugly-looking, sadly--but as I got used to the interface I also got better at placing important features and using the paint tool effectively.

In general, I’d compare Inkarnate with Dungeonfog to determine your needs and what’s worth it to you. Inkarnate Free offers 10 maps to Dungeonfog Free’s three, and doesn’t leave a watermark all over your maps, which Dungeonfog does; it also has more assets and more types of maps (Dungeonfog is for battlemaps only, from what I understand). Inkarnate’s paid version is also more affordable; 6 months of Dungeonfog is ~$35, while you can get a year for $25 with Inkarnate. Dungeonfog has more assets and features like Dynamic Lighting, so the increased price may be worth it to some DMs.

[Obligatory statement that I am not sponsored by Inkarnate, Dungeonfog, or anyone else.]

#d&d #dm tools #review #dnd #dungeons and dragons #inkarnate

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