Creativity and Fanfic Banners

It has been my inspiration and pleasure to create several banners for fanfic works by other author’s than myself in the recent months. I have been playing a lot with Picsart in the last year and have found an interesting dynamic between the tools and resources provided in the webapp version of Picsart and Adobe Photoshop. This piece was created for the Star Wars story The Droid Wars by Crystal Shard on Ao3. This cover image was created for the Star Wars series REPRISE by Elfpen on Ao3. I also had the honor of creating art for Lailaith Quetzalli during…

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Creativity in 2022

Realized I haven’t made a goal post yet for this coming year, but nor have I reviewed what I accomplished of my goals from this last year. So lets get started. 2021 in Review Yes! I have kept up with my writing work, although this year took more of a plotting role than active story writing role. I have a lot of ideas on the board though, so I am pleased. I played with a lot of different writing tools, worldbuilding tools, and methods in the last two years. I loved the idea of Scrivener, unfortunately it was both too…

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2020 creativity in review

Ignoring all the horribleness in the world at large, I had set myself several personal goals to be more creative in 2020. I both did and did not make all my goals, but the fact that I made any of them at all is, in itself, a success. As I wrote previously I have been struggling to bring creativity back into my day-to-day life on a regular basis, while it’s still not there every day, it’s much more present than it was a year ago.

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My History with Fanfiction

Fanfiction has been my guilty pleasure ever since I first stumbled across my first Sailor Moon multi-cross disaster that I just could not walk away from. I was intrigued, traumatized, and possibly even scandalized. Then I found my first archive, A Sailor Moon Romance, and well the rest is kind of history. As I’m pretty sure any fanfiction author can attest, you can only read so much before you start writing.

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