In the early weeks of the pandemic, I started updating my comic more. Shortly after that, I took two weeks off work and went even harder.
I was updating furiously, at least in comparison to what I'd been doing for a year or two previous. In fact, after about ...
How Little and How Much?
Banes at 12:00AM, July 16, 2020There Is No See Saw
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, May 23, 2020
(I'm writing this after a very long and hard day of mental and physical work so if it sounds ranty or convoluted…. eh, you've been warned :P )
Humans are competitive by nature. Somehow we have to rank everything- all things, from the most concrete to the most abstract ...
QUACKCAST 479 - Big ideas in fiction
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, May 19, 2020 LISTEN on our new player!
Listen on Stitcher - https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/drunkduck-quackcast
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My original idea for this Quackcast was: “Genre fiction is the best place to explore ideas, straight fiction doesn't do it as well”
What I meant ...
T-Shirt Designer in Venice, California, Abbot Kinney’s Art District Turns Free Time Into Creative Outlet
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 23, 2020
Having time to create art is something that is always competing with the little free time after work hours. Usually, sleep wins out over creating, but lately, plenty of us have been getting more sleep than we ever thought we would.
That is why designer,Jared Ingold, of the brand ...
How Dairy Not Tip the Waiter!
kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, March 9, 2020
(What an udder failure.)
Do you like puns?
I love puns.
I once entered a pun contest and I wrote ten different puns, but at the end, none of them won.
That is correct. No pun, in ten, did.
In complete honesty, puns are one of my weaknesses. I love ...
On Writing Therapists 2
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 18, 2020
Therapists are the type of character whose occupation can easily seep into their ‘off the clock’ life. It's not something that can often be helped. Psychologists don't ‘turn off’ their perception of behavioral patterns and personality analyses, the same way you can't ‘unsee’ the rabbits after you ...
Not What They Seem
Banes at 12:00AM, Nov. 14, 2019
edward norton in “primal fear”
One of the things I like in fiction is characters who are not what they seem.
Like all things, this sort of thing can be done well, or badly, or somewhere in between. It can be fascinating and surprising, or cliche and predictable. It can ...
Writing an Alternate Universe
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Nov. 2, 2019
An alternate universe (AU) is, in case anyone isn't aware, a story taking place in a fantastical, alternate historical timeline that usually kicks off from a specific event in actual history that takes a different turn from the one that it did in reality.
Alternate universes are fascinating. From ...
Sticking the Landing
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Sept. 14, 2019
As it has been seen very painfully lately in TV, the best story, with the most excellent buildup and most powerful cast of characters will just collapse if the ending isn't good enough.
A technically happy ending that isn't good enough is not going to cut it- again ...