What is something like a hobby or skill that you belive almost anybody should give a try, and what makes your suggestion so good compared to other things?
i feel like this is a descent question i guess.
What is something like a hobby or skill that you belive almost anybody should give a try, and what makes your suggestion so good compared to other things?
i feel like this is a descent question i guess.
For writing, practice writing short stories using writing prompts (I normally use Reddit’s /r/writingprompts but I’m trying to find an alternative here) and post them on the thread even if they suck. The commitment is low since it’s a short story and you can afford to twist the story to match your writing style rather than the other way around. You’ll also get votes and feedback from other members.
I started drawing as a kid, stopped for a while, and got back to it in my teens since I started doing a lot of writing then and wanted to visually depict what was happening as well. One thing that helped me a lot was to not look at other people’s art or photographs but rather solely work with what you’re visualizing in your mind and reiterate (with many many strokes) until the quality becomes acceptable. Use pencil and sketch with short and light lines. The point here is to develop your own intuition for perspective, splitting an object into basic shapes, and so forth.
I’ll also add that it’s extremely important to create your own style both for writing and drawing. Make your stuff look good, but always keep in mind that it’s fine to have your own quirks and distinctions. E.g. if your lines are a bit sketchy or if your circles aren’t perfect that can easily be part of your style.
Sounds like you just volunteered to start the writingprompts magazine.
There already is a https://kbin.social/m/WritingPrompts, but there isn’t much content.
Takes time. I always wanted to be part of r/writingprompts but I would see a new prompt and the there would be a novel written about that prompt 30 seconds later. I can type pretty well but that is out of my league.
The way Reddit works is that the first commenter with a decent response gets all the karma, so yeah people rush it. It’s good practice for writing under a tight time constraint though as you go through the entire cycle of planning to draft to editing in only 30 minutes - 2 hours.
You get better with time and you’ll be surprised as to how quickly you can improve after doing dozens of them. Here’s my WP archive for reference, the oldest responses at the end of the “archive 1” pdf (from 8 years ago) I laugh at today but the skills I learned there carry over to the recent ones.
I have to do some searching but I like the looks of the community on Beehaw. I think there is one here but I haven’t looked around very much (I was waffling between Lemmy and kBin, and have turned back to kBin because of the versatility).
I’ve always made up for the lack of prompts with other people’s art, primarily images of any kind. I often see some sci-fi picture, think it’s neat, and write a short story involving the scene at some point.
Simon Stalenhåg is a great starter.