#opening page

Khommissions are open! 2/5 slots!

Also as a fun little tidbit, I will soon be taking Paw Commissions too as well as selling premades!

Want to rise to the extreme challenge of a dialogue opening? If so, it’s yours to earn. Here are a few tips to help you keep from throwing away your novel’s most precious real estate:

Use dialogue that’s both distinctive and evocative—and worthy of the incredible spotlight you are shining upon it.

Make sure the dialogue helps orient the reader to the nature of your novel’s core conflict.

Allow spoken words to reveal character.

Avoid the biggest objection readers have to a dialogue opening—the inability to conjure context while not yet knowing the speakers or their situation— by providing contextual clues.

Tap into preset expectations by establishing genre.

Assert each character’s motivation for entering this dialogue.

Be mindful of pace, as back-and-forth dialogue along with its associated white space can, while reeling in the reader, also speed things up to the point that the reader might miss important contextual clues. Adding actions and setting details can enrich the dialogue and establish a more measured introduction the story.

As in any opening, base your choices on what the protagonist wants, not what you-as-author think the reader should know.

Uhoh looks like this goofball is posting AGAIN today. I need to find another hobby because this one is clearly consuming too much of my time. Waiting until classes start again and have access to so many trails I SweAr. I live to walk in the wilderness and chase bugs but I am being denied by the HEAT. If I die it will be because of heatstroke or dehydration, if I have anything to say about it.

Anyways Sketchbook 30 is food themed :) Outside is onigiri and the inside is ramen. I don’t actually care too much for ramen, but I have to admit it always looks really good? It may be because I’ve never had a good bowl of it. I’m not too big a fan of most noodles in general, so that could be it, too. I like the toppings and broth, though, lmfao. I like the sou p. Onigiri is because I like it a lot. Who doesn’t love a rice ball with a nice filling or topping? Also on topic, sketchbook 30 is going to be the first of my hand bound sketchbooks I’ll be officially using! Yippee! I’ll make sure to keep tabs on how it holds up, and hopefully my posts will work as some solid notes on what I should be looking out for on my next project! So long as it works for me, I should be good.

It was my 17th birthday 8 days ago and one of my gifts from my dear brother, whom I love very much, was this wonderful, cork-covered sketchbook. They saw me eyeing it in the store a few days before buying it for me, it was a very thoughtful gift. Therefore, it seemed befitting to start a unique and beautiful opening page the next day. So, I came up with this lovely little composition, including strawberries, poppies, pansies, stars and much more. These little representaties of stars have weaved their way into nearly every page of any notebook or sketchbook I've touched. There's just something about drawing silly little celestial bodies that I love.