Mystique's Boulangerie

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and let an arrow pierce my chest,

the heart need not be spared its end;

far more terrifying than death

to turn to stone in stranger’s hands.

They are not obligated to use “easy words” or pander to the lowest common denominator.

They should not feel required to neuter their prose in the name of “accessibility”.

Dictionaries exist. Learning new vocabulary is one of the most wonderful side effects of reading.

REVENGE on @krowfaced !!

Had SO much fun drawing this dude! I made him a little wormy in terms of anatomy, sorry i just wanted to push the pose—his design calls for movement!!! XD

I think of the first draft as an armature.

If I was making a beautiful bronze statue, I would need to make a clay model first. And, depending on the shape, before I even got out my clay I would need to get some good thick wire and create a basic shape for the clay to adhere to, so it doesn't all fall down. Once I have this essential 3D wire frame, I can start building and subtracting and refining.

But if I try to refine on just clay, it won't have enough of a core to hold it up. I'll sculpt a beautiful hand only to have the whole arm fall off and go smush.

The armature isn't the sculpture. It is the frame you build the sculpture around.

The first draft isn't the novel, it's a sort-of-novel-shaped thing that will hold up everything you build and beautify later.