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silveradept) wrote2023-01-19 08:47 pm
silveradept) wrote2023-01-19 08:47 pm
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Snowflake Challenge 2023 #10: Go Forth And Create
Challenge #10 says to create a fanwork.![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
poetry_fiction work into a finished draft form, which is good.
I also drew fanart for a birthday request of someone I follow on a different social media platform. It's not great (the hands are wrong-proportion, and it's drawn on a post-it), but it was something I felt like doing. I'm also a little embarrassed about it, because while I think it's in the vein of the works that the person has already posted, and it's borrowing exact text from something already posted, it's still the avatar of the person performing an entirely appropriate gesture for the caption, and I don't know whether this would be taken well (as in "I've wanted to do that so much and haven't in the comics") or poorly (as in "I would never do that!"). So I eventually created a more suitable for posting version of it to put into place and mentioned that it was a cropped version of the original thing that I drew and posted that.
The important part, though, is that I did the thing first and then figured out what to do with it afterward. A lot of what I've seen people lament about is that they have ideas, or there are things they want to do, but they're scared of starting, or they're worried they don't have the skill to pull it off. These are normal concerns, and in a world that's basically pressuring you to put a camera on everything you do and make you hustle for every moment to monetize or to share or whatever, doing a thing for you, to try, even if you don't like the finished product or you don't want to post it, seems like a waste of time and effort.
It isn't.
Not everything you create is going to be something you choose to post or let others see. You might finish it and then decide that it's words or objects for the drawer or that it's a practice entity and not yet ready for sharing. (Or it might never be something for sharing.) Radio host Ira Glass mentions that most of us who create do so because we have good taste, and that practice is what we do to get our skills to match our taste. I have written a lot of words in my lifetime, only some of which are remembered by the Internet in various places and publications. Writing fic that can get a job done is easier because I have millions of words of practice at writing. If I had millions of lines drawn, drawing would be easier to match taste. But some of the fun of doing fanworks is doing things that you want to do and not caring about whether you want to show it to someone else or whether it currently matches your taste. If you're doing it for you, whether it ends up as practice material or in your portfolio, then you got something out of it.
Keep on creating.
One of our favourite things about this challenge is the pure variety of skills and ideas that this community of fans possesses. You all are you talented, and in so many different fandoms!I did the thing. Prompts at 3SF and all that. I got my
Challenge #10
In your own space, create a fanwork.
Don't think we only mean "write some fic" with this, though please do write some fic if you like, but also consider art, icons, graphics, podfics, musical scores, meta, fibre arts, vids, recipes, or whatever other combination of the words "fan" and "work" that strike your fancy. Have fun with it!
poetry_fiction work into a finished draft form, which is good.I also drew fanart for a birthday request of someone I follow on a different social media platform. It's not great (the hands are wrong-proportion, and it's drawn on a post-it), but it was something I felt like doing. I'm also a little embarrassed about it, because while I think it's in the vein of the works that the person has already posted, and it's borrowing exact text from something already posted, it's still the avatar of the person performing an entirely appropriate gesture for the caption, and I don't know whether this would be taken well (as in "I've wanted to do that so much and haven't in the comics") or poorly (as in "I would never do that!"). So I eventually created a more suitable for posting version of it to put into place and mentioned that it was a cropped version of the original thing that I drew and posted that.
The important part, though, is that I did the thing first and then figured out what to do with it afterward. A lot of what I've seen people lament about is that they have ideas, or there are things they want to do, but they're scared of starting, or they're worried they don't have the skill to pull it off. These are normal concerns, and in a world that's basically pressuring you to put a camera on everything you do and make you hustle for every moment to monetize or to share or whatever, doing a thing for you, to try, even if you don't like the finished product or you don't want to post it, seems like a waste of time and effort.
It isn't.
Not everything you create is going to be something you choose to post or let others see. You might finish it and then decide that it's words or objects for the drawer or that it's a practice entity and not yet ready for sharing. (Or it might never be something for sharing.) Radio host Ira Glass mentions that most of us who create do so because we have good taste, and that practice is what we do to get our skills to match our taste. I have written a lot of words in my lifetime, only some of which are remembered by the Internet in various places and publications. Writing fic that can get a job done is easier because I have millions of words of practice at writing. If I had millions of lines drawn, drawing would be easier to match taste. But some of the fun of doing fanworks is doing things that you want to do and not caring about whether you want to show it to someone else or whether it currently matches your taste. If you're doing it for you, whether it ends up as practice material or in your portfolio, then you got something out of it.
Keep on creating.
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Or maybe I should let go of my self-judgement and just draw with a pencil on copy paper, just for fun. As a treat.
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This, along with everything else you've written, is very good advice. I definitely can relate to the feeling of 'oh what if it isn't good enough' or 'what if I can't do it' but the point about not everything you do will end up being seen by others makes sense. The reminder that it's okay to have 'practice entries' is something I need to keep in mind in the future. :D
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Dang, I feel this so hard. I've always liked drawing, and wanted to be better at it, but I became too frustrated with my own (to me) inadequate attempts at drawing to stick at it. But, y'know, drawing the way I want to won't magically come out of the blue. And I do think I let that fear of "failure" keep me from trying. Thank you for the reminder! I enjoyed reading this :)
Editing because I read your sticky post and you mentioned liking to know the provenance of new commenters: I found you through the comments of the Snowflake Challenge #10, and I was intrigued by your description ^^
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Yeah, the Ira Glass piece is really about sticking with something, a little at a time, until it becomes something where your skills have met your tastes. And it didn't mean everything you do has to be put in the light of public scrutiny so that others can pick apart your "failures." Despite what the algorithm and the monetization folks believe.
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That's why I show the mistakes if I'm crafting and taking pictures. It lets people know this is a normal thing and nothing to worry about. You just figure out a way to fix it and move on.
>> Radio host Ira Glass mentions that most of us who create do so because we have good taste, and that practice is what we do to get our skills to match our taste.<<
Well said. I've always been able to write some great stuff. What practice gave me was consistency. Now I can almost always make my writing come out like I want it to. So that paid off.
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