/pone/ - My Little Pony★

guide for writefagging:

step one: have something come to you while you're on the shitter

step two: consume copious amounts of caffeine &/or controlled psychostimulants

step three: write something

step four: go to sleep. judge how bad it is after waking up. if it's not unsalvageable, do grammatical corrections

step five: repeat from step two.

step six: once you reach 5-10k words, post it, become briefly happy by the three or four (you)s you get, then never update

guide for artistry:

step one: draw some circles

step two: download camscan to your phone, scan circles

step three: make a patreon

step four: put up some pictures of your circles and rake in the dough

step five: never bother with improving yourself because those circles over-qualify you for art degrees from prestigious colleges so why bother

*optional step six if you need cash quick: add a smiley face to a circle and make a YCH

guide for music:

step one: recording yourself clicking your tongue or something

step two: pirate some audio-editing software

step three: add random pitch changes, pauses, and canned sound effects until you get something that sounds kinda passable as 'sound with a pattern'

step four: add an electronic filter to it

step five: upload to jewtube as 'synthwave', 'house', 'dubstep' or something similar, depends on how many bass drops it has and how edgy it sounds. congrats you're a musician

steal other people's ideas then do them better

>>311906

Excellent suggestion, but anon is talentless and the bottom of the bottom of the barrel. If anything he'll copy something already bad and execute it even worse.

>>311908

>If anything he'll copy something already bad and execute it even worse.

That's okay. Nobody in the fanbase cares about quality, and probably won't notice.

>>311887 (OP)

For not losing inspiration I just dont think about it and do shit.

Shit drawings, shit pasta then I come and post it here where the shame and offenses will push me to not dare do such shitty thing again and then try again

>>311887 (OP)

>Any helpful tips for aspiring artísts?

If you're having trouble thinking of something to draw, just practice some anatomy from reference. It's not imaginative but it gets you drawing and it always helps to practice anatomy. I used to do this a lot when I was blanking on what to draw.

Think of what you want to draw, something you'd enjoy the process of creating, and the end result. Is it a character, an environment, a comic, animation? That's your goal, now think about what you need to do to make it.

When you have an idea, don't freeze up. Make sure to write ideas down, and when you pick one you want to draw, get that fucking hand moving. Don't overthink it. Just start sketching. It's easier digitally of course, but regardless, just get your hand sketching. Don't agonize over lines; it doesn't matter if your first sketch is a mess, just delete it/throw it away and do it again. You can overthink things after you've got something on the page to work from.

>>311887 (OP)

For anyone just getting started, the best advice is to just do something and your skills will start growing surprisingly fast. Doodling for practice might not sound that motivating, but people are always fond of requests and cyoa-style threads, so literally any kind of art will be more than welcome for them.

For writing, this is just my personal opinion, but short stories are easier for both the writer and the readers. Writing a single interesting scene rather than a longer text is a smaller undertaking in both time and effort, lets you write about exactly what you want to write, and lets you get on to next work much sooner. Likewise for the reader, a short story/greentext takes next to none of their time so they're more likely to read it, and get to the main point faster.

>>312022

That's your first attempt? That's way better than my works, and I've been drawing for years! Is it just ideas or inspiration you're running out of, because your quality is already what I'm still striving towards!

I'm a low tier writefag so take my words with a grain of salt.

What I found works for me, is surrounding myself with other people who also write. If you aren't the only person who's writing, you can bounce ideas off of other writers for what kind of story you want to write and where to take certain plots to. If you're ever having a day where you can't quite come up with what to write, other writers are usually good at providing basic prompts for you to explore on and then you can either start a new story from that prompt, or work some ideas that you came up with for that prompt into your original story.

If you ever hit a dead end in your own writing, look for other people writing stories similar to your own and borrow ideas from those to add to your own. Some people can call it stealing, I feel if you put your own twist and/or perspective on an idea, you're making it your own thing. Just make sure it stands on its own and doesn't cause other people to draw similarities between your story and the ones you've read. While it's nice to spread the love, you want people focused on what you're writing while they're reading it, not what other people have written.

Last thing I can recommend, is scan YouTube for video game soundtracks. I wrote like 20k words within a week or two for one story, not counting however many I wrote for the other story I started, and basically what kept me going was listening to one super atmospheric game soundtrack whenever I was writing. It doesn't necessarily be a video game soundtrack, but what you want is music without lyrics, and a long playlist with a common mood to what you're writing. I was exploring my protagonist's psyche while in a forest, I listened to spooky music from a game about being in a demonic forest. Whenever I write I always have music playing in the background because it always influences how I write and it definitely pays off when you have an effective combination of what you're listening to and what you're writing.

As someone who has the artistic talent of a roided up squirrel with stumps for hands, I can only really provide some help for writefaggotry, so I hope this helps any future writefags.

>>312022

>>312022

Not bad for a first time, but it has a very bad case of anime sidemouth.

>>312077

As a writefag myself, I can genuinely say that you and your ilk are the absolute scum of the earth in regards to the writefag community. Purposeful circlejerk forming and shameless idea stealing, you hit the big two and you don't even have an inkling about how cancerous you are. Worthless fucking leech. Suicide is the only option for you my dude.

Read shit

Look at art

Listen to music

Do things

>>311887 (OP)

i used to write smut greentext stories and I just listened to music while doing it.

>>312022

>first try

this shit goes into the pone folder for sure m8.