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Fontainebleau State Park, Louisiana by Lana Gramlich

unfulfilled yearning

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小野神社（東京都多摩市） https://www.sa-ka-ki.com/jinja/tokyo/ono-tama/

How do you go about choosing colors? Do you have a palette or use filters? Every time I try nothing looks cohesive enough and I don't understand how gradient maps work or if I'm doing it right lol but I really like the colors you use and was wondering what you do!

i don't use a palette, but i do use gradient maps pretty often o:

a gradient map takes the values in your image and reassigns them along the new gradient you've chosen. here's an example below - left side is a grayscale sketch, right side is with the gradient map applied. you can see how the darkest values are mapped to the purple tones, and lightest values are mapped to the peach/yellow.

my cheap trick to unifying color schemes is to choose colors, render an image > flatten and duplicate > apply gradient map > adjust opacity until it harmonizes. (that's my method in procreate, but you can use gradient maps as separate adjustment layers in photoshop and CSP). i still end up doing corrections afterwards, but it's a useful trick nonetheless. hope that helps!

Writing advice from my uni teachers:

If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.

Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.

Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.

Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.

How about a sort of prompt/prompts where Character A accidentally kisses Character B and then panics because they think they messed everything up when B doesn’t respond? (Thinking about this nonstop bc something similar like this happens in my oc’s background and results in him coming out at almost 200 years old (vampire) )

Being Shocked After a Kiss Prompts

-> feel free to edit and adjust pronouns as you see fit.

He didn't know what happened. One second, they were laughing and having a good time, the next, his lips were on hers. It was everything he could have imagined. When he pulled away though, finally unlocking his lips from hers, she was dead silent.

"Say something," she whispered. "Please say something." Their face was expressionless, their hands limp in their lap. She had messed everything up. How could she have been so stupid? Of course, they wouldn't have wanted to kiss her.

"I'm so sorry," they blurted, hand still pressed to their lips as if they couldn't believe they had done that, themself. "I shouldn't have kissed you. Not now, not without asking, I--"

He was so quiet that it was making her stomach churn. She had never regretted doing something more than now, in this moment. Why did she kiss him?

She buried her face in her hands as if she could hide from the embarrassment. "I shouldn't have done that." They were silent. So, so silent. It only made her feel ten times worse.

"I'm not upset," he finally said. "I was just surprised."

"You didn't mess anything up," they told her after a few moments of listening to her ramble.

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