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hi! i hope everyone is having a great day so far! and if not i hope it gets better!
i have a couple questions or something to advertise i guess?
um!!

one is does anyone have any (hallucino)memories of androids or being an android or a cyborg or something like that? or could someone tell me the difference between the two because i'm not sure i know... (i'm sorry!)

two is what's your favorite flower? now that we have some blue and green back it's not as depressing to work at a flower shop!

and if anyone wants a flower crown, please come to Enchanted Blossoms! i'll make one personally for you at a discounted price! ❀ it can be one that'll make me or others think of you or one to your exact specifications!

oh here's an example of one i've made recently!

please come by anytime this week! i should be working everyday!

[ ooc: Please feel free to go to action if your character would stop by the flower shop! ]

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[ He's preparing her for college (probably). ]

i do think so! the best kind of writing is the stuff that's both fun and meaningful!
if it's a story that'll make me feel a whole rainbow of emotions and also think that's what makes the story alive
if it's something that'll inspire me to draw that's even better

oooh yeah i bet that'll look great on your resume
published!
it must've been amazing to see your name in print

ok i will!

Do you draw a lot of art for stuff you read? Being published was pretty great, not gonna lie. Getting my novel out there will be even better.

yeah! if it's something i love a lot i draw fanart
i've done a lot of fanart for kibo and the two strings lately!

i'm rooting for you!!
please let me know if you get it published
i'll be in line to get it!!

I really liked that movie too! Who's your favorite character? Absolutely! I'll even sign your copy for you.

absolutely positively 100% kibo!!
i love him so much
his journey and his development and how he felt about his family and how he found his family and how he treated his grandpa at the very end?
i'm not ashamed to say i cried

aahhhh that's so nice of you!! thank you so much!!
i'm so excited to say that i know a bonafide published author and he's so nice!!

You're sweet! You should send me a link to your fanart sometime, I'd love to check it out.

oh um
here

[ She'll drop a link to her art tumblr. Her art/coloring style is similar to Loika's but not nearly as good. ]

[Shuji is not an artist and his standards are lower than for prose.]

That's super pretty! I love your style.

[ If Chiyo were to pursue writing, Shuji's opinion of her would likely plummet. ]

thank you!!
i'm working hard to improve but i've been happy with my progress lately
is that a conceited thing to say?

Not at all! You should be proud of your improvement. Nobody knows how much better you've gotten as well as you do!

thank you!
i don't know how much that's true because i can't always see the mistakes i make right away
but i guess that's why they say hindsight is 20/20 even if that's not how that saying is usually used!

If you say your mistakes immediately, you'd fix all of them, or at least that's how it is with my writing.

you're the type that edits as you go? that's impressive!
i know some people write everything first and then edit once it's all done
i do something in between with my drawings but ctrl+z is the best shortcut ever created for a digital artist

I don't usually, editing as you go is a good way to not get anything finished. But I definitely edit before anything I write sees the light of day. What I'm saying is, if you knew they were mistakes right away, you'd fix them before finishing the piece. Getting better is as much about learning how not to do things that make your picture/story worse as it is about how to do things that make it better. If that makes any sense.

oh... i get it now!
yeah that makes sense!
when your technique and craft improves that helps you make less mistakes because you're already learned from your past mistakes and you know to look out for them!

do you get anyone to look over your work too?
sometimes i send a picture to a friend to see if anything looks odd to them

I don't have a dedicated editor, but I get somebody to proofread my stuff before I send it in anywhere. There's nothing like a second pair of eyes looking at your work. When you've written a passage you know what you meant to put in there, and so if you left out a word your brain will fill it in for you.

ooh yes that's happened to me a lot when i do essays for the school
it's the worst
and what you write is even more important than that!

It's definitely the worst. But it's way easier to go back and change a passage when you've finished the whole story than it is to fix lines when you've already done your coloring and shading, so I don't envy you either.

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