Author: etoiline

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These are gorgeous pieces, and I came up with a bunch of story ideas just looking at them. If anyone wanted to get me a print of any of these for Christmas, I wouldn’t mind 😉Originally shared by Leodor Selenier:: Digital Art
Lorland Chen

Don’t be led astray, says Lorland Chen. “Thinking is the soul, and the art is the way.
Max, Maya and Photoshop are just the tools”

Times have changed,” insists Wei Chen, the Chinese artist also known as Lorland Chen. “We shouldn’t hold on to the old ways forever.” Chinese art is more than the traditional ‘ink and wash’ technique.
“We should search for more new ways to express the Oriental spirit.”
Lorland’s own work, built from a palette of subtle painterly tones and powerful fantasy themes, begins to address this problem: “Oriental style is not just a way of painting. It should be a spirit that stands for Oriental philosophy.” Lorland, and many artists like him, want to show us a new side to Chinese art.

Deviant Art Gallery: http://lorlandchain.deviantart.com

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NaNo 2011 Winner badge

I know I haven’t said much about NaNo here this year, but it was sort of a busy time, being ML for the St. Louis region and all. For year eight, I wrote another fantasy (of course). Here’s the one-sentence summary:
When a librarian finds a murdered historian in the undocumented vaults of the library, she discovers that magic, unusable for centuries, is returning to the world, and those who once wielded it are returning to take back their homeland.

It kind of ended up being like that, so I guess I stuck to the synopsis better than I have in previous years. Yes, I did manage to actually have a dead body show up in the first chapter right when it was supposed to, as opposed to last year, when I didn’t kill the person I was planning on until the very last section. Planning, it is your friend when writing.
There’s still more to go. I’ll see how many words I can put down tomorrow night, but I’ve got that purple bar of win, and it makes me smile.
Here’s to those of you who took this jaunt into literary abandon with me, and those who are still chugging along. Keep writing, my friends!

(Google+ edit:
Scrivener says 50,148; NaNoWriMo says 50,033. Either way, I just won NaNo for an eighth time.

Anthony MatheniaWay to go Jen on your eighth win! Thanks for all the hard work you do to support others!

Jennifer ShewThanks +Anthony Mathenia for all your good posts this year! I don’t know where you found the time 😉 Congrats to you too.