ShopDreamUp AI ArtDreamUp
Deviation Actions
Yeah, you read that title correctly--this is a writing update. The first one DeviantART has seen from me in nearly a full year. It's been a long time, but all well. I believe I'm better off coming back, than leaving this place to completely rot.
This account was originally home to just my middle school writing projects. None of the work I posted (save a few more recent cases) came from my collection developed in high school and beyond. Now that I am in college, and I write frequently to entertain myself, my style has greatly changed. One can only imagine the differences between a child's and a young adult's literature. The gap is, in my eyes, rather jarring and large when placed side-by-side. Due to DeviantART's gallery system, my old tales would be placed right along with any new writing I put out. The stark contrast--ah! The absolute abhorrent level of the writing from my childhood would choke any and all professionalism from my newer pieces.
I feel as if the past work has set the tone for this account: mediocre and incomplete. Suffice to say, those are two adjectives I don't enjoy having describe me. Of course, one could argue that I could go back, rewrite, and edit my works. However, let's look at this logically. College is not something that graciously allows a lot of downtime. Exams are every other week for me--thanks to bad planning by professors and time constraint. Homework is a daily thing. Reading Business Law, Employment Law, Payroll Accounting, and Accounting Procedures devours the very life from me; thus rendering me a husk by the end of the day. The only time I have to write is between 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. Two hours is barely enough time to relax and idly release tension via stress writing. The mere concept of sitting down and rewriting almost a hundred stories (that I cannot remember at all) does not appeal to me in the slightest. So the simple answer is: "I ain't gon' do it!"
With one exception...
If anyone missed it, I "accidentally" made a Freudian slip and posted an image to my gallery. You can thank ol' Nyra for this one: Leak!
Don't think it's going to be a simple revision of those atrocious grammatical errors. It's not. Also, don't expect it to be an exact copy with a slight twist. It won't be. In fact, the main character won't even have the same name--but the old name will still be applied to a character in the story somewhere. The plot needs a lot of work. It made little to no sense. I can understand some suspension of disbelief being necessary in a story--people changed into dragons for goodness' sakes! But there is a point where the unbelievable becomes too overbearing and some slight narration is required. However, an all-knowing mouth tells too much. I think I have an idea on how to remedy that.
Additionally, I'm cutting all references to LMFAO. Holy shit, it was the cringiest reread I've ever had. I only read half of the first chapter. This shit demands correction! Middle school mini-me, prepare to lose your hour's worth of work making too many LMFAO ass-kissing lines. First off, I can bear through only one of their songs. Secondly, any middle school interests are regarded as bad ideas and are instantly treated with regret. So allow me to reintroduce myself to this story's world. Then in five years I will again regret everything I have written. (I will be a miserable, single, grouchy asshole. Consider this a time-capsule statement, Future Me.)
Rejoice, my only remastered series is in the works. Before you get too enthusiastic over that great announcement, you need to answer some questions.
1) Should I move accounts to avoid any style-clashing with my past shit shows?
2) I'm thinking of going back to Wattpad, though on a new account. I would stop being active here, mostly because DeviantART's membership is getting to be fucking expensive. I depend on the member features. The free accounts don't offer the utility I need to stay connected. Would you be willing to read my works on Wattpad?
3) I am closing all forms of donation accounts. My Patreon has been disabled, and the point-pool feature has been removed from my page. I've had people tell me that those features are for serious professionals only. (This isn't a question, this is me apologizing for incorrectly using those two donation options.) At the time of making them, I was doing YouTube and I was posting regularly. Now that college has me by the tail, I didn't realize how much of an asshole I was for leaving them up. Thank you to those who donated, and were a patron! I greatly appreciate the support!
4) My chatrooms are dead, and I no longer use them. If you are one of the individuals who only contacts me via DA, would you like to talk through notes?
5) Skype is a piece of garbage, would anyone rather communicate through Telegram, Snapchat, or Kik?
That's all. I realize this was a long winded, stupid, unnecessary shit-posting update, but you know what? Fuck it, I don't care.
Hahaha, all right! Thanks for reading this far, have a good one!
--Nyra
This account was originally home to just my middle school writing projects. None of the work I posted (save a few more recent cases) came from my collection developed in high school and beyond. Now that I am in college, and I write frequently to entertain myself, my style has greatly changed. One can only imagine the differences between a child's and a young adult's literature. The gap is, in my eyes, rather jarring and large when placed side-by-side. Due to DeviantART's gallery system, my old tales would be placed right along with any new writing I put out. The stark contrast--ah! The absolute abhorrent level of the writing from my childhood would choke any and all professionalism from my newer pieces.
I feel as if the past work has set the tone for this account: mediocre and incomplete. Suffice to say, those are two adjectives I don't enjoy having describe me. Of course, one could argue that I could go back, rewrite, and edit my works. However, let's look at this logically. College is not something that graciously allows a lot of downtime. Exams are every other week for me--thanks to bad planning by professors and time constraint. Homework is a daily thing. Reading Business Law, Employment Law, Payroll Accounting, and Accounting Procedures devours the very life from me; thus rendering me a husk by the end of the day. The only time I have to write is between 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. Two hours is barely enough time to relax and idly release tension via stress writing. The mere concept of sitting down and rewriting almost a hundred stories (that I cannot remember at all) does not appeal to me in the slightest. So the simple answer is: "I ain't gon' do it!"
With one exception...
If anyone missed it, I "accidentally" made a Freudian slip and posted an image to my gallery. You can thank ol' Nyra for this one: Leak!
Don't think it's going to be a simple revision of those atrocious grammatical errors. It's not. Also, don't expect it to be an exact copy with a slight twist. It won't be. In fact, the main character won't even have the same name--but the old name will still be applied to a character in the story somewhere. The plot needs a lot of work. It made little to no sense. I can understand some suspension of disbelief being necessary in a story--people changed into dragons for goodness' sakes! But there is a point where the unbelievable becomes too overbearing and some slight narration is required. However, an all-knowing mouth tells too much. I think I have an idea on how to remedy that.
Additionally, I'm cutting all references to LMFAO. Holy shit, it was the cringiest reread I've ever had. I only read half of the first chapter. This shit demands correction! Middle school mini-me, prepare to lose your hour's worth of work making too many LMFAO ass-kissing lines. First off, I can bear through only one of their songs. Secondly, any middle school interests are regarded as bad ideas and are instantly treated with regret. So allow me to reintroduce myself to this story's world. Then in five years I will again regret everything I have written. (I will be a miserable, single, grouchy asshole. Consider this a time-capsule statement, Future Me.)
Rejoice, my only remastered series is in the works. Before you get too enthusiastic over that great announcement, you need to answer some questions.
1) Should I move accounts to avoid any style-clashing with my past shit shows?
2) I'm thinking of going back to Wattpad, though on a new account. I would stop being active here, mostly because DeviantART's membership is getting to be fucking expensive. I depend on the member features. The free accounts don't offer the utility I need to stay connected. Would you be willing to read my works on Wattpad?
3) I am closing all forms of donation accounts. My Patreon has been disabled, and the point-pool feature has been removed from my page. I've had people tell me that those features are for serious professionals only. (This isn't a question, this is me apologizing for incorrectly using those two donation options.) At the time of making them, I was doing YouTube and I was posting regularly. Now that college has me by the tail, I didn't realize how much of an asshole I was for leaving them up. Thank you to those who donated, and were a patron! I greatly appreciate the support!
4) My chatrooms are dead, and I no longer use them. If you are one of the individuals who only contacts me via DA, would you like to talk through notes?
5) Skype is a piece of garbage, would anyone rather communicate through Telegram, Snapchat, or Kik?
That's all. I realize this was a long winded, stupid, unnecessary shit-posting update, but you know what? Fuck it, I don't care.
Hahaha, all right! Thanks for reading this far, have a good one!
--Nyra
Commissions
Commission Details Prices and Returns: $15 per 1,000 words standard rate, or 1.5¢ per word. I use PayPal. I don’t have any other means of accepting payment. Editing during the drafting stages costs no extra. Should the final draft be agreed upon, but a large edit would like to be made, there will be a $10 fee incurred. Unless the edit is grammatical or syntax-related. That is on me, and I do not charge for those edits after the project is finalized. The outline process does not cost anything. This is the stage where the client and I brainstorm together. These discussions will provide details for what the story will be about, what kind of characters will be in it, what the setting is and so on. The outline will be sent to the client upon completion so it can be assessed and tweaked as necessary. Before writing begins, I do require half of the payment be sent as a held fee. This protects my time and work. There is a diminishing rate for returns if the client would like to cancel
Stress, Career and Commissions
Howdy everyone, It's been a hot minute since I've touched DeviantART. I hope you all are doing well and holding up. I know things have been kind of hectic since 2019, but hey what can you do? Just keep on keeping on; that's about it, right? I'm going to give everyone a brief update on where I've been, outstanding projects, plans for the future and what's in store for my page here. If you're looking for a Tl;Dr, it'll be included at the end. So let's get to it. For three years I worked at a local hospital. I'm no nurse or doctor, I was just someone who cleaned and disinfected operating rooms after surgeries were performed. I worked there through the Covid pandemic. It was not a good place to be, though not only because of Covid. The job itself was exhausting from the overtime, lack of staffing, management was drowning, and as things got harder the higher-ups were demanding more and more from us. I'd lost all time to myself, and my drive for writing died. I kept practicing on the
It's been a long time.
It really has been quite the span of time. Adult life turned and dumped me off at a crossroads where I took the wrong turn. I made every single bad choice, lost a lot of people in my life, took on massive debt from medical bills, watched my family leave my side, and so my love for writing died with nearly all of my passions I had. Despite all of this, life found a way to mend the bad and there's a light on my horizon now. For all of the people who left me, I have a resilient group who remained through the good and the bad. Thick and thin--as tired as that saying may be--has shown me no matter how difficult the road gets, I will inevitably encounter good souls along the way. The best of them all, of course, is my partner. She's been truly sweet to me, and her company is not without healing. That healing has ignited an old itch I didn't think would return after my mom passed away. I feel the need to write, and so I have been writing. The products have been small and cautious little
Ideas and Questions
Howdy-howdy folks,
I hope you all had a great Halloween (a bit late, I know) and that all is well. Nothing beats the season where the leaves start dropping and the temperature spikes down close enough that the promise of snow is ever present. My sarcasm doesn't leave much room for me to get by when it comes to snow. Despite living in a pretty darn cold state, I do not enjoy the frost and ice much.
What I do like, however, is writing. In the spirit of the northern winds that keep on sweeping through, I'll keep this breezy.
I have a couple of rough drafts sitting here in front of me. Some of them are traditional horror pieces, anothe
© 2016 - 2024 Sasha-Briarwood
Comments3
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In
While I haven't really read a single thing and I barely know you outside of Twitter; You should do what you are comfortable with. You can try to ask some of your friends for ideas, suggestions, or thoughts on what you've been feeling, maybe you'll get some more insight on what you really want to do.. You can also try to ask some of those questions to yourself or write down some of your ideas where you can easily find them and edit them if need be.. Such as a whiteboard, blackboard, or even a notepad on a pc.. Things like~ What would you like to start with and do first? Or do the most? What seems exciting to you for the moment? Suppose there's an idea that you've been waiting to do for ages? Whatever it may be, just try to have some fun with it. It seems like maybe this is part of your history, to compare with how much you've grown and improved in writing.. Maybe there are some people who would read it and actually like it, or still have yet to read it. It is all your arts and creations, you should do what you want with them. For me, I always feel like older art is unbearable to look at sometimes, the thought of you making this thing a very long time ago, when you do different things today.. Don't you think that it was some practice and a path that led you to this point? I agree that DeviantArt isn't what it could be, or used to be, it seems like everything changed when the new logo was introduced. I don't like the new logo that well, but with change comes some improvements as well as new issues. Nothing's ever going to be perfect or stay the same for very long. Yeah Skype isn't the best, I feel like people move on to the newest IM's just because its new or popular. It is ok to start off with something new, to try out new things and break yourself out of the box and explore. But usually its not bad to stick with what you know, either. I hope you will always have some friends to be there to support you. 
*edit* as for your long post, its a good idea to let things out of your mind and address some things you feel are necessary or important. Keeping it in won't always do much, not every dragon reads minds! Haha. x)
*edit* as for your long post, its a good idea to let things out of your mind and address some things you feel are necessary or important. Keeping it in won't always do much, not every dragon reads minds! Haha. x)