Happy January!
Hope you are having a good start to the year. I started mine with some video editing. I made a long video review (with spoilers) of the movie Wake Up Dead Man. In short, I thought it was very good.
That was a good chance to dust off my editing skills, just in time for editing a short film I made with my friends. More about that soon!
In other news, my book, Fire's Ally, is now available for purchase in ebook and print.
Art & Writing Delivery
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I Used Art to Unstick My Novel Project
Throwback to a 2023 update from writing Fire's Ally:
I’ve been working on a fantasy novel for a couple of years now, and I tend to work on it in sprints between other, shorter projects. In December 2022, I cleared my schedule to work on my novel for a month. I was on my second draft and I hadn’t looked at it for a few months, which made the prospect of starting up again intimidating. After pondering over my next course of action, I arrived at my favorite solution to creative blocks: an art challenge.
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“Nature Girl” Ink Drawings — Incorporating Characters into Landscapes
An experiment comes together from spare hemp paper and a dream!
One type of drawing I never thought of doing was combining a character and a landscape. It just never occurred to me, and felt kind of incongruous. I couldn’t get the character and landscape to match in tone, so they’d feel like parts of the same picture.
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Understanding Time Poverty Is Key in Addressing Climate Change
Recently, I’ve been noticing that the more sustainable/climate-conscious lifestyle option in our existing society is often the slower one. This means that ‘busyness’ or time poverty is a major barrier to the adoption of behavior changes to address climate change.
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In the Works
The video-editing marathon continued. I have a couple more YouTube videos I'm working on.
Most excitingly of all, I'm starting work on writing the sequel to Fire's Ally! It's a long process, and this is one of the absolutely best parts: when I'm tinkering with my notes and making the storylines come together.
And here's a title reveal: Book 2 is called Land's Grudge.
Best wishes,
--Deepti
P.S. If you are in the Los Angeles area, a couple of announcements.
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