I needed this and I feel there are many I know that do as well 💜🫶🏻
You probably know the Hero’s Journey popularized by Joseph Campbell, the basic structure for many beloved stories. A hero gets called to action, enters an unknown world, faces challenges and temptations, fails, learns what they need to change, applies said new insights, et voilà: success.
I just realized you can apply this to your imposter syndrome and self-doubt. Many of you feel (or fear) you don’t have the skills to bring your big, new project to an end. I’m here to tell you: you don’t need to.
The hero at the beginning of the story doesn’t have what it takes to bring their journey to a successful end. It’s the journey itself that transforms the character into someone who has what it takes to finish it. The character at the end of the journey is not the same as the character at the beginning of the journey.
So start ambitious projects that you feel underqualified for. It’s not imposter syndrome or writer’s block. You're in the challenges and temptations phase of your journey. Don’t let them hold you back. Let them transform you. Identify the skills you need to acquire to make your journey into a success. Learn. Practise. You’re not “not good enough”—you’re on your Hero’s Journey and you’re on the threshold of your transformation phase.
(I told my husband about this idea and he played Don't stop believin' by Journey. Per-fection.)
If this helped you, you might want to take a look at the rest of my writing advice.
Now go tackle your dream!
while watching The Witcher season 1 i realized Geralt says "hmmm" as much as Bob Belcher and decided to combine the two lol
New character concept, a half demon(tiefling for you D&D folks) named Bedlam, I chose four arms instead of horns and cloven feet instead of a tail, he's a thief/rogue . Lately after I draw a character I've been enjoying drawing them in what I call my "children's book style" but it's basically chibi lol
we are playing a homebrew one off ttrpg adventure this Saturday for one of our player's birthday. We combined the two most chaotic energy races that reminded us of them, goblins and kobolds and called the Koblins; and we determined a group of Koblins is called an Ope; so here is the Ope for the adventure, no names yet, but classes are: fighter, rogue, barbarian, sorcerer, bard, ranger, druid and warlock; no inteligence based classes lol just chaos monkies. we are all gonna roll randomly to see which character we get, so i tried to draw them as androgynous as possible because i don tknow whos getting whom. so i tried to draw extra wide hips or curves to give feminine but since they are also kobold dna in them they are reptile so no breasteses just smooth bois and the tails vary from short to long and horns vary, they kinda look like tiefling goblins but i tried to draw some reptilian features as well
daily pose challenge 2, i am behind, so i will do double this weekend; this was hard because i couldnt think of a subject matter to draw and i randomly thought of FMA and decided to draw Alphonse being dragged by Edward but in my childish cartoony style
this is my warlock character from a TTRPG adventure, he was pact with radiance and goodness, he was basically a good cop idea, lawful stupid warlock and also did not like fighting lol
Asuna : "oh we're saving you now?" i love this series but i imagine at one point someone is gonna be like f#ck it lol
My brother is trying to motivate me and gave me a pose challenge, he is gonna send me a pose daily that I have to use. so today i decided to use the first pose to draw my persona Valdo Udvardy, a Gnome bard right before he casts sleep or as his broken common would say "the laying of heads for temporary death!"
Adobe is going to spy on your projects. This is insane.
one of my favorite TTRPG characters, he is a one armed gunslinger airship pirate captain named Skari
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