Leigh Bardugo's Blog, page 508
September 10, 2014
daisycalloway:
Ruin and Rising Collection ⇄ a fanmix dedicated...
Ruin and Rising Collection ⇄ a fanmix dedicated to Zoya Nazyalensky (listen)
I’m a soldier of the Second Army. This is where I belong.
Yesssss. I must confess, Zoya may have been my favorite character to write in Ruin and Rising.
Polish covers!
Polish covers!
The Witch of Duva by Leigh Bardugo
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. There was a time when the woods near Duva ate girl - or so the story goes. But it’s just possible that the danger may be a little bit closer to home. This story is a companion folk tale to Leigh Bardugo’s debut novel, Shadow and Bone.
Who’s in the mood for a creepy bedtime story?
Hello, marvelous creatures. This is the big news we were waiting...
Hello, marvelous creatures. This is the big news we were waiting on announcing today—I’m going on my first solo tour. YOU WILL BE INUNDATED WITH LEIGH. Please make all due preparations.
We’ll have new swag and goodies, Halloween hijinx, AND AND AND at each of these tour stops, I’ll be reading from my new book, The Dregs.
I’m a bit nervous and quite excited to be out on my own so I hope you’ll help spread the word.
Andddddd… since some of you are far away from these stops, I’m going to release a teeny tiny (and I do mean tiny) Dregs excerpt tomorrow. Cuz I want to.
*One last thing: I want to say a special thank you to the readers and booksellers at Books and Books, Octavia Books, and Book People (who I will be visiting in Austin early next year), the winners of the Ruin and Rising promotion we ran back in May and June. VIVA LA BOOK PUSHER!!
September 9, 2014
mypaeganlovesong:
lazlo15:
10knotes:
omfg that is just too...
omfg that is just too adorable
i can show you the world
I love it!
katyfarina:
seibei:
naamahdarling:
howtonotsuckatgamedesign:
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Some harsh but very very true words
When people let me review their portfolios (on career day or open days at my game design school) I explicitly ban them from commenting during the review… …because otherwise they will follow the impulse to downplay everything I see in an attempt at being humble.
"this is an old image…"
"I’m not happy with that one…"
"this is just a sketch…"
"I did this really quickly…"
"there is better stuff on later pages…"
It’s totally understandable to have those impulses. The quality of art is not empirical data and therefore impossible to measure. Good art, bad art, it all comes down to standards. And you don’t want to come off as naive or self-absorbed.
But just don’t do it. Don’t talk yourself down in front of others. In the best case you have someone supportive who now thinks “damn, this person needs to be prepped up all the time. Do I really want to work with somebody like that” or in worst case “now that you say it, yeah, this is kinda lame/rushed/unfinished/lazy, go away.”
You can only submit what you have. If that is not enough, then it’s not enough. Your attitude will not change that. But if it is enough, you can do serious harm by not being confident of who you are now.
This means appreciating what you are able to do right now and have a clear vision of what you want to learn, be confident that you will learn it in time.
Be proud.
This is really important. Eliminate this urge. Eliminate it professionally, when having contact with people in a position to buy your work. Eliminate it socially, when you just share your work for fun. Destroy this urge as thoroughly as you possibly can.
Because when you have done that, you’ll find that you feel at least 25% less shitty about your own work. You lose the urge to do it. You stop reinforcing those negative thoughts, and they retreat. They may never go away completely (although they might!) but this is good practice for ignoring those thoughts flat-out.
Don’t shit-talk yourself. Even if you can’t be SO PROUD, don’t ever try to influence anyone’s opinion toward your work in the negative.
Try to love your work. Try to see what you learned from each piece, even if it’s a failure. If you feel that you learned nothing, appreciate the fact that just spending time on it is honing your skills and giving you valuable practice.
i used to be super not-confident in my own work. When I stopped pointing out the flaws in my own stuff, I felt better about it almost immediately.
As a lifelong self deprecator, I’m trying this and really enjoying it so far!
Sorry I’ve been reblogging so much advice lately but this is a pet-peeve and I really wish people would stop doing it.
Also calling yourself/your interests trash/garbage. If you think that, then why do I want to know you, follow your blog, or follow you professionally? People who follow you keep tabs on that stuff, and it influences their thoughts on you and your work, whether you intend it to or not.
whalebabywut:
rambozus:
virginiagentlenerd:
captainofalltheshi...
vintagechapters:
"It’s always been this way. There were rumors...
"It’s always been this way. There were rumors about me even before I was born. It’s why my mother never calls me Sobachka. She says it makes me sound like a mongrel." - Nikolai Lantsov, Siege and Storm.
Original Drawing made by me vintagechapters of Nikolai Lantsov from The Grisha Trilogy written by lbardugo.
Pop that collar! I just adore this.
daisycalloway:
Favorite Book or Series Meme [9 / 20]: The...
Favorite Book or Series Meme [9 / 20]: The Grisha Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo
Beauty was your armor. Fragile stuff, all show. But what’s inside you? That’s steel. It’s brave and unbreakable. And it doesn’t need fixing.
*sniffle*
