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Holiday Card Project 2015!

The DeviantArt #HolidayCardProject is back for its 9th year!  With the goal of bringing a bit of holiday cheer to patients in the hospital during the holiday season, the Holiday Card Project connects artists from around the world, applying their tremendous artistic abilities to designing and creating uplifting holiday cards. In the past few years, this project has received more than 5,000 cards sent in by more than 2,000 deviants from 60 different countries/political regions. Cards are then divvied up and distributed by DeviantArt members to local Los Angeles hospitals, with additional cards given to various hospitals in the U.S. and abroad

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From Idea to STORY

----- Original Message ----- How do you develop an idea? How do you come up with the details behind stories? Do you get them from reading books? Do you get them from modern concepts? Or do they just come to you (if so, lucky you XD)? How do you develop the world in which it takes place? People or settings first? Do you include cults/religions/mass groups? How do you come up with these groups? -- Thoughtful Writer In other words, what you want to know is: How do you build a Story from an Idea? Let's begin by breaking this huge pile of questions down to smaller, bite-sized pieces... How do you develop an idea? I start with a Climactic Event

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Tips for Starting Commissions

 I was thinking about my last journal, where I asked why everyone and their cat wanted to sell commissions so badly. I recieved some really insightful answers. I also had a lot of people asking me "How much should I charge for my work?" I'll add a Disclaimer right here in front, as for whatever reason, something always offends someone ~stunplz (https://www.deviantart.com/stunplz) . So I'll start off by saying, this is just my personal journal, and I'm just one person who has some experience with this. I'm not making a judgment on who should sell what, just writing some things I have personally learned along the way. Well that's out of the way :iconyodawgplz: So most a

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