Leveraged an inventory of established fictional character and setting elements to generate a disruptive custom-curated narrative entertainment asset.
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How to put “wrote fan-fiction” on your résumé:
I worked in HR, handling applications and interviews, and if someone turned in that string of techno babble nonsense, I would have rejected them out of hand.
A resume doesn’t need to sound fancy or overly technical, it needs to tell us why we should hire you.
“Independent novelist/writer” is more than sufficient here. If you want to express the skills that fan fiction taught you, something like, “creative writing, editing, and publication,” will get you a lot further than… Whatever that just was.
A resume should be tailored to the position, if you can afford the time and energy for that. But if not, then just think about what writing got fandom taught you. How to respond to criticism, how to present a professional pubic face, how to correct punished mistakes, creative thinking, project planning, persuasion via emotional leverage, html formatting, office suite fluency.
There are a lot of actual, marketable skills that go into fan fiction.
How to put “I was in a zine” on your resume
Writer:
- Published short fiction stories for anthology collection
- Able to write short fiction within a designated word count for layout purposes (900-1500 words, 1500-2000, 3000-5000)
- Wrote short articles for independent publication
- Assisted with editing short stories for publication
- Able to reduce or expand written content based on layout needs
- Able to check for basic spelling, grammar and syntax
- Familiar with Microsoft Office and Google docs
Artist:
- Produced full-colour digital illustration for independent magazine
- Able to produce digital illustrations optimized for both online and print display
- Produced full-colour 2-page spread for art anthology
- Published 4-page short comic in anthology collection for charity
- Able to transfer traditional art to digital illustration
- Illustrated the cover (always brag if you’re on the cover) of an independent art publication
- Familiar with professional illustration tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Clip Studio Paint and stylus tablet
Merch artist / graphic designer:
- Designed 2″ clear decorative double-sided keychain charm as bonus sale item
- Designed 5″ x 6″ sheet of graphic stickers included in art anthology
- Able to design bold graphics that are measured for laser cutting production
- Designed layouts for 65-page art and writing magazine, focusing on (art placement, text layout, etc)
- Able to keep layout design simple and in accordance with the project director’s chosen theme
- Created promotional art, icons and banners tailored for social media sites like Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, etc
- Familiar with professional layout and design software such as Adobe Illustrator and InDesign
Running a zine
- Produced an independent art and writing collection for sale / for charity
- Managed (10, 20, 30) independent artists and writers out of over 500 applicants to create a short-run independent magazine
- Worked in online sales and social media promotion selling an independent comics anthology
- If it’s really spectacular you can brag about specific numbers
- Our book raised over $4,000 for charity in under six months of production
- We sold over 750 copies in two weeks of online sales
- Produced a digital PDF and printed version of anthology, mailing to recipients all over the world
- Communicated with printers and manufacturers of plastic accessories and paper goods, assembling professional packages of our merchandise for mailing.
- Built a custom digital storefront and navigated professional market and payment systems including Paypal and Tictail / Bigcartel / Wix etc
- Created promotional events to boost sales, including raffles and giveaways over social media
- Organized participants through mass emails and use of social media posts on tumblr and twitter
- Familiar with organizational software such as Microsoft Excel, Google spreadsheets and Trello
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I know I’m That Guy™ , but it is possible to advocate for social reform without sweeping under the rug the very real tragedies and human rights violations that have existed under communist regimes
I get that this doesn’t fit your edgelord communist aesthetic but it costs $0 to reblog this and let your followers know you aren’t advocating to repeat the mistakes of the past
Romantic opium binges and fainting couches are all well and good but kids these days just don’t appreciate the late 19th century occultism aesthetic. Get some ceremonial robes, take up pipe-smoking and radical political views, wave some hyssop branches around and claim to have received revelation from mysterious higher beings. Transliterate your name into a Semitic language or sign all your letters with a mysterious Latin abbreviations; schism from your secret society to form a new, even more secret society! Paint a circle on your wealthy parent’s library floor and summon up spirits of indeterminate origin!
s/o to the artists on tumblr that spend hours making art and only get three notes if theyre lucky. youre still awesome and your art is still fantastic
So ready to wear this on my road trip this week.
Talking to my younger sister earlier and told her how every human being is a literal piece of art that can’t be replicated and how every body is a temple and every face has a story. And the fact that boys don’t call you pretty doesn’t mean you aren’t. And it most of all made me incredibly frustrated how someone I look at everyday and think is a literal beam of light can’t see their own beauty.
fae garden
i want to buy neat little umbrellas and turn them into hanging gardens in the corner of my room.
i want to create little terrariums out of old whiskey bottles and plant succulents in wine glasses and champagne flutes.
i want to hang small christmas lights around my walls, illuminating pinned art and taped-up polaroids of my friends and me.
i wish to turn my room into one from a fairytale, where small creatures take refuge and leave behind magic when they go.
i just want it to be warm and lovely and celestial.
- march 14, 2018
I’ve never loved a movie more.