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ngl i get that people hype up hating writing for the bit but like. idk. yall i Do actually really like writing. it is so satisfying and fun and rewarding and i get to look back what i made over and over again and get joy every single time.
yes writing is hard but if you hate it more than you love it im kinda like. idk. find another hobby?
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I have returned from the depths of my abyss to say
To be is the verb that makes all other verbs verb
I will be back with more sensible things later
Thank you for your time
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Hello friends!!!
I made a playlist for my book, a woman's work!!
There's no particular order, it's just songs that remind me of characters in it, or the storylines, or just got me in the mood to write it. I'll link it in this post.
But I thought I'd list each of the main characters' songs! As a fun goofy thing, of course.
There she goes, The La's - Claire
You're gonna go far, Noah Kahan - Bunny (exclusively as her singing it to her daughters)
Unknown/Nth, Hozier - Emma
Wisdom Teeth, Frank Turner - Tommy
Francesca, Hozier - George
Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Mark
First Time, Hozier - Rachel
And then of course, I started writing this and realised I had to do the relationships as songs...
Right where you left me, Taylor Swift - Emma/George
Damage Gets Done, Hozier - Tommy/Bunny
All My Love, Noah Kahan - Claire/Mark
Invisible String, Taylor Swift - Claire/Rachel
And finally, the best (very closely bonded childhood homoerotic vibes that peters out and leaves one of them lingering and the other moving on) friendship of all time...
Seven, Taylor Swift - Claire + Susan
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4nrqclS4flkBXhmV0s4oTf?si=IKWcjDUJQ1eFQX4Fy_uY4A
Here's the link, if you fancy having a listen!!
Good luck to you all taking part in nanowrimo, I'm cheering you on!!!
#writeblr#writerscommunity#rambles#writers on tumblr#my novel is gay#my novel is sad#i dont know what i'm doing#have fun
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7 Line Tag Game
Thanks for the tag, @starbuds-and-rosedust! Tagging @cheeto-flavoured-pasta @lesbianofliteraturecity @alnaperera and @dandelion-jester
So I'm starting my wip over again to see if I can write it more to my liking this time. This is a little bit from the writing I did today.
“We’ve got to run, we can’t let them have Romana,” Merriam said quickly. “Who knows what kind of life she’ll have if they figure out how to get to her!”
“Do you think they can?”
“I don’t know, but I don’t want to find out!”
“All right, you call the kids and I’ll call your parents to see if they can help watch the house for us and take care of the kids until we get back.”
“Dad won’t like it.”
“Well, Andrew will just have to put up with it."
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This slaps bro
Give me the Serbian pigeon film
this tiktok screenshot ruined my life i need to see the serbian pigeon movie so so badly but it doesn't exist it's so foul to make this bad of a point with something so cool and then take it away from me.
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Okay, go for it! Tell me about your main WIP at the moment. Tell me anything you want to share!
Eeek!! Ok.
My main WIP at the moment is called "a woman's work" (title subject to change at any time) and I am almost 40,000 words in!!! I'm currently writing from Emma's (she used to be called Alice but I changed my mind) perspective in the 1920's, and it's so heartbreaking and gentle and everything I don't normally write in novels. This book is very much a love letter to my family (who don't know I'm writing it) and it's such a privilege to share their stories and try and show them that they don't have to be ashamed of it.
My great grandmother was the product of an affair (just like Emma's daughter Berenice) and she kept that a secret until just before she died. At one point, we tried contacting her father's family, and they shut us out. They were ashamed of us too. I want to write about my great great grandmother's love story and my great grandmother's existence - even if they aren't literal parallels, because they deserve to be heroes in a story. Every woman deserves to be a hero.
So, yeah, that was a bit of a ramble but that's my book!!!
#writeblr#asks#rambles#writerscommunity#my writing#writers on tumblr#i dont know what i'm doing#awomanswork
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Or a question too
(I'm still figuring Tumblr out, haven't quite worked out asks yet)
Reblog if you want one of these in your ask box:
•A compliment
•A story
•Why you follow me
•A cute message
•One thing you want to tell me
•One thing you want to know about me
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Omg thank you for the tag @memoriethereaderandwriter-blog !!
Let's see now...
1. My fashion sense (I'm an icon)
2. My smile, I've learned to love it
3. My glasses - they're bright red
4. How quickly I can read books
5. I'm a silly goose person
Oh gosh ok very gently tagging @aether-wasteland-s @dandelion-jester and anyone else who wants to join in!!
“when u get this u have to answer with 5 things u like about yourself, publicly. then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool!) 🌟”
*but i am telling you, no pressure 🫶🏻*
this is so hard oml 😭
I like my:
wife obsession
Music taste
Eye color
Peircings
Accent (sometimes)
@legendsofela @engenelxver @notevenanna @ilovesnat @http-sam @sweetromanoff @scarlett-2122 @wandatasha @@simp-for-marvel-woman @rainlxver
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imagine simping for capitalism this badly
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As a fun fact: the snake in this gif is a western hognose snake, also known as a plains hognose or Heterodon Nasicus. They're very cute. I have one, his name is DSSDM? Or just Draco for short.
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WIP UPDATE
Hi friends!!! It's been a while!!
I just wanted to let you all know what I'm up to 😁
So, poetry wise: I've completed Growing Pains!!! It now is being refined and I'm trying to find it a nice home with a nice publisher. I've got another idea under my hat, but we'll see about that, we will just see :). I'm also always writing poetry unrelated to chapbook/collection ideas, so hopefully a litmag will want some of those at some point 😅
Novel wise: er, woman's work is going well? The others are... A little sleepy right now. They don't want to get written. They're being vaguely tricky for me. And I'm trying not to focus too much on fanfic, in case it's that that's making things tricky to find motivation for my other two WIP's, but honestly... I think I'm just finding them hard for normal writers block reasons.
Let me know what you guys are up to!!! I'd love to know!!!
#writeblr#rambles#writerscommunity#my writing#poetry blog#writers on tumblr#i dont know what i'm doing#poetscommunity
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There is one big issue with gender neutral language in English for nonbinary etc people like myself.
Titles/Honorifics
It's one that's had a lot of debate and many proposed solutions over the years (including Mx. which works for some people but I find clumsy), but I think I've solved it with the help of etymology and Wikipedia
Mr. and Mrs. are both from Master and mistress, and if you trace them back they go to Magister, and then to Magis
Which is related to both Mage, and Maestro, and means roughly the same things as Mister and Mistress
So I suggest (and really enjoy the idea of) perhaps adding Mgs. to Mr. and Mrs., pronounced "Magis"
Which could be used in a spousal way and as a title of respect
When I tried to do similar things for Sir and Ma'am, they come from different roots and so I can't quite as easily do this tracing back and abbreviating, but I am attempting it anyway. (I will update if I find anything worthwhile)
I get not many people are willing or able to change their language in such a forced way like this, and that language is supposed to evolve fluidly forward and not by haltingly filling in gaps left by the gender binary we already have built in to English, but I wonder if Mgs. would catch on...
(Also Mgs. [My last name] sounds reallllllly cool, try it out)
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I keep seeing posts talking about the WGA/Sag-Aftra strike, which yes, good, but in all this "support writers" sentiment I'm seeing no one talk about book writers, which I think is something people should know more about right now.
We are at an all-time high for book bans, namely targeting queer & PoC-authored books. This means that a lot of schools and libraries are no longer stocking diverse YA books, and if you're not in publishing, you may not realize this but school & libraries are by far one of the biggest markets for diverse YA books.
This means that in 2023, YA book sales are down. This is also in part because Barnes & Noble (the largest physical book retailer in the U.S.) is no longer really stocking YA hardcovers. This means that marginalized authors and debut authors are struggling to sell books.
But it's a LOT worse than that. In the past couple of years, marginalized authors are *really* struggling to get new book deals. Most books are acquired by a publisher about 2 years before they release to the public, so this isn't all that noticeable yet, but a LOT of marginalized authors I've spoken to (myself included) have been unable to sell a new YA book since 2020. So while I had a book out last year, even if I sell one right now, you won't see it until 2025-2026. That's three to four years without a new release or the income I get from publishing those books.
On top of that, Big 5 publishers have started closing imprints (namely their diverse imprints) and have started telling their marginalized YA authors to just go. I've had multiple authors tell me their publisher basically said, "eh, we don't care to put in the work for you anymore. You can just go somewhere else". Of the authors who *are* getting offered new contracts, we're being offered pay far below the cost of living and we're being handed contracts that split our payments 4 or 5 ways and require we sign over our work to be used to train AI so they can replace us a few years down the road.
Authors are freelancers who own our IPs, which means we can't unionize the way Hollywood writers can, and despite authors showing up in droves to support HarperCollins employees when they went on strike for fair wages, we're being hung out to dry when it comes to our own rights.
If you enjoy diverse books, especially diverse YA, please understand that many of the authors you loved over the past 3-5 years are being forced out of the industry. We're being exploited, and we have no way to defend ourselves. Our books sales are drying up thanks to anti-queer legislation, our rights are being eaten up by AI, and our publishers are degrading us while profiting of us and refusing to share those profits with us.
Within the publishing industry, we've all been watching this decline happen over the last decade, but outside of it, I know most people have no idea what's going on so please spread the word. And if you care about diverse books especially in YA, please support marginalized authors in any way you can. The industry needs to be reminded that it needs us before we're all eliminated from it.
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hey it’s okay. maybe you’ll feel better if you imagine your OCs in fucked up situations
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Repeat after me:
The first draft just needs to exist
The second draft needs to be functional
The third draft needs to be effective
The first draft just needs to exist
The second draft needs to be functional
The third draft needs to be effective
The first draft just needs to exist
The second draft needs to be functional
The third draft needs to be effective
Remember, the second and third can't happen if you don't have something to work with. Your first draft will always be shit compared to your third, but at least it exists. The worst first draft is an unfinished one. The best first draft is a just completed one.
You read books/stories not in their first draft form-- only in their finished form (third, fourth, sometimes fifteenth draft). So stop comparing your first draft with a final one.
So, just write--you can make it better later. Perfectionism is the greatest weight a creator can carry.
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Last Line Tag Game
Thanks for the tag @starbuds-and-rosedust!
Here's the last line I've written for my wip When the Stars Aligned.
The survivors of Myrano in that moment went from a mere ten to 51.
Tagging (if you want to participate of course) @lesbianofliteraturecity and @alnaperera
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