When will God give me the ingredients to convert fictional men into real ones?

poster one of my lovely writing friends made for my story I'd Eat Your Heart (But It Might Kill Me) 🥰 🥰 🥰.

Happy October to all the SoEul/Boys Over Flowers fans out there! I am happy to announce that I and a few fellow SoEul writers (KLSoEul, InHwa, and LilisLittleRose) have been secretly working on a spooky and romantic SoEul fic for the Halloween season. Updates will be every Friday throughout October and November for an eight chapter story in total, so follow along at the link below! :)

Lovely cover art by KLSoEul 💖

as a friend said to me, "time for all the words"

folks, someday you are gonna be writing, and you're gonna put something on paper and hear a voice say "i know this is what you want, but will people like it?" and im here to tell you that is the DEVIL talking and you do whatever you damn well please

if i dont keep myself productive and/or entertained 24/7 my brain gets up and starts roaming the halls thirsty for blood

as a fanfic writer, the best thing you can do for yourself is invest in the stories you want to read. don’t think about what will get popular, because it will make you miserable. write about what means the most to you. if you want to write pure smut, do it. if you want to make intricate worlds and complex characters, do it. write and write and write. contrary to popular belief, good art does not have to make you suffer. all my very best work is the stuff that i enjoyed writing

The really great thing about The Lord of the Rings is its realism. Tolkien may build a vast world, but he's concerned with the tiny little domestic details in it. He doesn't start out with, "Thousands of years ago, there was an epic war and the Ring was lost." He starts with an eccentric old man having a birthday party. (Okay, he starts with a long explanation of hobbits, but that's a different problem. I'm focusing on the story itself). The epic parts are slowly added into the world, bit by bit, when they're relevant, and they fit in seamlessly because of how thoroughly he's established the ordinary details of Shire life--houses and petty family squabbles and gardeners and who owns that field kind of stuff.

By doing that, he's showing us that this is what matters. Home and family and community. The adventure is just extra, taken up unwillingly to protect all the important stuff. The Fellowship starts with five best friends who are willing to help one of the group move to a new house. (And four guys who totally respect the contributions of the one guy who doesn't want to go on the larger adventure). They're not a Fantasy Traveling Party. They're just friends going off to battle. (It's very easy to read the hobbits as Edwardian young men going off to WWI, because it's built out of that setting.) Their ordinary friendship is important, and their ordinary lives are important. They know every ditch and field and river in the Shire, and when they run into danger they have the comforts of home to help them. Baths at Frodo's house. Farmer Maggot's hospitality. Even, yes, Tom Bombadil, who is the perfect escalation of this concept--now even the helpful, comforting things come with a side of the otherworldly and unfamliar. There's an escalating sense of danger that's willing to take it slow. It's not all danger, but the tension is building because we know this is only the small stuff, so what dangers lurk out in the wider world?

It's more like a portal fantasy or an intrusive fantasy than a pure secondary world fantasy. It's about people leaving the ordinary world, or about the fantastical intruding on the everyday. And part of that's because he's not writing a genre story. Writers who came after him are writing stories set within the genre: elves and dwarves and epic battles with supernatural overlords are the starting point, and they build from there. Tolkien started with the real world, and appreciated the real world as much as any of his innovations, and it makes his story so much more grounded and compassionate and real.

@fantasysociety game 05 | quotes | the atlas six by @olivieblake​

we are empty and trying to fill, lighting ourselves on fire just to prove that we are normal—that we are ordinary. that we, like anything, can burn.

Yes he is 600 hundred years old but the two zeros are silent

Fanfic is the triumph of character-based relationship building over the need for clever plot or pretty cinematography. It says “I don’t care what they do; I care about what they feel, and how that makes me feel.” 

Recently, I’ve noticed that a lot of talented artists I follow online have experienced massive drops in reach. Social media puts a lot of pressure on artists to constantly mass produce high-quality work. From what I’ve experienced, artists who can’t keep up can feel sad or angry at the algorithm, and some even doubt themselves.

So here is a reminder that you shouldn’t focus too much on the numbers on your posts. I know from personal experience this is easier said than done, but distancing yourself emotionally from social media can be incredibly relieving! Just know that decent people won’t judge you by the numbers you reach. If you produce quality work and / or have fun with what you’re doing, you’re on the right track :)

new year, new artwork for my fic I'd Eat Your Heart 😍

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when you want to post the next chapter already, but you still need to edit 😭 😭 😭

Me writing every scene ever 🙄 🤣