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This is really something I need to post on my Tiktok, but:
Looking for small bands and artists to add onto my increasingly chaotic Supporting My Indie Bands playlist!
#bookworming#music lover#i take all music recs ever but finding indie artists has been so much fun#chronic playlister#Spotify
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Guys, I got out of the shower and decided I had a burning need go dress masc today.
(By today, I mean three months ago.)
Anyways... Outfit reveal?
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Sending you hugs, love, and positive energy that the anxiety will fuck off in another direction. May it leave your being and a calm come upon you. <3 <3 <3
Hey, CJ!
This got buried in my inbox, but I just wanted you to know that this meant the world to me when you sent it and makes me smile every time I see it.
Thank you for everything, darling. ♥️
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Catch Up With Tori 💚
I'm using today to post some personal stuff I've been collecting the past couple months or so. Some journal entries, some asks, some thoughts on things I've watched or listened to, some writing. We'll see, I guess, right? 😁
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Happy STS! What book are your characters getting emotionally attached to?
I’m going to answer for Ghost Punch!
Duncan is a librarian, and therefore does a lot of reading.
But his favorite guilty pleasure read is cozy mysteries.
He will devour them in an evening and have a very nice time. He kinda feels like a middle aged mom when he reads them, thus the guilty pleasure, but he enjoys them, and lately has been getting really into cozy fantasy
Thanks for the ask!
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Has a raw line of dialogue ever come to you whilst you were out and about or doing something completely different from your wip?
Athena
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Whumpee that goes from quietly disappearing whenever Caretaker walked into a room to silently trailing Caretaker around the house.
They used to be so scared of Caretaker but now? The sense of peace and safety they’ve started to associate Caretaker with had become intoxicating, but they still weren’t brave enough to ask for their company. So, they just followed, like a cat, from room to room, finding some excuse as to why they were doing so.
Caretaker knows. They’re secretly brought to tears the first time they put it together, and started slowly changing their routine to make things easier. They sit and work at the kitchen table now, instead of their room, so whumpee has an easy excuse to sit at the table with them. They put in a movie every time they’re in the living room, so Whumpee can pretend that it’s just the TV they’re fixated on. They leave all the doors that they can open, so there’s never the fear of being locked out.
They’re both just dancing around the other, one literally and the other figuratively.
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What did you bring back with you from hell?
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Golden Rules for Fanfiction Readers:
if the fic already has a thousand comments, comment still. Your comment will still matter and delight the author.
if a fic is a decade old and the author hasn’t been active in the last five years, comment still. There will come a time when the author will read and cherish your comment, or maybe it will motivate them enough to start writing again. You never know!
if the author never responds to comments, comment still. Interaction with the author is a very nice bonus, but you can be sure that even if the author doesn’t answer, they will read it and enjoy it at some point
there’s no such thing as a too long comment.
there’s no such thing as a too incoherent comment.
the author will give no flying fuck about any gramatical errors, typo or other misspellings. If you’re a non-native speaker struggling to express themselves, you can be sure the author will be all the more pleased that you surmounted the language barrier to let them know you appreciated their work. Don’t be afraid!
there’s no such thing as commenting too often.
you will never, ever come across as creepy by obsessing over a fic or an author to the point where you worry the author might think you’re a stalker. On the contrary, the author will be delighted by your investment in their work.
say thank you. It’s always appreciated to see readers acknowledge the work and commitment that is put into writing.
the floaty review box (ao3 add-on) is your friend
be positive and encouraging. Positive reviews make writers all warm and glowy from the inside, bashing plunge their soul into icy darkness. You want the first, not the second!
whoever you are, if you read their fic, YOU are IMPORTANT to the author. Let them know you’re there!
(if any author wants to contradict one of those rules, please let me know!)
(Submitted by @randomishnickname)
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writeblrs who are into like sci-fi, romance, powers, and/or the paranormal genre — can y’all react?
i really want to make friends in the writeblr community and look at y’all’s worlds and stuff ✌️🥳
it’d be awesome if y’all were at least 21+ but yes, i want to interact with more people in the community.
i interact from (themarcspector) btw
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Prompt #969
Their love wasn't gentle, beautiful and delicate. It was ugly, rough and hard to understand for outsiders. But they treasured it anyway.
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Writing Burnout and Helpful Tips
Hi yall, it’s been wonderful seeing ask-the-prose posts going around writeblr and I’m so happy to see that some of these guides are helpful. If you have a specific topic you’d like me to cover, send in an ask!
What is burnout?
Burnout is incredibly common and nothing to be ashamed of! If you find you are too exhausted to do what you love, running out of ideas, or perhaps not wanting to do anything, you may be burned out. Burnout can pose a serious block to your writing, and it’s just not fun.
Burnout can happen when you’re stretching yourself too thin, spending more time and energy creating than taking in creativity, or not taking care of yourself the way you need.
Step 1: Put out the fire
One of the number one ways to fast-track your way to burnout is to forget to care for yourself. We’re writers! Sometimes we get in the zone, or maybe a little obsessed, and we forget to eat, hydrate, and maybe even put off sleep. But ignoring self-care is unsustainable.
We all see posts all over reminding us to hydrate, eat well, sleep, and even stretch, but these are genuinely great tips to remember when you’re not feeling well. I’d like to add a few ideas to try when you’re feeling down.
Exercise. Walk, run, play a sport, do anything that helps move your body, whatever you can do to help your blood flow, even if it’s just a few push-ups or a good stretch.
Find a new set of walls to stare at. I get in a rut going to the same places or staying home when I have nowhere to go. But hanging out at a coffee shop or cafe helps me often. It’s a chance to observe people, see new things, and get some sunlight. If you need to shake it up, try a new cafe!
Socialize. Sometimes burnout looks like loneliness. Socialize! Talk to a friend or family member, or make a new friend! New perspectives help.
Not all of these work for everybody, but they’re friendly suggestions to try when you’re feeling burnout coming on.
Step 2: Replenish your reserves
As creatives, we get stuck always wanting to create, but that’s not sustainable either! Creativity is not just an internal process, we need external stimulation to replenish our creative reserves. When you feel like you just can’t come up with ideas or anything new, maybe it’s time to read.
Reading can help, though I personally understand the struggle to read (and finish!) books. Start with short stories or novellas if you struggle to read novels. Read within the genre you’re trying to write, and then step out of your genre and try something new. You never know when inspiration will strike.
Watch movies, listen to new music, play a video game, or do anything that can give you a creative boost. Reading is critical, but learning about other mediums is just as important.
Step 3: Self-indulgence is key
You may find as you’re recovering from the burnout that your wip may just be what’s causing the problem. Ask yourself some important questions:
Am I writing for myself?
Am I writing something that I want to write?
If not, what do I want to write about?
Do I like what I’m writing, or do I feel like it’s what everyone wants to read?
Answer these questions for yourself, and if you find you don’t like those answers, take a look at your project and see what you can or want to change. Remember, if it’s not fun and it’s not what you want, then it might not be worth it.
Take what you need, leave what you don’t
As always, this guide is meant to be helpful, and as with all writing advice, it’s entirely subjective. I believe these tips work because they worked for me. But if you find that something isn’t helping, leave it! Move on or adjust to what you as an individual need to recover from your burnout.
Remember that no writing is ever wasted and that your writing matters. We need your voice too!
– Indy
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Question time:
Do you suffer with insomnia and do you write to try and help that? Do your characters suffer with it?
Reason I'm asking is I suffer with insomnia and people have told me to try and write so I can settle my brain to sleep
Athena
#writeblr#writers of tumblr#yes i do#usually when i cant sleep its because of anxiety more than anything else#so writing focuses my brain and lets me relax
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writers/readers be like "I know a place" and then take you to either the ginormous ass library from Beauty and the Beast or Aunt Cass's café from Big Hero 6
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Whumpees so traumatized caretaking them is basically impossible! Caretakers that have to act like soft whumpers in the beginning because telling whumpee "actually, you are human with free will and rights" does nothing but overwhelm them! Caretaker having to "train" whumpee to show and express discomfort and desires because whumpee will rather starve than admit they are hungry or would rather suffer than say they are cold/hot!
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If you were to write a spin-off about a side character, which would you pick?
Unsurprisingly, I'm actually planning lots of prequels, short stories, and weird in-universe documents for Heralds of Rhimn. Two big ones center around specific side characters from the main series.
The first is Children of Snow, a Frostbiters-centered prequel. Gildhe is the main PoV character, but other Frostbiter kids like Karah, Delise Merlie, and Alevar are liable to get a few chapters. Mostly, it's about Lonnie's disappearance, how poorly Gildhe deals with it, and also about how Gildhe ends up pushing Mep out of the family. Funny enough, Mep will not be a PoV character.
(He's had enough time to bias the narrative through the main series!)
The second idea is a presently-untitled novel about how Inky got kicked out of his noble house. Features some of the older characters, like Atevia and Ainzel, plus Iriah and Lucketh back when they were alive. I've had this idea for longer, but it's not quite as fleshed-out as Children of Snow.
Other extremely undeveloped ideas for stories with side characters include;
Courtfather Snow and Charlan's relationship and breakup.
Tincre's life. Oh Tincre . . .
Evain becomes the first guy to become a wyfwolf after the war dies down, and I'm sure that'd be a fun tale to tell.
Maybe how Morekai met Silamir? Eh. Maybe.
Short story about Crislie's Ma and Da meeting each other.
Something to do with the other courts, especially the Mirthful Ones. I love inventing their jestercore puritan names.
In short; brain go brrrrrrr faster than the pen can. Rip.
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for Storyteller Saturday- if you had to write a series of short stories linked to the world of your books, what would you write about?
Funny enough, I already have a mini-series like this!
For Arigale series, I decided to post free shorts about some side characters backstories to breathe a little more life into them if fans got curious. I have seven planned out right now and five finished so far. I may add more, but I'm undecided there. Not many have bothered to read them after all.
Judith’s Parents Short Story
Abigail Short Story
Jacob Short Story
Chinea Short Story
Illene Short Story
Sheila Short Story (TBA)
Drake Short Story (TBA)
You can also find these links and more info about Arigale on my blog on the Arigale Page link at the top.
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