angelolytle

[angelolytle]

Godless Punks is available on Amazon! If you like fantasy, demons, criminals, heists, and LGBT rep, my new book has it all. Link in my description!

#self reblog

[angelolytle]

What was your favorite part of the process of writing and publishing Godless Punks? What about the most difficult part? How did it compare to BASA? :)

Thank you for the questions Lexi!! <3

My favorite part of the writing process was getting to the ending! It felt v cinematic in my head and like all the pieces were coming together, and I felt like the ending was just what I wanted it to be. For publishing, my favorite part was seeing @sobcat 's incredible cover art!!

The most difficult part was getting over my self doubt. For a long time after finishing the book I was very frustrated with it after so much reading, rereading, and revising, and I felt like it was garbage. I took a long break, and when I came back, I realized that a lot of that negativity was all in my head.

BASA felt easy to write, while Godless Punks was a lot harder for a variety of reasons. For one, I wasn't working a full-time job while writing BASA. Godless Punks was also my first serious venture into full-on fantasy rather than contemporary fiction with fantastical/supernatural elements, so that was a challenge. There are also a ton of fight scenes in GP and I wasn't very experienced with that. I'd also never written six different POV characters for one story before!!

That being said, I'm very glad that I pushed myself out of my comfort zone to write GP! I want to keep pushing myself and growing as an author :)

#Godless Punks #asks #angelo speaks

[angelolytle]

Godless Punks is available on Amazon! If you like fantasy, demons, criminals, heists, and LGBT rep, my new book has it all. Link in my description!

#writeblr #writers of tumblr #lgbt books #lgbt novels #writblr #original writing #creative writing #writing promo #lgbt #fantasy #wip intro #ownvoices

[angelolytle]

[Image description: A Picrew by smilepaint showing Avery, a young black man with short black hair and pierced ears. He has brown eyes and he is grinning awkwardly. He is wearing a black hoodie with a tan jacket over it. He is doing a peace sign. The background is yellow with three white triangles behind Avery’s head.]

Demon Hunters For Hire Character Intro: Avery Cole

He/him, 19. Business major on a break from college. Likes pinning insects and using humor to cope.

Avery’s mom has cancer. Not only does that majorly suck, but also, turns out having cancer is expensive. Avery needs a way to make money. Fast. Enter a demon attack, Xanthe, and a brilliant idea.

Excerpt: It's a long couple hours before Mom joins Avery in the waiting room, back in her regular clothes with her purse slung over her shoulder. She insists he sit down while she schedules her next chemo session. He can't make out the words exchanged between her and the clerk, but her face pinches as she takes what can only be the bill.

Yet another thing she won't accept Avery's help with.

Avery grabs his phone and pulls up his bank account, making a face at his meager savings. If he just had enough, maybe she wouldn't need to accept it. An anonymous donation, and she'd never know. He sinks down in his seat. He's probably not going to win the lottery any time soon, and the jobs he's juggling only make minimum wage. Maybe it's time to put on his Nigerian prince pants. Does capital "C" Cancer give you a pass for scamming the elderly?

Avery thinks of the DDI investigator from the other day and scowls. It's not like those guys aren't getting paid like heroes. How hard can it be to hunt demons, anyway? He and turtleneck guy basically did it by themselves—

Avery sits bolt upright.

Ding, goes the lightbulb over his head.

#DHFH #writeblr #character intro #wip intro

[angelolytle]

i like fairies and unicorns as much as the next guy, but i would love to follow some blogs that write some darker things. please like, reply, or reblog if you write horror, paranormal, supernatural, creepy, spooky, dark fantasy, thriller, and mystery type stories!

[angelolytle]

“Weird Little Town” is absolutely my favorite subgenre of speculative fiction

[angelolytle]

HIS BODY A BROKEN LAW. WIP INTRO & DIRECTORY

There’s a clock tattooed on Nemesis’s wrist, and when it reaches midnight on his 21st birthday, it will kill him.

It doesn’t help that his mother was the one who cursed him, and that the demon possessing his car ate her down to the bones before Nemesis could get her to break it. But Nemesis is nothing if not versatile, not when he’s only got a few months left until the big bad end. If a deal with the devil under the hood of his vintage car is what it takes to survive, Nemesis doesn’t mind selling what’s left of his soul.

But Judge doesn’t just want Nemesis’s soul. The demon has bigger, meaner plans than that, and he needs Nemesis’s help to see them through. After all, stealing the heart of a living city isn’t a one-man job, and for all Nemesis is cursed, he’s still the first True Witch in a generation. And with a centuries old turf war raging through the streets of the Veldt, Judge and Nemesis are going to need each other’s power if they hope to make it past every last exorcist, demon, and vengeful witch in their way―regardless of whether they can stand each other or not.

💢 GENRE ―

adult dark urban fantasy 

💥 THEMES ―

survival at any cost, morality versus the corrupt systems that raised you, the ugly path away from abuse

⭐ STATUS ―

working on first draft, target goal: 90k

📛 POVS ―

third person limited past tense.

🌃 SETTING ―

A century ago, a city vanished off the face of the earth. No one knows where it ever went, and for most, the mystery of Carson has faded into obscurity and urban legend, the truth of it chewed down to the bone and spat back out as a bedtime story for bad kids.

Only a few know what really happened: that Carson got eaten by a demon, turned into something monstrous and mythical, wandering out in the wastelands of California, always on the move. Those that know of it don’t call it Carson anymore. The monster that it’s become is the Veldt now, and it’s always hungry for blood. Forget all the cute fables of quaint moving castles and serene floating cities―here in the possessed city, only the truly vicious survive.

Obscured from the rest of the world by the Mirage, a sentient otherworldly creature that shrouds the city and hides it from prying eyes, the Veldt is home to demons, derelict witches, and vengeful exorcists a hundred years into trying to find a way to exorcise the damned thing. All of them want to kill each other for the sake of controlling the Veldt in its entirety, and all of them are looking for a trump card to finish the job.

But there are darker things asleep beneath the concrete and cracked asphalt of the Veldt. Things that have been slumbering there for too long. Things that are beginning to wake.

🚬 CHARACTERS ―

❌ NEMESIS. trans he/him  ― scorpio  ― a true witch, the first in a century

The first True Witch in a century, Nemesis was born to Amaranthia, the Sanguine Witch. Greedy for a taste of eternity, Nemesis’s mother stole his immortality from him in the cradle and cursed him to die on his 21st birthday. Now, Nemesis seeks a way to lift his curse before it kills him, making a deal with the devil in a last ditch effort not to bite the dust.

🖤 JUDGE. ?? he/they/yikes that’s a demon ― ??  ― eternal, immortal, undefined by time.

An ancient archdemon from the Restlessness, Judge ate Nemesis’s mother after she summoned him for her own greedy use and found herself unable to control his appetite. Now set on bigger things to consume, Judge seeks out her son, Nemesis, for a taste of his blood and to use him as bait in luring out the monstrous things asleep beneath the skin of the Veldt. 

🧨 HALLIDAY. cis he/him  ― leo/virgo cusp ― exorcist; inheritor of the book of genesis

A formidable exorcist, Halliday has worked hard and long to prove his own merit beyond the imposing weight of his family name. The Inheritor of the Book of Genesis, one of the most powerful grimoires in existence, Halliday intends to live up to the expectations set upon him by his community and his family. Unfortunately, fate has other plans the moment a True Witch walks right out of a fairytale and into his life―by running him over with his possessed car. 

🧥 DESMOND. cis he/him ― ??  ― exorcist; the Tower of Rapture

The leader of the Exorcists inhabiting the Veldt, Desmond is a ruthless, charismatic ruler that many follow without question, even into hell. Bored of the stagnation of the Veldt and desirous for a taste of something new, Desmond sees Nemesis not as the omen most exorcists beneath him do but as a key to unlocking his deepest desires. The only problem now is dealing with the demon with his name tattooed to Nemesis’s soul.

⏳ TARGET DATE: FIRST DRAFT; September 22 2022 goal date for finished first draft ⏳

👋PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU’D LIKE TO BE ADDED TO A TAGLIST! I’ll probably update this post with more characters and information as I work more on the project.👋

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#other people's stuff

[angelolytle]

— wip intro:

TWISTED STITCHES

by @motelbf

AUDIENCE: NA GENRE: horror/thriller THEMES: navigating mental illness without support, repression of trauma (particularly religious trauma), unreliable narrator mc, lgbtq+ & poc representation, no romantic subplot, trope subversion, search for identity, fear TW: dissociation, repressed trauma, hallucinations, intentional sleep deprivation, death, blood, murder, unreality, nightmares & night terrors, sleep paralysis, religious trauma POV: 3rd person limited STATUS: planning SUMMARY:

A college student named Oliver is forced to withdraw from university because of his progressively deteriorating mental health. He moves back to his parents’ house only to find that his childhood imaginary friend, Stitches, is still there. After a troubling series of events around town, Oliver begins to suspect that Stitches may be to blame.

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[angelolytle]

WIP INTRODUCTION: From This Mouth That Bleeds

a retro-cyberpunk, lesbian, new adult book

Blurb

"Humanity took to the stars and left us for dead." Lorelei knows the end. Has seen it flicker along the edges of her home, catch fire to everything she's ever known. Has felt it gnaw its way into her bones, watching as the last safety ship glinted starlight in the sky. Lorelei knows the end. And she knows everything after, too. Lieutenant Lorelei Reed is a first-generation, three-star pilot for the United Forces of the Red Remembrance. She is the only pilot capable enough to helm the UFRR's greatest mystery; Acheilus, an antiquated shark mecha from before The End. It is a time of peace; the bitterness from the Coalition of The Last Frontier's abandonment has long since diluted away in favor of lucrative trade deals from space - goods that could only benefit the UFRR's longevity underseas. It is a good deal, kind, even. Generous. But Lorelei cannot help but taste the tang of deceit between her teeth. The sickly stick of rot amplifies after she spots another shark mecha circling the edges of UFRR's water space. Sleek black and glinting metal - a convincing imitation of the UFRR's mechanics. The problem with this: Lorelei captains the only shark in the entire fleet.

Themes

loss, grief, being homesick for a home that no longer exists, loud-mouthed pilots, and trauma-stricken lesbians.

Snippet

Her hands shake. Colonel Thetis was right about one other thing, too.  Lorelei had been gone for a long time; she’d been gone for months. Months of an endless blue that pervaded her eyes, an infinitum of mouthless words, and moments to think and move as she pleases. She’d rediscovered creatures that hadn’t been seen in years, listened as whales called through, and laughed when other sharks circled Acheilus, trying to communicate. It might have been the closest thing to peace that Lorelei has ever felt.  Peace does not exist in the lion’s den— a name she’s mocked HQ with —  instead, the oppressive nature of fear lies thick along the walls of the hull. Fear is every step you take, it is every beating heart, every conspired whisper. It exists within the hollows of her cells, in every ill-intended look cast her way. She is fear and they make her believe it. 

Taglist: let me know if you want to be added <3

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#other people's stuff

[angelolytle]

If u want to write a story about a character that's just you but hotter with a dark twisted backstory and magical powers and a pet falcon or something, I think u should just go ahead and do that. Who's gonna stop you? The government?? Fuck the police.

[angelolytle]

Writing Tips

Descriptions in Between Dialogue

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⤠ how characters interact with the environment

⇝ moving something, picking something up, looking somewhere

⤠ how the environment interacts with the characters

⇝ weather, other character’s actions or movements

⤠ gestures

⇝ facial expressions, body language

⤠ shifts in position

⇝ standing, sitting, leaning, shifting weight, crossing arms/legs

⤠ physical reactions

⇝ body temperature, fidgeting, heart rate, character quirks

⤠ environmental descriptions

⇝ descriptions using the five senses, setting, character’s appearances

⤠ internal dialogue

⇝ emotional reaction to what was said, reflection of past experiences, connections to other characters/settings/actions

➵ I want to reiterate… descriptions using the five senses ; when in doubt, think of the five senses your character is experiencing and pick what best moves the story forward

#writing advice

[angelolytle]

#writing memes

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[angelolytle]

#godless punks #writeblr

[angelolytle]

hi! do you have any writing discords that you recommend?

Hi! I can't say I do, I'm sorry. I'm only involved in a private server with some friends. Other than that, I don't know of any.

#asks

[angelolytle]

https://www.etsy.com/shop/ChaoticsDesigns I made an Etsy if anyone wants some shirts or stickers with dumb lil designs!

[angelolytle]

i love codependent relationships in fiction i love watching two messy people unforgivably in love with each other shatter the world around them i love seeing interpretations of love as a cosmic disastrous redemptive force i love watching love consume people whole i love looking at romantic relationships and going "oh that is so fucked up! good for them"