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jazzy-writes · 3 years
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Please Reblog is Your Blog is Safe for Non-Binary People.
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SOMETHING’S GOT A HOLD OF ME by Yah Yah Scholfield / 4.6k words / a religious horror / azizi johari in the killing of a chinese bookie, 1976 / ganja & hess ( dir. bill gunn, 1973)
Um, I’m super excited to show off this story. I know I say all of my stories are one of my favorites, but this really is one of my favorites. It’s got aspects of Black Christianity, it’s got a little bit of gore and body horror, it’s got fun spiritual overtones. It also made me realize how much of my work dealt with the mortification of the flesh and self-immolation—I wonder which one of my mental disorders makes me like that, wow!
Something’s Got a Hold of Me is about First Lady Comfort Williams, the first lady at a church, who has to deal with a strange and unruly member of the congregation after a shocking event during bible study. It’s mostly based on my experiences growing up in the Baptist church, how it felt to see people get caught up in the spirit… I wish more horror movies were focused on the Black experience because I can just IMAGINE the glorious scenes of religious rapture!
Please, enjoy! And if you like pieces like this, consider commissioning me for a specialized piece!
AVAILABLE NOW ON MY FLUORESENSITIVE.COM
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jazzy-writes · 3 years
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Daily #1,984! Let’s see how much I remember later. (*still has not written anything down*)
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jazzy-writes · 3 years
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REBLOG IF YOU ARE A WRITER ON TUMBLR
IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT KIND OF WRITER YOU ARE YOU CAN BE WRITING: POEMS, FANFICS, IDK NORMAL FICS, NOVELS, SHORT STORIES, IDK ANYTHING!! JUST REBLOG!!!
#hi
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jazzy-writes · 3 years
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If I could draw my oc’s it’d be over for you bitches
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Who’s Your favorite extroverted oc?? And fave introverted oc?
For EBH because I have the most planned for this wip right now:
Extroverted - probably Emily. She’s like a walking glitter bomb and I honestly need to write her in more (give her more screen time) because she’s so much fun!! She dresses in neon and neon alone.
Intoverted - Charlie!! I love Charles so much! He’s literally so fricken adorable and awkward and I’m glad that he has Val to string him along on weird adventures and make him open up, because without it I’m afraid he’d kinda just,,,, stay that way lmao.
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Who’s your favorite character in one of your wips right now?
Clancy❤️ (Deleted Scenes) he’s absolutely adorable and honestly deserves so much better. He’s the stable one (when he’s not being petty) and when Iverson’s not parading around as the narcissistic leader of the group he steps in and actually makes sure everyone’s having fun. Also him being a plant dad makes me so happy ✨
Honorable mention: Claire, I just want to give her a hug.
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jazzy-writes · 3 years
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Writeblr intro *:・゚✧*:・゚✧
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Hi! I’m not new to writeblr just doing a little reintroduction
The mess that is me:
Hi I’m jazzy/Jasmine
17, she/her, pansexual, black, Gemini, ENFJ
been writing for a long time but inconsistent as hell
if you are LGBT+ and write or have LGBT+ character pls say hi or send me one of your posts so I can interact
I literally don’t know what I’m doing
head empty
yellow, pink, brown
professional simp and penpals w/ @zenabena-writes​
I’m way too friendly 
over-affectionate golden retriever (y’know I think I’m getting a little carried away this feels like a dating profile)
I started this a couple of years ago so just ignore every post I’ve made before this
more info below <3
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Likes:
anime (bnha, jjk, aot, haikyuu+lots more) + kpop (bts, nct, loona+more)
shitty vampire books/media
cottagecore/soft aesthetics
sleep
true crime
spending 7 hours making Pinterest boards for my characters
animal crossing
psychological horror
Dislikes:
deadlines
negativity
not sleeping
What I write:
realistic fiction apparently
gore
fantasy
YA
poetry occasionally
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I might make a website when I have a solid portfolio but that probably won’t be for awhile. I want to treat this blog as more of a diary than having super formal posts about my wips and stuff. I’ll do wip intros and oc’ intros but I mainly want this account to make writing friends and have accountability for actually finishing projects. I’d love to do monthly check-ins or updates on what i’m reading and writing but we will see how that goes. My fatal flaw is over planning and then not actually writing. I’m my own worst critic and it’s honestly irritating at this point.
My writing flame blew out like two years ago but you didn’t hear it from me. (i.e the well is DRY)
I would introduce my WIPS but it’s been a while since i’ve worked on any of them, they’re all kind of scattered, and i’m trying to rework a large portion of them. I will say I’ve had a lot of ideas and I don’t want to put any off the table so expect my vague ramblings about those. 
I am somehow writing an Among Us fanfic but I’m not mad at it. I swore I wouldn’t tell anyone anything about this until I finished it so I guess you’ll just have to wait and see <3
Most of my wips include plotlines surrounding: coming of age, lgbt/lgbt struggles, mystery, murder/crimes/death??, toxic bitches, and general fantasy
It’ll be a miracle if I ever make an actual wip intro 
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Goals:
read more
write more
make friends
This is my blog so it’s an accepting space of: typos, shitty plots, really overused cliches that make you happy, lots of lgbt’s, unconventional dynamics, not knowing how to use any punctuation whatsoever, overplanning and looking up every single detail and aspect of a time period for a wip OR making shit up and not researching literally anything, being repetitive, and simply making mistakes
Um, that’s pretty much it, I love making friends so don’t be afraid to dm me or anything. I’d love to talk about wips/ideas and anime/manga at literally anytime. I’ll probs make a list of ones that i’m watching and reading and i’m open to recommendations! Thanks for reading!
(pic at the top is @ 16pxl on twt)
-jazzy。.。:∞♡*♥
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jazzy-writes · 3 years
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Go follow my fave <3
Writeblr intro :D
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Hiya! It’s been a while since I’ve really interacted with this account so I’m deciding to redo my introduction/give a little update!
I’m Zena! 🪰
17, Black, and Nonbinary (they/them)
I’m a realistic fiction writer who also enjoys sci-fi! I love YA/NA novels and write mine with poc and lgbtq characters. 
Romance, angst, and violence scratches the itch in my brain.
I will write characters who are shitty people, but still love them because I have issues :D (looking at you Tony)
Mostly prose, but a little (little) poetry
I’ve been writing seriously for the last four-ish years
Currently, I’m working on Everything but Happiness which is the first linear storyline I’ve ever worked on. It’s extremely in progress (50k words done), and I’ve been writing it for six months now. I struggle a lot writing it because I kinda don’t know what I’m doing (?) but I’m really excited to continue working on it. While having a fairly new wip is a great thing, I’ve also lost a lot in my two year long break from this platform.
When I first joined the writing community, I was 15 (yikes) and writing a separate work called Sit, Speak. At the moment, I haven’t touched that book since Summer 2019. I still think of the characters sometimes and all of the ways I could’ve used them, but I don’t feel the spark I used to. Maybe in a couple months or even a year I’d go back and look at it from a different perspective. For now, I’ve discontinued it and don’t see myself picking it up in the near future.
Another WIP I’ve (kinda) discontinued was Kisses Under Oil Painted Skies. I say kinda because I technically haven’t discontinued it. I plan on writing something for that book early next year (2021), but for me, it’s become more of a comforting side project. I don’t view it as an “actual book” (whatever the hell that means) anymore, and write chapters for it purely for my own amusement. Some would argue that that still makes it a book – because I should be writing for myself anyways. It was my first book that really helped me get my footing with this whole writing thing, but I was young (we’re talking 14), and it’s very disorganized. 
I also made a six-work mini zine/portfolio recently. Each submission was a short story with a max word count of 3,000 words which was really hard for me since my average works are anywhere in the 3k - 6k range. It was stressful but working towards hard set deadlines is something that actually forces me to write. Shocking, I know. Still, I’d love to work on something of that caliber again. 
Anyhow, I hope to accomplish lots of things with this blog in the coming year and to document my process while writing. I also have plans for a lot of wip ideas I have like (and their temporary names):
EBH (Everything but Happiness/College drug au)
Gay astronauts (gay space adventures)
Office people
Another 6 work portfolio
Dear Elise (a chapter for kuops)
Only you (murder mystery)
Japan murder (another murder mystery)
And more!
Anyways, that’s it from me. Expect a wip intro for EBH soon and hearing my never-ending trifles with being a writer. I hope we grow to be good friends :D
-bena 🪰
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jazzy-writes · 3 years
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fuck you i put commas wherever i want
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jazzy-writes · 4 years
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BLACK TRANS LIVES MATTER
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jazzy-writes · 4 years
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how to make a story file
As I am preparing for Camp NaNo*, I have been working on my story file. It occurred to me this might not be common or popular practice. “Story File” is a name I gave it and maybe some of y’all have a different name with the same contents. 
*There’s still time to apply to join my Camp NaNo cabin!
My Story File contains everything about my story that doesn’t go in the outline.
It’s broken up into major categories and specific templates. So without further ado, here is how I structure my Story File. 
Intro
Title
Logline
Synopsis
Genre
Estimated Total Length (word count)
Draft Length Goal (word count)
Character Bank
Main characters and brief, one-sentence descriptions with ages
Themes and Character Development
Central Question
The Yes/No question that is being asked through the whole story
Should have objective qualities, rather than subjective
i.e. “Will they fall in love?” (subjective) vs. “Will they leave their partners and become a couple?” (objective)
Thematic Questions
These are the internal conflict questions that reside in your character(s) and your story
ex. “Can there really be a successful government?”
ex. “Does grief excuse bad actions?”
Themes at a Glance
Words or phrases that relate to the themes of the story
ex. person vs. nature
ex. isolation
ex. grief
ex. first love
Motivation / Stasis State / Final State
for each main character, you should write a sentence or two pertaining to these three things
Motivation: What is the drive behind this character and their past, present, and future actions? What part of their background makes them the way that they are? What are they looking for? What do they want out of this/a situation?
Stasis State: What are they like before the inciting incident? What problems and questions do they have?
Final State: What has changed about them and their outlook? What questions have they resolved? What has happened to their internal conflict?
Relationships
I usually make a little web of the MCs and their relationship to one another. One for the stasis and one for final.
Stasis: How do these characters see each other? How do they act toward the other? (All before the inciting incident)
Final: How do these characters see each other now? How has their idea of one another shifted? 
Even if a character dies before the end, include the most recent relationship status in the Final web.
ex. this is how I organize it, using the Draw feature of Google Docs
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Character Bank
This is just a very preliminary character bank. If you prefer a more in-depth one, check out my 6 Box Method.
Per (relevant/important) character:
Name
Nickname/preferred name
Age
Field/Occupation
Physical Description
Personality
Personal History
Education/Occupation History
Extra Notes:
Worldbuilding Bank
(Check out my worldbuilding posts on Categories Pt. 1 and 2 for better context)
Seasons and Climate
Languages
Other Cultural Pockets
Folklore and Legends
Fine Arts
Dress and Modesty
Classes
Jobs
Currency and Economics
Shopping
Agriculture and Livestock
Imports and Exports
Literature, Pop Culture, and Entertainment
Food and Water
Holidays and Festivals
Family and Parenting
Relationships
Housing
Religion and Beliefs
Government
Health and Medicine
Technology and Communication
Death
Transportation
Plants, Animals, and Human-environment Interaction
Education
Beauty Standards
Gender and Sexuality
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I hope this helps y’all and supplements what you’re probably already doing. I know it’s helped me tons to have everything in a central place.
Best of luck!
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jazzy-writes · 5 years
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Tilda Swinton risked arrest waving a rainbow flag in front of the Kremlin in violation of Russia’s new homosexual propaganda bill. And she wants everyone who can to reblog it in solidarity.
Guys please reblog this, it won’t ruin your blog, this is important
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jazzy-writes · 5 years
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*doesn’t write*
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jazzy-writes · 5 years
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An Update+A Rant
An Update
Hi! I know I haven’t made an actual post in a while and I’m sorry they’ve been extremely inconsistent. I would also like to say thank you for 50 followers! I’m so happy you found my blog and like it enough to follow me!
This post will be more of an organizational post for my wips and other projects I am working on, so I apologize if it is a little all over the place and informal.
I finally finished a wip… kinda… sorta…
This is my wip Charlotte, a short story gore series.
I wrote four parts even though it could have been six. The four parts in order are ‘Him’, ‘Her’, ‘He’, and ‘She’. He was the first part it’s the shortest at 1,000 words and I wrote it about a year ago. (which is crazy to me) At the time I thought it was really good but I reread it now and it’s poop. However, I refuse to edit it because it really shows growth, and how I've improved as a writer. Of course, I could edit it or rewrite it but I love having that... Like evidence that I am getting better and I can definitely continue to get better. Along with that ‘He’ the third part of the series, I hated after I wrote it. I thought it was atrocious and wanted to throw the whole thing away. A little while later I wanted to prove to myself that I could write something substantial that I did like. So I wrote “” it’s literally titled “” because I have no name for it. It came out as 5,000 words which is the longest ‘chapter’ or ‘short story’ I’ve ever written. (don’t judge lol) I was actually happy with it, I thought the word choice was good, the pacing was good, it seemed pretty great. However, it had absolutely no purpose. It could have been the start of a new wip but the main character was a blank sheet of paper and could have played a more side character role in the overall plot. During this time all of my other wips that had a “plot” I had absolutely no idea what to do with. I couldn’t continue anything and starting something new would just make everything more complicated.
So I took a break from writing altogether for almost three weeks, I tried to work a few things out and ended up dropping a few wips completely. The first thing I decided to work on when coming back was actually a one-shot for two of my OC's that were introduced in “”. That is Cozzy, Connor and Ozzy(or Oswyn which is his full name) but I actually liked it a lot and it reminded me of how much I enjoyed writing after being so unsatisfied with it. I finished up the Charlotte series with ‘She’ which I liked a lot actually, now before I get into other wips here are a few things I learned during and after my writing break:
Don’t compare your work to others- I know this can seem generic and simple but it’s very important to learn if you want to be remotely satisfied with your writing. You need to understand that it's YOUR writing and it won’t look like anyone else’s whether that’s based on word choice or word count. It’s good to be able to learn from others without pulling yourself down by comparison.
Understand not everyone will like your writing- I would be childish and get upset if I felt someone didn’t like my work even if they had only hinted at it. I craved validation and yes I still do but I realized that if you let that one person or few people who don’t like your writing make you upset then you aren’t writing for yourself. Which brings me to...
Write for yourself- Write what makes you happy, write when you need a release, write whenever you want to. Don’t write for someone to say it’s good, don’t write just because you want praise, write for yourself!
These things helped me become more satisfied with my work, these are the things that work for me and it might not work for everyone but you should at least try it. Back to explaining my wips:
Charlotte- I finished the four parts and it hit over 11,000 words which I am proud of. (Be proud of your work!) I am actually posting three of the parts (Not the first part because the last three parts work more cohesively together) on my wattpad account.
I have a wattpad account!
It is @CinnabonOreo 
But yes I published Charlotte on there so you can go check it out, there is one extremely old wip on there that I do not like talking about but refuse to delete. If you can please go read and maybe vote, and also possibly follow me if you're feeling really generous.
I have done one full one shot for Cozzy, my Oc ship, and I’m trying to finish the second one. I’ve been putting off the ending for like a week and a half and it’s kind of sad I haven’t finished. The first (we will call them chapters for now) chapter was “Chocolate Covered Strawberries” and it’s how my Oc’s met, also it’s a college au. The first chapter is super soft and all uwu first date. The second chapter is more angsty (oof I cringed too) and a lot longer, it will probably reach 5,000 words it’s called Strawberry Scented Shampoo. There is supposed to be a fruit theme but I’m not sure what the overall name will be other than Cozzy one-shots. Anyways I have a third chapter in mind but I’m not completely sure of it yet. I want to do OC intros for Connor and Ozzy on here so watch out for that and I will probably post the first two chapters on wattpad once I figure out a name.
I have another wip idea (just a really quick short story) called Bethanne. Bethanne will be similar to Charlotte, if you haven’t seen my wip intro, Charlotte is a gore short story series. If we compare the two them, in both I’m just taking one person and applying their dynamic to certain situations. Charlotte murders in a ritualistic way, she wants to make sure beauty can only exist in a world that is not this world. Bethanne has a completely different dynamic and in short, she is a yandere… sorry. But Bethanne will probably be only one maybe two “chapters” and that’s it, just to go ahead and finish the idea since I’ve been thinking about it a lot.
Lastly, there is my poem it doesn’t have an official name yet but its theme is uneasiness in beauty, a topic I’ve been thinking about for a while. I won’t say much about it but I am auditioning to perform it at a school talent show type thing. I’m doing it as slam poetry which is very hard to do correctly so if anyone has any tips please dm me. I am very anxious since auditions are soon and it’s not completely done and I need to start rehearsing lol.
Those are all my current wips, I’m upset that I don’t have a full, plot worthy novel idea. I dropped one during my break and the other one I’m very unsure about. This was my first ever huge wip idea and I’ve had it sort of planned out for four years. I wrote the first eight chapters but that was about two years ago. (it’s not the best) I want to write and solely work on that one thing but I’m so afraid of wasting my time on something that won’t be good enough. (sorry I got all serious and shit) I like the wip idea but it needs a lot of reconstructing and I’ve tried to reconstruct it multiple times and it never really works out. I know I should write for myself (lol like I said earlier) but I’m soooooooooo afraid of wasting my time. I don’t want to give up on it because I’ve fallen in love with the idea again and again but I don’t want it to weigh me down so I’m still debating it.
Anyways if you read to the end thank you for reading my rant, I appreciate you for taking time out of your day. If you want to you can follow my wattpad and read Charlotte. Thank you!
-j.
Wattpad: https://my.w.tt/iR6DxkYnKU
Charlotte: https://my.w.tt/vnQ3se2pKU
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jazzy-writes · 5 years
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Constantly in a state of “I’m writing this for myself” with a dash of “damn validation would be nice”
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jazzy-writes · 5 years
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Happy Valentine’s Day ❤️💕✨💖
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