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I’m so sorry but in the nicest way possible do yall actually read books or just read words??? Cause I’ve been seeing that trend of people not understanding how “snarled” and “eyes darkened” and “eyes softened” etc. was used in a book and like…

Genuinely, do yall just not have imagination?? Or not understand figurative language??? Also eyes do literally darken and soften have you not lived a life??? How do you read with no imagination? Is this how you get through so many books in one month - you simply don’t take the time the understand the words as they are read?

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GLOMP!

aaaAAAA CAT CAT CAT CAT CAT!!!!

Thank you so much friend 💜💜💜

#ask

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Realized the reason I’m so burned out and why I can’t seem to do anything creative is bc I’m cursed with not only perfection but the envy of comparison which is, indeed, the thief of joy. And it seems no matter what I do I cannot combat this.

Shit sucks man. Literally. Bc everything I do is horrible trash. And it’s why I haven’t bothered in months.

Like bro I can’t even be happy with my Minecraft houses how can I write a book if I can’t even be happy in a children’s block game

#shutuplanx #writing woes #this is a cry for help lmaooo

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It matters on the WIP. Some do have specific themes I want to tackle. Others start as “haha horny” and end up with a theme anyways.

Either way I usually discover themes as I write and discover what themes touch me most as well during the process. Then I just lean into whatever ends up interesting me the most

ok writeblr i have a question and it does not matter if you answer re fanfic or original work:

do you nerds know what themes you intend to tackle in longer works before you start, or are the themes a fun little surprise you don't uncover until the nth draft?

#about me #writing #response #does this even make sense idk

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I really think everyone needs to truly internalize this:

Fictional characters are objects.

They are not people. You cannot "objectify" them, because they have no personhood to be deprived of. They have no humanity to be erased. You cannot "disrespect" them, because they are not real.

#Ik this is fandom focused but also it’s important for original fiction writers to remember too #it’s ok to kill your characters it’s ok to torture them #you can love them and put them thru the horrors since they are not real

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I sit down to like. Try and string some plot lines together or to write a sentence and arughhhh nope nothing happens it’s like *dial-up screeching*

I may go back to dabbling in a little fanfic since that’s. A bit easier? Idk tho…

#shutuplanx

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God I wanna get back into writing so badly but my brain and energy levels are still saying “no” ugh I hate this I hate this I hate this

#shutuplanx #I can barely manage cooking meals and doing laundry rn tho tbh

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The Tarja cover of Poison is such a Beelzebub and Auriel song I can’t believe I haven’t added it to their playlist yet

#shutuplanx #stgh #Auriel #Beelzebub

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in the tags a piece of writing advice or things you avoid or enjoy in writing

#Avoid: love triangles #enjoy: The Horny TM and monsters

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i hate hate hate hate hate hate hate when a monster is loved and that love turns them human I HATE IT I HATE IT SO MUCH. tell that thing that goes bump in the night that you love the way its fangs glimmer in the moonlight and the way its horrible gnarled claws are so gentle with you or GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!

#inspo #the ghost & the machine

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#this is so fucking funny I’m imagining all my OCs in one big prison #mainly bc all of them need to be held accountable lmfaooo #imagine a giant 7ft tall monstrosity w a little stick trying to get litter… amazing

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thinking about aus for ocs is so funny. like i already put this guy in a situation but what if i put them in another totally different one

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I hope they can get your account fixed!! That really fuckin sucks and it happens way more often then people realize

So yeah, in case you hadn't caught what happened last night (see here), my account got borked hard, so basically, most of the functionality got wiped. The tl;dr of it is that I cannot:

Send asks

Receive asks

Message people

Reply to posts

Tag people

Be visible in notifications (my own or yours)

Be visible in tags (probably not related but also on the list)

Basically do anything except toss posts onto people's dashes and hope I'm seen, as literally the only thing that's visible are my posts on your dashboard.

Needless to say, that makes interacting with people—responding to your posts, doing tag games, etc—a teensy bit difficult. I've reached out to support, but it might take a bit before things get resolved. Hopefully less than a week, as Lich said. :')

UNTIL THEN, I'm taking a week off Tumblr to go work on the other socials. If you'd like to keep up with daily TNS snippets, literally the last thing I did before my account broke was put together the Discord, but I'm hoping to work on other sites too.

Here's a full list of places where you can find me for the rest of the week:

The shiny new Discord (Most likely place to catch word if I end up leaving Tumblr or remaking.)

Bluesky (Second most likely place to catch word if I end up leaving Tumblr or remaking.)

Instagram

Cohost

Because of the way my account got borked, this message will repeat every couple of hours. Apologies, all! If you've seen this post and do not want to see it again, blacklist the tag the great borking of 2024.

Thanks for your patience! See you in a week!

#writeblr community #boost

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Hot take: Actual literary analysis requires at least as much skill as writing itself, with less obvious measures of whether or not you’re shit at it, and nobody is allowed to do any more god damn litcrit until they learn what the terms “show, don’t tell” and “pacing” mean.

#writing advice

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oc asks: not-so-nice edition

alone: How does your OC deal with loneliness? Have they ever been completely alone before? How do they act when there's no one around to see them?

betrayal: Has your OC ever been betrayed by someone they thought they could trust? Has your OC ever betrayed someone who trusted them?

bound: Has your OC ever been imprisoned or captured? What happened? How did they get out? Did the experience leave any scars?

break: What would cause your OC to break down completely? What do they look like when that happens? Has anyone ever seen them at their lowest?

desire: What's one thing your OC wants more than anything in the world? Are they open with that desire? Why or why not? What would they do to fulfill it?

failure: What's your OC's greatest failure? Have they been able to move past it? Does anyone else know about it?

fear: What is your OC's greatest fear? What do they do when confronted with it? Are they open with their fear, or do they hide it away?

future: What's the worst possible future for your OC? Are they taking steps to avoid that outcome? Are they even aware it's a possibility?

ghost: Who or what haunts your OC? What happened? How do they live with their ghosts?

guilt: What is your OC guilty about? How do they handle their guilt? Do they try to avoid guilt, or do they accept it?

hate: What does your OC hate? Why? How do they act towards the object of their hatred?

heartbreak: Have they ever had a relationship that ended badly? Experienced some other kind of heartbreak? What happened?

hide: What does your OC hide? Why do they hide it?

hunt: Who or what is your OC hunted by? A person, a feeling, a past mistake? Is your OC able to let their guard down, or are they constantly alert?

mask: Does your OC wear a mask, literally or figuratively? What goes on beneath it? Is there anyone in their life who gets to see who they are under the mask?

midnight: What keeps your OC up at night? Do they have nightmares? Fears? Anxieties? What do they do in the small hours of the morning when they should be sleeping?

mistake: What's the worst mistake your OC ever made? What led to them making it? Have they been able to fix it? How have they moved on?

monster: Is your OC monstrous in any way? Is there something that makes them monstrous? Are they aware of their own monstrosity? Do they accept it or reject it?

nightmare: What does your OC have nightmares about? How do they deal with their nightmares? Do they tell people, or keep it to themself?

pain: What's the worst pain your OC has ever felt? Do they have a high pain tolerance?

secret: What's one secret your OC never wants anyone to know about them?

skin: How comfortable is your OC in their skin? Do they grapple with anything that lives inside them—a beast, a curse, a failure, a monster? How do they face the smallest, weakest, most horrible version of themself? Are they able to acknowledge it at all?

torture: Has your OC ever been tortured? Would your OC ever torture someone else?

wound: How does your OC handle being wounded? Are their wounds mostly physical? Mental? Emotional? What's the worst wound your OC has ever experienced?