#Networking with other Writers

[jolenes-book-journey]

Finding Your Tribe: Why Genre-Specific Organizations Are a Writer's Secret Weapon

Finding Your Tribe: Why Genre-Specific Organizations Are a Writer's Secret Weapon

Finding Your Tribe: Why Genre-Specific Organizations Are a Writer’s Secret Weapon Navigating the vast landscape of the writing world can feel like wandering through a jungle. You’re armed with passion and maybe a manuscript, but the path to success seems tangled and overgrown. That’s where genre-specific writers organizations come in, acting as seasoned guides who know the twists and turns of…

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[emmathompsonegot]

Dipping my toe into the Supernatural production lore has me thinking about Buffy again. Do people know? Do people know what kind of absolutely bananas stuff was happening with Spuffy?? Like, they fucked for an entire season. The final season focuses on Spike and Buffy so much that it arguably crowds out the development of the Actual main characters. And yet. I had to get up and literally walk around the room with my hand on my forehead like Columbo just THINKING about their final conversation. Remarkable parallels to spn. How history repeats itself

#how both Spike and Cas were supposed to die after a few episodes #but just kind of Stayed by virtue of sheer charisma #well #the writer’s strike helped with spn #but still!! #I’ve gotta learn the actual production goss for Buffy #this is what happens when half your writers hate a dude #and the other half love him #and they’re all stuck in a 6 season long cage match #powered by the CW #(I know they switched networks in s6 but for the sake of the joke) #mine #btvs #buffy the vampire slayer #spuffy

[crimeronan]

i am at least pleased to have gotten the elliptical bluesky handle. [1-800-contacts voice] My Brand

#on the vast majority of other sites it's already taken #i'll poke around there some and see who's there in the next few days i guess. sus out the vibes #it's supposed to be a genuinely very good place for queer writers to network. so once i stop grieving i'll be more optimistic #again i'm not leaving this place forever til it closes its doors #and if the midjourney deal is many millions of dollars then tumblr won't close for a while. #i'm just. so fucking sad.

[spookyspoiledho]

Okay so I was listening to the q&a after season 1 of Monstrous Agonies they mentioned what might be my favorite thing about audio dramas: there's no one (or hardly anyone) in-between the creator and the content

Each of the shows I've listened to has been the creators vision as they made it. Each one has had such amazing representation and crazy, interesting plots and unique stories.

I love just vibing and hearing a suspenseful tale and not having to worry that it's going to fall into hurtful stereotypes or tropes.

#audio dramas #horror podcasts #neighbourly #station to station #monstrous agonies #archive 81 #i get that sometimes theres other networks or advertising involved #but overall its much more true to the vision #how often do you hear about writers having to fight to have a gay kiss or relationship #and listening to station to station today #all the main characters were women #one was a lesbian. one was bisexual. and one was asexual #also so many of the podcasts point out the inherent evil of capitalism and i also love that #big media conglomerates won't really support that take

[temunitu]

ik it’s common to complain about the last few seasons of a show that got shitty but i still prefer “show runs a bit too long and gets slightly worse” over “show gets canceled halfway through second season”

#yes this is about rise #temunitu #like at least the writers got to tell the stories they wanted #(for all the other tmnt shows) #then they just. ran out of their initial ideas and the network said ‘keep going’ #i would’ve taken five more seasons of rise even if the writing went downhill later on #never underestimate my ability to fix canon or else ignore what i don’t like

[lilly-white]

you at the beginning of your author journey: I’m going to dispel the myth that you can’t make money writing! I’m going to write for a living, damnit! If EL James can do it then I can too!! How hard can it be to just write smutbooks right?! Let’s GO

you 2 years down the line, curled up in the grass: I just want to read books that were written with love, man. with real genuine love and curiosity and whimsy, and no actual regard for money or accessibility or “genre beats” or whatever nonsense rules they talk about in “7 figure fiction: How to use Universal Fantasy to SELL your book to ANYONE!”. I’ll scrounge in a camper van if I have to I don’t care, i just want to feel the love again

#writer life #writer problems #it fucks with your brain man #i'm reading moby dick and clan of the cave bear right now and both authors are just nerding out so much in their weirdly structured books li #*like #LOOK AT THIS STUFF ABOUT WHALES!! ISNT IT COOL #and also LOOK AT THIS STUFF ABOUT CAVEPEOPLE!!! #love just radiates everywhere it's great #i feel more love pouring from these books than all the formulaic romance books i've read #human beings allowing you to see them going on tangents about what they love = way more humanising and touching #than reading about 2 people bonking in the same fucking formulaic way #if i never have to read or write sex again i'll actually be very happy #indie adventures #i need to grab beatrix potter and lemony snicket and all those childhood books actually #to heal my brain from the romance world lmao #people in my network going around being really loud and proud about 'reading bonking books' i'm like #what is there to be proud about or to 'defend'? It's already a billion dollar industry #and i'm tired #(beta reading this book that is just like... so thin and empty of anything but sex and all the other betas apparently love it) #(and i'm just like. there's nothing here though????????? there's just nothing?????? it's just bland mayonnaise pornography)

[mariocki]

Alfred Burke creeps around uncredited, as mysterious chauffeur Heinrich, in 1963 thriller The Man Who Finally Died

#fave spotting #alfred burke #the man who finally died #public eye #frank marker #@thisbluespirit #(i know you like to see his face) #alas he has no closeups #and as mentioned isn't even credited‚ tho his character is called Heinrich in dialogue #actually quite a lot of the cast go uncredited in this‚ even those (like alfie) who have more than one scene and get actual dialogue #just the key players are named in the opening titles #like quite a few other british films of this era this was based on a short tv serial‚ also written by the films writer Lewis Greifer and #produced by ATV in 1959; of that series the only returning cast member was Nigel Green‚ who'd actually played the role Alfie #does here on tv‚ but was promoted to a slightly larger supporting part for the film. according to wiki (ikr‚ but why would they lie..) the #series actually exists in the archives in its entirety! alas.. we'll probably never get to see it‚ particularly now network have gone #speaking of‚ i had actually seen this before some years ago but when the news came thru about network this was one of the things i decided #to try and pick up before the stock is all gone; i was tempted to the blu ray release both for the chance to see Alfie in hd (albeit #briefly) and bc one of the extra features is a fascinating sounding episode of Drama 64 starring Stanley Baker #more on that i suspect when i get round to watching it

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[goaltenderness]

something particularly lovely about an aesthetic quote post crossing the dashboard and all my mutuals reblogging it from one another and tagging it with our respective different wips

#i love you network of ao3 writers finding each other in the ether

[linonyang]

been thinking of making a network for skz fics only but i dont know if i can commit to that LMAOOOO

#ig it's bc there's only one skz network alive??? or did i miss other networks out there? #there's a ton of stay writers here too but yeah... the commitment HELP #i think it'd be fun to talk to other stays too #but idk i'm not that big of a writer here (looks at my 200-ish followers from here and my previous main) #so im not sure if ppl will be enticed since im probably not that familiar to many #there were tons of skz networks before too iirc #i just saw a lot of them when majority of the nets closed </3 #p.s. ik 200-ish followers may be many for some but compared to those with 1-4k followers... approx. 200 is def small LOL #take this as an interest check ig? but i'd love some help from those with experience already <//3 #i don't know all of the ins and outs of handling a network rip #r.text

[yoon-kooks]

without getting into the specifics, i wrote this news story today about someone achieving something big and it got back to him and he tweeted about it and journalism is just so cool yk🥰

#i dont have a twt for job stuff #but if i did #wouldve responded to his tweet lol #highlight of my career rn #but yeah i just like writing about positive things #to give ppl the recognition they deserve #it would actually be a good idea for me to make a twt/ig for work purposes #to network with other writers & companies & ppl in the community i write about #happy night fr

[scorchedhearth]

Thinking about the first time after his accident Guy found his anger rising at a child. I think he'd still reel it in but like. Being confronted so harshly with what living with the accident would mean for him. Like. Being kind to kids is integral to who he is.

i think it would be a moment where he realizes there's something really wrong with him. a lot of his comportment early after his coma and brain injury could be attributed to general anger and being tired of being the 'nice guy' and acting out, something he could rationalize at the time (hal stole my spot so i get angry at him, the guardians stole my ring so i get angry at them, other heroes dont take me seriously so i get angry at them, etc), but lashing out at a kid when it's something he would never do would lead him to think the problem is more than just general bad mood or even the anger issues he was already shown having to deal with before getting the ring, that this is bigger. now, since his personality change was so stark i think he could ignore it for a while, try to ignore the reality of what's happening to him and walls himself into denial to limit the grief it causes him (his many speeches about how this is the real guy now the previous one wasn't good and he's the best version), but eventually he'll have to reckon with the fact that he's an angry and at times violent man now and it's outside his control. so now im thinking of a guy who struggles with his personality change and how overwhelming the world around him is and still trying to limit his time with children as best as he can to not act out and scare or hurt them in his mood swings, and the negative feelings that would arise from that, the frustration, a wave of anger at that and how unfair it is having to deal with his injury and the consequences all alone, as well as maybe shame or sadness, becoming so similar to his father

#asks #anon #i think this period of his life is interesting to explore #both from a real-world perspective at how writers are handling it (not well) but also within the text the consequences and implications #he's well aware that he used to be smarter as he puts it. that his injury took off years of his life where he worked hard to become someone #so this just adds up to his personality change that already makes him more emotionally fraught and unstable and quick to react and anger #and adding that to how he basically has no network or support system around him... all the others mocking belittling or antagonizing him

[navree]

i’m sure someone’s already talked about this but i’m tipsy and rewatching the first episode of hotd and i don’t wanna say i liked it, cuz i didn’t like anything about that scene, but i did appreciate that aemma defies the tropes we see a lot of the time in media when women have difficult pregnancies and deliveries where it’s always “save my baby over me” that without fail happens every single time. but instead, aemma is very very clear on the fact that she’d really rather not be in the position she’s in right now, and when the men around her make the unilateral choice to perform a caesarean to save the baby at the expense of her life, she doesn’t do the Fictional Lady thing of lying back and saying she agrees, she’s fucking horrified and fights against it after having spent the majority of her screentime reaffirming her autonomy as a person, as more than a human incubator. and never submits to it. she doesn’t just accept the idea that her life has ceased to have value and that she should accept dying (in a brutal and horrible way), she very clearly wants to live and that choice is being actively taken away from her. 

#personal #house of the dragon #yeah i think this is wildly incoherent but i've had a couple kir royales #but the point is i do appreciate that we're getting something other than the constant 'it's fine if i die but The Baby Must Live' thing #that we CONSTANTLY see in any fictional pregnancy #like this isn't about real life when that choice actually presents itself that's a very nuanced topic #that i am not qualified to discuss as i've not been in any facet of that situation #but in fiction it is literally always just long suffering women smiling and saying that they will gladly die #for The Baby To Live #and it's not a bad thing to see a woman who wants to put herself first and wants to be able to live and enjoy life #and is terrified and furious at the idea that she needs to die in order for The Baby To Live #and refuses to accept it as something that needs to be done and fights it as much as she can #i mean it's still a horrifying scene and until the season ends i'm going to avoid judgments on how much of the feelings i have about it #are intentionally put there by the writers and how much is just 'this is still a show made by a man and a network that' #'has already shown to have an almost perverse level of enjoyment for the brutalization of women when it comes to this specific franchise' #but this bit was........not good but at least smth i can nod my head at #anyway i hope rhaenyra finds out what viserys did and beats his ass

[minkkumaz]

me after working for hours on the @8turnweb banners expecting people to join as if 8turnblr isnt an empty abyss

☝️🤓

#∞ ₒ ˚ omi's chats #in all seriousness i hope one or two writers find it soon #i just lovelovelove 8turn and THEY DESERVE A NETWORK!!! #i wanna share my love with other turnings likr #where are they

[insincere-engineer]

I think that we as a society should stop making dating reality shows.

#idk about other countries but in aus the free tv networks have a local content quota they need to adhere to #like producing a certain amount of homegrown content proportional to the imported stuff they air #and every. single. network. gets around this by churning out some shit new reality dating show instead of actually bothering to employ #local actors and writers and creators #its cheap and its lazy and i hate it #(also just sick to fucking death of people at work not shutting up about these garbage shows

[wainswright]

This is my googled 30 min research so i'm just guessing for fun.

Looks like either you need to be a hip place that attracts so many new users (makes a splash in numbers for investors?) and get good press as THE place to be in order to attract advertiser dollars OR

Make your core usability lock behind a paywall like spotify, which is cashflow positive, but can't tell if this worked out for medium (probably not)- (and looks like Substack isn't doing too well) This focuses less on advertisers and more on users.

Alternatives? Monetizing content + ads on selected produced articles? That's a niche that isn't filled.

You know there's this whole style of paying for webnovels in China or something, like if they didn't ruin the concept of wattpad by viewing users... like that, instead of treating them like content creators a la Youtube. Which looks like it's going strong.

In lieu of nonprofit, I guess you'd have to get a community of people producing good content that the site made a no brainer to use- and a kind of distributive ad process like uh... tiktok.... hm..... untargeted is that big of a deal? But it'd take advantage of the tumblr social pathways- the ability to monetize a post if you chose. Can't remember much about post+ but that came out of nowhere... I don't remember having any idea how to use it. I hope it was something like- you can choose to monetize certain posts behind a paywall? That's the only way you could do it, right?

Fanfic concerns: nobody on youtube worries about this when making videos about established properties tbh. I guess don't write fanfic specifically and put that behind a paywall (or do and see where this leads us) but fanart is free game? How confusing. Home of fandom could be like.... reviewers.... taste makers..... god tumblr actually IS good at stealth word of mouth marketing for a lot of properties. Very funny.

But if I was thinking informational- or like "how to recognize chords", or news feed that would be an idea I didn't even think of when post+ in it's unclear use state came out.

Okay, maybe that wouldn't work- we come here to shitpost. Maybe you could have the option of making a goodpost blog (original posts only) behind a paywall. But a general fee, like spotify charges $5 for access to all songs, instead for monthly access to paywalled content? The response would be a little different now, I'd imagine.

Both options, as well as an option to see blogs more automatically as the constructed sites and not just on the dash like squarespace? that's doing well, though I've seen random complaints about the nature of the not-html style site constructions. Complexity was mentioned as part of the issue retaining users along with lack of immediate interaction/reason to stay, but showing off various blogs as their own sites and then letting you follow the author of the blogs on the dash seem like it'd work out..........

It retains the free functionality but the alternative would be presented as a sidegig.

Chaotic patreon.....Patreon and Reddit are private, with Reddit maybe having an IPO by the end of 2023, so I'll assume they aren't doing super great. Tumblr up for IPO soon?

Best case scenario for site survival: it's sold to huge company that can eat the cost of operations until the site is made hip to advertisers, or shrug.

But there really isnt a good microblogging site- that allows all the ability to make a searchable blog..... (I see maybe they were thinking they could just use the social part of tumblr and somehow get wordpress to show up on the rss feeds) but yeah there's not really any social capacity baked into to wordpress, on lj I would go over to see what people were doing for that day and read their comments. That site does live on in spirit in dreamwidth

Bluesky and mastodon have that character limit and you can't format anything, but if they get successful they can rake in ad money. I don't know about this. Can't even remember what pillowfort is like but I remember there was some weirdness with the founders that scared me off, I didn't think it was going to last well.

#i still think tumblr has good concept #if you did a call out to specifically the fanartists as a place to centralize commissions #writers to centralize their reporting skills #but tumblr already has this inbaked communication that other sites dont #the stuff that actually lets you network articles #i think some kind of vague patreon like deal wouldn't be bad #ideally advertiser money would make up the difference but it seems we have. a marketability problem? which is weird #we're like instagram to the left #twitter is just takes its so boring to me! #and neocities is all well and good but what about fandom eh #back to the forums with ye? #ok: fandom reaction would be a nonprofit clone but hm.................... social huh #me blinking at the news facebook is doing so well i genuinely dont know people who network there? linkedin makes sense #facebook is where i keep track of people i meet but i did use to use it like tumblr until parents arrived #so wordpress cant be doing well either #forgot about cohost