#athena anna rose

[violetcancerian]

My legacy on this site:

Thirsting over Richard Armitage and his leather trousers in his Robin Hood era (thank you @athena-anna-rose 💕)

That one Merlin post that took off because the summary sounded like a rom com and "featuring groundbreaking special effects"

My Steddie fanart

Crying over the Derry Girls finale

Thirsting over scruffy bearded Bradley James in leather armor and a fur cloak

Actually I'm mostly just thirsting over middle aged actors here and that over rules my writing but anyways

#hobbit talks #andy rambles #hellsite #blue hellsite #my legacy #personal #richard armitage #bradley james #athena anna rose #athenixrose #steddie #derry girls

[indecentpause]

Hi its been a while! You knew me as writtendevestation? How are you

hi!!! it's good to hear from you again, I'm so glad to see you back! seasonal depression is an asshole but I'm chugging along :) I had to take a break from writing for a few months because of super bad brain fog but I woke up yesterday with Every Idea so it's good that it's come back. something to keep me busy while I sit at my sun lamp XD

how are you? I hope life has been treating you well!

#ask pause things #athena anna rose

[midnight-and-his-melodiverse]

OH MY GOD WE'RE BIRTHDAY BUDDIES. HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Aww thank you Athena!! Yay, birthday buddies! ❤️

#midnight's queries #answered asks #athena anna rose

[morphaeus]

Hi there! I'm Athena, how are you and hows the writing going?

Hey! Good to meet you!

The writing is going at a snail's pace today because I have a migraine, but it's still going. I did a bit of editing, posted a bit on wattpad, and now I'm taking a break and listening to the Encanto soundtrack.

As for how am I? My headache is slowly but surely getting better, so that's good. And I had sushi for dinner, which is even better.

How are you doing? And thanks for the ask!

#answered #athena anna rose

[afoolandathief]

Hi there! I'm sending this to as many people as possible to show support for writers/writblr/writeblr. How are you? What do you love about writing and what are you proud of in terms of what you've written or the characters you've made?

Athena! First off, props to you for all you do to support writers on Tumblr! I hope you're doing well (and also getting some sleep, good lord, Athena).

I'm doing alright! My life is in flux but I'm trying to write every day and finish revisions.

I've always loved what can be created in writing — something out of nothing that in turn conveys emotion and metaphor and message. Personally, I'm proud that I've created characters people really seem to connect with. Also, I think I can be pretty funny, at times.

Thank you for doing this! May your writing flow freely and your OCs behave poorly (because that's always more fun)

#ask #athena anna rose #writeblr #writing stuff

[pens-swords-stuff]

Hi there buddy, checking in to see how you and how things are going. I appreciate you!

Things are going pretty well for me, thanks so much for asking!

I hope that life is going kindly for you as well. Thanks for everything you do for the community. I had no idea that you were the one behind writeblr support until recently — I'm a huge fan of what you do and I appreciate you!!

#undine answers stuff #athena anna rose

[multi-lefaiye]

Hiya Multi, just wanted to say I appreciate you and i hope you're well

Aw thank you Athena!!! I appreciate you too <3 I know I don't reach out much but I wanna say I do always love seeing you on my dash! I hope you're doing well :3

#talk to the bunnykitty #i think i'm getting sick honestly lmao but i'll be fine #athena anna rose #omg i forgot you changed your url im so sorry

[jacqueswriteblrlibrary]

Hi there buddy, I'm Athena. Thought I'd come say hi and see how you're doing

Hey Athena!

Thanks for checking in. Things have been getting a little overwhelming, draining and loud.

I hope you're also doing okay though! Things can get really exhausting. So after you send these asks out to people, I hope you're able to put your phone/laptop down and relax at least for a bit ❤️

#just in case you didn't know my writeblr is @bloodlessheirbyjacques! 👉👈 we've interacted before over there i think #athena anna rose

[prettylittlelyres]

Hi buddy! Its Athena, I'm sending this out to all my mutuals - what got you into writing, what inspires you, who inspires you and what music inspires you to write? what do you love about writing?

Thank you so much for asking! I'm finally getting around to answering now, but I've had these questions in my head ever since they arrived in my inbox. I knew this was going to be a long post, so I've put it off until there's been a good time, which is today.

What got you into writing?

I learned to read when I was three, and we've always had a house full of books. Most of my collection is digital now, as I've moved house (internationally) too many times in the last ten years to keep a bedroom full of paperbacks, but books have been a huge part of my life.

It's hard to say what exactly got me into writing, because I don't really remember not writing... but I think my biggest inspirations have been Hilary McKay (author of the "Casson Family" books, and my namesake), Anna Godbersen (I love the "Luxe" series!), and the "My Story" series that Scholastic released (various authors, but I think Alison Prince and Valerie Wilding are my favourites!) in the early 2000s.

We had some Creative Writing lessons in primary school, with a teacher who then discouraged us from writing creatively (sheer peculiarity of that person), so I took up writing defiantly, and got good at hiding paper up my sleeve, in my pockets, in my socks, anywhere I could be sure it wouldn't be found. At one point, I was carrying around probably 5,000 words at a time! My friends used to help me break into the teacher's desk to get my confiscated work back, and I'm still so grateful to them for doing that.

Through secondary school, I kept writing for fun, and wrote several drafts of what has become "This Still Happens" during my GCSEs and A' Levels. I was lucky enough to take Creative Writing A2 with AQA before the government shut the course down, and I still use the techniques I learned from those extremely kind, encouraging teachers.

What inspires you to write?

My creativity always seems to kick in when I'm on the train. Whenever I travel, I take my phone with me, and if it's likely to be a long (more than 15 minutes, in my book) journey, I take along my Bluetooth keyboard as well. I bought it when I was seventeen, when I had some "treat" money leftover from my summer job, and I started taking it with me to Sixth Form that September. It was so much easier, not to have to lug my laptop around.

This was 2016, I think: the glorious days of LitLift, which was a bit like Scrivener, but web-browser based, and fizzled out in 2018, after about six months of patchy service. Luckily, I never kept anything exclusively on LitLift, so I didn't lose anything. There was one chapter of "This Still Happens" (in an earlier version) that I had to rewrite entirely, because LitLift lost it before I could back it up, but that was at least half my own fault, for not saving as I went! (No harm done in the long term, anyway. I completely rewrote the book the following year!)

Having my Bluetooth keyboard feels like a good compromise between a desktop/laptop computer and a typewriter. I can set my phone up at a distance, and make the font big enough to see from the other side of the room, and bang out a few pages of my story without much temptation to edit while I draft! As I say, it's so portable, and makes writing so much easier. I used to take it to work and write in the kitchen during my lunchbreaks, but, now that I work from home, I'm just as likely to use my laptop.

There is something very inspiring about graveyards, and I want to write a story set in one - in the vein of Brookwood or Highgate - one day. They're not spooky for me, just extremely beautiful and peaceful. And, of course, I take a lot of inspiration from real life. "This Still Happens" is inspired by my own experiences - not exactly mirrored in the book - and "Curls of Smoke" has a lot of roots in the time I spent in my local Gang Show. I wish I could dance like Florian and Rhiann can (though I'm content to wiggle in my swivel-chair)!

Who inspires you to write?

"Violins and Violets" character Katharina Schmidt is inspired by Maria Anna Mozart, older sister of Wolfgang Amadeus (who inspired Hans Schmidt). I learned about her when I was twelve, studying for my Grade 4 piano; "Allegro in F" from the "Nannerl Notenbuch" was on the syllabus, and I was immediately intrigued. For one, I just like the name Nannerl (how do you get that from Maria Anna? (not that my family's nicknames make any sense to outsiders)). Then, when I looked her up, I found out that she was probably just as good a composer as Wolfgang, but forbidden to make music because she was a woman?! What did the world lose when it shunned her? That's the question "Violins and Violets" asks, and tries to answer... and more to the point, "What might have been?"

"Vogeltje" as a whole novel was inspired by one conversation I had with a friend in a coffee shop one afternoon in 2017. We're both Disabled, in very similar ways, and we've always been frustrated by the prevailing idea that being Disabled makes us in some way tragic, or less deserving of the spotlight. So, I decided, I would write a novel where the main character was Disabled (in the same ways as we are!) and she does get the spotlight, and she does get to be the lead, and she does get to be sexy and attractive and have agency. I love drafting it - it's been on hold for ages now and I want to get back to it - because every time I do, I get to know Marianne Stafford a little bit better, and it's like I have yet another friend I can relate to.

What music inspires you to write?

I have lots of playlists for my writing, usually inspired by a character or a pairing, but sometimes serving as a soundtrack for the whole book.

I like to save pieces of Baroque music that remind me of "Violins and Violets", especially if they remind me of something the characters would compose, and for "This Still Happens", I have a playlist of all the songs I was listening to when I wrote it.

Over about seven long drafts, it's a long playlist, with music from when I was still at school! M83's "Midnight City" features heavily, and appears in the soundtrack for "Curls of Smoke" as well.

What do you love about writing?

The best bit has to be getting to decide what happens next. So little of life is in our control, but when we write stories, we have absolute say. We can make things happen just for fun, because we think it would be nise, or because, yes, it would be horrible if XYZ happened, but we can rewirte it and change it later on, if we want.

I'm a big fan of the 1999 film and 2016 series "Frequency" for the same reason; the characters get to decide what happens in their lives (but I don't like the consequences they suffer, so I'd rather be a writer than a "Frequency" character!).

#heavensfallenfaction #writeblr #blog #answer #answers #athena anna rose #ask game #ask games #music for writing

[tryingtimi]

Timi!!! Hiya bud, how are you and hows things going? Hows writing going?

Athena, you ray of sunshine! Hi!

I'm doing good thank you, half-way out of writer's block actually. So, writing is going actually pretty great since yesterday, yay. My head is full of ideas.

How about you?

#lovely people #athena anna rose

[plentyoffandoms]

#Athena #Anna Jay #hikaru shida #jamie hayter #kris statlander #nyla rose #rhio #ruby soho #Willow Nightingale #wrestling polls #aew #all elite wrestling

[violetcancerian]

Wouldn't a fanfiction of your own wip technically be Canon?

In some alternative Universe it very much is!!

#submission #hobbit talks #andy rambles #hobbit answers #which means #that yes it is all canon #its all connected #aaahhhh #athenixrose #athena anna rose

[talesofsorrowandofruin]

Hi there buddy, it's Athena. I hope you're well. How's things going, how's the writing going?

Hi Athena! :D

Writing's going pretty well, though in an unexpected direction. I finally managed to bring all three of Moth's main characters together, and they started talking about history, languages and philosophy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (Meanwhile I'm going, "Come on, guys, time to get back to the murder mystery!" and they aren't listening.)

#ask #athena-anna-rose #writing #my WIPs #WIP: moth

[memento-morri-writes]

Hiya Morrigan I hope everything is okay and you're alright! How's things going

Hi Athena!! I'm doing all right! Nothing too exciting. Well, actually...

Me and my sister go to rival colleges (like, biggest rivals), and we play each other in football tomorrow. So, that will be kinda fun. Since we're twins, it's both of our first years, so we're playing for bragging rights. But it's not even going to be a contest. My school is so fucking shitty at football this year.

Other than that, just chilling in my dorm this weekend. Gonna probably end up binging a shit ton of Critical Role and panicking over what character to use for my first time ever playing DnD. (I have two options and I can't fucking decide. Also, neither of them have any backstory, like, at all.)

Also, sometime in the next couple weeks I get to schedule my classes for next semester, and assuming all goes well, I won't ever have any classes on Fridays. 3-day weekends every weekend!! (Fingers crossed!)

How are things going with you? I hope you have a nice weekend and a fun Halloween, if you're going to do anything with that. If not, then I hope you just have an amazing weekend!

#athena-anna-rose #Morrigan replies #not writing #morrigan irl #yeah I'm a twin adjkasdj #Idk if I've ever mentioned that before #but it's true! #Athena 🌹

[transmasc-wizard]

Hey! How are things going, how are you and happy holidays! I wish you a happy new year and I love seeing you around

hi! happy holidays and new year to you as well. things are going good, ive written 3000 words in 2 days after several months of barely writing at all :)

#asks #athena-anna-rose

[afoolandathief]

Happy holidays! What are your plans for the next few days/towards the end of the year and how's your wips going?

Hey Athena! Happy holidays!

My plans are pretty hectic atm because I am starting a new job/moving to a new place at the start of the year, but recently it seems like it's all coming together!

New job? Check

New place? Lease signed and security deposit deposited

Car issues? Slowly being resolved after spending an afternoon helping my guy pull apart a drum brake

Christmas presents? Obtained; just need to be wrapped

Packing? Welp, we've at least started it

Things are going slow with my WIPs at the moment. I haven't done much with Something Wicked since NaNo, but I have been slowly revising Those Horrid, Horrid Things, so hopefully I'll have some updates by next month (but if not, I'm not going to sweat it; too much going on to expect much)!

Hope all is going well for you, and that the writing is flowing for Not You!

#ask #athena anna rose