ava’s ghost

i write literary fiction & poetry, and i like ghosts and arson and antiheroes. other blog: @avaunderground

[musicalmelody001]

[cloudabserk]

WARNING do NOT start reading books and comics or watching movies or looking at art!!! you will start wanting to create art yourself. or god forbid. writing.

[thewardenisonthecase]

a writer's nightmare is having the vision for one specific scene for a fic and having to come up with The Rest

[writeouswriter]

Look, if I introduced a WIP on here excitedly and then promptly never mentioned it again, it doesn’t mean I’m not working on it, it means I’m slowly rotating it in my mind like a rotisserie chicken and then went out to the grocery store to buy several other rotisserie chickens while I wait for it to cook and then slowly started rotating those rotisserie chickens and repeat

[nibeul]

man some of y’all are so boring, let characters be flawed. stop tryna justify their actions, the reason they did that is because they suck and that’s infinitely more interesting than trying to spin the narrative around to make them seem like a perfect person

[papayajuan2019]

pleasant words, based on sound and feel only:

camphor, fjord, oyster, euler, cove, anise, mosfet, orchid, estuary, clot, violet, ox, gauze, saffron, vein

[papayajuan2019]

plum, teal, resin, platelet, stem, strafe, rhyme, thiamine, pumice, rend, crescent, papal, blush, ore, ember, embalm

[avasghost]

Hey i forgot to post about this earlier but I just recently had a short story come out in Glint Journal!

The story is called "When the World Ends I'll Still Be Here" and I wrote it two years ago and now you can read it (if you want)

[braxiatel]

I love you tragedy I love you corruption arcs I love you doomed relationships I love you character succumbing to their fatal flaw I love you codependency I love you characters doomed to die from the start I love you road to hell paved with good intentions

[sepiamestus]

Give that character a big nose. Give that character freckles. Give that character moles. Give them dimples give them acne give them big eyebrows give them a tooth gap give them eyebags please its good for them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its enrichment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[prophetic-writer]

Becoming a writer is great because now you have a hobby that haunts you whenever you don’t have time to do it

[avasghost]

Hey i forgot to post about this earlier but I just recently had a short story come out in Glint Journal!

The story is called "When the World Ends I'll Still Be Here" and I wrote it two years ago and now you can read it (if you want)

[lustcannibalism]

need more characters who's character arc is about getting worse

[cwritesfiction]

how do you start book

[bethanywritesbooks]

book starts you

[cwritesfiction]

o shit

[abiteofhoney-deactivated2025030]

using emdashes and a semi colon in the same line. this sentence will end when i do

[hauntanelle]

poetry isn’t a fun hobby it’s a divine responsibility

[theitcharchives]

My writing abilities when I have an entire free day: twelve words. Take it or leave it

My writing abilities when I have to be somewhere in fifteen minutes: I got six thousand more in the pocket

[cheeto-flavoured-pasta]

You will not use AI to get ideas for your story. You will lie on the floor and have wretched visions like god intended