C.J. Devlin

🌿Caitlin • 22 •🌿

[cjdevlin]

I thought it was about time that I did one of these... so hi! I'm Caitlin,

I'm 22 years old, my pronouns are she/her, and I've been with my lovely boyfriend for 8 years!

I'm also a student, I'd been out of education for a while, but I made the decision to get back into education and started university last September!

I've always adored writing, and it was one of the first things I remember being passionate about, ever since we wrote our first story in primary school! (Mine was about a snail who was wandering the ocean on a mission to find his friends)

I love to write anything fantasy, and I've always liked writing poetry, and delving into writing horror for the first time!

My current WIPS:

The Forgotten Gods:

C.J. Devlin

An introduction to The Forgotten Gods! 🌿🔮 The Forgotten Gods is a slow-burn fantasy novel based around Celtic mythology. Set in a small coa

The "Roses WIP" coming soon! 🥀🩸

Keep an eye out for more information as I get further through planning/writing!!

I read a lot of fantasy books, but also a lot of horror and crime/thrillers (I am a criminology student after all!) and I absolutely love anything by Edgar Allan Poe!

Okay, one last thing before I end up going on forever and boring everyone away!

I also love cosy gaming, especially animal crossing, the sims, minecraft and also driving games like euro truck sim 2 and bus sim 18

Okay thats all! Here's a lil moodboard of pictures I think represent me:

If you read all of that, thank you! And if you're into similar things, or even if you're not, stick around because I would love to find more writer/reader/gamer friends!!

~ Caitlin 🌿

[cjdevlin]

Wattpad Advice?

So, I'm thinking about uploading on wattpad once I start writing my book, but I've never used it before, so if anyone does use wattpad I'd appreciate any tips/tricks or just anything I might need to know about how the website works please 🙏🫶

[cjdevlin]

Day 2 of Planning My Summer Romance Book 🏖️🩵

I spent a lot of yesterday doing writing sprints with a couple of lovely Christian friends on discord in a server I made and we all got so much done, I'm incredibly proud of us! I managed to finish the three act structure, and this morning I moved onto planning the first chapter!

So, now we have the first chapter planned, and later on today I'll start planning chapter two! I'm loving how much motivation this little group has had over the past couple of days! 🩵

I have about half an hour until my online church service starts, but I'm excited to do some more planning later on! 🏖️

[cjdevlin]

Day 1 of planning my cosy summer romance! 🩵🩴

So... it's been a while, hi! I hit some bad writer's block and then had lots of exams and essays to focus on at university, and ended up not having either the motivation or the time to write for quite a while.

So, I'm back with a cosy summer romance book (more details to come soon) that's fresh, exciting, and tells a story about childhood friendships being reunited and a character returning to a place that feels like home, based on my absolute favourite place in the world where I always used to go on holiday as a child 🩵

I'm really excited to be back on this account and writing again!

~ Caitlin 🏖️

[mjjune]

I'm seeing the same people over and over on my dash so that naturally means I need to follow some new people to spice things up.

If you're a writeblr who writes original fiction about:

queer, poc, and/or disabled characters (especially ownvoices)

particularly aro/ace and neurodivergent where are u at!!!

high fantasy (bonus for dragons and uncommon settings)

vampires (bonus if not romance)

revenge plots

fluid/nuanced/unlabeled relationships and identities

anything asian or eastern-inspired, especially themes like the yinyang and martial arts and taoism

anything that subverts tropes tbh

Reblog this and I'll check you out! I'm a bit picky about what I like on my dash so no guarantees but I'll try to boost some wips/intros and follow new people <3

If you're interested in fairytale retellings, high & urban fantasy, genderless cultures, dragons, vampires, werewolves, and every type of queer in the book you might want to check out my stuff lol

[cjdevlin]

Day 6 of writing The Forgotten Gods 🔮 🌿

I've officially finished chapter 2! 🙌 The total word count now is 4065, and I'm insanely happy! Chapter 2 ended up being a lot longer than chapter 1, but that's okay! Ooh I'm so excited for where things are heading in the next couple chapters!

Every word I write gets me closer to being able to write my favourite scene that I have planned 😍

~ Caitlin 🌿

[cjdevlin]

Day 5 of writing The Forgotten Gods 🔮 🌿

Still working on chapter two, but I'm back with my coffee and my candles and it feels so good to be working on TFG again! Oh how I've missed these wonderful characters 🫶

Got up this morning bright and early, did some yoga, tidied my desk, and now I'm sitting down to write! I'm not sure how my boyfriend felt about the 5am alarms coming back, but it's so worth it!

For those who have come from my Roses WIP posts, check out the WIP intro for The Forgotten Gods here:

C.J. Devlin

An introduction to The Forgotten Gods! 🌿🔮 The Forgotten Gods is a slow-burn fantasy novel based around Celtic mythology. Set in a small coa

~ Caitlin 🌿

[cjdevlin]

OC in three!

Rules: Introduce a character using three images.

I was tagged by @darkangel319, thank you!

I did a similar thing for Aoife and Rónan before I properly introduced them, so here's a few pictures that represent my FMC in the Roses WIP 🥀 (intro coming soon™️ ! )

This FMC is a scientist at heart, she believes wholy in things she can see and prove with the help of science. So the rumors about her town have never bothered her, stories of monsters hiding in the walls, stealing people in the night and sucking their souls, not until she has to face the truth head on.

But with her friends by her side, she can take on anything! A naturally shy, reserved character, but around her closest friends, she's the light that keeps them all going, the glue that holds their group together.

I tag @mitchell-nihil @prettylittlelyres @mikathewriter and @dazeddreamerr 🫶

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I've still yet to find a better face claim than this pic-crew I made, but I'll try and find some tomorrow while I get the WIP intro sorted!

I promise I am getting back into writing again tomorrow, I've just been going through it recently, but it looks like we're getting to the end of all the trouble and hopefully things will get easier from here on out 🤞

~ Caitlin 🌿

[cjdevlin]

The Results Are In!

I was also ever so slightly siding with C.J Devlin, so I'm pretty happy with these results!!

Thank you to everyone who voted, it's better to know from you guys which name you prefer than me picking one and hoping for the best!

~ Caitlin 🌿

[cjdevlin]

Fantasy Pic-crew Tag Game!

Thank you so much for tagging me @overdecorated-furniture I loved this!!

I did one of myself in more of a fantasy style:

My eyes absolutely are not that blue irl, but you work with what you've got! I imagine her to be some kind of poet that works in a local tavern perhaps 🍺

And then I got carried away and tried to just visualise my two FMCs! Also here's a small bit of a reveal for the Roses WIP coming up!

But first, here's our beloved Aoife:

There wasn't a hairstyle curly enough for her so I went with ✨️volume✨️ instead! I imagine Aoife to wear a lot of Emerald green, or earthy natural tones!

Time for a little reveal, here's the FMC for the Roses WIP!

I cannot tell you all how much I ADORE this!!!! It's spot on to how I imagine her! I can't wait to tell you more about her, and the others, soon!!

I tag @mikathewriter @abalonetea @thebejeweledwatercat @dazeddreamerr and @onewithcorvids, I'd love to see what you guys come up with, if you want to participate!

~ Caitlin 🌿

[cjdevlin]

I forgot to add the rules! Here they are:

Rules: use this picrew to make yourself as a fantasy character, then make some of your OCs into fantasy characters or use ones from a fantasy story! Tag whoever you want to play next.

[cjdevlin]

Fantasy Pic-crew Tag Game!

Thank you so much for tagging me @overdecorated-furniture I loved this!!

I did one of myself in more of a fantasy style:

My eyes absolutely are not that blue irl, but you work with what you've got! I imagine her to be some kind of poet that works in a local tavern perhaps 🍺

And then I got carried away and tried to just visualise my two FMCs! Also here's a small bit of a reveal for the Roses WIP coming up!

But first, here's our beloved Aoife:

There wasn't a hairstyle curly enough for her so I went with ✨️volume✨️ instead! I imagine Aoife to wear a lot of Emerald green, or earthy natural tones!

Time for a little reveal, here's the FMC for the Roses WIP!

I cannot tell you all how much I ADORE this!!!! It's spot on to how I imagine her! I can't wait to tell you more about her, and the others, soon!!

I tag @mikathewriter @abalonetea @thebejeweledwatercat @dazeddreamerr and @onewithcorvids, I'd love to see what you guys come up with, if you want to participate!

~ Caitlin 🌿

[cjdevlin]

Okay so it turns out I need a pen name!

I write fantasy/horror if that helps!

So:

What pen name do you prefer?

C.S Devlin

C.J Devlin

Something else??

Voting ended onMar 1, 2024

If you chose 'something else' please comment an idea or put it in the tags!

I dont have a middle name, so I'll either use my mums or what my dad wanted to name me!

There's another British author called Caitlin Devlin, so I think I'm gonna be best using a pen name (also she did say she'd prefer that and I 100% get it!) So please help!!

~ Caitlin 🌿

[cjdevlin]

I thought it was about time that I did one of these... so hi! I'm Caitlin,

I'm 22 years old, my pronouns are she/they, I'm bisexual and I've been with my lovely boyfriend for 7 years!

I'm also a student, I'd been out of education for a while, but I made the decision to get back into education and started university last September!

I've always adored writing, and it was one of the first things I remember being passionate about, ever since we wrote our first story in primary school! (Mine was about a snail who was wandering the ocean on a mission to find his friends)

I love to write anything fantasy, and I've always liked writing poetry, and delving into writing horror for the first time!

My current WIPS:

The Forgotten Gods

Caitlin Devlin

An introduction to The Forgotten Gods! 🌿🔮 The Forgotten Gods is a slow-burn fantasy novel based around Celtic mythology. Set in a small coa

The "Roses WIP" coming soon! 🥀🩸

Keep an eye out for more information as I get further through planning/writing!!

I read a lot of fantasy books, but also a lot of horror and crime/thrillers (I am a criminology student after all!) and I absolutely love anything by Edgar Allan Poe!

Okay, one last thing before I end up going on forever and boring everyone away!

I also love cosy gaming, especially animal crossing, the sims, minecraft and also driving games like euro truck sim 2 and bus sim 18

Okay thats all! Here's a lil moodboard of pictures I think represent me:

If you read all of that, thank you! And if you're into similar things, or even if you're not, stick around because I would love to find more writer/reader/gamer friends!!

~ Caitlin 🌿

[cjdevlin]

Updated and pinned, now with The Forgotten Gods intro tagged, more on the Roses WIP coming soon!

~ Caitlin 🌿

[cjdevlin]

Day 2 of working on the Roses Wip 🥀🩸

I'm re-planning the structure of the plot today as I realised there's a better way to plan this that's more horror oriented rather than genfic/fantasy oriented, and I think it'll all fit together a lot better this way! My plan for the rest of the day is to relax and make some Pinterest boards once I've done this!

I got good news about my exam results this morning after a meeting with my tutor. Apparently I got some of the highest grades in the class! So now I can worry less about my exam results it's a chill day ahead!

~ Caitlin 🌹

[beggars-opera]

The tailors at Colonial Williamsburg made a suit for their cat

[vinceaddams]

The best part is that they were inspired by a diary entry from 1775, written by a 12 year old tailor’s apprentice who had been left unsupervised all day and decided to make a suit for a cat. Here’s a link to the blog post about it, but I’ll just paste the whole diary entry here:

“I had been at work about two months when Christmas came on – and here I must relate a little anecdote. The principal [the tailor] and his lady were invited to a party among their friends…while it devolved on me to stay at home and keep house. There was nothing left me in charge to do, only to take care of the house. There was a large cat that generally lay about the fire. In order to try my mechanical powers, I concluded to make a suit of clothing for puss, and for my purpose gathered some scraps of cloth that lay about the shop-board, and went to work as hard as I could. Late in the evening I got my suit of clothes finished; I caught the cat, put on the whole suit – coat, vest, and small-clothes [breeches] – buttoned all on tight, and set down my cat to inspect the fit. 

“Unfortunately for me there was a hole through the floor close to the fireplace, just large enough for the cat to pass down; after making some efforts to get rid of the clothes, and failing, pussy descended through the hole and disappeared; the floor was tight and the house underpinned with brick, so there was no chance of pursuit. I consoled myself with a hope that the cat would extricate itself from its incumbrance, but not so; night came and I had made on a good fire and seated myself for some two or three hours after dark, when who should make their appearance but my master and mistress and two young men, all in good humor, with two or three bottles of rum. After all were seated around the fire, who should appear amongst us but the cat in his uniform. I was struck speechless, the secret was out and had no chance of concealing; the cat was caught, the whole work inspected and the question asked, is this your day’s work? I was obliged to answer in the affirmative; I would then have been willing to take a good whipping, and let it stop there, but no, to complete my mortification the clothes were carefully taken off the cat and hung up in the shop for the inspection of all customers that came in.”

[cjdevlin]

Day 1 of working on the 'Roses WIP' 🥀🩸

I've had the idea for a psychological horror novel, so my plans for the day are to brainstorm and see whether the idea I have will make a good plot or not!

Don't worry, I'm not giving up on The Forgotten Gods! I've always been interested in horror books, but I've never tried to write one before. However, I'm very excited about the Roses WIP, so I hope it works out!

~ Caitlin 🌹

[cjdevlin]

Okay so it turns out I need a pen name!

I write fantasy/horror if that helps!

So:

What pen name do you prefer?

C.S Devlin

C.J Devlin

Something else??

Voting ended onMar 1, 2024

If you chose 'something else' please comment an idea or put it in the tags!

I dont have a middle name, so I'll either use my mums or what my dad wanted to name me!

There's another British author called Caitlin Devlin, so I think I'm gonna be best using a pen name (also she did say she'd prefer that and I 100% get it!) So please help!!

~ Caitlin 🌿

[cjdevlin]

Whichever of these wins I'll change my username to so we can all get used to the name! I think I'm siding with one over the other, I won't say which, but I'm so excited to see what you guys think!

~ Caitlin 🌿