Ellie Renae

Writer by day; writer by night. Late-twenties. https://linktr.ee/ellie.renae

[ellierenae]

ELLIE RENAE

Any pronouns unless I ask.

This is a hobby. I didn't come here to win. I came here to make friends. 😠

Black comedy, psychological horror, thriller, ergodic literature, science fiction, queer romance, even queer-er erotica, and a breakneck pace for all of them.

If anything happens, you can find me on Gumroad, Mastodon, Bluesky, and Cohost.

I even own this URL, so you can bookmark ellierenae.com in case of emergencies.

AVAILABLE WORK

Chinese Spoons - A poem within a collection by many artists.

The collection, RENAISSANCE, was published by Yellow Arrow Journal with the theme "cultural renaissance". This concise poem captures the feeling of being torn between two identities, never fully acknowledged as one or the other.

Available here in paperback

On the Subject of Control - A short science fiction story. Dark and sapphic.

This high-concept short follows a pair of institutionalized lovers as they navigate their newfound relationship under experimental (not mind-altering, but behavior-altering) drugs.

Available here in paperback

Available here digitally

Violence Without Plot - A chapbook / single short story.

This dark comedy's Patrick-Bateman styled protagonist is tossed from woman to woman, never getting the chance to make a plot-driving decision. His "hero's journey" is to realize that the story was never about him.

Available here in paperback

Available here digitally

The Notebook of a Fictional Man - The photocopied notes of a time traveler.

The Notebook of a Fictional Man (a travel diary meant to impress historians), accidentally centers itself around the gentle giant with whom the writer is secretly in love.

Available here in paperback

Available here digitally

WIP LIST

Ouroboros Hivemind - Mind-bending sapphic erotica.

Two immortals, one who drinks blood and one who drinks souls, consuming each other to the point of becoming a single entity.

??? - Secret book series.

Wouldn't you like to know, weather boy?

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[fruitviking]

Can we stop with the character development. Where's my beach episode.

[kazzzistired]

Feeling inspired... Might put off writing and think about it the whole time

[luna-azzurra]

Stages of writing a novel: (1) this is a great idea (2) this is a good idea (3) this is an idea (4) what even is this (5) i have made a terrible mistake (6) okay there's something here (7) this is actually good (8) this is too good, something is wrong (9) wait did i accidentally write something real (10) close laptop. do not think about it for three days. open laptop. start over from stage 4.

[sanrio-stud]

there should be coming of age stories for people turning 30

[homunculus-argument]

If you ever find yourself thinking "oh, I can't write this Cool But Impractical thing into my story, it's just not realistic", here are a few perfectly realistic reasons why people and even whole cultures would rather do something in an impractical way rather than the sensible one:

weird flex

religious reasons

religious weird flex (someone decided that they are So Religious that they consider the practical method Sinful, and people got competitive about it)

tax reasons (some ruler put a tax on doing something the sensible way and people started doing the impractical alternative as a legal loophole)

someone wildly powerful and popular preferred doing it that way, and everyone adapted to it in order to look cool

someone wildly unpopular suggested doing the practical thing, and everyone went out of their way to avoid doing that in order to not look uncool

it just genuinely never occurred to them that there is a better alternative, and their current method has been honed to perfection/adapted to the infrastructure so deeply that at this point altering it wouldn't be sensible

[isabellebissonrouthier]

WHAT IS SUPERIOR no nuance edition cos i feel like most writers are in the middle. pick a side.

planning

pantsing

Remaining time: 4 days 12 hours

[bearloonz]

how it feels to really like your ocs

[bewbin]

EVERYOBODY GET DOWN HES TAKING A CREATIVE LIBERTY

[maramontwrites]

It's such an amazing feeling when someone picks up on something in your writing that you 100% intended but didn't think people would notice. Like, YES!! My writing properly conveyed the thing it was supposed to!!! You are so awesome for noticing that!!! I am so awesome for writing that!!! I feel so good about my story now!!!!

[mxrderscenes]

writing is so funny because i could write nonstop for 9hrs and then hit a block where im like "how do i transition between this moment and the next?" and then i just dont touch it for 6 months

[galadrieljones]

Serious advice tho if this happens, it's likely because you already wrote past the end of the scene and wandered too far from the more logical transition point, and you should go back to the last time the writing felt "unforced" and cut everything after.

You can also just skip the transition. Really good writing can span years in a single sentence, like you can just authoritatively state fact and your reader will go with it.

[xalphafox]

This is GOLD! You just saved me like thousands of therapy costs lmao

[headspace-hotel]

When I was writing my fic last few months the strategy I used was "just skip all the scenes I don't want to write" and it worked great in my opinion

[viaalterego]

[trishacollins]

Actually, my therapist has told me this is a healthy way of processing things. Because you can get the trauma out of your head And you can write the ending you wish it had. The trusted person rescue, the catharsis of getting to kill the one who hurt you.

It's good for your brain. It's healthier than bottling it up. Fiction is where we go for emotional release. That can be true with trauma too.

[erelierraceala]

so what you're saying is

character: NO

therapist: YES

[vmures]

Adding @dear-massacre's tags because they are so true:

#this is why it's important to remember that fictional characters are fake #they have no agency. they're made up #it hurts no one to make any character go through the horrors #it is healthy and cathartic

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

yeah okay ill reblog that

[ladyignatius4]

Mentally making a cup of tea and giving a gentle forehead kiss to every struggling writer on my dash right now.

Your story matters, your ideas are good, and someone out there is going to fall in love with your world.

[geekysteven]

A common theme in science fiction is that if you're in space, don't trust a corporation. And Earth is in space

[strawberry-seal77]

time loop with two people in it but one person refuses to acknowledge the loop and pretends to be looping with everyone else. meanwhile the other person is freaking out

[audliminal]

Thinking about the whole "there is no platonic explanation for this" thing and how it doesn't account for intense platonic situationships and anyways I think we should start saying "there is no casual explanation for this" bc really what we're talking about is the way the characters in question are Obsessed with each other