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autumn • 27 • she/they • writer of faeries • pinterest

[leave-her-a-tome]

[bugshroom]

Amanita muscaria - Alaska

[writeblrfantasy]

hey you. yeah you, reading this. your wip slaps. end of story.

[faerieswriter]

hello time to pop in on this tumblr for the first time in like 150000 years

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date: may 15, 2022

this week has been crazy, y’all. i had a goal to get myself to 20k words by the end of the week. and i fucking did it. my accountability thread has definitely helped me so much. i’m excited to figure out my goal for next week.

project worked on: beauty is a beast

weekly word count: 5,423

total word count: 20,181

books read: caught up with dracula daily, read about half of blood countess by lana popović

i also started a writeblr support blog @wip-nook and wrote a short story-esque thing and started snippet saturday for beauty is a beast

tag list below the cut (ask to be + or -)

@artbyeloquent

[writingadvice365]

Character Description Writing Resources

Secrets to Writing Effective Character Descriptions

Character Descriptions: How to Write Them

How to Describe Skin Color

Describing Black Hair in Fantasy Settings

Importance of Small Details

@writingwithcolor Description Guide Posts

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~Grand List of Writing Resources~  

[faerieswriter]

someone kick my ass to work on tus i suck and i started a new draft a little bit ago and have done like,,, fuck all nothing

[muddshadow]

writeblr… who up? send me your oc descriptions or a snippet of writing and i’ll draw my interpretation <3

[muddshadow]

a mysterious man @mr-writes​

[freshpickle]

kira cyan

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wip intro: a quiet kindness

There is a power in looking at a world that hasn’t been kind to you and saying “I will not be like you.”

Elvenia Roseblood is the last of her family name. At nearly seventeen, she is poised to become the next queen of the Almyst. The only problem is that her stepmother, Moriana Thornbush, will do anything to usurp Elvenia and put one of her own daughters on the throne. 

Elvenia is not like the other fae. She is kind and gentle, the way her mother had been. Others are growing tired of the soft and gentle Rosebloods and Moriana knows this so she sets Elvenia a task to prove her dedication to the Almyst.

She must kill the human prince.

Kaven Canmore is the eighteen year old son of the dying king of Rellea. As the king’s only child, if Kaven doesn’t take the throne, it will go to the next of kin – his cousin, Kaige. The only problem is that, according to Rellean law, Kaven must be married in order to become king.

Enter a mysterious blonde who disappears whenever Kaven tries to get close.

quick details: category/genre: YA fantasy POV: third person dual  status: outlining word count goal: 75,000

(all images are from unsplash and most were collected by @bebewrites​)

[happyheidi]

[robin-teddybear]

Odd Ask Game with my favorite emojis

🌺 — What are your favorite smells?

🌿 — Would you prefer to visit the zoo or the botanical gardens?

🌲 — Tell me about a happy childhood memory.

🌾 — If you could time travel and go anywhere on earth with no practical limitations like language or safety… when? where?

🍁 — What is your favorite season? Why?

🌸 — What do you wear to feel Fancy™?

🍓 — What’s one of your coping mechanisms for stressful appointments?

🐚 — Tell me about an inside joke.

🌰 — Do you ever pretend to be a Victorian urchin or a prince / princess?

🍪 — Cookies / biscuits: left-over, fresh out of the oven, or just plain dough?

🍯 — Do you have a favorite mug / jar / item of cookware?

☕ — How do you take your tea, if at all?

✨ — What’s something you love to ramble about to people?

🎬 — Do you have comfort movies / comfort shows?

📽️ — Have you ever started something for The Aesthetic™ and then actually enjoyed it?

🦨 — Tell me about a collection of yours (physical or digital)!

🦔 — What is your favorite biome? Why?

🐘 — Have you ever had a nickname / nicknamed someone else?

🐀 — Thoughts on thrift / homemade clothing?

🐁 — Do you have stuffed animals? What are their names?

🐉 — Thoughts on fantasy / science fiction?

🌃 — Tell me about a town or city that’s important to you.

🤍 — Do you ever cry about things that aren’t serious?

💜 — Are any of your mannerisms / figures of speech learned from a friend?

🤎 — What’s a little way you make people feel loved?

[faerieswriter]

🍟 and 🍪

🍟 Share a GIF that represents your WIP

🍪 Share a song or music video that represents your WIP

Lovely has always stuck with me being about TUS tbh

send an emoji

[mleprae]

can u guys rb this n add how you crack your eggs in the tags? i thought cracking them in the sinks’s edge is universal until i saw my friend cracking an egg on the counter instead and it was so pervese and diabolical

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Writeblr Emoji Game: Comfort Snacks!

Send an ask with an emoji from the list below to the person who reblogged this post. Then, reblog the game to keep playing! xo

🍔 Share a 1-2 sentence summary of your WIP

🌭 Recommend another writer’s WIP post and tell us why we should reblog it!

🍟 Share a GIF that represents your WIP

🌮 Recommend a writeblr who you admire and tell us what about them you admire

🍿 Share an out-of-context line from your WIP

🍩 Recommend a writeblr who is an all-around must-follow and tell us why you follow them

🍪 Share a song or music video that represents your WIP

🧁 Recommend a writeblr who has taught you something new about writing and tell us what you learned from them

🍭 Share a link to one of your recent WIP posts so we can give it some much deserved attention!

🍫 Recommend another writer’s WIP and tell us why you love it

[normal-horoscopes]

I genuinely think most writing advice is bullshit. Do whatever you want.

[shadowy-dumbo-octopus]

Only writing advice that really matters:

If it sparks joy, write it.

If you don't write it, who will?

Your writing is amazing because it's yours. Even if there's someone out there who can write it better, they'll never write it like you.

[the-wip-project]

Ok friends, here’s what we’re going to do.

We’re going to stop searching for the magic formula, we’re going to stop getting our heads into a twist about how much work it all is. We’re gonna stop over-complicating all of this.

We are going to be writing for 90 days, trying to get closer to the finish line. We won’t be able to write a 300k wordcount epic in that timeframe but 30k might be doable? No matter what goal you set yourself, make it small and manageable.

I’m giving you two bits of homework and the we’ll start our 90 days journey on the 20st of February.

First homework: I want you to listen to this podcast http://www.howdoyouwrite.net/episodes/259 from minute 1:58 to 18:10 (see? it’s not that long) about how to fast-draft a novel. Because this is what we’re going to do, fast-drafting.

Second homework: Take your storybible, your scrap doc, your story notebook, whatever you have. Envision the beginning, the midpoint, and the ending of your story and write down some notes about it. You can write an outline if you want, but here at the WIP project, we’re not outlining.

See you on the twentieth. Make a post about it, for your own accountability.