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blaze ☆ they/he ☆ writeblr ☆ here to connect, write, and create stories! ☆ main blog: @blazethecheeto

[ghostblazewrites]

~introduction~

hello, call me blaze, welcome to my writeblr! my actual account is @blazethecheeto which is far more chaotic than this blog, so feel free to check that out :D

i am a high school student and new to writeblr, but i think it could help with my current writing projects. i absolutely love writing, and have a bunch of wips that i will update this post with once i actually make descriptions for them. 

about me

☆   pronouns are they/he.

☆ favourite genre to read is fantasy/thriller.

☆ i use storium, which is where i am most active with my writing, and i highly recommend it to anyone! 

☆ i would love to meet some more writer friends on here, so tag me or ask me anything!

☆ i am canadian!

☆ i absolutely love music. i play piano and a little bit of guitar, and just generally obsessed with music so expect lots of playlists.

about my writing

☆ i love character work and growth a lot, so i psychoanalyze them- my OCs are my children.

☆ my favourite genre to write is coming-of-age/action. i love fight scenes!

☆ most of my characters have a bunch of loaded backstories and trauma- so i just like angst. i love writing psychological breakdowns and powerful scenes.

☆ i’ve been dabbling in writing fanfiction lately, but usually focus on my original stories.

☆ i procrastinate a lot, but who doesn’t?

wips

WORKING ON A WIP MASTERPOST AAAA

children of the forest 

melodies of the sky

stalkers of shadow

phantasm

reverie

links

☆ storium

☆ wattpad

☆ ao3

☆ linktree

☆ instagram

tags

blazewrites will be my main tag for any writing i do

inspo is for anything that inspires me to write (specific ones for specific WIPS will have different tags but i shall get to that later)

blazeasks is for any ask posts

blazerelates is for any posts that are relatable

blazememes is for any writing memes i guess?

blazemotivation is obviously for motivation!

blazerambles is for my rambling posts or just bashing my head against a wall bc writing is hard

i’ll update this once i start posting and figuring out what the tags are lol

[dionysiaproductions]

[chimso-writes]

When you realize fanfic writers are just fanfic readers who couldn't find what they wanted to read 💀

[ghostblazewrites]

Hello Blaze :3

hello :3

[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!!!!

[creativepromptsforwriting]

Imagine you're opening AO3 and search for a fic. Imagine you're finding one that fits all your criterias. Imagine it has the perfect length. Imagine getting lost in the story and feeling almost high when it's over. Imagine looking up the author and they have written. so. many. more. fics. exactly. like. that. Imagine.

[blazethecheeto]

okay, so i'm gonna be shouting into the void right now, but is anyone planning on participating on nanowrimo, or any nanowrimo-esque challenge this year?

last year, i had a group of writer friends to write alongside and share snippets of our work- it made the process a lot more fun!

this year i fear i am short on writer friends, so would anyone like to join a little discord server and fight through nano together? i swear we're supportive and silly people. it'll be a lot of fun :D

so, this goes to anyone who isn't participating on the site, or doing something similar like novella november as well!

right now, we got me and @nutelladoesstuff so you can message either of us to join our group. yayy i need more writer friends.

[ghostblazewrites]

i am blaze's writeblr! yeah, reaching out to any writing friends out there to have fun (or suffer together) in november :D

[lyonnerileyauthor]

[somerandomdudelmao]

Yeah this is...this is me right now......

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[ghostblazewrites]

oh we're so back (im reading good books again and nano-prepping and working on three wips at once)

[wafflewarrior111]

So... I found this and now it keeps coming to mind. You hear about "life-changing writing advice" all the time and usually its really not—but honestly this is it man.

I'm going to try it.

[missroserose]

I love the lawyer metaphor, because whenever I see “John knew that...” in prose writing I immediately think “how?  How does he know it?”  Interrogate your witnesses.  Cross-examine them.  Make them explain their reasoning.  It pays dividends.

[heck-in-a-handbasket]

All of this, but also feels/felt. My editor has forbidden me from using those and it’s forced me to stretch my skills.

[ineedthesons]

This is your "show not tell" advice explained!

[tarysande]

Editor here.

First, let me preface this with something very important: you can treat all of this advice as SECOND-DRAFT ADVICE. It is so much easier to rewrite this kind of stuff once you have words on the page. Telling yourself the first draft is totally appropriate and acceptable.

What we’re talking about here are FILTER WORDS (and to some degree verbs of being). Yes, “thought” words are included. But so are “heard, saw, looked, tasted, smelled” etc.—most words having to do with the senses.

This isn’t black and white advice; sometimes you’ll use these words and that’s okay. They’re not WRONG. They’re just weaker. And they’re weaker because they create distance between the reader and the experience of the character.*

If you want your reader to feel like they’re experiencing the story right alongside the character, you want to cut down on filter words.

*This is particularly important with first person and close third POVs. The reader always knows whose eyes they’re seeing through and thoughts they’re privy to. So you don’t need to tell them “I saw X.” Or “I heard X.” Or “I thought Y.” You can just jump into the action/observation as it’s happening.

This is also where you want to pay attention to verbs of being.

“It was rainy.” Versus: “The rain pounded against the roof.” Or “The rain howled like an injured animal.” Or “The rain tapped against the window like an anxious lover.” All of these are inviting the reader deeper into the experience of the story by using stronger verbs and similes. And, at the same time, they stir feelings (instead of TELLING feelings). And feelings keep your reader engaged. Engaged readers keep turning pages; engaged readers become FANS.

[the-haiku-bot]

This is also where

you want to pay attention

to verbs of being.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[sourdough-seal]

me writing the worst paragraph of my life knowing that a sexier, more hydrated version of me will fix it later

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

please please please please reblog if you’re a writer and have at some point felt like your writing is getting worse. I need to know if I’m the only one who’s struggling with these thoughts

[avemikesszz]

[anexperimentallife]

[so-many-ocs]

editing your own writing is like woah you really like commas........ maybe ease up on those commas there, pal........ maybe Fewer commas would be nice

[tooweirdfortheworld]

hows the ellipses editing going?

[so-many-ocs]

……….why do you ask………

[melodicwriter]

[sekhithefops]