Muse in the Middle @harmonierainbow - Tumblr Blog

This is for the slow writers out there. Those who take weeks to write one chapter. Those who take years to finish one manuscript. Those who regularly write only 100-300 words in several hours. Those who take months to put out a new chapter. Those who haven’t touched their stories in years but it’s still a WIP because they can’t stop thinking about/taking notes for scenes/etc.

I see you. You’re valid. Keep up the good work!

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thefakerachelray

Things to bring back in books:

Chapter titles

Actually having a synopsis on the back instead of reviews no one will read

thefakerachelray

Some excellent additions from the notes:

Maps

Indexes of characters and places with pronunciations

Numbering books in a series on the spine

Tables of contents

abuk-adobels

Something I thought of:

Glossaries (for important words in fantasy languages)

Timelines (in sequels, so you can quickly go over events from previous books)

pasdecoeur

all fanfiction is funnier and sexier and vastly better-written when you read it at three in the morning, in the dark, lying on your side, tucked into bed, with screen rotate turned off. that’s just how it works. that’s just facts.

freddieardley

“Consumed in a labyrinth of writhing branches; they had lost their way.”

Photographed by Freddie Ardley

Instagram @freddieardley

blancasplayground

Very occasionally, Twitter has some good advice.

thewriterswitch

Fanfic writer: Okay, this is some of my best work. It’s way better than my other stories. I’m hoping, and partly expecting, some good statistics

The fanfic: 40 hits, 2 subscriptions, 5 kudo’s, 1 bookmark

Fanfic writer: Looks at their poorly written, uninspired, and not as fun to write fanfiction

The fanfic: 26,000 hits, 500 subscriptions, 1,200 kudo’s, 400 bookmarks

Fanfic writer: Is very confused

unbearable-lightness-of-ink

writer can have a little new wip

as a treat

janeaustentextposts

Reminder: Marianne Dashwood can easily be considered canonically black and whiny racists can die mad about it.

omgsomeonesomewhereonearth

Wait wait really?

janeaustentextposts

Her physical description notes that her skin is very brown, and her hair dark and curly. Elinor is given so little specific description that there’s really nothing in any of the other Dashwoods to contradict a reading of the family as black. Black people were certainly a part of England and the gentry and George III’s wife Queen Charlotte has black ancestry which is shown in her portraits according to art historians. The notion that an entire class and country was so strictly white that people of colour were solely outsider objects of novel fascination and never a long-standing part of those communities is false.

delusioninabox

Daily #2,292! No one is more shocked than me.

Now if only I could *always* not be anxious…

cwritesfiction

Noooooo I’m not reusing the same tropes in all my WIPs, I’m just (checks notes) “creating an author brand”

mydododied-deactivated20200613

Low cloud

loserofandraste

Jaskier would have written all the ballads and bops about Renfri, just saying. She’d have been his muse. Nothing but Witchers and Black Sun Princesses.

hamelin-born

@theotherguysride

Yes but. But. But imagine Geralt slowly, painfully, telling Jaskier the story of Renfri. And Jaskier? He reacts as only a true bard can.

He writes a song about it.

Stregobor instantly becomes the most hated wizard on the entire continent, while Renfri is the Black Sun Princess, is remembered, is a model for little girls everywhere,.

tygermama

Stregobor, that caterpillar eyebrowed bastard, gets exactly what he deserves

loserofandraste

From the infamous bard Jaskier, known most widely as the creative force behind the popular piece, “Toss a Coin to Your Witcher”, comes what is sure to be another classic: “Throw a Rock at That Wizard”.

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lesbiansamanthaparkington

bad historical fiction is like:

oh no i cannot learn to read because papa forbade it, why is this the opinion of everyone else in the story and im the only one who wants to books, not chores!? oh how i hate stitchery….im not like other girls i dislike undergarmet