~ mel ~

| she/her. 23. lesbian. aussie. | | a blog for all of my WIPS and various writing themed posts | | carrd: https://hellisheavenwithyou.carrd.co/ | | pfp: cr to @hunbloom on twitter |

[hellisheavenwithyou]

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hi all :) my name’s melina or mel (she/her), and i live in adelaide, australia. i’ve been getting back into writing these past months in the hopes of continuing towards my dream of publishing a novel. however i am currently earning a masters in counselling, so my time is torn between that and writing. i am hoping to keep up my motivation by interacting with other fellow readers and writers on this blog :)

i’m currently working on an original modern fantasy wip alongside my fanfics. i’m a huge killing eve fan so have a fanfic for that show in the works. i’m in the process of drafting a stranger things fanfic also. additionally, i get a lot of writing inspiration (and just inspiration in general) from taylor swift. as jake peralta once said, “she makes me feel things.”

reading was my escape as a child, and continues to be my escape when life becomes a bit too much. i hope one day my writing can become someone’s else’s welcomed escape when they need it.

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WIP intro

the demon's devotion

summary

Every small town has a secret. Every person who lives in a small town has a secret. Everyone likes to pretend these secrets don’t exist. However, these secrets emerge sooner or later, whether people want them to or not...

In a rural Australian town, Illiana can’t wait until the day she leaves her hometown. But when she unwillingly becomes involved in a mysterious disappearance and reappearance of an eighteen year old girl, leaving becomes the least of her concerns. Especially when there’s no evidence, the girl can’t remember a thing, and an enigmatic woman, Eris, begins appearing outside Illiana's window almost every night.

Illiana just wants to find out what happens so she can clear her name and return her focus to leaving her town. But then girls continue disappearing, and as Illiana finds herself being drawn more towards Eris, she becomes increasingly drawn to her hometown's past, too, and finds she might be more connected to these disappearances than she thought.

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that’s me! i’ll drop my fan twitter and ao3 below as an extra intro. leave a comment if you're into any of the things i've mentioned here, i'd love to make some friends here. i look forward to getting to know the writeblr community on here more :)

ao3: | twitter

[monet-poetry]

[fir-fireweed]

Y’all! The Em Dash has finally delivered a public statement regarding the AI allegations.

And it’s glorious!

Read the full article on the McSweeney’s website here!

[thewriteadviceforwriters]

why I have 47 unfinished drafts and counting (it's not commitment issues, it's INSPIRATION) ✨

okay listen. LISTEN. before you come for me in the replies about "finishing what you start" and "discipline" and whatever other capitalist propaganda they're teaching in writing workshops these days, let me explain something.

those 47 unfinished drafts? they're not failures. they're not evidence that i can't commit to anything (though my dating history might suggest otherwise but that's IRRELEVANT). they are pure, crystallized inspiration caught in digital amber.

here's the thing about inspiration that nobody talks about: it's not supposed to be monogamous.

you know that feeling when you're three chapters deep into your current WIP and suddenly—SUDDENLY—your brain goes "but what if there was a world where music was illegal and the protagonist was a black market violinist" and your fingers are already opening a new google doc before your rational mind can intervene?

that's not ADHD (okay it might be a little ADHD). that's your creative brain doing exactly what it's supposed to do: making connections, building worlds, birthing stories that NEED to exist.

and yeah, sure, i could force myself to ignore that violinist story. i could be "disciplined" and stick to my current fantasy about the girl who talks to shadows. but here's what happens when you ignore inspiration: it dies. it shrivels up like a raisin and takes a little piece of your creative soul with it.

so instead, i honor it. i give it 2,000 words and a basic character sketch. i let it live in its own little document where it can breathe and exist and maybe—MAYBE—become something beautiful later.

because.. the secret: those 47 drafts aren't separate projects. they're all connected. the magic system from draft #12 might be perfect for the world in draft #31. the character voice i developed in that werewolf story i abandoned last month? she's exactly what my current protagonist needed.

it's like having a massive creative compost pile. everything breaks down and feeds everything else and eventually you get this rich, fertile ground where your REAL stories can grow.

also can we talk about how arbitrary "finishing" is? like, who decided that stories need endings? some of my favorite pieces of writing are fragments. half-thoughts. the literary equivalent of a really good tweet that makes you feel something indefinable.

my 47 drafts are love letters to possibility. they're proof that my brain is CONSTANTLY creating, constantly reaching for something new and exciting and weird. they're evidence that i haven't been beaten down by the publishing industry's obsession with "marketable" and "complete."

and honestly? having 47 unfinished drafts means i never run out of things to work on. writer's block who? i don't know her. i've got a cyberpunk fairy tale, a cozy mystery with necromancers, and a romance between a time traveler and someone who's stuck in a time loop just WAITING for me.

commitment issues would be giving up entirely. this? this is commitment to the craft itself.

(draft #48 is already calling my name but i'm trying to finish this blog post first. see? growth.)

—rin 🖊️

[seekerknight557]

i think it is a very powerful thing when the story inside you is so loud that you are forced to relearn how to draw, write, and talk to people to get it made into a real thing

[fairytwles]

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

IT MAY TAKE ME A MONTH TO PUT OUT A CHAPTER BUT AT LEAST IM NOT USING AI TO WRITE IT

[redstonedust]

it turns out a lot of people are actually on the same page about whether or not they'd work if they didn't have to earn money, we just all seem to have wildly different definitions of what counts as work. i'll see one person say "of course i would, i'd still want to create art and volunteer in my local community" and another say "hell no i wouldn't, i'd quit work and just create art and volunteer in my local community" and then they look at eachother like they said something incomprehensible.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

reblog if you’re a sick fuck

[yayxstitch]

[yayxstitch]

Fanfiction writers are y'all ok?

[deadghostgirl12345]

[glassfrogforest]

[sobadbad]

KILLING EVE 4.08 Hello, Losers [apr 10, 2022]

[cowboyhatesithere]

I love personalization. I love stickers on water bottles and on laptops. I love shitty marker drawing on the toes of converse. I love hand embroidered doodles on jeans. I love posters on walls. I love knick knacks on shelves. I love jewelry with goofy charms. I love when people take things and make them theirs.

[001x456]

“ships should at least make sense.” no. ships can make sense, sure. but they’re just fictional characters we play with for fun. they’re fantasies, not a fucking thesis paper. so no, they don’t always have to make sense. they just have to make you happy (or horny).

let people enjoy (fictional) things however they want to enjoy.

[bebx]

the :) AO3 gives you after telling you you’ve already left kudos on a particular fic is my archenemy because what do you mean :) ? what do you mean I’ve already left kudos here? have you read my favorite author’s work? look me in the eyes and tell me one kudos is enough. I’d give them a thousand kudos and my kidney plus my firstborn. what do you mean I can only give them one kudos??????

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

“writing fanfics is something I do in my free time for fun. I will not treat it like a job and will instead treat it like a hobby because that’s what it is.”

also how it feels being a fanfic writer:

[bebx]

fanfic writers are so fucking awesome in the sense that they can take one single scene, that lasts less than a minute, from the source material and turn that one single scene into a 40k word long fic with depth, feels, character study and development and create a whole storyline out of that one single canonical moment.

fanfic writers are so fucking awesome in the sense that they can take one single scene, that lasts less than a minute, from the source material and write 40 entirely different fics about that one single canonical moment and each one of those fics are literal masterpieces.

shout out to us fanfic writers ♡♡♡♡♡♡