Currently in a writing block

 "You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." - Jack London

[iwritewhatineedtoread]

Hello!

About me: My main hobbies are writing (obviously), painting, reading and procrastinating writing while scrolling through Pinterest. My first memory of me writing was when I had this small notebook (which was probably no more than 70 pages) where a completed my first story. I think the main reason this one sticks out to me is because my family treated it like the biggest deal ever. They would do little interviews and ask for copies and asked me to sign my story for them.  

I’m a female asexual and a huge nerd. I’m also a Libra, ENTJ, Ravenclaw (though I sometimes lean to Slytherin), chaotic neutral alignment, and my main blog is called Raving about Books.  

I write under the pen name “Rebecca Parker”. My writing style is (some what) influenced by Jane Austen, Laini Taylor and Marissa Meyer. My favorite books right now are Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor, If We Were Villains by M.L Rio, Lore by Alexandra Bracken, and Legenborn by Tracy Deonn. 

My WIPs: 

How Atlantis Died: A high fantasy, Atlantis retelling about a traitor general getting back at Atlantis by stealing the moon rocks that Atlanteans mine in order to gain power. Written in deep third person, dual perspective. 

Chapter one  Chapter 2  WIP introduction    Cast pt.1

You’re Welcome: A dark academia mystery, a student is murdered and the blame is pinned on a secret society that hides under the university. Written in first person.

Chapter one Lilliana and Eira character introductions

Capers in London: A heist story/lesbian romance, astrophysicist Emerald "Emrie" Wyatt helps solve the capers of criminal mastermind Juno Carrison. Written in first perspective. Plus, superheroes. 

Edit: Possibly could be written from the perspective of Hermes the Greek god of thieves???

Excerpt

(I also post some short stories and scenes using prompts from posts that I find.) 

Stop and Count the Stars: A greek mythology retelling with enemies to lovers, fantasy and written in first person. 

WIP Introduction

Edit: This is a new WIP that I recently came up with

The Beautiful Symbolism of Color: A Beautiful Symbolism of Color is a poetry collection about color symbolism. I go through the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow itself, neutral colors, and every color in between. 

The Beautiful Symbolism of Green

All WIPs tag list:  @dustylovelyrun @mel-writes-with-her-dragons

Tags: These people have really great blogs that inspire me to write and you should check them out!

@writingdotcoffee @writing-prompt-s @writeroftheprompts @writing-and-nutmeg @promptsforthestrugglingauthor @pens-swords-stuff @chazzawrites

[iwritewhatineedtoread]

My lantern lights, while I write.

Dear The One Who Listens,

I write to you under the safety net of my tree. It’s a wonderful tree, full of lush indigo heart-shaped leaves, while the soft moss underneath it all provides something like a pillow. You must love it as well, yes? Although, I guess I cannot be so sure of this. I don’t know you do I? You read my words, you get to know me (you know my favorite tree at least), but I don’t know you. Maybe it’s dangerous to write to you, but I don't care. Because you’re listening to me like I’ve always wanted and you read my words as you’re doing right now. I don’t know if you read with an open or judgemental mind, but with all my heart I hope it’s the first. Maybe this won’t even reach anyone but if you’re reading this you’re going to be my someone. I know it in the  caverns of my soul. 

Soul sounds so much more like forever than heart, doesn’t it? Hearts are temporary, fading and sickening with time, decomposing when its host is gone… Souls are infinite in time. They’re the human energy that causes nerves to light up with personality, ambitions, both love and lust. Altruicity and greed. Patience and wrath. 

Yes, I am more partial to the soul than the heart. 

I write to you because I need someone to listen to me. Believe the words I write, listen and not laugh in mocking at my ambitions and hopes for the future. 

Fear for me when I say I am writing at night, in a white glowing gown, where the wolves groan and moan in hunger, with a lantern by my side on uneven ground, sitting on flammable moss. Yes, fear for me. For this is the situation I have placed myself in now. On purpose. 

Maybe that is what’s wrong with me. I am too attracted to danger. Hence, my current situation, and this letter. 

You see, One Who Listens, I’ve always believed something was wrong with me. Maybe of my own doing. For what God would make a creature like me, with an achingly beautiful longing inside to leave The Cube. At least, it would be beautiful if life was like the poetry I read in my books. 

The Cube is what keeps us safe. I know this. The world knows this. But I wish it wasn’t true. Our world is small, One Who Listens. I’ve already explored every cranny and nook and keyhole. Already lived every adventure here. Nothing I’ve done so far has squelched the adventurousness inside. Maybe writing to you will help. 

Sincerely,

Rionach of the Blue Blood Clan

[houndmouthed]

Writing a prologue after ignoring all the writing advice that says prologues are unnecessary is something that can be so personal

[aye-write]

[degenderates]

tag yourself, i’m a writer and gifmaker/editor 😐😐😐

[write-on-world]

[big-blog-of-cheese-day]

[ccorinthian]

Sometimes you gotta get down to brass tacks

[supercalvin]

*re-reads own fics when having writer’s-block* Wow I wish I could write like this :/

[suntara]

that feeling when you write and just. can't. stop >>

[kosmo-mckogane]

rereading my own writing is just a constant fluctuation between "damn, girl, you wrote this? (affectionate)" and "damn, girl, you wrote this? (derogatory)"

[theminecraftbee]

general writing advice, actually: you don’t need an excuse beyond “BUT WOULDN’T THIS BE COOL” to write something into your fic. write things in solely because they make you cackle with the delight of a 12-year-old-boy playing with his dinosaur toys. it’s fun and there’s nothing stopping you or any of us at all any longer.

[snoopy-hollander]

Reblog to give the person you reblogged it from motivation to work on their fics.

[valtsv]

writing comments in the tags on this site feels like making the world's most deranged personal journal entries

[valtsv]

[writing in cursive with a glittery pink gel pen beneath a gifset of some guy from my shows] dear diary. i want to bathe him for fleas and dry him off with a towel like a kitten i found outside in a storm.

[lexwritesgayshit]

I’m a writer, I say, as I look up a word I already know the meaning of to make absolutely sure I know the meaning of it

[carnocus]

i love fucking with language. it is such an amazing and enjoyable part of writing? words are just made up so why not? use adjectives as verbs. use nouns as adjectives. invent words. use them in incorrect order. add too many commas. fuck around. it’s great.

people praise shakespeare for inventing words so why not me? there is no difference i will simply do what i want.

[gr8writingtips]

writing tip #3426:

scream incoherently at the word doc

[headspace-hotel]

Actually, can we talk about how Garbage a lot of ubiquitous writing advice in the late 2000's was?

Like "you have to begin in the middle of the action! your first line has to be a 'hook' that draws the reader further into the story!"

This is the bullshit responsible for the amount of books that begin in the middle of some sort of pointless fucking action scene that I care nothing about because I just got here.

Like I guess this makes books easier to "sell" or whatever on some level of the process, but it's garbage storytelling advice because setup and establishment of the Way Things Are is almost always necessary.

On some level I don't think it's actually possible to begin a story right on top of the "inciting incident" because...you don't have the raw materials to "incite" anything with. If you have to set up basic things about the characters and world after the "inciting incident," it's not really the inciting incident anymore, is it?

The event that "launches" a character into their plot line is something that follows from the character's established situation, desires, traits etc. It's a follow-up to a situation that makes a Story of some kind inevitable.

It is, by definition, an event that makes no sense and does not matter to the reader at all unless the "setup" already exists.

If you try to begin right in the middle of the event that "sparks" the plot, you're going to end up including a second, "real" event that actually does the job, because you can't do the job if the character, the stakes, the rules, etc. are not there yet.

Now the action scene you stuck to the beginning of your story is probably dead weight that is getting in the way of the setup.

[patternswillfall]

[writing-is-a-martial-art]

Cowriting for the win <3

[euphoniouspandemonium]

Yes <3