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🌻🦊A FIX OF LIGHT🦊🌻out now! writer | they/them

[kelmenton]

About

🌻 I’m Kel, a non-binary writer from Ireland!

🌻 They/them

🌻 Autistic

🦊 Agent: Laura Bennett, Liverpool Literary Agency

🦊 Carrd

🌈 A FIX OF LIGHT out now!!!!

[monstersovka]

🌱 the peacemaker spirit 🌱

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[kelmenton]

A Fix of Light // art by @euthymidespaintedme 🦊

[kelmenton]

[thickemo]

hi apologies for the reblog bait but i was wondering if people would be able to rb this and put in the tags your favourite queer book or movie? i'm fine with any genre and any age group (from picture books to autobiographies to coming-of-age comedies to body horror)! i'm doing monthly queer reading lists for my local library, and i have a lot of ideas already, but want to make sure i'm including plenty of things outside of my usual scope!

[captainkirkk]

What they don't tell you about writing is that as you write, you discover scenes and entire plots that you hadn't accounted for that need to be written. So you can spend two hours writing and editing only to realise you're further away from the finish line than you thought you were when you started

[emryses]

listen to me. this is my final message to you. when you are at your lowest a fictional guy will come to you and when that happens you must start putting them in situations. this is the meaning of life.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[martindykewood]

like i quite literally have never been more passionate about anything than i am about the human race’s invariable desire to tell stories and the fact that we always find a way to do it, through spoken language and written language and body language and visual art and theater and poetry and oral tradition and a million other things. there are so many things we take for granted about the human experience that we never stop to think about but i really want you to take a step back and consider how fucking amazing it is that our need to tell stories transcends all boundaries of time and geography and borders and language. it is one of very few things that is legitimately intrinsic to human nature and i will never stop being completely in awe of humanity for that.

[kelmenton]

A Fix of Light // art by @euthymidespaintedme 🦊

[frailbug]

making stuff is one of the best parts of being alive

[rageprufrock]

Do you have any tips on getting better at writing? I’m always amazed on how real your stories feel, both in atmosphere setting and realism (within reason) and also in how you write feelings in a way that feels like getting punched in the gut lmao

This is the best advice anybody can give you, but it's not fun and it's shitty to execute: the only way to get better at writing is to write a lot.

I'm not going to say that there aren't people who have a better intuitive capability at writing than others, but no matter how much innate talent someone may have, nothing will ever take the place of the journeyman grind of writing hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of pages. From the first story I ever wrote to the last one I churned out, the difference is immense -- and while yes, I've grown in experience, vocabulary, literary reference and maturity, the only way I was able to deploy those new tools and refinements was by continuously throwing myself bloody against the brick wall of writing yet another story.

The best way to be a good writer is to be a bad writer for a very long time, in essence, and to be able to grit your teeth through that process. That last part, the endurance sport of it, that's the thing a lot of people can't do; even once you're a quote-unquote good writer, writing doesn't get much easier, because you hold yourself to a higher standard, and chipping blood out of the rock of your frontal lobe so your story can have a climax is the same agonizing process it's ever been -- regardless of how you avoid thesaurus abuse these days.

Re: the realism and atmosphere, I regret to send you to Elon Musk's twitter, but I wrote a long thread about my process there years ago, which now I'm thinking I should probably transcribe into Tumblr at some point.

Good luck! Happy (or not) writing!

[darkspaceboytoy]

Look I think it is commendable to write a book. That takes work no matter what. But man are there some bad ones out there.

[darkspaceboytoy]

Folks I won’t say it again all authors must be killed

[bookwyrminspiration]

sometimes a theme recurs in your work without your permission. and sometimes it reaches a threshold where you're like. well now i think this is saying something about me against my will. don't know what though

[oldenglishtextposts]

yknow one word I’m sad didn’t stay strong in modern English is boc/bec. the plural of book should still be betch

[drchucktingle]

its unfortunate that artists get talked out of their rare perspectives so often. ‘its just not done that way’ someone says and artist goes ‘oh okay guess ill sand that part off.’ bud that is your SPARK. so much of my success is from holding firm on the things i do that were called ridiculous

this timeline CRAVES your rare perspective. it CRAVES the thing that speaks from your heart but ‘isn’t the way things are done.’ when i talk about ‘what is your story OUTSIDE of the text?’ i am speaking of this. your personal tap into the cosmic is your rare perspective

[sarahreesbrennan]

I will add that many times my publisher (publisher unspecific, I’ve had several) has tried to market my books as cookie cutter and it is always a hideous failure! As it is whenever I try to write stories that conform to trends or received wisdom.

The stories I’ve written that have done best were absolutely out of left field from a marketing perspective.

One of the greatest problems I have is when readers go ‘I expected your book to be just like that other book!’ And I must always say, very gently, ‘Beloved, *I* never told you that.’ (And I was probably down on my knees begging for my publisher not to tell you that either.)

Be the writer that you are, not the writer that you aren’t.

[thirdity]

“You write the beginning and then you go back and rewrite the beginning, and you never got off page one. It’s kind of a syndrome, and I have a rash piece of advice which is — Go on, page two, page three, and never look back. Get something finished, no matter how lousy it is. […] Perfectionists cannot get going unless they kind of do violence to their own instincts, and just blast ahead.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Last Interview and Other Conversations