Astrian, Astra, or Az! @lady-astras - Tumblr Blog

Intro ✨🌙

Hi y’all, I’m Astrian, but you may also call me Astra, Az, or Trian! Probably should have done this already :L. I’m a writer, musician, and a beginner digital artist!

MCYT fandoms: Hermitcraft, the Kolanii-verse, KWW collab (and Wifies in general, this includes the crossroads arg), and Unstable Universe!

my favorite YouTubers are: EthosLab, GeminiTay, MinuteTech, Flamefrags, and AngelEffect!

I’m a minor so please keep that in mind when interacting. Also, I have a sensory disability, and am Desi (though American-born) which I am very proud of and will mention ;D.

I also cannot contribute financially to anyone, so if you send me an ask for monetary help I won’t be able to do anything but pass along the message. although… if you’re sending a plea for monetary help to a Minecraft fan blog? I’m gonna assume it’s a scam.

I’m currently working on like four novels, so please ask about either of them! That also means that I will say stuff like “[character]-coded” and you have no idea what I’m talking about :’)

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#intro post #long time coming #tbh #hermitcraft #hi #starspoken words #astra’s art #astra writes yo what?#propaganda: astra edition #etho though

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"Look up at me, Parrot. I made this whole stage for you."

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UU SPOILERS — spoilers for parrot’s latest ep!

REINA 😭🤍 KEEP GOING!!!

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Spokey spoke

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“I am the only one taking action here!”

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Angel of Destruction

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🪻To be honest, I'm always a little scared about posting my arts.. But here's Wifies! ( ◕ᗜ◕ )

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My first post in Tumblr so exciting

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Doodle

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Wifies, behind the scenes.

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Failure to reach the heavens

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HOLY SHIT

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GeminiSLAY for day 30 of hermit a day May!

I just had to draw her in a badass pose with a badass sword eventually, it was bound to happen

But also MY GOSH did this one probably take the longest. Just so much detail

ao3commentoftheday

hey, blog! 🌸 anon here. I think there are probably other posts about long fic, but I was wondering if you or others have any advice on sticking to a single long story instead of jumping to another? I'm mostly of a short fic writer myself, and I'm so interested in the secrets long fic writers possess. Anyway, thank you for running this blog! An awesome project :)

I'll give you my secrets as a fellow short fic writer who sometimes dips into medium-fic and the occasional long fic.

Be obsessed with your story. This can go a LONG way to helping you maintain your motivation. Daydream about it. Make playlists about it. Talk to friends about it.

Try to make each chapter feel like a oneshot. Give it an opening, a middle, and a closing. Have some character development or achieve a plot point or drop a clue that will be used later in the story. The more you can give yourself the satisfaction you get from a oneshot, the better.

Do jump to oneshots on the side to keep you going through the long fic. Sometimes you really do need to get the feeling of "done" to be able to continue something that's still in progress. Don't deny yourself that feeling just because you think you should. Life needs dessert and short fic writers need completed works.

Embrace a B plot (and a C plot and a D plot). These side plots can last for a single chapter or can be threaded through the whole story or they can bridge from chapter 12 to chapter 18. Whatever their final form, these smaller stories-within-the-story also help to satisfy the need for a short, punchy hit of dopamine when the story is starting to feel huge.

I'll leave it there for now and open it up. How do the rest of you go about writing longer stories? Especially if you typically prefer to write shorter.

whetherwoman

Cosigned, for sure. Especially talking to friends. NOTHING keeps me motivated more than someone else who's excited to talk about the story.

But also honestly I had to learn to think differently about writing, structurally. Most of the time when I lose interest in a long fic, it's because there's something I'm doing wrong with the structure. Maybe I'm trying to write a boring connective scene that could be skipped. Maybe the characters' motivations aren't juicy enough. Maybe there's a gaping plot hole that I've been pretending isn't there. With one shots, that mostly doesn't happen to me - I'm writing about a limited moment in time where by definition something interesting is happening. With longfic, I have to make a lot more judgement calls about what is and isn't interesting enough to be included.