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Nearly 30 | He/Him| This blog is for poems, 3am plot bunnies, writing advice, and fanfiction. Also, it's a collection of references and updates on my writing projects. Icon and header were both made by me. This is a side blog jsyk! Askbox is open!

[lavender-inkwell]

Okay I finally changed the name on this blog to match the name I use on AO3! I've been thinking about doing that for a while but never did because I had gotten attached to the old one... But I want people who enjoy my writing to easily be able to find me so here we are lol

My icon here is the same as my icon there so that should help people to find me ^-^

Quick note: my AO3 is currently restricted to registered users only

⚠️📢DO NOT EVER PUT MY WRITING INTO ANYTHING AI⚠️

I also make art sometimes! If you're curious about that I post my art over on @pastel-bat-creates

If you're a fan of my weird and wacky vibes my main blog is @lost-boi-in-wonderland

Also I have a kofi page! If you're a fan of my words maybe buy me a coffee 👉👈

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Lastly, please be aware that posts tagged "author's note" are posts are not rebloggable! I'll likely forget to mark them that way sometimes, so please be nice about it! Y'all can totally still reply to those posts if you wish ^×^

Tagging me in things is totally allowed! I'd love to know that I exist in other people's brains!

Thanks for reading!!

[erraticprocrastinator]

Not sure about anyone else, but I re-read all my favourite AO3 comments when I’ve had a rough day, so if you’ve ever taken the time to write a deep, funny, or just kind comment, thank-you.

[lavender-inkwell]

I haven't been writing much recently (because I've been doing a lot of sewing) but I have been doing a lot of thinking about my stories:

I've rewritten chapter 3 about 2x now and I think this might end up being the shortest chapter...

I also have been thinking about my Oz book a lot recently so I'm hoping to get back to that for a while. Also I think I'm running out of space in that notebook so I'll need to find a way to add to it soon.

As for other fics I have plans for a Blupjeans fic and also 2 more chapters for Until Next Summer; so stay tuned for those!

[rocket-sith]

Reblog if you write fic and people can inbox you random-ass questions about your stories, itemized number lists be damned.

[unheardoracle]

Your dialogue is stiff because everyone is being too honest

Great dialogue can come from radical emotional honesty. But in most real conversations, people

dodge questions

answer indirectly

lie (badly)

change the subject

crack jokes to avoid serious answers

lie (convincingly)

say half of what they mean

tell the truth but get so anxious/angry/defensive others now think they're lying

If your dialogue feels unnatural, it might be because everyone is saying exactly what they think, or articulating their thoughts too well. Try letting characters hide things instead.

Subtext is where tension lives.

[lavender-inkwell]

I need to check and see if I still have a beta reader for my night circus fic because it turns out that it's been 3 months since I've worked on that particular WIP lmao

....oops

[lavender-inkwell]

It turns out that the source of my writer's block was not being able to come up with a name for a character that needed one. After figuring that out, I gave her a name and then banged out about 100 words! After weeks of feeling stuck I think I'm finally back!

[lavender-inkwell]

Btw it was actually over 260 words in like 15 minutes lmao!

But that means my Night Circus 5+1 is officially back at the top of my to-dos! Hopefully I'll have this chapter up by the end of the week ^-^

[lavender-inkwell]

It turns out that the source of my writer's block was not being able to come up with a name for a character that needed one. After figuring that out, I gave her a name and then banged out about 100 words! After weeks of feeling stuck I think I'm finally back!

[lavender-inkwell]

I need to find an active discord server or something because I so need people existing around me while I write and livestreams/podcasts/videos aren't helping anymore. I used to do all of my writing at school or at the library or at a cafe or even downstairs in my living room. Being bedridden hasn't taken away my creativity or my ability to write but it does make me so so lonely of a writer tbh...

Idk man I just need the parallel play sometimes to help the words feel less intimidating.

[lavender-inkwell]

I really need to focus and finish writing at least one of my books so that I can edit it and actually start the publishing process but I'm scared.... It's not that I don't think my writing isn't good enough (I kinda do but bigger idiots than me have done it so it's fine) I'm scared of editing..

Like I've been trying to write these books for-fucking-ever and have made barely any progress. I'm scared that the story will change when I edit and that feels bad in a way I can't describe. Like I'm scared it won't become a better version of itself, I'm scared it'll become a completely different story...

Don't even get me started on my worries and fears about publishing...

Plus I feel like I'm just too slow. I've been literally working on both ideas for years and then I watch tons of people write an entire story in like 6-8 months. I don't even have half of a rough draft for either plot...

[lavender-inkwell]

I wish sometimes that I had a group of writers to be a part of because I really want to talk about my projects with other people but I also crave the feedback that I haven't been getting.

I've joined like 2 online writing groups which fall apart at the seams about a couple of months after I join. And like I know those weren't my fault because those groups were already unstable or fading when I joined but it doesn't feel great lol

I miss going to the library or a cafe to write and just be around other people but that's not an option for me right now

[canonkiller]

many people sharing the writing post today... hard to keep up with..... know my universal advice:

if it sucks you should still write it

if it'll be unfinished you should still write it

if you never share it you should still write it

if it's not a linear fiction adventure you should still write it

if you will have fun writing it you should write it :)

[lavender-inkwell]

I haven't been able to write in a while because I got very busy but I am hoping to chip away at my WIPs again here soon!

I have to type up some stuff I've handwritten but after that my priority will be to finish my 5+1 Night Circus fic. There's gonna be 4 more chapters of that. Then I want to get another chapter or 2 of Until Next Summer written and posted so I can focus on one of my books for a few months.

If that changes I'll let y'all know!

So far also I've been managing at least 1k words a month so I'm totally on track for my 10k goal which is nice. I was worried I might be aiming too high.

[get-more-transmasc]

Psst. Are you transmasc and a visual artist, musician, and/or author? (Or an artist of any other medium!) Reblog this post with a recent work you're proud of, or drop something in the askbox if you prefer!

I want to celebrate transmasculine art this pride month.

The only rules are A. No AI generated content (you will be blocked), and B. No explicit gore or explicit sexual content, as this blog is meant to be safe for kids. (Artistic nudity & light violence are both A-OK! Eyestrain and any potentially triggering content will be tagged!)

[get-more-transmasc]

Thank you so much to everyone who's sent in their amazing art! Hopefully I'll have time to go through and reblog the rest of the submissions later today :D (Keep 'em coming, though! I plan to reblog/answer every single response to this post until pride month ends!)

[lavender-inkwell]

I'm the same username on A03 as here and I'm really pleased with almost everything I've posted there already. Well okay, I'm a little uncertain about my most recent story "Until Next Summer" but I'm having so much fun writing it that the uncertainty will fade. I also have an art blog @pastel-bat-creates where I post all of my art projects ^-^

Love the idea of this btw! Thanks for giving me the chance to share!!

[holmesandtheroman]

NOTICE: As more and more fanfic writers are using generative AI for their works (you uncreative dweebs), I hereby swear on everything I hold dear that I have not and will NEVER use generative AI in ANY of my written work. Everything I post will be organically and creatively my own.

[lavender-inkwell]

I don't think I'll be doing Blupjeans week this year... There's just so much going on IRL and I can't add a whole new project on top of that.

However! I do have a couple of new ideas based on the prompts so I'm going to be writing some new TAZ stuff soon for sure!

I think I'm going to finish my 5+1 Night Circus fic before I start anything new

[lavender-inkwell]

Until Next Summer -- Chapter 6 "Gravity Falls Girl Friends"

Chapter Summary: Mabel tries juggling several conversations at once before joining her first group chat

https://archiveofourown.org/works/70695221/chapters/223616936

I had terrible trouble trying to get the formatting to work so I just posted it like this. While it doesn't look the way I wanted, I do like how this chapter turned out ^-^