Ms. Helios

Writer | LGBT+ | Occasional Photography. Follow my writing blog @h-e-s-p-e-r-u-s

[beaivii]

Hello! I’m a new tumblr, and I’m ready to make friends. To make it easy for future friends to find each other, reblog if any of the following apply to you:

Thespian/Theatre kid

Under 18

Likes to do art, but isn’t the best

Like to write, but isn’t the best

Just generally isn’t good at things

Has/enjoys dogs

Loves musicals

Loves music in general

Watches Voltron

Is working on a novel

Has an uncommon name, or a name in a language with not many speakers.

Favorite season is Spring

Let the friendship commence!

[theatre-never-theater]

I still want to see Hamilton.

Reblog if you agree

[achanceofbelle]

Everything who reblogs this gets an original character based on their account

[your-local-emo--goblin-deactiva]

Really?

[i-am-a-fan]

Yes please

[feral-flower-child]

ummmmYes please thank you

[captianhiddleson-deactivated201]

Uh , please

[broadwaytheanimatedseries]

PLZ

[callmemrsweeknd]

Why not

[moonstxxne]

I beg of you

[1800-sanders-sides]

I’d like to see you tRY

[business-cannibal]

Please

I am very unoriginal please help

[red-the-ruler]

I mean it would be cool

[silverglimse-productions]

That would be so cool!

[flower-non]

Let’s see what happens!

[feral-flower-child]

I can’t remember if I’ve done this already

[ms-helios]

Have a fun time aha

[ms-helios]

I started the writing hobby in the sims mobile and if this isn’t me I don’t know what is

[ms-helios]

Update: things are getting a little too personal.

[ms-helios]

I started the writing hobby in the sims mobile and if this isn't me I don't know what is

[ms-helios]

Today I used photoshop for the first time

[theliteraryarchitect-deactivate]

Quick Publishing Tip: Don’t Bury Your Gold

For those of you who are submitting short stories or novels for publication, I offer you this quick tip: Don’t bury your gold.*

The harsh truth is that most magazines, agents, and editors receive so many submissions that they rarely read past the first paragraph (of a short story) or page (of a novel) before they begin to make a decision. And if you don’t show them something they want to see within that time, they may not finish your story at all. So don’t bury the good stuff!

I often see stories where the writer “hides” their best stuff in the middle of the story. This can happen on a story-level when the writer doesn’t reveal the “hook” of the story until five pages in. It can also happen on a style or skill level when the writer doesn’t show their best writing until the middle or end of the story.

This strategy might work for writing that you share with your friends or family, but if you want to get the attention of an overworked, underpaid, stressed out editor or agent who has already read 50 stories that day, open with your gold, don’t keep it buried in the middle where they might not even see it!

As a first reader for literary magazines who is often in the position of reading through tons of submissions in a day, I can not stress this enough. Editors are much more likely to overlook weak or uninteresting writing halfway through a story that had a strong beginning than they are to keep reading a story that has a weak start. Show us what you’ve got, and show us right away. Hope this helps! *If you are working on a story right now, please please please don’t let this advice get in the way of your creative process. As with any publishing advice, I recommend that writers make these kinds of changes to their story in the later stages of writing, after it’s done or almost done, rather than obsessing about them while doing early drafts or outlines. That will only lead to writer’s block!

[writingonjupiter]

New Writeblr

Ok, so the title’s a bit misleading. I’ve been on tumblr for a while, but I accidentally deleted my account, so I’m trying to get back into things.

Anyway, some things about me. I’m a 15 year old boy (I know, really young). I like to write fantasy stories, but I’m up to reading almost any genre. And I just started writing about 6 months ago, so I’m still learning.

My blog will mostly be me reblogging/posting writing advice, original writing, and basically anything else writing-related.

I’m also working on a book about a kid who visits a dreamworld every night. A wizard is destroying his dream, and he has to stop him with the help of his friends. It sounds weird, but hopefully it turns out well!

Anyway, reblog to help out a fellow writer! I’d love to get to know you guys better!

-Jude

[maxkirin]

In this week’s VLOG:

😘 Life is Good ✂️ Changing & Overcoming Bad Habits

[fuckthisbloganditscurses]

Happiness Will Come To You.

[12goblins]

when tho

[fuckthisbloganditscurses]

When You Least Expect It. Probably Late March

[wizardshark]

reblog for happiness to come for you in late march!

[zigxortega]

[zac--efren]

I reblogged this last year and I hung out with blink-182 backstage on March 30. Reblogging again because it worked the first time.

[scientiablr]

honestly, last year one of the best days of my life happened in late March

[not-so-innocent-bi-sander]

….I think I got engaged last year in late March?

[ms-helios]

Who wants to be in a Camp NaNoWriMo cabin with me? Reblog so we can get the word out and start making our own Writeblr cabins!

[nanowrimo]

Enter the Camp NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program contest for a chance to win some prizes and get your writing published on the NaNoWriMo blog! (Open to YWP participants age 17 and younger. Click on the link for more details!)

[ms-helios]

GeShiDoMo Update #3

16,000 words.

My character named Kai (his name means water) almost just drowned to death. I love my children

And irony.

[ms-helios]

Friend: How's the writing going?

Me: Oh, you know, good. The last few days have had great progress

[mark-helsing]

If you're a writer and you see this post, stop what you're doing.

WHENEVER YOU SEE THIS POST ON YOUR DASH, STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING AND WRITE ONE SENTENCE FOR YOUR CURRENT PROJECT.

Just one sentence. Stop blogging for one minute and write a single sentence. It could be dialogue, it could be a nice description of scenery, it could be a metaphor, I don’t care. The point is, do it. Then, when you finish, you can get back to blogging.

If this gets viral, you might just have your novel finished by next Tuesday.

[thewritershandbook]

[writing-in-the-grave]

I have a bulletin board I use to plan out and keep track of my book.

It’s great. It’s got a nice big map of my fantasy world on it so I can keep track of places and where my characters are.

It’s also got these little pins with character’s names on them so I can move them around the map. The circular markers represent different groups of characters so I don’t have like five separate markers in one place.

And I’ve got all these cool locations marked down!

See?

And my personal favorite, the graveyard. When a character dies I move their marker to the graveyard!

It’s be awesome if I actually used it instead of letting it sit beside my bed as a constant reminder that I should be working, huh?