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Most likely way YOU would get turned into a vampire?

Vampire and I are in love!

Ironic vampire hunting mishap

One of my parents begs a vampire to turn me to 'save' me

Vampire wants a family and I give ideal daughter/son/child energy

Some guy offers me a cheeseburger but the cheeseburger is a lie

Chosen by a vampire for because of a talent or power

Party bro I'm hanging with turns out to be a vampire

Vampire intends to kill me but my blood is meh so they don't finish the job

A vampire turns me into a vampire to save me from another vampire

Fatally injured somehow and a vampire 'saves' me

Parent hires a vampire to turn me so I can succeed in politics

Lose a bet with someone who turned out to be a vampire

Voting ended onMay 18, 2024

tag-that-oc

tag the oc who's a coffee drinker

#The picesans

tag-that-oc

tag the oc who's a tea drinker

#oc: salvadore

writerswritecompany

Personality Disorders You Can Inflict On Your Characters – Paranoid Personality Disorder

Welcome to the world of personality disorders you can inflict on your characters.

animentality

#ao3 #writing #writers on tumblr

animentality

Obsessed with AO3 writers, who are a particularly fascinating subspecies of homo sapien.

#ao3 #fanfic #writers on tumblr #writing

ad-wills

#writing #writers on tumblr #writing humor #artists on tumblr #writers

ad-wills

#writers on tumblr #writing humor #writing #writers #amwriting

helpful-writing-tips

A character flaw is only a flaw until it becomes useful.

Is your protagonist overprotective? That sucks... until someone they love is in danger.

Is your protagonist manipulative? Well, that's awful... until they manipulate the antagonist into making a decision that saves the lives of their friends.

Is your protagonist a skeptic? Well, that's not good... until someone tries to lie to them.

Is your protagonist remorseless? Well, that makes them pretty unlikeable... until a hard decision has to be made.

#writing tips #writeblr #writers on tumblr #amwriting #intj writer

intj-writer

Got a bit of writing done today. It rained occasionally throughout the day, which was perfect. I just need to complete the outline for my current WIP and then we can finally get to the good part - actually writing the book. I have also been slowly piecing together my ideal desk set-up, and like my books it is also a work in progress. Fingers crossed that I finish the outline before Camp NaNoWriMo this April.

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storyunrelated

Home!

I mentioned something similar to this before, and again I feel it tugging at my brain.

There’s nothing I want to do! Writing-wise. But I still want to do something. It’s like wanting to sneeze.

My impression - rightly or wrongly - of the other folks here is that the things they work on have a place of special significance in their heart. Perhaps the message ingrained in the story enflames their passions. Perhaps the characters of their own creation are regarded fondly and time spent with them enjoyed. Maybe some combination of these and other factors.

The point is that they enjoy engagement with their work. This enjoyment I see and marvel at.

Things created from nothing! Persons - formed of words - living their own lives, the writers responsible there, exulting in every step taken by their wordbabbies, plunging into worlds built brick-by-brick inside their own heads!

Do you get where I’m coming from here? In the WRITEBLRSPHERE I see such untrammelled joy in creation. I see people so unabashedly in love with their ideas and what they’ve done and it warms my shrivelled heart. People ever-eager to leap back into what they’ve made. To drive it forward. To develop and expand. To further build what it is they’ve started.

I see it but cannot grasp it. Nothing of mine feels so inviting. No meatpuppets greet me with wide, welcoming arms. My babbies are all dead-eyed clones of me. And I don’t like me.

Speaking as a fellow with, oh, dozens of half-baked things and literally hundreds of tinier, self-contained bullshit nodules, you’d think I’d have something. Something of mine I enjoyed. Something always there to tinker with and immerse myself in happily. But no. None resonate with me emotionally at all. And I wrote them!

None are a home for me. None are a place or a group where I can comfortably slip in and feel at home. And they couldn’t be more mine! They did not exist before I made them so and I still feel nothing for them!

Maybe it’s me.

Which raises the ever-present question of “wwwhhhhyyyy” am I even doing this? And again I don’t really have an answer. I just do.

Don’t even really need a reason…

Course, the pint of coffee I’m drinking might not be helping me here. Basically I’m just a big sloshing bag of chemicals

Then again, aren’t we all?

#writing #writer's life

storyunrelated

Small gods - Perspectives

I’m having fun with jumping the narrative around all over the place. First we’re in the past with Ferriday setting things up! Then we’re somewhere else with Amphibalus (the priest)! Then we’re with Stratfield Turgis and the leader of the liberation from the small gods (the antagonists, pretty much)!

How exciting!

Is this what you all feel like? Is this normal?

Martins gave her a weary look.

“He’s in one of his moods,” he said. Stratfield’s face fell.

Any meeting with the leader could go one of two ways.

Either he would be focused to the point of being rather unsettling - a man entirely dedicated to the cause of further human liberation from under the yoke of superstition and the supernatural slavery of the small gods. A man who, despite being perhaps rather theatrical at times, was unswerving and ruthless in the execution of what he felt was a mission more important than anything that had ever happened in history up until this point in time. A man who was more like a shifting force of nature, dragging you and everyone else in his proximity along in his wake towards a future forged with human hands and human will alone.

Or he could be in one of his moods. And you would get nothing worthwhile accomplished. And he would talk at you a lot and wave his arms around and not really listen to a word you said. And he would laugh at his own jokes. And forget why you’d come to see him or even who you were. And you would leave feeling a little bit like you’d wasted your time.

Happy release date to No Vain Loss

It’s ten heardbeats to midnight… and No Vain Loss is released into the world!

What is it about?

A soldier is summoned to the North Pole, days before the year changes, told to fix the great Clock for a celebration. He has no idea what to do. A girl, hunted for the crime of being born, almost dies out on the ice. She is rescued by the last polar bear left alive. A library waits for them both, a library built over a span of a hundred years, forgotten in the basement of an ice shack. The world hasn’t known hunger or sickness in hundreds of years. It has also forgotten love and beauty. This is the One World. The year is 2524. Inspired by the short stories of Ray Bradbury, this futuristic young adult novel in three parts is set in a world where Christmas -among other things- is obsolete and a Clock is what keeps the fragile balance of peace. Written in three parts, this is the breathtaking story of how two unlikely people change the world, and each other, one book at a time. In No Vain Loss, the world is on the brink of the greatest war humanity has ever known. Lives will be lost. New truths will be revealed.

Recommended for fans of:

Hot soldiers (see Kdrama, Descendants of the Sun, and so on)

My True Love Gave to Me anthology, Christmas feels and aesthetic

Ray Bradbury-inspired scifi worldbuilding

YA dystopian/postapocalyptic novels

These Broken Stars series

Book boyfriends

A touch of existential issues Huxley-style

Star Wars-style action

Intense romance

Hidden libraries

Fight for survival

Fairytale retellings/ stories with a fairytale feel

Forbidden kisses

Bromance

Bears

Cool science fiction

Christmas Books

Swoonworthy couples

Readers say:

Fast, Futuristic, Creative. -Yesha, Books Teacup and Reviews

My new obsession and yours too! No Ordinary Star reads like a love letter to humanity. -S. E. Anderson, author of Starstruck

This book is magic. -Alex Rowe, @captain.valour

I fell head-over-heels in love! -D.C.

Oh, how I’ve already fallen in love with our two main characters, tin solider and match girl. -Rebecca Raven

Current rating on goodreads 4.8 stars | Pages 230

Main characters:

A S T R A S T E A D F A S T - the match girl

Fiery red hair, tortured past, sass, courage, loves stories passionately. She is a warrior at heart, but has been deprived of love her entire life. That doesn’t mean she can’t give it, however. Abundantly. Even if it means sacrificing her own life.

F E L I X H U N T E R - the tin soldier

High IQ, no emotions, strong, trained to kill. His world is tumbling to ashes around him, and it’s all he can do to hold on. He hates being vulnerable, but that’s exactly how he finds himself. One thing he’s never had? Someone worth dying for. He might have found her now. He might have found her too late.

N O V A I N L O S S - No Ordinary Star, book 3

Stars, blood, kisses, books. To name a few. It will make you cry, it will make you swoon. So many twists and turns, battles and changes. The year 2525 is going to be nothing like you imagined it. It’s going to be extraordinary.

And the best part of all? It’s available NOW!