with my head in the clouds

Jay | 25 | German | writeblr/schreiblr ☆ Mostly fantasy with a touch of sci-fi and romance ☆ (mainblog: @sternenmeerkind)

[poetinprose]

A writeblr (re)introduction + masterpost

Hi, everyone! ^-^ Welcome to my writeblr!

I’ve had this blog for a few years now but a lot has changed since my last introduction + I’ve been pretty inactive for quite a while so I thought it’s more than time for a post like this.

⫸ About me ⫷

✏ My name’s Jay

✏ In my 20′s

✏ Any pronouns are fine but preferably she/they

✏ Favorite genre is fantasy, often in combination with romance but I also dabble in sci-fi/dystopias

✏ I love incorporating science into my fantasy stories and thinking about possible scientific explanations behind magical things and such

✏ I write in German (my native language) but here I post (mostly) in English

✏ I have a shared Wattpad account with a friend who I also write most wips with

✏ Tag game + ask friendly (but sometimes I procrastinate and forget ‘^-^)

⫸ Tenebris ⫷

✧ Genre: High Fantasy

✧ Summary: Kendra, an immortal being from the underworld, is on the Upperworld to undo a big mistake that affects humans’ lives. One day she finds an orphaned and deadly injured baby in a burned down village and despite her disgust towards humans and against every rationality she takes it with her. What she would’ve never imagined is the impact that this human child will have on her life... and her heart.

✧ Links: Wattpad (in German), WIP intro

⫸ Bleeding City ⫷

✧ Genre: Futuristic, fantasy-adjacent, solarpunk

✧ Summary: Vampires have revealed their existence and it turns out that vamprirism is a hereditary disease. That reveal has caused a lot of disturbance so the government has etablished a rule that every vampire has to be assigned at least one human blood donor and are forbidden to feed from others. Noa one day receives a call that she is suited for being a blood donor to a young vampire who's vampirism only recently arose. Besides having to adjust to this change, the young vampire Corin has to deal with the bloody family business which he never wanted to be a part of. And he especially never wanted Noa to be a part of this...

✧ Links: Wattpad (in German), WIP intro (planned)

⫸ Aeternum ⫷

✧ Genre: Urban Fantasy

✧ Summary: By now Thanea has come to terms with her role as an outsider amongst the humans. Because who needs humans when you have mermaids and ghosts for friends? But then Nevras steps into her life and questions everything. Why can she see behind the veil that hides the magical world from human eyes?

What began as a fascinating project for him becomes more and more personal. And how can he tell her that his existence is ruled more by death than by life?

✧ Links: WIP intro

[wandringaesthetic]

You should only write in present tense with extreme caution.

not because it's bad or anything but because if you do it even once you're going to be editing the bits where you shifted tenses out of your writing for the rest of your life

[corvuscorona]

if u write in present tense enough times in a row, you can switch this problem around & get confused when your present-tense narrator is talking abt something that happened in Their past. I recommend this bc it keeps u on ur toes

[ach-sss-no]

guys i made my first blackout poetry

[nondelphic]

perfectionism is a liar and a hater. write your messy little heart out.

[concerningwolves]

Full offense but your writing style is for you and nobody else. Use the words you want to use; play with language, experiment, use said, use adverbs, use “unrealistic” writing patterns, slap words you don’t even know are words on the page. Language is a sandbox and you, as the author, are at liberty to shape it however you wish. Build castles. Build a hovel. Build a mountain on a mountain or make a tiny cottage on a hill. Whatever it is you want to do. Write.

[davycoquette]

Your voice is what makes your writing kickass. Do not do not do not strive to make it sound like everyone else’s.

[bahari-official]

me: i wanna talk about my ocs

someone: ok tell me about your ocs

me, suddenly convinced that every single thing about my ocs is stupid and cringy and probably offensive: i. have them

[samoftheswamp]

The author’s poorly disguised love and adoration for existence and humanity despite its flaws and hardships

[nondelphic]

“how do you write again after a long break?” you just start. that’s the horror of it. you just. start. and then the story opens its eyes.

[solivagantingrebel]

editing is so funny because it's like "damn, i wrote 'before' two times within three paragraphs. they are going to stone me in the town square for this"

[borgevino]

there are so many things on gods green earth that are not platonic but are also not romantic. the erotic, the familial, the unconditional, weird codependency, weird codependency (hatred edition), etc. let us all broaden our horizons

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The thing nobody tells you about writing is that you have to keep fucking doing it

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Actually everyone tells you this about writing, it's like the number one thing writers say when asked how to do it. But I'm going to complain anyway.

[nondelphic]

sometimes the best writing advice is "just let it be bad." revolutionary. terrifying. but it works.

[poetinprose]

Heyo, Jay. 👋 What's up, how's it going? Just dropping by to send grand ☆☆ vibes ☆☆, creative energy, and loads of good luck your way. 🍀🍀🍀 - ✨️ Enc

Hi, Enchant 🩵

Thank you so much for the kind message! I hope you're doing good.

For me, a lot has happened. You may remember that I was writing most of my stories (especially Tenebris and Aeternum) together with a friend? Well, things got complicated in our friend group, people got hurt and my friendship with her is over and we don't have any more contact.

It would feel wrong to continue working on our stories on my own. I would love to pluck out Elior and Derian especially and put them into a story of my own but we created them together so... I'm probably not gonna do that. I'm gonna miss them. 💔

On a different note, I have written a few short stories in the past year. My boyfriend is a creative writer, too, and he writes (mostly horror) short stories so I got inspired to give that format a try. Maybe I'll translate them and post them here?

Sadly uni stuff is sucking any creative energy out of me so I don't know how long it's gonna be until I will write again. I miss this community though.

Sending you a virtual hug, my dear. 🩵 Let me know how how it's going for you! 😊

[poetinprose]

Heyo, Jay. 👋 What's up, how's it going? Just dropping by to send grand ☆☆ vibes ☆☆, creative energy, and loads of good luck your way. 🍀🍀🍀 - ✨️ Enc

Hi, Enchant 🩵

Thank you so much for the kind message! I hope you're doing good.

For me, a lot has happened. You may remember that I was writing most of my stories (especially Tenebris and Aeternum) together with a friend? Well, things got complicated in our friend group, people got hurt and my friendship with her is over and we don't have any more contact.

It would feel wrong to continue working on our stories on my own. I would love to pluck out Elior and Derian especially and put them into a story of my own but we created them together so... I'm probably not gonna do that. I'm gonna miss them. 💔

On a different note, I have written a few short stories in the past year. My boyfriend is a creative writer, too, and he writes (mostly horror) short stories so I got inspired to give that format a try. Maybe I'll translate them and post them here?

Sadly uni stuff is sucking any creative energy out of me so I don't know how long it's gonna be until I will write again. I miss this community though.

Sending you a virtual hug, my dear. 🩵 Let me know how how it's going for you! 😊

[the-real-nikki19]

a writing competition i was going to participate in again this year has announced that they now allow AI generated content to be submitted

their reasoning being that "we couldn't ban it even if we wanted to, every writer already uses it anyway"

"Every writer"?

come on

[rose-of-pollux]

Reblog if you're a writer who doesn't use AI.

[xiranjayzhao]

Some truths about the publishing industry because I certainly got blindsided when going in. Now I'm so broken by this industry I struggle to encourage aspiring writers lmao

[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.

[albatris]

time for the rentalcar cover reveal!

artwork is by the extremely talented @antiquedeuce who did a phenomenal job, I couldn't be happier with the results :3

I'm very excited to share this silly little ginormous book with you all soon! in the meantime there's my website and mailing list so you can stay up to date with what's happening re: renting cars <3

tag list under cut!

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