Trying to write a book... again.

26 ♡ Female ♡ Christian ♡ Neurodivergent ♡ Writer ♡ Author

[rains-inky-mind]

Okay! So, I made sure to update that post, but here is the official one!

I have finally completed my first book, THE WAR FOR AMBITION: Part I. You can find it on Amazon as a paperback, hardcover, or digital for Kindle.

Features:

Contemporary Fantasy

First in a series

Found Family

Lost Pricess (with a Twist)

Overcoming mental illness

Neurodivergent Main character

Summary:

Andy Wesley is plotting her own demise. After her twin sister and her mother died in a freak accident almost a year ago, Andy’s life has devolved into nothing but grief, guilt, and depression. With her father’s impending wedding date and their big move to a new city, now feels like the perfect time to do it.

Upon moving to Orange Blossom, Virginia, she finds her soon-to-be step-brother, Xander Merrik, stumbling home covered in blood in the middle of the night. After Andy does some prodding, what he reveals changes everything: there is a whole other world just beyond our own. In this unbelievable world, her twin sister and mother are very much alive. This causes Andy’s suicide plans to come to grinding halt, as she goes in search of her sister with a newfound glimmer of hope—and Xander.

Trying to find her way around the new world, she finds familiar faces and new friends to help her get to her family. What she finds is worse than she could have imagined: her mother, Celia, is heading a war against humans—which Andy comes to find out, she is not—inside their borders, and her twin, Gwen, is nothing more than a voiceless pawn. This comes as even more of a shock to Xander, who has been working for Celia for more than eight years.

✨️Thank you to everyone that supported and encouraged me! I love you guys!✨️

[ellipsus-writes]

If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately…

Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.

Including (sigh) the em dash.

There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.

A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.

No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.

Defend the em dash.

(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)

[libraryspectre]

Do y'all remember being a kid and trying to read in the car while it was dark outside and your parents wouldn’t let you turn on the light so you would try to grab snatches of sentences when you passed by street lights

[musicalmelody001]

[prophetic-writer]

“What if I write it and it’s bad-”

WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS GOOD? WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANTED? WHAT THEN????

[lost-in-eriador]

in 2026, remember how GOOD writing feels. remember how satsfying it is to get your characters to the point you have been dying to get to, where they will experience the love, fear, relief or whatever the feeling you want to bring to life may be. let this year be the year of writing, prgress and of satisfactory endings.

[dionysiaproductions]

[theunfortunate-author]

my daily affirmation as an author

[rains-inky-mind]

So I'm an em dash person, through and through. I use them A LOT in my writing. I didn't realize until I came back to my writing blog (hello, again) that this is inherently AI now??? For what? Why? Wasn't this literally a writer joke/ meme when I left?

[coffeeforthemoon]

"Light catcher" (2012) by Helene Beland.

[rains-inky-mind]

If

if

if

I just write 3,000 words per week, TWFA2 will be done before the end of August.

[catholicapothecary]

[justalittlesolarpunk]

This is the foundation of all hope btw. In the words of Tolkien, 'despair is for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.'

[throughtimeandstarlight]

[charlesoberonn]

This post goes around Tumblr every year, and it’s always true. There’s never been an uneventful or boring January.

[pepperonyscience]

Guess what?

you just lost The Game.

@mrgartist @o-lei-o-lai-o-lord

[o-lei-o-lai-o-lord]

You’re evil.

Pure. Evil.

…

@ Everyone following me, guess what y’all just lost

[rains-inky-mind]

No!

[ettawritesnstudies]

I have gotta start sending asks again I don't know what anyone's WIPs are or what they're about or who the characters are when I do participate in an ask game, WHOOPS

Reblog this if you want random questions in your inbox, I'll try to send some out tonight!

[rains-inky-mind]

When I left, I had a bunch of mutuals. Are any of y'all still echoing in the void?

[rains-inky-mind]

We're no strangers to love

You know the rules and so do I

A full commitment's what I'm thinkin' of

You wouldn't get this from any other guy

I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling

Gotta make you understand

Never gonna give you up

Never gonna let you down

Never gonna run around and desert you

Never gonna make you cry

Never gonna say goodbye

Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

We've known each other for so long

Your heart's been aching, but you're too shy to say it

Inside, we both know what's been going on

We know the game and we're gonna play it

And if you ask me how I'm feeling

Don't tell me you're too blind to see

Never gonna give you up

Never gonna let you down

Never gonna run around and desert you

Never gonna make you cry

Never gonna say goodbye

Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

We've known each other for so long

Your heart's been aching, but you're too shy to say it

Inside, we both know what's been going on

We know the game and we're gonna play it

I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling

Gotta make you understand

Never gonna give you up

Never gonna let you down

Never gonna run around and desert you

Never gonna make you cry

Never gonna say goodbye

Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

Never gonna give you up

Never gonna let you down

Never gonna run around and desert you

Never gonna make you cry

Never gonna say goodbye

Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

I got got. 😂