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[roselinbooks-archive]

Also, oops, thinking of doing that Bad Habit I have of recreating my Blog...AGAIN...so it can be my main blog (right now it's a sideblog) and so I can fill up my dash with primarily writing content to interact with, because right now my dash is a mishmash of writeblr and fandom and the fandom stuff definitely drowns out the writing content. But I gotta have my fandom content which would be fine if it was a separate blog. you get it.

Remake as a main blog?

A sound decision for the long run

haha no girl you're so pretty haha don't remake again hahaha

Voting ended onJul 29, 2024

[roselinbooks-archive]

So I disregarded the poll and made @roselinbooks for consistent branding and so I can organize, follow, and send asks from a main account. The fact that I was HOPING for a certain outcome in this poll tipped me off to just do what I wanted.

BUT I will not be getting rid of this account. You might have noticed the change from "official" to "archive" in the url. I'm going to let my queue empty here and then leave this blog alone. Soooo yeah. Follow roselinbooks for more and expect interaction to come from that blog.

[i-used-to-be-a-spy]

"you should be at the club" I should be working on my fanfic

[ukulelekatie]

hooray

[writing-prompt-s]

You and your twin are opposites in this world of heroes and villains. One a villain, another a hero. You just heard one of your colleagues talk about how they killed your twin.

[lifblogs]

I just saw someone say AO3 is “gay teens writing gay shit” and I have no idea how to tell you that most of the writers you love so much are adults.

[peeledstrawberry]

frrrr i look at the notes and the author is always like "sorry for the late upload!!! it's my 10th anniversary and my husband took me skydiving 🥳🥳 plus i've just finished my third phD!! anyways here's 30k"

[korimarsh118]

Yeah…I’m not a teen lol

[greenekangaroo]

"Why is your fic so good"

I have a bachelor's in creative writing, a mortgage, and a working knowledge of which cleaners you use to lift grease stains. I am unstoppable.

[trollprincess]

“Your writing is so good!”

Thanks, my first fanfic had been old enough to serve in the House of Representatives for the past two years.

[itsanidiom]

"I love your fics!"

Thanks! I've literally been writing for over half my life, have several published novels and have worked in a creative field for nearly a decade :D

[ad-wills]

[nikasholistic]

Your writing is good enough. Stop doubting yourself. Stop criticizing yourself. You are a good writer. Yes, you can always improve your craft, but that doesn't mean that your writing sucks.

[ad-wills]

[skullchicken]

If you have achieved something, please remember to observe a mandatory period of basking in the warm glow of your achievement like a lizard on a stone, lest you teach your brain that effort is futile, actually, because it didn't get to enjoy its happy chemicals, so, naturally, nothing good ever comes of trying. (And no, avoiding punishment is not a reward!)

I recommend, like, 5% of basking time in relation to whatever time you invested into achieving the thing minimum. And if you can't make your own bask, friend-brought is fine (= tell your friends!).

[italiangothicwriteblr]

My dream as a writer isn’t to get published and make a lot of money, it’s to have a fanbase devoted enough that I can post a story about a background character that had four lines or drop a piece of obscure lore and they go crazy over it

[prophetic-writer]

I'm sorry but I have one draft that I never finished but I laugh every time I see it

[iiterative-deactivated20240319]

‘the point of fiction is to build the world we want to see!’ respectfully. No It Is Not.

[valentinedagger]

the point of fiction is to make up some guys and then be like “wouldn’t it be fucked up if this happened to them?”

[knightsickness]

there’s absolutely something to be said about ‘booktok’ books being largely wattpad quality written erotica i’m certainly not reading them however having seen a guy on tiktok make a video like ‘all the women in your life are READING PORN’ about a book he picked up and read in his FEMALE FRIEND’S HOUSE in a tone of scandalised horror and disgust i actually don’t think men should be making those criticisms. he said he picked it up expecting a romance and was horrified it was GOONER SHIT he said specifically like ‘who are you getting your pussy wet FOR??’ in a tone of revulsion. idk man im not sure shes the weird one. i kind of wish you were dead

[darlingofdots]

"a lot of books that are successful on booktok are not very good" and "people can read what they want and we need to stop being so fucking weird about women enjoying erotica" are both correct statements

[kimiko24]

Me when I see a picture of ✨The Character™✨:

[sourdough-seal]

my advice to anyone who’s thinking about writing as a hobby would be that if you’ve already started thinking about it there’s nothing i can say that will save you so let it rip dude

[sixth-light]

an important principle of fandom (and life, actually) is that if you want more of Less Popular Thing, it is good to create positive spaces and events for it. however, if you use those spaces to take cracks at the More Popular Thing which you perceive as stealing oxygen from your Less Popular Thing, you do not increase the audience for Less Popular Thing. you decrease it, because you irk people who like both Things. and depending on the relative popularity, there are quite possibly more people who like both Things than people who only like Less Popular Thing. (not to mention - you kill your chances of recruiting people who like More Popular Thing but are neutral on or haven’t considered Less Popular Thing.) 

you’re not campaigning for votes (where There Can Be Only One), you’re marketing for a share of people’s attention. don’t be petty. be effective. 

[captainclickycat]

Also applies in general. Insulting people’s tastes is highly unlikely to result in them becoming more receptive to yours, and you’re likely to only succeed in alienating them (and quite possibly putting them off whatever you’re recommending for life.)

Just focus on whatever you’re trying to promote. “This show’s great; I think you might like it! It’s about blah blah blah” or even “If you liked X you might like Y too; they’re quite similar in some ways!” It sounds cheesy, but this really is a time to just be focusing on the positives.

[stlowens]

Anaïs Nin, from Incest: From a Journal of Love