E. Saint

writer ✦ 30+ ✦ queer ✦ speculative fiction ✦ fantasy likes + follows from @ghostlyreveries

[saintwinther]

E. Saint (Winther) ✦ he/they

Hello. I'm an awkward internet cryptid who enjoys writing stories. I tend towards queer fantasy and speculative fiction — often including masc, trans, or nonbinary characters — sometimes adding a slice of Midwestern gothic, ghosts, or cosmic undertones alongside more fluff than I plan for.

However, not all stories have to have a happy ending.

current writing event / / / #wip: slashersummer via the 10 Days to 1K challenge [update: floundering]

new project / / / @ghost-seventeen OC fictive account

⚠️ updating the bio (slow process)

✦ not all content is minor-friendly ✦ fuck ai ✦

[questionable-idea]

An "outline"? brother I'm writing off of vibes alone

[theforsakenprince]

Bet it feels good as fuckkk to rest your hand on the pommel of your sword when the newcomer steps a little too close to your lord who you’ve sworn to protect with your life

[luna-azzurra]

"Why do you write morally complex love interests??"

Because a man who is gentle DESPITE being dangerous is more interesting than a man who is dangerous BECAUSE he is broken. I have given this thought. Too much thought. Goodnight.

[dionysiaproductions]

[frankherbertsdune]

It's so funny to me that Mary Shelley, her husband, John Polidori, and Lord Byron had a competition to see who could write the best horror story and she wrote fucking Frankenstein. Imagine losing a competition that badly. Imagine just doing a silly little competition with your friend and she basically invents a new genre and creates one of the most famous characters in fiction. Imagine being proud of your little story and then she shares one that people will still read every day in 200 years. Imagine doing a writing competition with your wife and she becomes so recognizable that you'll always be known as Mary Shelley's husband

[transman-badass]

Things that make me happy: writing

Things that give me anxiety for some reason: writing

[revenantlore]

been contemplating bram’s cane-reliance and how that factors into combat. @reininginthefirewriting and i spent some time brainstorming possibilities and determined that his twin daggers and his cane are the same object.

from mourn the day

It is a split second between calm impatience and absolute chaos.

Fangs emerge from the surrounding woods, hissing and rampant. Many flock toward the barricaded windows and the beckoning blood hidden behind them. Others descend upon the square in a feverish hunger that ends at the swipe of a blade across a throat, a bone impaled through the heart.

Zay has a talon buried in an eye and a desperate mouth clacking toward her wrist to no avail before she disappears from Bram’s vision, his focus drawn ahead at a pair of Fangs lurching across the square toward him. Fast-footed but awkward in their gait, their eyes the empty gray of the desperate and unfed.

Easy kills, weaker and dumbed down by starvation.

Bram's thumb slips beneath one of the burnished steel feathers that flare downward from either side of his cane's rounded pommel.

An imperceptible click follows.

Hidden pins withdraw from deep within the ebony shaft. He draws his hands outwards to make breadth for the expanding cane. It separates at the center, each half revealing a slender blade that snaps into place with a sharp, metallic snick. The upper dagger bears the polished pommel, the lower blade ends in the cane’s steel ferrule, its grip leaner and lighter but no less deadly.

[virtualprisonwitness]

Am I the only one who starts writing without having a plan?

[karen-writes]

Ways to fix writer's block

OPTION 1: Try turning the writer on and off (it works)

OPTION 2: if option 1 doesn't work, try putting the writer in rice.

[syn4k]

there are pieces of your soul in everything you write dipshit thats how creation works

[syn4k]

EXACTLY

[abalonetea]

summerfest is coming soon spread the word

[russianblush]

no ai usage over here. you’re gonna get my shitty authentic writing whether you like it or not

[awakefor48hours]

"You should create for yourself" and "it's okay to feel discouraged when creating your own original projects if no one interacts with them" are two sentences that should be able to co-exist with each other

[awakefor48hours]

On the one hand, you should kill that capitalist in your head that tells you to make art only for the enjoyment of other people. On the other hand, it's totally fine to be disappointed that you spent hours or even days on something that only got 4 notes. You can feel both ways.

[gr8writingtips]

writing tip #3358:

writing is hard

[halo-lll-odst]

i think more robots should be disabled actually. robots whose bodies keep falling apart and need much more consistent repairs. robots whose bodily upkeep is hard and laborious and exhausting. robots who physically cant do things without help from another individual. robots who are imperfect and dont fit the bill of a flawless machine. i want more of this waiter please bring me more disabled robots

[typhlonectes]