#tenaciousfuturewriter

[miranda-mundt-art]

I've been a fan of yours for a while, but I just read Muted today and I gotta say: The flavor! The Talent! The Brilliance! I would love to watch a Muted series. It's absolutely fantabulous!

awww tysm!!!!!!!! xoxoxo

[brynwrites]

Hi! I'm writing a larger fiction that takes place over a year, but when I think about all the plot points I need to include, this book sounds like it should be spread over two books. But, I've realized that I don't have enough ideas to make it two books nor am I interested in splitting the story up because, to me, the story appears stronger as one. Is it better to write a long book than write two books that I'm not particularly interested in?

Hey! I want to say yes, but also it depends.

Writing something you’re not interested in can be a pain. But genres do have word limits (for debut authors in particular). So the question then becomes:

1. What are you going to do with this book? 

If you’re just posting it online or self-publishing it, then by all means, go nuts. Readers will read long books. There’s no question about that. Having books with more than one distinct ‘part’ is occasionally used in quite a few genres. It’s not the favored plot structure of some readers, but as long as your pacing is still giving you a consistent rise in tension throughout the entire book, there’s no reason most readers will have any problem with it. 

But if you’re planning to publish traditionally, then onward to:

2. What genre is this? Will it be your debut novel? 

Fantasy and sci fi genres allow much longer novel lengths in general but may not want to take on a long book (over ~120k) unless they know it will sell, because printing more pages costs money. In other genres, and younger leaning YA, you can often get away with having incredibly short books (~50k), and might find you can split your book into two novels without adding much to the plot points you already have, so long as you don’t do any underwriting.

Sometimes though, the best thing to do is just to see where the rough draft takes you. My first two novels ended up being 40k words longer than I thought they would (160k and 80k), and then my last one (a novella) was exactly 40k words, as I had predicted at the start. Sometimes you just don’t know how many words you’ll need to tell a story until after it’s finished, and stressing over it before that point can end up hurting your ability to write.

[kuroau]

AU where the entirety of Kuro is just a traumatizing bedtime story Vincent is telling his one son __________ Phantomhive to warm him of the dangers of twins.

that would be kinda cool actually,,,,that or it’s like,,, victorian dnd & everyone is just good friends playing a rpg

[chippedmoon]

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you. learn to know your mutuals and followers.(ू•‧̫•ू⑅)♡

Music (fave genres: basically anything 60's (and songs influenced by it), europop/dance, r&b, rap, jazz)

manhwas/mangas (ask me what I'm reading)

Old movies & foreign cinema (Literally obsessed with TCM)

Abbott Elementary (Janine & Gregory, I will force y'all into marriage next season.)

Musical theatre/theatre/reading/writing (couldn't decide lol, so I decided to clump them together.)

Thanks for sending this to me!!!! 💜💜💜💜

[chippedmoon]

Tenaciousfuturewriter -> chippedmoon.

[practicefortheheart]

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Cat names; Catalie Pawtman, Cindy Clawford, Pawdry Hepburn

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Cat name: Humphrey

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Susie and Clement

so many good suggestions! I can only have 8 sims in a household (including pets), so I can have 5 if I have only one kid, but I might want two. I think I’ll start with 2 or 3 cats. I love the pun names, I might go with those - although I also like giving pets old fashioned names...Clement and Humphrey, I can just picture them. Lazy fluffy cuddle cats! XD

[wintermoth]

3 for the songs

Every Heart/Fukai Mori mashup by Amalee

Added a year ago. I love Inuyasha and this cover is absolutely GORGEOUS.

[wintermoth]

Naughty Nine

Naughty? Lol.

Monster by Eminem and Rhianna

I don’t remember why it’s on here, only that it’s been here for 4 years. I remember listening to it in Italy lol! I think my mom, of all people, got me to like this song.