Alllright, lovelies! Depression is Kicking My Butt™ right now (hence why I haven’t been very active) so IT’S TIME TO TOSS RANDOM POSITIVITY AT PEOPLE HOORAY
Below are some absolutely brilliant writeblrs who have recently been some MASSIVE inspirations of mine! Not to mention their content is just... *chef’s kiss* the BEST.
@livvywrites - Larissa’s Crown has just had me CAPTIVATED. I’m in love with Livvy’s deep world lore and the AMAZING worldbuilding behind each of the separate races, and just... space opera! FULL of fun shenanigans! MY FAVE. And then!! The templates you made are so lovely and informative, and the universe you’ve created is so immersive, and... gosh, I just LOVE your writing and creativity so much.
@ardawyn - BEAUTIFUL edits, GORGEOUS imagery, AMAZING characters, and all in all a writing style that invokes a lovely medieval feeling to the whole thing? Seriously, Sophie’s word choice and description blows my mind! The pictures in my mind that her writing paints is! So vivid, so REAL, I can feel that cold wind or sand or hillside, I FEEL SO SMALL when imagining those mountains, I’m in awe at the colours, and the shapes, and the majesty of it all! And she conveys character dynamics so powerfully, sometimes with only a few words she can have you knowing just how far two characters would go to protect each other. <3
@surroundedbypearls - Yeah I may or may not be deeply invested in To Catch The Sea a tad too much. Adam is?? So helplessly in love??? He’s like a love-sick puppy and yet he’s SO lost on what to do!! The pining is KILLING ME! I can’t stop reading!! And he’s just such a lovable bean and they both are so cute AHHHH. AND THEN THE WORLDBUILDING. I’ve only seen hints of the setting’s lore, but what I HAVE seen is so so intriguing!! Tattoos and trials, Dragons and Chimeras! SO SO COOL.
@holotones - I haven’t had the chance to interact with Haeji very much but from afar, let me tell you, THEY MUST HAVE MADE A DEAL WITH A DEMON, ‘CAUSE THEIR WORK IS SPECTACULAR. Characters chock-full of lovably snarky and stubborn personality? Check. Outrageously glorious worldbuilding that just draws you right in? CHECK. AMAZINGLY unique and incredibly well executed story concepts? YEAH, GO HECKIN’ CHECK OUT HAEJI’S WORK.
@vespatrix - I’ve been lurking a lot lately just ‘cause I’m lacking a lot of motivation to interact, but just... Verveine’s edits blow me away each time. The colour balance, the images and textures, the wonderful frames and font choice! Ahhhh, I fall in love more with their story every time. And that’s not even mentioning the creativity and the REAL feeling to all of their story’s lore! The magic, the power, the beautiful, mythological feel! The characters’ individuality, the clear personality! INSPIRATIONAL.
@harehearts - A+++ art, I love that Waya’s characters are all so immediately identifiable--even without necessarily knowing what they look like in wolf form, I can make some pretty darn great guesses based on expression and build alone--seriously though, Benji’s lanky legs are just. My favourite. Benji is my favourite in general. Please leave Benji alone at least ONE of these days???? Plez???? AND THEN THERE’S THE WORLDBUILDING. I love the amount of research Waya has put into their work? It’s so obvious how much they love their stories and characters, and that love is simply contagious.
@abalonetea - I am CONSTANTLY being inspired by Katie. The amount of work she churns out? Is ridiculous? AND IT’S ALL SUCH HIGH QUALITY. Katie’s writing is just so emotional and deep and beautiful to read, and that’s including her little short stories that are maybe a few paragraphs long BUT FEEL LIKE FULLY FLESHED OUT STORIES AND WORLDS. Her worldbuilding is so wonderfully creative and her character dynamics are so, so GOOD. Honestly an idol of mine.
If you’re still doing the top 5 ask game: top 5 fave writeblrs? 💕💕 (Other than your posts my dash is kinda dead :/)
hmm since i think it’d be a crime to narrow it down to only five, i’m going to give you a WHOLE whackload of some excellent writeblrs! in no particular order:
I'm an in an reflective mood today so I'm going to list a few blogs that I'm really thankful that exist:
@thewalkingnerdx - you are amazing, active and supportive writbelr, creative beyond compare from moodboards to writing to even drawing - way too many cool hobbies it's unfair- and an amazing friend that I don't know what I would give for. I love your wips, ideas and talking with you is my biggest inspiration boost. I mean people pay 100s of dollars for services I get from talking with you.
@this-is-where-i-write-stuff - such a sweet friend with numerous talents and hobbies like drawing and making songs and playing instruments. Very supportive, fun to talk to - especially out messages about cutluters are super intersting.
@stories-by-rie - how are you so productive? If you aren't making one of your awesome constantly growing wips, you throw out short stories and poems and I'm always left amazed XD. Always here for a ear to listen and discuss things, you are a big part of my writbelr experience.
@kosmosian-quills - I love you girl, from your writing, to our rps to talking with you. The random tags in games or people or funny memes make me feel so special and thought of😂. Plus your creativity? It's something! And I can't thank you enough for the commisoned Grayson&Lilly picuture, it was an experience to have it♡
@cirianne - I mean writer who writes as a genius. This writing style, themes and amount of angst and heartbreak and incredible emotional investment is on par with published writers. Like I list you among my faves and people always ask me where they can find your books😂
@musicofglassandwords - your City of Shards is everything! Beautiful prose and scenes I get hunted by in dreams. Love this wip, and your blog👌
@cilly-the-writer - supportive friend, fun blog, your skills with drawing are superb and I love your drawing style, it's so cute. Not to mention the creativity behind your wip worlds and characters. One of the most imaginative I found on web.
@ren-c-leyn - your blog is like a safe haven in the writeblr community - I go here for comfort, the amounts of positivity and intersting discussions.
@tenacious-scripturient - we don't interact much but I love to see you on my dash or in my notes and silently appreciate you being there. Awesome creative wips going on here I can recommend👌and a very nice blog atmosphere.
I know I’m forgetting a lot, and some people are on hiatus, but I always look forward to updates from these writeblrs, and I frequently lurk on their blogs lol. If anyone wants to reblog with their recommendations, go ahead!
In honor of positive(blr), here are some of the writeblrs I’ve been following and why I enjoy their feed!
@yetmorestories consistently posts about their WIP Court of Lanterns, Court of Glass. Their cast of characters is filled with a plethora of unique people so it’s easy to find one that you just love. (I personally love Aidan, a nonbinary quiet librarian.)
@tranquilsuggestion lives up their URL and frequently reblogs and posts quotes that really capture a sense of calm and serenity with a dash of a little angsty romance every now and then. I love this writeblr for brightening my day without bringing me down.
@books-n-quotes is another great writeblr for quotes from a large variety of sources that I often use as inspiration for styling my lines.
@the-real-rg reblogs a lot of other WIPs and writing tips and also posts really good content/aesthetics for her own WIP Run Says the Devil. Run Says the Devil is a great fantasy read with intense characterization and worldbuilding and, if you’re looking to beta read, you can volunteer to help with RstD.
@kaafka is someone I’ve been following since before I got a writeblr on my personal account. She posts the most gorgeous aesthetics and quote. I also recently found out about her other accounts @wordtamer and @mxcbth which post personal writing and art pieces respectively.
@sulfurousdreamscapes posts really intriguing flash fiction type pieces that almost always draw you in with surreal atmospheres and quickly established characters that leave you wanting more.
@writings-of-a-narwhal generally posts a variety of writeblr related things as well. You get a good sprinkle of reading about their writing process balanced out by a lot of writing positivity and references.
@selfescaping posts really short but evocative passages. I think some of them are autobiographical as well so they definitely take advantage of their unique experiences and perspective on life.
@lifeinpoetry posts short excerpts/quotes from larger poetry pieces that are always gorgeous.
@caffeinewitchcraft was the first writeblr I followed and also the writeblr that got me on Tumblr. I binge read all of her stories in one night and then made my first Tumblr the next day to follow her. Her short stories are always clever, powerful, and well-written.
This is far from everyone I follow and enjoy reading from! I just got tired because it’s late at night. Please spread the positivity and give love to the writeblrs you enjoy!
I knooowwww this is super late but Quill got real busy this week with working on schoolwork and Nano so I didn’t have time to finish this up until now but!! Have this!!!
As a part of Writeblr Positivity Week, a lovely event hosted by the wondrous @pens-swords-stuff, I have put together:
A Selection of Quill’s Favourite WIPs and Writeblrs
(Because there is absolutely No Way I could show all of them, and this is already super long so under the cut we go~)
@lady-redshield-writes: Not only a wonderfully supportive icon of the writeblr community, who always leaves marvelously inspiring and insightful comments on original content that gives me and undeniably many others so much more motivation to write, but Lady Red is also such a heckin’ inspirationally SKILLED WRITER. IT’S HECKIN’ AMAZING. Her characters! Her description! The amount of personality in her dialogue and just how engaging her worldbuilding and created atmospheres are, but the EMOTION. THE EMOTION. GOOOO read something of hers and you’ll instantly know what I mean---good luck getting through not completely overwhelmed with feeling!
And Miles to Go Before I Sleep: Humans are the size of insects, warriors ride dragonflies into battle, and an eldritch god-ant rules with absolute power.
Symphony Number Five: Evka Sekerak, composer and musician, directs the Teplirov Symphony, and is commissioned to write her fifth symphony by the military officials who keep her city captive.
@waterfallwritings: HECK MATE. JASON. DUDE. WHERE DO I START? YOU’VE BEEN TOSSING COMPLIMENTS MY WAY ALL DAY WHAT. But seriously though, this kid is best. Best Friendo of the Quill. Jason is hugely supportive throughout my writing and throughout my real life since I met him, and his own writing is basically the main inspiration behind why OSS even exists in the first place. We’ve had absolutely so much fun reading through each others’ works and joking around, and talking with him has helped me to discover and develop so many things about my own wip. Not only that but!! His writing is marvelous. His characters are all so fun in their own ways, and I’ve loved watching as they’ve developed to such three dimensional personalities in a story full of epic adventure and intrigue!
A Selkie’s Home: After a storm and a shipwreck, a selkie missing her skin, a triton disguised as a human, a morally questionable sea witch, and a hapless lover of the ocean end up on the same island. When the selkie is kidnapped, the remaining three have to form an unlikely alliance to get her back.
@bookenders: ENDERS IS A REAL DARN NEAT PERSON OKAY. She is the cool 🌵 friend!! She’s a wondrously creative and kind person, and so much fun to talk to! Her STS asks are always so interesting to answer and I just. And I! Just! Love! Her writing oh my stars it’s the best thing ever. Her characters are always so relatable and lovable, with such wonderful personalities and are always so detailed that they feel like real people. She’s also the creator of several of my favourite characters (see: Fred from H2H and Ryan from FF). Her description is astounding, and the way she experiments with different formats and styles is so, SO inspiring, and she always does it in such a skillful way, that reads so nicely!
Heart to Heart: After a series of half-drownings in the lake near the small town of Lindsay, a strange woman appears on the shore, refusing to speak. The local apothecary is sent in to try and help, and now... they’re roommates?
Fish Food: Now assigned to facing the villains of the lowest threat levels after suffering severe losses from his fight against the supervillain Nightmare, Iron Will has to team up with the worst villain he’s ever seen to fend off the threat of a conspiracy that could destroy their world as they know it.
@abalonetea: OKAY FIRST. Amazingly supportive. Amazingly friendly and creative and an absolute delight to talk to! Katie is marvelous. Her art and her moodboards are so cool and so wonderfully fitting to her characters and stories. And her writing? Oh. Ohhh. Her writing is to die for. Her unique skill of manipulating different text formatting to match the emotion and thoughts of her narrative is just. Stellar, and sets her writing apart from anything I’ve read before. It’s so full of emotion, the way she writes dynamics is INSPIRATIONAL, and her worldbuilding is so wonderfully detailed and engaging. I just. I just LOVE. OKAY. I don’t normally ship characters but Red and Bolte will always be my favourite. And Katie’s message of hope being able to stick it through the worst of it is such a wonderfully motivational theme!
Groundhog Day: Two versions of the same classic rpg video game, one the gritty reboot of the other, glitch together, switching the games of one of the characters with his counterpart—Red and Blue. Now they have to try and find their ways back amidst the formation of friendship and family and the threat of a new war.
As Time Passes On: Two classic pirates form a precarious alliance to set out to find the Eighth Sea, and a device that can turn back time.
@livvywrites: I’ve only more recently been getting into Livvy’s works but. Wooooooow. WOW. Her writing is fantabulous. Her graphics are gorgeous. I LOVE her characters, so so much. They’re all so distinct in personality and backstory and situation, and the way they’re all involved in the story is marvelously fascinating. SPEAKING OF THE STORY THO. Livvy’s worldbuilding is???? SO IN DEPTH. It is the most deep worldbuilding for a magic type world I think I’ve yet to see on writeblr? I am sooo very excited to see how she integrates it into the plot! But also Livvy is an absolutely magnificent person all around and so supportive and creative and sooo fun to talk to. Love ya, darling~
The Martyr Queen: Alinora Mynerva is visited by one of Death's Reapers, and told she was never meant to exist. She is asked to become his Champion, to stop Fate from destroying the world. Alinora isn't sure she's willing to fight a god... but she is willing to fight the man who took her homeland from her 10 years ago.
Pirate’s Bane: [Quill legitimately can’t summarize this one in so short a space because it’s so delightfully complex, but it’s a brilliant continuation of the previous book above! Go click the link to read the synopsis on the intro post~]
@mvcreates: I’M SORRY FOR ALL THESE TAGS DEAR MINA BUT YOU DESERVE THEM. Probably just the most interactive person in the writeblr community, Mina’s events and ask games and onwards all are so wonderful, and her engagement with reblogging and commenting on people’s original content is inspirational. AND I’M SAYING IT FOR THE THOUSANDTH TIME BUT THAT DOESN’T DECREASE IT’S MEANING: heckin’ poetic like prose with how much symbolism she fits in there and how lovely it sounds to read aloud, wonderfully clever dialogue and banter and characterization, and characters you love to root for. And her ART. OH MY STARS HER ART. *swoons at majestic colours and shading and textures*
Retrocognition: An investigative journalist with a paranormal gift joins forces with a cantankerous federal agent to expose a Reno-based politician’s (murderous) corruption.
The Vizier’s Apprentice: An alternate universe retelling of a classic Persian love story: One Thousand and One Nights.
@dogwrites: Venturing into the world of Crime of Mind has only been a very recent endeavour of mine, and I’m only two episodes in at the moment, but gosh golly yarn darn it this story is MARVELOUS. Dog’s ability to write memorable characters with such distinct and identifiable personalities is lovely, their dialogue is wonderful and the body language and description is so heckin’ engaging, and puts you right in the scene with them. And Dog’s also a marvelous artist holy wow. NOT TO MENTION just how awesome Dog is as a person?? Heckin’ ridiculously nice, leaves such insightful and appreciated comments that charge me on. AH. JUST A LOVELY LOVELY THAT I HAD SUCH AN HONOUR OF MEETING. YES.
Crime of Mind: Dr. Benji Russells, an autistic federal agent, is the youngest member of the Behavioral Analysis Unit, whose knack at viewing individuals and their behavioral chemtrails turned her into a viable asset---but delving into the minds of the country's most insidious leaves none unscathed in the end.
@ardawyn: OH. MASTER OF DESCRIPTION, HERE. All of Sophie’s writing feels like it could have been written in the world of the story itself despite being very clear and lovely to read, with a vaguely medieval vibe to it all that adds so much to the reading experience. The way she describes environments just puts you right into the scene with the characters, characters that are all written marvelously with beautifully lovable personalities and dialogue and dynamics. And her graphics? Oh, ohhhh. Sophie is probably my greatest inspiration for making graphics and aesthetics for writeblr. Every single one of hers are instantly eye-catching and fit the mood and theme sooo well. Plus, the comments she leaves on my content are just the sweetest thing, and always warm my heart when I read them. <3
The Dawnbringer: A niece of Issarien’s king, Tilda fights against the constricting expectations of her role, making it her mission to find her brother after his disappearance. Rajani is given rooms in the castle of the Prince of Hallrein after being caught stealing, offered a perilous deal she has no choice but to accept. But these two women are connected in an unknown way...
Night Crystals: Amaria was raised an assassin at the orphanage The Obsidian to serve the king of Calastari. But after discovering a secret, she must make the choice whether to stay and swallow lies, or seal her death sentence trying to leave.
@radley-writes: Although I haven’t interacted much yet with Radley, I’ve fallen completely in love with their writing and ideas. Their art is so lovely and professional and clean, and the body language and personality it portrays is marvelous. But their writing? Outrageously good, and brilliantly hilarious. I’ve mainly only been following His Majesty’s Starship so far, but the way that Radley is able to match the vocabulary and narrative to the time period of the story is so skillful and inspiring, and is absolutely wonderfully engaging by placing you right into the setting like it’s real. The integration of worldbuilding is done extraordinarily well and I am in love with all of the distinct personalities and dialogue of their wondrous cast of idiots.
His Majesty’s Starship: The Eurasian powers expand their empires to the furthest-flung reaches of the solar system – as well as their endless wars. As nations and companies vie for control of the Off-World Colonies , a trio of utter imbeciles come into possession of a secret that many would kill for. A secret that changes everything…
Anywayssss there are sooo, so many more wips that I consider favourites of mine, and so many more writeblrs that I think are the absolute bomb, but Quill’s energy isn’t limitless!
That said, maybe I’ll make up a simpler post of a bunch of recommendations later... hm..........
so i got on tumblr a while back and basically expected radio silence and instead i have friends?? including @cawolters who is not only a stunning writer but also super encouraging and nominated me for this thing?? you definitely want to follow her.
unclear if i’m doing this right but let’s dive in.
Guidelines For The Blogger Recognition Award:
Thank the blogger for nominating you and give the link to their blog.
Write a blog post on your blog/website showing the award.
Describe the story of why you started your blog.
Give two pieces of advice you have for new bloggers.
Nominate 15 more bloggers and remember to notify each of your nominees if you cross platforms.
What made you want to start your blog?
look i was on tumblr in high school and this site is a trashfire, but it’s
my
trashfire. writeblr has gotten really cool and i love the feeling of community and solidarity among all these disparate people fighting the blank page and encouraging one another to keep falling in love with their wips.
Advice for new bloggers:
1.
make friends.
make an intro post. I promise people will pass it around. search for intro posts (i think the “writeblr intro” tag is pretty active) to find people to start with, if you’re hunting for people. and then like, reblog, comment. not necessarily in that order. you might gain a handful of followers by flinging high-quality stuff into the void, but you’ll make a lot more—and lots of
friends
, which is not at all the same thing and is definitely better imho—by interacting with other people. if someone’s snipped looks interesting, ask to be on their tag list. reblog it with some gushing in the tags. inbox people about their ocs. play tag games and ask games. start recognising the urls you see a lot.
2.
for the love of all that is holy organise your tags.
i didn’t do this and i have had regret ever since so. yeah. just do it or you’ll never find anything on your blog again without scrolling for hours. i believe in you <3
