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Knower's Writing Comms!

Hello! I've decided to offer some writing comms for the month. Ive got experience in writing comms for the past 5 years, on top of a Bachelor's Degree in writing. I'm in a bit of a low spot of jobs, so I'm going to offer some writing comms!

DM to let me know if you are interested!

NOTICE

I reserve the legal claim to my writing, and it may not be used in any AI work whatsoever. You may keep your story private or public as you see fit, as long as I am credited!

Commission Options

Short Stories, any subject. Revisions included. Non-fiction, if desired Beta Reader and/or Editing

Will Write:

SFW just bout anything? ask me and we can discuss it Note: NSFW stories will add a 10% fee, along with certain fetishes.

Will not write:

Anything that makes me uncomfortable certain fetishes are an instant no

Work Time:

Story/Non-Fiction

Time to finish a story will roughly take one to two weeks. Depending on length of story it can take longer. By the one to second week, I will provide a rough draft for the work. At that point, you will be able to request any changes you wish for the project. The form of the draft will be by standard be a PDF - other forms of document, such as Google Doc, may be provided upon request.

After the first revision, I will provide a second draft. The time for this will take roughly a week to two, depending on changes requested. NOTE: First revision is free, revisions after will cost 10% of the total work.

Beta Reading

As soon as the work I will be beta reading is provided, I will start. Once I have finished, I will provide my feedback and thoughts. How I do so is open to negotiation.

Prices - US Dollars

Paypal Only currently. Other methods TBD.

5 for every 500 words - story/nonfiction NSFW adds 10%/.10 price to the story. (Not applicable to anything below 1000 words.)

Revision Prices: First major revision - Free! Second major revision on, if desired - 10% of the total work.

Beta Reader Prices: Price begins at $5 for 1k words. Every 1k words after adds $2 to the price.

Examples:

Short Story/Non-Fiction 500 words - $5 1000 words - $10 2000 words - $20 3000 words - $30

NSFW story 1000 words - $11 2000 words - $22 3000 words - $33

Revision 1000 word revised twice - $11 2000 word revised twice - $22

Beta Reading 1k words - $5 3k words - $9

Length:

This is negotiable, but I will prefer to set a soft cap of 5k words. All depends on how long a writing you want!

Contact Me!

Here! via dms Discord (Ask)

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indygotcha

uneryx

Emergency Commissions

This... had been a bad month. My cat was diagnosed with cancer, and the vet bills ran me through the absolute wringer. On top of that, I found out the hard way, just now, that I didn't get paid for the recent stat holiday due to my show's unusual schedule. So I'm like $200ish short on my bills. If you guys want any art - hell, even just some basic-ass sketch - and can slice me a little dough, I would REALLY REALLY appreciate it. I kinda need it because I've gotten SERIOUSLY fucked over in the money department this month. So uh, yeah. kofi | vgen Thanks in advance :(

pokemon-explorers-comic

New mission: Stand around an abandoned around town for possibly days YIPPEEEEEEE!

Cover Page

chillyfeetsteak

from this article, which is well worth the read, if only for the fun of seeing zuck get dunked on

purplejabberwock

My bestie's tags

biglawbear

AI is just Really Advanced Counting

wafflewarrior111

So... I found this and now it keeps coming to mind. You hear about "life-changing writing advice" all the time and usually its really not—but honestly this is it man.

I'm going to try it.

missroserose

I love the lawyer metaphor, because whenever I see “John knew that...” in prose writing I immediately think “how? How does he know it?” Interrogate your witnesses. Cross-examine them. Make them explain their reasoning. It pays dividends.

heck-in-a-handbasket

All of this, but also feels/felt. My editor has forbidden me from using those and it’s forced me to stretch my skills.

ineedthesons

This is your "show not tell" advice explained!

tarysande

Editor here.

First, let me preface this with something very important: you can treat all of this advice as SECOND-DRAFT ADVICE. It is so much easier to rewrite this kind of stuff once you have words on the page. Telling yourself the first draft is totally appropriate and acceptable.

What we’re talking about here are FILTER WORDS (and to some degree verbs of being). Yes, “thought” words are included. But so are “heard, saw, looked, tasted, smelled” etc.—most words having to do with the senses.

This isn’t black and white advice; sometimes you’ll use these words and that’s okay. They’re not WRONG. They’re just weaker. And they’re weaker because they create distance between the reader and the experience of the character.*

If you want your reader to feel like they’re experiencing the story right alongside the character, you want to cut down on filter words.

*This is particularly important with first person and close third POVs. The reader always knows whose eyes they’re seeing through and thoughts they’re privy to. So you don’t need to tell them “I saw X.” Or “I heard X.” Or “I thought Y.” You can just jump into the action/observation as it’s happening.

This is also where you want to pay attention to verbs of being.

“It was rainy.” Versus: “The rain pounded against the roof.” Or “The rain howled like an injured animal.” Or “The rain tapped against the window like an anxious lover.” All of these are inviting the reader deeper into the experience of the story by using stronger verbs and similes. And, at the same time, they stir feelings (instead of TELLING feelings). And feelings keep your reader engaged. Engaged readers keep turning pages; engaged readers become FANS.

the-haiku-bot

This is also where

you want to pay attention

to verbs of being.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

defilerwyrm

The most valuable advice that Author Ex gave me through the years that we wrote together was this: the problem with all these filter words is that they create distance in the POV.

That means that when you read a line like

John saw that the curtains were open.

It immediately takes you OUT of the character's perspective and instead tells you what they experience as a secondhand observation.

You don't have to get fancy or purple with how you rephrase things like this. Not everything needs a ton of breathing room.

You wanna know what's perfectly impactful while keeping a tight POV?

The curtains were open.

Simple as that.

songlin

This was one of my all time most powerful writing lessons! This mindset shift makes you a stronger writer immediately in a way that just keeps getting easier and better for you.

elumish

The take I always have on advice like this is that "John saw that the curtains were open." and "The curtains were open." are sentences that are telling you two different pieces of information.

Some of this, yes, is about POV distance--but some of it is also about the information being conveyed by the sentence. If you are using a sentence like "John saw that the windows were open" it should be because the information you are seeking to convey is that John saw it.

Maybe this matters because the next time John looks back they are closed, and so he's doubting what he saw. Maybe it matters because he later has to recount information about the room he was in, and it's notable that he specifically saw that the windows were open. The fact and method of his observation is part of the point of the sentence, rather than simply the observation itself.

When we are using sense verbs, it should be because part of the point is the sense. Same with "thought", "felt", etc.: "Mary thought that Susan looked a little thin" is telling us a different piece of information than "Susan looked a little thin."

Contrarily, at least in my opinion, simple telling phrasing like "It was rainy" can sometimes bring us more into a character's head than something showing like "The rain howled like an injured animal." I have read books when a relatively plain-spoken/plain-thinking character suddenly starts having elaborate descriptions of things like scenery or weather, and it is abundantly clear that the author wanted to spruce up their writing and avoid "telling." The problem is that it drags me as the reader out of the character's head and shows me where all of the strings are. I'm suddenly thinking about how the author is worried about being yelled at for "telling" instead of just reading the story.

Your writing, down to the sentence structure and word choice level, should be about what you are trying to accomplish. Is the point to tell us that the window was open, or is it to tell us that John saw that the window was open?

the-supernatural-atheist

if theres one thing that really pissed me off from my 3 years of architecture i took in high school it's learning about how we used to have all these little techniques to maximize or minimize heat or warmth and now we just merrily abandoned all those to have the same copypaste style buildings everywhere that are often INCREDIBLY unoptimized to the local weather and climate so we can just throw more money at our heating and cooling bills

the-supernatural-atheist

where i live it is hot as balls approximately 80% of the year. i do not want a massive butt-ugly grey mcmansion with a huge echoey open-concept kitchen-livingroom-foyer-diningroom-staircase that has huge windows so i can have an hvac unit the size of a barge heaving and straining to keep it at a constant 72 the grees. i want a north indian traditional style home with small windows to force the airflow to cool, decorative grates to limit the amount of sunlight, and a COURTYARD with a POND *smashes unspecified large object*

makaeru

I hate learning about instances of "oh yeah we know how to do that, we just don't".

lonestatus

can i get paid handsomely for wtiting stupid bullshit no one even cares about

greenyvertekins

This poor desperate Egg Fighter... Given they're sapient, it almost makes you feel guilty for destroying them on a daily basis.

opheliathegrey

qqchurch

animentality

tilkidud

sneak attack

preserving-tiktok

taraljc

This is an awesome use of what is probably a master's degree if not a doctorate and I am 100% thrilled that she shared it even though it was embarrassing and she squeaked.

liminalbeauty

Thank you, adorable scientist, for making people's lives better.

punchspeedchunk

As an Australian, THIS WOMAN IS A FUCKING GODSEND.

notasapleasure

this is Hannah Fry, Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.

graffitinight

When you try to talk about enshittification, it sounds like conspiracy theories. (I'm not crazy)

Amazon made their service worse, to force people to pay for Prime.

Nowadays, if you order from Amazon, there is a week long delay before your package is shipped. (on purpose)

I remember when orders would ship out the same day. (I remember - it was real)

YouTube didn't used to have ads. Now, ads play in the middle of videos. (it's worse than TV ever was)

The best can opener I have owned is over 40 years old. Modern ones just don't hold up as well. (The ones I bought new broke ages ago)

The bread machine my mom got for her wedding lasted 30 years. It's been replaced twice in the last 5 years. (How can you fuck this up?)

The cardboard tubes in the middle of toilet paper rolls have gotten larger. (This too?) Companies increasing the price of the product while selling you less. (REALLY?)

It sounds crazy. (it's the truth) When you talk about it, YOU sound crazy. (it's true)

Even when people believe you (do they really), all they can say is "it sucks". (it's too big) Because the problem is so big, so pervasive, what can we even DO about it???

To get the necessary laws written and passed, we need politicians, to get the politicians elected we need information campaigns, to fund campaigns we need money, and all the money is being hoarded by the people profiting from enshittification. (it sounds so fake)

So I talk about enshittification (it sounds crazy), so people don't forget that things have been made worse on purpose (it's true), even though I sound crazy. (maybe I am)

violetsandshrikes

okay so if you need more veggies/fruit, protein or fibre (bc most people do NOT eat enough) in your diet but you struggle to do so, hear me out:

look up recipes (especially snack recipes) that are child/toddler/baby-friendly

i can guarantee there is a woman with a cooking blog out there who has found away to pack a bunch of vegetables into a surprisingly delicious little snack for her kids. this process has never failed me when i feel like i am not eating enough fruits and veggies. my entire flat is eating spinach muffins at the moment, which doesn’t sounding particularly appealing to most people and yet somehow. they’re delicious.

violetsandshrikes

putting some of my saved recipes under a read more for people to use as inspiration or a starting point ❤️

This healthy, gluten free recipe idea is a kid pleaser! Quinoa Pizza Bites make a nutritious meal or snack the whole family will love.

Carrot star bites are fantastic for baby-led weaning or as toddler snack. Also great for big kids too - a healthy lunchbox item.

These Green Smoothie Muffins are so easy to make, delicious and kid-approved! Perfectly sweet, soft and packed with healthy greens! Naturall

These carrot lentil protein muffins are a great kid-friendly snack, filled with sneaky lentils to add healthy protein, fibre and nutrients.

These Vegetable Fritters are perfect for kids of all ages. Packed with veggies for nutrients & eggs and chickpea flour for protein. Gluten f

This lentil bake is perfect for babies, kids and adults. Made with 4 veggies, lentils, sweet potato and egg. Great for lunch boxes.

Quinoa Cakes are an easy way to pack in nutrients! Make in advance for a fun, healthy side or snack during the week! {Gluten Free, Vegan}

violetsandshrikes

here’s a few more:

Healthy Chocolate Zucchini Muffins are moist, tender, mixed in one bowl, made with whole wheat flour, naturally sweetened with a little mapl

Baked sweet potato zucchini tots made with 3 key ingedients are nut free, vegan and paleo. Healthy baked veggie tots perfect for school lunc

This super veggie pasta sauce for babies and toddlers is delicious on top of all kinds of pasta! With over 7 different oven roasted vegetabl

Flavorful & full of veggies, these mini meatloaves are a great twist on a classic family dinner recipe. Easy to make, perfectly portioned ou

Looking for a quick, protein-packed snack or breakfast that’s both delicious and nutritious? These Cottage ... <p class="read-more-container

avantegarda

UPDATE: I happened to have all the ingredients for the spinach muffins on this list and made them today, and folks, they're GOOD. They have a very nice mild flavor and don't actually taste like spinach at all

aquillis-main

It took me a bit, but I wanted to make a cave background with a kind of shared throne as the centerpiece.

Does it feel like a cavern enough? Am I pushing it too far? Who knows, but I feel I got it with this.

... I think.

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