Dazzle Me

Welcome to Lyla Land. FANDOMS: -You will find me on Pigfarts. -Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains? It must be so boring. -DFTBA -Wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff -Where the school's handsomest boys with too much time on their hands entertain young ladies who also have way too much time on their hands -And if anyone were to find this diary, and read it, and come to the conclusion that I am crazy - they would be spot on. -What-I-call CLIFFHANGER -Trust the cloak -True Alpha -You are now free to leave the FAYZ. -Now, get the hell out of my office. -The centre will hold, Roza -Seid ihr das Essen/ Nein, wir sind der Jäger -FIRE FERRETS -Kappa Kappa Tau -A

[barryogg]

Hmm

[barryogg]

This is getting lots of notes, so guess what

[dankmemeuniversity]

[yousaveeveryonebutwhosavesyou]

[thevenusiandiva]

[frognonbinary-deactivated202412]

i’ve been doing my homework on how to break into a writing career and honestly. there’s a Lot that i didn’t know about thats critical to a writing career in this day and age, and on the one hand, its understandable because we’re experiencing a massive cultural shift, but on the other hand, writers who do not have formal training in school or don’t have the connections to learn more via social osmosis end up extremely out of loop and working at a disadvantage. 

[frognonbinary-deactivated202412]

like, i didnt know about twitter pitch parties!! i didnt know about literary agents and publishers tweeting their manuscript wishlist, in hopes that some poor soul out there has written the book they really want to read and publish!! this isnt some shit you learn about in school! you really need to know the ins and outs of the writing community to be successful! 

[frognonbinary-deactivated202412]

for anyone interested, here’s what i’ve learned so far in my quest for more writing knowledge:

1. Writer’s Market 2019 is a great place to start– it gives you a list of magazines and journals that you can send your work to depending on the genre as well as lists a shit ton of literary agents that specify what genres they represent, how you can get in contact with them and how they accept query letters. this is a book that updates every year and tbh i only bought it this year so i dont know how critical it is to have an updated version  

2. do your research. mostly on literary agents because if you listed on your site that you like to represent fluffy YA novels and some asshole sends you a 80k manuscript about like…gritty viking culture, you will be severely pissed off. always go in finding someone who you know will actually like your work because they’re the ones who will try to advocate for you in getting published.

3. learn how to write a query letter. there are slightly varying formulas to how you can write an effective query letter. you’re also going to want to get feedback on your query letter because its the first thing the literary agent will read and based on how well you do it, it could be the difference between them rejecting you outright and giving your manuscript a quick read

4. unfortunately, you’re gonna want to get a twitter. Twitter is where a lot of literary agents are nowadays, and they host things like twitter pitch parties, where you pitch your manuscript in a few sentences and hashtag it with #Pitmad #Pitdark, some version of pit. a lot of literary agents and publishers will ALSO post their manuscript wishlists, which is just the kind of books they’d like to represent/publish, and they hashtag this with #MSWL (it is NOT for writers to use, only for agents/publishers)

5. connect with other writers, literary agents, publishers at book events. you will absolutely need the connections if you want to get ahead as a writer. thats just kind of the state of the world.

[poems-and-word]

“There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.”

— Neil Gaiman, American Gods (via books-n-quotes)

[dankmemeuniversity]

[dykeblight-deactivated20201006]

annabeth chase, age 12: never say anything bad about the gods ever. names are powerful.

annabeth chase, age 18: the gods? they’re all pussies. hey hera. HERA. fuck you.

[dragonauri]

freshman year vs. senior year

[anxietyproblem]

[oak23]

We forgot about it

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

[buffaliengirlfriend]

the newlywed game but with superheros and their sidekicks.

[buffaliengirlfriend]

the host: what does robin love to eat after a night of fighting crime?

9 yr old dick grayson: a pb&j, with crunchy peanut butter and strawberry jelly on whole wheat, the crust cut off, and the sandwich cut into squares!!

bruce: turns his sign around to reveal ‘the most specific peanut butter and jelly sandwich on earth.’

lets have phone sex over walkie talkies

[rninor-blog]

“bend over” “bend what? over”

[biologust]

listen i know that companies start putting out pride stuff as pride month gets closer since they will absolutely do anything in their power to make money since theyre capitalistic opportunist corporations but literally nothing will stop me from wanting that cute little rainbow backpack

[k3vxz93pfd28bdw0s2]

whenever a kid in school asked me to spell icup i would just keep spelling it e-y-e-c-u-p until they got annoyed and i asked “well how are you supposed to spell it” and then they would spell it out and fucking own themselves and never recover and have to change schools, every time, self-esteem obliterated for life

[mxnrique]

[birthdaylobotomy]

maybe if we, as a society, spent more time in gardens things wouldn’t be like this

[zakmarcin]

women’s march 2019

[makingfunofthestarks]