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trying on a metaphor
ojovivo
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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Mike Driver
Sade Olutola
if i look back, i am lost
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Game of Thrones Daily
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@theartofmadeline
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@unwrittenramblings
a five year old note among my 1588 saved notes that just reads: four-dimensional salmon
OH WAIT I REMEMBER WHAT THAT MEANT
a higher-dimensional creature whose life cycle involves 'swimming upstream' backwards through time from the end of the universe to their spawning site at the birth of the universe
The Witch’s Grave by Artem Demura
This artist on Instagram
Does writeblr seem quieter lately for others? I’ve never been “popular,” so I’m used to notes being small, but even other writer mutuals I’ve barely seen get active.
I’m going to be the five-year-old lone voice to the contrary and say… it’s always this way! I hear a “does writeblr seem less active lately?” every few months. This as, of course, writeblr maintains its top 10 spot in Tumblr’s Communities list year after year after year. So, why does writeblr so often feel dead?
If you’re following, say, twenty writeblrs, and one does each of the following:
deletes their blog because writing was a phase they’re out of
deletes their blog because they’re merging the content with their main blog
goes on temporary hiatus
goes on permanent hiatus (especially accidentally)
changes their icon and URL such that you accidentally unfollow them
changes what they blog about such that you purposefully unfollow them
doesn’t post often, because they only post original fiction
doesn’t post often, because they’re not as into writing
has a drastically different time zone from you
has the same time zone, but uses Tumblr completely differently
…you might see, on any given day, only ten writeblrs on your dash!
That’s just the nature of writing. People can’t drop original writing daily, and most people aren’t obsessive about The Discoursethetic of Writing. It’s a difficult hobby to really sit down and do consistently, let alone also dedicate an entire separate blog to. Most people do not get invested in blogging-about-writing on a daily basis permanently. It is far more common, in my experience, for a blog to eventually go on extended hiatus than it is for it to stick around. I maintain this blog consistently, but very few of the people who were around when I got here are still here in the same way. I am a professional writer– meaning, I get paid to do it– so Tumblr is my professional social media. I’m not surprised most people can’t dedicate that much time to what is often a thankless, effortful, and time-consuming hobby. (It’s also, as others said, mid-“Holiday Season” and post-NaNo and mid-COVID and etc.)
Tumblr has many fandom circles, though, and there’s likely a group of active writers right next door to you whom you haven’t met yet. I’d never seen you around before, but Tumblr delivered me this post on Explore: Hello! Nice to meet you! So, the good news is that this problem is easy to solve. I follow the #writeblr intro tag, tag writeblrs in my activity for tag games, participate in events, chat in the Welcome to Writeblr server, and try to be loud when I like something. You can also always make a new writeblr intro/promo post and openly state that your dash is dry. Right now the Twitter Exodus is lending us a lot of new blood! If you keep reaching out, you’ll build a circle that can last even when some of the fringes fall off.
I also want to add that, since I’ve just spent thirty minutes typing this out and I’ll undoubtedly link back to it when future people pose the same question, I love everyone who asks this. I love the concern and support shown for other writers. I love seeing people express care for those around them. I think it’s incredible that you’re asking in the first place, and I’m so glad to see the response you’re getting. I hope you’ve found some new folks this way!
And besides, so many of us are quiet and reserved by nature. It’s the paradox of “Look at my writing, but don’t perceive me, please.”
That and the occasional writing spree where you forget the internet exists. or the burnout where you just don’t care.
But so long as Tumblr exists, there will be some weird little folks on here tippy-tapping up stories and sharing our favourite writing tips.
To do something positive on top of all this, if you're a writer of color, can you reblog and share something about yourself or your writing projects? Links so people can check them out would be great too!
It's not just about dunking on racists but making sure the stories that need to be heard are heard.
[White people are free to reblog to boost]
Hi, I'm Lee, I'm a black nonbinary lesbian, and I like writing sci-fi and fantasy stories! Currently what I'm working on is a sci-fi webcomic about a person that thinks they might be an alien!
Went through the tags/reblogs and as of 10/24 8 pm EST-ish these are the fellow writers of color you should be watching!
impaledlotus - main interests are "pretty people & convoluted relationships"
kudzucataclysm - fellow webcomic artist (heyyyy)
aninkwellofnectar - "If you like courtly intrigue, flowery prose, villainous love interests and gothic romances full of doom, heartbreak and passion then my story might be for you!"
theskeletonprior - "Many queer and trans things. My OCs are all queer in some way or another. Transmascs. Transmascs everywhere."
b-a-pigeon - "queer fantasy featuring characters of color"
jezifster - "I like to write things that I want to see in fiction like addiction, neurodivergency, bisexuality, homelessness, and not so subtle criticisms of capitalism and authoritarianism." (also the one that started this post woohoo)
cryptid-s-wips - "fantasy and sci-fi focused around queer characters and characters of color."
spacetimewraithwrites - "two installments of a ten-part mlm sci-fi series published as of this post!"
pens-swords-stuff - murder mystery romance and magical realism mystery
chayscribbles - "space fantasy trilogy wip featuring plant magic"
carrotblr - "my genre is SFF, particularly space fantasy or sci-fi for adults, and i also have interests in horror."
inkdaiquiri - "writer and poet whose works are usually sweet, sad, and sapphic."
talesfromaurea - "epic fantasy", novelizing Pathfinder
covenscribe - fantasy and "Dark fantasy western lesbian romance"
shaded-radon - "Science Fiction/Fantasy and Horror scripts, although my work is often re-described to me as "dark comedy." "
theglitchywriterboi - "fantasy & sci-fi stuff [& sometimes horror]"
writingbyricochet - "Primarily romance, historical fiction (or historically-inspired), fantasy, fanfiction"
celestialmaison - fanfiction and poetry
wherearetheplants - "my works focus mostly on culture, queerness, different types of relationships, grief/trauma, and stuff of the like! i write horror, paranormal fiction, fantasy, thrillers, shit like that."
philocalizt - "writes about familial issues and devotion to another person such that it burns the world to keep that person safe"
btranwrites - adult urban fantasy and TTRPG
tentatively-positive-3 - fanfiction, poetry, fantasy
Maybe I should start with just writing scenes again
Maybe it isn’t so scary
It’s been like 3+ years since I even opened my WIPs let alone added to them.
Maybe I just start doing lil scenes with my d&d characters if I can’t think of something new rather than try to flesh out a plot or make a character independent from a rule sheet.
Maybe I let it be okay that I don’t have anything new
Sometimes I want to write a fantasy epic with incredibly deep lore and meaning, other times I want to write a dystopian setting with a lot of uncomfortable truths. I also want to write a tragedy that will make people cry, and a romance that is so sweet that I'll give myself cavities. I want to write a story with no meaning or message at all, it's just chaos and fun, and a novel that explores the depths of humanity and the meaning of life. I want to write contemporary fiction and historical fiction and something that takes place in the future. I want to write mysteries, post-apocalyptic stories, thrillers, horror, urban fantasy and—
Making long-form webcomics is like
Oh my gosh. I just found this website that walks you though creating a believable society. It breaks each facet down into individual questions and makes it so simple! It seems really helpful for worldbuilding!
Heads up that this is a very extensive questionnaire and might be daunting to a lot of writers (myself included). That being said, it is also an amazing questionnaire and I will definitely be using it (or at the very least, some of it).
Bookmarking this…
bitches be like “im a writer” and then don’t write anything for 8 months
Why is it that I only have the urge to write when I in desperate need of sleeps
Me: I wanna talk abt my oc's :(((((((
Someone: *asks me abt my oc's*
Me:
Who?
me: looks at wip
wip: has not changed since last time i closed it
me: >:(
One random stranger on the internet: Hey I like your story :)
Me, frantically reaching for a pen: TIME TO WRITE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MONTHS
by Tyler Forest-Hauser
@sleepy-and-anxious
All rights reserved by tomoelwes on Flickr
It’s… it’s okay if you’re not very good at writing? I don’t know if this is much of a controversial opinion, but you are improving, and you are consistently moving forward even if you don’t see it. Progress is largely practice-based, especially in writing, and even if editors and beta readers weren’t a thing that are actively helping you every time they give a critique (and, well, why do you think those exist in the first place? Nobody’s perfect), you would still be improving just by writing more and reading others’ writing. It’s okay if you’re not good at writing. That doesn’t mean anything about you, and it definitely doesn’t mean anything permanent.
