Shadow And Ink

Lotus ✰ 23 ✰ Chaotic mess

[withintheeclipse]

“𝓛𝓪𝓭𝓲𝓮𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓰𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓵𝓮𝓶𝓮𝓷, 𝓘 𝓲𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓸𝓭𝓾𝓬𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓮𝓵𝓯𝓲𝓼𝓱 𝓶𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓮…”

General Intro

Hello and welcome to my writeblr! I’m attempting to force myself to be accountable so I’m reviving this place lmao

↳✰ Name: Lotus (You can also call me Eclipse if you want, I don’t mind all that much)

↳✰ Age: 23

↳✰ Pronouns: It/She/Star/Nebula/Moon/Gli/Glow/Cosmos

↳✰ Timezone: GMT

↳✰ Activity Level: Whenever I remember Tumblr exists ngl

Writing Stuff

Mostly I write fanfiction, but this blog will be primarily focused on my original, background-fantasy grief-centric piece titled If The Stars Had Answered.

More information about the piece will be added here as and when I figure it out!

Tags used

Original Post Tags

Eclipse Says Shit- Posts about the writing process, general day to day life, anything I want to just throw at Tumblr

Eclipse Snippets- Quotes and sections from my WIP

Eclipse Progress- Progress updates on my project, how the writing day’s gone, etc.

Reblog Tags

Eclipse Reblogs- General reblog tag

Kallias Hansley- Reblogs connected to inspiration or aesthetics involving the main character of my WIP

Fenrys Losette- Reblogs connected to inspiration or aesthetics involving the secondary character of my WIP

Aesthetic goodness- Writing or character aesthetic posts

Brain tingles- Quotes/snippets from other writblrs or authors that give me inspiration or just generally stand out to me

[withintheeclipse]

I’m writing againnnn

That’s right!

I live, and I’m writing again! I’m doing an “unofficial” Nano this year, and for the first time in the five or so years that I’ve been attempting to do it, I am smashing it! I’m over 1,000 words ahead of target today!

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Writing Update

Hello! I realise I’m probably like shouting into the void, so I’m gonna reblog this on my main to try and get some attention LMAO

Anyways, progress has been made! Not with my novel, but I have just finished Flufftober day one which makes me very happy :)

I’m hoping to do both Flufftober and Kinktober this year! Probably should have started earlier than now, but I remembered it existed the other day and checked for prompts only to find they’d been posted like a month ago 😂

But yeah! 1 piece down, 61 to go 😅

[psych-meup]

Guys, I realize that this post is probably going to sound sponsored, but I can assure you that it’s not. (I wish I was at that level).

A few days ago I started a new writing project, nothing new for me, but I found myself missing NaNoWriMo. As a stats nerd, I missed being able to track my data. So I googled word trackers for writers or something along those lines and I just so happened to stumble upon a site called TrackBear. It’s completely free and it has a lot of features. So far it’s one of the better sites I’ve used for data tracking and it’s been keeping me motivated.

You can log hours, words, pages, chapters, and scenes. You can make goals and it will show you when you’re likely to reach said goal, how many words a day you need, etc. If you want, I’m pretty sure you can also make your profile public and, from what I remember, the default setting is keeping your account private.

If you miss NaNo, maybe give this a go?

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Guess who has remembered she has a writing centric Tumblr

Gonna attempt to both revive this and also do actual writing again because it’s been somewhat rough lately.

But hey, an update! My book that I made this blog to post about has a title and some actual words now! It’s called If The Stars Had Answered and last time I checked it had like over 10,000 words down.

I’ve hit a wall with it at the moment, but I’m also learning that I can try the well known procrastination method of writing literally anything else! Because just not writing isn’t gonna help, so I gotta try to write around my project and just let things happen.

Anyways I’m writing this in bed at 11pm so. Goodnight lmao

[withintheeclipse]

Me in my last post: “I have decided that March is book planning time”

Also me: *has done virtually no planning and has now broken my foot*

Great month, yall /s

[ellipsus-writes]

Collaborative writing is a labor of love. What if it could be easier? 

Think connected drafts, not disconnected files. 

Think effortless version history and control. 

Think in-document chat. 

Far away from the prying eyes of AI and LLMs.

Ellipsus is a new writing tool for people who write together!

Two new features have arrived this week: Comments and Dark Mode! :D

We’re looking for feedback from folks who care a lot about writing.

Check us out, and join the Ellipsus beta.

[withintheeclipse]

Good evening, I have remembered that this Tumblr exists

I have decided that March is book planning time, because I need to do that

I have some writers booklet things and will get more when I can, and I’ll be working through those in an attempt to not hate everything I write.

I’ll post updates as and when I remember this account 😅

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NaNo Day Three

Sleepy. Very very sleepy and very behind. I’ve decided I hate everything I’m writing, and I’m tired.

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How I Modify My Google Doc for Outlining and Drafting

I previously talked about setting up my document to look like a formatted paperback book to help writing not feel so daunting.

Today, I bring you a different way I change my document that is more appealing to me than the standard Doc.

For Drafts

first, go to Page Set Up

this is what the default is

For my setup: Margins will change to .5" for top, bottom, left, and right.

this is the page color I chose but it's totally optional.

Then, I change my default font. Here is how to find the ones I like. Go to the font option, then click More fonts.

These are the fonts I love. You can search them or browse for ones you like.

next, i change my first-line paragraph indent to .25"

For Outlining

(and also character profiles, world-building, etc.)

You are going to follow the same steps as above first. The only difference is you don't need to mess with any of the indent settings.

I use boxes as dividers and organizers. To do this, go to Insert > Table > 1x1.

Then, change the border thickness to 2.25pt. I usually have a color palette for these, so I'm choosing a darker brown than the background for the borders. But white paper and black table lines work just as well and are more print-friendly ;)

Next, I change the Headings, Subheadings, and Subtitles. To begin, I am changing my Title heading. I choose my font, how big I want it to be, and then I like using a highlight color as well. Here, I'm using a standard light/pastel color and 18pt font.

Highlight to select this new title. Go to the dropdown menu that says "normal text", hover over "Title", then choose "Update 'Title' to Match". Now you can click that every time with no hassle. And it will begin an outline for you to the left.

Let's make that box within a box! Make sure you are typing inside the first box. Then insert another table. I am going to use a 2x3.

Because this table is more than one cell, you can go to the three dots up top and click "Table Options" to change every table border selected at once. Again, 2.25pt with the same color as before. The cell background color says white but you don't have to change it to match the page color.

You can save both your Heading preferences and page setup as your default style. Every new document you make will use these settings automatically.

I really hope this was helpful and/or interesting!

As always, take what you want and leave the rest. Happy writing!

[call it good] writing

[withintheeclipse]

NaNo Day Two

A stupidly late update post, considering it’s 2am, but I stayed up to watch a livestream that’s consisted of three hours of stock footage and bird noises because there was a hint that something may have happened in relation to it. So that’s how my night’s gone.

Instead of continuing the actual chapter that I’d started for day one, I decided to write a new scene that I’d had an idea for, but have no clue how it will fit into the novel. I don’t know if I’ll be adding to that, or working on editing/rewriting/adding to what I did for day one on day three. I guess we’ll find out when I open the laptop.

However in terms of word count, I am on track!

I may be starting to hate every single one of those words, though. I love the characters but… nothing else. The plot isn’t great, and I don’t know right now how what I’m writing will ever translate into the not great plot as it is.

Oh well, we’ll figure all that out at some point I’m sure.

[withintheeclipse]

NaNo Day One

I love this font as a title ngl

Anyway, I’ve been pretty on track today! Started off this morning, procrastinated a little, then managed to write about 800 words. Just now sat down to write a little more before bed and I’ve now got to my goal for the day- just under 1,700, which makes me on track for NaNo day one!

Just have to hope this continues for the rest of the month… who am I kidding? It probably won’t, but a gal (gender neutral) can hope 😅