Words of RA Black

[wordsofrablack]

Tagged by @doom-inique-writes to find the following words in my WIP: moon

The water ran down and dripped, creating a spectacular display of stalactites and stalagmites. Kyle stopped beside one that was so wide he couldn’t put his arms around it. Hundreds of thousands of years standing and growing in one spot. Magnificent. In one corner, a little half moon pool collected the run-off, the surface alive with ripples.

Yeah. This was it. This was what being alive was for.

silver

They emerged near a grass verge and another line of cars. Benny made a beeline to a silver saloon with those stick figure family stickers on the back windscreen.

“That’s our ride.”

“Fancy. Bet it has air con and everything.”

“My car has air con,” Benny replied, sounding hurt.

“Yes, but your air con doesn’t work. It just makes the car smell of cheese,” Kyle pointed out.

tree

“Idiot.”

Lark seemed to crumple in on himself. “I know.”

Fuck, this guy went down to a harsh word like a tree to a lumberjack. “Stop taking that shit from me.”

Lark’s eyes widened. “What?”

“Stop acting like you deserve to be shat on.” He folded his arms.

train

The train pulled into the station as they reached the platform. Too late for the morning commute and too early for any lunch rush, the train was almost empty. The only other man in the carriage looked up as Kyle started coughing. “I’m… very contagious,” Kyle called over with a friendly grin. The man’s eyes widened, and he hurried into the next carriage.

knock

A hammer collided with his skull, knocking him to his knees. Kyle let out a wail of pain, dropping the bottle. Liquid spilled out on to the carpet. The vodka’s throwing up, Kyle thought to himself, about to do the same.

Tagging anyone who wants to play with light whole hit small and smile

[letmebegaytodd]

Every time i start a new vido game:

OH FUCK WHERE ARE THE SUBTITLES

[birdycrow]

[brightwanderer]

Writing original fiction is like “*knocks on your door* hi hello can I interest you in this blorbo from my show, the one inside my head, if you look to your left you’ll see the towering cliffs of my their neuroses, and to your right is the scenic burning trash pile that I have lovingly placed them into…”

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

happy 10 years of spiders georg everyone

[zendayascoleman]

“why bother writing bisexual characters if they just end up in a m/f relationship”

my dude

my guy

my pal

stop talking forever

[catboy-prussia]

Oh I have never reblogged faster in my life

[hugealienpie]

Watching my bi friends’ identities get erased when they‘re in m/f relationships makes me think it’s even MORE important to write bi characters in m/f relationships and then be REALLY BLATANT about the fact that one or both of them is bi.

[silentlycrazy]

I had a bi friend who was dating a girl and when he said anything about being bi she would laugh and say “that doesn’t matter cuz you’re with me”. Never been so happy to hear a friend broke up with a partner

[outofcontextelderscrolls]

As a bi woman who’s in a m/f relationship, who’s favorite oc is a bi man in a m/f relationship. This is very important to me!

[snakewife]

husband kissed me this morning and murmured “mlm/wlw solidarity[1]” which is frankly the entire point of bi folks of different genders ending up together

[1] pronounced mlem and wooloowoo

[heroofthreefaces]

oh my god the Owl and the Pussycat were bi

[wordsofrablack]

OCs as “They’re a Ten, but…”

BARD:

Logan’s a ten, but you need to beat him over the head with the suggestion several times before he’ll believe you

Pie’s a ten but he thinks he’s an eleven.

Leviathans:

Lucky’s a ten but he’s too traumatised to realise

Gabriel’s a ten but there’s a 50/50 chance he’ll be eaten by a sea-serpent

Cave-Diving book:

Tristan’s a ten but his mind won’t accept that

Kyle’s a ten, and fuck you if you say otherwise

(Yes, characters with self-esteem issues is a common factor in my work...)

Feel free to tag yourselves!

Thank you to @doom-inique-writes​ for the tag

[froyo-ocs]

Hey, can y’all rb this if it’s okay to send you messages asking about your ocs, cause on god I wanna interact with y’all but I am terrified of being annoying lol

[idontlikedicktionaries]

REBLOG IF ITS OKAY TO TALK TO YOU.

Please.

[goreofbabylon]

revolutionary girl utena + long-time nuclear waste warning messages

[dronesofthedesert2023-deactivat]

[i.d.: screenshots from revolutionary girl utena with quotes from the long-time nuclear waste warning messages overlaying them. the quotes and their respective images are: this place is not a place of honor: anthy's rose garden. nothing valued is here: the shadow play stage. what is here was dangerous and repulsive to us: juri's reverse sword impalement. the danger is still present: anthy's school uniform filled with vines. the danger is unleashed only if you disturb this place: utena cutting off wakaba's rose in their duel. the center of danger is here: anthy holding utena's hand. the danger is to the body, and it can kill: utena falling to the ground after being stabbed by anthy. this place is best shunned & left uninhabited: utena hanging her arm over the end of the world after anthy falls.]

[clericofthevoid]

Her body became the soil beneath.

Her body became its rich decay and its seeds of promise.

Her body sang the flax in the meadow, rang high with the locusts, hummed the slow inescapable crawl of the stream.

[viccsart]

all i ask is that their story ends happily 

[raevenlywrites]

Reblog this if you're a writeblr and you wouldnt mind:

Random asks about your wips

Being tagged in tag games by people you don't know yet

Strangers complimenting your work

Fellow writeblrs striking up conversations

Interaction with new writeblrs in general

I see so many folks afraid to jump in to the community, so hopefully this post will lay out like a welcome mat for new folks to come say hi :)

[yasemin-writes-deactivated20240]

Writer Tag: last line

rules: share the last line you wrote for your wip 📝

“The surge of True Crime documentaries has really made life harder for garden shed enthusiasts.”

I'm not sure this makes sense out of context, but thanks for the tag @emmailene ❤️ tagging: @elizmanderson @fairly-useless-dragon @danaiwrites @camiscribbles @jessicaburkhart

[fairly-useless-dragon]

makes perfect sense to me @yasemin-writes! I love it. Mine is way more violent out of context than this character would ever be (she is a lovable trash possum who should be protected):

I know Rosie doesn't mean it that way, but I still flinch like I'm about to be punched.

Tagging @lilymeade, @cjconnorwrites, @marissaeller, @stars-and-dark, @erinfulmerwrites, @elliottsmth

[cjconnorwrites-deactivated20230]

Last line I wrote, let's see...

"No," I said firmly.

Tagging @tristencrone, @wordsofrablack, @tanviberwah

[wordsofrablack]

Last line I edited: He raised his head, eyes wide, lips trembling. “But what… what if it takes them all?”

[wordsofrablack]

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[wordsofrablack]

BIRB - #WriterInMotion

My first #WriterInMotion post. You can see the prompt image here: https://writerinmotion.com @writermotion #WIM

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[wordsofrablack]

Query for Til Death Do Us Bard

For those #AmQuerying, here's the query that got me the offer from my agent, @rebeccapodos

As there was an overwhelmingly positive response on Twitter, here’s my query that got my agent, Rebecca Podos. Dear [agent name] ,A grumpy adventurer must come out of retirement to stop a civil war between magic and undead, even if doing so will lose him the sunshine of his heart.TIL DEATH DO US BARD is a 95k word adult fantasy full of queer characters, with the humour of Kings of the Wyld, and…

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[wordsofrablack]

This is not a Positivity Post

For everyone still querying, I see you, and I know how hard it is right now. I didn't want to write a traditional "how I got my agent" post because these are different times. I believe in you all.

Querying is hard right now. And while I’m over the moon, it wasn’t long ago that I was ready to give up on the idea of ever getting anywhere with my writing. I’ve gone back and read a thread on discord and it’s painfully clear how broken I am about this idea. And I know that when you’ve written five books that have gone nowhere, seeing a “how I got my agent” post that says “Hey, it took me four…

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