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HERE ARE SOME SEVENTEEN WRITERS NO ONE SHOULD SLEEP/MISS OUT ON.

Putting out your work out there for the world to see is hard enough. But the silence that you get when the world doesn’t seem to see the gems you have put out. is. harder.

Hello, loves! This is a very sleepy Leanne disturbing your dashboards loool! Please reblog this not-so-complete list of SVT writers that no one should be sleeping on! I originally thought of making this list so I would have an easier way of finding which blogs to read fics from, but when I visited some blogs and saw the talent that weren’t getting the feedback they deserved (because some are really good but would only have 1 note; imagine: 1 note for a fic that you wrote so painstakingly?), my heart truly broke into pieces.

So please, if you are a writer, reblog this so your followers could see these people; and if you are a reader, then you and I are the same: we have a lot to read up on! 

I separated this list into four groups, to show you guys how I got to know them. And if you know more writers that are not included on this list, please tag them as well!

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Hi! I’m a new writer here. I just found your blog, and I really like your writing style! How long have you been writing?

I have been writing for as long as I can remember. Mostly journaling and short stories, but I have always had a passion to put the pen to paper.

For new writers, I always suggest writing down all your ideas. Whether it is on a sticky note, napkin, random scrap paper, or your notebook or phone.

As for writing style, my writing comes from my experiences. Things I have gone through and relate to.

So my advice is to create as many new experiences you can and write about them. Give your characters challenges and hobbies and odd quirks.

Write what you would want to read.

Thanks for the question :)

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TRUTH

how i read books

• open book

• close book

• open tumblr

• turn on music

• open book

• get distracted by 182837272284 things

OR

• binge read an entire series for 3 days straight without leaving my room

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Divergent is a bad book, but its accidental brilliance is that it completely mauled the YA dystopian genre by stripping it down to its barest bones for maximum marketability, utterly destroying the chances of YA dystopian literature’s long-term survival 

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“I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.” - Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

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Facing Trauma & Trying To Survive After

For many years I have kept busy. Working one to two full time jobs, completing my Associates degree, then my Bachelors, and now my Masters. Becoming a mother and being a full time parent on top of work and schooling. Being a wife and taking care of my family. Picking up hobbies, and pursuing art and advocacy programs and working with individuals from young children to senior citizens. 

Doing all of these things, and yet, I still feel like I am only surviving. 

It has been a challenge to come to terms with my losses, my grief, my mental health. 

Facing trauma in life can be a roller coaster effect. One day you can be completely fine and ready to take on the world and the next... Well, the next day you can feel hollow and relive every moment of pain, torture, abuse, negative thoughts, and ultimately the gut wrenching, heart sinking, chest tightening feeling you get when your mind will not allow you to move on. 

What do you do when you feel so alone and afraid to talk about the events that still haunt your nightmares begin to bombard your waking thoughts when you are not actively keeping your mind busy?

Today was one of those days. 

I am someone that people look at and do not expect the experiences I tell to have happened to them. You will rarely find a picture of me without a smile, I am kind to most people, and I work hard to accomplish my dreams. People do not see my scars, physical or emotional, and I do not go about sharing my tales of woe. 

I look like anybody else. Everybody has gone through difficult times, but no one expects a list of ongoing horror’s that I have come to being accustomed to waking me up in the middle of the night in cold sweats from the events of my past. 

I guess I am scared. I don’t want people to pity me. I don’t want people to question me extensively about what happened if I do open up, to cross-examine me looking for loop-holes in my story. I don’t believe people mean to do these things, but in my experience, people tend to be skeptical when told of happenings of abuse, stalking, rape, torture, neglect, and so on. It is almost like we are programmed to believe these types of things can only happen in horror films and not to real people, not in “real life”, and not to those we know. 

Is it because it hits too close to home?

Is it because it makes us uncomfortable when we do not know how to relate?

Or is it because we truly wish to believe the world could never be that cruel?

I don’t know. What I do know, is that I am tired of being scared. Tired of of the days my body is wracked with anxiety from experiences of the past. I am tired of hiding from what has happened, not only from others, but from myself. And most importantly, I am tired of hiding behind a smile and pretending I am okay so that other people are comfortable. 

It is more than time for me, and others, to speak up. To be heard,and to normalize that these things happen to people we know, people we pass on the street, and to ourselves, whether we want to face it or not. 

It is time to stop surviving past the trauma, and to start living past the trauma. 

It is time to heal. 

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