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Indefinite Hiatus

I love this blog. I love writing. But the more social media I experience the worse it gets. The current era is so incredibly hostile to writers and artists that it is killing my inspiration, my drive, and my will to simply create art, which is something I need to do to exist. I am leaving until conditions improve.

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sometimes the best writing advice is "just let it be bad." revolutionary. terrifying. but it works.

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Text: There is a shop kept under heavy lock and key that sells almost exclusively to the royal family. It sells wings, tailor made, and I will do anything to become apprentice to the wingsmith.

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This blog is moving! See @crowandmoonquill

Slowly but surely moving posts there. When they're all moved, this blog will be deleted

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I think one obvious way to immediately deepen your worldbuilding is to just not portray groups as being solidly united in their goals or values.

That new civilization you're inventing? Don't make them all completely agree with their government. Don't make them all believe the same things. Don't build a singular culture that is shared by 100% of the population.

This is obvious but a lot of professionally-made fiction does not do it. They have entire species that exist as unitary entities with no internal divisions or factions.

Depressingly, a lot of people think about actual international politics in this way as well.

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writeblr ask game ✨ 1, 4, and 9 :D

Thank you for the ask! :D From this ask game.

1 what was your writing-highlight this year? what made it special and how will you reflect on it next year?

The highlight was handing the work of half a year to my beloved beta-readers who have single (uh... double?) handedly kept up my spirits in the past years — @alittlewhump and @starlit-hopes-and-dreams — as well as @pleasestaywithmedarling for the first time.

Eyes glued to gmail to watch comments pop up, I have made many questionable bedtime decisions (writing this at 3am btw). No matter how many bad takes I see on tumblr, thanks to you I know that there are at least three people out there who get it.

There's nothing to reflect on next year other than that I love you. I will carry you around in my pocket and feed you little treats. Thank you for being there 😭💜

4 what is your favourite line you wrote this year?

I wrote roughly 175 000 words and finished two books. How am I supposed to pick??

Some lines I love because they remind me of my friends, and some because I think they're pretty funny, and some because they mean a lot to me, and some because they mean I did The Thing.

I'm running out of time to pick, so I'm throwing in one from the unfinished WIP:

“I’m Riordan.” He spelled it as well, before adding his own sign. “Or you can keep calling me Goldilocks, if you want.”

9 create a meme or moodboard that captures your past writing-year!

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writeblr ask game ✨ 1, 4, and 9 :D

what was your writing-highlight this year?

One of my writing highlights was starting two new WIPs that both have potential! I'm usually a one WIP at a time person, but I have both a YA and Adult in progress because I'm not sure what's going to happen with my books on sub.

4. what is your favourite line you wrote this year?

So much of my year was spent revising so I'm not sure what was written this year, but...

"Veronica wanted [the band's name] to be Polycule, as if that wouldn’t have been super fucking misleading.”

9. create a meme or moodboard that captures your past writing-year!

Most of my year was spent revising It’s in the Cards, so…

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Me too

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dear people with OCD: the next time you have spiraling & intrusive thoughts, what-ifs, or catastrophizing scenarios, I am sending a cardigan-wearing 46-year old NYU professor directly into your brain and he says "Aaaaand scene!!!" and he claps his hands slowly. and he says "Wow. Wow. Powerful stuff. Evocative imagery. A little bit post-modern, a little bit hysterical realism in the vein of Don Delilo but let's pause right here." and you will recognize your thoughts as a perplexing avant-garde film shown to an audience of 15 liberal arts students who are now trying to get a good grade and sleep with their professor.

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writing is just staring at a blank document thinking, “this is the year i revolutionize literature,” while frantically googling synonyms for “walked.”

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end of the year - writeblr ask game ✨

anyone else in the mood to become chatty? feel free to send a number (or two) from the list below to the person who reblogged this! and then reblog yourself if you want to get some asks ^^

what was your writing-highlight this year? what made it special and how will you reflect on it next year?

what did not go so well this year? how do you feel about it and what is a positive thing you learnt from it?

did you achieve everything you wanted to this year? if not, how will you go about it?

what is your favourite line you wrote this year?

what is your favourite book/story/poem you read this year?

did you make any new writeblr friends? give a shout-out! if not, it's time to praise one of your old besties <3

what are three songs you put on your WIP-playlist this year?

what are three things you're looking forward to next year?

create a meme or moodboard that captures your past writing-year!

which character(s) turned out differently from what you had planned? how so?

which scene was harder/easier to write than anticipated? why?

if your character(s) had their own new years resolutions, what would those be?

how did you change as a writer? did you learn anything new? started to plan instead of pants? share your wisdom!

time for writing wrapped! what would be your top three used sentences?

time for shameless self-promotion! answer with a piece of writing you want others to see/read! (if you have nothing posted/published this year, any other year is fine too ^^)

wishing you all all the best and may your writing-wishes for next year all come true <3 ✨

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Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

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Poetry? More like CROWETRY!

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*Full Question: For people attracted to men, which part of the male body (Excluding genitals,) do you like the best?