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WRITEBLR INTRO

ABOUT ME: My name is Cassander. I am a twenty-two year old from France with a morbid fascination for all things austere, provocative, dark, old and ugly.

I am a very private person by nature, meaning I don't like to talk too much about myself. But as 2024 unfolds, I made the promise to put myself out there a little more this year. While my main blogs (@daweyt | @lamaenad) serve as a place for inspiration where I put all the excerpts I saved from my readings that inspired me, as well as pictures and art — I want to use this secondary tumblr account to document the experience of creation, and hopefully connect with other creatives as well.

ABOUT MY WRITING: I only write original fictions — the genre varies but I often come back to thrillers, psychological fictions, literary fictions. My work is usually very atmospheric and philosophical; full of symbolism; with vile, despicable and sometimes down-right immoral characters; and heavy themes. I do not write graphic sex scenes nor do I write romance as I have no interest in writing those.

I am currently working on my first serious novel or shall I say, the first I actually seriously intent to write from start to finish. It is titled "Thus Saith The Lord" and has themes of morality, philosophy, religion, obsession and identity.

On the side, I am also developing ideas and writing scenes here and there for another novel, which is unfortunately still, to this day, untitled. While my main novel Thus Saith The Lord contains heavy themes and a bleak atmosphere, this second work of mine is much more twisted and dare I say... immoral. Think of it as The Dreamers meets Lolita — a juxtaposition of beauty and deviance.

I must, by the way, precise that I like to take my time to write as it lets me refine my work, and I will not hesitate to take up to a decade if needed.

WHERE TO FIND MY WORK: I haven't published anything yet, but once I'll be ready, you'll be able to find my writing — both in French and in English — on any of these platforms.

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apologist? not necessarily. explainer? perhaps. understander? intimately. enjoyer? greatly. sexualizer? frequently,

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👑 Jude & Cardan 👑

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✨ A sparkly prompt is entering the dance floor!

Because it's Flash Fiction Friday and that means it's time to write!

✨ New to FFF? Let us fill you in!

Flash Fiction Friday is a fun writer event that’s meant to inspire, share and connect writings of all genres and writers of all ages. It’s designed to make people want to write, especially if they’re feeling blocked. Everyone and everything is welcome!

We always do our very best to keep the prompt’s genre open, entertaining, positive and encouraging.

Write between 100-1000 words. It can be any genre, in any text format and 18+ is fine by us, just please tag accordingly.

Use this Friday’s theme in your text. Any way you see fit.

Post on your tumblr blog and remember to tag us at @flashfictionfridayofficial​!! So we’ll see it, read it and reblog it!!

Deadline is 24 hours after the prompt has been issued (12 pm CET).

And then, next Friday, we’ll mention your work in a showcase post on our main blog before our next prompt drops.

Please post your entries as regular posts, not screenshots — or provide the text as a regular post as well. Let’s keep everything as accessible as possible!

If you have a question, check out our FAQ page! If your question isn’t on there, don’t hesitate to ask!

You don’t need to ask for permission or need to get added to a list to join in. Just write, have fun and don’t forget to tag us!

We do not condone fiction, asks or comments that contain: direct hostility, unconstructive critique, LGBTQIA+ hate, slurs, racism and/or general no-no behaviors.

If you want to be closer to the epicenter, you can come chat on our open discord: https://discord.gg/rUWCE8a

✨ We also introduced our very own Wishing Well, a place for you to whisper your prompt suggestions into. And we’ll listen! Check everything about it out HERE.

✨All your amazing works from last week can be found HERE.

Go check them out and consider supporting your fellow FFF writers with some likes and reblogs!

✨ And now, the new prompt!

[#FFF243 Glitter and Blues]

There's glitter and there's blues! Is it make-up? Decorations? The remnants of a party? And where's the blues coming from? Are we talking about feeling blue or music? Show us what's glittering, show us the blues! We want to knwo who and where and if your character fell into a box of blue glitter then most importantly we want to know why!

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The Collective <3

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Write the story you want to write

It's ok if your story is predictable. Not every work of fiction needs to reinvent the wheel.

There's a reason that tropes exist, and it's because readers enjoy them and they make compelling stories. As long as the journey is fun, readers will come along for the ride.

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pssssst hey. hey. free and expansive database of folk and fairy tales. you can thank me later

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dipping my penis in the wendys frosy and watching it corrode away as soon as it touches the surface until its just a stump and then handing the cup to the customer and apologizing

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if being a brunette who wears jeans is a crime we hang side by side

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new game

not ‘have they died before’ but ‘are they currently alive’. if they came back to life and something seems weird then vote whatever you think is best

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pink fog

some buckaroos have asked in comments so i will answer here: yes i wear pink bag at all meetings with my publisher or in lawyers office or out for official business, things like that. nobody from @torbooks or @macmillanusa or my agents or legal have ever seen my face

when i sign contracts and deal with bank accounts i use a legal corporation entity that was set up by sam rand so even if you tracked THAT down you would only uncover who sam rand is, not chuck

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Are you looking for an alpha/beta reader?

I am putting a tentative feeler out into the world to see whether this would be helpful to anyone.

I have been interested in getting into alpha reading / developmental editing for a while, but I want to get some practice in so that I can build a solid offering. It would be aimed at people who have a rough manuscript draft, but for some reason they are finding things just aren't working with the story and would like an outside view.

I have done this kind of thing twice in the past. I write up a c15 page report looking at plot structure, pacing, character arcs, themes, and giving my suggestions. It would not be a line edit, so I wouldn't be looking at spelling, grammar etc. Obviously this would be for free, as it is practice for me too!

Here is an example of what I did for a friend (this was a bit more casual than what I would do for someone else, but it gives an idea of the report structure):

I'm mostly familiar with fantasy stories, though the above was a sci-fi, so I am comfortable looking at those as well. I don't think I could give very good advice for surrealism or literary fiction, as I am not familiar with those genre beats. At the moment I'm looking for drafts with a word count under 100k as well, due to the time taken to read them.

Full transparency: I have no qualifications in writing, but I have self-published one book and hope to self-publish my second in the next few months.

Some nice things people have said about my work are below.

Praise for The Mechanics of Magic:

We are proud to announce that MECHANICS OF MAGIC by W.B.J. Martin has been honored with the B.R.A.G. Medallion (Book Readers Appreciation Group). It now joins the very select award-winning, reader-recommended books at indieBRAG.

Best fantasy novel I have read for years. Having read fantasy on and off for more years than I care to remember I thought the genre was dead, this book gives me hope that there are still writers out there who have a good imagination with decent writing skills.

Brilliant read, loved every moment of it. Well written suspenseful storyline with intriguing characters and visually descriptive settings making you feel like you're there.

Beautifully written with a gripping storyline

I couldn't put it down! Great book!

Praise for Burning the Darkness (not yet published, but a version is available on AO3) I am doing my best to keep comments anonymous here, but I wanted to share some of the lovely things people have said :):

[...]one of the best works for vampire lore I have ever read here and I can't get over it.

[...]this is such an interesting characterization/character arc[...]I almost want to share this with one of my old English teachers or write a formal essay about it

[...]beautifully paced and your world building has been extremely interesting.

If you're interested, please do drop me a message! Again, this will all be free, as I'm using it to test whether I can build some kind of report standard and to feel out a rough turnaround time. If you do find I am helpful at all, I might ask for a review at some point in the future if I decide to do this more 'professionally'.

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Make me write tag

@eccaiia tagged me!

Tagging @the-down-upside-finch, @jezifster, @heartofnovel, and open tag because I really want to bring this back!

Rules: Make a 24hr poll listing the titles of every WIP you want to work on. (It’s fine if you only have one, still make a poll for the vote count). Whichever WIP title gets the most votes, write 1 sentence for every vote received.

Because I had so much fun honoring every vote last time, I'll do that again. Feel free to reblog this to make me productive! Also I'm going to make this a week long poll because I'll have more time in my study schedule next week to start working on results.

Currently trying to expand from 444 words per day to 600 words per day so get all your friends to vote!

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How did you give yourself an EAR INFECTION eating pussy

im just gonna screenshot from a text i sent my friends after the doctors visit