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put those big brown eyes away dude now is NOT the time

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i don’t have rizz i have big brown eyes and a loving heart

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I have like,, two followers on here but I figured I'd drop this anyway:

If you or someone you love enjoys being emotionally destroyed by new adult scifi with an ace romance, this may be the best link you ever click

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I’m going to defeat you with the power of friendship and this gun I found

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Did I daydream this, or was there a website for writers with like. A ridiculous quantity of descriptive aid. Like I remember clicking on " inside a cinema " or something like that. Then, BAM. Here's a list of smell and sounds. I can't remember it for the life of me, but if someone else can, help a bitch out <3

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getting escorted out of a gun show for rating them based on mouth feel

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Woe, Leecie be upon ye

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I forgot that writing is very fun and that you're playing pretend. like all this shit and pressure about craftsmanship and art! NO!!!! you are a grown up playing with dolls! it is silly and you should have sooooo much fun pushing their heads together to make them smooch!!! or torturing them, which is what I did to my toys as a child, to the point where my mom thought I was going to grow up evil

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love a character that's like. i survived (<- not a brag) (<- this is a curse that weighs on me every waking hour)

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I'm like 200 words away from finishing a usable draft I think!!

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they're adding a new chamber to my heart tomorrow

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Relationships that have real king/lionheart energy, that whole “I have sworn myself wholly to you, I am your sword arm, I am your dog” to someone else’s “you are the one person in this world I can rely on, and I am both bolstered and burdened by your absolute faith in me” vibe, but it’s in circumstances that are like. so low stakes. Manger of a movie theater/the one usher who doesn’t smoke weed at work.

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Ref Recs for Whump Writers

Violence: A Writer’s Guide:  This is not about writing technique. It is an introduction to the world of violence. To the parts that people don’t understand. The parts that books and movies get wrong. Not just the mechanics, but how people who live in a violent world think and feel about what they do and what they see done.

Hurting Your Characters: HURTING YOUR CHARACTERS discusses the immediate effect of trauma on the body, its physiologic response, including the types of nerve fibers and the sensations they convey, and how injuries feel to the character. This book also presents a simplified overview of the expected recovery times for the injuries discussed in young, otherwise healthy individuals.

Body Trauma: A writer’s guide to wounds and injuries. Body Trauma explains what happens to body organs and bones maimed by accident or intent and the small window of opportunity for emergency treatment. Research what happens in a hospital operating room and the personnel who initiate treatment. Use these facts to bring added realism to your stories and novels.

10 B.S. Medical Tropes that Need to Die TODAY…and What to Do Instead: Written by a paramedic and writer with a decade of experience, 10 BS Medical Tropes covers exactly that: clichéd and inaccurate tropes that not only ruin books, they have the potential to hurt real people in the real world. 

Maim Your Characters: How Injuries Work in Fiction: Increase Realism. Raise the Stakes. Tell Better Stories. Maim Your Characters is the definitive guide to using wounds and injuries to their greatest effect in your story. Learn not only the six critical parts of an injury plot, but more importantly, how to make sure that the injury you’re inflicting matters. 

Blood on the Page: This handy resource is a must-have guide for writers whose characters live on the edge of danger. If you like easy-to-follow tools, expert opinions from someone with firsthand knowledge, and you don’t mind a bit of fictional bodily harm, then you’ll love Samantha Keel’s invaluable handbook

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i hate this weird trend in fandom where subtext is seen as a Bad Thing and is only done if the creators are too cowardly to commit to showing something. i hate to break it to you but nuance and layers are what make stories interesting, if you have no subtext then you have a very flat story

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Sailing by Gemini's Star Cover Reveal!

Super happy to show y'all the cover for Sailing by Gemini's Star (The Constellation Trilogy, #3) created by the incredibly talented @prosodi! Abby has done incredible work on each of my covers, and it's hard for me to pick a favorite, but this one is probably it. Truly, these have been dream covers, and I have been staring at this one since I got it. It absolutely captures the heart of the book <3 Gemini releases on May 28th (information on pre-orders will be available probably at the start of that month) and you can check out the summary below!

Even legends must answer to an empire.

Every sailor must answer to the sea.

Trapped in the clutches of his past when he’s taken back to Kingston, René Delacroix must face the city where Lucifer the Morning Star was born. Danso sails toward Jamaica like a shooting star with a story held tight between his fingers. Jerome clashes with the chosen brother he wishes he didn’t love. The specter of the noose haunts Michel’s every step as he brokers backdoor deals to save his son.

But power waits in the shadows, and that power’s name is Andrew Travers. 

The swords of fated souls cross. Questions of loyalty stir. Questions of right and wrong and redemption. The long-awaited battle between pirates and pirate hunters explodes to life, and with a single gunshot, nothing will ever be the same again.

As England creeps closer to Nassau and the pirates are forced to decide what matters most, the beating heart of history asks a question.

Who will tell the tale?