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Anytime, sweetcheeks! And love love love the tagline! <3

New Release! Miranda’s Daddy by Evie Bennet

Can Rhett and Miranda find happiness in their new Daddy/little relationship? Can they let down their guard and embrace their feelings? Burned out on college life, the last thing Miranda wants to add to her ever-growing list of obligations is romance. But when her anxiety spikes at a party, she finds a surprising ally, and relief, in her roomie’s tennis partner, Rhett. Rhett lifts her spirits and spares her aching feet with piggyback rides, while Miranda cooks and teases him with friendly taunts. A taste of their Daddy/little life leaves her craving more intimacy, but she’s not sure she can commit to sex. Miranda’s exuberant presence was Rhett’s high school fantasy, but the reality of balancing tennis, pre-law, and disciplinary duties wears down on his patience. He craves a solid cuddle session—and a sexual release, whenever Miranda is ready. With his chilly family history and guarded independence, Rhett struggles to maintain the boundaries they both need. But Miranda’s roommate is determined to keep the focus on himself, abusing his insider knowledge of their personalities to undermine their budding relationship. With desires and tensions rising, Miranda explores past friendships and spankings to discover what and who makes her happy, potentially losing love and a place to live in the process. Publisher’s Note: This Daddy/little contemporary romance is intended for adults only and contains mild themes of age play, sensual scenes, and a journey to love and acceptance. 💖 Links to find this contemporary romance novel below. May you have a love-filled day and thank you for sharing some with me! Acknowledgements will be posted in a reblog later today! 💖 https://books2read.com/u/3GAQvr

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My debut novel’s here! On Pre-order!

Squeee!

http://champagnebooks.com/store/coming-soon/822-the-huntress-9781771552851.html

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The amazing concept art of Ken Fairclough for Anthem

Artbook: The Art of Anthem Limited Edition

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The finer things in life. https://www.instagram.com/p/B7NiXEpB5bk/?igshid=1hjetcziek4a4

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Snippet from my WIP. (Sci-Fi Romance)

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Writeblr Following Spree!

RULES: REBLOG IF YOU’RE AN ACTIVE WRITEBLR!

It’s nice to meet you! I’m Undine :) 

I’m looking for currently active writeblrs to follow because there is very little writing content on my dash! I will be looking at reblogs only.

Bonus points if:

You love supporting your fellow writers!

You post original content!

You want to make new writer friends!

Doesn’t matter if you’re a big blog, a tiny blog, a new blog, an old blog. Doesn’t matter what genre you write about, or whether you have specific content. I’m just looking for new writers to befriend and support!

Mutuals please reblog and boost! This is a fantastic way for me to make sure that tumblr hasn’t unfollowed you.

Follows will be from my main blog @undinisms. If you’re interested, please consider checking out my writeblr @pens-swords-stuff as well!

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My writing buddy! Foot fetish Angel! https://www.instagram.com/p/B7IgmiOAgFE/?igshid=n6h17i6x1asc

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Only those with their feet on rock can build castles in the air. - Terry Pratchett

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Happy Saturday!

Do your boobs ever randomly ache and you're like...what is it, girls? Is a storm coming? Did little Timmy fall down the well?

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let me relax……………will comment later…………………..

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Latest (all good)

In my quest to complete the 20-something book series The Gifting, I managed to snag a publisher for the first novel, Soul Forged. Then I discovered that it’s unwise to write a series until it’s published due to the many changes that might occur. Sh!t, almost done with book 6 (LOL).

XIAXAN FOX

So, I stopped writing those and wrote instead a clean fantasy romance (challenge accepted) and it’s with publishers now (querying process).

THE HUNTRESS

I also grew weary of writing as if I swallowed a dictionary (the way Etterians speak) and wrote a vampire romance filled with sass. That’s also in the querying process. I’m hoping to submit it to Pitchwars if it isn’t accepted by publishers before then.

THE CURSED GUARDIAN

My latest WIP is a historical fantasy (challenge accepted) with action, adventure and a smattering of romance. I’m so close to finishing that!

If anyone is interested in reading any of my WIP, I’m on Wattpad.

https://www.wattpad.com/user/Sevannah_Storm

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Hi, I’m Sev. I write romance (sci-fi, fantasy, contemporary) and recently historical fantasy. <-- that’s my current WIP. A woman cursed to immortal life, hunts for the cure across lands and time.

What are you busy with, K?

hey, writeblrs*

whether I know you or not, reblog this and tell me about your projects!!

I want to get more involved with the writeblr community, so give me your spiels!!

And, if you're interested in mine, head here to learn more! [click here for superheroes]

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Stephen King’s Top 20 Rules For Writers

1. First write for yourself, and then worry about the audience. “When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story. Your stuff starts out being just for you, but then it goes out.”

2. Don’t use passive voice. “Timid writers like passive verbs for the same reason that timid lovers like passive partners. The passive voice is safe. The timid fellow writes “The meeting will be held at seven o’clock” because that somehow says to him, ‘Put it this way and people will believe you really know. ‘Purge this quisling thought! Don’t be a muggle! Throw back your shoulders, stick out your chin, and put that meeting in charge! Write ‘The meeting’s at seven.’ There, by God! Don’t you feel better?”

3. Avoid adverbs. “The adverb is not your friend. Consider the sentence “He closed the door firmly.” It’s by no means a terrible sentence, but ask yourself if ‘firmly’ really has to be there. What about context? What about all the enlightening (not to say emotionally moving) prose which came before ‘He closed the door firmly’? Shouldn’t this tell us how he closed the door? And if the foregoing prose does tell us, then isn’t ‘firmly’ an extra word? Isn’t it redundant?”

4. Avoid adverbs, especially after “he said” and “she said.” “While to write adverbs is human, to write ‘he said’ or ‘she said’ is divine.”

5. But don’t obsess over perfect grammar. “Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn’t grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story… to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all. “

6. The magic is in you. “I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather; you may feel the urge to grasp a passive verb or one of those nasty adverbs for the same reason. Just remember before you do that Dumbo didn’t need the feather; the magic was in him.”

7. Read, read, read. “You have to read widely, constantly refining (and redefining) your own work as you do so. If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write.”

8. Don’t worry about making other people happy. “Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second to least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.”

9. Turn off the TV. “Most exercise facilities are now equipped with TVs, but TV—while working out or anywhere else—really is about the last thing an aspiring writer needs. If you feel you must have the news analyst blowhard on CNN while you exercise, or the stock market blowhards on MSNBC, or the sports blowhards on ESPN, it’s time for you to question how serious you really are about becoming a writer. You must be prepared to do some serious turning inward toward the life of the imagination, and that means, I’m afraid, that Geraldo, Keigh Obermann, and Jay Leno must go. Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.”

10. You have three months. “The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season.”

11. There are two secrets to success. “When I’m asked for ‘the secret of my success’ (an absurd idea, that, but impossible to get away from), I sometimes say there are two: I stayed physically healthy, and I stayed married. It’s a good answer because it makes the question go away, and because there is an element of truth in it. The combination of a healthy body and a stable relationship with a self reliant woman who takes zero shit from me or anyone else has made the continuity of my working life possible. And I believe the converse is also true: that my writing and the pleasure I take in it has contributed to the stability of my health and my home life.”

12. Write one word at a time. “A radio talk-show host asked me how I wrote. My reply—’One word at a time’—seemingly left him without a reply. I think he was trying to decide whether or not I was joking. I wasn’t. In the end, it’s always that simple. Whether it’s a vignette of a single page or an epic trilogy like ‘The Lord Of The Rings,’ the work is always accomplished one word at a time.”

13. Eliminate distraction. “There should be no telephone in your writing room, certainly no TV or videogames for you to fool around with. If there’s a window, draw the curtains or pull down the shades unless it looks out at a blank wall.”

14. Stick to your own style. “One cannot imitate a writer’s approach to a particular genre, no matter how simple what the writer is doing may seem. You can’t aim a book like a cruise missile, in other words. People who decide to make a fortune writing lik John Grisham or Tom Clancy produce nothing but pale imitations, by and large, because vocabulary is not the same thing as feeling and plot is light years from the truth as it is understood by the mind and the heart.”

15. Dig. “When, during the course of an interview for The New Yorker, I told the interviewer (Mark Singer) that I believed stories are found things, like fossils in the ground, he said that he didn’t believe me. I replied that that was fine, as long as he believed that I believe it. And I do. Stories aren’t souvenir tee-shirts or Game Boys. Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world. The writer’s job is to use the tools in his or her toolbox to get as much of each one out of the ground intact as possible. Sometimes the fossil you uncover is small; a seashell. Sometimes it’s enormous, a Tyrannosaurus Rex with all the gigantic ribs and grinning teeth. Either way, short story or thousand page whopper of a novel, the techniques of excavation remain basically the same.”

16. Take a break. “If you’ve never done it before, you’ll find reading your book over after a six-week layoff to be a strange, often exhilarating experience. It’s yours, you’ll recognize it as yours, even be able to remember what tune was on the stereo when you wrote certain lines, and yet it will also be like reading the work of someone else, a soul-twin, perhaps. This is the way it should be, the reason you waited. It’s always easier to kill someone else’s darlings that it is to kill your own.”

17. Leave out the boring parts and kill your darlings. “Mostly when I think of pacing, I go back to Elmore Leonard, who explained it so perfectly by saying he just left out the boring parts. This suggests cutting to speed the pace, and that’s what most of us end up having to do (kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your ecgocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.)”

18. The research shouldn’t overshadow the story. “If you do need to do research because parts of your story deal with things about which you know little or nothing, remember that word back. That’s where research belongs: as far in the background and the back story as you can get it. You may be entranced with what you’re learning about the flesh-eating bacteria, the sewer system of New York, or the I.Q. potential of collie pups, but your readers are probably going to care a lot more about your characters and your story.”

19. You become a writer simply by reading and writing. “You don’t need writing classes or seminars any more than you need this or any other book on writing. Faulkner learned his trade while working in the Oxford, Mississippi post office. Other writers have learned the basics while serving in the Navy, working in steel mills or doing time in America’s finer crossbar hotels. I learned the most valuable (and commercial) part of my life’s work while washing motel sheets and restaurant tablecloths at the New Franklin Laundry in Bangor. You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.”

20. Writing is about getting happy. “Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It’s about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink.”

(Via Barnes and Noble)

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Keanu Reeves in Cyberpunk 2077

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The Cursed Guardian

Last paragraph written on my current WIP:

It was the first time she had wrenched someone’s mind, dooming them to a life of insanity. He would be at everyone’s mercy; a just punishment for all those who’d suffered because of him. That evening, around the fire, had been a silent one. Pouri had found comfort in Jivin’s arms, the cacophony of insects peppered by their whispers. Despite her enslavement and her upbringing in a harem, she remained innocent. Raha had spared the young girl from violence, which was why Pouri thought swinging a sword was for entertainment.

What’s yours?

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Quote for today: Every novel is a mystery novel if you never finish it. - @meganamram

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why is “olde vampires in high school” the big thing and not “olde vampires in college”

everyone in college is eccentric. everyone

you wanna wear full on Victorian suit? the girl in pajamas who clearly hasn’t slept in three days supports you

everyone is too preoccupied to care as long as you’re polite and follow class etiquette

multiple high school diplomas? eh. same stuff. multiple BAs? Enjoy learning chemistry AND art history! All in detail!

wandering around campus at 3am? that’s just the lifestyle tm

no matter how old or young you look it’s not really that weird, there’s sixteen year olds and sixty year olds doing BAs somewhere

big schools are very anonymous so nobody’s gonna bother to hassle you