#FirstDraft

[sunnyanddumb98]

INTRODUCTION

Hi! My name is Karla.

You can find my writing journey and random thoughts, experiments—anything really—mostly poetry, though!

This is not my first foray into Tumblr, but I've never been an active member. About a year ago, I started posting; before that, I just watched in silence since I was fourteen, so bear with me.

At this time, I’m focused on connecting with fellow writers and readers here! I just finished a first draft and want to learn more about the publishing and writing community.

A little bit about me:

Birth Year: 1998

Writing Experience: I've been writing since 2020. I’ve taken this hobby seriously for about just one year.

Publishing Status: Currently editing my first book, "Bleeding Butterflies," and working towards publishing it soon, hopefully!

I want to follow:

Anyone whose writing I enjoy, but I truly don't have a specific taste; I’m recently discovering this world.

Writer’s writers

Folks who are willing to engage and have fun

Genres I Write:

Literary fiction

Magic realism

Poetry

Nonfiction

Expect:

I write stories about flawed characters navigating complex situations. I'm not very good with warnings because I'm not really good at evaluating what may trigger some people. I'm known for talking about sensitive issues in a candid, nonchalant, almost cavalier way, so beware. But please, please, please let me know if there's something you need me to tag!

Thank you for joining me on this exciting journey. I can’t wait to share more with you and get to know this wonderful community better!

[author-a-holmes]

May 3rd #FantasyIndiesMaytober

Saturday Snippet - "Fear"

This is a section from one of my favourite scenes in the first 25% of Darkling.

I’m really happy about where ‘Fear’ fell in this piece. If I’d shared anything else before or after this section, there’d have been spoilers abound!

"I just want you to leave," he insisted, expression shifting from pleading to resigned, and in two long strides he was beside her, on hand lightly touching her elbow as she flinched, stopping her from retreating further. "But it’s too late," he added softly. "They’re here." His gaze was fixed past her, and Lizzy spun around quickly, ridges of sand rising up around her feet as she twisted, almost sending her stumbling but the foreign fingers still resting against her elbow tightened, and kept her steady. It took her a moment to spot them. Long enough that fear began whispering that maybe he'd lied. That maybe she was about to feel teeth against her skin, but then a near-skeletal form staggered out from between two of the small, brightly painted, wooden huts and Lizzy felt herself freeze. "Squirrel shit," she hissed, panic clawing at her throat.

[winter-unseelie]

I've bought a new notebook, I'm going to make it this semester's mission to write a novel, or at least a first draft. It will be about a girl named Maxine.

She holds a deep place in my heart, as I used to be very much like her. Her story deserves to be written.

I've started the outlining of story beats today.

Gods hope I stick to this

[sarahswriting]

chapter six of project revelation is going well, hoping to finish it soon!

[julianavmacias1998]

Unfinished but finally found the courage to start 😭 just a story about a girl, a vampire and a connection I’m still figuring out. #lovingwherethisisheading ❤️ #raw #unpolished #imperfectwriting

[vaginasore]

"are you sad?"

what do i say?

a well is deep, shallow, and low

filled with water beneath the sun

push me down and i will die

drown in its hangerless grip

the gray stones will taunt with a climbers hold

and my fingers will reach out to touch

the water will fill me

like the gurgle of salt water on a sore throat

ill blubber with pleas and grasp my fingers fruitlessly

at the stupid climbers hold

and then ill forget

why im fighting at all

the water is warm

and the bricks are so tall

my legs know how to kick

so ill doggy paddle

floating

infinitely

floating

stupid fucking climbers hold

[danniswrites]

Kia's Biehshah Gift (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/story/380957910-kia%27s-biehshah-gift?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_myworks&wp_uname=DannisWrites 

(Royal Road)

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/97108/kias-biehshah-gift

Now complete in both places as 1st draft. Will be editing in Jan 24.

 Kia's getting a lawsuit when Irdaktin offers to pay for her co-worker's damage at her workplace. He shows her a future where her healing skills save him and his Biehshah Colony. Garat, Minister Of Leheren, threatens rulers hosting Biehshah Colony. Neither Kia nor Irdaktin knew she had a vital role to play in intergalactic war. [winner in the Fall 2024 Royal Writathon challenge on RoyalRoad.com]

12:17 PM 12-Dec-24 On Wattpad, 2 Engaged Readers 116 Total Reads 3 Votes 45 Story Parts On Royal Road, Total Views : 3,313 Average Views : 75 Followers : 3 Pages  : 338

[bakumonstrina]

This is my first desing. It's very similar to the one I had but apararently 300 years is to old for using pig tails. Never grow up kids, I guess

[infinitesimalstarrlight]

your rejection of me haunts

me defines

me upends

me

that my heart is broken

doesn't matter to you because

you offer me no second chances

so i write & i watch bob's burgers

instead of reaching out to you

bob's burgers

prevents more heart break from the

silence i know you will

hurl at me if i reach out

[sunnyanddumb98]

In the writing course I'm taking, I must take a month-long break between the first draft and the second. During that month, I'm supposed to read as much as I can and take notes, erasing my own book from my mind. The goal is to read so much that I forget my voice, allowing me to have fresh eyes for editing. This week, I'll be reading Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín, an Irish author, and Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel García Márquez.

I'm not a fast reader, and as I've mentioned before, I have never read a book faster than it was written. Reading multiple books at a time helps, but I truly think I won't have enough distraction to reset myself enough. I can't read fast and probably only finish one new book this month. It is what it is. Thankfully and tragically, this is not a graded course, so I'm not going to fail any tests but my own—editing my book with fresh eyes.

[raechelgasparacwriting]

Well well well…

It has been a minute since we’ve seen each other, isn’t it? While i have not been posting for a few years I HAVE in fact been working in the background on launching my Fantasy Author Career. What have I been doing all this time? Well, loosing a job first of all. Hear me out, it was the best thing that ever happened to me. I was putting my job and that corporation first and it was not doing the…

[cartersvilleareawriters]

CAW Term of the Week - First Draft

[kickeriki]

Yarn labyrinth. Not what I envisioned, but it works. A first draft of a larger project I needed to make first so I can figure out how to make it. From an idea to a first go, good progress.

[tmkosonwrites]

Inxieriea

Amongst us and in heads of state there has been a secret race of mankind that is capable of taking the form of specific breeds of canines, felines, and avians. They have been second-class people who have tolerated living in the shadows alongside creatures that were dead and lived off the blood of humans or animals.

They, the Inxieriea united by what they're capable of tolerating one another most times agreeing to an age-old belief that it's better we humans believed their existence remained in the realm of fiction, movies, myth, and folklore. Until recently when the heretic Pharaoh awoke and decimated his family tree threatening the lives of all the animals - the shifters within shocked the Inxieriea community.

Their secret is at risk as we, The Outsiders begin to look into the shadows around us. Do the Inxieriea come together to combat Akhenaten, one of the Firsts or do they trust his grandchild who's had her own sort of trouble within the community? Can the Shifters trust the vampires to remain aligned with them to remain in the shadows or is this leading up to one grand exposure of all of them in the growing digital age that they can't convince the Outsiders it's nothing more than smoke and mirrors.

[salmonandfox]

Start editing for character name/description reasons... find one glitch in world building and a few dozen spots where I can clean up the writing from being a bit over the top.

I'm guess it's a good sign that this hasn't made me want to just burn the whole document at this point.