#chronically ill author

[chronicallydragons]

ABSOLUTELY LOSING MY MIND AT THESE ORANGE BANNERS ON AMAZON FOR ARTIFICE & ACCESS I MIGHT CRY 😭 this whole anthology started because there were a bunch of people saying disabled people don’t belong in fantasy and this anthology immediately makes it into TWO top spots on Amazon because people are so excited about this anthology centered on disabled people in fantasy! 😭 I’m a little emotional, I need a sec

Um, preorders now open! definitely on amazon (paperback and ebook got listed separately for some reason) and B&N, trying to get it into some indie bookstores, and it sounds like booktopia in austrailia has it!

[coastalwriter]

Hey, hi, hello.

My name is Erica. I am a self published indie author from Tasmania, Australia. I used to brand myself as Misted Words because of my multiple chronic illnesses, but after some major upheavals in my life, I decided to "rebrand". These days I go under the Coastal Writer moniker. My Facebook and Instagram are both coastal.writer

I had a tumblr before (as well as other blogs and websites), but I did a bit of a purge of stuff and things when I was trying to sort myself out. I decided to forego the blog and concentrate on the "popular and relevant" social media, namely Instagram, and to a lesser extent, Facebook. Yeah, turns out I don't do so well at building those platforms, because short-form media has never been my speciality.

C'mon... I am a novelist!

So after some further soul-searching - I'm back! Still writing through the brain fog, still learning how I move forward as the person I am now that my life has been changed so much.

I don't promise any earth-shattering insights, nor brilliant teaching moments on the craft of writing. But I hope to bring anyone who connects with this space some honesty, some glimpses of my personal writing process, and plenty of humour to season the mix.

Until next time, take care!

~ Erica xo

[eyra]

wow you moan a lot

unfollow me then you daft cow.

[triumph-of-adaptation]

Tricia Hersey: Rest Is Resistance

The Nap Ministry

[iamktb206]

by Clementine Von Radics, from Mouthful of Forevers.

[wh1spic]

the ao3 writers curse has struck once again.

in other news, im writing my next fic from my hospital bed.

[vampfire1]

love giving my characters my disorders and illnesses

if i have to have epilepsy so do you. if i have to have painful tics so do you. if i have to have a pd compared to third degree burns so do you. if i have to have bone crushing fatigue so do you. if i have to be hypermobile and it HURTS so do you. if i have to use a mobility aid so do you. if i have to have brain fog to the point i dont remember my name so do you. if i have to suffer SO DO YOU.

[chronicallydragons]

me, talking about my books: I created a whole imaginary world with imaginary friends and I’m going to make that everyone’s problem

[coastalwriter]

Moving Forward Again

The writing process can be a touch-and-go proposition, figuring out which ideas are going to work in the long run. It's even more difficult when you have illnesses that hinder your ability to stick to the kind of schedules that used to be easy to follow.

There are times when a story idea comes along and seems promising, but through the planning process, the structure necessary to take the plot all the way to the end fails to grow and make a nice novel.

Sometimes, both the idea and the plot are doing a fantastic job of growing in to a novel, and then my life and/or health come along and hamstring the progress.

The latter is where I found myself with the novel I started in August of 2020. As of August 2023, I was in uncharted waters with it. The usual strategy of taking a break and then coming back to it because it is firmly stuck in my head kept failing me.

My life had taken a sharp turn. I did my best to deal with the consequences of that, and was just about getting my head above water, when lo and behold – another life-shattering twist.

Those events were around two years ago as of this writing, but I was still struggling to get any sort of momentum back with that Work in Progress. I still have the desire to finish the story, because it has stayed with me. The plot, the characters. I still care. I still want to find out the little things that are going to pop up in between the big, figured out plot points as I write. I want to go on the journey with the protagonists.

But I was not able to sit down and pick up the story. Not for lack of time. For lack of… motivation, inspiration, energy, oomph, get up and go. Call it what you will.

However, the idea for another quite ambitious project came up and started to fire me up and get me thinking about characters and plot points and twists and connections. I was hesitant to get too deeply into the planning process, though, because I earmarked it as “The project after the one I’m working on now.”

That would be all well and good if I had been working on the “one I’m working on now”.

I was reluctant to abandon the “current” WiP, but I came to the realisation that I needed to consciously put it aside, and dive right into something new. Something which isn’t effectively split into before and after those events which had such a transformative effect on my physical and emotional wellbeing. Something to get lost in the process of planning and refining and beginning. Not to mention working on and finishing.

When things aren’t going right (write?), go left.

So I made a decision. I’m putting the Work Not In Progress aside, and began working on the New Project. Officially. It’s a thing. I took the plunge.

So now I am in full planning mode, fleshing out the ideas I’ve been jotting down for future reference for a couple of months now. Instead of feeling dragged down by the fact that I want to finish the book, I’m excited to reach the point of beginning. 

Let’s do this.

[finn-hasnoclue]

maybe i've written too many academic papers recently but i don't need to cite my sources for a fanfic?? right? like i'm not quote them or anything i'm just researching medical conditions and treatment techniques. i don't need to cite the cystic fibrosis foundation in my fanfic?? should i? would it be funny?

[gaypotatoking]

GUYS!!!!

Do you like Bungou Stray Dogs??

Do you enjoy supper cool streamer AU fics??

Do you ALSO enjoy chronically ill characters written by chronically ill authors??

YOU ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY NEED TO READ MY BESTIE/QPR HUMAN’S SOUKOKU HURT/COMFORT CHRONICALLY ILL STREAMER AU!!!

Some Secrets Are Worth Sharing By the wonderful @izabubble

Dazai and Chuuya are Streamers.

Dazai is chronically ill.

Dazai and Chuuya are happily married and in the process of adopting a kitten.

Wait- what was that last one?

or.......

The classic SKK streamer au relationship reveal but add to that a chronically ill Dazai dealing with the physical and emotional stress of a flare up, while also prepping for VidCon (which he might not even be able to attend), and now the public is trying to figure out who his secret roommate is.

(P.s. It's his husband)

—

They have left everyone on a very dramatic cliffhanger at the moment and i’m currently reading/editing the next chapter (it’s very good in my incredibly unbiased opinion)

GO READ IT!!!

[reverberatedmoth]

About Me

Intro

Hihi, I’m new to posting my own content (not new to tumbler just posting.) and I want to post some creative stuff. Whether that be art, writing, prompts or just meeting new friends I’ll figure it out. So I will do a ccard but I am low on patience as of now this is what cha got.

I’m Reverb or Moth.

I go by Any pronouns . (Neo pronouns work too!) In this order Xe/They/He/She.

Minor. Old enough to be online dw.

23 mental age

INFP

3 emagram

Genderfluid, Queer and oriented aroace.

Big ol nerd.

Cartoons, books and comics/webcomics, collecting trinkets

Current hyperfixations: Dc, specifically Tim Drake, Jason Todd, Damian Wayne and Black Canary.

Current special interests: Marine biology, psychology, mysteries, politics, just in general figuring out how things work and why people react the way they do, Religion/spirtituality (I’m polytheistic Pagan :D), Biology, Egyptian mythology/life, Greek mythology, Chemistry, Entomology, Art, Animals (Rodents.), Psychology, Sociology, Anatomy (The study of the human body.), Mythology, Mysterys, Unsolved crime cases, Scooby Doo mystery Inc., Philosophy, cryptids, Gender, Character Writing

Boundaries

Please use tone tags when ya can.

And DNI

Problematic proshippers (meaning incest ships, kid x adult ships.)

This will never be a safe space for Slurs, harassment, bullying, discriminatory behavior, hate speech, Racism, misogyny, misandry, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, fat phobia, ableism, Zionism, Islamophobia, Ageism, eugenicistic behavior, white nationalist behavior, Neuroableism, discrimination based on religion, pedophilla and or rape, grooming, praising destructive and dangerous leader like Trump or Putin, conservatism, Genoism or Psychophobia ect. Also RCTA and Genocide/holocaust deniers are not permitted. Otherwise just don’t be an ass.

[tumble-tv]

Writing fanfic about a very mentally unstable character because fistfighting my doctors isn't right

[johnslittlespoon]

hii happy pride month, have a little 'you're a dog (i'm your man)' chapter four snippet as an apology for radio silence <33

“Did I wake you?” Gale asks, glancing at John apologetically, but John looks up from his effort to avoid muddy puddles to shake his head. Gale supposes it’s a silly question; John sleeps like a rock, dead to disturbances made by anything other than his own brain.

“Just my sixth sense,” John says, shrugging and shooting him a small smile. Gale snorts.

“You got a radar for me?” He teases, and John smiles wider, eyes crinkling.

“Built in,” he answers matter–of–factly, raising a hand and making a fist over the center of his chest before dropping it, returning his vigilant gaze to the uneven ground. Gale stares for a moment longer, floored not for the first time by John’s apparent obliviousness to the weight of his sentimentality.

Even knowing John how he does, it’s always unexpected coming from someone who a stranger might assume to be brazen and surface–level; John’s loud mouth and wandering hands do him no favours in that regard.

But Gale does know John, like an extension of himself half the time, and still he manages to render him speechless. The way his heart flutters as the sentiment hangs in the air makes Gale want to reach down his throat and squeeze it until it never beats again.

[chronicallydragons]

being a fantasy author with an veterinary science background is sometimes really awesome, but sometimes you're forced to consider super cursed concepts like: can dragons drop their tails like some other reptile species?

I decided no because they're such large creatures with such thick tails that the blood supply to the tail would be too massive and dropping the tail would lead to catastrophic blood loss. There ARE some larger lizards that can drop their tails under extreme circumstances, but it’s super risky and dangerous