#indie writer

[so-many-ocs]

grabbing new writers by the shoulders. it is important to write what you love and to love what you write. if you spend all your time trying to make something other people will approve of you will hate yourself and everything around you. learn at your own pace. you have time. i’m proud of you

[makaylajade-author]

Being a writer is just 97% googling words to make sure they mean exactly what you always assumed they meant.

[somerandomblog69]

Welcome to the shitshow, fellow writers! Ready to suffer another November together?

Here's another November 1st meme to really set the tone

[tippenfunkaport]

If you're not great at spotting AI art, there are a few free sites to help you figure it out...

(The first link, AI or Not is the fastest / easiest imho but selection is rarely a bad thing.)

Really helpful if you're getting a fanart commission or book cover or something and someone is trying to trick you into paying for an AI creation. AI technology gets better all the time so you can't always rely on the usual "tells." But if it looks off and you want to double check, here are some ways to do it!

[art-by-is]

Made a book cover based on the podcast wolf 359

[lou-wilham]

There is nothing better than a cheese tour through time and space except. . .

It's cover reveal day for @ellebeaumontbooks & I's first co-author project Benvolio & Mercutio Turn Back time!

BLURB:

Verona has 99 problems—including a time machine.

All Benvolio has ever desired is a peaceful life alongside his spirited—albeit quarrelsome—roommate, Mercutio. But as the story goes, the course of true love never did run smooth, and when tensions between the Montagues and the Capulets reach a boiling point, Benvolio and Mercutio are dragged into the mess Romeo makes of all their lives.

Then an older version of Benvolio crashes into their lives, offering the opportunity to change fate, Mercutio does as he always does—seizes the chance. There's just one problem: no deal is without strings, and this one involves a deadly secret that Mercutio is determined to take to the grave.

What follows is a lively adventure through the ages, replete with love and heartache. Amidst the chaos, this inseparable duo will unravel the true depth of their friendship.

A riotous romp of a retelling of Romeo & Juliet. Side effects of reading may contain laughter, heartache, and a need for more. This light, sci-fi fantasy is the perfect shelf companion to The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian, Something Fabulous by Alexis Hall, and The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting by KJ Charles.

Publication day: July 31, 2024

Genre: Adult Sci-fi Fantasy Romcom

Tropes: Friends to Lovers, time travel, retelling, and they were roommates, deal with the devil

Purchase Link: https://books2read.com/bmturnbacktime

Pre-order a Copy w/ a signed bookplate: https://forms.gle/qtTcP2Tgh6Vfbw3u8

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/193907562-benvolio-and-mercutio-turn-back-time

Cover Artist Credit: @oblivionsdream

Tag for: @jokeringcutio

[apolline-lucy]

hey i did a little redesign of my book cover because i didn’t like the way the blurb was written before… how do you like it now?

check out my book, THE SILVER BIRDS, if you’re into sapphic dark fantasy with witches, monsters, spooky deaths, and a whole cast of grey characters!

[maskedemerald]

Writblr Re-Intro and Search for Mutuals!

Hi I'm Emmy!

I thought I'd do a re-intro because a lot has changed since my last! The biggest change is that the release of my first book ever is coming up! The first in the A Curiosity Piqued series. Scary thing to think about! I even have a Kickstarter going right now for printing the physical books! (Click the K if you want to look at the Kickstarter)

I'm looking to follow some more writers on here and hopefully find some mutuals that would be interested in being tagged in tag games or getting questions (Feel free to tag me in games and send asks!)

So if you like:

Worldbuilding

Fantasy and sci-fi settings (Most are fantasy now but I have some sci-fi WIPS)

Characters being thrown in the deep end and having existential crisies

Potentially weird writing experiments

Streams (over on twitch) working on writing

Then interact with this post! Drop me a follow! And if you want tell me something about what you like to write about! (Please reblog too so that more people see)

[poopraven]

Hello! I'd like to tell you about a book I wrote. It'll be coming out on Friday the 26th of May 2023.

I'm extremely proud of this one. I'm proud of them all, of course, but I think in this one I let myself get angry for, well, pretty much the whole book to be honest. Previous books in the series have bursts of queer rage, but this one definitely sustained it.

At its heart, it's a book that demands to know just how long we're supposed to do nothing while fascists kill us.

Now, fair warning, it is book 9 in an ongoing series. It won't make a whole lot of sense if you haven't read the previous eight books. I'll get to that at the end of the post, but for now I want to stick with Runes of Fall.

No storm bows to reason.

Quentin's trip to the desert with his chosen family is supposed to be two days of testing the limits of their powers. Instead, a violent storm looms on the horizon, and nothing will alter its course.

The storm has a name: Nate Anderson. Demigod, supremacist, leader of a neo-Nazi Übermensch cabal... and father to Quentin's latest ward, Mel. He means to take her home, and won't let a ragtag group of "inferior" psychics get in his way.

Besieged and outgunned, Quentin is trapped in a no-win scenario. No matter which way he turns, one fateful night will change him forever.

Inheritance is a series best read in order, so if this is the first you've heard of it I strongly recommend that you start with Jack of Thorns, but keep going and I'll let you know how you can grab that for free. First, let me tell you more about it.

In Jack of Thorns, we meet Laurence and Quentin, two men with astonishing powers but little to no control over them. They are both adrift, traumatised, and doing what they can to get by one day at a time. Laurence is struggling to escape a toxic, abusive boyfriend who refuses to accept that their relationship is over, and Quentin spends as much of his time drunk as he possibly can.

Do they start out likeable? Opinion varies. But they learn, they grow, and they put in the work to improve themselves. They do their best, and sometimes they make mistakes, but the Laurence and Quentin in Runes of Fall are a world away from the Laurence and Quentin you first meet.

Heads up, there are some content warnings to take note of. In random order, they are: sexual intimacy, addiction, drug use, sexual assault, childhood sexual abuse, incest, gaslighting, bullying, coercive control, kidnapping, domestic abuse, bigotry, classism, torture, post-traumatic stress, therapy, violence, peril, and death.

If you're still here, thank you for reading this far. I'd like to give you some links if you're interested in finding out more!

Jack of Thorns: https://books2read.com/jackofthorns

Runes of Fall: https://discoverinheritance.com/books/runes-of-fall

Discord server: https://discord.gg/reYUyTH9DJ

And, if you'd like, you can get all nine books at once - whether as ebooks, paperbacks (signed or unsigned), or audiobooks - from Kickstarter:

Thank you so much for your time. Please feel free to ask questions if you have them!

- AK.

[xanyiaz]

ok so this is random but i wrote a screenplay (basically a script) for a short film for my coursework a while ago and whilst i unfortunately lost it 😭 i really liked the idea/concept of it as like a short story and at the time when i wrote it, i wanted to make it even longer but i didn't bc my film teacher said it was too complicated 💀💀

but ANYWAYS i'm thinking of rewriting it and posting it for people to read 🤭 i tried writing a blurb for it below lol‼️

it wouldn't be a book or anything, just a veryvery short story- like maybe a few chapters.

[writeblrfantasy]

In honor of pride month: cover reveal!

Isn't she beautiful??

Coming this fall!

Reblogs and boosts appreciated!!

RED KING TAGLIST: (LMK TO BE ADDED/REMOVED)

@transmasc-wizard @synthesizer-dyke @magic-is-something-we-create @tc-doherty @softbroiled-doomdesire @somealienquill @sagasofazeria @super-writer-gal @ren-c-leyn @crazy-like-us @ashen-crest @shrunkupthejams @themundanemudperson @sarahlizziewrites

GENERAL TAGLIST: @worldbuildng @muddshadow @nikkywrites @47crayons @directionoftime @myhusbandsasemni

[aimee-maroux]

New story up for patrons with a fun and sexy illustration by @mcsiggy 🔥

While at the Festival of Drunkenness in Dendera in Egypt, Ariadne catches the eye of the powerful goddess Hathor...

Illustrated version for $10+ patrons: https://www.patreon.com/posts/illustrated-of-x-88387809

Plain text version: https://www.patreon.com/posts/fiction-queen-of-88387046

[makaylajade-author]

Me whilst writing: This is a masterpiece…I am a literary genius

Me whilst editing my writing: I am an abomination to the writing community

[somerandomblog69]

Instead of writing a character outline for your story full of bulletpoints, what if you just flat out interviewed them?

I'd happily read five pages of my favorite authors sitting in a living room asking their characters about their feelings on Avocados for five minutes.

You think this is a joke but honestly you start down that road and suddenly you're talking about their feelings on equality and human rights and their thought process after the love of their life moved to Buttswan™, USA.

Or maybe that's just my undiagnosed ADD...

[jon-mcbrine-author]

Semi-autobiographical or straight up a self-insert, the MC is doomed 😂

[escapedaudios]

The prevailing attitude that self-promotion is bad and shameful tacitly supports the idea that the only media worthy of circulation is media backed by ad campaigns or content with existing algorithmic momentum pushing it. I will never shame independent creators for hustling their work. I will never pressure someone into hiding something that they have every right to be proud of.