#other writeblrs

[charbroiledchicken]

if it's good enough for you, then it deserves to be made. don't let anyone else decide if your story is worth it or not.

[surroundedbypearls]

I've been in a similar boat because I've been working on editing one of my WIPs 😮‍💨 buttttt it is a fantasy with queer characters!

Basically it's about a teenage boy called Adam who is destined to serve the Dragon King as one of his magic soldiers, and so he's living in a compound with other dragon students almost like a monastery, taught by the wise oracles. The main problem is that he's not that interested in being a soldier, really. He just wants to paint and daydream about the boy who plays piano at all the oracles' banquets. His name is Shay, and he's from another magic tribe called the chimeras whose relationship with the king and the oracles is strained at best. But the heart wants what it wants!

It's a mix of Adam figuring stuff out about his world and his budding relationship with Shay, and the worldbuilding is a mix of Greek and Irish mythologies ✨

writers, listen up...

i've fallen out of touch with the writeblr community a lot in the past few years, and i want to rectify that. the community aspect was what made me fall in love with tumblr, and what improved my writing for the better.

the golden days of my writing were when i was highly active and engaged in this wonderful community, but life and work and the horrors of self publishing have overtaken my energy in the past year. however, i have been really struggling with original writing, and i want to get back into the community here.

that said...

you write fantasy with queer characters

are an indie author

post frequently about your wips (taglists are a bonus!)

are queer

are a very active and friendly writer

if any of these apply

please, please reblog and tell me about your wip. gush over it. infodump. characters and ships and worldbuilding and plot, i want it all! this is your invitation to be as selfishly indulgent as possible. let's make some new friends and restore some community!!

boosts appreciated!

[writeouswriter]

[catiandchocolate]

What people expect when I say I’m a writer: writing a whole novel

What I actually do: get into a fandom or come up with an original idea, go to sleep every night thinking of the story, make imaginary scenarios and Pinterest boards, make Spotify playlists, and finally sit down to write it out 2 months later only to get another idea and abandon the story. Repeat the cycle.

[wraetingsonthewall]

sometimes your brain really just offers you one banger of a sentence and then that's it for the entire rest of the day. creativity expired, the ability to think has clocked out for the day, context for as to how we even get to this sentence? sorry we're all out. this one sentence is all you get.

[science-lings]

my dad saw ao3 open on my computer and asked if that was like my writing club and just so you know that's what fanfic writers are now, we're all in the same writing club where we all write about the same media and show each other our little stories and that's kind of cool actually

[schepper-wubs-wips]

Tick for the diverse casts, corruption arcs, and philosophical themes :>

I'd like to get more involved in the writeblr and artblr community, but am (sadly) a very shy individual. So please, if any of the following fits your wip's or your interests and you'd like to talk, interact with this post, so I can find you. <3

 • a diverse cast (poc, lgbtqia+, disabled and/or mentally ill mc's)

• a love for redemption and/or corruption arcs

• slowburn romances/friendships/dynamics (I love the disliked to I trust you completely pipeline that takes years and years)

• philosophical themes

• dark fantasy/sci-fi wip's, or contemporary/historical stories that deal with the problems individuals/societies face

• a love for world building, especially when it comes to magic systems, religions and cultures

• complicated relationship webs and group dynamics 

• morally ambiguous characters, character driven stories and/or character arcs that go deep into their psychology 

• Bonus points if you illustrate your work, I love you, you can do it!!! (lets suffer together)

Also, everyone in general who wants to talk about writing/reading, scream about their oc's or would like to do some reading challenges together! 🌻

[scribble-dee-vee]

Seeing a bunch of writing posts lately like “it’s okay if you only wrote a couple hundred words today :))”

As someone with a full time job, diverse hobbies, and a commitment to proper rest/self care, I would amend that. It’s okay if you don’t write anything at all on MOST DAYS OF YOUR LIFE. You’re still a writer if you’re passionate about creating stories and putting words on paper when time allows. Life is busy and full of possibility, and that’s beautiful, actually. Kill the hypercapitalist productivity demon in your head.

[inkskinned]

i keep thinking about how rfk said that autistic people "will never write a poem." i keep thinking about that, about if humanity is calculated on the back of old verse. how far we measure personhood is in baseball and stanza breaks.

i keep thinking - i have over 7k poems on here alone. language can be a special interest, after all. did you know the word autism comes almost direct from the greek word autos, meaning "self"? self-ism.

maybe he is right - i haven't really played baseball. i was a ballet dancer instead. and besides - my sister once accidentally hit me in the face with an aluminum bat. i'm not sure if the injury gives me half points. am i only a person in the dugout? hand in a mitt? swinging?

does softball count? does cricket? am i a person if i throw the ball to my dog. am i a person as long as the ball is in the air, or do i stop being a person as it rolls into the bushes. i took my girlfriend to fenway recently; was i a person in the sun, with my hands up, with the game laid out at my feet in a diamond. i felt like a person, but that was back in the summer, and i often feel my most person-like then.

am i more of a person because of the sheer number of things i've written? does quality matter, or is it quantity? i used to write entire books every summer in high school - i wasn't doing well. i felt the least like-a-person back then. but then - does any person feel human in high school?

in the library, ink on my skin, i feel personhood shutter at the edges of myself. actually, writing feels blissfully like not being myself. it feels birdlike; escaping into creation so my body dissolves and i survive only by muscle memory. i am not there, i am writing.

but who can deny the falconlike focus of warsan shire, the tenderness of mary oliver, the sheer skill of amanda gorman. those are poets. they are certainly human. you could line them up with the way their words have influenced us and measure their literary shadows like wings.

perhaps it was very assumptive of me to want to be a poet rather than "a [ label ] poet." i wanted the work to fill itself in, rather than be stained by what i am. i do not write in despite of my neurodivergence, i am just neurodivergent and writing.

does the poem have to be in english or can i send it through my palms into the coat of my dog. does the poem have to make sense. does the poem have to love you back.

if i break a glass, will the poem appear naturally? or is the act of breaking the glass human-enough. the shards of my life glittering out beneath me - do i have to write the poem, or is it self-evident in the pile of glass splinters? i cannot grasp this world the way other people can. regardless, i endeavor to touch - even the mess - very gently.

i broke my toenail against my coffee table recently. i released a bug outdoors. i made coffee. i walked my dog.

i didn't write a poem about any of these things.

something else, then. existing without humanity.

[forthesanityofstorytellers]

Do everything possible other than writing the idea until it weighs on your soul so much to write it that the story is burning through your fingers and you have no choice but to either write it or drop it. Grab hold of the excitement and let it seep through you like a used tea bag accidentally left on a paper towel overnight.

Or just share the idea with the writeblr community and the excitement spread to your moots until they antagonize you about it relentlessly until you write it. Or until they find some other shiny and leave you be.

Hey so I need y’all’s (most unhinged) advice on what to do if you are excited by a story idea then you think about beginning to write it and you’re like uuuuggghhh. I was not writing for a hot minute because I lost the spark and I’m like maybe I’m halfway back to getting back on the horse but idk

It’s not the idea or the scene but just the thought of spending hours on this one scene in my brain that I wish I could write in less than an hour.

[inkedwingss]

not me writing this giant synopsis of my own wip to myself so i can understand what i am actually trying to create

[aussie-bookworm]

Finding out AO3 that is down before the status accounts report about it feels like being the messenger in a fantasy movie, heavily injured and bloodied, running into the throne room and declaring the neighbouring kingdom has declared war on the king before collapsing from blood loss in a stunned silence

[caxycreations]

Soooo first off, welcome back~!!!

Second~

Hoo boy, let's see how many of the boxes I tick off this lil checklist you gave me...

Tragic Characters: Cyrus, 100%, once his story kicks off in Book 6, and even David at times in Book 1 and 2.

Trace, David, Ryder, Davina, and Moss all fit into the description "complex characters with really rich backgrounds", and they're the main cast of the early books!

Stories influenced by slavic cultures, I'm afraid not >.< I may have things that come from slavic cultures, but if I do I'm unaware (and would love to be educated~!)

Queer fantasy stories by queer voices, well, I'm omnisexual and trans, and my story is a world of anthropomorphic animals of all manner of sexuality and gender! David is genderfluid and homoflexible, Davina and Ryder are cis with Davina being on the demisexual spectrum and Ryder being bisexual, Trace is trans and pansexual, Moss is non-binary (I'll have to ask my co-creator to remind me of their sexuality, but suffice to say it's not heterosexual) and there's plenty more than just them, as they're just the main cast!

The series starts out modern, urban fantasy, and as the series goes on it shifts to post-modern fantasy and eventually future sci-fi/fantasy.

Ferus, the country that the series takes place in, was founded as a country due to Dornumite colonists merging with, rather than overtaking, the native Ferusians, thanks to aid from the Quarin, a foreign species that urged co-existence and collaboration rather than domination or erasure. Everything Ferus stands for is based around the idea of shared existence and history, and of honoring the natives.

If writing up complex and intricately interwoven backstories for my characters counts as family values-based worldbuilding, I've got that, but I also have a TON of worldbuilding for religions (Relan has THREE) and magic (SO much magic omg)

The middle and later books are notably dark. The early books also have their moments...

The main cast are already found family by the start of the book, and while I don't know that I can truly call it slow-burn love, I feel the focus of the first book might fit into that still?

David, Davina, Cyrus. All three fit that very well.

You'll enjoy the middle and later books, once I get to those.

And with that, again, welcome back to writeblr!! And, to anyone seeing this, two things:

One, if you think my story sounds interesting you can find it here or on my ao3 of the same name...

And two, CHECK OUT THIS PERSON'S BLOG!! Always support your fellow writers! Give them a follow if you think their work is cool like I do!

a writeblr resurrection

my name is rhyannyn, and i'm looking to get more involved into the writeblr community after a lengthy hiatus of getting myself and my works in order. i'm always willing to follow new people, and reconnect with writeblrs i knew a few years ago when i was consistently on tumblr (going as kennedy :b)

if you write any of the following, are intrigued by any of the following, or just want to hang out and rip my OCs apart (i've got a list of where you should start, by the way) please feel free to follow and I will follow back. i'm really looking to find writeblrs right now who blogs are focused on writing, as i always love finding new things to read, and new stories to support :)

tragic characters--characters who see no way out, characters who are icarus coded and sisyphus coded AND antigone coded, characters caged by their duty and love and faith and it destroys them

in turn, complex characters with really rich backgrounds

stories influenced by slavic cultures (polish heritage plays a large part in one of my fantasy cultures)

queer fantasy stories by queer voices

FANTASY! CONTEMPORARY FANTASY! SCIFI FANTASY! DARK FANTASY! HIGH FANTASY! URBAN FANTASY! I WILL SCROUNGE THE FLOORS FOR FANTASY AND GORGE MYSELF ON IT!

stories that are anti-colonizer. i like seeing indigenous people win, and i love stories with irish, native american, sammi, and kurdish influences. i like seeing characters cling to who they are and old gods and kind ways while colonizers try to take it away, and i like seeing indigenous people prevail.

worldbuilding with a major focus on family values, religion, and magic.

any and all things dark

slowburn lovers, slowburn friendships, slowburn found family. make it teeth-gritting and loving and heart gouging. i will devour it.

characters who are hurt and traumatized and it isn't the end. characters in the dark who keep going even when there isn't any light in sight.

all things divine and demonic and grimy. i have a taste for violence as long as it serves a purpose to the story and isn't done just for fun

this is a list of things i write, and what i particularly love to read in literature, but i'm willing to follow any writeblrs and hopefully connect with some new and old accounts!

again, i've been off of tumblr for an official two years now (yes my bad, but alas i had the strangest hyperfixation on the job i despise and totally disappeared), but i am holding myself by the throat and forcing myself to resurrect because i am trying to publish a book right now!

oh and my wip page sucks. please avoid it at all costs while i try to edit it :3

[deminetly]

꒰ ꪆA GUIDE TO WORLDBUILDING୧ ꒱

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˖˙ ᰋ─WHY?

its fun and pushes your creativity to new heights (you can also shift to the world tou created iykyk) you could also make it into a story

˖˙ ᰋ─WHAT?

name of the world

flag

map

creatures that live there

goverment

education systems

language(s)

norms

currency

legends

technology

history

powers

nature

jobs

traditions

problems

fashion

food

religions

races

˖˙ ᰋ─HOW?

collecting ideas for example you can make a pinterest board where you save pins that inspire you (it can be anything from food youd like in your world to creaturs or landscapes)

get inspired by other peoples creations watch movies, shows books or even games and notice the little details. this also goes for the real world

[seasonal-brotp-prompts]

I've seen people say the found family trope is queer because it's about "choosing" rather than being "given," and while that's true, I think there's another reason people often gloss over or misunderstand:

found family is queer because the labels don't always fit.

sometimes a character falls somewhere between a brother and a cousin. sometimes they're a big brother, a father figure, and a weird uncle all at once. sometimes they're a sibling when a third character is present, but a parent when they aren't. sometimes any attempt to label them just falls short.

often when a lot of people are fighting over what traditional family role a member of a found family is, I find myself thinking, "maybe you're all right, and all wrong, too. maybe there isn't just one label. maybe it's a found family, so it's queer."