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Hi everyone! I'm looking for someone to beta read a small memoir piece I want to start submitting soon. It's only like 300 words, so I hope someone will want to read it!

Also, I know I've been really inactive on tumblr, but if you want more from me I have a Twitter and a Bookstagram I've been using often. Thanks!

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Fun meta asks for writers

Tell us about your current project(s)  – what’s it about, how’s progress, what do you love most about it?

Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project

What is that one scene that you’ve always wanted to write but can’t be arsed to write all of the set-up and context it would need? (consider this permission to write it and/or share it anyway)

Share a sentence or paragraph from your writing that you’re really proud of (explain why, if you like)

What character that you’re writing do you most identify with?

What character do you have the most fun writing?

What do you think are the characteristics of your personal writing style? Would others agree?

Is what you like to write the same as what you like to read?

Are you more of a drabble or a longfic kind of writer? Pantser or plotter? Do you wish you were the other?

How would you describe your writing process?

What do you envy in other writers?

Do you want your writing to be famous?

Do you share your writing online? (Drop a link!) Do you have projects you’ve kept just for yourself?

At what point in writing do you come up with a title?

Which is harder: titles or summaries (or tags)?

Tried anything new with your writing lately? (style, POV, genre, fandom?)

Do you think readers perceive your work - or you - differently to you? What do you think would surprise your readers about your writing or your motivations?

Do any of your stories have alternative versions? (plotlines that you abandoned, AUs of your own work, different characterisations?) Tell us about them.

Is there something you always find yourself repeating in your writing? (favourite verb, something you describe ‘too often’, trope you can’t get enough of?)

Tell us the meta about your writing that you really want to ramble to people about (symbolism you’ve included, character or relationship development that you love, hidden references, callbacks or clues for future scenes?)

What other medium do you think your story would work well as? (film, webcomic, animated series?)

Do you reread your old works? How do you feel about them?

What’s the story idea you’ve had in your head for the longest?

Would you say your writing has changed over time?

What part of writing is the most fun?

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My short story “Cherry and Jane in the Garden of Eden” is now up in The Puritan! Read this twisty little tale about petty theft, diabolical children, and the allure of a mysterious garden 🌺

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I’m looking for more writeblrs to follow.

Please reblog if you’re any combination of the following:

Over 18

Don’t post NSFW images (writing is ok!)

Post original content

Share writing tips and resources

Post original writing advice and resources

Write LGBTQIA+ and/or POC characters

Write Sci-fi and/or Fantasy

Write Horror

Post reviews of books

Or, comment the name of your writing/writeblr blog if it’s not your main.

Also, if you’re posting sci-fi/fantasy/horror OC, please feel free to tag me in your stories!

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A new writeblr appears!

Hello! I’m Shae, a genderfluid writer who’s trying their best! I’m twenty-three years old, and been writing on-and-off for over a decade now. I created this blog so that I can share my work and hopefully find a home within the community. I write a variety of genres, but nearly always gravitate to LGBTQ+ romance and fantasy. 

I’m looking for other writeblrs to follow. So if you are an LGBTQ+ writeblr, a fantasy writeblr, or just love laughing at writing memes, please like or reblog so that I can follow you! :)

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When you're writing and you suddenly realize you don't know what happens next

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Writeblrs - reblog, like, or comment on this! I’m searching for active writeblrs. (Plus, if you have any recommendations on who to follow, that would also be appreciated.)

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YA protags running around with names like Pendleton Winkledink, Xander Blooddrake, Petronius Albatross, Beto Tobias Buttigieg III, Misha Everwoods, or W̤͓̼̼̰͙̘̐̑͗̄̿͑̎͢h͚͖͇͈̪̑ͥ́͑͑͗͠f̢͈͑͌ͮͮͨͮ͡j̨̻̆̇ͦͤͭf̨̯̏̉͌͊͑͞h͎̪̗͍͍̩̅̿ͪ̈́̾̌ͪ̇͢r͛̊̎ͩ̚҉̳y̵̾͏̠̱̹̮d̨̫͍͚ͫ͠h̭ͧͯͥ̀f̺͖͍̑ͦ́ͧ̐ͯ̍͝i͂̾̏͛ͦ͛͏̘͙̪̼̠f̸̜͚̹̩̲̒̑̈͟í̢̤̣̫̘̪̱̈ͥ̓͑ḓ̩̝͎̰͇͇̉ͥͣ̀̍ͥ̆͗̕h̸̢̺̗̓̎ͨ̾ͭͭ̚w̸̠̖͑ͫ̿̃̃̔̄h̝̫̘ͫ̂̓̄̇ͧ̀̚͜e̢͖͙̩̩̤͔̘ͯ̀̏̇͑g͚̤̠̙ͦͩ̃̿ͧ͡ͅfͪ̃̄ͧ́̎҉̶̤͙̞̞͚̭j̡̰͕̟̰͖͈͇̅̄̐ͭͮ͑̚͘r̵̺͕̲̠̀͡ͅi̺͍̳͍̟̥͒̔̀e̷͎̖͓͇̼̯̟͔̐j̾̄ͤ̽ͩ͆̀͏̝̠̰͇̺̤d̨̲̲̜̻̱̖̒̅.

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one of the best pieces of writing advice i’ve ever gotten:

if a scene isn’t working, change the weather.

it sounds stupid, but seriously, it works. thank u to my screenwriting professor for this wisdom

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I did another stupid thing

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This makes me nervous, but I’m going to post it. I’m going to try my best to achieve my goals. I’ve put in a ton of work already, so I’m looking for additional help. 

From the campaign:

My name is Trey Briggs, and I’m a black woman who writes paranormal horror, speculative fiction, and other types of fiction. You can find my stories at MaybeTrey , Astrid the Devil , and on Instagram , Medium , and Wattpad .

My stories are aimed at black people who want to read dark stories that focus on original black characters that are complex and interesting. I genuinely believe Black audiences deserve a variety of genres to delve into, and I want to introduce them to paranormal horror, dark romance, and fantasy that they haven’t gotten enough of in the past. I also believe that this can be done across multiple mediums, and I spend my money with black creative professionals to make these experiences extend beyond my words. For the last two years, I’ve run my stories on sites and Instagram to great reception. I like to craft complex experiences that offer looks at character backgrounds, side and backstories, full websites for each title, and more. I also provide encyclopedias, maps, audio journals, and other ways to get into each world. During these last few years, I’ve run into a lot of walls, jumped a lot of hurdles, and tried my best. I’ve worked with amazing black artists, voice actors, and actresses, musicians, designers, and more. I trust my ability to run a project, especially when it comes to planning and finding talent. My overall goal is to run a team of black creatives that crafts novels, graphic novels, audio experiences, and animated series for a dedicated audience.

Why I Need Help Long story short: I have the skill, I have the marketing/website building/business experience, and I have the drive. There’s a lot I can do on my own, but there’s also a lot that gets left behind because I don’t have the money I need to proceed at a steady pace. I need help with funding so I can focus, hire the right people, and craft these stories the way they deserve to be crafted. I have thus far spent over $60,000 of my own money on my projects over the past two years - the writing and site-building are easy for me; the rest has to be hired out. I have art, site costs for hosting, domains, templates, specific plugins, and maintenance, audio (and vocal artists to pay), musical, and editing costs. I’m by no means rich or even particularly financially stable. I have taken on tons of extra clients for my digital marketing business, transcribed hundreds of hours of audio for dirt cheap, and taken out personal loans. I even worked a second full-time job along with my full-time business last year to afford to produce the content I love. It’s starting to take a toll on my mental health. I plan on continuing to fund these projects out of pocket (and finding ways to do so), but having financial help, however big or small, would allow me to move a lot faster and with less stress. It would let me flesh out ideas and concepts that I have had to scrap because I can only physically handle so much extra work. I run a full-time marketing business from home, homeschool my autistic 10-year-old, and generally have a busy life. Some of the strain is taking a toll on me, and I don’t want to give up. Having some financial backing could allow me to drop a client or two after a few months and focus on the work I love to do.

How You Can Help I mainly need a start—a sort of base. I want to emphasize that I plan to continue to provide the main bulk of funding for my projects. I know my goals are ambitious, and I know each step will take time and money. I welcome any help to make the process smoother and to get around the initial hurdles. I’d like to have ebooks and novels offered on my site by the end of the year (along with the free serials and stories). Funding means that I can broaden the projects, include more free aspects to my sites, and secure direct financing through sales of ebooks and audiobooks sooner. It also means that I can offer MORE stories, whether they are online only or fully fleshed out novels and sites. I am swamped with trying to work enough to cover all my bills and creative projects, so I lose a lot of time I could spend plotting and writing. If I have better funding, I can get my stories out quicker (and with fewer mistakes).

The Initial Stories Let’s talk about my stories! If you’re familiar with my work already, you can skip to the next section. My main story site is Maybe Trey . Currently, I have two big titles and a bunch of smaller ones that I am seeking help with funding: Astrid the Devil

Astrid the Devil is the complicated story of a girl who inherits not only her family’s features and DNA, but their fears, struggles, and fights. It’s the story of a condition called Devil Syndrome, the women who suffer it, and the monsters that devour them. It’s the story of the fight to save the people you love at the expense of innocent lives. At its core, Astrid the Devil is the story of a woman who inherits the chaos of three generations before her. It’s a look at what is truly passed down to our children, and how they’re left to fight our battles in the aftermath of our failures. It’s the tale of an indescribable monster and the women who struggle to defeat it. It’s a journey into how their every decision could save or destroy an entire world. Astrid the Devil is the story of Astrid Snow, but her story can’t be told without the story of the women before her.

Vicious: On MaybeTrey  and The Vicious site (in progress)

Somewhere, a war is brewing.  That’s the only thing that’s for sure to Junnie Gorton, a young horned girl suffering from a debilitating disease called Horn Rot. She typically dealt with her low survival rate and abnormally large horns by escaping the world with her best friend, Lewish. Now she’s forced to figure out which side is which, save her entire species, and find out the truth behind the sudden uprising in her home. Horn Rot, a highly contagious and violent disease spreading through horned people, is causing mass amounts of madness and death. Normal horns grow in ways that will pierce, suffocate, and maim their owners, and the only one who can stop it is Junnie’s mother, Lyria. As Lyria falls deeper and deeper into an anti-social revolt, the country reels. While Junnie broods, her entire species must prepare for mass extinction. Her brother plots with a group of people with less than good intentions and Lewish is quieter than usual. In a civilization brought up on extreme violence and competition, Junnie and Lewish try their best not to get swallowed by their culture, their lives, or their horns.

Bunni and Bosque :

Bunni lives. Bosque dies. We all know how this story starts. Bunni is obsessed with destruction and death. She comes from the healthiest Horned family in her country. She’s from the oldest, purest bloodline in the world. And she’s bored with it. Bunni spends most of her time trying to escape her duties as a pureblood. She wants things dirty, messy, foul, inconsistent. Having parents that are willing to kill to keep their bloodline pure is annoying. Knowing that she’ll live a long, full life, produce more perfect children, and die unscathed is agonizing. Bunni wants something to mourn. We all know how this story ends. Bosque is destined to die an agonizing death, alone on his family’s land. He’s watched everyone he loved and grew up with perish. Sometimes it was because of their disease. Sometimes it was because of the malice and hatred of others. While he’s absolutely withdrawn and satisfied with his life, Bosque has never had a chance to live it. He spends his days basking in the sun, bathing in wood baths, and contemplating the end. Bosque isn’t interested in joining the rest of the world. He’d rather die out, alone, where his family belonged. Bosque wants to go peacefully. But neither expected to meet each other one day in a supermarket. Neither expected to fall in love, lust, and every vicious and dirty thing between. Neither expected to be so right for each other, all while being wrong for everyone else. You know the end of this story. Bunni lives, Bosque dies. But maybe something will change.

My smaller titles, Bunni and Bosque /Aite and Jude, can be found at Maybe Trey .

The Business Plan

The initial phase of my business plan is to get the sites populated with ebooks and audiobooks for sale. I also have prints that can be sold. Right now, I am in the audience-building phase while I save up for editing the full novels. 

In terms of an actual business with which to publish the stories, I already have a registered publication company in Illinois: Wolfless Studios LLC. I took this step earlier this year with plans to self-publish Astrid and Vicious. So that is paid for and done.

I have also gotten initial editing done on the first six chapters of Astrid, though it will need to be edited from the beginning again once everything is said and done. I’ve spent over $1000 on that so far, and it would go a lot faster if I didn’t need to save up to edit each chapter.

Astrid the Devil is fully plotted, outlined, and only needs the last three chapters. Bunni and Bosque and Vicious are newer, but plotted and already deep into character development (all being shared across social and Wattpad for audience growth). Aite and Jude and other shorts are plotted, and three other unshared stories are plotted and at the editing phase.

Other costs and ways I would use the funding (I would still put in my own money and do as much on my own as possible):

Initial $30K

$6000 - $7000 Line and Copy edits for Astrid (currently at 250000+ words/expecting over 300000 at $0.02 rate)

$6000 - $7000 Line and Copy Edits for Vicious

$3000 - $4000 Line and Copy Edits for Bunni and Bosque

ISBN Purchases (Separate ISBN for each format for each book) - https://www.myidentifiers.com/identify-protect-your-book/barcode

Covers for Astrid/Vicious/B&B Print Versions

Site Hosting Costs and Maintenance for 2 Years

Site completion for all stories

Initial store and app development

40K - Marketing and Graphic Novels

Social, Print, and Web ads

Email Marketing Campaigns 

Booths at Decatur Book Festival (depending on COVID)

Social ads and promos

50 to 60 pages

First two chapters offered as free promo with email sign-ups

Audio journals for each character

Situational audio journals

Encyclopedia for Astrid (finishing up)/Vicious

65K - Hires and Next Phases

Ability to hire a Full-Time Editor 

Audio Series for each (professionally done)

Vicious Graphic Novel

Additional Title Added

Short animations for both Vicious and Astrid (with plans to fund more with book sales)

Fleshed out Story Sections (Novellas for each character of each series)

Short comic series with Astrid and Vicious side characters

Possible to plan out monthly subscription service with new stories and ‘story package’ deliveries

75K -

Astrid the Devil Graphic Novel

Vicious Graphic Novel

Astrid the Devil Animated Short

Ability to hire part-time Web Developer

Additional bigger title

Anything Over - I ascend into pure light. And also, I can add titles, cover more mediums, and eventually expand my publishing to other black creatives.

From there, I should be able to handle the funding via sales of books, comics, audio, and more. Again, I will always offer mostly free content across the sites.

I believe in proof of concept, and I have diehard fans on my social platforms. With no outside funding, I’ve been able to a lot on my own. I’d love to expand my business into one that does the same for other black authors, artists, voice actors, and animators somewhere down the line. 

Thank you so much for your consideration. I appreciate all my readers, present and future, and I appreciate any help!

See incentives and more on the actual campaign: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-trey-publish-black-paranormal-horror-stories

Thank you so much!

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The Outbursts of Everett True was a comic strip that ran in papers from 1905 to 1927, wherein the aforementioned Everett True regularly beat the everliving shit out of rude people as a warning to anyone else who might consider being rude. Men have not only been taking up too much room on public transport for about as long as public transport has existed, but the people around them have been irritated about it for at least a hundred years. The next time someone tries to claim that manspreading is a false phenomenon, please direct them to this strip so that Everett True can correct their misconceptions with an umbrella upside the head.

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Last year, The HRC (Human Rights Campaign), reported that in 2019 alone, at least 26 trans and gender nonconforming people were killed in the United States alone. Disproportionately, Black trans people were the victims. Those I have illustrated here, do not even scratch the surface of what is, and should be recognised as, an epidemic. Now, more than ever, it is crucial that we do whatever we can to support the black trans community. 

Please consider donating/signing the charities and petitions listed here.

EDIT- updated hyperlinks to petitions JUSTICE FOR TONY MCDADE https://www.change.org/p/justice-for-tony-mcdade JUSTICE FOR NINA POP- https://www.change.org/p/black-lives-matter-actvists-justice-for-nina-pop JUSTICE FOR TETE- https://www.change.org/p/portland-police-bureau-justice-for-tete MORE PROTECTION FOR BLACK TRANS WOMEN UK- https://www.change.org/p/boris-johnson-more-protection-for-black-trans-women-uk DONATE- BLACK VISIONS COLLECTIVE- https://www.blackvisionsmn.org TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER- https://transgenderlawcenter.org THE OKRA PROJECT- https://www.theokraproject.com LGBTQ+ FREEDOM FUND- https://www.lgbtqfund.org NATIONAL CENTER FOR BLACK EQUITY- https://centerforblackequity.org

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hello, humans of writeblr!

My name is Juri and this is my very first foray into writeblr! I have been lurking around the writeblr tags during my occasional visits here on Tumblr before deciding to set up my own sideblog dedicated to my WIPs as an accountability of sorts because I pledged to hit 50k on my first draft/s this year (oof). I also want to share some of my stories with the community and hopefully gain more writer friends to scream about the process of drafting, hitting that word count, laughing at writing memes, and overall just basking in the different worlds of the stories we create.

Quick getting-to-know-me sesh:

I’m a 20-year old Filipina, I use she/her pronouns, chaotically bisexual, and have a soft spot for all things sweet and fluffy as well as the strange, the unknown, and the magical (I mean, who doesn’t?)

I also like to read books and I run a dedicated book blog over on Wordpress where I ramble about my current reads and getting over my reading slump.

Other than reading and writing, I like to listen to music, bingeing TV series and movies, casually playing mobile games, dessert/bakery-hopping, or admiring haute couture pieces I can’t afford from fashion designers I admire (*cries in broke*). 

I write in a variety of genres but most of my WIPs gravitate towards fantasy and romance. I also tend to incorporate Philippine folklore and mythology in my writings. 

My current WIPs at the moment!

Sugar Darling (tentative title) - An NA fantasy about a human baker and a rookie Grim Reaper who form an unlikely pact to fend off ancient threats and guide wandering spirits off the mortal plane while running a magical cafe for the supernatural. 

Whispers of the Deep - An Adult fantasy about a half-monster girl trying to clear her name after being accused of releasing a dangerous deity into the wild.

Both of these are still in their early stages and I’ll create a proper post with a more in-depth synopsis and character intros, so this is all for now~

I’m really looking for other writeblrs to follow and I’d really love to make some new friends! Please leave a like or a reblog so I can follow you~ I promise I’m a nice person! 

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Some of you might remember my story Folie à Trois that I used to talk about... well, I started submitting it to magazines! I'm really proud of it and hopefully soon you will all get to read it with your own eyes!