#I plan to actually publish this book

[nevermoorsource]

The first half of the Nevermoor graphic novel adaptation will be released in German in November 2024. If you find out that it's being translated into any other languages, please share!

[rewritingcanon]

liking this ship is my fulltime job actually

[bloodborne-on-pc]

Played a new tabletop RPG called CAIN last night and it's been living rent-free in my head for the last 24 hours. Genuinely such a simple and engaging system, with just enough lore to inspire you without restricting you.

[deoidesign]

wait so does that mean you'll end up with 600 copies of book 2 total????

yes (grimacing emoji)

yeah, I ordered 300 of each book cause I sold 150 of each, and I figured I would sell probably 150 more once the series returns from hiatus and I can advertise to the majority of my audience...

Plus, with 4 books, that makes 600 books in my apartment! I have room for 600 extra books.

And, the amount it costs me to get 100 books if I sell out of one is a couple dollars more per book, but the profits from my previous sales will cover a reprint with no issues!

so I mathed it out really well between the space in my apartment and costs and everything and then I got 300 extra books that were wrong HAHA

all good though! since they're "free" for me due to the printer replacing them, I can sell them at a reduced cost without issue. As long as I actually can get them out of my apartment eventually... 300 books is a LOT!!! I still have copies of my 100-200 print runs of earlier first comics...

[goodphantomoftheoperaposts]

The most frustrating part of writing Steam Phantom is that it wasn’t meant to be a book, originally.

It was meant to be a 2D animated musical with metal soundtrack. And I wanted to go for a similar animation style to the Christmas movie, Clause. Years ago I realized it was far too ambitious.

The issue is that several of the scenes now lack the same amount of impact that they would have if they were portrayed with visuals and music. So now my illiterate ass has to figure out how to compensate for that with prose. It suuuucks because even if I was the best writer on earth, it will always feel like something vital in the story is missing, to me, personally. (music and expressive animation) I’ll always have a deeper passion for animation than I do for writing. I know the readers will never be able to tell it was supposed to be more than what it is, but for me it’s always gonna suck that Steam Phantom can’t reach it’s full potential due lack of money, talent, and connections.

[anaalnathrakhs]

it's cool it's cool i'm just wondering if life could be good if i got like, help sometimes. if i didn't have to live with a painfully incompatible family. if there were enough ressources for everybody's mental health struggles. if i didn't live in a system that's supposed to crush anyone who doesn't work. if i could have time and freedom to figure out what to do with my life. if i didn't start having problems really early that influenced the very way i AM at my core for probably a very very long time.

[all-thestories-aretrue]

How am I just now finding out about the colour of revenge??? I haven't particularly kept up with Cornelia Funke, but I do search her every 6 months or so. But HOLY SHIT ANOTHER INKWORLD BOOK IM FREAKING OUT.

I also found those GORGEOUS STUNNING BEAUTIFUL 20th anniversary editions and I must admit I am trying very hard to not spend an obscene amount of money on a copy.

[random-meme-bot]

Small Sprite Practice with some OCs of mine

Lately I've been learning to use Adventure Game Studio so I can create a game with some Ideas I have, these are the first Sprites of the characters.

Ely (The girl in the first Two) and his companion Dan (the ghost in the third one)

I made some Base ones, ones talking, and I'm working on adding Dan's Hat to Ely's sprite while she's possessed.

The idea for the Game is they run a business that consists on charging people to unhaunt their properties by helping the ghosts move on while also investing why Ely is the only person capable of seeing ghosts.

Dan can possesses Ely to interact with NPCs or objects and he has different dialogue from Ely, of course there are Puzzles that can only be solved by one of the two.

Again so far this project (Working title Hex on the Shelves) is in a very early estate, so far I want to make a prologue demo to test my abilities.

[jonny-b-meowborn]

Not to be a fucked up little freak but recently I started writing a short story in second person in future tense and it's about a lighthouse and her keeper

[astral-catastrophe]

You guys

I know it’s almost one am and I should be asleep, but not only have I had story ideas.

but I’ve realized that if I keep working at this pace, I can have my first original story published before I’ve graduated high school

[meatsound]

i read a lot about prion diseases.

[twistedtangledfate]

//Feeling a bit tender tonight so apologies if I'm not as chatty as usual or engaging with your posts as much. I hope you are all having/have had a good day.

[bookdragonideas]

please understand that I'm not just in online Fandoms to enjoy the community of other people who like things I like. I'm also here to keep detailed notes on what annoys/angers the internet people.

And as a future author I have only evil plans for this information.

[feral-renaissance-cat]

🌹

I'm actually going to switch this up and give you a line from an original story I'm working on.

"Fresh kelp was offered for barter amongst the Archipelago selkies, and Lonan had witnessed one of Roni’s aunts engage in a form of haggling he could barely follow, simultaneously trying to get the best deal in trading for a pail of clams while insisting that the clams were worth more than she was offering."

[faedenbooks]

Apparently I only wrote like 9k words this month. I knew it was low, but hadn't realized it was THAT low. I had a ton going on, and I was good about posting to social media every day and slowly working on my online presence, so I'm overall still happy with what I've done. But I really need to buckle down and get more words written in March.

[copperbadge]

I'm getting depressingly good at identifying the formula for Pop Academic Books About ADHD.

Regardless of their philosophy it pretty much goes like this:

1. Emotionally sensitive essay about the struggle of ADHD and the author's personal experience with it as both a person with ADHD and a healthcare professional.

2. Either during or directly following this, a lightly explicated catalogue of symptoms, illustrated by anecdotes from patient case studies. Optional: frequent, heavy use of metaphor to explain ADHD-driven behavior.

3. Several chapters follow, each dedicated to a symptom; these have a mini-formula of their own. They open with a patient case study, discuss the highly relatable aspects of the specific symptom or behavior, then offer some lightweight examples of a treatment for the symptom, usually accompanied by follow up results from the earlier case studies.

4. Somewhere around halfway-to-two-thirds through the book, the author introduces the more in-depth explication of the treatment system (often their own homebrew) they are advocating. These are generally both personally-driven (as opposed to suggested cultural changes, which makes sense given these books' target audience, more on this later) and composed of an elaborate system of either behavior alteration or mental reframing. Whether this system is actually implementable by the average reader varies wildly.

5. A brief optional section on how to make use of ADHD as a tool (usually referring to ADHD or some of its symptoms as a superpower at least once). Sometimes this section restates the importance of using the systems from part 4 to harness that superpower. Frequently, if present, it feels like an afterthought.

6. Summation and list of further resources, often including other books which follow this formula.

I know I'm being a little sarcastic, but realistically there's nothing inherently wrong about the formula, like in itself it's not a red flag. It's just hilariously recognizable once you've noticed it.

It makes sense that these books advocate for the Reader With ADHD undertaking personal responsibility for their treatment, since these are in the tradition of self-help publishing. They're aimed at people who are already interested in doing their own research on their disability and possible ways to handle it. It's not really fair to ask them to be policy manuals, but I do find it interesting that even books which advocate stuff like volunteering (for whatever reason, usually to do with socialization issues and isolation, often DBT-adjacent) never suggest disability activism either generally or with an ADHD-specific bent.

None of these books suggest that perhaps life with ADHD could be made easier with increased accommodations or ease of medication access, and that it might be in a person's best interest to engage in political advocacy surrounding these and other disability-related issues. Or that activism related to ADHD might help to give someone with ADHD a stronger sense of ownership of their unique neurology. Or that if you have ADHD the idea of activism or even medical self-advocacy is crushingly stressful, and ways that stress might be dealt with.

It does make me want to write one of my own. "The Deviant Chaos Guide To Being A Miscreant With ADHD". Includes chapters on how to get an actual accurate assessment, tips for managing a prescription for a controlled substance, medical and psychiatric self-advocacy for people who are conditioned against confrontation, When To Lie About Being Neurodivergent, policy suggestions for ADHD-related legislation, tips for activism while executively dysfunked, and to close the book a biting satire of the pop media idea of self-care. ("Feeling sad? Make yourself a nice pot of chicken soup from scratch and you'll feel better in no time. Stay tuned after this rambling personal essay for the most mediocre chicken soup recipe you've ever seen!" "Have you considered planning and executing an overly elaborate criminal heist as a way to meet people and stay busy?")

Every case study or personal anecdote in the book will have a different name and demographics attached but will also make it obvious that they are all really just me, in the prose equivalent of a cheap wig, writing about my life. "Kelly, age seven, says she struggles to stay organized using the systems neurotypical children might find easy. I had to design my own accounting spreadsheet in order to make sure I always have enough in checking to cover the mortgage, she told me, fidgeting with the pop socket on her smartphone."

I feel a little bad making fun, because these books are often the best resource people can get (in itself concerning). It's like how despite my dislike of AA, I don't dunk on it in public because I don't want to offer people an excuse not to seek help. It feels like punching down to criticize these books, even though it's a swing at an industry that is mainly, it seems, here to profit from me. But one does get tired of skimming the hype for the real content only to find the real content isn't that useful either.

Les (not his real name) was diagnosed at the age of 236. Charming, well-read, and wealthy, he still spent much of his afterlife feeling deeply inadequate about his perceived shortcomings. "Vampire culture doesn't really acknowledge ADHD as a condition," he says. "My sire wouldn't understand, even though he probably has it as well. You should see the number of coffins containing the soil of his homeland that he's left lying forgotten all over Europe." A late diagnosis validated his feelings of difference, but on its own can't help when he hyperfocuses on seducing mortals who cross his path and forgets to get home before sunrise. "I have stock in sunburn gel companies," he jokes.