#Join a Writers Group

[jolenes-book-journey]

FWA- Clay County Florida Style

FWA- Clay County Florida Style – The Florida Writers Association is a state-wide organization that encourages writers to help writers. They have the main website at https://www.floridawriters.org/ which has the Royal Palm Awards, supports local chapters in each county, a podcast and much more. They offer various membership levels with different fees attached. It is always a great idea to join…

[thevioletcaptain]

i genuinely don't care how good a piece of ai generated art or writing looks on the surface. i don't care if it emulates brush strokes and metaphor in a way indistinguishable from those created by a person.

it is not the product of thoughtful creation. it offers no insights into the creator's life or viewpoint. it has no connection to a moment in time or a place or an attitude. it has no perspective. it has no value.

it's empty, it's hollow, and it exists only to generate clicks (and by extension, ad revenue.)

it's just another revolting symptom of the disease that is late stage capitalism, and it fucking sucks.

[sbggarakungfood]

I'm very into Jay's villain arc, it's just.. the whole Agent Walker/ the Administration set up is what I’m more into because:

The portal in Jay's division could be the key to find Arin's parents

Potential Sora vs Jay fight would be so cool

Zane's nindroid but human identity thing?? How the Administration discriminates Zane somehow

Jay. He didn't care about his job right? But does he care about his underlings? Make him see how badly injured his people are.. and make it personal. Let him invent something

And

What about this 'master of lightning joining *the path of darknessssss*'?? Would this be another "They use me because of my power" "The universe called me here" "I have to do this for (reason)" "The Administration didn't pay me enough so I'm here to get another income"

Maybe it's unfair to judge like that since the tournament episodes haven’t released yet.. I'm sorry, I might miss inventor Jay so much.. By being Agent Walker that means he has to rely on that side of him more. Him vs Sora fight would feel.. something else. It won't be just a fight but also a brain game (possible dirty play?). Jay ripping bunch of mech's cables when I just want to see him using cool gadgets more than just shooting bunch of lightning (It’s not like they're going to explore that power this time). He already did good with a gun..

Jay with any weapon actually

[gallawitchxx]

weekly tag wednesday <3

thank you to my absolute angels @michellemisfit @energievie @deedala @mybrainismelted @crossmydna

@y0itsbri & @kiinard for tagging me to play! & look at me, getting to it on wednesday, can you even believe?

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name: bee-bee-eight

age: thirty-two

location: a comfy yellow couch

top sheet, yes or no? HELL NO. i always gets so tangled & it's a terrible experience. best case scenario, i kick them to the bottom of the bed alskjdlakj

how many stuffed animals do you own? omg there's a bin at my parent's place that absolutely jam-packed with stuffies, but here at my house i only have two! an icebat & a peter pan from disneyland paris lol

the names of your pets (and the explanations behind them): gus <3 no explanation -- we met him, his eyes went in complete opposite directions & my wife said, "he looks like a gus."

favourite color: today? sage green

any tattoos? HELL YES. i have fourteen? fifteen? idk! they're addicting!

how you transport your belongings (purse, tote, hands, pockets, etc.): a gray herschel fanny pack that i wear like a crossbody bag :)

the last movie you watched: i don't know... but the next movie i will be watching is jurassic park with the pals! bring on the dinos & the jeff goldblum!

how long does it take you to get ready in the morning? with a shower, maybe thirty to forty-five minutes? without a shower, as little as ten LOL depends where i'm going!

favourite weather: 70s and sunny, but hotter if i want to swim or lay out!

relationship status: married & oh so pleased about it

ice cream flavor of choice: i rarely meet an ice cream flavor that i don't like, but if i had to choose i'd go with pistachiooooo or mint chip! i guess i really do like green today hahaha

first fandom: maybe harry potter? maybe queer as folk? my teen years were a wild time on the interwebs

how many books have you read this year? i've read quite a bit actually. i don't keep count, although i probably should. probably 20+?

first 4 words of your last notes app entry: "i am bee and" -- wouldn't you like to know?

and finally, if you had to change your URL tomorrow, what would you change it to? oh! i really don't think i'll ever change my url. gallawitchxx is perfect for me! it's boy dolls, it's witchy, it's a sign-off of kiss kiss!

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tagging @heymrspatel @gardenerian @catgrassplantdad @whatthebodygraspsnot @whatwouldmickeydo

@howlinchickhowl @palepinkgoat @thisdivorce @abundanceofnots (hehehe PLAY ELLIE) @rereadanon

@ian-galagher @creepkinginc @sickness-health-all-that-shit @lingy910y @sam-loves-seb & anyone else who wants to play! ily! xx

[louferignojr]

Thinking about previous fandoms I've been in and how there was always a groupchat or discord dedicated to just fanfic writers being supportive to each other and being happy to share their ideas and snippets of their work and get and give feedback and just be supportive and friendly in general as a little writing community and how much I miss it and wish I had that in this fandom too

[redcreekfm]

        𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓'𝐒 𝐀 𝐖𝐑𝐀𝐏 𝐎𝐍 𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐓 ! you guys blew our expectations out of the water , so thank you members for getting so creative and setting the tone perfectly for the horrors to come ! a little hint for the aftermath of this eventful halloween , but some of your muses might be getting acquainted ( or perhaps even more acquainted ) with the sheriff's department real soon 👀 . feel free to finish your event threads , we just ask that no new event threads are started after midnight est today . we also want to note that going forward , all of red creek will now be aware that alaina price , the town's most beloved babysitter , was brutally murdered in her house on halloween night . members who got chosen for prompts can also have their muses share that information freely ( for example those that found the bloody knife outside of dolly's could have told other muses about it ; nothing has to remain a secret and it would be so fun to start some more gossip around town ) . there will be no more timeline to follow like during our event , so post event threads can take place wherever and whenever you'd like ! just be sure to watch your back ; the boogeyman is out there after all , and you never know who they're coming after next ...

[cator99]

I always get detained at da border because PROFUNC never ended but basically I'm like if a targeted individual didn't even care

[jilliancares]

I had no clue you had a book but I just found out and I missed your writing so I made my library buy it. Hopefully others will get to pick it up when I’m done with it. I hope life has been treating you well 🤗

woah!!!! that is so sweet, i had no idea you that was even something you could do! i really hope you enjoy it, thank you so much!!! and i've been really great, i hope you are too :) ♡

[smalllonelyegg]

skyrim really does show you a bunch of indigenous people who faced genocide and are like "that's why they're eeeeevil, now go on and kill them" instead of actually sympathizing with them huh.

Well at least there are definitely no real world implications to deal with *I say knowingly*

[thetimelordbatgirl]

At this rate, current X-Men comics are proving Spiderman/Peter Parker cursing the X-Men as he leaves them in one comic right when they have moments like Emma Frost and Wolverine/Laura Kinney literally telling Ms Marvel/Kamala Khan that she doesn't know what its like to be oppressed like they are... ...Yes, they telling someone who grew up as a Muslim post-9/11...she doesn't know what its like to be oppressed...and even act like they more oppressed then everyone in the world I guess.

[konfizry]

the thing is. the writers did include dialog of Ganondorf calling rawru out for descending from the heavens and taking over hyrule. thus basically undermining his legitimacy as king

like. it's in the game. is the issue handled well? no. after all it is the Evil Guy From The Desert Whom No One Should Side With spouting the anticolonialist rhetoric. like yeah that definitely sucks but. hey at least the talking point exists in canon.

no like, hey someone actually told a king of hyrule to his face that he had no business ruling anything and like. c'mon it's just too good I can't just leave it there

and like for that reason I'd be hard pressed to fault anyone for seeing rawru as a Nasty Self-Important Colonizer Who Made Hyrule Bad. Does the game actually want you to perceive him that way? probably not, you're supposed to side with him, definitely. butttttt what if I don't want to, yknow. what if I want to despise him a little. as a treat.

and like. Ganondorf is probably definitely trying to weaponize resentment against the Zonai rule to further his own destructive, self-obsessed agenda for sure. aaaannd once again I sure would have enjoyed it if characters that aren't evil got to question rawru's legitimacy butttt it's a Zelda game so nope nope nope all sages from every race agree with and defer to king rawru because they're good boys and girls nothing to see here :)

shit the more I think abt this the more mad I become whew good thing zelder is abolishing the monarchy right

[flowercrowngods]

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[lohstandfound]

ignore this.

learning to shut up when i dont have anything new to say to the discussions my mutuals are having about the treatment of the female characters in this show and fandom

even though ive just gone ahead and rambled in the tags a bunch of bullshit

[thecannonfodder]

I need a group of characters where the only trait they share is that none of them can even stand to sit normally

[declawedwildcat]

Get to Know the Fanfic Writer 📝

When did you post your first-ever fanfic?

Technically I think I posted my first on Quotev in 2011 or 2012. It was unfinished, terrible, and deleted not long after starting. I had never read any fanfic yet at the time, so I also didn't really know what it was other than stories in pre-existing universes

First character(s) you wrote?

Warrior cats self-inserts of me and my first boyfriend 💀

Main character(s) you are currently writing?

Haruka Nanase and Rin Matsuoka! And I have a bad habit of not really including any side characters outside of the main paring, so like. Almost exclusively them

Character(s) you haven’t written about before but plan to soon?

"Plan" is too generous, I don't have any plans outside of those two right now. It would be nice to properly write Rei and Nagisa sometime but I don't have actual plans for it

Fandom(s) you’re currently writing?

Just Free; I don't have the brainspace for swapping between fandoms when actively writing

Romantic pairing(s) you’re currently writing?

Rin x Haru, on rare occasion Isuzu x Gou

Your top AO3 tags?

Without actually counting them, I would have to guess "Not Beta Read," "Porn Without Plot," and, uh... "object vore"

Current platform you use for posting?

AO3, occasionally Tumblr but I usually crosspost after

Snippet of the WIP you are currently working on?

My actual WIP doesn't even have enough for a snippet bc I'm too tired to start on it for real tonight like I wanted, so instead I'll share my 3-sentence warm-up from this morning over in @thenightpool's Training Camp. The prompt was "lonely":

He could hear the clock ticking from the other end of his house now. No heartbeat, no footsteps. Haru could swear it didn't use to feel this empty.

Thanks for the tag @namesarehardforme! I'll go with @legendaerie and @museaway for this one, if you guys want to.

[leonisdumbasallhell]

I honestly love your writing so much—I love everything about it, especially how much detail you put into it without clogging it with unnecessary facts. You have a balance that I haven't found in too many other fanfiction writers and I really appreciate it.

Also-the little details you put into your work, especially with Chris and Leon, make them seem more real and it makes me squeal with joy.

(especially as someone with ADHD and most-likely-but-undiagnosed autism, seeing characters actually portray traits of mine realistically makes me rabid in the most positive way possible)

I hope to write as well as you someday 💞

Hi, this ask made me really happy, its just so fucking sweet. <3 I've put like. A lot of effort into my writing practice, I have an entire degree in writing and I'm currently working on a masters in creative writing. Storytelling, whether literary, illustrative, or somewhere in between, is probably my biggest passion and It genuinely makes me incredibly proud of myself to be able to make work that people enjoy. Adding the details I do is just something that I enjoy doing, a lot of what I add in is just my own personal hyperfixations/special interests. Or they're just parts of my experiences as a person. They say write what you know, and I know my own neurodivergence lol. I'm just really happy people find them relatable.

And ok, so technical time. For growing and expanding your writing abilities, all I can say is to read. Read everything. Read nonfiction, read original fiction(as many genres as you can) and please, please, please read poetry. When you read, pay attention to the way the words are used, how they interact with each other. How do they change each others meanings? How can you put words together in ways that surprise you? Listen for the melody of them. this sounds silly, but a lot of my writing is sound based. I don't always use words that make sense together, I use words that sound good together. There's been several books I've read that changed my relationship to writing and language as a whole, and I think that those are going to be different books for everyone. But to find them, you have to read so so so much. Like, I read Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy when I was 12 and while I was reading it I just went. Oh. This is what you can do with words. I've had similar experiences reading The House on Mango Street, Annihilation and Bourne, House of Leaves, the poem Bird Understander, and most recently, The Locked Tomb series. So most of all my advice is, pay attention to the writing you love, and steal everything you find beautiful. The hardest part is learning to put them all together, but that just comes with practice. I hope you can find the writings that change you, and if I happen to be one of them, I am truly, deeply honoured <3