#Newbie Author

[rileyisfreezing]

I'm gonna try to write a short story in my next posts to get a feel for the waters here. Not sure what about.. yet. I'm certain it will likely have the same effort as all my stories do. Aka, me just zoning out and going into a semi-zen state of mind and letting the story just flow onto the page. I don't normally do proofreads or rewrite paragraphs to ensure my stories feel raw and somewhat natural. Ight byee.

[thepinkravynreads]

Five Outlining Methods Guaranteed to Work for Pantsers | The Writer’s Guild

I can’t help but pants, even if I’m winging it with a series!! 😱 Continue reading Five Outlining Methods Guaranteed to Work for Pantsers | The Writer’s Guild

[tonifiedart]

Immerse yourself in a poetic journey of self-discovery and resilience. This collection delves into teenage struggles and the transition to adulthood, capturing the author’s quest for self amidst life's complexities. The verses tackle self-doubt, confusion, introspection, loathing, and love, painting a heartfelt narrative of failures and triumphs. "Soul Echoes" beautifully captures the essence of embracing one's identity and the profound metamorphosis from who we were to who we are meant to be.🌷 Click here to grab yourself a copy! ☁️

[voidcommascreamintothe]

I finished my draft!!!! I did it im so proud of my self

I have a few rounds of editing ahead of me but omg its done!!! No more drafting!

I started during nanowrimo but that was only for draft one and dec and jan was just drafting

Now its all done

Eeek 🥰🥰🥰

[symphonyofhearts]

All my life, I've wondered: What is love? What it must feel to be loved? What is it like to be in love? But when you came into my life, I got a different answer to the question. I never asked, "What's it like to love?" Oh dear heavens, I loved him like he was my everything, the reason for my existence, the reason for my heartbeats, the only reason my eyes are blazing like the sun that's giving hope and light to the ocean, which is my soul, and your every motion makes it shine. 

[bigmack2go]

Yes my name is spelled with a j at the end. I know i have many typos but that is not one if them. Its pronounced the same way (almost. but most people just pronounce it like mack)

Its hungarian.

Its rly important to me because 1 im from hungary and 2 bc the letters have meanings!

Edit:

On that note! I just realised i never made an intro post so i guess here u go!

Short version

I am mackj

They/them

27th Aug.

🇭🇺🇩🇪

I speak german and english (Hungarian and a little Swedish)

Christian

AuDHD asf and weirdly gatekeep-y about it.

dyscalculia fucked my career

Writer, musician, dancer, ACTOR

I love turles w my life

Multi fandom

Newsies (main atm)

Marauders

Dsmp

Atwow

Three???

Starlight express

Descendants

SoC

The reason that i talk funny isn’t that english isnt my first language but simply because i want to, okay. Fuck u.

PLEASE

...use my headcannon!

...use my OC's

... post or talk about my book

...make headcannons for my book

... make OC's for my book

...come up with faceclaims for my characters

... ask me stuff

... request shit

WITH CREDITS AND/OR IF U ASK U CAN DEFINITELY ...

... use my promts

...use my ideas

...use my fic's

... repost my art on other platforms

CHECK THE TAGS FOR THESE^

DONT...

... be unconstructive w criticism bc i WILL cry

… use my writing without credit

… ise my art without credits

Everyone is welcome on this blog, even homophobes but only if they wanna fight

Idk what else to say…

My tags:

[topazadine]

Five Common Anxieties of Newbie Writers, Demystified

A simple post for today to address common concerns I have seen from younger writers over the years, which includes:

"Everyone else is so much better than me; I'm behind."

"I can't share my writing or someone will steal my idea."

"I am in direct competition with other writers; their gain is my loss."

"I shouldn't read while writing because it will ruin my unique voice."

"If I don't explain everything in meticulous detail, people won't understand my vision."

As always, this is my experience and my opinion as someone who has been writing seriously for about 15 years and reading, well, since I was a tiny baby. I also have several years of experience tutoring younger writers at both the K-12 and collegiate level.

Here goes!

1. "Everyone else is so much better than me; I'm behind."

You are not behind. Even if you start writing in your 60s, you are not behind. That's because there is no such thing as being behind in writing; you are where you are, and you'll only get further if you keep going.

Of course you're not going to write like Brandon Sanderson, or Tolkien, or Stephen King, or whoever when you're 20, because you're twenty. You just got out of high school two years ago and haven't even graduated college! These writers have decades on you and are naturally going to be better because they have had more time to learn.

Comparison is the thief of joy. You will not be happy if you are always comparing to yourself to every other writer and bemoaning your lack of experience.

As I have said multiple times throughout my blog, I encourage you to try to write 1 million words before you even think about publishing anything. Do fanfic, because then you can't publish it and you know you're just practicing. You will likely look back at where you started, with your first story, and go, "oh thank god I didn't try to publish that. I wasn't anywhere near ready."

And even then, you still will not be behind, because there's no one track toward success in publishing. You are just where you need to be right now, and you'll keep going where you need to go as long as you keep writing.

2. "I can't share my writing or someone will steal my idea."

I have seen a lot of this on writing subreddits. People will ask questions, but be intentionally vague about their plot because they are worried about someone else filching their idea and making it their own. However, they will refuse to share nearly anything useful, making it impossible to answer their question with any specificity.

Now yes, theft does happen. There was a horrendous story recently where an agent stole one of their author's ideas to give to another author, who then published faster because the agent had left Author 1 in Revision Hell on purpose. I'm not saying it never happens.

But the thing is that it is not the idea that makes any story special, it is the execution.

My Eirenic Verses series centers around poetry magic. That's the whole gimmick. But poetry magic has been done before to great effect by several other authors! There's a book called The Poet Empress out on sub that I'm hoping and praying will get published because I want to read it; everything about this story sounds AMAZING.

From the blurb, this book is vastly different from my own, which is a great thing. Both of us came up with this concept and took it in unique directions, giving readers more options for engage with poetry magic in completely different ways. And I love that!

Don't worry too much about people stealing your ideas. After all, your idea has been done dozens of times before already, even if you haven't been able to find an exact copy of the plot. We are all riffing off ancient plot forms and tales.

3. "I am in direct competition with other writers; their gain is my loss."

The joy of reading books is that you can read hundreds in a year if you want to. It is not like car sales, where people buy one single car every few years.

People buy books that they don't even intend to read; how many of us have dozens of books in our TBR pile that we'll probably never get to?

Yes, it's possible to lose out on competitions or publishing slots to other writers, but that is the nature of the economy, not the fault of any other writer. Placing yourself in opposition to a well-respected writer, especially one in your same niche, does you no favors.

Other writers are your peers, not your antagonists. No matter what you are writing, no one will do it quite like you, so you shouldn't worry if someone else's story is somewhat like yours. That just means that there is overlap between your audiences, and you should support them even more so that people like both of you.

The best way to be successful is to build community. People support those that they like and who are nice to them.

4. "I shouldn't read while writing because it will ruin my unique voice."

Your 'unique voice' is a mishmash of every other writer you have ever read because that is how learning works. You have absorbed the lessons of every other book you've put before your eyes (or into your ears), picked out what you liked, and left the rest. So yes, you do have a unique voice, but it is based on other writers, and the more you read, the more you refine that voice.

My favorite authors are Emile Zola, Willa Cather, Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, China Mieville, Terry Prachett, and Herman Melville. As a child, my favorite books were the Redwall series and The Unicorn Chronicles. My favorite nonfiction series is The Inspired Traveller's Guides by Sarah Baxter.

You can find all of those influences in my work, but you can also find dozens of other authors I have loved throughout my life. There are books that still haunt me today whose titles I can't even remember, just the concept or a specific scene.

My writing voice has become so strong because I like so many different kinds of writing and I have synthesized them all together. I learn something from every single book I read, even if it's just what not to do.

You can't become a strong writer if you don't read. It's essential to developing your voice. The more you read, the more you develop your voice, and the more that you can resist the urge to completely change your style based on what you are currently reading.

But you can only get to the point of having a strong, coherent voice by reading. So don't shy away from it.

5. "If I don't explain everything in meticulous detail, people won't understand my vision."

Here's a brutal truth: it doesn't matter whether other people see exactly what you see in your work. What matters is that they enjoyed what they saw. No one is going to have your exact same vision unless you turn your book into a movie.

Everyone's journey through a given book is influenced by their own life experiences. For example, if you asked a French person to describe a castle, they are going to say something completely different than what a Japanese person would say. What an Indian person envisions when you say "sword" is going to differ from what an English person thinks about. And that is fine and good!

You do not need to put your reader in a chokehold and make sure that they are seeing exactly what you see. This can be a huge turnoff to readers, especially if you do not present things in the proper order, because now they are constantly having to revise their setting with the new details you are providing.

Here, for example, is a description from my first book, 9 Years Yearning:

Every few steps, he ran across another example of a High Poet's work: ostentatious stone structures with smooth stucco sides, dramatic depictions of wild animals and fantastical beasts jutting from their surface. Others were more sculpture than home, tiny pebbles that slotted together to make a swirling mass of windows and doors. Goldnin, being one of the more well-heeled cities, had many wealthy merchants more than willing to spill quillim for a poetry-infused property.

Everyone who reads this is going to see different "wild animals" and "fantastical beasts." They are going to imagine the pebbles as different colors; maybe one person thinks they're all different shades that make gradations, while another wants them all to be tiny chips of quartz that sparkle in the sun.

I am fine with this. A story is a scaffold to allow readers to adorn with their own imagination, creating a personalized experience. I have given the reader some specific elements but left the rest vague so that they can envison what they want, and I'm okay with it not being exactly what I intended.

Once you have put a story out into the world, you're done interpreting it for the reader. It is now theirs to enjoy. They can do whatever they want with it, just like you can go buy something from the store and spraypaint it neon orange if you want to.

Your job is not to grab the reader by the face and tell them what you want them to see; it is to provide enough detail that they can see what they want to see. Giving up ownership like this allows you to make a story that isn't oversaturated with detail but still enables readers to have fun with it.

I hope this helped to ease some of your fears about writing. The most important part is to have fun, relax, and continue to learn all the time!

If you enjoyed this, maybe you will consider purchasing my book, 9 Years Yearning! This gay coming-of-age romance follows two boys in a military academy as they learn the arts of love and war. It includes poetry magic, strong sibling bonds, and all the awkwardness that young romance entails.

[misc-obeyme]

my dear loyal cohorts and author of many good scripts

the illness consumes me once again and i must beg for your ideas on how these scandalous deamons would comfort a particularly ill MC

i blame going to UC to get my fainting problem checked out for the illness ive received. why are masks not required in the hospital.

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Hello there, dear 🐈‍⬛ anon!

Ahh, I hope you get well soon! Being sick is the worst. And truly, I wish I knew why masks are no longer required in hospitals because they should be.

As for the boys, I can't help imagining them having some kind of group meeting about it.

Asmo: MC is sick! We have to do everything we can to make them feel better soon!

Lucifer: Perhaps if you all leave them alone for once...

Beel: We should give them soup.

Belphie: We should make sure they sleep enough.

Satan: Did you know that a cat's purr has healing properties?

Levi: So does the Ruri Hana theme song!

Mammon: Nah, I'm actually with Lucifer on this one... nobody but me is allowed near MC's room!

Aaaand then it devolves into arguing. But once they get their act together, I think they'd overcome their differences of opinion in order to take care of you, each in their own way. I also like to think the side characters might step in to help, too.

Lucifer would check in on you when he's sure you'll be asleep. He doesn't want to disturb you, but he wants to make sure you're resting and not being bothered by his brothers. He'll glare down any of them that get too noisy near your room. Leaves random things by your bedside that he thinks you'll need (such as a box of tissues or a glass of water).

Mammon gets clingy as usual. He's the one who's always sitting by your bed. Almost every time you wake up, you find him there. Sometimes he's scrolling on his phone, sometimes he's just watching you, and sometimes he's straight up fallen asleep. Always asks you if you need anything. If you do suggest something, he goes out long enough to get one of his brothers to fetch it.

Levi brings you things to do while you're in bed. Piles of manga, all with your favorite kind of story. Video games, anime, anything to help keep your mind off the fact that you're bedridden. If you let him, he'll sit by your bed and give you summaries of the animes he's been watching lately.

Satan reads to you. If you request something specific, he'll read whatever you like, but he also knows your preferences so you can let him choose if you want. He might also try to sneak a cat in for the express purpose of using its healing purrs, but if he can't manage it, he'll have you watch cat videos instead.

Asmo obviously pampers you. Does your nails, your hair, probably gives you healing facials and the like. If he's there while Mammon is, the two of them banter back and forth, partly because it's them and that's their natural state, but partly on purpose to entertain you. Asmo will also bring you all the softest of pajamas.

Beel actually does bring you soup. He got help from Barbatos to make it - straight up brings you the most human world healthy soup he can, which varies depending on where you're from. If you're from the US for instance, he's gonna bring you chicken noodle soup. He ate half of it on the way to your room, but it's the thought that counts.

Belphie helps you sleep. When you're finding it difficult to rest because you feel like crap, he will snuggle up with you and ease your body enough that you find yourself drifting off into peaceful slumber. He will stay to keep any bad dreams at bay, too.

Diavolo will stop by the House of Lamentation to check on you. When he does, everyone leaves the two of you alone. He's quick to tell you not to worry about your responsibilities. It's more important that you focus on getting better.

Barbatos regularly portals himself to your side just to bring you healing teas and decent food. He doesn't trust the brothers to feed you correctly while you're ill, so he takes it upon himself to bring you what he knows you need. He will sit on the edge of the bed by your side and chat with you about what's going on at RAD and various other places, to keep your mind off of your sickness and help you feel like you aren't missing out. He also brings you fresh flowers to keep your spirits up.

Simeon also comes by regularly to tell you stories. Some of them he makes up on the spot, which are always fascinating and leave you hanging on every word. But sometimes he tells you stories about the Celestial Realm. If you ask him about the brothers, he'll tell you all kinds of anecdotes from when they were angels.

Luke sometimes comes with Simeon, too, and always with boxes of some kind of treat he's made for you. Another one who will likely bring you flowers or sometimes just things he's found that remind him of you or that he thinks you'll like. He's worried that you're stuck in bed and wants to bring some of the outside world to you while you're sick.

Solomon probably brings you some potions to help speed your recovery. He's not sure about how well any of them work, so you get to decide if you test them out or not. Either way, he's going to entertain you with some spells, especially if there happens to be a brother in your room when he visits. (For instance, he would probably curse Mammon to meow for a few hours just to make you laugh.)

Oops that turned into a mini headcanon thing, huh? Well it's not my usual format, but I just think they'd all have cute little unique things that they would do in order to take care of you.

Anyway, I wish you a speedy recovery, 🐈‍⬛ anon! And I hope whatever issues brought you to the hospital to begin with are resolved as well!

[hallucinateonpaperspines]

Can I just give a little appreciation post to you all? Cause you guys are awesome, I'm always blown away that people are interested enough in my stuff to not only read it but comment? Find me here in my little corner and follow? Reblog? Send asks?

I send you all a virtual hug. Virtual hug for a thousand years!!!

[the-tiny-fangirl]

I’d like to get into fanfic writing. Does anyone have any tips? Any prompts? How do people get into the Everlark Prompts things? Who would I message about getting into those? Idk.

[rileyisfreezing]

Strange Toaster

by RileyIsFreezing

Inspired by @stalesimp

Who would have thought that something so simple could change my life forever.

It was the year 201X. Apparently monsters aren't just from fairy tales. They're real. I'm actually friends with one on some game online. She calls herself MewMewLoverXOXO. Apparently she's like a scientist inventor, but I had no proof of it at the time. One day on Discord she said she wanted to send me one of her latest inventions. She was making it obvious that something was up. In the chat she was implying she was struggling not to laugh. I reluctantly gave her my address and a day later a large white dog monster arrived at my door with a package. He didn't speak, he just barked happily and panted. I awkwardly pet him and brought the package inside. It was... A toaster. What the hell? She sent me... A toaster. Is she trolling me? Huff. Might as well see if she modified it in any way. I plugged it in and put some wheat bread into it. I get a notification on my phone that states a foreign source has placed wheat_bread into my Dimensional Box A. Did she seriously give me a toaster that sends crap to my Dimensional Box? Bruh. That is ridiculous. I decided to keep the strange toaster, but ensured I unplugged it so if I had guests over, they couldn't sneak random crap into my Box.

[thepinkravynreads]

Stuck in a Loop: 5 Mistakes to Avoid When Writing Your First Chapter | The Newbie Author Corner

Stuck in a loop? It's probably because you don't have a good enough opening scene. Here are 5 things to avoid when writing that opening chapter.

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[life-series-losers-blog]

hey other voices, a little thing that i’m worried about is when SL Lizzie got fully pulled back up, she was described as looking “mostly” the same.

what little things changed? and why does her voice seem different?

-newbie

(i really need to come up with a name)

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[voidcommascreamintothe]

On what i learned by solving a difficult problem

“I have lost the plot babe,” I say to myself, as I have quite literally lost the plot of my book.

There I was, making a bullet point doc with plot details, and then as the story evolved - and I got better at telling it - it took a turn. So much so, that it became suffocating instead of freeing, to have plot points telling you where to go. As I was telling the story that evolved in front of me instead of the one that I pre-planed, I realized that I like it a lot more.

It became overwhelming.

The unknown, the ideas on how to make it known, the middle of the night wakings with bright and fresh and funny scenes, felt like learning to ride a bike for the first time. Unsteady and shaky, but as the wind swept through my hair and kissed my face as i became more confident and gained speed, the more I enjoyed, the more exhilarating it became.

Eventually I trusted my self with the balance of the bike, I trusted in my muscles to keep taut as I drove further and further up the path.

The scenes of my story felt like an overwhelming attack at first. I started writing because the story attacked me and it was scary and difficult to have to overcome writing block and fatigue and to fight to find a coherent plot.

But as the story went on, not unlike you g me on that silly pink bike, eventually I trusted myself to keep going.

“Oooh,” i whispered as it all came together, “I found the plot!”

[liafineauthor]

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[symphonyofhearts]

Was this always like this? You and me walking on the golden carpet of the earth, the ocean drowning in the sunset glow, a beautiful transition from the golden day to the starry night. But when you stopped in your tracks and turned to look at me, slowly caressing my face and pressing your soft plump lips into mine, as we kissed under the art of nature, where the golden rays reflected on our eyes, but the love that we felt in our hearts was irreplaceable.