#Teen author

[daisywrites-stuff]

probably been done before but i made this!

[eleanorrigbyrice]

MARAUDERS FIC IDEA: would anyone be interested in reading a (super long) fic where the marauders are at a boarding school but there’s no magic, just your generic this-boarding-school-is-super-old-and-has-many-dark-and-dangerous-secrets-that-will-be-discovered-by-the-main-characters AU? i want to write it but i’m not sure if everyone will think that’s super boring (and yes i know, you should write fanfiction for yourself - but i need motivation). anyway, lmk if that’s something you’d read! <3

[minimallycreative]

who let me be an author / dm. i have too much power.

don't stop me, im having a delightful time

[icarianlibrary]

‘Will I move on as just a memory’ - Some Bloom of The Sun art for you guys <33 (BOTS is a WIP novel I’m working on about the myth of Apollo & Hyacinthus)

Reblogs appreciated <33

[eight-littlenightmares]

whump idea: screaming

cw: recapture, screaming, gag, car, references to past trauma, young whumpee, kidnapping, a lot of swearing/vulgar language, ehh stuff like that

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Whumpee is walking home. It’s been a few weeks since she’s escaped her kidnapper Whumper—she’d been there a couple months, hadn’t even been the worst couple months she’d ever had, especially compared to the other incident—and she’s feeling better.

Or at least that’s what she’s telling herself. Truthfully she’s just as jumpy as always.

And tonight is no exception. In fact she’s feeling even worse tonight. She’s walking home after hanging out with her best friend all day. It had been great, she absolutely loves her best friend, but she’d stayed a little later than she’d meant to and now it’s pretty dark out. She feels strangely paranoid and she’s not quite sure why.

No, she does know why. She’s been jumpy ever since her first kidnapping, two or three years ago. She’d barely started recovering from that when Whumper had kidnapped her, that bastard.

Whumpee starts walking faster. She knows she’s just being stupid and paranoid as always, but she can’t shake the feeling that she’s being watched. And also maybe followed—no, no, she’s being ridiculous.

She’s going to get home just fine, and when she does she is going to sit on a fucking counter to exposure therapy herself. (It hasn’t really done anything other than make her unreasonably anxious yet, but she’s sure it’ll work at some point.)

But then Whumpee feels something. Nothing physical, nothing at all, but just a feeling, a feeling of something being Very Wrong. She can’t help it, she starts to turn around to look—

And then hands are on her.

Someone grabs her around the waist, someone much bigger than her, with rough hands and smelling of cigarette smoke.

Whumpee reacts immediately, shrieking and kicking at her attacker.

“..stop screaming,” a voice whispers into her ear. “I told you I’d find you again.” It’s Whumper’s voice.

Whumpee goes into a fit of terror. HELL NO, she is NOT being kidnapped again, she absolutely will not stand for it. No.

She starts to scream. As loud as she fucking can, screaming her fucking throat raw. She is NOT going back. She is not going ANYWHERE except HOME.

“HELP!!!” Come on. There’s gotta be someone nearby, someone who will wake up or who is already awake, someone who will care enough to save a poor teenager being kidnapped. Right? SOMEONE WILL SAVE HER, RIGHT?

She’s so fucking sick of this. She doesn’t wanna go back and she doesn’t wanna go anywhere with anybody, especially not Whumper. While Whumper isn’t the very worst person she’s ever had to deal with, he’s certainly not someone she ever wanted to see again. Fuck this guy anyways.

“Shut up,” Whumper snaps, glancing around to make sure they’re not being follows as he drags Whumpee towards his car.

Whumpee starts to scream louder. She’s getting more desperate. She will NOT go in that car, she absolutely REFUSES.

And then Whumper pulls a piece of cloth out of his pocket and ties it around Whumpee’s head in a gag. Whumpee struggles uselessly. She tries to scream again but her voice is muffled.

Whumper forces her facedown into the backseat of the car, wrenching her arms painfully behind her back and tying them with a length of rough cord. Whumpee feels tears begin to prick at the back of her eyes as she screams her fucking heart out. It’s not enough. It’s not fucking enough.

The car door slams shut. It sounds like a nail in a coffin. Then Whumper climbs into the front seat and starts the car.

The car starts moving. Whumpee has been kidnapped. Again.

(Hello!! Author’s note!! This is technically a oneshot of one of my OCs, but you can apply it to any character!! I also do not mind if you’d like to reblog and continue the story!!)

edit: changed Whumpee’s pronouns to she/her because she’s supposed to be based off of my OC anyways :D

[lilie-murphy]

high school academia

drawing hearts next to the name of your favourite philosopher in history class (rousseau <3)

papers spilling out of your binder when you try to fit one too many

doing homework from one class, in another class

reading in math class to spite your teacher

reading between classes

walking the track at lunch and listening to music

the sun hitting your desk just right as you try to stay awake

messy notes and cursive handwriting

spending way too long on english homework and putting far too much effort into your poetry assignments

bringing a thermos of tea to school and sipping it during class

starting a book club with your friends

crying over a near-perfect score because you were so close, then feeling bad because your friends did worse

waking up when before the sun rises and walking to school in the dark

watching the sun start to set on your way home

secretly wishing your school had a uniform

wearing a red lip, even though people stare

trying not to seem snobbish whilst reading penguin classics on the city bus

panicking because you don't know what you want to study in post-secondary

[differentnighttale]

Writers Challege #3

Ciao bellas,bellos.

Its me again.

I'm back in my home coutry.

sighs sadly.

Whelp, anyways I made a challenge.

Rules: Describe your WIP(s) with their title as a dramatic logline for a show.

Tara: Wolf Chronicles is a swirl of Stranger Things show but in a modern day setting and with werewolves.

Tara: Wolf Chronicles is My Reason to Die but with fantasy and horror.

@wyked-ao3 @blargh-500 @loverboyxbutch @morganthepen

Supporters

@imbecominggayer @furrywrit3r

[broke-art-girl]

Rust

by Broke_art_girl

Fandom: Stranger things

Summary: Edward Munson is the new kid at Hawkins Supernatural High after the accident leaves him living with his uncle. Will he fit in, or stir up drama in town.

Words: 2220+

Characters: Steve Harrington, Eddie Munson, Garreth, Wayne Munson, Al Munson, Tommy Hagan,

AO3 link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/58478518

[ionlybleedbubbles]

Writing tips deep in my heaps of cringe, that are actually good (imo) :

When writing in third person, don't say what a character cannot do while talking from their perspective. Frame the idea by telling us what they can do, or through the opinion of other characters. For eg. Instead of saying "Mattie was bad at flying planes", say "Mattie preferred cars to planes, and would much rather his brother do the plane-flying." See? Now you've even managed to drop in a nod about his brother. You could also say, "Kevin felt safer when Mattie's brother flew the plane than when Mattie did." Put the blame on Kevin - don't judge Mattie yourself. As a narrator you must pretend to always be on your MCs' side. Ofc, this would vary with different styles of narration, but this is a general rule.

Show how important a character is by how much time you take to talk about them. You would describe your MCs well, and bring up their hobbies and interests. You wouldn't describe a background character as much. You can use this to humanize or dehumanize characters. You may initially talk very little about the main villain yourself, and rely on dialogue among the other characters. This makes the villain feel like a force rather than a person. As the story progresses though, and you decide you want to drop in a *hairflips dramatically* sad back story, you can humanize the villain, and make them more understandable as a person.

Learn from art. Try describing different sceneries or portraits as practice. Also practice writing comic books or manga as stories. Visualizing your story as comic or manga panels can really help you understand pacing and paragraphs. Take note of their vibrance and positioning.

Learn from people's mannerisms and how they are received by other people. For eg, when we ask my dad a question, he pauses to gather his thoughts before speaking. Out of respect, we wait silently during this pause. This shows how confident and charismatic my dad is. A friend of mine only verbally roasts people within our friend group, and apologizes profusely after. This shows she is both empathetic and extremely quick-witted. I could create well rounded characters based on just examples as simple as these.

This tip is what I like to call 'the fake solution' and is employed by many famous authors. For this, you force readers to make assumptions. Maybe about how the magic system works, or about who the villain is. Make it seem like the characters have come to a conclusion and that conclusion is the final solution to conflict. Then tear down those assumptions and create a whole other ending. Similar to the red herring, except this time it's all in the characters' heads and dialogue. Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy is a good example of playing with assumptions forced upon readers by the writer.

In your first chapter, focus on creating potential. You don't have to jump into the heart of the action right away, but you have to make sure your readers understand the potential for this action. For example the opening chapter of Maggie Stiefvater's Raven Boys is relatively low paced, but it leaves you with questions. It makes you wonder who the boy who talked to Blue is, and how Blue will deal with life after such a strange prophecy. This makes you need to continue reading, to find answers.

For good worldbuilding, study at least a little bit of history. Wars and military tricks make for good free prompts. If your world contains vibrant races, make sure you research and incorporate the history and implications of racism, social hierarchy and trade. Understand how this will impact travellers and mercenaries (audiences love those). Make up your own old wives' tales and coping mechanisms.

Understand that the best stories are written around an idea rather than a character. Your protagonist is simply the face of your story. The weather of the world reflects on the protagonist's choices and health. Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games focuses on the dark side of media and politics and how they are used to control a people. Notice that by the third book, Katniss, our protagonist, is doing very little herself, though her few moments are loud and powerful. Katniss could achieve nothing alone. It takes a whole bunch of people to fuel the revolution. Note that it is completely okay to write a character based story, if that's what you like. But there are tons of those. If you really want to make an impact, make an idea-based story.

Respect all your characters equally. You may love some characters more than others, but remember all your characters are representatives of people. Make sure each of them has a voice and a chance to prove themselves.

Use prose to your advantage. Let the length of your sentence define whether the sequence is fast paced or slow. For example, if your want to show surprise, your sentences must be short. Instead of saying "She snatched the last dagger and stared at it, observing each engraving", say " She snatched up the last dagger. Each engraving was sick, gnarled. "

That was a heck of a long post, but that's all from me. Feel free to add your own or contradict anything I've written.

[silawastaken]

remember when I considered posting poetry? *throws at you and runs*

i want to be allowed to live-

another day in the sun,

another ribbon in my hair,

another laugh, another smile, another restless night in june,

to sit and cry is the greatest thing i do,

tears upon tears in the passenger seat.

for love to take root, the pavement must crack

i will blossom,

yellow, or pink, or green,

stubborn and unrelenting at the side of the path you walk

there can be another day in the sun,

another ribbon through my hair, perhaps a flower,

I will smile, you will smile, and we will laugh through tired evenings in may,

there will be a reason to continue, a day like today after the next,

but for a chance to live, experience, to the extent we wish-

There must be change.

Change is the folded covers on the bed.

Change is the progessive clearing of my floor.

Change is your hand in mine.

Change takes time, change takes grey days in march.

Change will change me, will change us, as the world stays untouched,

Yet I will have all I've wanted. I will learn to live, and I will learn to grit and bear it, for another summer, another spring, another Christmas, another show, another song, another dance, another another another until I am so full of experience I can settle, i can breathe, and look back at the people I have changed, for the people who've changed me,

and smile.

If I learn to love, it will be the greatest thing i have ever done.

[sleepy-penmarks]

tear me up, Times Square. flash bedsheets above my head my lips on 7AM second coffee cut me open, stitch your slogans in

tear me up, Times Square. hand me what i flat-ironed away this morning and folded away on sunday night now flashing, packaged by my head neatly too shriveled to return 

tear me up, Times Square. show me the procession snag the folds that drained my breakfast money and smudge me in onwards, onwards

tear me up, Times Square. wrench everything from my hands if it means i can lift them towards that sky

tear me up, Times Square. give me a moment of God’s View then shoulder me away.

a/n -- thank you to mo for inspiration

[daisywrites-stuff]

good morning today is a wonderful day to eat chocolate covered pretzels for breakfast and edit your writing until your eyes fall out

[kathryn-helms-perspectives]

Buy a copy of Perspectives to support cancer research and funding for families with children battling cancer!

[eleanorrigbyrice]

“why have you not updated any of your fics in at least a week not even the ones you promised-” listen.

i basically have had no motivation to do literally anything except build shelves.

once the shelves are done i’ll go back to writing.

hope that clears things up.

[icarianlibrary]

MEET THE SILLY LITTLE GOOBER BEHIND THE SILLY LITTLE CREATIONS ON THIS ACCOUNTTTT

COMMISSIONS INFO POST!!

[eight-littlenightmares]

ok. so. i hear that you’re supposed to advertise your book before you publish, (duh) and i was thinking—what better way to do that than to post little snippets and stuff of my WIPs here on Tumblr?? i just wanna know if y’all would be interested in reading them!! (there is a poll at the end)

(whump community, i feel like y’all will especially really like this!!!)

so. for a summary of the universe: (i have many books and they are all so far in the same universe)

i basically took the Little Nightmares universe and then very heavily edited and changed it. i made lore for what causes the end of the world, added a bunch of new characters, locations, and other lore, and then there’s two continents—the Distorted Continent, and the ‘Normal’ Continent. the Distorted Continent is where all the monsters are, it’s under the Tower’s control, it’s FULL of monsters, distorted adults, and then a bunch of kids who have to try to survive it. the ‘Normal’ Continent was also affected, but it’s away from the Tower’s influence for the most part. it’s populated by humans and nonhumans—the nonhumans are things like demons, avians, (winged people) elves, orcs, et cetera. there’s also books set in the before and after of the world being ‘destroyed’. (the before is just the ordinary IRL world mostly)

ok, with the basics of the universe out of the way, here’s what my main book(s) is about.

the main plot centers around a group of kids. in the first book, they live in the distorted continent, and the plot centers around them traveling through there and trying to survive. the second book has a timeskip where they’re teenagers and live in the ‘normal’ continent, that plot centers more around the conflict between humans and nonhumans.

there is a LOT of whump. all the characters are queer in some way, most of them are neurodivergent, and about half are POC. there is also a very large female cast.

(also a bunch of secondary books, most of which relate to each other in some way, plus there’ll be a Gen2 for the main cast. lots of stuff. the genre is horror, and did i mention how much whump there is?? whump community should love this, plus any enjoyers of angst, hurt/comfort, and queer characters ^^)

anyways. my question. (also, if y’all read this far, thank you!!