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If you're a writer of fantasy, horror, or speculative fiction in general, reblog this! Looking for kindred spirits to follow!

[doubtingreality]

Writeblr Introduction

I suppose I have never formally introduced myself or my writing; it seems time to remedy that! I am currently in my senior year of undergrad for my BA in English and Creative Writing. For some personal details, my name is Stormy, and I am 21-year-old lesbian who's always been a bit spooky. I love cats, my girlfriend, scary movies, and autumn. I have spent most of my life in the south although my father is in the navy, and we moved a bit when I was younger. I include these details because they tend to creep into my writing interests, my own set of "write what you know" contextualization.

Current Works

I am currently working on my first novel, There Have Always Been Others. There Have Always Been Others is currently concerned with the feelings of suffocation, isolation, and surveillance minorities experience in the contemporary south, primarily targeting how these feelings affect queer people and interracial relationships. My hope is to particularly focus on small hostilities and how they begin the isolation process before revealing acts of true violence or monstrosity. This piece is incredibly atmospheric and relies on traits seen in Southern Gothic, my preferred literary tradition. There is also a hefty through-line of failing family structures which is both necessary to the plot and a centering force for the thematic elements of bigotry and isolation. I want readers to walk away with some handle on the idea that unhealthy family structures become deeply cannibalistic, destroying themselves from the inside out. This story is also set in the year leading up to Hurricane Katrina, hence the importance of the Louisiana setting, as I want to build a sense of impending doom and inescapable horror as well as an understanding of the implications of race during crisis.

I have another six or so novels laid out in the briefest of summaries but do not wish to share about them until I have officially "broken ground" and written at least a first draft.

I am hoping to find fellow up-and-coming writers and immerse myself a bit more in contemporary fiction! As you might have guessed from my preoccupation with the Gothic, I'm a bit stuck in the 18th century. I also want to expand my literary pallet beyond my current niche!

[jonathanpongratz]

Writing Update - The Second Draft of The Ruins is Complete!

Hello, hello blogisphere! I hope your cold January is going well. I have an update that I think you may be very excited about. Yesterday I finished the second draft of The Ruins! Here are my current stats for the work itself: Title: The Ruins Genre: Horror/Fantasy (Adult) with an LGBT main character Current Length: 60,000 words, or just under 250 pages. Blurb (Rough Draft): Set in South America…

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You—yes, YOU!—can vote for 'The Panic' by me and Andrea Mutti in this year's Ringo Awards !

Reblog/Share! Vote here: http://ringoawards.com

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Stopped in to my local Half Price Books to look for Street Fighter 2 comics, Nintendo DS/3DS games, and manga, and was happy to see one of my books on the shelf. An early edition, the new one has some much needed revisions. Gives me a little positivity. Not much of that recently. 👍🏻 #amwriting #amwritinghorror #writing #books #bookstagram #greenlanddiaries https://www.instagram.com/p/CoTQHBJsDJV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[doubtingreality]

1) I typically write in first person as many of my stories require a level of obfuscation and secrecy, and I can’t very well just lie to the reader. As such, I don’t enjoy third person omniscient.

2) The third act of my novel unfolds in two parts: one in which the horror is revealed and a second in which the main character decides to remain complicit and active in the monstrosity.

3) My novel focuses on repression and often brings in feelings of suffocation and surveillance. I am, however, of the mind that sharing what a book is “supposed” to mean is a bad idea as the readers should have the freedom to interpret as they please.

Sunday Shareday

Hello everyone and welcome to the third Sunday Shareday of October 22, 2023! Apologies for how late this is, I accidentally set the queue to Monday instead of the correct date and just realized now! Unfortunately, we didn't have enough responses to do feature responses today, so let's jump into the next questions!

Remember if you want to submit your own asks to be featured in a future Sunday Shareday, send them through this form!

What POV do you like writing in the most? Why? What's your least favorite to write in? What POV do you think is the best for your story?

What is something in your story that you feel is the most unique compared to other stories of the same genre?

What theme/idea is featured most often in your story? Why? How does it tie into your story's overall "moral"?

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Good Luck #authors and friends #amwriting today, especially my friends #amwritinghorror. I'm starting a new #horror #novel today, wish me luck!

[horrorauth]

Good Luck #authors and friends #amwriting today, especially my friends #amwritinghorror. I'm starting a new #horror #novel today, wish me luck!

[doubtingreality]

There Have Always Been Others: Excerpt

Hello! I've decided to be a bit vulnerable and share the first page of my novel. I've realized I have no examples of my writing style on this blog, so if you're interested, here is a small excerpt!

The house sat upon one of the few strips of land not steeped in the fetid swamp lands which swallowed much of Louisiana, instead set on dry and sandy soil apt to erosion and greetings of dust and grit. It was clear the grass had only been recently trimmed, mowed down and clumped in swaths of green, damp and rotting. The blades were clearly dull as sections of grass stood still higher than their haply hewn compatriots, reaching out from the carrion. An onlooker might notice these fingers of green dead men, rising from an untimely grave to witness the sunrise once more, and remark with some relief and disdain that finally the neighborhood eyesore had been, minimally, tamed for new ownership, that this great beast would soon unhinge its jaw, wired shut in the casket of abandonment, to grant entrance to some selected few.

Its maw, this great dead thing of once-white paint, sat shaded by a small porch and a jutting garage, a room which seemed too obviously an addition, unplanned and incongruous. The door itself, a snapping and unappealing thing, had little enrichment of character beyond its stained surface, yellowing in the rain and dry rot typical of Louisiana summers. From the road, it seemed unassuming enough, its meekness betrayed by the chipping paint around its corners, not from frequent use but from general neglect. This chipping paint created gaps between the door and its frame, allowing for a tableau of life to take up residence in its craw, spiderwebs stretching to ensnare any unlucky fly or beetle not already within the house, an exclusive privilege extended now only by the spiders; these sentries of the beast were much more likely to catch and feast upon the undesirables as they made their futile crossing.

When again observed from a distance, the house grew in its stature, intimidating in the light of the August sun. Blinding with its white exterior in the noonday light, passersby would be forced to squint their eyes, never truly seeing the house for what it was, and what it truly was, was empty. No living soul had crossed the threshold beyond the meager souls of tiny creatures, soon drained of blood and discarded as husks, and no keeper of neighborhood history could recall the last time movement could be seen behind the dingy windows of the house, although in the glinting light, in the moments just beyond the sun’s peak, the light would dance in the attic window and cast a swiftly sweeping shadow across the murky glass, reminding the house briefly of what it meant to dance and stretch and yawn beneath the cloudless sky.

[doubtingreality]

Horror and Gothic writer here!!

If you're a writer of fantasy, horror, or speculative fiction in general, reblog this! Looking for kindred spirits to follow!

[jonathanpongratz]

Writing Update 3/23/24 (Alpha read for The Ruins is complete! )

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