#it's the ghostwriter guys

[ashgunnywolf]

Color palette challenge using @dantethecircusrat 's palettes day twenty-seven: "ghostwriter"

[williamvapespeare]

i’m a big fan of those 19th century novels with homoerotic framing narratives where a man writes an entire book about the sad downfall of his misunderstood “best friend” and is just obsessed with him the entire time

like, It is with regret that I lift my hand to pen the story of my friend, Mr. Dicksuckington. Indeed, upon reading his name many of you may now tremble with fear at the recollection of what a man by that name is said to have done. But long before anything of that dreadful business had come to light, I had the pleasure of calling myself one of the closest acquaintances, dare I say friends, of Mr. John Dicksuckington and I take it upon myself now to tell the world his story. Mr. Dicksuckington was indeed one of the finest, best, and most well endowed gentlemen I have ever had the pleasure of knowing.

[displayheartcode]

“I’m not going to tell anyone,” I say firmly. “Or put it in the book.”

This only makes him laugh more, which turns into a groan. “I can see it now. How to Make Your Girlfriend Howl with Laughter . . . In Bed.”

“Instant bestseller.”

business or pleasure by rachel lynn solomon

[dexnutslolz]

bitches said im too cunt so i snipped off my labia (adlib here) g g g g g g g g g g genitalia (dont hurt em dex!)

[bug-decal-kissing]

Hey friends!

All the works I've found for today are NSFW; they will be below the cut :].

The Ghostwriter, by Irina_94, was updated today, with 7/? Chapters released! It has a rating of Mature and No Archive Warnings Apply, with additional tags "Alternate Universe - Human, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, Aromantic Character, Asexual Character, References to Depression, Anxiety, Grief/Mourning, Trigger warnings when necessary"

You can read it here:

Interlinked, by Fin565, was updated today, with 9/14 Chapters released! It has a rating of Explicit and Graphic Depictions Of Violence, with additional tags "Human AU, Blade Runner AU, I played pretty lose with the lore so forgive me for that, Violence, not too gorey tho, Slow Burn, Enemies to Lovers, Orbo is a piece of shit, sorry I just made him that way in this fic, Prismo is just a lovely guy, Prismo is going to teach Scarab to love fr, Kissing, Hurt/Comfort"

You can read it here:

made a wish, by creatorcindy, was updated today, with 3/? Chapters released! It has a rating of Mature and Major Character Death, with additional tags "okay, FAINTFLAME I HOPE YOU LIKE THIS AND CHAOS YOU TOO, Fluff, get cubed bitch, i dont know how court works but ok, Angst, i invented mourning mondays, unlawful joke au, cosmic owes orbo 50 bucks now, i try to make every chapte rover 1000 words, Hurt/Comfort, Hurt/fluff, 200 hits, HOLY"

You can read it here:

Nirmata, by DatWheatleyBoi, was updated today, with 12/15 Chapters released! It has a rating of Mature and Graphic Depictions Of Violence, with additional tags "Post-Canon, Enemies to Lovers, Slow Burn, Character Study, Prohibitedwish is real, Action/Adventure, Detectives, Slow Romance, Adventure time but for gods, Trauma, Psychological Trauma, Mild Gore, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Implied/Referenced Character Death"

You can read it here:

Sans Soleil, by Comsic_Rainstorm, was updated today, with 5/? Chapters released! It has a rating of Mature and Graphic Depictions Of Violence, with additional tags "Alternate Universe - Zombie Apocalypse, Blood and Injury, Minor Character Death, Grief/Mourning, Slow Burn, Idiots in Love, Angst, Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Scarab has PTSD, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, babys first fic, No beta we die like Jake, Human AU, Kinda, As in Prismos hair will always be pink and idc, Broken Bones, Scarab has Chronic Pain, Swearing, smoking weed, Survivors Guilt, Mentions of Suicide, Mental Abuse, self worth issues, Coming Out, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Depression, Mental Breakdown, healing infections through herbal treatments, is that a thing? cause it is in this, Gets worse before it gets better, infection/sickness, Blood and Gore, Violence, idk how the military works, idk how broken bones work either"

You can read it here:

[full-moon-ships]

Ghostwriter who always felt like he was ment to fly but being a pegasis isnt right and being grounded as an earth pony isnt right either. And he gets to be a bat pony through some means. And hes happy.

[ardl]

kinda compelling that a lot of purpose made big pop hits is written by significantly less famous folks than the musicians as like a reversal of the situation w/ classical music

[daydadahlias]

How do you write those text stories? Like, how do make the texts actually seem like texts (with spelling mistakes and stuff like that), and individual with all of them??

So fun fact, they’re actually just transcriptions from 5sos’ real groupchat

[consolecadet]

Relatedly, I have written probably 5 blog posts and copy for 9 webpages, 1 professional profile, and 1 holiday card (lol) for 5 different clients/organizations, and not once has anyone told me my tone was nebulously wrong in a way on which they could not elaborate. In fact, no one has had anything negative to say about my tone at all. As I suspected, the problem was not that I needed to meet with a ghostwriting coach to spend weeks assessing what the tone needed to be and how to write in it. . .I just needed to write for someone with realistic expectations.

[vaugarde]

love bojack horseman analysis vids and especially this particular guy’s vids like despite what im about to say, theyre very insightful and good and i love rewatching them, but one of the more bizarre takes ive seen on it is “diane’s not a conceptually sound character because she’s not relatable since her husband is a celebrity and shes a successful author”.

w. what. 

[mr-chatterboxs-column]

I might be the only person with the overlapping interests to have this reaction, but one of the showrunners AMC has announced will be involved with the Talamasca spin-off show is the guy who wrote the Joe & Cameron phone call episode of Halt & Catch Fire

[freetobeeyouandme]

Sometimes I simply have a better memory than the author of whatever book (series) I'm reading and I just have to accept inaccuracies as part of a world where not everyone is like me but then other times a character literally repeats an action in consecutive sentences and it's like oh so the reason the worldbuilding was tilting the entire time is because no one was fkn proofreading this thing. glad to know y'all cared that much

[malcolmschmitz]

So, there's a dirty little secret in indie publishing a lot of people won't tell you, and if you aren't aware of it, self-publishing feels even scarier than it actually is.

There's a subset of self-published indie authors who write a ludicrous number of books a year, we're talking double digit releases of full novels, and these folks make a lot of money telling you how you can do the same thing. A lot of them feature in breathless puff pieces about how "competitive" self-publishing is as an industry now.

A lot of these authors aren't being completely honest with you, though. They'll give you secrets for time management and plotting and outlining and marketing and what have you. But the way they're able to write, edit, and publish 10+ books a year, by and large, is that they're hiring ghostwriters.

They're using upwork or fiverr to find people to outline, draft, edit, and market their books. Most of them, presumably, do write some of their own stuff! But many "prolific" indie writers are absolutely using ghostwriters to speed up their process, get higher Amazon best-seller ratings, and, bluntly, make more money faster.

When you see some godawful puff piece floating around about how some indie writer is thinking about having to start using AI to "stay competitive in self-publishing", the part the journalist isn't telling you is that the 'indie writer' in question is planning to use AI instead of paying some guy on Upwork to do the drafting.

If you are writing your books the old fashioned way and are trying to build a readerbase who cares about your work, you don't need to use AI to 'stay competitive', because you're not competing with these people. You're playing an entirely different game.

[melodyvega1967]

New part of ABI out!

[middlefade]

☕ been watching & reading a lot of queer horror lately (mostly historical fiction & fantasy but true horror as well) & my brain is just rot with it. i am such a sucker for like slow burn & general angst but i am so desperate for like some trans / queer horror, historical / fantasy / sci-fi like this is me begging.

[bug-decal-kissing]

Hey friends!

An Invitation, by chilipot, was updated today, with 2/? Chapters released! It has a rating of Teen And Up Audiences, with additional tags "Prohibited wish - Freeform, Enemies to Lovers, Alternate Universe - Office, Office, Alternate Universe - Rock Band, band au, Fluff, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Fluff and Angst, someone give scarab a raise, they're both autistic and in love your honor, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Tags May Change, Tags Are Hard, Alcohol, Weed, Smoking, Concerts, Music, Inspired by Music"

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El caballero y el Mago, by DULname, was updated today, with 5/? Chapters released! It has a rating of General Audiences and No Archive Warnings Apply, with no additional tags !

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A new work, Sans Soleil by Cosmic_Rainstorm, was published today, with 1/? Chapters released! It has a rating of Teen And Up Audiences and Graphic Depictions of Violence, with additional tags "Alternate Universe - Zombie Apocalypse, Blood and Injury, Minor Character Death, Grief/Mourning, Slow Burn, Idiots in Love, Angst, Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Scarab has PTSD, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, babys first fic, No beta we die like Jake, Human AU, Kinda, As in Prismos hair will always be pink and idc"

You can read it here:

Seraphyllic, by DrakianDH, was updated today, with 14/20 Chapters released! It has a rating of Teen And Up Audiences and Graphic Depictions Of Violence, and Major Character Death, with additional tags "scarab the god auditor - Freeform, prismo the wishmaster - Freeform, Priscrab, ProhibitedWish, Scrabby, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, no beta we get turned to legos like the lich, Adventure & Romance, Story within a Story, Eventual Happy Ending, Maybe - Freeform, Author Is Sleep Deprived, The Author Regrets Nothing, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, You gotta work for the comfort, begining poem important, each chapter a word, prepare"

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Wrath of the Wishmaster, by Void_Ink_Studios, was updated today, with 18/? Chapters released! It has a rating of Teen And Up Audiences and No Archive Warnings Apply, with additional tags "Scarab has identity issues, Orbo is the worst, Prismo gets mad, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Implied/Referenced Abuse, Implied/Referenced Torture, Chronic Pain, Scarab has Chronic Pain, Established Relationship, Reminiscing, Backstory, Filling in gaps in the worldbuilding, Worldbuilding, Head cannon nonsense: GO!, Original Character(s), Minor Original Character(s), Implied Sexual Content, Fluff, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Suicidal Thoughts, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Grief/Mourning, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Non-Graphic Violence, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, cosmic goreis that a thing?, It is now"

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This chapter is also on tumblr! You can read it here :].

NSFW works are below the cut :].

A new work, Done For by othersin, was published today, with 1/1 Chapters released! It has a rating of Mature and No Archive Warnings Apply, with additional tags "god AU, AU, ProhibitedWish, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, prismo gets a kink, pretty sure scarab does too, Sexual Tension, Unresolved Romantic Tension, Choking, Bondage, and the maelstom cockblocked the gods, moon god prismo, sun god scarab, some more backstory, Before they were married, they were feuding gods"

You can read it here:

The Ghostwriter, by Irina_94, was updated today, with 4/? Chapters released! It has a rating of Mature and No Archive Warnings Apply, with additional tags "Alternate Universe - Human, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, Aromantic Character, Asexual Character, Prismo needs a huge, References to Depression, Anxiety, Grief/Mourning, Trigger warnings when necessary"

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His Good Boy, by phoenixash234flames, was updated today, with 2/2 Chapters released! It has a rating of Explicit and No Archive Warnings Apply, with additional tags "Daddy Kink, Wall Sex, both figurative and I guess literal, because walls, Hurt/Comfort, spoilers for some episodes that had prismo involved in adventure time, In chapter 2"

You can read it here: