#omg i published a book

[manicpixiedreamboots]

How to write your book Step 234

Remember that little ditty you were writing once? That experimental poetry you were unleashing your emotions through?

Get it Published.

That's right. Nothing will light a fire underneath you like accomplishing goals! If you're anything like me the only reason you really want to write a book, is to get it published. Now I'm no expert on publishing, you'll have to do a google like I did. But I found a small company that helped me publish a book of poetry.

Evidence: Kraken by Anna (Span) Streatfeild

Once you have one Actually Published piece of writing, it will bolster your confidence. Invest in yourself. Even if you don't already have an audience, even if the only copies you sell are to your partner and your mum... at least you have a book published!

Look at you go you little Author!

You got this! Keep writing!

[dramatic-dolphin]

sorrrryyyy but that post about "Divine Comedy is not fanfiction, it's nothing like the omegaverse smut you write" is SOOOO dumb. the Divine Comedy is not fanfiction because it does not fit the definition and cultural context of fanfiction, not because it's better in quality than a hypothetical bad-quality fanfiction you just made up. that has nothing to do with it. it's like arguing we shouldn't call it literature because it's so much better than some book called Kidnapped By The Alien Warlord or whatever. do you see how fucking stupid that sounds.

[asianfrootloops]

logged in for a second because I was looking at my 10th grade artwork and i mentioned so many online friends as authors for the book covers it's insane 😭

[trahoalai]

never gonna experience the "gay kid finds safety and solace in their english class" bc all my teachers have been incredibly racist to me

[depvotee]

No but like my Rook is like parallel to Solas but also he's afraid to BEGIN like Solas.

Despite looking like a hulking trunk of an idiot, he's actually highly educated and even has a LOT of field diaries that talks abt his travels along side a personal diary with deeper thoughts... And well maybe recipes and foods he'd tasted and liked.

Thing is he's afraid to end up as those pitched nose scholars that despite researching a topic find their subject to be less than at some point just a thing to manipulate instead of something alive.

[mishkakagehishka]

Idc anymore i think i'm a good enough writer that i can say that when i noticed the pattern in what exactly makes a book "good" on booktok (and, bc of that, what makes it popular and top bestseller lists), it feels almost demeaning and denigrating to the entire craft. Idk if i should blame the way tiktok-esque social media has utterly rotted everyone's ability to concentrate and read more than three sentences, but literally none of those books are objectively good.

(Yes, yes, art is subjective. HOWEVER. Art is subjective when you look at style, at themes, at motifs, at plots and characters. Art is still a craft, it still requires skill. I've seen beyond the tiktok quotes of these books. Not even their editors are good given the amount of typos/spelling mistakes. That is not something that you should find in a traditionally published book.)

You look at these books, and you know the only reason for their existence is to make money. I cannot and will not accept that as art.

(I'm on Tumblr, of course I have to explain every point. Artists who make money off their art =/= people who only create art meant to be profitable. There is a difference between an artist who hopes to monetise doing what they love, who creates what they wish to see more of and who happens to then create something that other people wish to see more of, and a person who looks at what's trending and decides that making an unholy frankenstein's monster of a book that mashes all those trending tropes and motifs together would get them rich quick. The fact that a lot of these booktok books become popular because of nepotism is just the cherry on top. It's soulless.)

And to finally say what I wanted to say, it's because none of these books have any deeper message or even artistic value to them. You will find a few out of context quotes or paragraphs, ones written specifically so they'd look deep and beautiful when taken out of context, so that people would post them, so that people would buy the books. Entire books written just so those few lines could become viral and make cash. It cannot even be compared to a hook line writers would post to get people interested in their works, because in booktok's case, those are the only lines of quality and in the context itself, they are often out of place and forced.

I just hate booktok, i hate what modern social media has done to art. It's all created to be quickly consumed, for the few ☆aesthetic☆ glances, and then discarded. Just to make more money for those who are already nepo babies. As if artists needed more obstacles to jump over.

[6ebe]

gen thought the colleen hoover hate was just her books being badly written trashy romance which like already warned me off but just stumbled across some read-throughs of her books and excuse me WHAT 😭

[murderless-crows]

am i translating a whole fucking book just so a friend can read it? i think so

[crimsonbluemoon]

Hello I am back once again for my every few month check up on Libahunt’s progress. It’s me again, still suffering from the Brain Worms because of it. Any news?

So there's a huge problem going on at the moment with some of the sci-fi/fantasy publishers getting attacked with AI bots/spam stuff, so there's been a slowing down of publishers and what not. It's sort of a mess.

But there's hope to be found because I refuuuuse to give up.

However I feel so bad cause you really are so dedicated! If you ever wanted to read the current copy, please reach out and I'd be happy to let you see it!

[brandyschillace]

I hate ‘selling’ and sales pitches. But I’m constantly required to make them as a writer for my own work. Do other authors hate it like I do? My work around was to back, push, & support *other* writers, but at some point a publisher just wants you to go out there and say ‘pleeeez buy my booook.’ I am not good at this.

[dykefever]

you have really become my favorite writer. No one else is giving me suffering Sirius like you do and the toxicity oh my god ily

suffering sirius MY most beloved !!!!!!! hehe thank u i love 2 write him not doing well At All and then i smash his face with r’s like two barbie dolls :-) and then i brush his hair and put him in a little outfit <3 fr tho thank you mwah!!!!

[elliesbelle]

hi belle!! when did you start writing and how did you start off?

hi love!!

honestly, i’ve always been writing my whole life! i knew how to read by 2 years old (the only real achievement in my whole life), and my mom said i’d “write and make” her and my dad books all the time (i’d take paper and fold them in half and draw and write stories and draw pictures for them sometimes, whether they were stories that already existed that i just wanted to recreate in my own way or stories i completely made up on my own).

writing has always been a passion of mine, even at a super young age. whether it’s writing letters (i write letters to my friends a lot, with a stamp and wax seal and everything and i have a whole memory box dedicated just for my letter-writing hobby) or essays or poetry (i actually have a poetry instagram), it’s something that’s always come very naturally to me.

school definitely pushed me to write a lot cause i mean, you have to write a lot for school. but i was always a huge overachiever when it came to writing. i remember that i wrote an essay or short story or something back in the 3rd or 4th grade for my english class and it moved my english teacher so much that she literally passed it all around the english department (to this day, i don’t remember what it was that i wrote, but i remember a lot of teachers really loved it).

i even won several awards related to writing throughout my life:

-in the 6th grade, i wrote an essay that won an award and on the day of obama’s inauguration, i went to this super special theatre with other people who won and we got to watch the inauguration live.

-i went to a private catholic school when i was in the 7th and 8th grade, and i’m not sure what i wrote that caught their attention, but the school johns hopkins invited me to do a bunch of shit with them (it was too expensive though, so i never did any of it).

-i also wanted to attend a private catholic high school since a lot of my peers in middle school were planning to do so as well, but my parents were incredibly poor at the time (my siblings and i were all on scholarships at our current school), so i wrote this letter to the president of the high school i wanted to attend, and he loved it so much that he not only granted me a scholarship or two, but he actually created a scholarship just for me so i could attend the school (it didn’t cover the entire tuition though, and i ended up not going because money was way too tight, so i ended up going to public school instead, which ultimately was for the best).

-i wrote a lot of stuff in high school that won a bunch of shit that i don’t remember (i purposely repressed a lot of high school, sorry lol). i also co-founded the performing arts club at my high school and i not only wrote a lot of short stories and plays for it, but i helped people with it as well. i also took a creative writing class in senior year which i really enjoyed (even my teacher didn’t like me for some reason).

-a lot of professors in college enjoyed my writing so much that one of them got super close to me (in an appropriate ofc, not in a weird way lol), one was super moved by a lot of my writings for class and recommended me to help found the LGBT club for our college (where i met and hung out with the person who actually added the “B” in the LGBT acronym, her name’s loraine hutchins and she’s super cool), and one helped me in becoming a social activist for a couple of years and asked for my help in establishing the institute of race & justice at our college and he also helped me out a lot with my family issues at home.

-while i was also in college and even after (i dropped out a million times and i never graduated cause lol i’m too broke for all that), people paid me to help them write their essays and papers and thesis statements, etc. mind you, i didn’t write it for them or anything, but i did serve as like, an editor or whatever.

if you’re asking about how i started in regards to fanfiction, i was writing fanfiction when i was like, 8 or 9 sgdjfhfj, i’m not kidding, i had an account on fanfiction dot net where i wrote a bunch of fanfiction for an anime i was super into as a kid (it’s called mermaid melody: pichi pichi pitch, it’s so bad but whatever sgdhfhfj). honestly, someone should have called CPS or something cause the shit i was writing was so dark and mature for child sgsjdjfjf, but people seemed to like it? even to this day, i’ll still get emails from the site saying someone liked or commented on a fic of mine (i had this one series that was super dark but people loved it and still ask if i’m gonna update it as if it’s not been almost two decades sgdjfjfj).

i started writing fanfiction for TLOU because i got obsessed with reading it on tumblr earlier this year completely on a whim (i kept getting recommended them on my main personal blog cause i loved playing the games and i was like, fuck it let me read one and i ended up liking it so much). but i was consuming the ‘ellie x reader’ tag so quickly that i was running out of stories to read. eventually, i was like, “fuck it, i have a few ideas of my own, lemme just write it and publish it just for fun.” i was nervous to actually publish my work and didn’t expect people to actually read it, but @lonelyfooryouonly encouraged me to do so (who i was originally mutuals with on my personal main blog ♡︎), so i went ahead and did it, and here we are now!

WOW i did not mean to write THAT much, omg i’m so sorry???? i wrote this all while i was waiting for the bus home from work and i got carried away 😅

i honestly didn’t foresee how far this account would get and how many of y’all would enjoy my works (especially ‘nobody compares to you’, my baby), but i am so grateful to all of you for supporting me and encouraging me to do something i love to do. before i started this blog, i’d been in a real rut with writing (i’d only be writing for my poetry instagram account, but that’s it), but this has reminded me of how much i love to write. thank you so much for the love and support, you guys are literally the best. 🩷

[avo-kat]

tbh being mad at creators seem so silly to me

like ok. some people make movies/series/music/books/whatever and people like it and then they get this strange sense of... entitlement towards the creator that i just dont get? the artist continues making things and some people are unhappy because its different, or too similar, or bad, or not as good, or whatever. or the artist doesnt make anything else, or takes a long time to make anything else and people get annoyed at..... having to wait.... for an artist.... to create more.... of their art.....?

like seriously fuck this lmao

artists dont owe ppl shit lmao

honestly if grr martin never released the next book, so what? why are people soo mad omg. manga artists that have been hiatus for years and ppl are legit complaining why they still havent finished their series? like, literally?

like, of oda sensei suddenly stopped writing one piece and never ever finished it, so what? he can do what he wants lol.

ppl are weird, man.

[moonlitfool]

i hate online textbooks sm

[cinnabeat]

i wonder where people are finding the light novel tbh cuz i really wanna read it

[micechicken]

Okay but I've been looking at random published books and.... okay my writing is not as bad as I thought it got