#reading things

[frownyalfred]

want your favorite author to update but don’t want to be too pushy in their comment section?

here’s 5 things you can do to encourage them:

Reblog their fic link on tumblr (bonus if it’s with tags)

Bookmark the fic with a note about what you’re excited about/love in the fic

Recommend the fic to your friends or local discord channel

Draw art or create other media for the fic (as indicated by the author’s comfort level)

Leave them a comment when re-reading about the parts of the chapter/story that stood out to you the second time

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

every time someone describes a book with tropes instead of plot I lose a year of my life

[olskuvallanpoe]

I hate when people say that the only thing to get out of literature is romance and sex. Like people who think that haven’t experienced literature enough. There are so many important things that literature can do, and boiling it all down to romance and sex just diminishes the other work that it does.

[ace-trainer-risu]

something I think of often is that one time I was reading this fantasy series by a male author and I got to the third book in the series and it was like, suddenly and noticeably more misogynistic in a kind of bitter way and I was like Man what happened did the author get divorced or something haha jk jk

and then uh Yeah. it turned out he did. he literally did get divorced. Like bro I WAS KIDDING I'M SORRY

[averyauthorship]

Books that feel like autumn🍃🍂

Happy fall, everyone! It's official. I usually don't post about reading on here, but bookish content goes hand-in-hand with writeblr content, so here we are.

This is just a list of books that I've read (or am currently reading, in one case) that remind me of fall. They just have those good autumnal vibes, even if they don't all actually take place during fall. Check them out if you have time, and have a lovely season.

Snapdragon by Kat Leyh

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (series) by Ransom Riggs

A Daughter of the Trolls by McKenzie Catron

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

The Spiderwick Chronicles (series) by Holly Black & Tony DiTerlizzi

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Pumpkin Heads by Rainbow Rowell & Faith Erin Hicks

Long Live the Pumpkin Queen by Shea Ernshaw

The BFG by Roald Dahl

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

[lokisgoodgirl]

Idk why it took me so long but I finally got a kindle cover and I love it 🥹 for someone who spills as much as I do, truly a miracle it's lasted this long.

[welcometololaland]

You got an ask regarding leaving negative comments. Your response was great, but I wanted to add something.

Anon's objection was that they were disappointed by the end. While I definitely being disappointed, trust me, this is actually an opinion. Even when someone asks for feedback, opinions should be delivered carefully. I have beta read here and there, and been in a few critique groups IRL. This sometimes means reading stories where the author took a direction I hadn't seen coming. If I feel a smoother landing was needed, I give my two cents. If it wasn't my kind of twist or ending, I stay silent, because that's not really the point.

Likewise, I'm sure my writing's disappointed people who were hoping for a different story. It happens.

tl;dr: If you weren't asked for feedback, don't give it. If you were, base your feedback on what the author was trying to say (or what you think they were trying to say), not on what you wish they had said.

this is a great point on a writer's intention and direction and a helpful insight on why respecting that is important. i didn't have anything to add other than to say thank you for sharing!

likewise, i wanted to say thank you for the perspectives shared on the previous post - i'll close this topic off with a happy reading and happy writing to everyone involved!

💜

[caramelcuppaccino]

finally i’m starting to read the last book of the howl’s moving castle!

[daniwib]

About comments like 'Update soon!' or 'More please!'

It seems that many of those who leave these sorts of comments and other variations thereof are not writers yourselves. So, you may not realize that a simple demand for more without any other feedback can be very disheartening for writers.

Writing a story takes considerable effort. We invest hours in crafting, editing, and perfecting our work. Our stories are our babies, and despite the time they consume, we love them dearly. We write and share because we find joy in it, not because we earn money from it. We create content for you to enjoy, free of charge, simply because we love it. Then we set our babies free into the wild in the hope that others will enjoy them. And maybe, sometimes, tell us if they did.

No one is expected to comment. It’s nice if you do and we adore it, but it’s not a rule. And some people have very valid reasons for not commenting. We get it. This note is not about that.

It’s about how receiving a comment that merely demands more without acknowledging what you enjoyed about the story does not inspire us. It does not make us leap up and start typing madly, merely because you told us to.

What it does do is reduce our creative efforts to mere content production, making us feel as though you expect us to churn out stories on demand, without any appreciation. And quite often that stops us from writing at all.

Please remember that fic writers are not machines. We are people with lives that demand our attention - we have jobs, families, and sometimes we even like to eat or sleep. That’s why many of us update on a schedule. Demanding more won’t change that.

You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.

A kind and thoughtful comment will always be more appreciated than a demand for more – and will encourage us to keep writing like nothing else will. If you don’t know what to write, that’s alright. Short and simple is perfectly okay! If you do want to write something more, here is a great guide to get you going: 101 comment starters.

[frownyalfred]

your friendly weekly reminder:

ratios don’t mean shit

no fic is too short or too long

you don’t have to do what your commentators want

some of the best fics get 0 comments

some fics get more kudos because they’re in a popular fandom/pairing at a popular time

people will enjoy your fic without commenting and that’s hard sometimes

keep writing ❤️

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

types of villainfuckers I respect:

"I can fix him"

"I can't fix him, no one can, but fucking him wouldn't make it worse"

types of villainfuckers I don't respect:

"noooo he did nothing wrong and that's why it's okay I think he's hot"

[olskuvallanpoe]

born to read, forced to be so fatigued that I can’t keep my eyes open even though I really want to read

[7loveneverfails]

I read two and a half books today.

Two of the Murphy Brothers books by Jennifer Rodewald. Brayden's story and Conner's second book. I was shocked when it had another book in the series after it had all seven brothers and then circled back to one of the brothers. Haha up next is mom and dad apparently.

And I only got through half of A Woman Underground cause it's a hardcopy and my children make reading hardcopy a challenge. Especially baby girl who wants to eat the book.

[ace-trainer-risu]

I've been reading the Witness for the Dead books by Katherine Addison and I just love Thara Celehar so much. Firstly, all Thara does is Go Through The Horrors and drink tea. every day this man wakes up, puts on an ugly coat, suffers The Horrors, rides the tram, and then drinks some tea about it. not necessarily in that order.

secondly I love that this man fully considers like, "A friend said nice things to me" or "a nice man tried to gently flirt with me" to be equally as bad a Horror as "a ghoul tried to eat me" or "I was beset by ghosts eternally reenacting an ancient war crime." maybe someone being nice to him is worse, even. the emperor was kind to him one time and he's never recovered.

[averyauthorship]

More bookish, non-author-related content. But I'm sure we're all at least aware of that one bookmark alignment chart that's just around, so I made my own version. Tag yourself, if you dare >:)

For half of my books, I'm Cute Normal. For the other half, I'm Practical Normal. In a pinch, I'll become Practical Gremlin.

[booksandpaperss]

dude I forgot how it felt to be truly fucking floored by the perfect plotwist. its like nothing else i feel like I just got punched a million times fr