#sff moodboard

[transcendragon]

I’ve really been enjoying making moodboards inspired by my writing recently! I went a bit wild with them, this isn’t even all of them. The first and final moodboard here uses all my own personal art and photo edits, the rest I made with Canva.

The first one is a general author moodboard with my own art, then there are some moodboards based on characters from my urban fantasy novel “August Out of Time”: August Lloyd, Fergus, Mina, and Coyote. Then, after this caption, there’s a moodboard for my new sci fi horror WIP “Unintended Designs” and three boards for its main characters Jen Ishii, Nao Tanaka, and Jonathan Isengrim. Finally there’s an “Unintended Designs” moodboard made with edits of my own photos.

None of my long form fiction has been published yet, but if you’re curious about my writing I post SFF short fiction on my blog available to everyone!

Warning that the later moodboards after this read more have themes around blood, holes, injuries, and medical stuff! They are for my sci fi horror WIP.

[literatureaesthetic]

jade city | playlist

[alvoskia]

George was always tinkering with something, usually clocks, and the only one Ally could regularly rely on to be any fun. They stole sweets from the pantry together when they were both on their periods, even if Ally had to make sure he didn’t leave grease stains anywhere as they tiptoed away with their stashes.

[sometimesraven]

It's Erik's birthday today so I thought I'd put together a lil aesthetic based around his star sign!

Virgos are grounded Earth signs, deeply rooted in their ways and perfectionists to the core. They are your best friend, extremely dedicated and loyal, and will work hard to maintain their relationships. That perfectionism can present kind of neurotically, however, and you'll often find Virgos overthinking and meticulous in their persuit of that perfection.

Erik is the quintessential Virgo imo, I love them to pieces! Every Virgo I've ever met has a lil Erik in them and I love that for them.

Erik is a supporting character in RECKLESS TRUTH and primary love interest in BITTER TRUTH, books 1 and 2 respectively of THE TRUTH SAGA

Check out The Truth Saga

Children go missing all the time. That’s what they’re told. They run away, they’re kidnapped, they die. Scattered throughout Scotland, a handful of families remember the truth of what happened to their families. The violent, paranormal attacks that destroyed their lives and took their children from them.

Twenty years after the first incidents, the disappearences are happening again. The missing children are adults now, and reconnecting with the people they lost, but everything has changed. There is something sinister casting its shadow over their heads, and now they must fight to return the light to their lives. To learn to love and laugh and carry on living – while the truth of their history threatens to destroy them.

Combining science fantasy with interpersonal drama, The Truth Saga is an ongoing series following themes of love, family and grief wrapped in a bundle of supernatural mystery and violence. Step into the Controller’s world and you may never turn back…

BOOK 1, RECKLESS TRUTH, IS AVAILABLE NOW TO BUY FROM YOUR FAVOURITE BOOKSTORES

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@smallvillecrows

[rowanmgrey-author]

moodboard | the godslayer

An SFF novel featuring a sapphic romance, dragons in space, god-like powers, magic and war.

Taglist: @digital-chance

[aristarshower]

Moodboard Time!

Made moodboards for my SFF genre blending trilogy(names are a wip rn) unmasked is a political intrigue fantasy drama, understood is a futuristic heist and unravelled is a dystopian survival. There's a bit of horror in all of them and it's all about dreams and dreamers!

None of the characters are white or straight I just did my best with public domain images lmao

Not bad for my very first attempt at moodboards!

Show me your moodboards!

[raayllum]

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ABOUT ME: I go by Dragons or Raay. I've been in the fandom since July 2018 (yes, that is two months before the show actually premiered). I loves foils, parallels, and looking far too deeply into everything. I'm also publishing a YA SFF book! I use they/them pronouns and love aspec rayllum with my whole heart. other popular headcanons are autistic!ezran and trans!janai. i'm not an anti & tag everything meticulously to both find things and make them easy to blacklist. I look like this, always:

STUFF I MAKE: meta directory / analysis tag / my fic / my playlists / my edits / thanks for asking / predictions

salt tags (for blacklisting & minimally used): dragons gets salty / fandom nonsense

trigger warnings (tagged on request, always in reference to fictional characters): tw pregnancy / tw body horror / tw blood / tw suicidal ideation

blog housekeeping: tags masterpost / dragons rambles / foil tags / in regards to (discussions of race / racism) / fandom history / no discourse or harassment / please don't send me negativity about the show and/or cast and crew

Other Places To Find Me (TDP / fandom centric)

Youtube (AMVs): wordswithdragons

AO3 (90+ TDP fics): wordswithdragons

Podcast (50+ episodes)

Twitter (no, I don't know why Aaron Ehasz follows me either): wordswdragons

Bluesky: wordswithdragons

Patreon (lowest tier is $2 USD a month; free patreons are also very welcome)

Greatest Hits (aka the things I've made that I think are the coolest):

1k / 2k / 4k notes

Rayllum AMV to a banger of a song

Personal faves

My "Viren adopts/raises Rayla" AU

Predictions achieved

Callum&Viren foils tag

Cube Hostage Exchange Theory

To Make It Right :: How Rayllum Intersects A Meta (s1-s2)

Egyptian Mythos, the Ankh, and Aaravos’ Fallen Star (S1-S4) 

(if time is money then) i’ll spend it all for you: Set four years post-S3, Runaan and Rayla’s parents are de-coined. Now it’s time to adjust to how the world and their daughter has changed, including her relationship with one particular human. 146k, COMPLETE

twice as many stars: or Sir Sparklepuff's existence is an existential horror story, the fic. 8.7k, ONESHOT

Sideblog for a queer fantasy WIP (TDP + ATLA + SOC) that's set to be published in 2026 (bonus "being published through an indie press" experience) is about an unchosen one who wants her powers back, a former child soldier who wants revenge, and a prodigy who wants redemption / subsequent moodboard

[acmoorereadsandwrites]

How to Stop Spinning Your Wheels and Write

First: mental health is real. If you are in burnout, take care of yourself because if you push yourself in burnout, you can prolong it. You might want to try some of these things to keep being creative during burnout, but don't force yourself.

Take care of yourself.

Try more creative outlines. I don't outline the way most people think of it. I outline with moodboards that nobody but me can understand, including main characters, relationships, side characters, and aesthetics. It makes sense to me and, when I look at it, I know exactly what I want each picture to do and say and why it's in the space it's in. If you are more visual, you can try that or a Pepe Silvia-esque string board. You can even try a playlist that is one song per chapter to convey the mood and repeat songs as needed. Don't take forever to do this; spend no more than a day or two and then get to writing.

Instead of a character sheet, writing the same scene from the POV of every character in a given chapter so you learn more about them. Character sheets can get some of us really in the weeds and we focus so much on whether or not our characters like punk vs classical music and certain fashion tastes that are ultimately not going to be on the page. That's not to say knowing these things are bad, but you can also get to know your characters by writing how they view each other and certain situations and by doing that, you also learn their motivations in each scene.

Just write 100 words a day of the project. That's it. Or a page in a notebook or 15 minutes of a sprint. Give yourself a small, reachable, tangible goal where you can see your writing grow. 'But I don't know where the story is going!' That's OK! It doesn't have to be perfect. You can write four pages and realize it's going nowhere and then cross it all out and start again. Pros do that, too.

If you're writing SFF, identify if you have Worldbuilder's Disease. What is this? It's when you spend all your time building a world for a story and you never get around to the story because the world isn't 'finished'. Tolkien didn't finish building his world. Last time I checked, GRRM never created more than 7 words of High Valyrian; David J. Peterson did for GOT. If you have Worldbuilder's Disease, make a checklist for what you absolutely need and if you have 75% or more done, you write and worldbuild on alternating days until you have what you absolutely need. By then, you should also have a better understanding of your characters and plot. If worldbuilding is your passion, you don't have to abandon it; but if it's stopping you from writing the story you want to tell, at some point, you do need to stop focusing on the worldbuilding and on the story.

If your perfectionism is the problem and you feel that draft one has to be perfect, this is going to be harder for some people than it is for others. For some people, accepting that draft 1 isn't going to be the end result is by calling it 'the shitty draft'. For others, it's by doing a draft zero, which I believe comes from screenwriting, and you write an unstructured draft with all your research and pants the hell out of it. For some people, that is draft one, for others, its a way to trick their brain into not putting too much pressure on themselves. Let yourself infodump in the draft if you have to. Get a cheerleader or enabler.

Get yourself an accountability buddy. Find someone in your friend group who also has a novel they want to write or a piece they want to learn how to play or a game they wanna finish, set a date for when it needs to be done that is reasonable, and check-in with each other. New Years' Resolutions don't work for most people, but cheering on a friend and them cheering you on and having someone who will ask you 'how's the book coming?' and listen to you when you talk about the best and worst parts of the week can be really effective to stopping yourself from going back to spinning your wheels.

Get a critique partner. Can be someone you met in fandom if you both are coming from the fanfic world or critique circle or a writing group in your area. If what you need is feedback, put yourself out there to get it.

Carrot method. If what you need is a treat, find a treat within your budget. Some people get a cupcake on Fridays if they met their writing goals four days in a row. Others treat themselves to a literary magazine subscription or a new hardcover book if they hit their goals for the month. If what you need to do is watch an episode of your favorite TV show after writing 800 words that night, do it. My personal variation of this is writing 500 words of the main project before I can work on other projects. Some days, I never get to the projects and others, I breeze right through and then get to do a whole short story I've wanted to write all week.

Fill in the blank method. My strongest points are dialogue and dynamics. If I forced myself to do internal things and description and sensory details down to the last detail on the first draft, nothing would ever get done. I give myself leeway and write the dialogue and dynamics and add the things I have to later. The more I practice internal aspects and description, the more I just do them, but I don't pressure myself. Pressuring yourself is not the answer.

Start in the middle. Starting is hard; many writers start in the wrong place, especially on their book. Some people do have a better sense of where a story should start than others, but some people have a better idea of what a strong finish is than others. Maybe your strength is the finish line. It's OK to write the last half of the book first and then add the first half. The first few chapters are almost always the chapters that are rewritten the most; that's why they tend to be the strongest and tightest.

[wentzuponadream]

Mood board for my wip because why not

[kira-desomma]

Moodboards for the MCs of Endless Stars, 3/6

Read the novel Here.

[peter-parkourwrites]

SFF MoodBoard Tony Stark and (Y/N) Stark

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[alvoskia]

 “Do you know what an Infran is?”  “Of course I do,” Ally bristled. You couldn’t live in Alvoskia and not know. There were eight different kinds and all of them were famous. The old ones were dead now and had been for a while. The cycle would start all over again soon. “Alright, then. What does an Infran do?” Gisenburg challenged her. Ally thought of the murals at weekly prayers, the sickle-shaped hole in the stone to let the moonlight through. Stories of saints who could walk on water; people who could turn into dragons, although that one was probably a myth. “God things,” she said as confidently as she could. Gisenburg’s lips twitched but it didn’t reach her strange, grey eyes, like she’d asked this question before and hadn’t liked the answer. “Well, Ally—have you ever wanted to be a god?”

—ALVOSKIA: Call of the Infrans

[sometimesraven]

Happy birthday to Evie! This babe has only been a supporting character in the Truth Saga so far but they're one of my favourites of the squad and I plan to give them the spotlight in book 3!

Libras are notorious for being the peacemakers of the zodiac, but also for playing both sides more than is perhaps necessary; and usually at great expense to themself. Evie is burdened with the unique ability to sense and take on the fears of those around them, and their need to play the mediator has been magnified to a firm sense of duty over their family's woes. Now they have children to take care of on top of everything, taking care of themself is an alien concept that I'm sure won't land them in any trouble whatsoever :)

Evie is a supporting character in RECKLESS TRUTH and BITTER TRUTH.

Check out The Truth Saga

Children go missing all the time. That’s what they’re told. They run away, they’re kidnapped, they die. Scattered throughout Scotland, a handful of families remember the truth of what happened to their families. The violent, paranormal attacks that destroyed their lives and took their children from them.

Twenty years after the first incidents, the disappearences are happening again. The missing children are adults now, and reconnecting with the people they lost, but everything has changed. There is something sinister casting its shadow over their heads, and now they must fight to return the light to their lives. To learn to love and laugh and carry on living – while the truth of their history threatens to destroy them.

Combining science fantasy with interpersonal drama, The Truth Saga is an ongoing series following themes of love, family and grief wrapped in a bundle of supernatural mystery and violence. Step into the Controller’s world and you may never turn back…

BOOK 1, RECKLESS TRUTH, IS AVAILABLE NOW TO BUY FROM YOUR FAVOURITE BOOKSTORES

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@smallvillecrows

[contes-de-rheio]

Writeblr Tag

I was tagged by @cryingwriter Thank you !!!

Current WIP(s): Rising Queens

Genre/Category: High Fantasy, Political fantasy, New Adult / Adult

Fanfiction or Original Fiction: Original fiction (I wrote fanfictions when I was younger, but not anymore)

Fandoms/Interests: reading (SFF mostly), History, worldbuilding, graphics... as for fandoms I'm not very faithful, but at the moment I'm following the Skam remakes (France, Italy and, probably, Belgium).

What we might find on your blog: writing tips, worldbuilding posts about my universe, some excerpts, a lot of inspiration pictures, some moodboards, reblogs of other's writings, some notes about what I'm currently writing to keep myself accountable.

Tagging @citruschickadee @elaynab-writing @pheita @cjjameswriting @leo-november @chalilodimun @starlitesymphony

[vendettaez]

Barbara Palvin moodboard dark, sff

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[alvoskia]

This isn't about what I want. It’s not about deserve. It’s about what needs to be done.