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January Book Recs

My favourite books that I read in 2023! (In no particular order!)

Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo (M/M, codependency, Supernatural Dark Academia vibes)

House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland (delicious little YA horror!)

Vampires, Hearts and Other Dead Things by Margie Fuston (A lover letter to vampires stories and grief)

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi (Got me in my fairytale loving heart. Exquisite writing style.)

Fraternity by Andy Mientus (M/M, 90s dark academia, demons)

Yellowface by R.F Kuang (Tense, fascinating)

Once Upon A Broken Heart/The Ballad Of Never After by Stephanie Garber (JACKS!!!)

In The Lives of Puppets by T.J Klune (M/M, Pinocchio retelling)

Honourable mentions go to:

Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson (I love the dynamic between the protag and their demon companion), What Moves The Dead by T. Kingfisher (retelling of The Fall of The House Of Usher, got me obsessed with this writer) and Friendaholic by Elizabeth Day (thought-broking, memoir style non fiction, about how we talk about friendship).

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WTW PRESENTS OUR 34TH EVENT!

In preparation for NaNoWriMo next month, WelcomeToWriteblr invites you to join our Ghost Gala! For each day in October, we have chosen themes and prompts designed to help you flesh out your WIP. The calendar can be completed in any order and you’re free to do as much or as little as you want. This event will run for the ENTIRETY OF OCTOBER. 

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

Tag your posts as #WTWEVENT and #WTWCOMMUNITY

Format your posts like this: WTW GHOST GALA - DAY #: THEME

Wait for your post to be added to the queue. 

NSFW content will not be posted to the blog. 

OPTIONAL: Join our discord server if you would like to ensure your post makes it onto the blog! Tumblr’s tagging system can be unreliable and we want to make sure everyone’s creations are shared! Please note, you must be 15 OR OLDER to enter our server! 

PROMPT LIST

Pumpkin Carving - You have to kill off a character: Who do you choose?

Raven - Create a tagline for your WIP

Crystal Ball - Outline a scene, act, or your entire WIP

Fallen Leaves - Create a playlist for your WIP

Jack O' Lantern - Share an interesting fact you found while doing research for your WIP

Vampire - Tell us where you find motivation and inspiration

Skeleton - Have a favorite plot structure? If not, share how you plot!

Trick or Treat - Set some writing goals and milestones for your WIP

Candy Corn - Tell us how you chose the title for your WIP

Witch - Write or brainstorm the opening paragraph

Bats - How would your WIP change if a minor character became the protagonist?

Candles - After naming all of your characters: Tell us the meaning behind their names

Coffin - Where's your favorite place to write?

Haunted Mansion - Describe a setting in your WIP

Black Cat - Flesh out your antagonist: Who are they? What are they? What do they want?

Pumpkin Spice Latte - Write a basic plot synopsis for your WIP

Zombie - Who is your supporting cast and what are their roles?

Spiders - Outline a scene or chapter from the middle of your WIP

Snakes - Plan the plot twist

Apple Cider - What's an old tradition from the world of your WIP?

Werewolf - What was the most important day of your protagonist's life?

Corn Maze - What is a common misconception about one of your characters?

The Woods - Outline your protagonist's development: How do they compare from the start vs the end?

Owl - What are your characters' thoughts on the setting of your WIP?

Graveyard - Which character has a secret they'd take to the grave?

Harvest Moon - Create a timeline for your protagonist

Grimoire - Create comps for your WIP

Hayride - Describe your protagonist's fatal flaw: How will it play out in your WIP?

Final Girl - Write or plan the final scene of your WIP

Bonfire - What changes the status quo in your WIP?

Ghost Gala - Take the day off, tomorrow starts NaNoWriMo!

CALL THE SPIRITS, JOIN OUR SERVER HERE! (discord.gg/earlgrey)

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when you die, all the processes in your body slow down and come to a halt before starting to decay. which means if you were to revive someone from the dead, necromancer-style, you'd potentially have to kickstart their entire system back up from a state of inertia. which means it almost certainly would not be pretty. i'm talking coughing up clots of blood, nauseatingly intense migraines and muscle cramps, and all the sensory overload that would come with firing up the body's engines from frozen cold to fully functioning all guns blazing in the matter of seconds it takes to cast a resurrection spell.

#tw blood #tw death #I love This

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People in badly written fantasy stories will usually talk about the major historical events of their world and how magic has affected the lives of everyone, but ask a person in the real world to describe the effects of WWI and the invention of the combustion engine on modern life and they’d probably couldn’t tell you.

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This is a comment someone appended to a photo of two men apparently having sex in a very fancy room, but it’s also kind of an amazing two-line poem? “His Wife has filled his house with chintz” is a really elegant and beautiful counterbalancing of h, f, and s sounds, and “chintz” is a perfect word choice here—sonically pleasing and good at evoking nouveau riche tackiness. And then “to keep it real I fuck him on the floor” collapses that whole mood with short percussive sounds—but it’s still a perfect iambic pentameter line, robust and a lovely obscene contrast with the chintz in the first line. Well done, tumblr user jjbang8

#favorite thing ever genuinely

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Yesterday I almost cried because my baby cousin ran up to my grandmother and was like. “Ha! Buhbuh ba ha.” And she said okay you want to show me something? And he led her over to the garden patch and crouched down and pointed at rocks and plants and was like. “Ah. Habah ba ah” as she listened attentively.

And I was like that happened 1,000 years ago. Probably 10,000 years ago. Maybe 100,000. The youngest human in a group went to the oldest one and said to the best of their ability “come see.” And the adult went.

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we are in a media literacy crisis

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i love this character so much. id love to see them at the lowest point of their life

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It is the little things in life. Stopping

to help a bee on the side of the road and

printing out new photos

for an old bedroom. Inconsequential,

individually unimportant;

I am very good at half-killing things.

You are very good at reminding life of my existence.

A bee lands on a flower and the burst of colour

blooms in my chest,

the colour of the bracelets I won’t remove.

@inflarescent !!!

Fellow Writeblr Wednesday

A prompt to get you to write different things towards a fellow writeblr member.

Write a poem to another writeblr about them and @ them showing your appreciation for them!

This can be turned into a tag game, and it is highly encouraged!

#i can’t write poetry to save myself but hopefully a little rambly purple prose piece works just as well 👍 #thank u for being my friend :]

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blood being frequently described as having a "coppery smell" in fiction is kind of funny considering that there is a metallic component to blood and it's not copper

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I STARTED DOING THIS!!!!! it’s SO nice i 100% recommend it 🙏🙏

and if I get a tattoo for every book that I write. something small and sweet. just something to both celebrate it and as a constant reminder. I think that'd rock actually

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Talk to Me About the WIP I’m Currently Writing

I really wanted an ask game that was going to motivate me towards completing my current chapter and thought I would share.😊 

Give a 5-word summary of this chapter/fic.

Give the first line of this chapter/fic.

Whose your favorite character for this chapter/fic?

Whose is your least favorite character for this chapter/fic?

Are there any OCs in this chapter/fic? Who’s your favorite?

Does this chapter/fic have any twists that you’re proud of?

What is your favorite scene you’ve written so far?

What is the last scene you’ve written?

What is your favorite dialogue you’ve written so far?

What is the last line of dialogue you’ve written?

What scene are you most hyped for this chapter/fic?

What emotions do you expect your readers to feel?

What common trope(s) do you feel are used in this chapter/fic?

What have you been finding frustrating with writing this chapter/fic?

In as vague of terms as possible (to avoid spoiling), how do you anticipate this chapter/fic to end?

Write the next 5 sentences and share.

Share the previous 5 sentences. 

Share the scene you just wrote, written from another character’s POV.

Where does (insert word here) appear in your fic?

Share 3 images that would fit to a mood board for this chapter/fic.

Share 3 songs that would belong on a playlist for this chapter/fic. 

#pls!!! trying to get back into the swing of writing :] #on this blog specifically dhdn #u can specify if it’s for a specific wip OR leave it blank + i’ll answer for all of them!

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url song tag game

couldn’t be bothered making my own post SO here’s a rb!!! thank u for the tag flare <33

D -> dlz / tv on the radio

O -> out like a light 2 / the honeysticks

R -> rock bottom / modern baseball

I -> i can’t fix you / the living tombstones

I -> if i sit still, maybe i’ll get out of here / ttng

A -> anchor / novo amor

N -> no surprises / radiohead

S -> son of god / they might be giants

eight tags (no pressure): @cee-grice @valpurgatory @aureliobooks @rydykg @ OPEN TAG! (no this ISNT cheating wdym)

url song tag game

thank you @briannaswords for the tag <3

RULES: spell your url with song titles and then tag as many people as there are letters.

Its golden hour somewhere (lovejoy)

Needed a change of pace (jhariah)

Fresh concrete (bears in trees)

Labour (paris paloma)

America at night (creeper)

Romanticise this (james marriot)

End of the world news (tom mcrae)

Snakes & laddeda (let’s eat grandma)

Call them brothers (regina spektor)

Everybody wants to rule the world (tears for fears)

No children (the mountain goats)

Tiny room (arthur hill)

very much no pressure tagging @birdclowns @cuuno @doriians @digital-chance @cyber-sweets @reyesstrand @alrightbuckaroo @firesmokeandashes @i-eat-worlds @bonheur-cafe @viaalterego @sanjuwrites

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HELLO !! i’m sporadically low-activity on here but considering most of my wips are fantasy based with SOME aspect of romance in them, i figured i’d jump in 👀 new mutuals are always awesome!!

So I just cleaned out my follows, which has left me with 61 blogs, a handful of which belong to mutuals who haven't updated in years but I won't unfollow because I am waiting for them to return from war.

Which basically means I barely follow anyone.

So any writers or artists who have active WIPs they post about, feel free to advertise yourselves or each other to me so I can fill out my dash and find some new folks!

I tend to prefer fantasy and/or romance, but I can generally do whatever if the concept intrigues me enough!

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Hey writblrs - I’m looking for more active writblr friends specifically who play silly little writing tag games! My notifs have been barren the last month, and tag games really help keep me on track when my motivation is sagging at the end of the day (must write seven lines because random online person tagged me!)

I only write fanfiction, so you don’t need to actually read anything I write, just need friends to play games with!

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nothing fills you with greater false confidence than managing to wake up early once

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"It's ok to disappoint people." has got to be MOST powerful, life changing advice I have ever heard.