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So, if I am thinking of self-publishing, what's a good way to do a cover? I have never been an artist, hell I am barely a writer. But also I am disabled with no steady income. Not like I can hire an illustrator/artist. Canva is okay but it costs money to do the good stuff and my covers look like shit there.

Anyone who has self-published have any advice for this?

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Blah, I am not feeling too good today. Might just not write today. I'll make it up and not take Thursday off. Just stomach's been iffy and brain has been all cloudy.

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New ask game:

Reblog if you want your followers to tell you what your trademark ™️ is. Like, what’s that thing that really identifies you.

#sharing this for others #I do not have a trademark so expecting nothing

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if you're cringing at the genre conventions of the genre you are writing in then why the hell are you writing in it. either have something substantial to say about those conventions or shut the hell up! i will not cringe alongside you at superhero powers and spaceship battles and big eldritch worms and bone magic. i came to this story to SEE that shit and I don't appreciate it when an author tries to pretend they're above the very things they're selling themselves on

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Not much writing today. Will try again later. Not feeling well and still got stuff to do.

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Thanks for the tag @willtheweaver!

Thumbprint Challenge

Rules: look back on your works, both past and present, finished and unfinished. What are five to ten narrative elements or tropes that continuously pop up in your work? Give a list of these things!

Strong platonic bonds and non-sexual relationships! This is probably because I'm on the ace spectrum somewhere, but I think platonic relationships play huge roles in my stories. Honor's Outcasts is nothing but platonic relationships of varying sorts - everything from Twenari learning to love the Devaris family, to Daedryn loving her god and Loqang loving Daedryn, to Izjik and Sepo being the closest I've ever written to soulmates. Even the romance tends not to feature sex for varying reasons. I've just never found physical bonds to be as important as emotional ones.

A little bit of cosmic horror. I can't help myself! Gods should inspire terror as much as they do awe, and magic should be fundamentally inexplicable, which leads to the fear of the unknown. Living in a fantasy realm governed by sentient forces beyond your imagining should be scary sometimes.

Insurmountable odds. Even when things seem like you can't possibly win, the courageous thing to do is get up and fight anyways. My characters tend to be tenacious to a fault - never giving up no matter what they face.

Fucked up, weird magic. Like I said, if it's fundamentally unknowable, it should be fundamentally dangerous. No matter how well a character might think they have a handle on their magic, it can always whip around and knock them off that high horse.

Science bleeding into fantasy. I'm a stem girly, ok? I like my microbes and my technobabble. Just because magic and the universe are both vast and unexplainable, doesn't mean people aren't going to try to put them into neat little boxes. In a world where magic is commonplace, it'll be treated like any other science.

Gods! I like my big players. I like meddling forces. I like it when the living embodiment of greed hates one guy personally. I like subverting tropes around the divine, especially.

Bitchy characters. I always gotta have at least one. Their out of pocket comments are fun to write and they drive plot through the chips on their shoulders.

This was a fun game! I'll tag @somethingclevermahogony @televisionjester @bloodmoonloveletter @dyrewrites @frostedlemonwriter and anyone else who wants in :)

#other writers #thanks but I dunno if I want to self-reflect like that #lol

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I see all these people self-publish. Makes me think maybe I can do it, right? Maybe not.

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Writeblr Intro~

Hi, I'm Malia (she/her), but I publish under the pen name Beth Hope and post to AO3 as Mannaberry. I'm 39, a dog & cat mom, and live in Nebraska. I'm a nerdy musician who loves to craft.

I've written off and on since I was a kid, but didn't begin to write seriously until February 2022.

I just self-published my first novel, Healing Notes, a couple months ago. It's a demisexual romance novel that focuses on healing from past trauma and not letting the past control the future.

I currently have two non-fanfic WIPs that I'm hoping to have finished by the end of 2024. Both are demisexual romance novels. One is a friends-to-lovers and is a story about grief and unlearning harmful thought patterns regarding weight. The other is about getting a second chance at love and not letting fear control your life.

I write demisexual romance because I'm demisexual and needed more demi representation in romance.

I was diagnosed with ADHD in 2018, so it was a later in life diagnosis (which is not an unusual thing for women). I also deal with depression and anxiety. I grew up as a pastor's kid in evangelical churches in rural towns in both Illinois and Nebraska. These days I consider myself an exvangelical and am deconstructing from things I grew up being taught to believe. I say all this, because these are all things that tend to show up in my writing.

In my free time I volunteer as a reader for a place called Radio Talking Book Services. It's a radio station for people who are unable to read print material due to physical reasons.

I will reply to messages and/or emails ([email protected]). Though, sometimes my ADHD brain will lose track of time, and a reply might be slow to arrive.

I love writing fanfiction, and it has been a really healing thing in my life. I've made wonderful friends and learned so much from writing fanfic.

If you're a writer and follow me, I will follow back. I'd like to make more writing friends if possible.

Thanks for reading. Here's a pic of my dogs, Krypto and Muffin.

#other writers

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Writeblr Re-Intro

Yo! I'm V Saintsin. Or V or Vin or Saintsin or whatever you want to call me that sounds right on your tongue. I'm a self-proclaimed Social Media fumbler who got a late start to the party and has never quite figured it out. I hate how hipster and edgy it sounds to say "I'm bad at social media" but like I used to work with some people who actually managed the social media accounts for the business we worked for and there were rules and whatnot and damn, I think online media is just not my medium. That being said, here I am! Hah

I'm an author and general mess who's hoping to be the miracle man (somebody who makes a living writing silly little stories). I do use a pseudonym but please hear me out when I say I didn't realize how edgy it sounds, it just has some sentimental value to my personal life. I'm so sorry that I sound like I'm in my emo phase HAHA

About me -

He/Him Transguy from the American Midwest (arguably the south, depending on who you talk to, but the older people still say "Sodi-pop" and "ope").

I'm dysautonomic, bendy, permanently sleepy, and a survivor of Crappy Doctors Who Suck At Doctoring.

I like DnD, Pathfinder, Baldur's Gate 3, Cyberpunk, Dragon Age, and other things in that vein.

I do make art of my stories and characters (Tablet is currently not working so I'm in a dry spell).

My writing background is predominantly ancient, dusty RPs from as far back as the foopets days and fanfic writing on Quizilla - I am an old and wizened elder of the net.

My formal education was music performance and behavioral neuroscience, I don't really know how I got where I am.

This is not my first rodeo with tumblr but it is the first time I have anything to SAY instead of just lurking.

In the event of malfunction, you can put me outside for 5 minutes and I'll probably factory reset.

My existence as I know it hinges on a massive number of sticky notes plastered throughout my room.

What I'm lookin' for -

Idk, whatever? I'm down for most things. Did you write it? Cool, let me see. I'm not too bent on genre or anything, just fascinated by the art of storytelling.

A bit tentative with fanfiction but that's just because if it's not a fandom I'm familiar with I am rather clueless about what the hell is going on and if it's a fandom I am familiar with I HUNT DOWN THE DEEP LORE.

I like art a whole lot, including fanart. Also art advice, love seeing things from different perspectives and learning something new.

Mutuals, really, for any reason. Building better connections on here, getting to know people. I am hideously bad at this but I try.

What I write -

Science Fiction with heavy subjects that matter to me - trigger warnings on a story-by-story basis.

High Fantasy (eventually books I think?) characters and their backgrounds for DnD and Pathfinder - I have been tempted to share these to help people get ideas or just for free use?

Things that I delete because I have crippling imposter syndrome and publishing makes me nauseous (doin' it tho).

Stories that I hope will make people feel less alone or that people could relate to, stories that I wish I had when life was worse and I was reaching out for anything I could find to keep me afloat, stories that try to be critical of things that SUCK in a way that's any helpful.

Lots of curse words and cussing (that's just how people talk 'round here), dubious science, things that I hope might make you cry but in a good way though.

Character-Driven stories that revolve more around the development of the person and less around the plot itself if that makes sense.

I've put blurb things below for my primary project/series which features a grumpy, queer, 37-year old chain smoking Frenchman and his misadventures with life and love and unbridled rage. If any of that sounds cool stick around and hang out? (This part is a plug bc I did a thing and I'm proud of it) And if my books sounds interesting the first one is 99 cents on Kindle and you just need a phone and a free app to read it!

THE SECRET OF LIFE (Published) - Sci-Fi/Psychological Thriller, Bi M Lead, Lovers to Enemies, AI but the oldschool cool kind not the real world thing that's stealing our future

Carlisle-Trystan Antoinette is a mercenary on a hard road, navigating life and death itself in an infinite cycle started by powers above his understanding. He has one mission - warn The Dianican Space Station of the coming threat and put a stop to a war that would encapsulate the whole of the Sol System before it can ever begin. Unfortunately for Carlisle, reality is a tenuous thing, made up only by our understanding of it. At least, according to his Psychiatrist, who tells him that there is no war, that he was never a mercenary, and that what Carlisle is experiencing is a severe but manageable psychotic break. Stripped of his combat enhancements, his bio monitor, and everything he's every known, Carlisle has a decision to make. Does he give in to the thoughts and memories, so real that he can almost taste them, or does he live a life of comfort and ease, returning to a husband and daughter that he left behind?

TWs: Domestic and War Violence, suicide, rape, medical trauma, grief, drug use

THE SILENCE OF ANGELS (Due July '24, TSoL 2) - Betrayal and Rage, Learning how to love again slow-burn romantic subplot, Learning how to Dad, A general inability for any one thing to just go right

(Quick Rough Blurb that offers no spoilers for TSoL) Making connections isn't easy for somebody who's accustomed to burning bridges. Isolation has always been Carlisle's mantra for surviving his life. Playing a role comes second nature, pretending to be the man that everyone else wants to see in him. When an old friend is murdered Carlisle finds himself as the primary suspect with all evidence pointing to him so clearly that even he calls to question what he is capable of. Unwilling to believe that he could commit such a heinous crime, Carlisle sets off to find the truth of his friend's death - was Carlisle framed or does he truly have the capacity to bring such harm upon those he loves? Old and new bonds will be tested, faith broken, and the future of everyone called into question as lines are drawn and sides are picked.

TWs: Violence, mentions of SA, graphic character death, more grief, more death

I don't know what else to say... Later!

#other writers

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The Story of the Scully Box.

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writeblr intro!

hello everyone, i'm mina! i'm back on writeblr after a long break, and would love to connect with some fellow writers to discuss wips and writing and all our interests <3

some info on me below!

mina, the person

howdy, my name is mina, i use the pronouns she/her, i'm in my late twenties and from austria

i am currently pursuing a degree in education, and am working full time, so i don't have as much time to spend on writing as i'd like, but what can ya do

my favourite genres to read (and write) are fantasy, sci-fi, and historical fiction; but really, i'll read anything that sounds interesting!

my interests outside of books are a little all over the place lol, and include musicals, horses, linguistics, and formula 1. if any of that vibes with you let's be friends pls!

mina, the writer

i am currently in the worldbuilding + plotting phase of a fantasy wip! it's basically all my fave tropes thrown into a blender: flawed prophecies, questions of identity, religious and political tensions, wholesome romance despite it all. proper intro post for it coming soon!

i also plan on participating in a young storyteller contest this summer - for that, i am drafting a novella about grief and resurrection. (basically: what happens when you don't let the dead be dead in peace?)

when time allows i also write reviews of the books/shows i've watched! and i'm working on a podcast on media literacy with a friend of mine.

all ask games, tag games, and chatting in general are welcome anytime!

thank you so much for reading! i'd love to make some writer friends, so it would help a lot if people would interact with this post <3 can't wait to meet and read y'all soon!

#other writers

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Worldbuild if you want, it's your story, your setting, and your time. But don't neglect the story, if you want. We all write at our own pace and how we desire to.

Don't fall into the worldbuilding trap!

You don't actually need to have all the nitty gritty details of your world figured out before you start writing. At some point all of that worldbuilding work (that won't make it to the book anyway) is just procrastination disguised as productivity.

Stop worldbuilding. Write your book.

#remember #there's no right way to write

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#I don't vote in polls #but do you really wanna expose yourself? #I mean it do what you want #Just....yeah

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I'm always in a state of confusion but I wear it well.