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cowperviolet · 2 years
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I was like: let’s write a fun Regency f/f romance romp! With examination of the sexual vulnerability of a female performer, and personal agency in the conditions of economic imbalance, and other fun stuff!
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queerism1969 · 2 years
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cmoroneybooks · 1 year
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When seeking commercial success with writing you need to be realistic. Just because something shouldn’t be the way it is doesn’t mean you can ignore that reality.
What I mean: 
People do judge a book by it’s cover, unless you’re talented and have done your research it will negatively impact you not to pay a professional.
Marketing a book isn’t about how good your book is. It’s an entirely different skillset you’ll need to pick up whether you get indie published or traditionally published. 
If you’re writing something niche you can’t expect the marketing advice of people writing and selling something with wide scale appeal to work for you. You’ll need to find a way to advertise directly to the communities that surround your niche. 
Bigots read and buy books.
Publishing a book is fucking expensive but cutting corners is quickly noticeable. 
Publishers don’t take as many risks as they should, they’re increasingly letting indie authors take risks and prove that certain types of story can make it. You might have to wait for someone else to prove your kind of story works in the indie space to get any traction in the trad space.
I doubt any of these really surprise anyone. But anytime something is unfair or wrong in publishing whether indie or trad I see a lot of writers say something like ‘well people shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover so I’m making my own anyway’ as if saying that somehow changes reality. Let’s be realistic but hopeful and defiant as we head into 2023. Like the pragmatic side character who’s with the hero till the bitter end.
(Also how else are we meant to judge your book in a sea of others, when there’s so many that picking one off the shelf or clicking on to see the blurb is a decision of itself??) 
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indecentpause · 2 months
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The Most Beautiful Puzzle: Chapter One
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cw: stalking, aftermath of past abuse, covid times, police corruption, drug abuse, crime scenes, graphic violence, description of dead bodies
Meara's life has been one disappointment after another, and he's not expecting his new roommate situation to be anything but, either. But he needs to get out of the city and needs a room, and Josselin seems nice enough and has a bed to spare. But Josselin ends up being more than just a freelance translator, eccentric book hoarder, and taxidermy enthusiast, he's also a consulting detective; the one the police come to when they just can't crack a case. Meara accidentally gets swooped up in one such situation. It's the most excitement and fun he's ever had in his entire life. He's hooked.
Current taglist: @abalonetea @only-book-lovers-left-alive @poore-choice-of-words @leadhelmetcosmonaut @jasperygrace @drippingmoon @athenswrites @magic-is-something-we-create @idreamonpaper @winterandwords @thelaughingstag @revenantlore
Please let me know if you want to be tagged in these updates! This is my general list so those tagged here will also still be updated on other projects. If you only want to be on one and not the other, just let me know!
Read chapter one on Wattpad
Or on Ao3!
I'm super psyched to finally be able to share a finished story!! thank you to all you amazing folks who encouraged me and showed interest and asked questions and left comments and reblogs and likes!
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gaywizardemporium · 3 months
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Some facts:
Wishborn is about wizard duels
Wishborn is about struggling with a parent who can't and won't love you the way you need to be loved
Wishborn is about disability and queerness
Wishborn is about being loved by your found family so fucking much
Wishborn takes place in the Wishverse, which is governed by a wizard bureaucracy
The wizard bureaucracy is called the Taxonomic Order of Wizardry
A "Wishborn" is someone wished into existence
Wishborn is about how a dangerous fat femme saved the miserable life of a silly butch.
It's also about their intense love for each other.
You always say you want a story with a healthy relationship right?
Right?
The hot femme is a "dark elf*" and bisexual. If you even care.
Anyway some day you'll get to read it. You can follow #wishborn in the meantime.
*they're called underground elves. It's different. (no really it's different)
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tdcloud · 1 month
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There are many stories told about the Piper, and none of them are good. A being born of chaos... Do you think Rehan will survive meeting him?
Infaust drops 5.1.24. Read the first chapter for free here: https://tdcloud.itch.io/infaust
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bishopofblack · 1 year
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[ID: Digital art of Femi and Irastenys. Femi is a trans woman with  green eyes, medium tan skin and rich red hair that flows in long, thick  waves. She has dots of red henna on her forehead and on the back of her  hand, in the middle. Her lips are painted red, and a red streak runs  down the centre of her chin. There’s another marking under her eye, a  line that runs down from the middle of her eye and terminates in a  hollow circle. She’s wearing a red dress with an opening revealing her  cleavage. Irastenys is a trans man with medium-light tawny skin and long dark  hair. His eyes are closed and he is dressed in black. Femi holds  Irastenys in one arm as he reaches up, her cheek resting on his  forehead. There are tears in her eyes. /End ID]
Chapter One | Femi
The war games between the kingdoms of White and Black are all together an event that feels more like a dream than reality. After nearly three thousand years of tension ranging from bloody, gruesome war to quiet, politically-driven disdain, the idea that the major pieces of each army might come together like this for bloodless games feels to Femi, who is a Black medical Pawn, like some sort of mirage even when this is the third time now that it’s happened. In moments like this it does especially, when warrior Pawns are racing back and forth over the smoothed, packed ground not to do violence upon one another but to compete in sport only. Races and shows of strength, hands touching, eyes met, and very little harm done all around, for days and days… The two kingdoms are separated by encampments each night and their differing holidays during the games, but here on the field, they move as one and are often mixed between Black and White in the allocation of teams. Femi has watched friendships and rivalries form in these games and that too is cause for hope. She is positioned on the side of the field in all of the events because she is technically one of the lowest rung of major Pieces, meant to lead medical Pawns in battle to assist the injured and collect the dead. She's found work in this despite the safety of it comparatively, sprained ankles and bruises and the occasional bloody nose all her responsibility. It is a beautiful, hopeful dream, this. Never before have the circumstances been more perfect for reconciliation between the long warring kingdoms of old.
Continue reading for free on Patreon! New chapters every Tuesday at 3pm, EST. <3
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yvesdot · 2 years
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Something Weird I Heard About Rebecca / 1.7K
“You have to do that stuff.” Brooke traced her hand in the dirt to draw jewelry. Unlike Rebecca, Brooke had no siblings, but she did have working parents, and that meant a lot of time to watch the channels on TV she wasn’t supposed to know anything about. “When you get older you have to do sex with guys and shave your legs.”
A realistic fiction short story about a little girl (...?) who wants to be a vampire. Originally released as part of the LGBT vampire zine Blood & Breath by @vermilionzines; I am very happy to finally be sharing it with everyone here. Gender, monsters, and our worst literary fears: this one goes out to all the weird kids.
Image Credit: Igam Ogam on Unsplash.
ko-fi | Patreon | all writing | book
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darkwriter · 26 days
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Havan Flores Imagine (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/story/362535233-havan-flores-imagine?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_myworks&wp_uname=darkmultifanfiction y/n is a actress who was casted onto danger force and becomes close to her coworker Havan Flores.
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cowperviolet · 1 year
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Her Venetian Beauty is now free and completed on Wattpad! 
A fiery beauty and a scholarly spinster... together, will they find the happy ending they deserve? 
Alexandra Craven has a secret dream to escape the trap of the genteel birth and earn her independent living as a writer. She thinks that accompanying her brother on the Grand Tour would provide her with enough material. However, when her brother falls ill in Venice, she is left without a guidance - and has to look to the timid daughter of their noble host, Veronica Zanotti, for help. 
Veronica Zanotti, a young lady of more learning than charm, has no secret dreams at all. She is seemingly content to be left alone in her father's library while her sister enjoys the spotlight. However, when a ravishing Englishwoman asks for her assistance, she is plunged into a whirlpool of perilous adventures...
https://www.wattpad.com/story/329175421-her-venetian-beauty?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_myworks&wp_uname=CowperViolet&wp_originator=e2jFahM3DKuULFsNLg8P6ieOFQrJX2ULD9dXQhxJ%2F%2FNGZBr4FA6e8qufiRk9NgiDYyAJ092il28mi18SL3xPKsiFrw6oxSv5zh03d3tIu5rHEOTGRUwucoAJYEveKItj
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queerism1969 · 2 years
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cmoroneybooks · 1 year
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If you’re a pantser who struggles to finish books because you run out of ideas or constantly get stuck, that’s a sign you should try outlining.
It might not be the answer. 
I want to make it perfectly clear I’m not one of those writers that don’t believe you can pants a novel. You can. This isn’t about people that are successfully pantsing novels, this is about pantsers who never finish their books. 
If you never finish an original book, especially if you never get much past the first 20K words and you always pants those books, pantsing is likely the root of your problem.
I say original because I’ve encountered a lot of writers who successfully pants fanfic that cannot do the same for original work, or cannot do the same when they first transition from exclusively writing fanfiction to writing original work. I had this experience in my teenage years moving from only writing marauders fanfictions to writing my own stories. 
There are a couple of reasons why not planning at all may be causing your issue:
1. You might not understand story structure well enough to make it up as you go along. That’s nothing to be ashamed of, we’re all learning how to be better writers. Get some books on story structure and write yourself an outline. At least cover the inciting incident, the midpoint turn, and how the story ends. I’d recommend something a bit more fleshed out like the 15 beat story structure as a template and just leaving blank a few items if they feel like overplanning. 
Structure books I recommend: 
Save the Cat Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody 
Plotting Your Novel: Ideas and Structure by Janice Hardy
Character Arcs by Jordan McCollum
If this is your problem you may find that after a book or two written with the aid of some kind of outline you don’t need that anymore, or you need less and less detail. Don’t be afraid of trying pantsing again in the future. Your writing process should constantly be changing. That’s just you taking on the lessons of each book you write and applying it to the next.  
2. You might need some idea of what you’re writing towards to keep you motivated and interested in the story or to keep you from getting lost. 
If this is the case you’re probably some level of a planner at heart. I’d recommend you try a traditional structure like the 15 beat story structure, for that see my recommendations above, but you might also want to try simply planning the ending of your story. If you know the ending, you know what you’re writing towards. 
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indecentpause · 1 month
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The Most Beautiful Puzzle: Chapter Five
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cw: panic attack, blood, murder investigation
A few days pass. Nothing new on the case on your end. No news from Drake. He hasn't tried to contact you since you filed the paperwork, but nothing government official can move that fast, can it? Josselin gets calls and texts from the Inspector a few times a day, but he doesn't leave the apartment. You don't know what the Inspector is telling him, because Josselin keeps it close to his chest. Why? He was so open with you coming along until now, and suddenly he's so tight-lipped. What happened? Frankie doesn't come by. There's nothing on the case on any local news source you can find. It's like it never happened. You don't leave the apartment either, trying to use the downtime to let your ankle heal. The bruise on your wrist gets yellow and green and ugly, but it stops hurting so much when you bump into things, now. Small mercies. In the meantime, you start applying for work. You can only live so long off your savings, and you spent a lot of it on your motel and food. A lot of things are still closed. Grocery stores, medical jobs, most food service is still open. And while you quit your job for safety reasons, medicine is all you know. It's where you've worked your entire adult life. But you can't work with patients right now. It's too hard on your nerves. So you apply for things like housekeeping and janitorial and receptionist, where some of your knowledge might still be useful. You apply at every private ambulance but the one you just left, for call taker, for porter, for anything that doesn't put you on the street. No more paramedicine without proper PPE. Never again.
read chapter five on wattpad here
or ao3 here!
Current taglist: @abalonetea @only-book-lovers-left-alive @poore-choice-of-words @leadhelmetcosmonaut @jasperygrace @drippingmoon @athenswrites @magic-is-something-we-create @idreamonpaper @winterandwords @thelaughingstag @revenantlore
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13-frinfransstudios · 9 months
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ONE THOUSAND READS ON MY SHORT STORIES?? I could NEVER!
Thank you for the support my fellow queers~!! I did not expect that people would even read these shitty scenarios I made up and wish it were to happen to me one day.
  Shout out to my gay ass, ig.
If you haven’t read it, what are you waiting for?? FULFILL YOUR GAY DREAMS WITH MY SCENARIOS!
link: https://www.wattpad.com/story/336385098-scenarios-gxg-fluff-stories-out-of-u-and-me?utm_source=web&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=share_myworks&wp_uname=amothdrawntoapen&wp_originator=pxihrR3Un0iKrUUKXuofqw%2FVyE5ifz3YTEyKHmFUa5oMVZwMVYVA5rOT771iCzOa%2BWM83cWVX0M2UvEYZQAa3QRJk0bbtu%2FuMd9pn%2FHa3T7X5Y8gdbg6fLOtDNTCewOd
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An Introduction;
“Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.” - Homer
About Me:
I go by Mercury. I've been on various websites for writing such as AO3, Fanfiction.net, DeviantArt, and of course Tumblr. This is my newest and much more serious account.
My pronouns are they/them or he/him.
My day job is a corporate desk job. Very mundane and humdrum.
My favorite books of all time are The Iliad, The Picture of Dorian Grey, Kidnapped by the Pirate, and Song of Achilles. I'll read just about anything recommended to me(I cannot promise I'll like it, but I can promise that I'll finish it one way or another).
My preferred genres to write are fantasy and romance. Even better when they're combined. And they're always, ALWAYS, queer.
Main WIP
A Corruption of Souls
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"For the first and last time, Deklyn froze to watch the carnage. The gurgles of his dying words still echoed in his head."
The menace of The Corrupted has reached heights that cannot be ignored. Everything they touch is destroyed. The world of the Hawkerons is in danger as their forces dwindle each time they push back The Corrupted from their borders.
Prince Kai Hawkeron has managed to avoid marriage for twenty-one years. But now that the forces ailing his lands are posing very real danger to their way of life, the only way to boost their forces is through an arranged marriage with the princess of the neighboring kingdom, Zelia of Alderon. He has no choice but to fulfill his duty.
Deklyn Delonir is a Knight of the Redemptor's Order. He is renowned for his skill in battle, his ability to lead from the front lines, and above all his honor and loyalty as a knight. Having seen the destruction that The Corrupted leave in their wake, Deklyn accepts the job to escort the prince to Alderon to ensure the marriage that will bolster their ranks and prevent more needless deaths.
As they travel together, Kai and Deklyn must decide what is more important: Following the oaths they are bound to or following the desires burning in their hearts.
Other Works Not Yet in Production
Sapphic MermaidxHuman Peasant
Sapphic KnightxPrincess
M/M Fae Romance
M/M KnightxPeasant
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bishopofblack · 1 year
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Volume 12 of The Bishop of Black is live on our Patreon for our Bishop and Royal-tier patrons. For all our Pawns, Knights, and Rooks, and our free-to-read friends, a new chapter releases every week!
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