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bookslutskye · 3 months

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yo i’m writing something and need help naming a character. he’s a trans man but i don’t want normal names like dan or liam. i want a fun, kinda weird, not-usually-a-name name. something that’s normally just a word. an object, a part of nature, even a verb.

please give suggestions and i’ll give you a gold star

#book talks #book writes #transmasc

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the-overanalyst · 6 months

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it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.

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animentality · 4 months

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kicking a hornets nest.

#booktok #writing #writers on tumblr #bookblr #book recommendations #book rec list

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joytri · 5 months

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#aesthetic #dark academia #coffee #art #books #academia #college #studyblr #light academia #literature #benedict smith #Poetry #Writing #Writersblr

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charliejaneanders · 4 months

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Random writing thought: the best stories are often the ones that only you could have written — but also the ones that you could only write at this one moment.

I couldn't write All the Birds in the Sky from scratch now if I tried. But the me of 2013 couldn't have written The Prodigal Mother either.

#writing #am writing #am revising #fantasy #am writing fantasy #book tumblr #bookworm #bookworld #science fiction #books

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fromdarzaitoleeza · 7 months

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{Words by José Olivarez from Citizen Illegal /@fatimaamerbilal , from even flesh eaters don't want me.}

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soliusss · 1 year

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Funniest thing I’ve seen on tiktok are those sigma male boys getting mad that American psycho was written by a gay man and going “well I like fight club better” buddy I’ve got some world ending devastating news for you

#I don’t like fight club #but other people do #gay people on their way to write some of the most relevant popular influencial literature of the 90s #solius posting #this shit also kills me because both of those books have. OVERT homosexual themes and moments

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iamgonnagetyouback · 1 year

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!!!!!!!

#romance #tropes #writing #reading #books #fanfiction #this screams jiara #*gege

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orcboxer · 9 months

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those first couple weeks after escaping a time loop have gotta be disorienting as all fuck. all those little cues that used to tell you what's about to happen are now triggers that cause you to brace for something that isn't coming. you have to relearn the permanence of death -- hell, you have reacquaint yourself with the entire concept of finality altogether. everything keeps changing but it never changes back and you keep having to remind yourself that this is normal. "it won't reset anymore," you echo to yourself, over and over and over, like a broken record, like you're still trapped in a loop, like someone who escaped the time loop but was doomed to bring it into the future with them

#orcspeak #edit: this is not about fanfic nor is it about a specific fanfic nor is it about a specific show or movie or book #this post is about the time loop trope itself which occurs in many different stories spanning many different art forms #i don't read or write fanfic and I'm not looking for fanfic recs and whatever character you think this is about there's #an 80 percent chance i don't recognize their name

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academia-lucifer · 1 month

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Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

— William Faulkner.

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cansu-m · 2 months

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bookslutskye · 3 months

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bout a month late but i'm posting a new fic! read if you like (chapter 4 has a lovely surprise at the end)

#book writes #dreamling #the sandman fanfic

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myjetpack · 12 days

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My latest @guardian books cartoon.

#tom gauld #books #writing #cartoon #romantasy #scifi #whodunnit #music #cookbook #dystopia

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lucidloving · 4 months

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Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena // Alain de Botton, Essays in Love // Eden Robinson, "Writing Prompts for the Broken-Hearted" // Chloe Liese, Always Only You // Anne Carson and Euripides, An Oresteia // Two—Sleeping At Last // Studio Bones, SK8 the Infinity // Trista Mateer, "is it okay to say this?" // @moodylilac // D. H. Lawrence, "The Rainbow"

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chillpotato · 11 months

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Mieko Kawakami, from 'Heaven'

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charliejaneanders · 8 months

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I just saw a post on Tumblr asking if you're "allowed" to do something in a story you're writing. (In this case, a POV shift.)

I just want to sing to the tune of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, "THERE ARE NO RULES. THERE ARE NO RULES. There are no rules there are no rules there are no rules..."

#writing #books #writing advice #am writing

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