#writer ramblings

[venusscriptures]

i jus…need to get this out of my head.,,..,his hips r so.,,.slutty,,..,(goes insane)

17+ below!!

He’s laying on the ground, hips stuttering pathetically as he whines, grabbing at your leg and begging you to keep stepping on him, to release this overbearing need to cum.

You quirk your brow, enjoying seeing the man who just sent you on a duck chase for some stupid errand that he was supposed to run.

“and why should i let you? i don’t see a good reason right now, you’ve been a very bad boy.”

He whines at that, shaking his head as tears welled up in his eyes, now sniffling as his shoulders shook.

“No no no please i’ll be a good boy, i won’t do it again i promise i won’t, i promisee”

Sighing, you leaned over him, detaching his head from your leg, watching the tears roll down his face as he searched your eyes for mercy.

“If I find you putting your responsibilities onto someone else, next time it’ll be for a week, understand?”

He whined and nodded, his hands tugging at your clothes.

“Yes yes i do just please let me cum i won’t do it again pleaseee-Ohhmm fuck!”

You pressed your foot against his crotch, slightly adding pressure as he moaned and whimpered, his hips undulating. With each grind, the dark spot on his boxers grew rapidly.

“Oh, oh fuck! Oohh fuck fuck! I’m gonna-!”

His eyes rolled back, his neck straining as he threw his head back, cumming hard in his underwear, the thick fluid dripping down from his tip, which you could slightly see from his waistband as his hips rose, twitching and shaking while he groaned and whined, overstimulating himself trying to draw out his orgasm as much as he could.

Panting, he leaned against your thigh, pressing his soft lips against the exposed skin, mumbling his thanks and rubbing his hands up and down your leg.

“I won’t ever do you like that ever again…thank you so much..”

Running your hand through his hair, you chuckled. He sure was worth it.

#sampo x reader #sampo koski #honkai star rail sampo #honkai star rail #sub sampo koski #hsr #dom reader #writer ramblings

[erraticprocrastinator]

Part 2 of "English Is Hard", the series where I talk about all the annoying details that can make writing a living Hell

Capitalising formal titles.

Oh, God, this one is a doozey.

It can be incredibly difficult to know when you're supposed to capitalise a person's title, especially when you're a new writer or working with characters in a more formal setting for the first time. Here are the tips I use to figure it out myself!

As a general rule, if the sentence would still make sense if the title was replaced with the character's first name, it needs to be capitalised. I've included a couple of examples below to properly explain.

After several moments, the Empress walked away, scowling.

After several moments, Alexandra walked away, scowling.

In this example, "the Empress" could be replaced with the character's first name, and the sentence would still be completely correct, so her title is capitalised.

"She does not want to be an empress, she wants to be normal."

"She does not want to be Alexandra, she wants to be normal."

In this case, although still referring to Alexandra's status as an empress, switching the title with her name does not make sense. This example is referring purely to the position, and not to the individual herself. Hence, it does not need to be capitalised.

Actually, that's another good way of summing it up: if referring to a specific individual, the title should be capitalised, but if referring to merely the position itself, it does not need to be.

A few more examples to expand on this:

Sadly, Queen Elizabeth passed away in 2022.

(the title could be replaced with just the first name and the sentence would still make sense)

Born in 1738, George became king in late 1760.

(the sentence refers to the position of king)

The Prince scurried past, giggling to himself.

He was a very important individual- the president, no less.

Now, when it comes to titles such as "sir" and "madam", the rule is a little different, but not terribly so. These should be capitalised if they are part of a title (eg. "Sir David Attenborough" or "Madam Pomfrey"), but should otherwise be left uncapitalised.

"May I present Sir William Lucas?"

("Sir" in this case is part of William Lucas' official title, and should be capitalised)

"I did not mean any offence, sir."

(in this example, "sir" is not part of a formal title, and does not need to be capitalised, even if the person was speaking to Sir William Lucas)

Madam Pomfrey was chronically overworked and underappreciated,

"I saw a young madam by the lake not long ago, she looked to be stressed."

There are so many other tidbits related to this, so many that I think I may even have to do another post further explaining all the nuances and finer details. Honestly, I could do an entire part just explaining when and how to capitalise family titles. There are a few things I've missed here, and more than likely exceptions to the rules that I've failed to mention, but I hope that this basic guide will help at least a bit.

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[the-mountain-flower]

Do fantasy worlds have their own fantasy fiction?

Do authors experiment with other fantasy magic systems and species? Are there fictions based on their own worlds' mythologies? Do they have their own versions of urban fantasy??

What does sci-fi look like for them???

What does sci-fi look like in universes that are already sci-fi????

#so many fourth walls #fiction within fiction #writer rambles #writer ramblings #writing #writer #fantasy #urban fantasy #science fiction #sci fi #sci fi and fantasy

[tismrot]

CREATIVES - HOW DO YOU NOT LOSE YOUR MINDS? I need help!

Fellow writers or creators of Tumblr - I have a problem. I have recently gotten into the Good Omens fandom, and it opened my brain to a level of creativity I haven’t experienced since I was a teenager (20 years ago). It started out great, but now it feels like an addiction. I’m writing again (good), but my brain won’t shut up about it (bad). I constantly have new ideas for my narratives and I’m really excited about that, but my brain will NOT shut up when I need it to.

For the past few weeks, this has gotten so intense I have had trouble falling - and staying - asleep. My mind drones on about “what if this happened because of the thing in chapter 3” and “I’ll have to change that event just a little to fit with the explanation for that thing in chapter 6” and so on. Even when I reach a “conclusion”, my brain just loops everything all over again. If I manage to fall asleep, I sleep lightly and wake up very easily - and then, my brain starts narrating again. I get between 4 and 5 hours of solid sleep each night, with some additional hours of in-between half-dreams if I’m lucky.

Here’s what I’ve tried doing about it

1: Quarantining myself from writing, creative pursuits or anything else related to my hyperfixation. (This works a little after a few days, but, like… I want to finish my story and I need to find a way to do that sustainably)

2: Upping my regular Seroquel (for sleep) dose from 25 mg to 50 mg each night. (It actually doesn’t stop the narrative-grind.)

3: Turning off all screens one hour before bedtime, earplugs, sleep masks. (No effect)

4: Finding a new show to watch. (Doesn’t work, brain relates everything to Good Omens or my fic or something I can use for something etc)

5: Meditation. (Can’t even go 5 seconds without THOUGHTS)

I’m so tired. Just want to sleep but can’t. I have autism and ADHD (diagnosed) and at first I thought my meds (30 mg Vyvanse every morning) might make this worse, but it’s not better when I have breaks from them. I’ve always been like this, I think, which is why I’ve avoided creative projects spanning over more than a few days. I often can’t sleep until it’s done. I think that’s what’s happening here too, on an immensely larger scale.

Anyone else like this? What did you do to fix it? Is there any way for you to be creative long-term without losing your mind? I’m seriously considering just giving up this project, which is such a shame - it brings me so much joy and it’s evolving into something far beyond Good Omens, I’m (perhaps foolishly) hoping that if I could do this sustainably, I could publish things eventually (I mean, 50 Shades of Grey started out as Twilight fan fiction, so…)

HOW DOES ONE WRITE WITHOUT LOSING ONE’S MIND? HELP!

#crowley #good omens fandom #aziraphale x crowley #crowley x aziraphale #good omens 2 #ineffable husbands #ineffable spouses #innefable husbands #crowley edits #ineffable divorce #writers on tumblr #writerscommunity #writerslife #writer ramblings #writers and poets #writer things #ao3 writer #mental health #mentalheathawareness #audhd #actually audhd #audhd things #audhd problems #audhd artist #it’s the audhd #audhd creature #adult audhd #creative writing #creative inspiration #suffering

[apolline-lucy]

are people still interested in reading novellas these days? there’s no way my wip will be over 40k unless I replot everything and add some useless drama

i know the publishing industry doesn’t favour novellas but if i self publish maybe i’ll still have readers. i do read 30k fanfics myself after all

#writer rant #wip #writer ramblings #fantasy writers #writerscommunity #writerscorner #queer writers #queer author #queer books #novellas #lgbt writers #indie author #indie books #lgbt books #author community #writing community #writing #writers supporting writers #indie writer

[ginnsbaker]

bulletproof chapter 5 tonight at 10:30pm SG time :) after that ive got nothing in my drafts 👀👀👀

#writer ramblings

[xxjazzxx]

my moots always seem to fuel my love for my faves or slowly win me over on a character I overlooked before just because they weren't necessarily my type. and I think it's because I love seeing how much energy and effort they put into their fave, in the fanart, the fic, whatever it is that they're creating and I'm just wondering if I ever capture this with my stuff, do I show that same energy or am I just doing something just to do it? I was going over reading tips the other day (yay for me actually researching for once) and it says don't shy away from topics, speak on what you know, and go in with raw emotion. I go back and read some of my unpublished fics and those were very raw, and I'm just like oh geez I was going off the rails.

There's even an AU fic that's several chapters long for a fandom I'm no longer active in that had actual character building, slow burn flirting, betrayal amongst subjects, forbidden love, sneaking around, jealously, a queen trying assassinate her king because she loved 'the help' instead? (mind you these are all demons and other fantasy creatures so lol)

I don't know how I got here though, this was meant to just be a shout out for my moots and now I'm talking about my writing processes

B R AI n fucking why?

#blog #personal rambles #writer ramblings #my moots fuel me foreal

[hauntsnhoes]

if the guardians of the galaxy franchise can just have a raccoon made intelligent in a lab with NO memories of earth or the people from it have a flawless brooklyn accent for no goddamn reason then I can make my own alien character in my own original work of fiction have a flawless cockney accent for no goddamn reason

#Rocket Raccoon #GOTG #writer ramblings #auralism kink #or perhaps they're calling it an 'essex' accent now

[everlastingdreams]

Proofreading a certain chapter and it feels like I'm overthinking it too much.

Also, you'll notice the chapters will be getting longer pretty soon I believe.

I can't wait to show how things will go for y/n and the Weeping Monk from now on lol.

#writer ramblings #weeping monk

[astro-sophistic]

just a little rant

I need to see more Miguel angst! might actually write one myself.

#miguel o'hara #miguel o'hara x reader #angst #writer ramblings #writeblr

[erraticprocrastinator]

Part 1 of "English Is Hard", the series where I talk about all the annoying details that can make writing a living Hell

'Anymore' vs 'Any more'

Yes, there's a difference. Yes, I used them incorrectly for several years before I knew there was a difference.

'Any more' refers to quantity, an amount of something. If your character does not want another bowl of pudding because they're full, they might say "no, I don't want any more, I'm stuffed."

'Anymore' refers to time, and can be broken down to mean 'any longer' or 'no longer'. If your character has gone off pudding after eating it every day for six years, they might say "no thanks, I don't like pudding anymore."

Tips for remembering which to use:

'More' means (paraphrasing) 'a greater or additional amount', so 'any more' means 'any greater or additional amount'. Therefore, if the context of your sentence involves an amount, anything that's quantifiable, you're looking for the separated version.

'Anymore' almost always refers to the end of a period of time (the period in which a person liked pudding, the duration of a friendship etc.) so if the context involves something ending, this is the one you're after.

I've included a couple of examples of examining the context to provide further clarification!

"I don't think Derek and I can be together anymore"

The narrator and Derek have been in a relationship, the duration of which is a period of time, meaning that 'anymore' is correct.

"I don't think the business is going to survive any more bad reviews."

'Bad reviews' can be counted, they are quantifiable. Therefore, you use 'any more'.

"Gerald says he doesn't want to go to any more counseling sessions. He doesn't want to try anymore!"

Once again, counseling sessions are something that can be counted, they are quantifiable. Gerald has previously wanted to try to save his marriage, but that time has come to an end, and he has given up. I wanted to include an example that uses both instances because it used to trip me up so badly!

#writing #writing tips #writing advice #writers #writeblr #writing community #creative writing #fanfic writers #writers of tumblr #ranmblings #writer rambles #writer ramblings #random writing #random advice

[the-mountain-flower]

None of my characters can escape the found family

#even the ones with large and/or healthy bio family #you get more family bitches #writing stuff #writer #writer rambles #writer ramblings #writers #found family #found family trope

[tismrot]

CREATIVITY AND THE CRITICAL MIND

The thing is, the most important thing whenever you have an idea… is to NOT EVER ask yourself why you should create that thing.

As soon as you ask why, your critical mind will try to “solve” this problem by - exactly - telling you why you shouldn’t. It’ll tell you that nobody reads your fics anyway, it’ll tell you that your drawings are wonky, that your voice isn’t good enough to sing that song, or at the very least - even if you’re completely confident in your abilities, the critical mind will tell you that this doesn’t pay your rent (or doesn’t pay enough, if you get paid) and/or that there’s no point in anything at all. Ever. Except cutting your hair, getting a job and surviving.

It actually doesn’t matter if the critical mind is technically right. The critical mind isn’t your creativity. The critical mind loves spreadsheets and risk calculations, it wants to keep you alive - but it doesn’t care if you’re happy. We love our critical minds for allowing us to survive, but it should never be consulted on creative matters (unless you’re about to go broke due to buying expensive oil paint - definitely listen to it then, haha. Food first!)

But if you have An Idea and your creative mind springs to action, just follow that bliss. If the why comes into your mind, just shove a pillow in its face and shhh it until the beep-beeps stop and it leaves you alone. It has no business judging your creative pursuits.

I’ve managed this recently. Whenever I have an idea and the critical mind wants to weigh in, I just activate denial mode. Full-on willful disassociation from that part of reality - and guys? It works. I now get why artists say they feel they’ve just found or downloaded their art from the ether, that they’re just conduits for creative lightening. Things just pour out, it’s like being a child again - and children are, as a group, lost in their own creativity most of the time, their brains literally need it to grow. It’s called playing. Remember playing? Yeah. Let’s go back to that.

I LOVE BEING A CREATIVE CHILD AGAIN.

(Gif chosen entirely on purpose, mama’s been chronically online since 2001 and creativity is a double-edged sword, but that’s a rant for another time)

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[lilacxquartz]

i am planning the fic in question that i posted about a couple of days ago, so don’t mind these in between posts as i lay it all out.

tw for upsetting themes being discussed, it’s planned to be a normal fic on the surface that gradually gets dark to the point of no return.

so far, i’ve roughly drafted about ~20ish chapters, so it’s a medium fic and usually my polishing & real write up adds a lot of content, so we might be looking at more, or just longer chapters overall.

plot: i’m going for naive small town reader moves to the city over the summer because she has a job starting in the autumn, let’s go with teaching at jujutsu high but the story isn’t about that, it’s about navigating life before then.

so getting to know a lifestyle that’s unfamiliar to you, being involved in a toxic friendship dynamic, being oblivious to certain advances, telling a little too much about yourself, etc will be a recurring theme.

for the sake of the plot, there will be canon divergence to include suguru also in this story, so consider this an alternate timeline or whatever.

relationships:

x satoru gojo: initially arrogant, unserious and casual, he shows off his softer side when i put the two of you in certain scenarios. his ego makes him feel a little entitled to you, even though he tries to fight it just a little.

x suguru geto: initially reserved and uncaring, you struggle with getting along with him altogether but he gradually opens up and starts seeing you a certain way, as a result, he’s a little bolder but he’s subtle about it. gradually gets worse, though.

x shoko ieiri: i’m including her as a friend of the trio because this is a shoko inclusive household blog, she will act as your moody but caring friend who slowly starts to see in between the lines.

recurring themes:

- naive reader: you are an adult in this, but a fresh-ish adult, so think like 20-23, you’re still a little socially unaware, you’ve lived in a smaller town your whole life, your jujutsu school barely had students and you had strict parents.

- toxic dynamic: you are thrown into a life that’s heavily focused around your new friends, things like heavy drinking, catching up to experiences you never got, not really knowing much about your sexuality, being oblivious to red flags, etc is a whole thing.

- confusing feelings: you’re new to this sort of thing dear reader, so you can’t really understand what you’re feeling exactly, was it normal or satoru to try that? is suguru being distant after you told him a certain thing normal? did you say too much? too little?

what makes it a dark fic:

- yandere themes, but it will be a slow build up so you have time to establish friendships with everyone, not really quite noticing that both men are gradually crossing boundaries with how close they’re trying to get to you until they start taking it a little too far.

- non-con themes: it starts off simple, like touching a little too suggestively while you’re simply just… unaware, slowly getting to the point it being obvious, to the point where you can’t get away from it and it’ll get rough, because hey, a lot of tension has been brewing and they finally have you where they want you.

- unhealthy relationships: nothing about how the relationships are handled are in any universe a healthy representation. isolation, manipulation and mistreating the reader is very present here, even if unintentionally.

so when’s it gonna happen:

i’m gonna finish up a couple of my ongoing fics on ao3, they’re both near completion, so maybe towards march-april if i get it to a point i like also, i’ll likely do a weekly release on here and on ao3, every wednesday or so?

so it’ll be this that’s happening along with bitter tea leaves retold fic along with the last couple of chapters from my other dark, although non-yandere fic i have going on there, but from now on any new works will also be posted on tumblr, hah.

#ao3 #yandere x reader #dark fic #planning #tw #writer ramblings #i need to buy a walking pad so i can walk and plot at the same time #i have been vividly imagining this whole world i am writing about and i am content with the story tbh #might release some rough one shots x reader as i practice the smut scenes #yandere jjk

[drarrily-we-row-along]

Hello, I've been a big fan of your blog for at least three years now but I wanted to ask what you recommend to people thinking about posting their writing/art online?. I'm a poet and I really want to post my work online but I'm terrified for a number of reasons. Mainly, about not being able to grasp people's attention. (And my work being stolen/ reblogged w/ credit but yk). I love your work and would really like to get your opinion on this.

Hi there lovely!

Thanks so much for the ask, I'm genuinely honored to be sent an ask of this nature; I'll do my best to give you my thoughts on the subject. <3 (I got a little long-winded, I'm really passionate about this. tldr; sharing a piece of yourself in your writing is absolutely terrifying but you should do it anyway.)

When I first started posting my writing (7 years ago?!) in the Sherlock fandom, I was so afraid that people were going to be mean. Literally the only way I could start posting was by telling myself that if everyone hated it, I could just delete it and pretend it had never happened. And I was terrified when I started posting drarry stuff on this blog and I told myself that if even 10 people liked it, that would be enough (I couldn't have imagined how many people would engage with this blog and my fics). Over 350 stories (ranging from 50-100k words) later, I still regularly get nervous about posting things.

I don't know how to get people not to steal other peoples' work. I don't know how to stop ai bots from consuming writing/art and popping out soulless shit because of what it consumed. There are no answers that I can give you on this front.

And if I'm being honest, I don't have the foggiest clue how to grasp peoples' attention. The follows this blog gets and the posts that get attention continue to be a mystery to me; I can't ever guess which things will gain traction and which stories will go dark (and sometimes I get pissy about it- my fic on AO3 with the most kudos is a stupid 1k story that I wrote in 30 minutes while stories that I've spent literal years writing do half as well, but I digress). And there are stories that I see other people writing that I'm obsessed with- their prose, their imagery, their crafting- that don't receive anywhere near as much love as they should and I can't understand that either. It often seems like there is no rhyme or reason to what "does well" and what doesn't.

Which is why I can't let myself get caught up in which stories are well received and which aren't. For me, writing and sharing things can't be about what will get the most reach because I can't base the story's worth (or my own worth) off of that or I'd never post anything at all. Don't get me wrong, I love for my fics to receive kudos/likes, comments, and reblogs- it's a euphoric high. But in the end writing has been about giving myself permission to be free to be an entire person without the constraints I put on myself day in and day out. It's been about putting into words all of my darkness, my fears, my failings, my desires, my wants and needs along with all of my beauty, and strength, and joy, and hope. It's been putting my heart down on a page and believing that the response I receive is less important than the process of self discovery. Over and over, I've written myself the life I want to have; I've written the type of partner I want to have, the type of partner I want to be; I've written about healing and self discovery. Writing for me has been a way to fall in love with myself over and over again, to heal woundedness, to offer myself some hope, some comfort, a dose of encouragement and bravery, a little bit of tenderness when it was scarce.

Reading fanfiction when I was in my early twenties saved my life. I'm not saying this to be dramatic, it is actually true. Reading fanfiction saved me from an abusive relationship and helped to keep me from going back. Reading fanfiction taught me what it meant to be loved well and it changed my standards for myself forever. Part of my desire to pour back into this community stems from that. If there is even one person whose life can be touched in that way, who can realize how lovable they are, who can see how they deserve to be treated and loved, my time was well spent.

I'm not saying that has to be your reason for sharing the gift of yourself. We all write and create for different reasons. But I do believe that all humans were made to create and we were all made to share ourselves in what we make. Share your words for you. Share them as an act of rebellion. Share them as an act of war or change. Share them as a way to express the deepest emotions of your being. Share them because they are a part of your own soul. Share them as an act of self-love and a way of honoring the unrepeatable, beautiful person that you are. Whatever your reason for sharing your words, make it a reason that is about you. You deserve to be seen and loved, to be known in a way that can only happen when you give yourself permission to be vulnerable. There are, in my humble opinion, few things that bare your soul the way that sharing something you've created does. Love yourself enough to give yourself away.

#i hope this helps! #you're beautiful #share your story #create #asks #writer ramblings #c rambles #i love writing

[apolline-lucy]

I just finished writing my first novella at 31k words and it feels good!!!! I think this is my best first draft yet… I usually tend to overwrite, but not this time :)

#writing community #writing #writer community #indie writer #novella #writeblr #100 days of writing #sapphic #wlw #contemporary fiction #writing a book #writing poetry #poetic #writer rant #writer ramblings