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If its more than one of these, vote the one that was strongest and/or lasted the longest.

I wanted to be a marine illustrator !! Like for textbooks n stuff

#writer! #and look at me now

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My writing goal this month is to write at least something every day and stay in the habit of creating, even if it's not for assignments like it was not too long ago.

My work goal is to find a full-time position. I've literally just graduated from college (commencement is this afternoon !!!) and I would love to get a job to help fund my move later this year.

My fun goal is to use up a lot of the yarn I currently have and bust my stash. I'm planning on learning how to knit in the round 😵‍💫

who wants to goal set with me for next month? come share your WRITING goal, your WORK goal (take this however you want!), and your FUN goal!

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crying and sobbing y'all when people said that you only add scenes that advance the plot they didn't JUST mean the overarching plot. they meant the plot of the book... entirely. like a conversation between two friends can advance the plot by characterizing them and grounding them with a meaningful relationship. if your book doesn't have "filler" it's missing emotional beats. which are plot. which are important. fun and whimsy aren't mutually exclusive from what "needs" to happen in your book. the advice isn't bad it's just taken too literally stop come back.

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Dear writer,

Consider this your invitation to reblog your own content, again and again. Schedule it for odd hours, scoop it back up out of your past and let it shine in the light like it's new again. Pull favorite lines from your work and share it without waiting for a tag game. Celebrate it. You worked hard on it. Let it shine

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Fuck your word count!

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"Focus on your word count," "Write 2,500 words a day," "Real writers set monthly word goals."

SHUT UP! Your word count doesn't matter. You're just stressing yourself out.

It doesn't matter if you write one word today or 10,000! At least you wrote something! Focus on that.

Quality and sanity of quantity.

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✨FFF 249 Masterlist

Thank you for all your wonderful entries last week! We loved reading all of them ^^ (If we missed your entry, please let us know)

Consider checking out your fellow writers’ pieces, give out those likes and reblogs. The new prompt is already up!

Long live the King by @itsmoonpeaches

I want it that way by @seekers-who-are-lovers

Ah, it's more courageous to overcome by @inneedaplacetostay

An invitation to the afterlife by @aalinaaaaa

Souk by @janetm74fics

Open your eyes by @landofspaceandrainbows

Open yours eyes by @betweenthetimeandsound

Open your eyes by @fourohfourrealitynotfound

Hand revealed by @e-lisard

Open your eyes by @pandoras-comment-box

Best Girl by @tom-whore-dleston

Beauty to impossible to reach by @endlesstwanted

Face it by @hd-literature

Open your eyes by @orion-lacroix

Looking for my angle in your sweet loving eyes by @polizwrites

Careful with that memory, Christian by @odysseywritings

Open your eyes, trust your luck by @mtnikolle

On hearts by @ginneke

Talking with the void by @reblog-house

A Gift by @writingamongther0ses

I'm real, I'm here, open your eyes and see by @lucigoo

Open your eyes by @darkhorse-javert

Palingenesis by @pheita

Open your eyes by @navybrat817

Open your eyes by @nyamadermont

Flourish by @starlightfireflies

A pause, a memory by @whogavemeapen

Open your eyes by @vza-writings

Taking in the sights by @zorilleerrant

The greatest gift by @lisbeth-kk

Rescue mission gone awry by @baubeautyandthegeek

Open your eyes by @tamtam-go92

Dreamcognition by @dragonroar87

Face facts by @edosianorchids901

For Joshua by @renee-writer

In memory/when he felt fear by @sparrow-orion-writes

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Hello writing friend! I'm glad you are reading this. Your writing is amazing and I hope you keep going. The world needs your words: an obvious fact.

A lesser known fact: you need your words too. Don't stop <3

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how to write creepy stories

over describe things

under describe things

short sentences in rapid succession build tension

single sentence paragraphs build dread

uncanny valley = things that aren't normal almost getting it right

third person limited view

limited expressions

rot, mold, damage, age, static, flickering, espsecially in places it shouldn't be

limited sights for your mc - blindness, darkness, fog

being alone - the more people there are, the less scary it is

intimate knowledge, but only on one side

your reader's imagination will scare them more than anything you could ever write. you don't have to offer a perfectly concrete explanation for everything at the end. in fact, doing so may detract from your story.

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Did you know? So far this April, Duck Prints Press has put out 10, yes t.e.n., new short stories? Two to our website, and eight to our Patreon! Learn all about them now...

Website Releases

Title: Foundations Author: Johnathan Stern

F/F, Science Fiction, Meet Cute on Mars

Addison is browsing the stacks of the Valles Marineris Coprates Chasma University Memorial Library when she's shocked to find someone looking for the same obscure book about the history of space travel that is.

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Title: Worlds Apart (but Still Close) Author: Sanne Burg

F/M and M/M to F/M/M, Urban Paranormal, Confessions of Mutual Attraction, When in Doubt Fuck it Out

Flo is consistently frustrated with how her boyfriend Arthur's bodyguard Kacen is always watching her suspiciously. But when she discovers Arthur and Kacen in bed together, it casts a whole new light on the relationships between the three of them, and Flo finds herself considering possibilities that had never dawned on her before.

Patreon Releases

Title: Coffee For My Valentine? Author: Cedar McCafferty-Svec

F/F, Contemporary Romance with a Splash of Magic, Bookshop-slash-Coffee-Shop Meet-Cute, Heat Resistance for the Win

Valentine's day is invariably a disaster for Nissa. And when she starts this Valentine's work day by spilling coffee all over a new customer?

Maybe she should have just stayed in bed this morning.

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Title: Glass Slipper: A Dance Author: Cedar McCafferty-Svec

F/NB, Fantasy, Dating Royalty is Hard Even if Your Stepmother Isn't Evil, Attraction at First Sight, Getting to Know One Another

Going to the ball was Marienne's dream, but it still never occurred to her that she'd catch the eye of the Royal Heir Apparent. Their dance is a dream come true, and their walk around the gardens together helps demonstrate they could have a future together even putting perfect first-dances aside, but that doesn't mean things will be easy.

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Title: Into the Wyvern's Lair Author: Mikki Madison

F/F (Pre-Relationship), Fantasy, the Inherent Eroticism of Being Competing Mercenaries After the Same Mark (and the Same Pay Day)

Usually, Kella wouldn't take a job from a tiny podunk town in exchange for the risks of facing wyvern, but they're offering 25 gold pieces, and that's too much to resist. She doesn't expect the job to be that hard - it's not her first time facing a wyvern - but she also doesn't expect competition, in the form of a stubborn mage who has been hired by the same town at the same rate. But what she really doesn't expect is the wyvern...

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Title: Washer Wars: A Laundromat Feud Author: Samantha M. Piper

F/F, Contemporary Romance, Meet-Awkward, Sometimes the Only Difference Between Fighting and Flirting is Point of View

Every Saturday morning, before the crack of dawn, Dee goes to the laundromat to do her laundry alone and in the quiet, with her pick of the available machines.

Until the morning she's not alone anymore.

Truly, she doesn't know what's worse: the loss of her solitude, or that this intruder has taken the biggest washer.

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Title: Fool's Gold Author: Eliot Lovell

M/M (Pre-Relationship), Fantasy, Dragon Hordes and Lifelong Dreams, Hurt/Comfort

When Tomas sets off to defeat a dragon, he does so despite the aches and pains of growing older and a bum hip. Little does he expect that his attempt to be a valiant hero will be derailed prematurely when he's set upon by wolves. After they leave him unconscious in the woods, the last thing he expects is to be rescued and nursed to help. But he has one burning question: who found him, and why?

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Title: Escape Author: Sanne Burg

F/M + F/M Established Relationship with Partner Swapping, Contemporary Romance, Middle-Aged Characters, Friends with Benefits to Lovers

Anxiety means that it doesn't take much to push Liam into needing some quiet time to himself, and he's so appreciative of his wife Alice taking the initiative to get him that quiet time.

He's slightly less appreciative when their friends-with-benefits partner-swap married friends Dan and Lola show up, especially considering that it was finding RPF fanart of him and Dan having sex that triggered Liam's anxiety in the first place...

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Title: Old Kings and New Author: Lyonel Loy

M/M, Fantasy, Omega/Omega, Middle-Aged Characters, Bonding Over Shared Favorite (Rape Fantasy) Books

No one in their right mind would name Isemund king, but he's the only heir left, and so the council names him and then flees before the conqueror Caith can seize the castle.

Isemund is prepared to die at the hands of the invader.

Caith has other plans in mind.

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Title: Georgia Rain Author: R. L. Houck This is a sequel to the Patreon-exclusive story "Pretty 7 Days a Week"

F/NB, Contemporary Suspense, Reunion after a Long Separation, They Work Hard for the Money, You'll Never Guess How This Sex Romp Gets Interrupted...

Four years after the events of Pretty 7 Days a Week, Tomas, who has changed their name to Aster, has built themself a new, better life no longer working on the streets.

The last thing they expect is for Lydia to come sweeping back into their life. It's also the last thing they want...or so they keep trying to tell themself...

So, Looking for New Queer Short Stories to Read? Visit Our Webstore and Become a Patreon Backer Now!

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"There's more than one way to do things" or "there are exceptions to every rule" =/= "any criticism I could possibly receive on my writing is automatically invalid"

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Here's my entry for #fff249 @flashfictionfridayofficial! I've recently created a longer piece for this character, and I wanted to explore/expand on her story a little more.

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Darkness. When Juliet opened her eyes, she could see nothing but darkness. She reached out and pushed against the door of the cryo-pod. It swung open with ease. 

It was too quiet. Where was everyone?

“Computer, turn on the lights.”

“Turning on emergency lights.”

Emergency lights flickered to life along the bottom of the walls. Juliet crawled out of her cryo-pod, shivering. The crew should be running about, preparing the ship to land on the new colony.

“Computer, where are my clothes?”

“Civilian clothing is located at the end foot of each cryo-pod, along with passenger belongings.”

Juliet began rummaging through the velcro bag. She quickly found a jumpsuit and dressed herself, then grabbed her antique cassette recorder and a tape.

“Time to see where everyone is.” Juliet shoved her hands into her pockets.

#flash fiction #flash fiction friday #fff249 #my writing #writeblr #scifi #science fiction #original writing #writing community #writers on tumblr

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✨FFF 248 Masterlist

Thank you for all your wonderful entries last week! We loved reading all of them ^^ (If we missed your entry, please let us know)

Consider checking out your fellow writers’ pieces, give out those likes and reblogs. The new prompt is already up!

[#fff248 Watching Birds]

Birds, watching by @ginneke

Honey, baby, mine by @ineedaplacetostay  

Watching the birds by @janetm74fics

Watching Birds by @betweenthetimeandsound  

Those fears invade me by @endlesstwanted

Watching Birds across time and space by @landofspaceandrainbows

Keen by @cocoamoonmalfoy

Fly with the flock by @odysseywritings

Something in exchange by @starlightswitch  

Two lonely figures by @writingamongther0ses

On a clearing by @reblog-house

Watching the bowlinguins play by @dragonroar87

Birding in realtime by @zorilleerrant

Opportunity by @hd-literature

Grounded by @starlightfireflies

Birds of not the same feather by @aalinaaaaaa

Watching Birds by @darkhorse-javert

The thing with feathers by @polizwrites

After the war by @renee-writer

Watching Birds by @nyamadermont

The swiftness of time by @edosianorchids901

#flash fiction friday #look at all these pieces!

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REWARD REMINDER

Did you write today? Did you make art? Did you work hard? Did you try your best?

This is a reminder to reward yourself.

My number one writing tip is that I believe every writer should give themselves a little treat after a big session. For me today, that treat was a box of Gushers. They were on sale. Yum yum.

I eat my Gushers and it reminds me that I worked hard and deserve to be proud of myself. I'm proud of you too.

What is your treat going to be today?

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'people can write whatever the fuck they want' and 'its good to approach writing about sensitive topics with some diligence and forethought' are statements which can and do coexist

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its so scary to put yourself out there but a SINGLE message saying "hi i loved what you made it touched me in some way" makes it all worth it 10000%

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Here's my entry for @flashfictionfridayofficial this week!

cw: mention of death of a child, grief

Sunlight filtered through the winter trees, kissing my face with soft pockets of warmth. Angelica would have loved the beauty of the season, but it mocked me in her absence.

I sat on the porch, clutching our old photo album in my lap. She’d been gone for a month, but it felt as if I just lost her yesterday. My husband ushered me outside, claiming a bit of sun would do me some good. I argued but eventually relented. I spent the morning looking through her baby pictures and listening to the birds.

A flash of red against the snow caught my eye. I looked up, scanning the trees for the source. A cardinal sat on a branch and stared into my soul. Tears pricked my eyes. My baby was visiting her mama.

#original writing #flash fiction #flash fiction friday #fff248 #death positivity #death positive #writeblr #writing community