words-after-midnight

[words-after-midnight]

Reblog if you LOVE fucked up themes and topics in your fiction 🤭🥰🫶

#q #yeppp

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The way it's haunted me for over 15 years now. It was my first major novel project and there will never be another one like it.

People of writeblr, what's your favourite thing about your current, most active WIP?

#the way this thing has me by the throat fr #call it midnight

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In case you didn't know, LIFE IN BLACK AND WHITE has an instrumental playlist* and it's genuinely one of my favorite things ever. Check it out if you love beautiful piano music with a kind of dark, kind of melancholy aesthetic.🌙❄️🖤

LIFE IN BLACK AND WHITE - WIP Intro / Excerpt

Background image from Pexels.

*Sorry for non-Spotify users - I'm working on finding mp3 versions of all the tracks!

#currently listening to this lol #specifically november bc it's for my chapter of the evening #self-rb

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Herodias (detail) by Paul Delaroche, 1843

#q #things i like

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God I've been getting so much material to "fill in the blanks" for a new Act I chapter (not actually new in concept, but it was only ever partially drafted Back In the Day) and yet I still only have the opening scene officially "on paper" (ie. in the chapter draft doc).

This chapter is very important to include in the final because there are a couple of scenes that I think are CRUCIAL to the development of Gabriel's romantic feelings for Jeff. Like, I've obviously been getting away with not including them (the chapter where Gabriel realizes he's in love with Jeff being a different chapter that's been in the book for the last few versions), but ultimately I think it would be a disservice to the story not to include them. These scenes are also super intimidating to me because they're meant to include a lot of very intricate and, at times, very subtle character work that I need to really nail in order for the scenes to come across properly and enhance the following stages of the relationship. As a result, 90% of everything I have for this chapter is currently in my notes app. 💀

I know the answer to getting past this conundrum is simple: just draft the fucking thing and go from there, like I always do. But for whatever reason, this one feels larger than life for me - maybe because it's been a part of the story in my head for SO LONG. But getting through this one is really going to be like levelling up for me, representing some kind of real growth as a writer.

Or maybe I just need to remind myself of my longtime motto when it comes to difficult (for me) scenes: "if you wrote Sixteen Minutes, you can write this."

#writing #just thoughts #libaw #16m

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I feel like Sullivan's #1 about Royston is one of my colleagues' pet peeve about me lmfao 💀💀

But back to the point: these are all so on brand for what I know about them already, lol. The ship sails itself indeed.

Happy STS! Do Royston and Sullivan have any pet peeves about each other?

heyyy happy STS! thanks for the ask, this was a fun question <3

they're like "of course not (*_*)" and then i tell them they aren't allowed to give me the honeymoon answer 🍵

sullivan about royston:

gets loud when he's excited

spits in the street

criminally impatient

has a flagrant lack of respect for the concept of time

the fact he's basically this guy:

royston about sullivan:

loves rules

only eats like four foods

is going to wake up at 03:30 for the rest of their lives

can't tell when people are making fun of him

and a half-joke response under a cut bc it's technically a book 2/3 spoiler:

5. loses a leg and still knocks royston on his ass every time they spar

#ty for answering! #other writers

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You ever read a book to which your initial reaction was overall pretty "meh," and find that your impression of it becomes even more "meh" as you get more time to reflect about it further?

#reading tag #like i keep thinking about it and reflecting on the specific ways in which it fell flat for me #it had so much potential lol i think that adds to the disappointment

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Leo Kenney Formation, Golden Promise 1970 Gouache on paper Image: 23 1/4 x 17 1/4in. (59.1 x 43.8cm) Frame: 28 1/2 x 22 1/2 in. Seattle Art Museum

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— WHEN THE STARS ALIGHT

#ugghhhhh this was such a good scene ❤️ #other writers

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‘Not to Be Reproduced’ by René Magritte, c. 1937.

#the jungle

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Ernest Hemingway, from "The Garden of Eden," originally published in 1986

#q #call it midnight

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Camille Murgue

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such a raw-ass pose. do you think they were asked to pose like this or they just did that

#my desktop background

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Writing for the first time in days and already, it looks like being locked away in a gaming cave has done something to my brain because the words are coming out like a river, and there's this one line I really like:

He is the last thing animals see before winter is just a dream.

#😮 #love it! #other writers

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i don't know man, i just wish that we could [suddenly realising i'm coming dangerously close to expressing a real and earnest thought instead of filtering everything through several layers of intangible running bits] blow up the entire world. or something.

#ABOUT ME

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From Unknown, 1943.

#q #things i like #the jungle

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Built in 1939, people would have had to sail to the cliff and scale it to reach the top. Þrídrangar lighthouse, Iceland is possibly the most isolated lighthouse in the world.

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