You’re the type of person that is skeptical of angels and demons, dismissing them as fantasy. One day, your best friend, who is literally the opposite of you, trying to perform spells, accidentally summons a succubus. Turns out that she’s actual a sweetheart, who is the daughter of Lilith and Satan. She is determined to protect you at all times, and calls you her beloved, and likes to bake heart shaped cookies.
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A Gym of Garnet and Rain by Catelyn Winona
Garnet is a running stone. Feet pounding on wet concrete, laces tied too tightly, soles worn down to slick rubber but, still, never slipping.
He knows it can be a healing stone, a purifying, stone, but has never felt the sort of peace howlite or quartz (rose or otherwise) bring him from its red depths.
Garnet tells him to seize his opportunity between his teeth and run. Run upright, wind in your hair, hands clenched around a phone blasting drums, towards the finish line. Run like the world is being created under your feet. Run like your soul is begging you to, fast and hard and free.
A car horn honks, ripping past screeching guitars, and grabs his attention.
Andy pulls his headphones from his ears, keeping light on the balls of his feet so his legs don’t begin to cramp. His mom is looking at him from the driver’s side of the family’s mini van, one eyebrow raised.
“Do you,” she yells over the roar of the river on his other side, “have any idea how far from home you are?!”
“Seven point two miles,” he says before his teeth can click over the words. He wasn’t keeping track, but he’s always been able to gauge distance like that. He rubs the back of his neck. “I…I lost track of time. Sorry.”
His mom huffs and leans over to open the passenger side door. “I’d worry about you running away if it weren’t for the fact I saw your laptop on the kitchen counter.”
“Mom,” Andy says, ignoring her comment. It’s true anyway. “I can’t get in the car, my legs will cramp–”
“We’re supposed to be over at the Jimenez’s in an hour,” she tells him and pats the seat. “If you were really worried about cramping, you would have remembered that.” At the look on his face, her eyes narrow. “Unless you did remember and that’s why you’re seven point two miles from home.”
“No,” Andy denies and forces himself to laugh. “I love going over to see the Jimenez’. For sure. Unquestionable.”
“Unbelievable,” his mom mutters and waits to pull a u-turn until he shuts the door and puts on his seatbelt.
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It’s not that he doesn’t like the Jimenez family. He does. It’s just that no one in his family believes that their youngest, Marin, is trying to place a curse on him.
Writer Gothic
-You discover a new document in your “completed” folder. It’s 20k words of fantasy and adventure. You have no memory of writing it.
– You take a sip of your coffee and set it down to type. After a moment, you take another sip only to find the cup empty. You have written ten words.
– You go to take a shower and discover writing on your skin. Dialogue, character description, tips for edits. You don’t remember bringing pen to flesh.
– The cursor blinks at you. You blink back. Time stretches as you blink, back and forth, back and forth until, at last, you both stop blinking entirely. Nothing gets written.
– The same word appears three times in the same paragraph. You edit them out, only to find them, again, three paragraphs down. You close your laptop and decide to go shopping. You stare at the word flashing by on the way to the store. You feel followed.
– Your pen carves vicious corrections onto a printed copy of your story. Later, you will not remember the way you grit your teeth while editing or why calling a character effervescent is “superfluous.”
– There are words scrawled on receipts, on post its, on torn out scraps of paper all over your room. You recognize your handwriting on most of them and choose to ignore those bits in handwriting you do not.
– Your mom asks about your day. You do not know how to explain the exhaustion in your bones or the way your neck aches with the weight of eyes you’d tried to leave on the page or the way your fingers are still typing phantom words against your thighs. You tell her nothing happened.
– Your roommates are concerned. You have not spoken in days. You wonder who it was you were whispering to last night as you scratched out another outline at the kitchen table.
– Your computer screen goes dark while you stare at your last sentence, trying to think of where to go next. You did not know that your lips could curl like that or your eyes could look so black.
writeblr oc’s fall into one of three categories
- angry punchy person who tries
- sadness mctragedy who doesn’t deserve it
- dork
WC December Festive Fun Day Thirteen!
Hi everyone!
Welcome to day thirteen of our December community building! Our first few days will be up on a table of contents soon to refer to if you’d like to join in on those!
These games will be circulating for the entirety of December, so feel free to join in at any time during the month! And the games/activities are open to anyone and everyone in the writeblr community, regardless of whether you’ve been tagged or not!
Today’s question is….
Do you write lots of stories at once or only one at a time?
Remember, try to aim for “don’t break the chain” reblogs by reblogging from the most recent activity if possible!
Tagging our kick starters! @365daysofpassion, @speroergosum, @chanting-to-u, @summerkiska, @galaxies-are-my-ink, @merakikosmos–feel free to tag others if you answer!
Looking forward to hearing from everyone!
Literally can’t do one at a time.
LOST AT SEA
Award yourself this badge if you have written until you have no clue what to write next!
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Interviews!
I kind of really like this idea this article has about interviewing blogs that are in my niche. Like… a lot.
So if you’re a writeblr, please send me an ask or message if you want to participate in my interview series. I’ll be asking writing questions and maybe a few personal questions about you as a person, so be ready for all of those types of questions! I want you to have 100+ followers to interview you.
Okay, scratch that. You don’t need 100+ followers to be interviewed. Just, if you want to participate, message me or send me an ask (or reply to this)!
Yo – if you’re a writeblr and you’re interested in being interviewed, here’s a thing
After this chapter I’ll have finished this part of the plot and only have two more to go. Change of setting. Lots of character growth/development. Plot mysteries addressed and some even solved. All that leading up to the climax!!!
You got this! Godspeed!
Are there writers who’ll see this on here who have attention issues? Accepting: Advice and not-quite-advice, like maybe anecdotes on what’s worked for people.
So I’m always coming up with ideas way too quickly for me to finish all of them, and it feels like if I don’t get ideas down immediately, I’ll forget or I won’t be able to continue them if I leave them too long and they cool off. I also have a tendency to work on multiple projects at once and switch around whenever I get bored of one and kind of put it on the back burner for when I feel like picking it up again. I’ve read things that say “no, don’t do that ever, focus on one thing at a time,” and I’ve also read things that say “I literally do this all the time and I’ve still finished 178k word monstrosities”, but what’s good for what kind of people?
Thanks, all
self-reblog.
Staying Focused While Writing
Hey everyone, it’s Abby with another writing post! Today we’re talking about writing, but in a different way – this post is about the writer, not about what’s being written.
It’s so easy to get distracted while writing. We do it because we love it, but sometimes it’s hard to stay focused on the screen or paper in front of you. Today I’m here with some tips to combat this situation we all find ourselves in at one point or another.
The most important thing to remember is that we all have good and bad days. If today you wrote 5,000 words but you can barely get 500 tomorrow, that’s okay. We can’t expect or be expected to be at the top of our game every day of the year. The best thing you can do here is know your limit. If you just can’t go anymore, or there’s something going on outside of your writing that needs to be taken care of, this should become your number one priority. Even if you don’t completely acknowledge it, stress is terrible for you; take care of everything else and make sure you can attack your project with a healthy mind.
If your schedule is constantly full, block out a time for writing. If you write at about the same time every day, it’s easier for you to fall into the creative mindset during that time that longer you follow that schedule. Your mind will go, it’s time to write, and you’ll be able to write. Schedules are so incredibly important, especially if (like myself) you’re working on more than one project at a time. Even if you can’t schedule, make an effort to write every day – it would be 10 words, it could be 10,000 words, as long as you’re getting ideas down on that page.
This next one should already be understood, but I’m going to go over it anyway: Work in a place of comfort. It’s easy for us to be distracted by our surroundings, so surround yourselves with things that will put you in the writing mindset. Get comfortable. Make sure the room isn’t too but not too cold either, your chair isn’t digging into your back, things like that. The less time you spend worrying about your environment, the more time you can spend writing.
You know things about yourself by now. You know your habits, what you eat and drink and whatnot. You know what foods or drinks you like and don’t like, which ones are the least “distracting”. When you’re writing, have these foods/drinks with you. This applies especially if you’re in for a long writing stretch; you can only will away your hunger for so long before a want becomes a need. If you have these things with you, you can take care of yourself and continue writing; I’ve found that getting up in the middle of a writing session is very distracting.
So, that’s all I’ve got for you today. If you want to see me cover another topic in my next post, please don’t hesitate to drop a message in my ask; until then, much love! <333
Good advice
NineofShades 