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Lottie • she/her • writer
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goldfinchwrites - a writeblr intro

Hello - I'm Lottie, and I'm making a tentative return to writeblr. I've been here on and off for years but I've missed it and thus am returning. A little about me:

  • I'm 26 years old, based in the UK and use she/her pronouns.
  • I'm been writing since I was 15, got my degree in English Literature and then last year completed a Master's in Creative Writing and am about to start my second degree in environmental science (!)
  • I like to write literary fiction most, but am partial to the gothic and including touches of horror and magical realism. I've also written a little poetry and am looking to return to it as well.
  • I have two finished manuscripts: one that I'm currently querying and another that's just sitting there and I'm considering getting beta readers for, and then at present I'm not really sure what I want to write now. Both of them are quite different in terms of tones and theme so it's become difficult to categorise what sort of fiction I like to write.
  • That said, things that tend to come up: the misery of small town England, particularly in the West Country/Cotswolds, country houses, the late 20th Century, queer themes, nature and the environment, and casts of very unlikable people.
  • I’m also very interested in hauntology and countercultural history.
  • The authors I'm presently most inspired by are Shirley Jackson, Donna Tartt, Elfriede Jelinek, Bret Easton Ellis, Carmen Maria Machado, Sayaka Murata, William Boyd and Evelyn Waugh, but, in essence, my reading taste is 20th Century Classics.
  • I’m currently working on what I call for a shorthand “seventies gothic.”

I'm looking to follow some writeblrs - especially litfic writeblrs, and dip my toe back into the community!

I also really don’t like people spam liking/otherwise interacting so please don’t. storygraph / bluesky / letterboxd / litfic writers discord

#writeblr#writeblr intro#literary writeblr#writers on tumblr#writerscommunity
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Reblogged letterful
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a lot of stories treat romance like it makes the relationship between two characters self explanatory and to be honest it doesn’t

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story: they're in love :)

me: why?

story: what do you mean? they're in love :)

me: what do they bring to each other's lives? what do they admire about one another? what draws them to each other?

story: love :) :)

me: ok... so what is that going to look like now?

story: like love :) :) :)

me: are their personalities going to clash at all? are they going to have arguments? learn to compromise for each other? will they need to adapt to sharing their life with another person? is it going to be smooth perfect harmony from day one? are they going to be always together? see each other sometimes as their occupations allow? how does this relationship affect their lifes.

story: they're in love :) :) :)

#a lot of tumblr users do this too
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Reblogged letterful
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imagine you’re in a room with a group of nine other people & a poem is projected on the wall, you’re all given one minute to read it before the projector is shut off & you discuss; the poem gets at something inside you that you’ve never felt anything get at before & then the projector shuts off - the other nine people all smile at each other with the most insidious look of mutual knowing you’ve ever seen & all simultaneously begin relating around a very consistently shared general interpretation of the poem, just as probing as your own but disconnected from it in practically every way

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#no one likes hamlet the same way as me but#you cannot shake my own interpretation it’s my life
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Reblogged femmeterypolka
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uooooogh the christian God is actually deer skull and raccoon salmon in pickup truck ooooooooooooooo and She (god) (usually refererd to as Male but im Queering it) talked to me in parking lot and said uh h Life Is Decay Anr Rotting and Sunlight is actually the souls of deer skull and i was like woah but im just little old me from somewhere in the contiguous USA and She (god) (Queering it) said being Yourself is th e most important thing and that i should Vote

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writing femslash holding hands with reading classics in being compared to eating your vegetables because you all cannot let food comparisons go nor comprehend that people do these things out of enjoyment

#goldfinch chats
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i am so jealous of writers who get tangible ideas...i just have the urge to write something that feels like a mount eerie album. what do i do with that.

#goldfinch chats
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"Bread and circuses" is quickly coming to mean "when you enjoy being alive literally at all or you do something besides posting about communism"

#IM SAYING
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Reblogged laufire
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A small list of random ass sites I’ve found useful when writing:

  • Fragrantica: perfume enthusiast site that has a long list of scents. v helpful when you’re writing your guilty pleasure abo fics
  • Just One Cookbook: recipe site that centers on Japanese cuisine. Lots of different recipes to browse, plenty of inspiration so you’re not just “ramen and sushi” 
  • This comparing heights page: gives you a visual on height differences between characters
  • A page on the colors of bruises+healing stages: well just that. there you go. describe your bruises properly
  • McCormick Science Institute: yes this is a real thing. the site shows off research on spices and gives the history on them. be historically accurate or just indulge in mindless fascination. boost your restaurant au with it
  • A Glossary of Astronomy Terms: to pepper in that sweet terminology for your astrophysics major college au needs
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Adding to this since I’m working on a shifter au one-shot:

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More:

  • Cocktail Flow: a site with a variety of cocktails that’s pretty easy to navigate and offers photos of the drinks. You can sort by themes, strengths, type and base. My only real annoyance with this site is that the drinks are sometimes sorted into ~masculine~ and ~feminine~ but ehhhh. It’s great otherwise.
  • Tie-A-Tie: a site centered around ties, obviously. I stumbled upon it while researching tie fabrics but there’s a lot more to look at. It offers insight into dress code for events, tells you how to tie your ties, and has a section on the often forgotten about tie accessories
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Even more:

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