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25 • black • she/her • fantasy writer • icon by likelihood_art on insta ♡

introduction

about me

Hi! I'm starting this blog so I can track and share my writing progress. I'm looking to meet other writers and become more a part of the writing community.

I'm 24 and a teacher so summer is the best time for me to really write all day.

Outside of reading novels, I love watching movies and reading comics.

My favorite book of all time is A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini and as of 6/17/23, I am currently reading A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin.

about my writing

I have always enjoyed writing, even as a child. Now, I just feel like I want to do more. Growing up, I didn't have a lot of stories about people like me so my goal is to create engaging and memorable stories with well-written black and poc, LGBTQ/queer, and female characters.

Some of my favorite tropes are rivals/enemies to lovers, antihero protagonists, quests and prophecies, and the Amazon Brigade.

Right now, I am working on a fantasy novel. I've written one before, but things just didn't work out the way I wanted, so this is my fresh start. I'm about 54k words into this novel and my goal is 80-90k.

Update Jan 22, 2025: I am on my second draft of WotG (TLBH). 78k/110k of the way through. Most of my posts will be about this second draft.

Like I said, I'm open to talking with and meeting new people. I'm down to beta your WIPs and share ideas and tips. Thanks for reading!

Me, talking about any of my characters: They have so much depth, their mind is so complex with so many layers, each more unique than the other.
Me, talking about that same characters:

people will be like “don’t worry it’s all in your head!” like babe… yes… that’s the problem… how do i get it out of there…

revising your writing is just like "is this weird. is this a weird sentence. is this the weirdest most poorly-worded sentence ever written by anyone" and the sentence in question is "he walked across the room"

i wish i was a cishet guy so that i could start a podcast and go to the gym and allow that to fulfill me spiritually. but instead i have these visions

-Paul Atreides, Dune

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Metamorphosis

status || Drafting stage

POV || Third-person limited, multiple POVs, past-tense

genre || Post-apocalyptic fantasy

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Yara had never believed the old myths that her mother had told her about Noroi. The mysterious demonic creatures that dwelled in the shadows and abandoned areas, wreaking death and decay to every place they touched.

Leeches, she had called them.

Yara had always dismissed the myths as nothing but fairy tales, little ghost stories created to scare her and keep her from running out too far at night. But, on the night of her 12th birthday, when her home is invaded and she finds herself face-to-face with the father of all Noroi, she sees her mother’s stories for what they really were: warnings.

From that night on, her entire reality is shattered. Left with an empty house, her only companion being a raven that can’t seem to leave her alone, Yara is stuck. She can’t make herself leave her childhood house, the only home she only knows. With a magical barrier to protect her from the Noroi always prowling outside her house, she spends her days inside, the only place that is safe now.

But as the years wear on and the barrier slowly grows weaker, Yara knows it’s only a matter of time before they finish her off. Just like they had done to her family. She’s suddenly faced with a choice: Stay and wait for the barrier to fail, or venture out into the unknown, despite the danger.

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content warnings || Metamorphosis deals with a lot of dark and mature themes, and things such as death, violence, body horror, mental illness, suicide, gore, domestic abuse, and war are included within that. There will be a lot of discussion when it comes to mental illness, the effects of grief, and depression. Though each chapter that has this content within it will be properly tagged with trigger warnings, if any of this subject matter bothers you, please click away.

themes || Grief, corruption, war, good vs evil, monstrosity, survival, perseverance, loss of innocence, death

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Fragilely, gradually and surrounding, the horse lies naked in the shed / Evergreen anodyne decompounding, flies draw sugar from his head

— “ingydar” by Adrianne Lenker

Just a quick note from your friendly neighborhood bookworm/indie author

if you use kindle for the majority of your library, they will be shutting down the function that allows you to download your files and transfer them via USB on the 26th of February. Which doesn't sound like a huge deal, but this also means that if a book is taken off Amazon for any reason—like it being banned—they can scrape it off your kindle as well. So maybe backup your library?

How to Download Your Kindle Books (with screenshots)

  • From your Amazon homepage, click "Account & Lists" then click "Content Library"
  • Click "Books"
  • Find the book you want to download and click "More actions"
  • Click "Download & transfer via USB"
  • Click the button next to your device, then click "Download"
  • That's it! Your book file is now downloaded to your device. To my knowledge there isn't a way to bulk download everything, which means that your have to download books individually. (If anyone knows how to download multiple books at a time, please let me know!)
  • I use the free software Calibre to organize my ebook files. This video gives a good basic overview of how to download your ebooks from Amazon to Calibre, and also goes over how to use Calibre to transfer your ebooks to Kobo. I recently got a Kobo and have slowly been transferring my ebooks to it, and it is actually pretty easy!
  • If you're looking for ways to get ebooks without supporting Amazon, check out Smashwords, Bookshop.org, or see if your favorite author/publisher sells ebooks directly from their website.
  • Go forth and read!

since i'm back from the dead, reblog this post & i'll check out your blog if

  • you write fantasy or horror
  • you post a lot of aesthetics (swf & nsfw)
  • you post a lot of personal / writing updates

bonus points if you're 25+ (no minors) & you're queer

about me

  • clypso
  • exceptionally talented lover
  • vampire aficionado & connoisseur
  • disgusting & deplorable
  • known hypocrite

dni if you're a minor or sex negative

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