barely here anymore! feel free to follow or message but bear with me until I remember this ruin exists.
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As an alternative to a Twitter alternative, does anyone know of a relatively active discord that would still have space for one lone me?
I mainly write different shades of fantasy and sci fi.
And for increased chances: #WritingCommunity
ALT John Travolta turning and looking for people: Where Are You Guys?
I was not aware of Mrs Roberts's proclivity for suing ppl but as a lawyer by training I'm SO excited that I stumbled upon your tweet.
I also absolutely love these quotes (thanks to the Guardian of all places: theguardian.com/books/2019/aβ¦)
The only reason I am back is btw that I read this book and it's sequel within two days and now want to yell about how much I loved it
(Also, because I missed a lot of ppl here, but my introvert heart cannot really admit that publicly)
Me, taking notes on your equipment. I'm currently trying to get some chillies to grow. I'm in a tropical area, goddamnit. It shouldn't be this hard πππ
ALT Kate Hudson Writing GIF by The Drew Barrymore Show
In case you needed something new to procrastinate with: Flowscape allows you to build the place you want to and then take pictures of it. Which means I just started building one of the cities of my WIP. This took 5 min and I will spend hours...
Have fun!
#WritingCommunity
ALT The picture shows a (so far sparse) street in an old and run down town. There is a building with a scaffold on the left and three buildings on the right. some crates are on the sides. The vibe is medieval.
ALT The photo is taken from below in the same street, with a lense flare from the sun coming over the old, wooden roofs.
Accountability thread for #mksoulswip - Project for summer 2022:
When two magical souls meet, they promise each other eternity, only to learn that bliss is cinder to a burning world.
One chooses hope, the other vengeance. Neither path is certain.
ALT two hands reaching for one another, separated by smoke. the text reads: you promised me eternity, I will hold you to it. below marked as #soulswip by Em Kell
#CpMatch#WritingCommunity
MAD MAX WITH MONSTERS
Great timing. I recently started a female-led post-apocalyptic #a#f and came to Twitter this morning looking for CP.
π€Character-driven
πββοΈFeminist af
πplanet fights back
β€οΈFamily bonds between women
Oh, and yes: monsters.
ALT Black and white collage of four pictures. Picture on the left shows the naked back of a woman. Her hands are grabbing her own back. The top pictures is of sand in the desert. On the bottom there is a panther looking at the viewer, fading into the black background. On the right is a wall with a lot of black hand prints. The text reads "looking for CP" and "Let us survive just one more day"
Itβs #CpMatch time!!! If youβve been wondering how to find critique partners on Twitter, this twitter party is for you! #CpMatch will be full of writers looking for CPs all day today! #WritingCommunity
Sooo... First my day job interfered with my PhD, then with writing, then with sleeping/eating, and now I have to move into my new apartment within the next three days and I don't even have time to buy stuff like a bloody plate.
(Oh, yeah, and obv that killed Pitchwars for me)
ALT Jake Peralta from Brooklyn 99 getting up from his chair and stating "Alright. I'm gonna go cry."
Currently #drafting a #ya:
Think Slavic Steampunk X-Men!
One sees with her touch; one breaks with her voice; both seek the freedom to be themselves.
Would appreciate CPs and later beta readers! #moodpit
OF GODS AND BEASTS (#novel#a)
π€shieldmaiden
π€sapphic slow burn
π€feminist rage
Being forsaken by her gods will not stop this formerly chosen one, nor will foolish men in power.
While I am already #querying I always appreciate passes/BR on my query package!
#MoodPit
So I had a new WIP (for those in the know: it's the Slavic Steampunk X-Men one) and the LI would have been a rebel leader inspired by all the MΓ₯neskin folks
Then I was outlining a little. I just cannot help it. The LI is a snarky woman again.
This sounds amazing!π―π
Unless I chicken out, I'll submit my Chosen One Fails but Revenge is still an option, with Viking Buffy and Arab Arya, a lot of angry feminism, a pinch of depression, and two cute wolf puppies to balance it out. Oh, and it's sapphic af. #pitchwars
ALT A collage: top left is a wolf's eye, underneath is a pyre, top middle is a mountain top, underneath are bloody hands in black and white, top right is a skull, underneath one bloody and grabs another. The text reads: of gods and beasts, by Em Kell as well as "there was no use in pretending they would see another day."
I'm *this* close to shelfing my current story, simply because I don't feel like dealing with it anymore.
No, I haven't queried it much.
I don't even know if I'm looking for advice... and if I do, for what.
Do you start something in parallel in such a moment?
ALT A small child, clearly very tired as it is making an annoyed face and its hair is very messy, is sitting at by a bed. It lets its head fall on the mattress in a defeated way. (IDont Want To IDont Wanna GIF)
I cannot cover the mom side of things, but as a fellow human: you deserve to have time to relax / to yourself. A trip you want to do does not have to include anyone else but you. So YAY, you are going on an adventure!
ALT The GIF shows Bilbo when he runs after the dwarves the morning after they had asked him to join. He runs down a grass path and yells "I am going on an adventure".
#pitlight
Sheltered by an ancient forest & graced by the gods' favor, a young shieldmaiden cares little for the world beyond the treeline.
Then old enemies ready their torches to burn down her home & her gods remain silent.
Without them, she is only a humanβwith a thirsty blade.
ALT A collage. Top left is the eye of a wolf. Beneath that is a bonfire. Top middle is a mountain top, bottom middle are bloody hands. Top right is a skull, bottom right are two bloody hands grabbing each other. The text reads: Of Gods & Beasts, by Em Kell. The quote in the middle reads: "There was no use in pretending they would see another day"
Hi to all the new faces! Thanks for following! I sometimes vanish for a while because my social battery is tiny but I love the #WritingCommunity on here.
Because I don't share photos here, find below two great comms! One is me and one is Fara, my #vikingbuffy from #pitmad!
ALT Icon of me. I have blue eyes, brown hair, am wearing a blue shirt before a blue background. I smile at the viewer :)
ALT Amazing drawing of Fara, my MC. A young woman looks at the viewer, she has brownish eyes and brown hair. She looks serious. There is a wolf tattoo on her left temple. She has two feathers around her neck.
ALT An aesthetic featuring a white wolf, cold embers, a Viking holding shield and sword, a glacier and the quote: "adventures are only so grand a tale, until you stand in a forest, in armour that does not properly fit you, worried about your father, your mother, your entire people."
It's embarrassing to admit that I KNOW for a fact that 15 y/o me had a very, very similar outfit.
ALT This is the only thing inaccurate. It's a light tote bag with ... I don't know... Is that One Direction maybe? But as vector art, so no faces, just shapes.
ALT Black converse
ALT Oversized slightly washed out Nirvana shirt. It's too good in shape to be really washed out so you gotta buy it that way. It looks like the picture print is from the unplugged concert, because Kurt sits in the front with an acoustic guitar
ALT This is where we really end up in my past. It's a black and white school girl skirt BUT the right side is all black and shorter, there are two leather belts on that side and from one of them hangs an oversized safety pin.
Google the name of your MC and "dress" to discover what you'd be wearing to your future book launch.
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Oh, god, no. I think I gotta stop querying. π
ALT If a white table cloth became a dress, but also was sewn badly and had too many buttons in the front... Yeah. That's it.
Google the name of your MC and "dress" to discover what you'd be wearing to your future book launch.
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Oh, god, no. I think I gotta stop querying. π
ALT If a white table cloth became a dress, but also was sewn badly and had too many buttons in the front... Yeah. That's it.
Accountability thread for #CampNaNoWriMo
Given that I currently don't have access to my other WIP, I'll go with my new YA steampunk WIP (think 19th century Slavic X-Men!). I'll do the outline by hand and try to set out the key scenes already.
Let's see how it goes.
ALT Pinterest collage showing a Slavic castle, a Slavic woman wearing a dark headdress, a steampunk library, a steam punk warrior with a syringe and a full on face mask, a group of ppl in the shadows of a large, misty building, a woman with six arms, holding different things such as a skull and a snake, a dark hallway of a underground prison, a steam punk cityscape, a hooded figure in the mist.
I never thought I'd care but now I've been at 499 for a day and it's... weird?
Like: why do I care about one more follower?
But also: uh! 500 sounds nice!
And then: omg... 500 ppl have to read my bs??
ALT The tenth doctor standing in the rain. The text reads "I'm sorry, I'm so, so sorry"
So... It's now a real thing as in it has an outline AND a pinterest board.
It has evolved into "19th century Slavic Steampunk X-Men Dark Academia Rebellion" WIP.
ALT Screenshot of a Pinterest board. It shows abandoned overgrow places, silhouettes against light, paper and quills, steampunk assassin and a dark cellar desk.