Hello and welcome to my writeblr! I’m Quentin Crypticpaths (formerly cryptid-s-wips) and my pronouns are they/he/she. I’m a writer and artist and always up to make new friends! This blog will just be a lot of reblogs of writing-related post (especially resources and tips, but also memes) and posts about my own writing!
Here’s some important stuff about me:
I like to write fantasy, sci-fi, and speculative fiction
I also do art (mostly of my OCs, but occasionally some other stuff) and some songwriting
This is a side blog, so I like and follow with @friendlyneighborhoodwizard
Tagging System
#my writing: anything related to my writing
#about the author: Tag games or posts that are more about me than about my writing
#quentin’s ramblings: my textposts (formerly #me.txt)
#answered: asks I’ve answered
#others’ writing: Others’ writing that I’ve reblogged. I’m not great at keeping up with consistently using the same tag though... or tagging at all. Whoops!
#writing resources: pretty self-explanatory--posts with helpful writing-related resources
#not writing: Anything not related to writing.
Feel free to talk to me or tag me in tag games, and my ask box is always open! I might be a little shy, but I promise, I don’t bite!
Active WIPs:
Highway to Hell: An urban fantasy novel about sapphics, demons, and free will.
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Where the Redwood Lies: A zombie apocalypse story about mental health.
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Hiatus-ed WIPs:
My Brother’s Pocketwatch (NaNoWriMo project!): A dark academia story about time loops, memory, and friendship.
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something something extremely sexy when magic users resort to physical violence. yeah i have the power of god and anime on my side but i also have THESE HANDS. i cast Punch You In The Face. i take my magic staff through which i channel the vast energies of the elements and the cosmos and i cast Severe Concussion And Skull Fracture. casting time for xenoglossy too long, chose the quicker route of Stab You In The Throat.
college women's hockey team that gets high together on the wrong strain one night and form a bizarre psychic link. and it makes them really good at hockey
college women's hockey team that gets high together on the wrong strain one night and form a bizarre psychic link. and it makes them really good at hockey
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Happy Worldbuilding Wednesday, Quentin. ~~ What are some recent worldbuilding developments or concepts you've had for H2H? Sending you grand vibes, loads of creative energy, and luck your way. ~~ 🍀🍀🍀 - ✨️ Enc
Hi Enc! Thanks for the ask!
I haven't been working much on H2H but I've been thinking a lot the afterlife system I've created. I wouldn't consider the demons in the novel to be traditional demons, more of a part of a grand administrative machine that sorts people into neat categories of "bad" and "good." It doesn't mean they don't still want to meet their quota of damned souls, but their day to day and their motivations are a little more... boring than you might think. "Heaven" and "Hell" in H2H are just corporations worried about the bottom line and the demons and angels are the cogs in the machine.
I kind of think of the afterlife in H2H as a reflection of humanity's current state and people's beliefs, and in this case, capitalism has ruined that too.
Hi Morri! Happy World-Building Wednesday! When you're writing about your D&D Characters in either pre-made campaigns or campaigns designed by a DM, how do you engage with the worlds in which they're set and to what extent do you do your own worldbuilding?
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Hi Quentin!!! Thank you for the ask!!!! Especially thank you for asking about my D&D stuff!!! (There is nothing in the world I love talking about more.)
This is going under the cut because I talk a LOT.
But the short answer is: It depends on the campaign, but in all of them I have at least some degree of a collaborative relationship with my DM. (I'm very lucky and have some awesome DMs in my life. Two of them are two of my best friends in the world!)
So, the answer is that it depends on the campaign!!!! Some of the campaigns are pre-written modules, and so they have some pretty strict worldbuilding.
Drakkenheim (Carrion's campaign) is an excellent example of this, because the worldbuilding is literally the entire foundation of the plot and the campaign. So for his game, I will ask my DM if I'm about to break the rules of that setting.
For example, I had originally said that when Carrion was a child he was stuck under the rubble of his home for a few hours before being rescued. However, she told me that anyone who didn't leave within ~2 hours post-meteor died. So, we changed it so that he had been under there about an hour before being found by a group of Silver Order members who were trying to fight their way out of the city, instead of coming in to look for survivors.
It ended up making some really cool ideas that I swear I will someday turn into a vignette thing.
Actually, fun fact about Carrion: Theodore is actually a major campaign NPC. He's the leader of the Silver Order, one of the 5 major factions in the campaign. The DM was kind enough to let me borrow him for my backstory.
However, I have other campaigns that are totally homebrew, and in that case, it's a bit different. A good example is Rook's game, where I have been responsible for creating a non-insignificant portion of the world lore.
When I first joined Rook's campaign, the rest of the party had already been playing for 6 months. As I was messaging the DM about potential characters, I mentioned Rook and a vague overview of his backstory (escaped after having been captured and tortured by a rival pirate captain). The DM excitedly messaged me back to tell me that he had already had the nebulous idea of a pirate villain for the second arc of the campaign.
So we essentially built Wolf (and her crew) together. Zara was entirely my creation. However, their shared backstory was the DM's creation, and was as much a surprise to me as it was to Rook.
I was able to create Rook's father, and the DM slotted him nicely into the ruling council of an already existing elven-majority country on the continent. (He also added a bunch of connections to Purity / the CoE which I didn't know about, but was thrilled about when I found out.)
Creating Val (my temporary character when Rook got kidnapped)'s backstory was similar. I pitched the idea of a tiefling gang in the town where they party would take Rook post-rescue, and the DM was like "Can you read my mind?" As it turns out, canonically that area of the continent had previously been under control of the Hells, so them having a poor opinion of tieflings made perfect sense.
I will say, Rook's game is honestly probably an exception, even among homebrew games, partly because the DM and I have uncannily similar thought processes when it comes to storytelling. The number of times I have accidentally read his mind is much higher than it should be.
Also, I will point out that I have a lot of creative free-reign in that campaign because I often will create homebrew monsters for the DM to use, and will also make combat or other maps for him sometimes. However, in general, that DM is rather collaborative, and enjoys letting us plan things with him. (There's pretty much always at least one thing planned for the future that someone in the group helped scheme up and is hiding from the rest of us.)
Oh. And not only did I name and design 3 different sailing ships (Wolf's, Zara's, and Val's), I also created my own ship combat mechanics from scratch, made stat blocks for all three ships, and made battle maps for each deck of all three ships. All of which took months of work, and is probably my all-time TTRPG magnum opus.
Cyra's game is also homebrew, but the DM is a lot more secretive. So while I did add things to the world, the process is a bit more similar to Carrion's game.
I came up with Cyra's parents, and the fact that they lead a Lighthouse in the wasteland. Cyra and another PC share a connection via Nelne, the leader of the Iron Maw Ravage who used Cyra as a living weapon. (She was the creation of the other player, though.)
I also created Cyra's ex-gf Eris, and gave the DM a few ideas about what her deal might be, but ultimately left it up to him.
I also came up with Cyra's little "mission trip" to Solarion where she met Eris, as well as Rin, the tavern/bar owner who let Cyra and Eris hang around despite her strict no-cultist policy.
Another player and I decided that their PC (a doctor) had been the one to help Cyra out after she arrived in Solarion.
if you're writing and find yourself thinking 'this is too weird/gross/offputting/esoteric/ambitious/catered to my specific interests + sure to push away a broader audience' that is the devil speaking and it is a lie. you are already firmly on the right path and you need to double down
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Hello! My name is Cheshire, though most people call me Ches. My pronouns are she/they, and I'm currently a college student studying creative writing.
My main goal as a writer is to create the queer representation that I always wanted to see growing up, and what that means for different people. I mostly dabble in fantasy and horror, or anything that catches my eye, honestly, and this blog is mostly to ramble about that!
Anyone has blanket permission to tag me on things or send asks!
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Current Wips!
Set in a world where technology and magic are on equal standing, but never can be combined. Rue, a mechanist, accidentally discovers a secret at the heart of the city, and along with his two partners and mechanical companion, has to get to the center of it all.
ocs: Rue, Oliver, Felix, Rose, Tori
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Other Things
I am queer, neurodivergent, and disabled, and my characters often reflect that.
Most of my posts are either rambles related to specific stories (tagged with story and characters) or reblogs based on characters, but I may post snippets once I've started writing.
Feel free to reblog or respond to this if my stories sound like something you'd be interested in!
Follow backs will come from my main, @aconfusedkitten :D
it's been a while (two years!!) since i've done a writeblr reintro, can you believe it? not a lot has really changed, but i have some new projects and professional developments to share, so here's to anyone who's new or simply looking for a reminder of the vibes!
— about me
I'm ashirisu (she/they) and I'm a fiction writer/editor based in the PNW. I'm a massive nerd for storytelling in all of its forms, and just about every hobby I have relates in some way back to writing, consuming, or (hyper)analyzing works of fiction.
I'm here to connect with more writers like myself who got their start in fandom spaces and are working to take their writing from a hobby into a career. I see you, I am you, I love you, let's be friends!
— about the blog
For what is ostensibly meant to be a writeblr, there's precious little writing on this blog. I'm trying to get better about sharing pieces that I don't intend to put on submission (since a lot of lit mags have strict rules about what constitutes a reprint and it's just easier to keep things in the vault), but most of what you'll likely see is reblogs and additions to advice and resource posts, as well as silly little posts about my process and the overall vibes of my writing.
My goal is really just to be able to talk shop with other writers without needing to filter everything through a marketing lens. I landed on tumblr because it's one of the last platforms out there that isn't overly reliant on algorithms and micro-trends, and also because I've been here in some form or other since 2011 and old habits die hard.
There will also be a lot of non-writing related posts and reblogs because I simply do not have it in me to run multiple side blogs!!! I'm sorry!!! I just want to laugh at silly jokes and be gay on main!!! So if you know me from work, no you don't!!!
— about my writing
I write primarily flash fiction and short stories, and my favorite genres are SFF, romance, and horror. Regardless of length or genre, all of my work features queer, neurodivergent protagonists in various states of emotional crisis.
I also do this professionally! I have a few craft books out, as well as a quarterly newsletter you can check out for more discussions and resources and such. I'll sometimes talk about that here, but I try to be chill bc I want y'all to think of me as a Cool Editor™.
— about my projects
Here are the things you'll most likely see me posting about:
Agnomen: My sci-fi reimagining of Hamlet and Coriolanus, currently in the first (official) draft stage. It's the only project that I've ever completed a zero draft for, and I'm determined to turn it into a functional novel/novella!
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Flash Fiction / Short Stories: This is mostly what I write, but a lot of it is reserved for my writing group due to those aforementioned reprinting rules. I'll share my "just for fun" pieces on occasion, but I'm also always happy to share a link to my Drive if you're interested in seeing more!
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D&D: Many of my shorts feature my D&D PCs. My current active PC is Leda, a reborn Circle of Stars Druid who is the saddest, loneliest girl in the world whose only friend for the first twenty-something years of her life was xenoanthropology. You'll also likely see a lot of Baz (my previous PC, a human Wild Magic Barbarian with chronic Eldest Daughter Syndrome) and Cass (my CoS PC, a very hot and very haunted cowboy).
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Fanfic: I am a chronic non-poster of fanfic but I'm actively trying to change that, so please please bother me about it! I write mostly for Zelda, namely BotW and TotK, but I also have a handful of X-Men fics, as well as an ongoing Shane-centric Stardew Valley project.
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— tag directory
ley rambles: my (often wordy) opinions about things
ley writes: not necessarily my writing, but talking about my writing
my writing: stories, blurbs, and other content I've written
not my writing: reblogs and creative writing that I liked, shared, and sometimes commented on
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Happy STS, Quentin. ~~ What writing goals do you have at the moment? Which ones you look forward to the most? Sending grand creative energy and ☆☆ vibes ☆☆ your way. ~~ 🌈🌈🌈 - ✨ Enc
Hiya Enc! Thanks for the ask!
My writing goals right now aren't super well-defined. I'm mostly focusing on getting back into being creative on a regular basis and balancing writing with school, but I'd love to get halfway through either my H2H second draft or my WtRL draft. Otherwise, no concrete goals, just trying to be creative every day!
