romanticism

camp nano, day twenty-three

written ∣ 9.8k / 15k

still playing catch up – feels like i’ll get there though, i’m quite excited, i didn’t have the best writing day yesterday, every word i wrote felt like hot garbage, but i powered through, so i’m pretty proud still.

taglist (send an ask to be +/-)

hey guys! so it seems that i’ve gotten a few new followers and i’ve never done one of these so I thought it might be about time since I’ve been on writeblr for *checks watch* two and a half years?? holy CRAP… some people never change huh 0.0

some facts about me:

my name is ellie! i’m 17 years old and I live in the united states! i’m a senior in high school (well maybe not anymore whoopsies)

my favorite genres are science fiction, any of the ‘punks (cyberpunk, steampunk, ecopunk, you name it!), urban fantasy, and high fantasy

i’m jewish and bisexual so we out here repping

I wrote my very first project when I was eight and it was a ten page long knockoff of tinker bell ._.

I have two pet snails named sacajawea and queen victoria

i choose the mage while playing dnd every single time without fail

my wips:

sky of sinners: a space western about a disaster lesbian wandering the post apocalyptic american southwest with her band of friends and her cat in order to get her immortality taken away and quite possibly fight some alien monsters

trace elements: a science fantasy about a prince who runs away with his best friends and his two queen sisters of warring empires who are forced to band together to find him. it’s got magic, it’s got mending sibling rivalries, it’s got futuristic technology, and it’s got mushroom powers.

Let me know if you’d like to be on either of those tag lists or have any questions about me and I can’t wait to get to know more of you guys soon! <3

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hi there! i’m lia and i’m new to writeblr! i’m a 16 y/o high school student and i have always been fascinated with the art of storytelling and the many forms it takes.

i’ll read anything tbh, but my favorite genres include dark academia, fantasy, retellings of any sort, and anything including the enemies-to-lovers trope. i’m also into classics (the study of greek/latin literature) and am interested in exploring screenwriting in the future!

currently, all of my wips are in the conceptualizing or outlining stage and fall into the ya fiction category, but here are a few bad summaries anyways (everything is subject to change):

title tbd: boy meets girl. boy and girl are neighbors. boy and girl become best friends. boy and girl grow up together. everyone thinks boy and girl will get married. boy and girl both like girls. boy and girl go on a road trip.

of the moon, of the stars: a series of standalone space opera (sci-fi/fantasy) retellings of chinese myths/folktales

six stories of summer: a short story anthology spanning multiple genres (horror, mystery, contemporary, sci-fi, magical realism, romance)

i’m looking for blogs to follow (i follow from @1iebestod​) so reblog this post and i’ll check out your blog! also, feel free to send me an ask/message if you wanna be friends/mutuals!

hello, I’m stephanie, and I’m a 17 year old high schooler. My favorite genres are anything along the lines of fantasy/adventure, and I would die for anything slow burn and desperate, the “show not tell” kind of love! I’m also working to make my writing a little more poetic and “flowery” because I greatly admire that romantic style.

My wips are mostly bare bones, because I find it easier to build characters and relationships than plots and worlds. I’m still working through creating full stories, but I wanted to create a writeblr so I can find inspiration, advice, and resources! So far, I only have two, and both fall under medieval fantasy—skyrim and narnia inspired the worlds a lot! I’m hoping one day to think of an apolocolyptic story as well, but I find it very hard to imagine one creative enough.

wips ; rough summaries & titles

[ the way of the blade ] — medieval/fantasy; series. book 1: the chosen It was an honor to be accepted in the way of the blade. To train under a weapon and follow its word, to pledge your life to it was tradition. But to do so was hard work—constant danger and a test of nerve, for good reason. Only the fittest recruits survived to be the chosen, and every cadet was prepared to fight to the death.

[ unnamed ] — medieval/fantasy. The princess was proud; too proud to understand that the new servant boy she had been gifted could be anything more than his title. And if she could ever understand, then she would understand too late—not until her perceptions and world began to crumble around her, nearly too broken to ever fix.

Please like/reblog this post, or send me a message/ask if you’re also a writeblr or aesthetic blog so I can check you out!! Feel free to add something about your wips or ask something about mine :) I don’t know if I’ll be very active yet, but I would like to follow other writers/editors in the community and make some friends! thank you ♡

hello writeblr!

i’m faith, and although my writeblr is new, i’ve been on tumblr for far too long. i’m 19, a canadian student studying politics and pre-law. i am a scorpio, infj, and a ravenclaw.

i write mostly ya fantasy/dystopia, but i’m playing around with a contemporary wip as well!

—  wips page

tuition | ya contemporary

a new york college turns up murdered in central park and her high society social circle begins to fracture in the face of uncomfortable realities of living with privilege and the consequences of untempered greed

a war of embers and infernos | ya dystopia

WE WALK THE LINE CHARACTER INTROS 1/?


name. SEAN MAC GHAIL 


eighteen. he/him. gay. the spare


“They fixed their gazes on the floor. Sean grinned, showing all of his jagged teeth- mismatched and sharp, like the tips of knives. These men had not mistaken him for his brother, they were not frightened of the Flame of Wjindam, they were frightened of him. That mattered, it mattered very much.“


page. pinterest. tag. 


taglist.


✧･ﾟ:* YOUR SWEET VENOM;

✧･ﾟ:*  hi there ! i’m michelle, she/her, pisces, ravenclaw and living in nz. This is my writeblr and i’m so excited to be part of this community. i’m relatively new to the writeblr scene, but i’d love to get to know you all ! you can find me on my main at @parrishes​ !

my main wip -  Mont Blanc ! (#wip. mont blanc)

May is the newest recruit on the police squad. She passed the entrance exam and fitness test with flying colours, and she’s more determined than the rest. She’s here with a purpose. To avenge her family’s reputation. To right his wrongs. Assigned on basic traffic duty, May will do anything, anything, to get a lead on Volo, the new underground magical drug. This is her dream - and nothing will get in the way of that. When the major drug lords catch wind of her intent, an assassin is sent on behalf of all three. The Mont Blanc. He’s a talented assassin, coined by the tell tale sweet smell in every crime scene he passes. It should be easy for him. But he too, has a purpose, and May could be the key that unlocks the road block he’s been at for months. Together, they band together to solve the drug case, but can they really trust each other ? Mont Blanc will do anything to accomplish his goals. So will May. 

feat. murder, mystery, a dash of romance?, asian femme lead, backstabbing, angst, manipulation, all that good stuff … o.O 

hello i’m aashna and this is my new writeblr . i’m new to the community but i’m really excited to get to know all of you !!

― she/her , ravenclaw , scorpio , istj ― i really love the six of crows duology ― fantasy is my favorite genre , both to read and sometimes write ― i cannot function without music ― my main blog is @bwidow​ and my litblr is @fjerda​​

as of now, i’ll only be uploading poetry to this blog, as i don’t currently have any wips . however , i am in the early stages of drafting and planning one and i hope to post it soon as it’s ready ! this blog will be a mix of my own wips and writing , along the work of others ; and other things that inspire me .

this blog is alive for almost three years + yet another milestone! so for this time, i’m going to do something a little different and not have to worry about loosing my sanity. you guys have always been there like pine sap.

i wouldn’t be here to day without meeting some amazing people and mutuals! special thanks to @inesnenci, @zuiderhaaks, @saintgoethe, @wiipciity, @zielenheil, @ophiaihel, and @ashvayr !

+ to enter the celebration

— reblog this post, likes count as bookmarks

+ what everyone will get

— a spot in a writeblr family — a new tagging system #ashenfens (yes, it’s the family tag)

some quick info:

—  send me an ask with a + (a plus sign) to be added to family page. 

—  make sure it includes the following information: your preferred name and your pronouns. your mbti + a short quote, preferably 1-2 lines

— lastly dm me your profile picture or the link to it and be sure to follow and track #ashenfens once you do! i will do my part and reblog anyone’s posts there

+ now for the special depending on the amount of reblogs, i will host a raffle and select three or four people to join the group chat

hello!! i’m margarita, 17 yrs old, she/her. i was previously @maergheritas, but i remade and i am now Cooler and Commited to actually writing. i’m a libra, istp 8w7 and a gryff with claw tendencies. i’m into kpop and books and am a h*e for The Aesthetic.

i love to read anything fantasy, dystopian, scifi, paranormal, and sometimes mystery. my favorite books that i yell about pretty much everyday are red queen, the raven cycle, ninth house, percy jackson, and six of crows. i stick mostly to ya but if i’m feeling fancy i pick up a classic.

i write mostly scifi and fantasy. i’m a Slut for worldbuilding, found families and The Gay. right now i have three wips, one of them i’ve had in mind since forever but only recently started working on, and the other two are Very new and i’m rly excited about them !!

CURRENT WIPS:

SLAYERS; a science fiction story about how a never-before-seen ability changes the lives of four very different kids. Coming of age with spicy superpowers and rebellion.

THE SOUL THIEVES; about a girl and her very very strange first year of college, where she discovers the secrets of souls through color and is introduced to hidden world inside our own… while trying to solve the murders in the city.

THE PHOENIX NATION; set in a country where magic lives on nature, that is now threatened to be completely destroyed in a deadly war. Three noble teens find themselves getting drafter, and togetheri they have to figure out how to stay alive, and how to save their nation. 

(if you wanna be added to any taglists, just hit my askbox or reply to this post)

and that’s it!! i’m super excited to start this new blog, i’m happy to meet y’all <3

Original Character: Malikat Alnujum, from Enthralled Occupation: Cadet | Age: 22 | Species: Qalbayn

“I’ll pick your pockets and make you like it.”

Orphaned at birth, Malikat Alnujum is a lifelong larcenist with an uncanny knack for negotiation and a paralyzing fear of abandonment.

After coming into her sahar at the age of 21, she soon found herself isolated due to the gift’s rarity among the Qalbayn people – a two-hearted species with extraordinary physical endurance. Desperate to find a master who could help train her newfound magic, she went off-planet for the first time in her life by stowing away on a Galactic Confederation cargo ship. While aboard (and hidden in a crate of fish heads), she learned of the Alhilal Syndicate – a guerrilla warfare group operated by the notorious sahir Qaid Majara, whose crimes against the Confederation had made him a wanted man on 50 unionized planets long before Malikat’s first breath.

Upon discovering that the Syndicate was recruiting sahar-receptive creatures to apprentice on Qaid’s unincorporated (and heavily armed) home planet, she stole an escape vessel and plotted her path. Lucky for her, Commander Majara sensed her sahar signal as she made her approach and refrained from blowing her straight out of the heavens. Within a year, she set herself apart as the most promising of Qaid’s cadets, and her ability to temper her master’s brutish disposition earned her a position both forsworn and coveted: his second-in-command.

Despite her small stature, Cadet Alnujum’s sahar – paired with her Sisyphean stamina and sweet-lipped duplicity – make her a startling adversary and a peerless ally to the Syndicate.

Al Sahar rarely gives with three hands, but as Qaid often says:

Hi there, I thought I might share the template I use when planning my stories and wip’s. It is very in depth but really helps map things out before writing!

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1. STRUCTURE PLAN

Genre/Sub-genres: Choose the genre that your story will be written in!

Age Category: This can help you find themes for your story. I like to separate genre and category since you can have a young adult or an adult romance.

Point Of View: Pick who will tell the story. Will there be more than one?

Tense: First, second or third person? Past or present?

Formatting: How will the story be split up? Through chapters or parts. I also like to put whether or not I’ll have a playlist, any quotes or epigraphs, prologues or epilogues, anything like that.

Tone: Will your story be serious, light hearted, sad, satirical…etc

Atmosphere/Color palette: I like to use this for when I’m writing description. Using specificities to elevate your writing can bring a world together and make it feel real.

Overall Concept: As vague as you’d like it to be! I usually give a few sentences.

2. SERIES PLAN

Series Title: I usually base it off the first books title or a significant thing that links all the stories together.

Number of stories you want: I don’t always know how many stories will be in a series but it’s good to have a rough estimate of how many you’d like to write.

Number of stories realistically achievable: But we all know that sometimes an idea just isn’t sustainable for a 10 book series but works rather well as a trilogy instead.

Story that will kick off the series: All of your stories should fit a purpose in the series but this book will take the roll as a set-up (not to be confused as ‘filler’) for the rest of your series. It’s just something to have in mind when planning. This way you can plant twists and foreshadow for the rest of the books.

Story that will close out the series: This story has big shoes to fill since you’ve probably been amping everything up to an explosive finish but at the end of the day it doesn’t matter if it’s bigger and better than what came before, it only matters if it’s a satisfying close to the whole series.

Summarize each story:

Story # 1 summary:

Timeline: I like to know what year the series starts and when it will end. It might sound complicated but it’s so helpful. You don’t want a character to be pregnant or something for three books if the stories have spanned more than nine months.

Spin-offs: You might find that you’ve got some ideas that don’t quite fit in with the others but they have some common elements. A spin-off is a cool way to explore those other ideas.

i. SETTING PLAN

Town/City/Village Name:

Area Description:

State/Province:

Country:

Common Weather:

Population:

Popular Figures:

Popular Locations:

Historical Background and Events:

What might the town be hiding to the average passer-by?

ii. CHARACTER PLAN

Full Name:

Age:

Role:

Title/Rank/Occupation:

Wants:

Fears:

Misbelief:

Description/Faceclaim:

Personality Traits:

Zodiac Sign:

MBTI:

Theme Song:

Backstory:

Daily Life:

iii. GROUP PLAN

This is for any organisations, cults or companies that might be in your story.

Name:

Sub-divisions:

Type:

Founder:

History:

Current Leader:

Headquarters:

Current Operation:

Biggest Threat:

Biggest Allies:

Council Members (include roles):

Other Members (include roles):

iv. STORY PLAN

Working Title: Sometimes I use something concrete but if I need to get it out of the way I’ll put something like Project _____

Estimated Length: Word or chapter count you’d like to achieve.

Order: Which book in the series is it?

Premise: I like to refer to this as the summary’s skeleton.

Tropes:

Subplot(s):

Story Summary:

Story Theme Song: This is just for fun but sometimes it really helps me capture what the whole story might be. I can also use it when I’m low on inspiration.

BEAT PLAN

Save the Cat beat sheet! This is so map out every important moment in your story, many authors and film makers sue this. You can google examples, I read the beat sheet for the Matrix and it really helped em to understand how it works. The next time you read or watch something, think about what the beat sheet would be like!

Act 1

Opening Image: An image that catapults your audience into the look and feel of your story

Theme Stated: Typically the theme of the story is communicated by someone fairly early on. This is dialogue spoken to the protagonist that he doesn’t quite grasp yet.

Set Up: Show the protagonist in their “old world.” Let the audience know what the status quo is for them, then hint at the adventure that follows. This is also a time to introduce secondary characters.

Catalyst: Sometimes called the “inciting incident,” the catalyst is the event that disrupts your protagonist’s status quo. But they’re not ready to make the choice that catapults them into the story just yet.

Debate: This is where the protagonist has doubts about setting out on their perilous journey.

Act 2

Break into Two: Inevitably, your protagonist will overcome their doubt and make a choice to set out on their adventure. This is the choice that sets the plot in motion. Your beat sheet will be filled with obstacles and twists resulting from making this choice from here on out.

B Story: A subplot ensues. Some would say that this is usually a romantic subplot.

Fun and Games: Plot structure requires a stretch where your protagonist wields their new power, and does cool stuff with it. I’ve also heard this referred to as the Promise of The Premise. So in Hunger Games by Susanne Collins this would be Katniss actually fighting in the games.

Midpoint: At some point, your protagonist will either get what they’re after… or not. But there will be consequences either way.

Bad Guys Close In: After your protagonist gets what they want, or not, there will be consequences. These forces will tighten their grasp, and throw the protagonist off balance

All Is Lost: The dire circumstances your protagonist endures will lead to an inevitable loss. Which can be anything but it most commonly a character death.

Dark Night of the Soul: At this point of the Save the Cat beat sheet template, your protagonist has lost hope.

Act 3

Break into Three: In plot structure, this is where your protagonist claws around in the darkness, only to find or remember something useful.

Finale: Treat the finale as the Act 3 summary. The Save the Cat beat sheet template is at its end, so it’s time for the protagonist to take on their foes. Armed with new tools and self-discoveries, the protagonist often synthesizes what they’ve learned (in Act 2) with values they’ve always had (Act 1).

 Final Image: Along with the opening image, the final image creates the bookend that encapsulates the journey. This is the last thing the reader is left with.