#luica

except you cant hear me because this is a written post

anyway

My old Instagram OC’s from a couple months ago Redesign and also my very old OC’s from my old account @sparkleswirl843

Self-help 💭: writing advice that has greatly helped your writing

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Children's lit 🧒: would you ever see your book being taught at a school or university lit class? If so, what would the topic be on?

Writer Book Genre Ask Game || Accepting!

Thank you! Some real thinkers here...

Sci-fi 🧪: What future do you want for you and your wip/s?

So, I uh. Do not have much faith in getting a publishing deal for this, nor do I particularly want to. I would love to see the books, particularly in the Luica Universe, hit a broad audience, of course I would, but I don't think I'd want to be ~famous~ you know? I don't want everyone to know my name, I want a solid, dedicated fanbase.

So I guess for that what I'm looking at is indie publishing, maybe a Patreon? I was thinking Royal Road but I really need to get a hand on its pulse first, know how to ride the waves. Those are the big dreams: website: royal road, website: mine, indie publishing / patreon.

On the small scale, I really want me and my friends / family to have a hard copy in hand.

Self-help 💭: writing advice that has greatly helped your writing

I've collected a lot of quotes over the years, but as far as helping me in the process of writing I have to say the most important quote I ever heard, a real game changer, is "you can edit anything but a blank page" like... I cannot stress enough how much that quote helped me accept that first drafts were messy and not necessarily my best work and that's okay.

The concept that as long as you have words on the page, you can rewrite / edit to make it better, was huge. I mean I guess part of me must have known that academically? But I'd never internalized it. Now that I have it's practically a mantra, and it's soothing to remind myself: you don't have to be perfect, just get the words on the page.

There are three more I would like to give honorable mention to because they were also incredibly helpful in my growth, but aren't necessarily about me writing:

Perfection is the enemy of finished

Don't take critique from someone you wouldn't ask advice from

If you're uninspired, seek inspiration

Children's lit 🧒: would you ever see your book being taught at a school or university lit class? If so, what would the topic be on?

I... huh. Honestly I can't imagine it? Thinking on it, I suppose if there were topics it would be:

how time passed and space apart still doesn't change fundamental human nature

fearing things that are different than your normal and the inherent danger of assuming that makes them bad

why easily accessed, free or insanely cheap healthcare is a necessity for society to flourish (I know, I know right now is quite a time to discuss that.)

It has some themes of what I think must count as racism but in the least some sort of bigoted bias, and there's a lot of superiority complexes later on for having things and abilities the others don't. For a book including different branches of humanity and some aliens it's really a lot about human nature, the bad and the good.