Writing is Bliss

INTRODUCTION

Hello! My name is Erin Lukas (he/they), and I'm a queer (nonbinary, pan/ace) + neurodivergent writer.

I've been around since 2018, so I’m in no way new to writeblr. I'm just a turtle who likes to disappear into my shell for long periods at a time and re-emerge at random (oftentimes with a brand new blog lol). 🐢

Unfortunately due to burnout, I spend more of my time thinking about writing than actually committing to it, so excerpts are shared quite sporadically. Regardless, I'm always down to ramble about any of my projects given the opportunity.

I'm always ask, tag game, and random DM friendly! Just be aware I can be slow to respond since my social battery is chronically on low power, so please be patient with me.

ABOUT MY WRITING

- I’m a fantasy writer for the most part, though I have been drawn to other genres on occasion.

- I have a special interest in fairytales, folklore, and mythology, and so my writing is greatly influenced by them.

- I enjoy writing stories with found family, morally grey characters, and tragedies.

- All my main casts of characters are a majority queer and/or neurodivergent.

- I consider my writing to be for an adult audience since dark themes/topics are common throughout all my projects. I will do my best to give proper content warnings when necessary, but please let me know if there’s ever anything you need tagged.

MY PROJECTS

~ WORLD OF SKIES UNIVERSE ~

High/Dark Fantasy: A Song of Ice and Fire x Arthurian Legend x Greek mythology x Lord of the Rings x Star Wars x Grishaverse

World of Skies is the working title for a collection of stories that all occur within the same universe. The first book is set to take place during the Angel & Reni War, a dark period in the world’s history prior to the age of The Great Disappearance.

↳ Characters Register // General Tag // World Tag

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(I also have several side projects, but since I don’t update them nearly as often, I didn’t feel they were worth mentioning here.)

If you’re interested in being added to/removed from any of my tag lists, just let me know!

NAVIGATION

About Me Tag // Answered Asks // Braindumps Tag

WIP Page // My Writing // Tag Games

Share an excerpt where a character is wrong about something.

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Instead, get each player to tell you the god their character follows, then roll a d6 behind the screen.

6: Their god is real, and as powerful as they believe it to be; maybe they even listen to prayers; maybe they even care. Maybe they care more about if your shellfish wear mixed fabrics.

5: It's a real entity, but whose power is exaggerated - like as a river spirit, but they're worshipped thousands of miles away from it for prayers their expertise with rivers leaves them woefully unprepared to answer

4: It's a powerful demon or dragon or monster of some kind which has tricked people into worshipping it - sure it's powerful, but that power is entirely self-serving, it couldn't answer your prayers if it wanted to

3: It's a person who, through real power, political influence or just straight up charisma, has tricked people into worshipping them, or through a series of misunderstandings has been mistaken for a god against their will

2: It was a long-dead person whose legacy has passed into legend - they may once have been a 3, or they may just have been famous in their life and not seen as godly until long after their death

1: Just a wholesale myth with no basis in reality. Maybe your god started off as a cautionary tale a mother made up to stop her children sucking their thumbs and over the retellings the whole "god of war" thing just sort of happened because of the massive scissors, and now the scissors are gone and all that's left is battlefield chants.

YOU KNOW THE HAIKU BOT???

OFC YOU DO

YOU KNOW THAT MESSAGE HE PUTS AT THE END OF EVERY POST????

"Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up."

YEAH???????

WELL THATS A HAIKU TOO

Beep boop! I look for

accidental haiku posts.

Sometimes I mess up.

accidental haiku posts.

Sometimes I mess up.”

He did it, by god he did.

What a little champ.

One common thing I see among artists who are just starting out is that they are very precious about their work -- ironically, way moreso than experienced artists. They need to get every line JUST right, because in their mind, getting that line just right is what stands between the piece being bad and it being good. I was like that too, for so long that I'm still struggling to catch up because of how it hampered my progress.

Being precious about every line is kind of like a track sprinter starting a run, but then restarting every time their foot lands in any slightly suboptimal way. This is comes off as silly, because we know that the "unit" of what they are doing is a sprint, and that they would make their greatest progress by finishing the full sprints, because that's how they train.

Well, similarly, the "unit" of art is a finished piece. What stands between the sprinter and the time they want isn't 1 individual step, but 1000 sprints. What stands between the beginner artist and making art they like the look of isn't that 1 line, but, i'm sorry to say, 1000 pieces.

Taking note of any mistakes you made afterwards is something done by both the experienced artist and experienced sprinter -- this is healthy and helps you improve. But you can do that later, after you're done.

Beware! Our Ass-Beating-Smart-and-Confident-Marinette and Can't-Man-Adrien

I call this style my bored-style

Cause I could only draw like this when I'm bored