I Plan To Just Send Snippets Of Texts Via Posting Word Documents Directly On My Blog, And Then Have People

I plan to just send snippets of texts via posting word documents directly on my blog, and then have people send feedback via reblogging or asks. You don’t have to use an external site if your largest following is already on tumblr. I too have a rather adult story to tell, but it’s only on the violent side. In fact, I plan to post the prologue of my book sometime soon(tm) if you are willing to wait for an example.

Just upload a small document in whatever format you’re comfortable with, and maybe some questions for the readers to answer. Hope this helps!

Writeblr question, for those who write original work, where would you recommend posting (or have experience posting) rough first drafts, in full, or half, to gain a reader-base?

The story is explicit at times, but it is not erotica.

Additional questions, was the site easy to use? Did the site help you to gauge some interest and buzz in later drafts/a release of an e-book etc.?

Many thanks in advance,

fáe ✨

I’m going to make this a character, and none of you can fucking stop me

honestly my favorite 4chan post

Controlling Your Pacing

                Pacing is one of my favourite things to pay attention to when reading or writing something. The pacing of a scene is literally how ‘fast’ or ‘slow’ a scene appears to be moving. Action scenes that spring the story from one place to another tend to go faster than introspective scenes or scenes that explore character dynamics.

                All of this is created through putting space and words between elements of the scene. What I mean by that is that readers interpret a passage of time between ‘things’ (actions, dialogue, gestures, etc.) on the page, and pacing is controlling that interpretation.

                For example,

“Georgia sat on the couch, “wow it sure is hot in here,” she said. “It sure is,” Henry agreed, sitting next to her.”

                This sentence is just about the actions with some breaking dialogue, but it goes pretty quickly through what’s happening.

                Whereas, if we were to intentionally pace this scene, it may look like this:

“Georgia swiped at her brow, wandering over to sink into the couch. “It sure is hot in here,” she said, peering up at Henry through the wisps of her bangs. He nodded weakly, his entire body sagging from the heat. Crossing the room to collapse next to her, he added dryly, “it sure is.”

                It’s not perfect, but you can get a sense of the time between things happening. The added detail between the two characters talking conveys maybe a minute between sentences, which might be accurate for two people dogged down by a heat wave.

                To speed things up, we want less space between elements:

“Adam slammed open the door with his shoulder, letting it bounce off the concrete wall behind him. “Everyone out!” He shouted. A crack in the roof snapped above them.”

                The added (or subtracted) elements of a scene that control your pacing is the sights/sounds/feelings/smells/maybe tastes of a place. When we’re anxiously rushing to get out of the house we may not acknowledge that the kitchen smells like the bread our roommate baked that morning, or that there are smudges on the window from when the dog climbed up on the couch. However, when we have a second to contemplate, we’re going to notice these things, and it would be appropriate to write them in.

                Another important element to controlling pacing is your character’s thoughts or acknowledgement of feelings.

                For example:

“Adam slammed open the door with his shoulder, it bounced off the concrete wall behind him. He winced, his mother’s high voice ringing in his head, chiding him for damaging the walls even though he knew the building was coming down on top of them. How long would he live with her constantly in his mind? He tried to wave away the memory. “Everyone out!” He shouted.”

                That slows down the scene quite a bit, yeah? And maybe that’s what you wanted in that moment. Play around with the details and pacing in your scenes, you might be surprised how much can change.

                Good luck!

How do dragons in your world view the passage of time with such a long life expectancy? Is everything painfully slow for them or incredibly fast?

Most dragons aren’t immortal, with anything less than a purple dragon living only a few centuries. But the ones that live longer tend to focus much more on hobbies and relationships. Many of the night dragons are in kahoots with some of the most powerful kingdoms in the world to go over historical events and correct them.

Draconic literature is also quite popular in places such as Kio and Corkus, where dragons are idolized. However, in places like Runa, dragons are not considered welcome and are often hunted for sport.

I also forgot to clarify in the original post, but the dragons of Alterra are able cross-breed with certain humanoid species, which lead to people with a lot of draconic features. These include long lizard tails, subtle horns, wings (whether or not they are functional depends on the type of dragon), long black tongues, and small patches of scales in the color of the original dragon. Red dragons have the unique ability of granting human-red dragon crossbreeds a draconic form that is slightly larger than any of the lesser dragons. They can change form between hybrid and draconic form at will, but this takes a few days to a week to learn, and months to gain full control over.

To answer your original question, dragons tend to see time faster than we do, but still live life to the fullest.

Alterra Update: I’m back

Listen here you little shits, I’m back. Ya’ll want some more world building, don’t tya? No worries, I got you;

First up, a little announcement. Starting sometime in October, I will be releasing a demo for the first 8k words or so for beta-readers. That’s right, you guys will finally get to see what I’ve been doing all year.

Now, on to the update!

DRAGONS: In my world, Dragons are entirely sentient, with the most powerful species being practically immortal. Most dragons are not much larger than a human, but the more powerful ones can get quite large. Dragons possess the capability of using a unique variety of natural magic called “Drengic.” The color of a dragon’s scales are directly proportional to that dragon’s strength and power, as well as the kind of Drengic magic they posses.

There is a sort of hierarchy of power with the species of dragons, which is divided in to 4 classes: Monarch, Royal, Ambassador, and Predator.

The only Monarch dragons to exist are the Red dragons. Red dragons are by far the largest and most powerful, being capable of producing a highly flammable acid that can burn at nearly 7 thousand degrees kelvin. They also have ever-lasting youth after puberty and can shrug off the likes of tanks shells and dragon hunter ballista bolt without batting an eye. Red dragon also posses the complete unique ability of transferring their own power to any other being, so long as they are a descendant of a red dragon bloodline. This includes non-draconic lifeforms whose ancestors mated with a red dragon. There are only two bloodlines of red dragons thought to still exist, being the Cascada’s and the Korcasé’s, with the king of the dragons being Rathnir Cascada.

Royal dragons are the purple, white (snow), and black (light) dragons. All three of these types of dragons are plenty powerful in their own right, with purple capable of breathing powerful beams of plasma, white capable of removing 80% of all heat in their path of destruction, and black dragons capable of firing blinding beams of light. Purple dragons are especially rare, as they are a crossbreed between a red dragon and a blue, which is highly frowned upon in dragon culture. These dragons are not quite immortal, but can live upwards of 200 000 years.

Ambassador dragons are much further down the ladder, and consist of green, yellow, orange, and pink scales. The average life expectancy of an Ambassador class is only 10-13 thousand years. The difference between their Drengic is practically negligible, with only basic dragon magic able to be cast.

At the bottom of the hierarchy are the Predators, who are barely larger than a person, and not very smart. These are the brown, grey, gold, silver, and teal. They rely on camouflage and scare tactics to hunt prey, and are the only kind of dragons incapable of speech. They are not recognized to be sentient, but should still not be underestimated.

Nearly all dragons are fully capable of human magic types, mainly thought and spoken kinds, although written magic isn’t uncommon.

The other three classes of dragons are people in their own right, with intimate relationships, friendships, families, economies, and complex social skills, which includes language. Dragons have their own language, but 62% also learn common to negotiate with the “little folk.” Dragons tend to live isolated from the rest of the world, with the entire top third of Kio being entirely dedicated to dragon territory, but Kio is far from the only place to find dragons. The entire white dragon population live atop Dragon’s Peak in Novélia, most purple dragons live among the dwarves in Corkus, and there are several Ambassador class colonies in the Rings of Troms.

This has been a brief exploration of the dragons of Alterra, enjoy.

I’m taking a break right now, but I’ll be back soon!

I’m writing an original dark-fantasy novel focusing on living with immortality, grief, and fear. I used to post weekly updates for a few months, so there’s plenty of lore you can read up on. I will resume these weekly update either this week, or next week Tuesday.

Hiiii… Active writeblrs?

hi there. just curious about what u guys are writing about. u can link ur work here if u wanna. tell me about the new character, the plot, the vibes. go ahead :) reblog if u like (I also wanna follow some active writeblrs, go ahead and like this/reblog if ur doing ur thing)