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Hi, I suppose it’s my turn to make one of these.

About me: You can call me Grimm, and I use it/its. I’m a twenty-something that’s unsure what it’s doing most of the time. The only time things make sense is when I write, so I do that a lot. I am not currently published, though I do have one finished work and quite a few WIPs.

I haven't quite yet decided how comfortable I am with sharing my writing, so we'll see how that goes. That being said, I am open to being tagged in any tag games, and my asks and dms are always open. Have to break out of my shell somehow.

Now, onto the important part.

My writing: I write original adult fiction, most often including romance and adult themes (ie: violence, abuse, grief, you get it). I get most into fantasy worlds, creatures and the like. I've written about faeries, dragons, vampires, and more. I love world building talk, and writing angry women. I like happy endings, though I have been known to write the occasional tragedy. Let me be obsessed with your characters and your worlds, and I will be happy. Maybe you’ll like mine too!

I’m not quite sure what else to add here. I will update this post or maybe just make a new one as things pop up, but this is it for now!

Welcome to the world of Grimm!

Okie here's my

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My name is Pluto, I use he/they pronouns. I'm in my early 20's, and I currently work as a library aide. I'm currently studying film and horror as a hobby.

I write mostly fantasy, largely inspired by Dungeons & Dragons mechanics and storylines. I also occasionally write poetry.

My current project deals with grief and pain and coming together after loss.

Hope that's sufficient, idk quite what goes into these 😅

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hello! my name is scottie! i am a 20 yr. old nb college student trying to write a fantasy series (among other minor projects!), looking for active writers to be mutuals and interact with (bonus if ur open to beta reading! or want a beta reader!) :D dm/ask/tag open!

my current focus is coming-of-age queer fantasy, but i also focus on dystopian themes, horror, romance, and a sprinkle of futuristic sci-fi

CURRENT WIPS!

(MAIN) MYA LAINE AND THE WORLD OF WONDER (#MLATWOW)

DEHISCE

UNTITLED CRIME STORY

i don't have a lot of info on my wips right not because they are VEEERY much in progress. and i also dont know how to format the information i want to share! i will continue adding to this tho

ok <3 thats kinda it. thank you for reading!

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I cannot wait for you to see it! And for me to hold it in my hands 🖤🌲🐦‍⬛ If you like it witchy, gothic, dark, mysterious, and sapphic, this book might be for you 👀

The beautiful art above on the left was made by makomeri 💚 The original book cover art was made by @ouijacine

~ This is a guide specific for fiction/writeblr. All of this is for free and there is little social media posting/ads involved (unless you want to venture into that). ~

Within the writeblr spheres, there's this underlying hope that our stories will find their audience. Perhaps we'll have a fandom full of fanart and video essays, or maybe we'll be an instant classic and sit on collectors' beloved bookshelves. Our stories could sit within the deepest corners of someone's heart and maybe they never tell a soul about what's so special to them. Maybe our stories become those 'underrated masterpieces'.

Or we just want to see people ugly cry over our writing.

Whatever your hope may be, marketing is an important path to venture on (especially because traditional publishers are rejecting diverse books in favor of ones that are already famous + the whole sub-par machine thing they seem obsessed with.)

And thus, my childhood marketing obsession will hopefully be of use to you. This is all for free (unless you want to spend money) and you don't need to figure out social media platforms (unless you want to, and this guide works if you decide to take that route too.)

Step One: Characters

Marketing spheres will define these fictious people as 'avatars' or 'the target audience'. You could also call them characters. Because that's what they are: fictional people.

For this step, you shall create characters that would love your story.

And here's some great news: You've already done this.

Perhaps you wrote your story to comfort a prior version of yourself. Perhaps each character in your story holds an aspect of your personality. Perhaps you were ridiculously self-indulgent and made the story you would've loved to read. These are all possible characters you can reuse for marketing.

Write down 2-4 quick archetypes for these characters. You'll chose an aspect of your story (characters, themes, or the younger-self that you wrote it for) and write a thumbnail sketch. (Main issue, fears, wants, personality traits if they relate to the main issue.)

I'll do it for my story (the Land of the Fallen Fairies) down below:

Great! Now it's time to find these characters.

Step Two: Setting.

(Let's assume you're using the internet for your marketing. But a similar method works for real life too.)

Where do the characters live?

In order to figure that out, we need to discover the characters' interests, what they watch to solve their problems, and who they find #relatable.

(You can do this for each character or for all the characters at once.)

For example:

Anuli-like -

Places to look: Nature quotes, ambience videos, children's shows and fairytales (comfort shows). Fandom culture - fanfic video essays, fan art.

Places to look: Slow living. Nature vlogs. The 'softer self-help' (spirituality stuff. Magic/ overnight answers). Witchcraft. 'aesthetic nature' places. Guided meditations.

Places to look: Those 'learn better and remember everything' places. (The 'burnt-out gifted kid' recovery places.) Stop overthinking spots. Those quotes on Pinterest from poetic people who think too much /aff. Storyteller places. Dark academia. Classical music. One off quotes/ poetry.

Okie dokie. Once you have this, find channels, social media accounts, blogs, songs, books, etc. that fit with the categories you wrote down. (They should appeal to the characters) You can search up some of the terms you listed into searches and see who pops up. Bonus points if you find people that overlap with multiple sections.

I know I didn't include booktube or booktok in here. You can if you want too. But those can be a bit... 'consume these 500 books'. You also want to find other places where people who would like you story live, even if they don't follow booktube or booktok.

Congrats! Now you know where your characters live!

Step Three: the scary part

Take everyone you found on your search for the settings and write them down a list. Make sure you get an email/contact info. (they usually list them somewhere under 'for business inquires') Also feel free to watch their content and get to know what attributes these settings have.

And now... we talk to them. about our stories. You can do it. I believe in you.

This called 'pitching your product' in marketing spheres. But you can be informal about it.

I know it can be difficult to talk about your work, so here's a tone to have:

'I made this thing I like and I think you'll like it too'.

What you'll do is send an email (or dm) that goes like this (inspired by Creative Hive on youtube):

Hi [name],

[Genuine compliment]

[Quick sentence or two about your story. Include the themes and who it appeals to. If you have a logline/sentence summary, include that. But I find that the underlying themes and 'who's it's for' is more engaging.

For my story, I might say something like.

(That's probably a bit long and I can trim it down a bit.)

You can phrase it like a gift if you want too.]

[Call to action.

'If you like it, I'd appreciate a mention on your [platform].

I know this part may be difficult to mention (imposter syndrome is not fun.) But I promise that if they do like it, they'll be happy to mention it.]

If they don't respond within... four-ish days? (A week at most). then you can include a follow up. For this you can include a template with info about your story. This way it's easy for them to talk about your story.

The template:

Bonus points if you have an additional, physical thing to send them.

Congrats! Now do this pitching process a few times until you've covered most of your bases. (Pitch to as many people as you can. It will get more comfortable as you do it. Play your favorite song and don't let yourself think too hard about it.)

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The benefits of this process are that you find people that are already interested in the themes and vibes of your story (in comparison to to ads, which get shoved in everyone's faces.). Someone your audience already trusts will talk about it, which means you don't need to do all this trial and error to find your audience and make content for them.

It's basically a bunch of people talking about something they like!

AND you diversify your audience across niches, but with an underlying theme/interests. Booktok/booktube must appeal to everyone, so it's a hit or miss for recommendations. (Unless there is someone that specifically does one genre/type of story.)

From here you can do fun little things to build up hype and make the book launch feel like this fun event. (I love it when that happens so here's my thoughts about trying to create an event with your story... although that may require another post entirely.)

Okay dear storyteller! Now go forth and share your story with the world!

Additional resources:

Creative Hive <-- a youtube channel that goes through the pitching process.

This video is also very good <-- Haven't watched the rest of the channel but I assume it's also good.

One of the best marketing channels on the internet (the videos are actually entertianing to watch.

Seth Goldin <-- I read his book and took the parts I liked and modified for storytelling marketing.

Dead Sound <-- propaganda to watch the short film series he has (he did the whole 2-d 3-d style wayyyy before spiderverse did... and he's one person making these. One person. It's amazing.

Glitch <--- If someone can figure out how The Amazing Digital Circus was marketed then I will pay you money. It seems to be a lot of memes and funny things.

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Hello, my doves! I’m so excited to be here!

Basics: My name is Bird, I’m in my mid-twenties, and my pronouns are she/they.

What I Write: A little bit of everything, but mostly stories with a strong atmosphere and a deep sense of personality.

What I’m Hoping To Accomplish: My main goal for starting this blog is to build friendships with fellow writers. My secondary goal is grow more confident in my abilities as a writer, as well as increase productivity.

Please feel free to say hello!

OC in Three Tag

@talesofsorrowandofruin tagged me for this OC in 3 game, thank you! Rules: find three images to summarize an OC.

I am doing Alyss from my WIP Mortal Sparks

The church bell: Alyss was in training to become a nun before the war broke out.

The burning city: During the retaking of Astvania, Alyss sees the city destroyed by fire, which she had no small part in setting.

The letters/pen: Alyss' thoughts are communicated to the reader by her diary and letters she writes or receives.

These are fun tiny moodboards. I am tagging @thetruearchmagos (you need to start telling me more about these dozens of pov characters, I only really know Gustav!) @balladofaldelis , @aziz-reads and @toribookworm22

this is lowkey weird that I'm all three at once

Part 1 of "English Is Hard", the series where I talk about all the annoying details that can make writing a living Hell

'Anymore' vs 'Any more'

Yes, there's a difference. Yes, I used them incorrectly for several years before I knew there was a difference.

'Any more' refers to quantity, an amount of something. If your character does not want another bowl of pudding because they're full, they might say "no, I don't want any more, I'm stuffed."

'Anymore' refers to time, and can be broken down to mean 'any longer' or 'no longer'. If your character has gone off pudding after eating it every day for six years, they might say "no thanks, I don't like pudding anymore."

Tips for remembering which to use:

I've included a couple of examples of examining the context to provide further clarification!

"I don't think Derek and I can be together anymore"

The narrator and Derek have been in a relationship, the duration of which is a period of time, meaning that 'anymore' is correct.

"I don't think the business is going to survive any more bad reviews."

'Bad reviews' can be counted, they are quantifiable. Therefore, you use 'any more'.

"Gerald says he doesn't want to go to any more counseling sessions. He doesn't want to try anymore!"

Once again, counseling sessions are something that can be counted, they are quantifiable. Gerald has previously wanted to try to save his marriage, but that time has come to an end, and he has given up. I wanted to include an example that uses both instances because it used to trip me up so badly!

3 rats looking at eachother (where do we go from there?)