we'll be back later, lovies

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Wed, 05 Feb 2020 01:03:13 -0500

saintzacharie:got my headlights on. heading to the future.

Sat, 04 Jan 2020 01:33:03 -0500

got my headlights on. heading to the future.

Obv the aforementioned October release is not gonna happen since I spent this year sleepwalking. I...

Sun, 22 Sep 2019 18:45:25 -0400

Obv the aforementioned October release is not gonna happen since I spent this year sleepwalking. I think I’m awake now? Only time will tell.

unrelated I didn’t want a Seth & Allison music video in my life until I heard this song

tell me a joke, my loves, I’m tired

Wed, 15 May 2019 00:15:56 -0400

tell me a joke, my loves, I’m tired

korakos: honestly I’m glad y’all enjoy wymack’s last speech so much bc I almost deleted the entire...

Sun, 07 Apr 2019 11:40:26 -0400

korakos:

honestly I’m glad y’all enjoy wymack’s last speech so much bc I almost deleted the entire thing for being so melodramatic

it was legit one of those many ‘oh my gawd nora shut uppp’ moments when I was rereading it during final revisions lmao

honestly I’m glad y’all enjoy wymack’s last speech so much bc I almost deleted the entire thing for...

Sun, 07 Apr 2019 11:28:37 -0400

honestly I’m glad y’all enjoy wymack’s last speech so much bc I almost deleted the entire thing for being so melodramatic

1. My TBR pile is so out of control right now. example of how far behind I am: I STILL haven’t read...

Sun, 07 Apr 2019 01:05:54 -0400

1. My TBR pile is so out of control right now. example of how far behind I am: I STILL haven’t read Crooked Kingdom. FML

2. This blog is GoT s8 spoilers-free (not like I ever update anyway)

3. My mother has successfully made her move from SC to OR. She’s not living with me, but she’s close in case something goes wrong. Should be interesting, she hasn’t had to put up with adult-me except in sporadic visits.

4. Trying to stick to a March & October release schedule this year, but October is partially contingent on me failing to secure an agent with Mono*. It’ll be a little weird having Mono out before Ely2, but one’s ready and the other hasn’t even been started, ha.

5. Speaking of, WIP list also getting out of control (Mono, Ely2, CHAU, Stones, Stars, WSF, Train….). Am carving out time next week to figure out plots & timing, else the indecision and workload will get the better of me.

6. Spent this spring taking a certification course to be TEFL-certified. In a perfect world I could leave current job and just split my time between teaching online & writing. ((in a perfect world I would just write, but pfff.))

Hope everyone else is having an interesting spring as well! Well, the good kind of interesting. <3

* one day I’m going to give up querying, or so I tell myself, but the smallest part of me still says Maybe this time. Guess I really am an optimist.

elysium

Sat, 06 Apr 2019 23:55:34 -0400

I just got yelled at by another bestie tonight bc apparently I never told her that I put a new book out. the look on her face when I could say “um yeah last month” was fuckin priceless. trololol

(this is why long-distance friends are sometimes A+ : they cannot throw things at you IRL)

ALSO if y’all liked Elysium’s cover (I DO, I VERY MUCH DO, OH MY GOD) give @medinaquirin some love, she did such an amazing job and I still can’t get over it

fanthyng-mego: inloveintheory: me, learning latin: okay so nihil means nothing and it’s pronounced...

Fri, 05 Apr 2019 17:42:55 -0400

fanthyng-mego:

inloveintheory:

me, learning latin: okay so nihil means nothing and it’s pronounced like niil

my friend, who listens to my aftg rants: it’s pronounced neil?

me: wait-

my friend: nihil means nothing and it’s pronounced like neil and neil is nothing and andrew wants nothing-

me: WAIT-

@korakos Miss Sakavic is this intentional?

IT IS NOT but I am so happy right now

korakos: so earlier this week I let go of a project that I didn’t think I’d ever say goodbye to....

Thu, 04 Apr 2019 15:00:52 -0400

korakos:

so earlier this week I let go of a project that I didn’t think I’d ever say goodbye to.

Keep reading

why do I always come across as such a downer on tumblr? nora, get your life together. :P I promise it’s not intentional.

TL;DR I hope you like the story, but if you hate it that’s also okay & perf understandable, and ilu either way.

(((also I have the ill-advised urge to work on WK fics again, someone stop me)))

so earlier this week I let go of a project that I didn’t think I’d ever say goodbye to.not because...

Thu, 04 Apr 2019 14:50:20 -0400

so earlier this week I let go of a project that I didn’t think I’d ever say goodbye to.

not because it was a deep & desperate part of me like tfc is, but bc ely has been a source of anxiety for going on four years, ever since I discovered raven cycle halfway through edits. I’ve been sitting here for almost four years trying to come to terms with what’s the same and what’s different, and what I should but cannot change. in the end I just gave up

am I still Concerned? Oh, yes, more than you know, lovies. I feel it like coals in my chest and throat every time I think about it. But the problem with Ely – the problem with me as a writer, I guess? – is that I wrote what I wanted to write and I liked it, but I didn’t like it enough to gut it and start over.*

So all I can do at this point is give it a kiss on the forehead and wish it well, and focus on the next project until this one doesn’t scare me anymore. onward to witches and death curses, I guess?

But if you do give Elysium a shot, I hope you enjoy it <3 Thank you for all your support, m’loves

* I guess that’s a partial lie, bc honestly this story started as a WK AU fanfic in like.. 2004? I think I was writing it when I was in Nagoya. Farfarello x Schuldig ayyy

Happy NaNoWriMo!!

Thu, 01 Nov 2018 13:24:05 -0400

stereophonic-aftershock:

korakos:

Let’s get it done, lovies :D

Do you have any tips? How does it compare to when you wrote All for the Game?

@stereophonic-aftershock I found some really good tips in the nano tag this morning when I was looking for a funky YAY NANO picture, so I went ahead and reblogged it!

With regards to the DO NOT DELETE – if you’re like me and can’t deal with multiple versions of a scene all in the same document, simply move all the bits you don’t need to a second file. That keeps the original clean and keeps the old work safe for word counts. NaNo isn’t about having a stellar finished project, after all, so it’s not about what you revised and kept. It’s about all the words you put into it in the first place to get it done. Can’t think of how you want to word a bit of dialogue? Yeah you could sit there and mull it over, or you can write out every iteration of it you can think of until one feels right.

My sister used to skip entire sections if she was getting stuck or if she thought it would take more research/time than she wanted or if it risked boring her, so she’d write THEY TRAVEL TO XYZ or BIG ACTION SCENE GOES HERE and then just keep going with the parts that interested her. I’ve had people write a couple lyrics in their piece to remind their future self what sort of mood they wanted to rework a scene with, what might’ve inspired a bit of action and whatnot.

If you’re not active in the NaNo forums but you have twitter, I imagine twitter’s NaNo & amwriting tags will be full of writers announcing & doing writing sprints. If you can’t find them or you like working alone, set your own sprints and give yourself rewards for tackling them.

Find some decent headphones. Make a playlist for your book and dance to it. Make moodboards. Drink water. (Drink not-water). Remember that late-night writing sessions are fun but that a sleepy brain makes trudging progress. Take walks to give your eyes and fingers a break. Most of all, have fun.

NaNo Tips #1

Thu, 01 Nov 2018 13:11:19 -0400

askmoonyloonylupin:

Word sprints and Word Wars with your regional buddies or buddies in general will save you.

Get as many words under your belt as you can in the first week. You’ll be thankful when things get cranky later on.

Never edit or delete. I MEAN IT. Editing will be for December - January - February.

Write something bad. Write something terrible. Keep it. Put brackets to remind yourself that it’s unfinished business if you want. DO. NOT. DELETE. IT.

You want to rewrite a scene? Good. Do it under the first one.

DO. NOT. DELETE.

Accept the fact that you won’t have a Novel by the end of NaNo but 50 000 words on a page that you’ll need to go over and work on.

On the days you don’t want to write: write anyway. Write 100 words. Or write 50. It doesn’t matter: write them.

Here’s my take on NaNo day 1, the rest will come later on, I have a word war to attend!

Happy NaNoWriMo!!

Thu, 01 Nov 2018 13:04:14 -0400

Let’s get it done, lovies :D

Mass Effect gothic

Sat, 20 Oct 2018 19:53:26 -0400

armalis-archived:

The Keepers have always been here. They will always be here. Please do not disturb the Keepers.

Your gun keeps changing. You aren’t trained in assault rifles, but you’re carrying one anyway. You didn’t bring a Predator, but it’s suddenly in your hands, aimed at someone’s head. Blink. You’re carrying your own weapons again.

You stand outside on the moon, victorious in killing an AI trying for its freedom. Listen closely in the silence of space, you hear the rachni song. You’ve read the reports: the rachni have never been to the Sol system.

Conrad Verner accuses you of waving a gun in his face. You remember giving him an autograph. But you died, somewhere between the autograph and the accusation.

You were told there were only two Ardat-Yakshi. You kill four banshees before you leave the monastery.

You’ve been in this building before, on a different colony, a different planet, a different system. But you still cannot find the door to return outside.

There is a man in the markets. He has been trying for three years to return a toaster oven. He has tried every store on the Citadel. He has no memory of buying the toaster oven. He doesn’t even have a receipt.

Have you always been waiting for this elevator?

Fri, 12 Oct 2018 21:50:16 -0400

throgmortem:

ligntwood:

when neil is captain he will have to do press duty after every game and wymack will have a fucking aneurysm

neil: you should have killed me when you had the chance

oh tumblr, I miss you, but I delete 9 out of 10 posts bc it veers toward too-personal or...

Fri, 12 Oct 2018 21:48:31 -0400

oh tumblr, I miss you, but I delete 9 out of 10 posts bc it veers toward too-personal or nonsensical. so I’ll settle for the least …….. ominous? serious? topics from my last two attempts:::

a) if you play overwatch, how wretched are ranked games? is bronze much different from quickplay?

b) my younger sister has finally agreed to watch BSG. am attempting to not force the entirety of the show on her in a single week but it is taking all of my self control.

c) NaNoWriMo coming up–y’all ready???? I finally found someone to take some of my hours at work, so I’ll be home Nov 1 - 5. ayyy. idk if I’ll be working on the ravens’ story or elysium’s sequel. guess it depends on how drunk I am at the time.

HOW GO THINGS WITH YOU?

faintlyglow: aftgholidayzine: Hey! Do you love the All for the...

Fri, 12 Oct 2018 21:02:31 -0400

faintlyglow:

aftgholidayzine:

Hey! Do you love the All for the Game series?? Want to help a good cause???

Contribute to the 2018 AFTG Holiday Fanzine!

For the holiday season, I’m going to be putting together an All For The Game holiday-themed zine that will be published as an online PDF. My plan is to sell the zine, and put all the money from each download towards a donation to Lost-n-Found Youth, an organization which helps homeless LGBTQ youth in Atlanta.

The zine will include winter/holiday-themed AFTG content, everything from art to fanfic. I, along with several other wonderful people, created a similar zine during the 2016 holiday season, which you can check out here: https://faintlyglow.itch.io/heathensgreetings-aftg-fanzine

If you’re interested in contributing to this project, make sure to fill out this form (https://goo.gl/forms/CJQxr1SZaoKI8pRF2) before November 2nd.

More info about submissions and deadlines below!

Keep reading

Hey friends, we’re doing this fun project again! =^)

Check out the post for details on how to get involved, and DEFINITELY check out the itch.io site to download the updated version of the 2016 fanzine!

Wed, 10 Oct 2018 00:33:59 -0400

atomicjuniper:

livvyblxckthxrn:

The Foxes as Kermit the Frog

Neil:

Andrew:

Kevin:

Aaron:

Nicky:

Renee:

Allison:

Matt:

Dan:

Wymack:

Seth:

Jeremy:

Riko:

Mary:

Jean:

Betsy:

Abby:

Nathan:

Ichirou:

(I’m so sorry ~~not sorry~~)

Mon, 08 Oct 2018 21:02:02 -0400

livvyblxckthxrn:

The Foxes as Kermit the Frog

Neil:

Andrew:

Kevin:

Aaron:

Nicky:

Renee:

Allison:

Matt:

Dan:

Wymack:

we'll be back later, lovies

Audio

saintzacharie:got my headlights on. heading to the future.

Obv the aforementioned October release is not gonna happen since I spent this year sleepwalking. I...

tell me a joke, my loves, I’m tired

korakos: honestly I’m glad y’all enjoy wymack’s last speech so much bc I almost deleted the entire...

honestly I’m glad y’all enjoy wymack’s last speech so much bc I almost deleted the entire thing for...

1. My TBR pile is so out of control right now. example of how far behind I am: I STILL haven’t read...

elysium

fanthyng-mego: inloveintheory: me, learning latin: okay so nihil means nothing and it’s pronounced...

korakos: so earlier this week I let go of a project that I didn’t think I’d ever say goodbye to....

so earlier this week I let go of a project that I didn’t think I’d ever say goodbye to.not because...

Happy NaNoWriMo!!

NaNo Tips #1

Happy NaNoWriMo!!

Mass Effect gothic

oh tumblr, I miss you, but I delete 9 out of 10 posts bc it veers toward too-personal or...

faintlyglow: aftgholidayzine: Hey! Do you love the All for the...

Hey! Do you love the All for the Game series?? Want to help a good cause???

Contribute to the 2018 AFTG Holiday Fanzine!

The Foxes as Kermit the Frog

The Foxes as Kermit the Frog