brichibiwritesthings:

nikaalexandra:

the worst thing about writing is that you aren’t just a writer. you have to be a thousand things. a poet, a flirt, a weapons expert, a bleeding heart, a scholar, a legendary cook, a theorist, an engineer, a reckless teenage girl, a dying god. you have to be able to write monologues and speeches and heartfelt confessions, and you have to make them believable. writing is putting yourself into someone else’s shoes.

writing is really hard (◕︿◕✿)

It is hard, but it’s a ridiculous amount of fun to be all of those things and realize that you’re capable of being all of those different characters.  You create them and bring them to life.  There is a lot of power in writing.  Once you finish you get to sit back, look at this thing you created, full of different people and worlds and it’s… it’s amazing, really.

Seriously, “Seeking the Storyteller” is so amazing, because it started as roleplay between me and my wifey and is now going to be a published book. But I got to go from being moody, bad tempered, will fucking kill you Cyn to happy, giggling, new to human things Mira.  That’s just two characters, there’s a bunch more.  It’s hard but it’s awesome  ^^

brichibiwritesthings:

That moment when you read over what you wrote last night and discover that the entire paragraph makes no sense because you were too sleepy to know what a period is. What is grammar?

This is how the magic happens folks.

huntersseries:

A small teaser to an upcoming part of the Hunters series.  How do you tell that your boyfriend is a demon?  Follow these easy steps.

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Are you worried that your boyfriend might be a demon?  Be sure to ask these three very important questions.

brichibiwritesthings:

People can be real assholes to plus size and/or diverse cosplayers.

My cosplay article has been posted <3  

Here it is, everyone!  My cosplay article for xojane  :)  Great timing, I think, considering the whole cosplay bashing stuff that happened to me last week.  

I know of the Storyteller, it whispers into the man’s ear, I’ve met him. If you promise not to kill me, I’ll take you to him.

Alix Andre DeBenit and Randall Fagan are Hunters, part of a hidden network of humans who track and kill the monsters lurking in our world so everyone else can pretend they don’t exist.  But when a living shadow mentions someone called the Storyteller, Alix hesitantly decides to learn more.  

They say the Storyteller lives in a massive library full of books that tell every being’s life story.  He can read these books, rewrite them and change anything he wants, even if it’s already happened.  That’s the power Alix wants, the power to bring his murdered family back and he’s determined to make the Storyteller do it.  

He just has to decide if working with the very creatures he’s supposed to kill is worth it.

***For the new followers, this is the book series my wifey and I are doing.  It’s being published by Solstice Publishing (before it was Alpha Wolf Publishing but Solstice bought them)  The picture I’m holding is our front cover, while the picture my good friend Lor is holding is the back.  Lor did the art himself :)  The book itself will have the title and stuff on the front, and the blurb you just read on the back.  It looks amazing but this picture shows what these look like as prints (they are available for purchase)

Follow the series here:  The Hunters Series

Where to keep up with Lor, our amazing cover artist:  Rainarc Rhapsody 

thevictorinox:

macpye:

dailydot:

Sleepy Hollow star Orlando Jones REALLY wants to read your fanfic.

In case you have any doubts about Orlando Jones’s fandom cred, here are some of the things we learned from his Twitter feed this weekend:

• He’s visited 4chan.
• He ships Ichabod and his wife, Katrina…
• … but mostly seems to read Ichabod/Abbie friendship fic. Such as this, this, and this. 
• He just set up a Tumblr, where he’s already reblogging fan commentary, plus references to the “Make John Green find the thing” meme. 
• And he wants IchKatrina and IchAbbie fans to stop arguing, and start writing Ichabod/Irving fanfic instead. As in, slash fanfic about his own character. He even has a couple of ship name suggestions: Ichaving and Irvabod.

 

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I’m not in this fandom, but dayum, this is how you fan interaction. A+++ and all of the internets to Mr Jones.

Well, have you seen Tom Mison? I’d want to sleep with him too if I was him.

This is so going to be me with “Hunters.”  I swear, if when our book series takes off, I will read your fics, I will like your art, I will be a fan of the fandom  :)  I’m not even kidding, our cover artist is a guy we met at an anime convention.  

thedutchtulipwitch:

foxygranger:

neverrlaand:

disneyaddictgirl:

zombieecho:

iloveyoujhutch:

If you do not reblog this, you are in fact lying.

Hey, don’t you fucking scroll down

You

Fucking

Liar. 

^not okay

Fuck you who said you could bring Mufasa into this

I don’t understand why this does not have more notes. There are more then 358,000 people on Tumblr.

Hell I mourn the death of the fictional characters I write and I created them myself, then I wonder if I’ll ever see a post like this in regards to my characters.  That’s the writing dream.  Checking Tumblr one day and seeing people flipping out because someone I created got killed.

brichibiwritesthings:

There’s this thing I want to address in regards to writing (and part of my irritation yesterday but I’m not going to go into full details about that part because it was about 50+ emails of authors going back and forth about it and I’m tired).  

For all future writers out there, I want you to know that it takes time to really see results for your writing.  Different distributors pay out at different times, ect.  You have to work hard to get your book out there and-

Actually no I’m going to stop that.

Here’s the thing that bugs me about some people in the writing circle.

I’m going to say that a lot of us already know that it takes time for your writing to really get anywhere.  Not only do you have to write the thing, you have to promote the thing and get it noticed (whether you’re self publishing or going through a publisher).  Even if you do go through a publisher, you and your publisher have to promote the thing, get it noticed, and get people interested enough to buy it.  And even if you do that, it has to get reviews, so other people can become interested and buy it.  But a lot of us already know that going in.  We know it’s hard work and we sure as hell know that this is NOT a field you go into if you’re looking to make a quick buck.  Nothing is quick about writing, or art, or anything creative.  It takes time, and even if you do sell a lot, it takes time to see results.

What irritates me is the people in this circle who feel the need to have this “holier than though I’m just here to write” attitude.  Those people who feel the need to remind you that this is hard work, that you need to keep pushing, and how that’s what they’re doing and you need to get on board.

Here’s the thing.  We’re all doing that.  I rely on my publisher to do their part, sure, but I do my part too.  Business cards and giving (yes giving) the book away to reviewers, doing interviews, all of that stuff.  And of course begging friends to not just read the book, but to leave a review, somewhere.  Anywhere.  

We might not go into writing expecting a crap ton of money, but there’s nothing wrong with expecting something.  This is a career choice.  This isn’t a hobby.  If I were writing just because I love it so much, I’d keep up the fanfiction, I’d writing chapters of “Seeking the Storyteller” on an original fiction site and call it a day.  I do love writing, dearly, but I also want to be successful in it.  I want my work published and read by people.  I want it to get big and successful.  I want to be in a position where all I do is write.  That’s it.  And there’s nothing wrong with that.  When you run into the “this is a business/it takes time/don’t do it for the money” folks it gets irritating, because, we’re all in the same boat.  You’re promoting your book, I’m promoting my book.  We all want to be successful, that’s why we went to a publisher, right?  That’s why we even bothered to have the book edited, and have a cover made, and have a publisher put it out there, and have made author pages, and have gone to conventions, and have made business cards, and have been on Goodreads and Amazon and Barnes and Noble and just… we want our books to take off.

So stop acting like that’s not what you want with this “I live and breathe writing that’s all I want.”  Because face it, that’s not all you want.  Why even make it available for people to read if all you care about is the writing aspect?  It’s because you want your book out there, you want reviews and opinions, you want it to sell, you want it to be successful.  And you know what?  There’s nothing wrong with that.  There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be successful with something you love to do.  

Writing rant that was part of my drama yesterday.  I wanted to get coherent thoughts out there so I wrote this thing up this morning after sleeping and not being irritated anymore.  

brichibiwritesthings:

huntersseries:

Hey everyone!  Our front and back cover are now available as prints!

You can find them on: http://www.rain-arc.com/store/

(the print is a clean version of the image, but this is the cover you get when you pick up the book when it comes out!)

KYAH COVER IS BEAUTIFUL  *__*

Because I need to show my tumblr family.  This is the cover to my next book  <3

I woke up from a nap just now because I decided to give up and sleep since the day was kinda crap.  Now I have more followers  O.O  Hello kind people, thank you for the love and making my crap day better  :)

Honestly I think it’s a combination of things.  Stressing about job stuff and stretching myself way too thin without taking a break.  This writing thing is great, but it’s a crazy amount of hard work and it takes a long while to see results.  This on top of commissions and conventions and just… yeah.  It’s hard for me to admit when I need to just stop for a second, because I feel like I should be doing all the things so I can make this happen.

Then this Saturday is the anniversary of my brother’s death, which is hitting me real hard this year, because he’s not here for the books and me essentially finally working at the things I want.  I want to be able to call him and tell him about stuff that’s going on.  The books, the conventions, the crafts we make, the costumes.  I want to tell him everything.  Usually, I treat it as a “he knows” sort of deal, but this year it just… it fucking sucks.  So him not being here, plus me worrying about pretty much everything (money, job, how this writing this is going,ect.) is just… exhausting and somewhat depressing at times.  My mom has also been calling me every day, which is perfectly fine, but I know she’s missing him a lot and I am too.  I know why she calls when we have pretty much nothing new to talk about.  I know why she sent me that box of clothes and has been spoiling me when she can.  I know why she’s been visiting so much (Thanksgiving will make 3 times this year).  Yeah, my book coming out and turning 30 was a big deal, but I know why she wants to be around me so much.  It’s going through those things and him not being here for them.  He should be here, or at least I should be able to call him, or vice versa.  When my mom calls me, she should be able to call him right after, or something.  It kills me that I can’t call him like I call my mom and dad, that I didn’t get to give him a “my book is getting published” call, or a “My 30th birthday is coming up,” or, “Hey guess what I can finally get married to the woman I’ve been with for almost 12 years.”  

Anyhow, I finally went upstairs and slept.  I stayed up past 4 in the morning yesterday editing the next book, then woke up before 9 am and have been trying to clean, work on stuff for our next con, and just… yeah a nap was needed.  And now there’s more people following me and calling me pretty names, so that was nice to wake up to  :)

This weekend I’m going to have a ton of fun because we’re going to Ren Fest.  I have friends coming into town and staying here, so I’m hoping for wonderful distractions to take my mind off of what Saturday is.  Though it has helped to write this all out.  

Thanks for listening.  Or at least skimming it while scrolling through your dash.