Master List: Updated As Of 8/12/19

Check out Pixelberry's book release line-up for July and August.

Can't wait for the books to be released! I'm especially excited for Book 3 of Desire and Decorum!

Posting this because I can't get over how awesome and badass it looks.

Master list: Updated as of 5/12/20

Hello, everyone. I decided to organize my stories by creating a masterlist with links for easier and more convenient access. I’ll update this list whenever I post new stories. :)

BloodBound:

Kamilah Sayeed x MC

The Brightest Light

Fears, Doubts, and Apprehensions

Mistakes (Part 1)

Mistakes (Part 2)

A Moment Alone

The Promise

Reunited

Glad that I Have You (NSFW)

Making Every Moment Count 

Confessions [Latest addition to the list]

Honestly love your Kamilah posts with the screenshots they’re just *chefs kiss* mwah perfection! 🥰👌👩🏻‍🍳

Hello! Sorry for taking a while to reply. Thank you! I'm glad that you like my posts. :)

[Scene from Bloodbound Book 2, Chapter 1: The Calm]

This scene shows Kamilah explaining the difference between hers and Adrian's tastes.

[Scene from Bloodbound Book 2, Chapter 10: The Plan]

This scene illustrates the said difference between their tastes.

Kamilah can be quite sassy. Hehe.

Reblogging my updated Masterlist. Hehe.

Masterlist: Updated as of 8/3/19

Hello, everyone. I decided to organize my stories by creating a masterlist with links for easier and more convenient access.

BloodBound:

Kamilah Sayeed x MC

The Brightest Light

Fears, Doubts, and Apprehensions

Mistakes (Part 1)

Mistakes (Part 2)

A Moment Alone

The Promise

Reunited

Glad that I Have You (NSFW) [Latest addition to the list]

Note: I will update this masterlist whenever I post new stories. :)

(You probably dont but..) but do you take like requests or no? I’m sorry if this was weird and out of the ordinary

Hello. Sorry for the late reply. I would love to, but due to my busy class schedule, I can't commit to taking story requests. :(

We don't have to wait for long! Yes!

Please let this be a foreshadowing of their future together.

Reminders and tips for everyone including myself. Hehe.

some mini collections of tips for writers

(based on things that yours truly notices as a freelance editor. This list is in no way complete, and will probably be added to as I continue to find repeated mistakes) 

Dialogue

Use beats in your dialogue to break it up. Even “said” can make a very effective beat between lines. 

(No beats: “It’s not lethal. Just highly dangerous with a good chance of being mutilated.” // Beats: “It’s not lethal,” he said. “Just highly dangerous with a good chance of being mutilated.”)

Note how the break allows a bit of a pause for ~dramatic effect 

thinking of dialogue, use punctuation and distinct speech patterns! “Life, uh, finds a way.” is an iconic line anyway, but Jeff Goldblum’s signature verbal tic gives it character. 

It’s okay if characters stutter. Don’t let the condemnation of stuttering characters as “cringey” in fanfic put you off. (and on that note, fuck cringe culture. Seriously. It saps all the fun out of creativity and fun is important.)

Start! A! New! Line! Whenever! Someone! New! Speaks!!

DO NOT FEAR THE WORD “SAID” 

Setting & Blocking

 Use the landscape and settings around your character, and always, always remember a scene’s blocking. Where is everything in relation to your characters? Have you left someone holding a coffee cup for the last three scenes? Did you lose a character somewhere along the way? 

using the contents of a scene is also great for fight sequences. 

Similarly, large character casts are hard to keep track of so don’t be afraid to break them up. Sending someone off somewhere else can create some nifty little subplots. 

Keep a personal note of how time passes. Trust me, it’s incredibly helpful to you as a writer and also for future readers. 

Characters

Character growth does not have to be positive. Sometimes characters fail or suffer or get their motivations twisted up, and they finish the book as a villain rather than a hero. 

All that matters is that a character changes throughout the plot in a way that readers can see; the sort of change they go through is entirely up to you. 

scrap the idea that someone has to deserve a redemption arc. They probably don’t deserve it, which is the whole point. So don’t be afraid to make your villains seem completely irredeemable. 

and you don’t need to redeem your antagonists in order to make them complex, sympathetic villains, anyway. Sometimes people get so stuck in their beliefs that they can’t see another way and it goes too far. Not everyone comes back from that. 

Also, motivations and goals can absolutely change. That’s okay. You just need to have something that drives your character so that your readers are rooting for them. 

Protagonists don’t need to be heroic. How you define the protagonists and antagonists in your story is based entirely on the morality in your story-world, NOT the moral ideas in the real world. What counts as a complex protagonist in a world torn apart by biological warfare will be very different than one living in our world. 

Prose & Grammar

simple prose is just fine and you don’t need to fluff it up for pretty quotes.

Remember to vary your sentence structures and length. Start smaller and build it up, drawing your reader’s attention. 

“And” and “But” are very valid sentence starters that are great for communicating the tone of internal narrative. You’re allowed to tweak grammar if that’s helpful for telling the story, it just needs to be accessible. Test out what you’ve written on other people. 

Check that your tenses are consistent!!