A Piece Of Writing Advice I've Always Fucking Hated Is "only Add Things That Further The Plot." Because

hating furries is just a silencer on the gun that is hating on lgbt+ tbh

Writeblr Re-Introduction + WIP links

General About Me: 

I’m Etta Grace!

My Website: big updates, long excerpts, writing advice, book analysis, author interviews, and behind-the-scene content on a weekly basis. Home base for current WIP info.

My Youtube: Author Interviews and monthly write-in livestreams

My Instagram is for plants and bookish interests.

My Pinterest has aesthetic boards for each of my WIPs

My Goodreads for reading updates

My Mailing List is a quarterly newsletter exclusive new short stories

My Kofi if you’re feeling so generously inclined as to contribute to my publishing fund. Shop also now open with stickers and short stories!

If you’re new from twitter or reddit: Etta’s Guide to Writeblr & Writeblr Follow Train are good places to start

My studyblr is @ettaseverythingelse , my dnd/ttrpg blog is @spitebears​, and my multi-fandom blog is @fandomsofadistractedwriteblr​

No tag games please, as I’m really bad at keeping up with them, but ask games are fine!

Please tag me in any of your writing and I’ll throw it in my queue so it gets reblogged later!

WIP Introduction powerpoint

Other stuff about me:

I have a day job as a chemical engineer working on sustainability projects. Please tag me in sciencey stuff or ask if you have Research Questions for your books.

I also have a million hobbies which include but are not limited to: drawing, inking, painting, marker, digital art, sewing, embroidery, woodworking, hiking, and gardening

I’m Catholic and religion is important to my work. I’m happy to talk about my beliefs if you’re curious, but I’m not trying to be obnoxiously preachy.

I’ve got four younger siblings, and family is a big theme in my work. My favorite genres are science fiction and fantasy, but I’ll read pretty much anything.

This blog is a chill no-politics or current-events zone because I’m involved in that stuff offline and this blog is for my hobbies and other shenanigans. I prefer to let people infer their own meanings and let my writing speak for itself instead of pushing heavy and guilt-trip posts on your dash.

I think that’s it! Welcome! 

i love old science fiction because it’s all like “IT’S THE DISTANT YEAR TWO THOUSAND AND THREE AND MAN IS EXPLORING THE DEEP CORNERS OF THE UNIVERSE” like god bless you old sci-fi you had such high hopes for us

a very big tree in gongqing forest park共青森林公园 in shanghai

if you’re white and wanna write a poc character and feel awkward about it i implore you to ignore any twitblr stuff treating it as a massive ethical burden and instead come in more with the same mindset you’d have if you wanted to write about idk firefighters but didn’t know anything about firefighters so you do... research. Like fuck off with the weird kinda creepy calls for spiritual introspection you’re not writing about god damn space aliens you’re writing about humans and if you think you need more perspective of different life experiences just read?

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Northern Lights - Balto (1995) Concept Art

as a knitter, you start to notice how rare it is for characters in tv shows and movies to knit correctly. from worst to best, it ranges from:

- laughably incorrect, just flinging yarn around

- knitting the most basic scarf incredibly slowly because the actor Learned How To Do It For The Role

- old lady actresses casually knitting an intricate lace pattern while doing a monologue

- gromit from wallace and gromit

Big fan of when old jrpgs would do this