BORN TO THE SEA: FINAL WRITING UPDATE

Hi there. It’s been a while and you might not remember me, my WIP Born to the Sea or how you’ve even ended up on my taglist. I haven’t posted for ages and I’m sorry for disappearing all of a sudden. But this is it: My final Born to the Sea writing update.

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Good day or evening

Congratulations about making book on final and I will keep my thumbs up for publishing.

Thank you for telling this news and it has been great journey. I hope everything good for your next step.

I wrote a poem after several months I feel like I can breathe again

It's a good feeling, right.

My dear lgbt+ kids, 

I’ve seen some posts about the whole “Luke from Modern Family is actually a trans girl and comes out shortly after the last season” thing and want to add my opinion: I am not a big fan of writers revealing that a character is lgbt+ on twitter when they never explicitely adressed that in the show itself. 

It feels cowardly and lazy, like they try to make the show more diverse and appealing to lgbt+ audiences without putting in the effort of actually writing a trans character (and risking to lose some transphobic viewers). And yet, with all that being said: it’s also okay to be excited about it. It may be cowardly of them but if it means something to you and you feel a connection to that character, that’s a good thing! 

Okay, did you believe me that this is a real thing that happened? Or were you sceptical because you didn’t hear of this anywhere else? Full disclosure: I made all that up. 

It would be my actual opinion if this happened - but it didn’t. The writers never said that. There’s no twitter post and there’s no discussion about it. It never happened. I lied to you. 

This is what this letter is actually about: False authority. It’s possible that you didn’t question me and just accepted that as the truth - because I presented it like that. I talked about it like something you surely have heard about before, like I am just adding my opinion to a already highly discussed topic. 

As a reader of this blog, you may think of me as someone who is a kind of “expert” on lgbt+ stuff. And experts don’t make things up… right? The term “false authority” describes this wrong assumption. You don’t even need to be super naive to fall for it, it’s very common! 

But the reality is that people can present wrong stuff as a fact, even if they are generally trustworthy. I did it on purpose to prove a point here but usually it has other reasons: they may do it on accident because they misunderstood or misinterpreted something themselves. Even experts can get confused and make mistakes! 

That stuff about Modern Family above is fake news - and when we think about fake news, we often picture people we don’t like, people we already don’t trust. But people you like and trust can also share wrong information. 

If a social media post is the first (or only) place you hear about something, it’s always a good idea to check twice if it’s true before you share it, even if the person posting it is usually right. 

With all my love, 

Your Tumblr Dad 

I FINISHED!

[Image IDs: Photo 1 - a banner that reads “Runaways” in a white cursive script laid over a photo of a path running through the woods. there are sunshine and fae graphics around the title. Photo 2 - a screenshot of my word doc with the final line of the story and the word count box. It reads “It feels like heaven to be home, and she knows they have found their happily ever after.” and clocks in at 65 pages, and 35023 words. End Image IDs]

In just under 5 months, I’ve completed the whole first draft of this manuscript, well ahead of schedule, and just in time to start a new school year! I had so much writing this story and it’s so surreal to suddenly be done? I spent YEARS working on Storge and now given, this is like 1/3 of the length, but still. So much of that time was spent just learning how to tell a story. Now I know how to do that - I took the handful of ideas that had been sitting in my phone notes since freshman year of highschool and created a story that honestly made me cry as I wrote the climax. I’ve learned so much and improved so much. It needs a lot of work, but I can see the potential and I know I have the skill to fix it up, to the point of publishing. I’ve never felt that confidence before. It’s such an incredible and empowering feeling, to prove to myself that I can do this.

It’s done.

I can’t wait to share it with you.

-Etta Grace, Author, 11:04pm 8/16/2021

Runaways Taglist (Ask to be +/-)

@absolute-nonsense-scribblings​ @tiredlittleoldme​ @maxgraybooks​ @abalonetea​ @happyorogeny​ @weaver-of-fantasies-and-fables​ @quilloftheclouds​ @rainydaydarling​  @bladeverbena @siarven​ @avian-king​ @andifthestarsweretodie​    

Congratulations buddy

You have developed a lot of author and writer. You have a lot of reasons to be proud of yourself.

What are they even making

It looks and sounds about karelia pasty

And I love that comic because yes, how the heck all old people made them so pretty and tasty

his name’s Sal and he’s practice in me trying to draw characters so they look the same more than one darn time

Sal looks great! I like his eyepatch.

He looks similar all the pics. It's not easy to get the people or animals looks like they're same in the all pieces.

[Image ID: a colored pencil drawing of a pale man with long orange hair smirking and standing in the mouth of a jungle cave holding a torch and machete. He wears adventuring gear and a leather jacket, and a bandaid on his cheek. End ID.]

A character illustration for @re-writing-h as one of the prizes for my 600 follower celebration. This is his OC, cloud, a treasure hunter. I had a lot of fun drawing this, I hope you enjoy it :)

I love that! It's perfectly cloud who is always smirking and doing what isn't always wise to do. A torch and machete is perfect add and bring well our what he is doing. And his iconic leather jacket, you have gotten it nicely worn and old looking.

Thank you for creating cloud out and making his something real physically.

What’s it like being 21 and older

Once in Wattpad, one teenager asked from me, "What's been an adult. I'm scared to be an adult". And I was 21 then. This question actually broke me a bit. We so often give the answer that type pic etc.

I don't think that's always good even if we means its joke. There is a lot of responsibility but you don't need to lose anything what give a joy to you.

Buy that nice notebook and pen and go to write or make arts. It doesn't need to be "good", just fucking enjoy it. Run under the rain. Build with the legos. Stay up to watch the movies or playing the games sometimes. Drink a hot chocolate and get a whipped cream moustache by it. Walk a tile to the tile. Do what makes you happy and search your dreams, not matter which size about the dreams are.

Yes adulthood is hard and shit but damn take out everything what you want and can. Live the way that you can look yourself in the mirror. Don't live like someone command you live. So long you don't hurt yourself or anyone else, it's pretty free to do. Adulthood is a lot of work, a lot of pain and much more so takes everything good what you can. Make its your life even if it's a little broken, it's still good and wholly yours.

Thank you so much for all of your support! I’ve dreamed of being an author since I was 10, and it’s both thrilling and humbling to know that so many people enjoy seeing my work. I’ve made so many milestones this past year -  finishing Storge, launching my website, starting Runaways which might be my debut publication - and it’s such an honor to be able to share it with you. As a tangible way of saying thank you, I’m running this giveaway!

Rules and Prizes

Thanks for participating! 😊

Tagging some friends as a special shoutout - I couldn’t have reached this milestone without your help and support <3 @kazenokaori @writeblrfantasy​ @abalonetea​ @anonymouskudoswriteblr​ @re-writing-h​ @siarven​ @andiwriteunderthemoon​ @uraniumwriting​ @ashen-crest​ @quilloftheclouds​ @writtendevastation​ @magnoliaash​ @writingamongther0ses​ @chayscribbles​ @maxgraybooks​ @lothloriien​

Congratulations 600 followers! You have done so much works and deserve everything good.

literature → gothic authors

I just remembered 39 clues existed and how obsessed I was in 4th grade, and how it was about alchemy and treasure hunting adventure. The fact that I ended up as a chemical engineering major writing about a world-spanning treasure hunting adventure for magical alchemical artifacts in the Laoche Chronicles is oddly serendipitous.

I really ought to reread those and see how they hold up today.

I can feel that but that's how we create the worlds. We need to get some model firstly, we need the mirrors and the stuffs what we can inhale in ourselves like the sponges. It's pretty cool think that maybe the stories, art, poetry whatever what we all create here. Those would be the fuel to someone else and they will write something that or tell in interview, "You know, I read/saw/experienced actually something that and it's reason why I'm here now".

This month’s goals recap has an especially important update about some work I did on my website! I also included a survey about the kind of content I’ve been posting and how to make it better, so if you can spare a minute to take that, and reblog this post so the link can reach more people, that would be a huge huge huge help! It also does the general review of all the stories I’ve been working on and where to find their content, so if you want to catch up, this is the perfect place to start :)

Survey Link: https://forms.gle/SkYq16h1i8wM7q9RA

That all looks and sound very good AND I'm very proud of you how you have doing these things and learning and building up the author side and career. Good luck for everything. I’m always looking over you, my friend.