SHADES OF SHATTERED GLASS:
a lesson in vengeance x if we were villains
• women’s wrongs
• bipoc in dark academia
• sapphic
• female rage
• homoerotic friendships
• what would you do to get everything you’ve ever wanted?
• quote is from swallowtail by brenna twohy
best logo, no ads, free books. height of the bad boy/good girl books. maybe you’d read a book and the. go to reread it and the entire thing was gone lmfao. old wattpad was an ~experience~
it’s just? dude, you made it. you were a published author who finished, queried, and published a book. just why? that’s the biggest thing that has me confused. why?
Writers — What’s the first sentence of your current wip?
I’ll go first: “They said the ghosts were there when Melinoe was born — watching, waiting, and whispering.”
my best writing advice is MAKE WRITING FRIENDS, PEOPLE WHO DONT MIND SCREAMING ABT YOUR FICTIONAL WORLD AND CHARACTERS W YOU, WHO LIKE HOPE FOR YOUR SUCCESS AND YOUR COMFY W
@barbs_olie
yes ! like when i get depressed, my room goes THROUGH it, and like, i have to hear it all the time from my aunt that it’s a mess. like i KNOW it’s a mess, please, i’m sorry, i want to clean it but i literally can’t right now
@myonnaslibrary
no it was exactly heathers and jennifer’s body (HEAVY on jennifer’s body) that made me unsubscribe. gives grace to the worse movies. centered about men and cannot like a movie centered for women
@GREERTRAGEDY
WE HAD SUCH A GREAT TIME. books were 932 chapters long and only 202 pages. everyone had THOUGHTS. you could a random update from a cliffhanger at 3:22 in the morning bc the author was bored and couldn’t sleep. you could see what other people were reading/adding to their lists
hey twitter!
i’m jas! my plan is to query and land(!) an agent this year with my dark academia wip about a girl who befriends the same cultish group of girls following the disappearance of her estranged best friend.
i’m always hoping to find new writing friends :)
can we bring back
#WritersOfTwitter
again? i would love to meet some new writer friends (& hype up the ones i’m lucky to know already) so go ahead and (re)introduce yourself! 👀💕
thank you sm to
@mxchaelwrites
for getting me a commission of Wren and Eden from my wip!!!!
I can’t wait for you guys to meet my favorite girls :)
gorgeous art by
@ayeoops
@magia_100
the lack of sleep i got in middle-high school can all me traced back to wattpad. and DONT let the comments be good bc it’s gonna take me an extra hour or two to scroll through them at all my favorite parts
“they think we did it, but they just can’t prove it.”
so so SO excited to share this art (by
@CALICOTURE
) that
@mxchaelwrites
comm’d for me. it’s insane to see all the girls brought to life like this, im gonna SOB.
idk but do you think they seen my wip that’s inspired by A LESSON IN VENGEANCE x CHRONICLE???? with witches, sapphics, women’s wrongs and an unreliable narrator???? if not, they should at least see this really pretty art by
@CALICOTURE
for cass but hello
#writersoftwitter
!!
i’m jas (she/they) and i write adult stories featuring morally gray characters, angry women, and nearly everyone is bisexual.
my current project (SHADES OF SHATTERED GLASS) is my sapphic dark academia book (see pinned tweet).
my
#nanowrimo
project -
Melinoe isn’t the same girl that was left to rot in the forest after being exiled from her kingdom for the murder of her parents. It’s been a year now and she’s now ready to take back her throne with a few dead friends and the ancient being she summoned.
if i ask nicely, can the writer community scream abt their favorite things in their wip??? i’ll go first
IM IN LOVE W MY MAIN COUPLE, THEYRE SO MUCH FUN TO WRITE, AND I LOVE THEM SM
MICHAEL GOT ME ART COMISSIONED OF MY TWIN GIRLIES MELINOE AND SELENE
thank you
@mxchaelwrites
!!!
and thank
@sleepypixieart
FOR THE GORGEOUS ART IM OBSESSED !!!
My fellow dark eyed beauties, please decolonize your minds. Watch movies starring actors who have lovely dark eyes. Read books with dark eyed love interests. Brown eyes are beautiful. No one should be risking their eyesight for this.
#writersoftwitter
i’m jas :)
i write books so i can have brain rots over my characters. my books usually including murder, sexual tension, and a knife. (+ “and fangs” bri told me to add that”)
#wipfest
here are the mood it’s for my trilogy:
when melinoe wakes to find her mother, the queen, murdered, she does the smart thing: run. but fresh blood brings her to a god who makes an offer: save the beings who cursed her bloodline or be framed and let the killer go free.
isn’t it so awesome and cool that celebs and billionaires can fly into israel no problem and look at one singular (and most likely fabricated) proof of terrorism while Palestinians arent allowed to collect rain water, are constantly being bombed, and have no access to aid?
#pitlight
Melinoe isn’t the same girl that was left to rot in the forest after being exiled from her kingdom for the murder of her parents. It’s been a year and she’s now ready to take back her throne with a few dead friends and the god she summoned.
#pitlight
framed for her parents murder, exiled from her kingdom, and with only ghosts to believe her innocence, a young woman summons an ancient being to assist her in taking back her kingdom and punishing the real culprit who started it all.
#wiphug
for
#sosgwip
after her best friend goes missing, wren transfers to her university to find answers. but when she befriends a cultish group of girls; another student goes missing, and a body is found. and wren finds herself as both a suspect and a potential victim.
#wiplift
blood of a queen
blood trilogy • book one
accused of a murder and exiled from her kingdom, melinoe makes a deal with a god to return her to the throne and clear her name, as long as she marries him and returns the gods to their former glory.
one of the best agents and people out there is
@chamomeriam
and it’s why i really encourage you all to query them! miriam is a sweetheart, and through our friendship, has championed me to work hard and be hard of that work! i’m so glad to have known them.
the push for ai to replace the arts is so disgusting and cannot be clear that people who favor it over human creation has never seen value in the arts at all.
sorry nothing will forever beat when like character a is insulting character b and they mention something complimentary as an insult. and character b is like “oh you find me pretty?” LIKE IM SCREAMING
@thebookoffaerie
i think the only answer to be found is just racism? like purposefully targeting and review bombing authors of colors, ones who share your agent/pub house…you gotta have DEEP hatred
if you have any art comissioned for your wips (characters, scenes, ect.) pls reply and share it bc i love seeing art
also! tag your artists pls + ty !!
if you haven’t had art comissioned, do you want get some? what would you get?
maybe you’ll find an artist you like below !
if i were to pitch book one:
accused of a murder and exiled from her kingdom, melinoe makes a deal with a god to return her to the throne and clear her name, as long as she marries him and returns the gods to their former glory.
ft the aesthetic
for those who don’t know about my wip trilogy, pls know it has:
- ghosts
- life and death people
- gods
- a plan to kill said gods
- complicated sibling dynamics
- a LOT of pining
- and, bc it’s me, angst
and like, idk, i think y’all would really enjoy it
@greertragedy
the book was doing insanely well with arc readers too and had like really good hype. like i seen it???? and while it’s not my usual genre, it was something i considered picking up bc it sounded good 😭 so WHY
the worst part of being a writer is how am i supposed to pitch my book without excited spending an hour explaining every thought i ever had about my wip
and people are going to expect kids to go to school tomorrow. to finish out the week. to keep pushing on and on. parents are expected to send their kids to school another day hoping for the best.
fuck that. we need change, not thoughts and prayers.
writing friends — i believe in your and your projects. you have talent. you story is worth being told. wishing you all the best in your journeys this year
omg writing friends
is their a character from a friends wip that you’re in LOVE w?
for me it’s marshall from michaels wip, issac from nights wip, and kohl from sandies wip.
if you hate your writing, just remember white men get published with sentences like “her breasts juggles, nipples hard with happiness.” and get back to it
i’d like to just add here: please use the writing community.
ask your questions about things ! do research! ask about experiences! share information! find betas! find critique partners! find support.
writing is so solitary, but it doesn’t have to be isolating.
my tl being writers getting full request, making progress in their wips, editing, writing a killer line, plotting is the best experience i could ever have online
for
#campnano
, i’ll be working on SHADES OF SHATTERED GLASS, a story that explores grief, my own complicated emotions around girlhood, homoerotic female friendship, and the lengths we go to for survival.
#writercare
#sosgwip
wishing everyone a good writing year. that looks like:
• querying for the first time
• debuting
• taking a haitus so you find passion again
• outlining/pantsing
• only doing half a first draft
• editing/revising/alpha/beta reads
• agent/editor finds
• writing friends
unfortunately, i couldn’t write for a full 24hrs (i ended up helping paint a room lolz and then going to sleep) so i clock in at 10 hours of total writing time with a word count of 16,781 words written <3
if you have a complicated relationship with your mother, and you love to read books that continue to make you have complex feelings, let me introduce you to: on earth, we are briefly gorgeous
I am kindly asking authors to please mention if their book has a bisexual main character. It certainly helps find interested readers who are looking for books with bisexual main characters
okay i watched bridgerton, here are my final thoughts:
• if you are going to watch the show, you can skip season 1.
• i was “pick me, choose me” anthony all of s2
• penelope should’ve came clean instead of slandering eloise
• eloise and benedict are the best sibling duo
“it doesn’t affect me.”
neither does what ship is better in whatever book you’re reading that you spend 24/7 arguing about, and yet, i see you argue with pixels and code all day to justify it.
but real, actual people dying? oh, that’s too far.