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the agonies

@synonymsfordismember

Corinne | 31, she/her | horror writer and living avatar of low art | work all over (see pinned)
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Published Work

Since all my pending publications are now out, I thought I'd put them in one easy to find place! Some are free online, some are pay to read, but lmk if anything's outside your price range and I'll just send you a pdf!

Blanket CW: My work is horror and horror adjacent, and features gore and potentially uncomfortable sexuality more often than not. Proceed with caution; particularly intense works will have additional content warnings.

The Hero: A nasty little story about smoking weed and working food service and performing acts of incredible and senseless violence on behalf of your coworkers. Published in Mangoprism.

Satellite Office: A nameless lesbian engineer forced from her workplace after a traumatic event develops an unusual medical issue, which exposes hairline cracks in her marriage. This probably has nothing to do with what she does for work. Published by Sans Press in their Stranger anthology; nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Polly Says: On the eve of their annual guys and dolls trip, three iDollators and their silicone brides gather in the basement of the most ambitious of their cohort for the unveiling of the newest enhancement to his doll, Polly. Things go downhill pretty quickly from there. Cws for sexuality and gore. Published in Cloaked Press's Nightmare Fuel: Body Horror anthology.

Born Sexy Tomorrow: A group of lovable twenty-somethings discover a nonverbal naked woman in the woods outside their lakehouse. Cws for heavy gore and cannibalism, I'm not kidding. Published in Reader Beware's fourth issue.

#writing tag#my writing#horror writing#lmk if you're interested in those two middle ones!
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The editor publishing Rufus sent me an email today like oh I'd love to do an author interview with you about your story, but no worries if you don't have time! As if I would not instantly clear my calendar for a chance to talk at length about my own work.

#ya girl#im so excited oh my god!!!
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Reblogged arunima
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Is it starting to rain? Did the check bounce? Are we out of coffee? Is this going to hurt? Could you lose your job? Did the glass break? Was the baggage misrouted? Will this go on my record? Are you missing much money? Was anyone injured? Is the traffic heavy? Do I have to remove my clothes? Will it leave a scar? Must you go? Will this be in the papers? Is my time up already? Are we seeing the understudy? Will it affect my eyesight? Did all the books burn? Are you still smoking? Is the bone broken? Will I have to put him to sleep? Was the car totaled? Am I responsible for these charges? Are you contagious? Will we have to wait long? Is the runway icy? Was the gun loaded? Could this cause side effects? Do you know who betrayed you? Is the wound infected? Are we lost? Will it get any worse?

— JEANNE MARIE BEAUMONT, “Afraid So.”

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Insane writing techniques that help me every time

  • writing
  • writing my words
  • thinking of words and writing them on paper
  • putting words on paper
  • putting them out there, words and all
  • typing on the keys and everything
  • filling up the document & shit
  • writing

Hope this helps !!!

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sendhelpthankyou

writing kind of sucks sometimes but I also love it with my whole heart and if I stopped I would probably die so you know, back to the drafts

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speculative fiction writers i am going to give you a really urgent piece of advice: don't say numbers. don't give your readers any numbers. how heavy is the sword? lots. how old is that city? plenty. how big is the fort? massive. how fast is the spaceship? not very, it's secondhand.

the minute you say a number your readers can check your math and you cannot do math better than your most autistic critic. i guarantee. don't let your readers do any math. when did something happen? awhile ago. how many bullets can that gun fire? trick question, it shoots lasers, and it shoots em HARD.

you are lying to people for fun. if you let them do math at you the lie collapses and it's no fun anymore.

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YOU GET IT

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you need to make more self-indulgent art btw. hyper-specific self-indulgent niche shit that appeals to You Specifically and maybe nobody else will get it or even like it but that's the point.

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Realizing the writing doesn't have to be done alone and is often more fun and more engaging when you're doing it with friends is a life changing experience.

I don't mean co-writing either. I mean having a friend or two who you talk through plot ideas with, who you bounce ideas off of, who you trust to tell you if something doesn't work.

Nothing is created in a vacuum and nothing can be created alone. Sharing drafts and ideas is a vital part of the creative process and it's a really fun part too.

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Anonymous asked:

hello, sar!! hope you are well !! do you happen to have tips on how to objectively look at one's writing when struggling with insecurity / self hate + self doubt?

librarycards answered:

could i perhaps offer you the suggestion of abandoning 'objectivity' and embracing (multi)subjectivity? i find that the most fulfilling processes of critique i have are ones I share with fellow writers that i trust, especially when i'm able to tell them a few elements of my writing that i'd particularly like feedback on.

when you do critique groups with people who care about you, and whose success you're also invested in, you're better able to recognize 1) aspects of your writing that need improvement and 2) strengths you have that they might not. this helps in a few ways! it builds your confidence while also reminding you of your areas in need of improvement, *and* it means that you can gain an understanding of what skills you have that can help other writers in your life.

it's important to remember that the single most important thing you can do as a writer is to keep writing. equally important, keep reading. even when you feel like everything you write sucks, *keep going.* it doesn't have to be good. it has to exist. it can be fixed. and when you share it with others, you have a chance to realize that 1) lots of other peoples' writing sucks too (all writing sucks at some point), and 2) that the purpose of writing isn't perfection, but connection.

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#cannot overstate the value of my beautiful writing group
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80% of the time I bring a book out with me it sits in my backpack getting bent and fuzzy but the second I forget to bring it I get like jaundiced from Lack of Book. I black out and start reading random papers off my desk like I'm trapped on the toilet in 1998

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