ELLIE RENAE
They/them. The reason I’m doing all of this is my wonderful friends. I write for my friends, to see them laugh or cry. I want to help them find humor in even the tragedies we’ve seen together.
When no one is around to please and I’m writing only for myself, I create… knick-knacks. Glass bottles of “star shards” from a time traveler. Love letters, hand-written by immortals. A slice of the stump a magical creature resides within.
Hoarding is my second favorite hobby.
AVAILABLE WORK
Chinese Spoons - A poem within a collection by many artists.
The collection, RENAISSANCE, was published by Yellow Arrow Journal with the theme “cultural renaissance”. This concise poem captures the feeling of being torn between two identities, never fully acknowledged as one or the other.
Available herein paperback
On the Subject of Control - A short science fiction story. Dark and sapphic.
This high-concept short, informed by an education in biological psychology, follows a pair of institutionalized lovers as they navigate their newfound relationship under experimental (not mind-altering, but behavior-altering) drugs.
Available herein paperback
Violence Without Plot - A chapbook / single short story.
This dark comedy shines a light on the lack of agency given to feminine people in fiction. Its Patrick-Bateman styled protagonist is tossed from woman to woman, never getting the chance to make a plot-driving decision. His “hero’s journey” is to realize that the story was never about him.
Available herein paperback
Available heredigitally
The Notebook of a Fictional Man - The photocopied notes of a time traveler.
The Notebook of a Fictional Man (a travel diary meant to impress historians), accidentally centers itself around the gentle giant with whom the writer is secretly in love.
Available herein paperback
Available heredigitally
WIP LIST
Ouroboros Hivemind - Mind-bending sapphic erotica.
Two immortals, one who drinks blood and one who drinks souls, consuming each other to the point of becoming a single entity.
sleepyowlwritesWriting is writing. Not writing is not writing. Sometimes writers have to be not writing like they sometimes have to be not awaking.
bloglikeanegyptianone thing you won't know until you experience it for yourself when you create art out of love is how it feels when people receive it with love. when you post a doodle and someone keeps it as their lockscreen, or when you write a story and someone tells you they were thinking about it all day, or when you post a poem and someone shares it with a touching caption. doesn't matter if it was objectively good or not. matters that someone spent time with it, that someone really, really liked it, and you made it. this kind of interaction, i think, it can really sustain you for weeks. it can sustain you through a lot of terrible things. its confirmation that you exist, and that (however briefly) your existence was appreciated by someone else through your art.
Uhm, so... I'm still new to writing and I am kinda stumped on where to put my writing at. I have some stuff in Wattpad, but my friends kinda stomped on me for using Wattpad. So, I need some *advanced* advice. So, should I continue on Wattpad, put it on my site or do you have any alt that you can suggest?
Thank you!
context: I only write OC
fictionalbullshitter replied:Most of us share it on tumblr in small excerpts and stuff, put it on your own site if you want but make sure it’s protected by copyright
Anyone else wanna give any tips?
unbearable-lightness-of-inkokay I don't have time right now to get detailed but "protected by copyright" is kind of a vague thing to say. copyright applies to work you create regardless of where you put it or whether you do any kind of formal process of registering it anywhere. the concerns with posting it places boil down to "is it likely someone will steal it from here" (and if so, what are your options for going after it) and "does posting it here give up your rights." the first scenario is the reason you might avoid posting complete works places. the second scenario is why you might avoid posting on specific websites. I'm not on wattpad so I dont know their terms of use, but you should look closely and ensure that anywhere you post your work leaves all rights with you. some places have clauses that essentially say that by agreeing to their user terms and posting on their site you transfer rights to what you post to them, which is what you absolutely don't want. (you should also always pay attention to what rights anyone publishing your work is asking for. first rights vs all rights is very different.) one additional consideration is whether you plan to trad pub anything you post. most traditional publishers don't accept submissions of material that was previously published elsewhere, and posted on wattpad or your blog can generally be considered as published for the terms of that requirement.
elucubrarethe hottest thing a hero can do is be completely doomed from the start & know it & keep going <3
freakoutgirl"YA books are brain rotting at any age" okay I know booktok is annoying but please get offline
freakoutgirlFor real though I may make jokes but YA is great and an absolutely valuable resource for tweens/teens and isn't completely represented by the love triangle romances it's become associated with (which tbh who cares if it does have that). YA includes Holes by Louis Sachar, Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin, The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. And y'know I grew up reading a bunch of Sarah Dessen books, the Flowers in the Attic series, Thirteen Reasons Why, Twilight, Maximum Ride, etc etc and even though I probably wouldn't recommend those books now, they nurtured a love of reading that followed me afterwards!!! I'm grateful that people eventually realized that there is a tumultuous period between childhood and adulthood and gave that period of life a space in literature
dream-gateThey're going to run out of movies, let's trick them into releasing morbius a third time
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WIP Folder Tag
Thank you, thank you to @phynewrites for the tag ❤️
I’m legit so excited to show these puppies off. The system’s recent and may need some bugs ironed out, but it’s working great so far! These bad boys are being used in Obsidian.MD btw
-> Documents
- Archives
- Published
- WIP
- -> Foreverhomes Collection
- -> Ouroboros Collection
- Written
-> Poems
-> Story Notes
- Characters
- -> Friends
- Music
- Relationships
- Stories
- -> Published
- -> WIP
- -> -> Foreverhomes Collection
- -> -> Ouroboros Collection
- -> Written
- Worlds
-> Technical
- Media
- Templates
-> Calendar
Files within the folders not pictured because it’d be TOO MUCH scrolling 💔
TAGGING: @thecatsgrave @imstressedx @radley-writes @izzyspussy @mayakern @moremysteriesthantragedies and any of my mutuals who want to!
ellierenaeWait I just realized I still have this power and can use it for whimsy !!!
Which of my characters is you're favorite?? You don't need to know all of them to answer ❤️
Jameson (immortal sad boy)
Seth (immortal beefcake)
Jesse (soft boy, girl killer)
Frankie (girl who kill soft boy)
Bunny (hallucinating punk)
Possum (community care punk)
Maryanne (a whole nun)
Silas (a whole priest)
Dick (hehe she said it)
IDK - See results
The short stories containing all these characters are on my Gumroad for free by the way! They have fun printables and wild page layouts surrounding the stories themselves and I plan to add more cute content to the same download pages down the road.
No pressure, duh! I just like sharing these lil guys with people 🥰
heywritersi have always used MS Word for writing, but my laptop wheezed and went into a coma last fall and took my MS 2007 with it.
i carefully switched some projects to Google Docs, but now it's promoting its "AI" software to me.
so i just downloaded LibreOffice and moved my GDocs over to that.
anyway, if anyone has bad news for me about LibreOffice, tell me now, please, thx
heywriters
ALTPre-MS 365, afaik, you didn't need an account to use what you paid for. You bought a CD-rom and it installed the software on a limited number of devices. There was no oversight from MS, no remembering passwords or agreeing to updates, if you bought it you owned it. I MISS that.
I did get MS 365 through my college, but either because I eventually left college or MS changed their policies I got locked out of 365. Since there was no major difference in the two programs anyway, I just adapted new docs back to MS 2007, but my computer would never open any MS files after that without me first starting up a (loyal, reliable) 2007 program. I truly loathe login/subscription/online-only software.
Anyway, most of my MS Word files are backed up on a flash drive but my new PC won't let me use the pre-installed MS products without a product key/login and I'm too petty to bother with that nightmare.
Google Docs was always a temporary solution to this mess.
heywritersa ton of great advice in the notes for anyone looking for writing software!
Additional info:
- OpenOffice is defunct, kaput, no longer exists. Those of you who have it, hooray for you! Enjoy your rare little software. Apparently LibreOffice is a successor of OpenOffice and as "Libre" suggests, it is $$ free $$
- Celtx, heretofore unmentioned, is primarily for screenwriting, but when I downloaded it back in 2014 it also had templates for writing and outlining novels. It was free then and the site says it's still free if anyone wants to try it (there is a one-time signup but I used a burner email and still got the program)