This Is My Second Post About My Wip's Clans. My First Post Is Here.

This is my second post about my wip's clans. My first post is here.

Herbneivorous Clan

Colors: Dark green and purple

Symbol: Holly Berries

The Herbneivorous Clan is known for being having great medics. Their powers include the ability to grow plants, the ability to eat poisonous plants, and the ability to tell a plant's properties by touching it. The latter power is what makes it easy for them to make medicines. Their powers are strongest when they're in nature.

Despite their aptitude with medicine, not even the Herbneivorous Clan can find a cure for the plague.

Their physical traits include green, brown, or hazel eyes; brown or black curly hair; and brown skin.

While most clans are tight-knit and reclusive to others, the Herbneivorous Clan has a case of in-fighting. The Hemlock and Nightshade subfamilies are the two most powerful of this clan and often compete to be the most powerful. The Nightshade subfamily will even go as far as poisoning other witches to gain more power.

The Herbneivorous Clan gets along best with the Fang Clan and worst with the Arsonite Clan.

I’M ABOUT HALFWAY THROUGH THE SECOND DRAFT OF MY WIP LETS GOOOOO

Ok wait I’m actually not gaslighting myself. I JUST opened my fyp on tiktok and found this video that explains how marketing has changed to push authors to make social media accounts. Hope it makes sense with what I’m trying to say.

@that-chibi-writer

SPILLED INK SATURDAY 》 Writeblr Discourse Series

Session 2: Book Marketing

Spilled Ink is a writeblr discourse series. Each session is centered around a writer/reader/author-related topic and/or debate and those participating are invited to share their thoughts and opinions on these matters from a writer’s perspective. Take a look at our first session here.

To participate in the discussion, you can do so one of two ways:

➸ Return to the OG post (which will always be linked in the title of the post) and reblog with your take on the topic, either in text or in the tags

➸ If you see someone’s take on your feed and you want to chime in on something they said, feel free to reblog their response

If you choose to participate please be respectful when providing your opinion or when responding to someone else’s. 

How do you feel about the recent shift in the way books are marketed?

Everything from quotes on the back of book sleeves (why did we make this a thing???) to listing tropes/vibes for books on social media posts, it's evident that the way books are marketed has shifted over the last several years. As a writer/author, are these marketing strategies necessary and more effective to gain readers? As a reader, do they turn you on or off of a novel? Can they be misleading? Reblog and share your thoughts.

This is the third of my wip's clans. Here is my first post and my second post.

The Fang Clan

Colors: Brown and gold

Symbol: Paw Print

The Fang Clan is known for being the feistiest clan. Witches of this clan are physically stronger than those of any other clan, and they love to entertain themselves by having fights. They are not a fan of rules and are quite spontaneous. This is one of the two clans that doesn’t have a secret.

Fang powers include strong, animal-like senses, each witch having a familiar, and the ability to communicate with animals. Their physical traits include blond or brown coarse hair; gold, brown, or hazel eyes; and sharp canine teeth and nails.

The Fang Clan gets along best with the Arsonite Clan and worst with the Spiritwalker Clan.

Honestly I don’t like the way books are marketed now. I saw someone on tiktok compare it to fast fashion and…yeah.

I realized so many of the books I read this year feel the same. Every male love interest is the same mysterious, morally gray rip off of Rhysand from ACOTAR and half of the plots I’ve consumed are a lost princess rising to power and falling in love with her enemy along the way. I don’t like how predictable books have gotten because their plots revolve around tropes instead of tropes being worked into the plots. This problem expands to titles too. Like how did we get to the point where titles are so predictable that we have generators where you can plug in random words and get what would be a popular title? I mostly avoid “a __ of __ and __” titles or ones that say anything about a prince or princess because I’m getting bored of reading the same story over and over.

I also take issue with authors having to do all the promoting for their books instead of the publishing houses. This is how we end up with situations like how recently a debut author reviewed bombed her mostly POC “competition” and gave herself 5 star ratings. This is completely unacceptable and I don’t think it would have happened if we haven’t had this shift in marketing.

This shift in marketing puts too much on the author to succeed. I think it’s caused stories to become less original in hopes of profitting off of what’s popular, and it’s caused worthless competition between authors. I hope we can go back to way it used to be done.

SPILLED INK SATURDAY 》 Writeblr Discourse Series

Session 2: Book Marketing

Spilled Ink is a writeblr discourse series. Each session is centered around a writer/reader/author-related topic and/or debate and those participating are invited to share their thoughts and opinions on these matters from a writer’s perspective. Take a look at our first session here.

To participate in the discussion, you can do so one of two ways:

➸ Return to the OG post (which will always be linked in the title of the post) and reblog with your take on the topic, either in text or in the tags

➸ If you see someone’s take on your feed and you want to chime in on something they said, feel free to reblog their response

If you choose to participate please be respectful when providing your opinion or when responding to someone else’s. 

How do you feel about the recent shift in the way books are marketed?

Everything from quotes on the back of book sleeves (why did we make this a thing???) to listing tropes/vibes for books on social media posts, it's evident that the way books are marketed has shifted over the last several years. As a writer/author, are these marketing strategies necessary and more effective to gain readers? As a reader, do they turn you on or off of a novel? Can they be misleading? Reblog and share your thoughts.

this is my exact reaction to my wip every other week

Do you ever start writing something that you’re excited about and that seems like it’s turning out well and that you’re getting eager to share, and then you start typing it up or doing an edit pass and it’s just awful it’s awful its premise is fundamentally flawed and it’s out of character and the prose is clunky and the plot is badly paced and ludicrous and the whole thing is embarrassing, how could you have done this, how could you have sunk so much time into this, you can’t even look at it, how is this that shining thing you were so excited about, how could you even have considered finishing it let alone sharing it with anyone, you’re crying, your mother is crying, nuns are spontaneously exploding in the streets,