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@m_r_writes

queer romance writer and lover of tropes • villains do it better • 🔞 no minors •

she/her Katılım Eylül 2019
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morgan@m_r_writes·
IT'S RELEASE DAY!! Sapphic Blooms is a collection of sapphic love stories with a summer theme!! My story, Malibu Sunset, has: 🌸an age gap relationship 🌸boss/assistant trope 🌸grumpy x sunshine 🌸hot tub sex with mild d/s vibes books2read.com/u/31VVgM
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morgan@m_r_writes·
ughh i really sat down to write and the only thing i've written in the past hour and a half is an email.
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morgan@m_r_writes·
i'm convinced this typing style is why i have such awful issues with my hands. i learned to type this way and while i can type to the tune of 80 wpm, i do it almost exclusively with my two index fingers 😬
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the number of gen z and younger folks I see hunt and pecking in the library and computer labs at my college is INSANE, and I constantly see them on tiktok trying to find out things like ‘how do files in microsoft windows work?’ not even googling! searching tiktok!!

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morgan@m_r_writes·
@ChristaTRomance yeahhh i vote both. my entire tiktok fyp has been that fic for months (im not even IN that fandom) and now i'm astounded i didn't see this coming. any time a self pub book blows up on tiktok, a pub snatches it up, i guess i should have figured fic would not be exempt 😅
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Christa Tomlinson, Author
Christa Tomlinson, Author@ChristaTRomance·
I'm (mostly) always for fanfic authors getting their coins & selling refurbished fics. But is it lazy or savvy on the part of publishers to make these purchases, knowing they already have a giant fanbase willing to shell out money?
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Christa Tomlinson, Author
Christa Tomlinson, Author@ChristaTRomance·
Publishing popular fanfics sits at a weird spot between the publishing advice of "No publisher will buy a book that's already been published" & "publishers want you to already have a platform before they'll buy your book."
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morgan@m_r_writes·
@torrancesene it's easier to forget this stuff when you're so involved in fan spaces, but you make very valid points, and have given me much to think about 😅
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morgan@m_r_writes·
@torrancesene yeah this is true. tbf there's a reason why all my "file the serial numbers off" projects are all AUs to the point of unrecognizability and have never actually been posted online anywhere in their fanfic form, to avoid that risk...
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Torrance ☕ find me on Bluesky
Torrance ☕ find me on Bluesky@torrancesene·
I just think that if you’re gonna sell your fanfic to a publisher, you should at the very least, take the fanfic down from public view. Doesn’t matter that the fic itself isn’t driving a profit via traffic. The hype of a sale is still indirect marketing using someone else’s IP.
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morgan@m_r_writes·
@torrancesene the lines are getting increasingly messy, i do think at some point it's likely that there'll be backlash related to this whole issue. it probably would have happened with that ts book if it hadn't got taken down so fast.
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morgan@m_r_writes·
@torrancesene gotcha, i think i'm understanding where you're coming from a bit more now. it's like keeping a bit more of a degree of separation between the spaces?and i guess there's a difference between "this was (heavily) inspired by x" vs. "here is 100% conclusive evidence it is tied to it"
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morgan@m_r_writes·
@torrancesene @LA_Knight89 ohh, i think i see what you mean... i've been coming at this with fic writer brain rather than author brain 😅 that does make sense and you make very valid points. it's like how amazon tried to make a fanfic publishing platform where people got paid and i was like uhhh yikes 😬
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Torrance ☕ find me on Bluesky
Torrance ☕ find me on Bluesky@torrancesene·
@LA_Knight89 @m_r_writes Given how much PRH has been gloating about cutting costs and using AI to edit... I kinda don't think the fic would be any better in book form lol. They are just wanting to take those 6.9 million fanfic viewers for cash cows.
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morgan@m_r_writes·
@LA_Knight89 worth preserving in its own way. there are aspects of the "wildly long 600k fic" experience that don't translate well to publication but are enjoyable in the fic world, i think
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morgan@m_r_writes·
@LA_Knight89 For sure! tbf a lot of the ones i have read, i've only read the published version, but i have read several that had upward of 50k cut from the final version and imo were the better for it, but at the same time there's something about the raw original version that i think was
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morgan@m_r_writes·
@torrancesene maybe that's your point and i'm misunderstanding 😅 i'm just like, it's too late, take the fic down or not, there'll always be people who buy it because of what it was, you know?
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morgan@m_r_writes·
@torrancesene it's like all the reylo books, everyone already knows. they sell specifically BECAUSE everyone already knows. i do agree that using celeb likenesses (especially for former RPF fics) is WAY over the line.
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morgan@m_r_writes·
@LA_Knight89 @torrancesene (i say this as someone who wrote a similarly insanely long fic one time that suffered from the same problem 😅 )
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morgan@m_r_writes·
@LA_Knight89 @torrancesene like if we're talking about the fic i think we're talking about, i feel perhaps a stern editorial eye wouldn't go amiss, there was a LOT of filler material imo
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morgan@m_r_writes·
@torrancesene @LA_Knight89 yeah this is true, all my fandoms are like. cancelled cw tv shows so there is less concern about it haha, i assume the fic we're on about is that dramione one?
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morgan@m_r_writes·
@ZoeYorkWrites not just in book terms, but i regularly see on tiktok that people will leave comments demanding answers to very easily googleable questions when they could literally have just typed the same thing into a search engine. yet they seem unwilling to do so? it's baffling.
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morgan@m_r_writes·
@ZoeYorkWrites to be fair it is incredibly unintuitive (and a bit annoying) to not be able to buy books in the app itself. that being said, i do get concerned about the certain lack of resourcefulness i keep seeing in people needing things spoonfed to them because they can't just... look it up?
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