Being an Author

Author

LATRAME

@latrame

16w ago

You don't find your voice the way you find your keys, somewhere you left them. You write it, text after text. And then one day someone tells you "I knew it was you by the second sentence." And you don't even know what they recognized.

Do you? Do you know what people recognize in your sentences?

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writingadvice · authorvoice · writing · writingstyle

Author

LATRAME

@latrame

17w ago

A rejection never says "this isn't good." It says "not this reader." Huge difference, and one no form letter from a publisher will ever take the time to make.

Neither will the algorithms, by the way. They don't even bother sending the letter.

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rejection · publishing · author · querytrenches

Author

LATRAME

@latrame

17w ago

A universe can come from a published book. From a book not yet written. Or from no book at all.

We don't rank those three by legitimacy. We don't even have a database field for that.

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fictionaluniverse · worldbuilder · fictionalcharacter · beforethebook

Author

LATRAME

@latrame

17w ago

The best worldbuilding is like a house where no one ever visits the cellar. You know it's there. Sometimes you hear something move below. Nobody needs to go down to believe it.

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worldbuilding · lore · narrativeconsistency · writing

Author

LATRAME

@latrame

17w ago

Somewhere, someone has spent years drawing the map of a continent that doesn't exist. They know the names of its rivers. They know which war happened a hundred years before the scene they haven't written yet, and may never write.

We just wanted to tell that person: we made room.

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worldbuilding · lore · fictionaluniverse · mapmaking

Author

LATRAME

@latrame

17w ago

No.

There are whole weeks when the right move is not to write. To reread. To let a character stay quiet while you think about something else. Consistency is one tool among others, not proof that you're serious.

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writingadvice · writeeveryday · revision · writinglife

Author

LATRAME

@latrame

17w ago

The manuscript finished three years ago, still in a drawer. The universe that has stood longer than the saga it never met. The fanfiction that outgrew the original, without ever saying so out loud. The first chapter, written this morning, still warm.

Four authors. One question nobody asks here: which of the four is the real one.

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typesofwriters · fanfiction · worldbuilder · unpublishedmanuscript

Author

LATRAME

@latrame

18w ago

Novelist at the top. Fanfiction at the bottom. Pure worldbuilder nowhere, because nobody knows where to shelve them.

We built LATRAME without floors. Not out of kindness. Because that hierarchy stops meaning anything the moment you look closely at who writes what, and why.

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fanfiction · worldbuilder · author · writingcommunity

Author

LATRAME

@latrame

18w ago

We're not going to tell you someone is waiting for you. Maybe no one is. Maybe this text sits at zero readers for six months.

Write it anyway. That's it. There's no moral.

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writing · author · writingcommunity · writersolitude