me returning to the writing community after I hit a writers block, felt like I'm a fake, almost deleted all my manuscripts off my desktop out of frustration and cried over the same 2 chapters of my latest manuscript. #writingcommunity #writingproblems #YAwriter

Literally got me feeling insane sometimes. #writingcommunity #writingproblems #paranormalromance #youngadultfiction #WIP

#AboutMe #WritingCommunity A Fistful of Water; #LGBT story about self repression, discovery&yearning. #Querying A Body Full of Static; #contemporary story about teenage addiction&recovery. BloodBound; #PR about yearning through centuries and #forbiddenromance #WIPSnips #AmWriting

Me: I'm actually gonna do this story in first person present tense. also me: I'm actually going to slam my laptop into a wall because what the hellllll why is first person present tense so dang hard to keep going smoothly #writingcommunity #writingproblems

Hows writing going? Oh, good. I just stared at this one spot for like 15 minutes trying to figure out what to put instead of "said" and if I should put the dialogue with the action above. (yes, its TVD fanfic because why would I be working on my original story 🙃) #WritingCommunity #WIP #Fanfic

Going the traditional route is not for the weak of mind or heart 🫩 praised and turned down in the same email. But we keep on chugging along in the #querytrenches 🥳 one day we will get out! #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying #AmWriting

Sundays are marked as 'sinday' with the tumblr writing community so here is my contribute to Sinday on here. Drunken Elijah feels bold, making a move on Oliver while the pair are at a nightclub in Vegas for Spring Break. #AmQuerying #WritingCommunity #QueryTrenches #LGBT #RomanceBook #WIPSnips

A Fistful of Water - Chapter 4. Elijah follows Oliver outside the college bar, searching for any excuse to strike up a conversation with the guy he bumped into outside the elevator earlier that day. #AmQuerying #WritingCommunity #QueryTrenches #LGBT #RomanceBook #WIPSnips

Salem Witch Trials x Vampire x One-Sided Yearning Through Centuries Untilted #WIPSnips #WIP #R #PN #HI

A Body Full of Static is a coming-of-age YA novel about a teenage girl’s desperate attempt to feel something new, her slide into addiction, and the fight it takes to claw her way back out #WSPit #W #YA

When writing A Fistful of Water, I had a playlist called Bush-Obama Era on repeat the whole time. With A Body Full of Static? The Euphoria soundtrack. The roughdraft/idea I'm currently working on? Lana Del Rey and Lorde. Does anyone else have routines? #writingcommunity #wip #amwriting

A Fistful of Water is a slow burn new adult romance about yearning, repression, and the quiet cost of submerging the truest parts of yourself....until the one person who sees you clearly begins guiding you, breath by breath, back to the surface. #Q #NA #LGBT #R #WSpit

The scene that was stuck in my head all day finally typed out. Will I continue this story? I dunno... I'm not much of a fantasy writer but i love what this is doing so far. #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #FantasyRomance #FR

How I feel typing and retyping and then deleting, only to retype the same paragraph over and over again.

A way I get into my story is by making Pinterest boards. It gives me a feel of the characters, the mood, and theme. Check out the board for A Fistful Of Water; pin.it/7zMVqNmws #writingcommunity #lgbtbooks #CR #amquerying

When Im not working on a novel, I'm shamelessly roleplaying and writing fanfiction for The Vampire Diaries (and have been on tumblr writing for over 10 years 😅) #WritingCommunity #TVD #Fanfiction #klefan #AmWriting #AmQuerying

A #snippet from my pride and joy; A Fistful of Water. A romance set in Lawrence Kansas and about the quiet ache of becoming. About desire, identity, and the courage it takes to stop drowning for others. (not really a WIP as it is finished) #AmQuerying #WritingCommunity #CR #QueerRomance #WIPSnips

Typically all my stories start out as a random scene I had an idea of. Then I build out the story around it. Sometimes this fails and I end up dropping the story after a few chapters. Sometimes this works wonderfully and I finish the first draft of a story in a few months. #writingcommunity #wip

You can catch promos and #snippets of my books here; www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8xdp67G/ #writingcommunity #amquerying #writertok

How I feel when a strong idea for a story hits out of nowhere and I’m trying to explain it to my partner #writerproblems #amwriting #amquering

A Body Full of Static is my current WIP. It is a coming-of-age YA novel about a teenage girl’s desperate attempt to feel something new, her slide into addiction, and the fight it takes to claw her way back out. #questpit #WIP #youngadultnovel

-insert stressed smoking gif here- When writing it doesnt seem like I overuse words. But then it comes time to read it in full and I realize how much I use the word "just" 😵‍💫 #writingcommunity #amwriting #amquerying #writingproblems

Anyone else get kinda sad when they finished a story? I miss my characters 😭 #amquerying #writingcommunity #writerproblems

I have a deadline in less than 24 hours to meet and I really need to stop adding things to my Pintrest board for Elijah and Oliver but I love them so much. #querying #querytrenches #writingcommunity

Never did I think my Alt Text course will become useful for anything outside of work...😅

A Fistful of Water is a queer romance set in Lawrence Kansas and about the quiet ache of becoming. A story about desire, identity, and the courage it takes to stop drowning for others. #Cupit #CR #NA #LGBT #Querying

A Fistful of Water snip. This is in the #querytrenches and I may be pulling it out shortly to put more effort into a different story<3 But Elijah and Oliver's love story will always have a place in my heart and one day will see the limelight. #AmWriting #AmQuerying #WritingCommunity #WIPSnips

Was going to write today but decided to play around in Photoshop with cover concepts instead😅 I'm not a fan of the cartoon covers that seem to have taken like wildfire. (I have no design capabilities&just threw things together) #AmWriting (though im really procrastinating) #AmQuerying #YAnovels

Was digging through some old files of mine and found old stories from 2014 <3 It is amazing to read how much I have evolved. #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingLife #poetrywriting

Some days I can sit and write 5k words with no issues. Other days I sit and stare at the same line and edit it over and over again. Both are okay<3 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

#WIPSnips from A Body Full Of Static. A Body Full of Static offers an intimate exploration of teenage addiction—of identity worn thin, connections lost, and the fragile space between escape and harm. #AmWriting #AmQuerying #WritingCommunity

I created a linktree where you can sign up to be a beta reader for my current and future writing <3 linktr.ee/ohjibbs The next one to be needing beta readers will be A Body Full of Static, you can check out a little about it on my profile here. #writingcommunity #betareaders #betareader

No "zeal" typed out in A Fistful of Water but here is a moment where Oliver is very enthusiastic during a moment with Elijah. #WIPSnips #writingprompts #writingcommunity

A Body Full of Static is my current WIP. It is a coming-of-age YA novel about a teenage girl’s desperate attempt to feel something new, her slide into addiction, and the fight it takes to claw her way back out. #questpit #WIP #youngadultnovel

A little about me: I have been writing for over ten years and finally finished my debut novel "A Fistful of Water". It stands alone but is the first of a interwoven series following the lives and relationships of different people all in the same midwest college town<3 #WritersOfBluesky #writing

A FISTFUL OF WATER is a 52,000-word contemporary new adult romance that explores love, internalized fear, and the ache of choosing yourself when it means disappointing the people who raised you. #questpit