Tag: writing

Let’s Talk About Celebrity Authors

Let’s Talk About Celebrity Authors
Posted April 23, 2022
Books, Discussions, Writing

Hi friends! 👋🏻 If working in a library has taught me one thing about books that I didn’t already know (which is kind of impossible), it’s that there are a lot of books that are written by celebrities. Or books that have celebrity names on them. I am not entirely opposed to celebrities writing books but that tiny little snob who lives in the deepest depths of me does like to rear her little head and wonder how a certain celebrity got a book deal and how much their ghostwriter wrote as opposed to the celebrity. I don’t think I’ve seen anybody talk about celebrity books for a very long time in the blogosphere because that weird little boom of everyone and their mother getting a book deal has come and gone and been replaced by five other things. Just looking at YouTubers alone we’ve gone from books to paid sponsorships, makeup palettes, plushies, vinyl figures, and now (depending on the person) NFTs. But this is something that has crossed my mind recently because I see a lot of celebrity books, especially some from authors who I would never have thought of as being someone who would want a book deal. Non-readers […]

How I Started Writing Again (and why i’m not embarrassed by it)

How I Started Writing Again (and why i’m not embarrassed by it)
Posted September 9, 2021
Life, Writing

Hi friends! 👋🏻 Earlier this year I did something that I’ve wanted to do for a long time and finally started writing again! I’ve been writing creatively since I was around six or seven years old, have a BA in Creative Writing, and was able to write my own short stories for my MA dissertation, but once I finished my MA in 2017 I just stopped writing. I don’t know if I was burnt out but I just had no desire to write anything and my characters just bored me. Thankfully, I saw a little dry spot in some online content I’ve been reading and took the plunge to start writing again by filling in that dry spot. If you’d like to read my current writing, you can find it on my writing Tumblr, @alienguts! I STARTED WRITING FANFICTION. Yes, really. The funny thing is, I was never a fanfiction writer but rather a fanfiction reader for most of my life. Fanfic has this reputation of being poorly written stories featuring idealised versions of the author (who is usually a teenage girl), but I often found getting into it to be pretty intimidating. I’m a very anxious person and that even extends […]