Ben

AKA Ice. Aspiring Author. Love fantasy and weird fiction. Big Fan of Gaiman, Miéville and Vandermeer. Feel free to strike up a conversation!

[Ben @BenGwrites]

Hello twitter! List of things I'm currently working on, if you wanna get an idea of what I write!
- Sapling, an ecological horror/adventure story, where the forest wants you dead and people turn to trees.
- God of Gloves, fantasy/weird fic.
- Dr Marhain's manor - gothic horror

[Ben @BenGwrites]

@KJHunterWrites Generally it's more that a following count of around 1k with an interaction base of 10 likes a tweet is a very bad conversion rate and that's part of this attitude in writing twitter to just follow as many people as possible, without active interest.

[Ben @BenGwrites]

So as I was recently tagged in a follow train, I feel like it's worth addressing those things. As well-intended as they are, they aren't beneficial. They're often including huge amounts of people and are super impersonal [1/?]

[Ben @BenGwrites]

@KJHunterWrites I'm personally not really active on twitter so these are more general trends I've noticed. Twitter also starts filtering out tweets at huge following numbers, so even liking everything doesn't bring you into contact with everyone.

[Ben @BenGwrites]

[cont] A conversation, interacting with tweets, that's what's meaningful. They get you to know people, add some faces behind those insane numbers I say so often. Gaining followers through that is way more worthwhile than follow trains. [end]

[Ben @BenGwrites]

[cont] a follow-back attitude, and this idea that big numbers are useful, neglecting that they don't bring interaction. Follow trains are a big part of these empty interactions, and there's so many more meaningful ways to get in touch with starting creators and cool people [6/?]

[Ben @BenGwrites]

@authorKABlack @KSekouM Also childhood favorite of mine and not as conceptually heavy but more just a fun forest romp that still excites the child in me is Beyond the Deepwood by Stewart Paul!

[Ben @BenGwrites]

@authorKABlack @KSekouM Hey hey! late answer because I don't check twitter that much, but I love Wild Life by Molly Gloss, and it's not supernatural as far as I'm aware (next on my TBR but not read it yet), but Our Endless Numbered Days also seems great.

[Alex Raines @A_RainesWrites]

Hey #WritingCommunity! I have a giveaway live for my new book on Amazon!! Who doesn't love free books?? 💕

#AmazonGiveaway for: The Last Hope (Kindle Edition). NoPurchNec: https://t.co/m2ctar4kXK

[Ben @BenGwrites]

@RifFlame @twinsthings De terreurangsten werden al geuit voordat het publiekelijk gemaakt werd dat het een Turkse shooter was.

[Ben @BenGwrites]

me:
Shane Dawson: Lizard people control the government!
me: ??
Shane: The planet is hollow! The moon is fake!
me: ????
Shane: The government invented death to control our minds. Oh my god I'm LITERALLY shaking

[Ben @BenGwrites]

@PlotgirlE I adore your art so fucking much.

[Stacey Scribbles @StaceyScribbles]

Launched this week! Ecstatic to say my debut novella is now published on Amazon! :) Can a forgotten daughter help her father to remember her using music? https://t.co/aA1tGE9nPr #selfpublishing #ampublished #indieauthors #WritingCommunity #IndieBooksBeSeen #BookBoost

[Ben @BenGwrites]

So where I'm from it's currently the day of poetry, or #gedichtendag! In celebrating that, here's a poem I wrote some years back 😄 And please share some of your fav poetry with me! #WritingCommunity #amwriting

[Stacey Scribbles @StaceyScribbles]

Hello Fellow Writers! I'm new to Twitter and thought I'd say hi! I'm an aspiring writer who has just launched a debut literary fiction novella and am also working on a fantasy novel and various short stories :) #writingcommmunity #WritingCommunity #Writer

[Alex Raines @A_RainesWrites]

Ender's Game + Hunger Games

Vlad and his team must compete for a chance to save themselves and their families from a meteor hurtling towards Earth. With the clock ticking, they compete in a VR Sim of the moon, where monsters both inside and out haunt them.

#SFFPit #YA #POC #SF

[Ben @BenGwrites]

What is some up and coming tech you guys are excited about?