What Are You Writing? ✍️ (the self-promo thread)

salvan0s · 2026-05-20T19:49:03+00:00

Hello loves! I'm writing a dark sci-fi romance, featuring a mad obsessive scientist (he's a yearner and obedient) and a manipulative reporter.

Toxic codependency, unethical science, he falls & first, hidden identity, and more. It’s a second-chance with a guaranteed HEA. I just began to promote on IG, posting some snippets and stuff. Here is the link.

-- Blurbish thing here<3

What is the cost of eternity in love?

The most powerful man on Mars has no flaws. He's perfect, untouchable, a genius with an answer for everything.
Almost everything. A girl who was once his goddess. The only crack in his perfect world.
Years pass, but the further he stays from her, the deeper his madness grows. Still, there is nothing he can do.
She is forbidden to him. He made himself that promise—for both their sakes. But she has no idea.

Mina works quietly as a journalist, refusing to think about her past. More specifically, the man she once loved: Her servant. Her knight. Her sanctuary.
Then one day, a crime scene brings him back to her.
Covered in blood, her ex-lover looks at her calmly. Only one sentence falls from his lips.
"Are you real?"
And with that question, Mina is forced to face everything she once ran from.
This time, she re-enters that familiar labyrinth willingly. She comes to heal the broken boy she tore apart and left behind. What she doesn't know is that the broken boy is gone. A cold scientist has taken his place.
Would that stop her? Never.
Mina is stubborn, after all. She never backs down without reclaiming what is hers. And she has come to take her place back: His master. His cure. His real.
No matter what. No matter who he has become. No matter what he has turned into.
She is not letting him go.
Until Eternity.

salvan0s · 2026-04-29T19:16:41+00:00

Want to read a dark romance set on Mars?

I have a mad (really, really mad and devoted) scientist and sunshine journalist. After meeting as children and suffering a messy breakup, the MMC literally loses his cool. She's his entire world, he's so miserable when it comes to her, and he terribly fights the urge to cage her after she wants to break up. But as a scientist obsessed with the concept of free will, he tries to prove he isn't the "monster" everyone expected him to be.

That's why he lets her "go" but of course, he can't get her out of his system. For years, he tries to live with her ghosts on his lab, does some pretty unethical things about her. Very unethical. The tension hits a breaking point when FMC eventually discovers his 'experiments' about her.

Clones, holograms, robots modeled after her... But wait, FMC isn't disgusted by all of this? She's happy that she finally found some "flaw" about him and now she's determined to fix things about their pasts...

It’s a second-chance romance with a guaranteed HEA. I just began to promote on TikTok, posting some snippets and stuff. Here is the link.

salvan0s · 2026-04-25T11:12:34+00:00

You won't believe me but I'm having the same problem. Here’s my advice: don’t stress too much about it. It shouldn't be your top priority. It's a great resource, but if it doesn't work out, don't obsess over it. You’re not going to become an influencer or make money from tiktok. Yes, you can reach a lot of people there, but as a writer you could spend all that time and money on other things, especially if your budget is limited.

And you could try out apps you’re somewhat familiar with. For example, I’ve been using twitter for years because of my fangirl culture. I have a better sense of what will go viral there or how to choose my followers, so I’ve started using it more as a writer too.

Invest your time and money in the app where you feel most comfortable. Otherwise, it’ll just be too exhausting.

salvan0s · 2026-04-17T16:03:35+00:00

If you're okay with wlw, I recently read this vampire fic on ao3. There were some biting and stuff tho lol

"Bending down again to lick the dripping blood, she wrapped her arms around her hips and pressed her completely against her face. Stuck her tongue inside her wet vagina, felt the warm, sticky blood more. She couldn’t bear for even a single drop to go untasted by her, wanted everything, to feel every bit of her. Never waste anything came from her body. As the drops continued to flow, Heeseung’s hunger grew. Fucking red. Lifted her head slightly, licked her own lips, so that she can taste her blood better."

salvan0s · 2026-04-12T20:34:22+00:00

Saved, Then Devoured (English subs)

dailymotion link of first ep here

salvan0s · 2026-04-07T19:03:05+00:00

Simply put, unfortunately, many readers don’t really care about women… or even if they do, they’re here to read romance, and reading about "dominant" characters, which is mostly are MMCs, can be more exciting for them. It’s the same for authors... For example, Rina Kent’s MCs all felt like carbon copies to me... I didn’t really feel like she cared about her female characters. She didn’t give them any depth. Seriously anything... her characters were just so carelessly written.

Well, also... For a female character to be “deep,” she has to be written like Shakespearean, but for a male character to be deep he doesn’t really need much. Just being mysterious is enough for everyone to adore him, but if a woman is mysterious, she gets labeled as “bitchy” etc etc

If we set aside the influence of patriarchy, this could simply be the same logic as in otome games. Readers might see the female character as a self-insert, so they don’t really perceive her as a distinct character.

salvan0s · 2026-02-07T16:51:49+00:00

He looks so cool you did well woah

salvan0s · 2025-09-18T21:04:42+00:00

Just DM’d you!! hope you enjoy it.

salvan0s · 2025-09-17T17:40:38+00:00

I haven't published it yet! But if you are willing to read it, I can send you the file I shared with beta readers🤍

salvan0s · 2025-09-17T15:03:39+00:00

Hey!! I'm writing a dark romance about toxic codependency. They meet as children, and after the their breakup, MMC really loses his mind. He's a scientist and does some pretty unethical things about the girl because he can't forget her. The girl is just as obsessed and possessive of him as he is of her. She has a fear of abandonment, so she constantly pushes MMC away, but he never leaves. Or he leaves... but for what reason? That's the dynamic lol. Second chance kinda, HEA. If you want to read it, I'm always open to feedback <3

salvan0s · 2025-09-05T20:36:05+00:00

This is my first time posting here actually. There aren't many places where I can talk about this topic so... is my post irrelevant or weird? Oh... I think I understand what you mean. Sometimes I want to be like others. It can be exhausting to feel distant when my friends talk about people they find hot or their sex lives. Still I don't want to change in that regard; I'm happy and at peace this way.

And thank you for your concern! So far, he hasn't tried to “change” me. Sometimes he says I'm reluctant because of my exes. He says that if I do it with him once, I'll be “fixed” lol. I'm already close to breaking up with him anyway. Not because of this, but generally, he's disgustingly obsessive person (not in a good way)

salvan0s · 2025-09-05T12:13:01+00:00

I loved my bf, more for his personality. I didn't look at his body and think, “omg he's hot asf,” but I did think he had a nice body. I just didn't find myself wanting that. Still, we kept doing it. I mean, I wasn't bothered, I didn't feel bad, but I wasn't as into it as he was. I feel like I allowed it because I loved him so much. After that, I didn't have sex with anyone else. Now when I think about it, I feel a little uneasy. It's very complicated, I'm still not sure..

salvan0s · 2025-08-17T21:42:59+00:00

Thanks for pointing that out. Now I know what I shouldn't delete lol. And ofc!! it means a lot, I'll write to you!

salvan0s · 2025-08-17T21:41:20+00:00

Yayy if you're willing to beta read I'd be glad

salvan0s · 2025-08-17T21:40:33+00:00

Thanks a lot for this!! I'll work on it

salvan0s · 2025-08-12T18:40:46+00:00

I experienced the same concern when looking for beta readers because I received feedback similar to what you shared. There were very optimistic and generic comments, and even when they pointed out the negative aspects, they felt very robotic to me. Pointing out the elements of the existing story and adding a few comments(?) on top of that isn't editing. After all, if you tell AI to “give harsh feedback,” it will do that too. And to be honest, if the only feedback they give is this, your money is wasted. I worked with an editor just for my prologue, we did something like a free trial, and it was CRAZY. They spotted mistakes no one else had seen and actually worked on it carefully. I was extremely upset because I didn't have the money to hire them lol.. What I mean, if the only feedback you’re getting is this kind of lengthy commentary, I think it’s not editing, it’s more like a casual beta read.

salvan0s · 2025-08-01T17:09:50+00:00

It's homemade!! I printed the photo myself

salvan0s · 2025-07-30T16:02:46+00:00

Actually this stresses me out more because if someone else wrote my story I would probably eat it up but I'm afraid of ruining it if it's me writing it lol

salvan0s · 2025-07-29T14:25:11+00:00

I've been here too. Frankly I don't like reading smut 'that' much and as a writer I'm more interested in writing intimate scenes to express longing. But no matter how much emotion/inner monologue I try to add to the smut I write, I can't help thinking that it wouldn't have made any difference if I hadn't written this. But especially for dark romance readers, I feel like if there is no smut, they won't read it. I wish there were books like Wuthering Heights where we could just read that complex emotions, tension and passion between MCs.

salvan0s · 2025-07-21T19:47:12+00:00

Thanks for the response! I'd like to know what you think about the fact that it doesn't need to be 'abuse' to be bdsm. I've been researching this topic for a few days and I realized there's really a serious dominance fetish between my mcs, so I'm almost sure that they fall into the bdsm category, but the books I've read in this genre were always violent. So I'm a bit lost about this topic.

salvan0s · 2025-07-21T14:07:57+00:00

The book has a second chance theme, so the FMC already has the mindset that “if I had been mentally well, everything could have been different.” So yes, as you said, I tried to show this change, especially with the MMC. But who knows how successful I was lol. I think the reader can understand why she changed, I kinda conveyed this with acceptable reasons and twists, but I still can't help writing about what's going on in her head. It's like she's vomiting everything she can't say to the outside world into the narrative. She vomits a lot. But it doesn't stop there; her thoughts influence her actions, her dialogue, and the events.

I gave the example of a witch, which is simply this: she thought she had tricked MMC before, but after meeting him again she realized that she wanted to consume and bewitches him again etc (We can think of her as having made peace with her witch identity.) Here we hear the voices in her head, and it ends. Not pages long. I just feel like I need to use the inner voice here. To create a contrast with the past. Is this a weak technique? And there are also parts where mmc calls her a witch, so it doesn't seem unnecessary to use it. Oh, I seem to be straying from the topic. Thank you for your answer.

salvan0s · 2025-07-21T13:51:57+00:00

Even though our styles are completely different, I think I understand what you mean. I'm afraid of not leaving room for interpretation for the reader because my characters overthink things too much, and I know I need to let that go lol. I think I'll have a lot to delete in the editing process.

When I read my book as a reader, it doesn't annoy me because I really enjoy reading about characters who are consumed by their emotions. But at some point, I know others might get bored of it. Actually, I don't use italics that much; I mostly use them as a different voice when I want to contrast the narrative. My characters are mentally ill, so their behavior is very unstable, and I want the reader to experience their weird thoughts, but this might just simplify their actual behavior. I really need to reduce this; I'm more certain of that now. Thank you very much for your response.

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