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Being a writer is completing your project, taking too long of a look at it, hating it, and then wrestling with yourself about restarting it, burning it, or just hiding it where no one can find it

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Character-voice is I think one of the hardest parts of writing and here's two charts to explain my thoughts on why.

The intention:

The thing I think is maybe happening which I have no idea how to check or prevent:

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Writing Idea

Star based being, celestial type of thing, stuck on earth, feeling alone amongst creatures not like them, but slowly starts to feel more at home as they discover the little marks left by celestials before them in the shape of star shaped things found in nature on Earth.

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Small fantasy worldbuilding elements you might want to think about:

A currency that isn’t gold-standard/having gold be as valuable as tin

A currency that runs entirely on a perishable resource, like cocoa beans

A clock that isn’t 24-hours

More or less than four seasons/seasons other than the ones we know

Fantastical weather patterns like irregular cloud formations, iridescent rain

Multiple moons/no moon

Planetary rings

A northern lights effect, but near the equator

Roads that aren’t brown or grey/black, like San Juan’s blue bricks

Jewelry beyond precious gems and metals

Marriage signifiers other than wedding bands

The husband taking the wife's name / newlyweds inventing a new surname upon marriage

No concept of virginity or bastardry

More than 2 genders/no concept of gender

Monotheism, but not creationism

Gods that don’t look like people

Domesticated pets that aren’t re-skinned dogs and cats

Some normalized supernatural element that has nothing to do with the plot

Magical communication that isn’t Fantasy Zoom

“Books” that aren’t bound or scrolls

A nonverbal means of communicating, like sign language

A race of people who are obligate carnivores/ vegetarians/ vegans/ pescatarians (not religious, biological imperative)

I’ve done about half of these myself in one WIP or another and a little detail here or there goes a long way in reminding the audience that this isn’t Kansas anymore.

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I've been working on my story, Rave, since I was 13. It's gone through beginning to end reworks, edits, scraps, and I've finally hit a point where I am happy with it. These two journals are the hand written copies I've carried with me so that I can work on them wherever I go. (There's an additional yellow composition notebook not picture, that I gave to a friend as a gift, thinking I'd be done with this project much sooner than I was.) Now I get to do the next step of getting this thing published while I work on book 2, Renegade. It's a labor of love that I'll happily keep dedicating myself to, even if some days the creative juices refuse to cooperate. Rave: Chronicles of the Below synopsis:

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The Infected belong in the Below. Everyone knows their mutant powers are too dangerous, and the only way to keep things safe for both sides is to keep them seperate. Seventeen-year-old Tameryn has been “invited” to the Below, but she has no intention of letting the government rip her away from everything she’s ever known. After all, even the orphanage she grew up in sounds better than the lawless underground city where they send people like her. But she can’t run away forever. Unrest is brewing in the Below, and Tameryn finds herself mixed up with rebels who stand between an up-and-coming dictator and her hold on the city. For the first time, Tameryn is free to fully use her abilities, but an unexpected rumor that she’s a master assassin precedes her, leading her new friends to believe that she’s holding back a great power. Everyone wants Tameryn’s mysterious superpower, and she must choose a side. Will she work with a tyrant who promises her a return trip to her old life in the Above, or will she fight for her friends’ vision of a better future in the Below?