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Okay so that lasted a wee bit longer than predicted. . .
Anyway.
I am so excited to hear about everyone’s nanowrimo (or non-nanowrimo) projects!
Hey🧡:
Gonna be on a wee hiatus for a week or two.
Crazy life but what can you do?!
Will eventually get to the asks and tag games!
Thank you for the warm welcome to Writeblr. . . you guys are great :)
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Introduction Post :)
I have been here on-and-off for ages and just realised I have never properly introduced myself, so please allow me to rectify that!
Name: Orange
Age: early twenties
Career: nanny
I am from Australia 🇦🇺 and Canada 🇨🇦.
This blog is partially my personal blog and partially a writeblr. My tumblr usage is very haphazard and I often disappear however thus far I have always come back :)
I have a bunch of projects (yay for a limited attention span) but my baby was Heir to a Broken Kingdom… however the poor thing is now nameless but still just as loved! The project’s logline is:
“Striped of his royal title, 16yo Skandar must undertake a dangerous pilgrimage; but he is being hunted by an assassin who believes he was never the rightful heir.”
It’s YA, but most of my stuff is MG because that was the age when books had the biggest impact on me. My dream is to do for other little girls what Ranger’s Apprentice and The Roman Mysteries and Young Samurai and Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers did for ten-year-old me :)
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So I have two options for Nanowrimo: either a traditional nano (first draft, starting at zero words) MG action/adventure or alternately a non-traditional nano (working on the third draft; the completed second draft is around 75,000 words) MG fantasy. Every day I convince myself to pick one option and then the very next day I change my mind so I suppose we shall just have to wait and see where the *feelings* land on November first!
#my writing#nanowrimo#pantser#i have never outlined a thing in my life :)#(i am not back from my hiatus)#(but i hope life settles down a touch and i can return to tumblr for the adventure of nanowrimo)
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Hey🧡:
Gonna be on a wee hiatus for a week or two.
Crazy life but what can you do?!
Will eventually get to the asks and tag games!
Thank you for the warm welcome to Writeblr. . . you guys are great :)
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Last Line Tag
stealing open tags from @sleepy-night-child! my current WIP and look at me go, my main character’s finally learning how to [spoiler]. :3
Step by step, you got this. You’re taking it one at a time and that sixteen year old would be in complete shock at how far you are now. It’s for her, no one else.
Tagging, no pressure tho: @pe-ersona, @amberskywrites, @klywrites, and open tag.^^
also looking for ppl to tag in word find games and maybe last line tag games too, so interact here.^^
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I adore Kyda… but Ibhan is just *chefs kiss*. You are absolutely on-point, such a stubborn grouchy little man and I love him!
Bad Synopsis Tag
I was tagged by @wizardfromthesea and @diphthongsfordays to do this!!
The Wand and The Wolf
A werewolf with golden retriever energy tries to adopt an antisocial warlock as her bestie/possible lover but hes having none of it. They end up running away and getting in to fight after fight until they finally adopt each other
Im gonna tag @stories-by-rie @andinbetweenwegarden and anyone else who wants to share!!!
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“The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.”
—
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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if your story has a character with wings you are required by law to include at least one flight scene where they drop into freefall from a great height before unfurling their wings to catch an updraught that propels them to safety inches before they make contact with the ground as the music swells and crescendos in the background. no exceptions.
#writing adjacent#Tiago#my guy has wings and is enough of a hero to do this :)#acrobats & butterflies
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Last Line Tag
Thank you muchly @the-orangeauthor 🧡
This is from the zero draft of acrobats & butterflies:
This was the dull part of acrobatics, Kalyani had long since decided. The hours of mindless repetition. This was faux sparring. This wasn’t entertainment! But boring came first, Kalix always told them. Get the simple fight choreographed; then the trimmings can be added.
This exploratory draft is a lot of fun :)
Tagging no one in particular, but if you want to share your last line I’d love to see it!!
#my writing#acrobats & butterflies#Kalyani#Kalix#i remember all the boring drills from when i did karate#my instructor said the same thing: get the basics down now and you can add the fun trimmings later#be patient my little Kalyani!
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*sending hugs* for courage, :3. - 🔮⛈ (@enchanted-lightning-aes)
thank you, love🧡
#there are so many aspects of life that take courage and for me interactions with people take a lot of it#so thank you#🥺🥰🧡
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my protagonist is such a dumbass i love him so much
#writing adjacent#Montie#my darling dumbass boy :)#not quite my protagonist but an MC nonetheless#acrobats & butterflies
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Need to quickly outline a novel before sitting down to write? Well look no further than my 4-step guide; the easiest, hardest outline method you’ll ever try! 🤓📐
1. Summarize. Write a summary of what you think your novel is going to be about, be brief and snappy, kind of like the description on the back of a hardback book.
Now that you have an idea what the story is about…
2. Pick the start & end points! Where does the story begin? Where does it end? This is NOT about *knowing* the end, but rather having an idea of where the story will wrap up. Otherwise how will you know you’ve gotten there?
3. Populate the timeline! Are there any scenes / moments that you think might happen in the story? Write them down! Where do they fit in the timeline?
In doing this step you are 100% guaranteed to come up with even more scenes. Give them a place in the timeline!
4. And that’s it!
There’s this silly misconception that you need to know EVERYTHING about your novel before starting—but you don’t! I mean, it’s not like you’re going to write this whole book in a day? So why do you need all the answers RIGHT NOW? Seriously. Think about it. 🤔
Hope this helps~ ✌️🌻
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A princess is passed over in favor of her uncle when her father dies and is unable to do anything because she lacks support. Years later she managed to marry her young son to a powerful princess but needs a cause to rely against the current regime. What could that cause be?
Her own cause. If she's the Rightful Queen and her Uncle is a bad ruler, she can rally the country around her. She will have to gain support from the nobility and the people (and the faith if there's one).
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I'll take the open tag from @talesofsorrowandofruin on a last line tag game:
A world that needs a different kind of hero. Not one that can fight dragons; one that can unite a shattered nation. A shattered world.
That's from a currently unannounced wip. I probably won't be announcing it anytime soon.
I'll tag @aseasonwithclara @ashen-crest @sophie-the-bookworm7 and anyone who sees this and wants to do it!
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nothing hits quite like the moment when you’re writing and you end your chapter/segment on such an insane sentence with a perfect match of impact and cliffhanger and you’re left sitting there like pacha from the emperors new groove when the sun hits that ridge just right
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"You deserve happiness."
"I'm a pirate. I don't have that choice."
"You've always had it. Right in front of you."
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half of writing is deciding what scenes are fun to imagine in your head vs. which scenes actually belong in the book
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