#Whaley writes

[whaleiumsharkspeare]

My sister just told me that my New Year’s resolution for 2025 should be to finally finish the children’s book I’ve wanted to write for well over a decade and she said that if I finish it, she’ll take me to the Smithsonian to see the ruby slippers in person

So anyway I need to finish my children’s book

[thehopefulquotes]

But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you’re thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterwards.

John Corey Whaley; Noggin

[whaleiumsharkspeare]

Here’s mine, from the 6-year-old WIP I recently got a spur of inspiration for:

“Héctor! You know you’re practically a head taller than me. I’ll never reach it!” Imelda replied, standing up on the toes of her shoes and straining with her arm.

“Then I guess you’ll just have to jump for it,” he shrugged, moving it higher even as she jumped, so as to keep the brush just out of her reach.

“Come on, Héctor. We’re already late. You’re gonna make us even more late if you won’t let me finish my hair!”

“That is unfortunate,” Héctor replied, putting a finger on his chin in mock concentration. “Then I guess I can let you have the hairbrush.” He looked down at Imelda, his eyes sparkling mischievously. “For a kiss.”

Tagging: @whitecatindisguise @kanerallels @romanholidayinn @cottagecorelore @anyone who wants to do it :)

WIP tag game

(tagged by @kanerallels here, but the chain was getting long so i made my own post)

Rules: If you are tagged, you have to work on your WIP until you write a sentence that contains at least one word from the sentence given to you by the person who tagged you. Then post that sentence and tag as many people as you want. Tag-backs are not only allowed, but encouraged! >:)

here's mine, from my percabeth water war wip

The sink behind her turned on with a flick of Percy's wrist, and she yelped as the cold water blasted into her back. Then she did the wise thing— she ducked, and all that water blasted past where she'd been standing and sprayed at Percy instead, blasting him in the face.

tagging: @jessicas-pi @whaleiumsharkspeare @choasuqeen @jeru-skyrider @poptart-cat-78 @laughingphoenixleader @hollers-and-holmes @kmomof4 @booksteaandtoomuchtv @jrob64 and tagging back @kanerallels

[quotefeeling]

But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you’re thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterwards.

John Corey Whaley; Noggin

[perfectfeelings]

But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterwards.

John Corey Whaley

[surqrised]

But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you’re thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterwards.

John Corey Whaley; Noggin

[perfectquote]

But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you’re thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterwards.

John Corey Whaley; Noggin

[thoughtkick]

But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you’re thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterwards.

John Corey Whaley; Noggin

[resqectable]

But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you’re thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterwards.

John Corey Whaley; Noggin

[stay-close]

But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you’re thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterwards.

John Corey Whaley; Noggin

[uaravsh]

"But in that moment I understand what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward."

- John Corey Whaley, Noggin (@uaravsh )

[whaleiumsharkspeare]

Do you have any ocs?

I do but they’re not fleshed out too much yet. I have a google doc of my current fic that I’m working on where I have the characters listed and what it is they do. They all work on a cargo ship called the Lydia Eva and so I just basically wrote down their jobs on the ship. There’s the captain, engineer, ship’s cook, helmsman, medic, and a navigator/meteorologist. Plus there are some other random assorted characters that will appear later on in the story in minor roles. But like I said, I don’t have them especially well fleshed out at the moment. I’ve only written chapter one and I’m in the process of writing chapter 2 and the story I’ve got in my head is long (takes place over the course of seven years) and I haven’t quite thought that far ahead lol

[thehopefulquotes]

But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you’re thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterwards.

John Corey Whaley; Noggin

[izzythehutt]

While I'm still on the subject of Shadow and Bone, can we talk about how lazy Berdugo's religious world building is? You create a pastiche steampunk fantasy version of 18th century Imperial Russia, and you know creating a fantasy world without some form of religion/spirituality would feel weird, so you throw in a church whose belief system you clearly don't give a shit about fleshing out or explaining at all...with no Jesus or God....but it has saints for some reason (who get martyred apparently, though there's no explanation of what they're being martyred for) and icons. Essentially, the most surface level version of Russian Orthodoxy without any substance underpinning it. You even have a kind of pseudo Rasputin character who might or might not be a priest in this church, who the eff knows?

The thing that annoyed me most was that in her fantasy Russia they call the religious services "mass." Mass comes from the Latin word "missa" and is used exclusively in the west. If you call a church service "mass" in Russia they get pissed off. It's Divine or Holy Liturgy. What, you couldn't scan the freaking wikipedia page of the Orthodox church to make this one incredibly easy to get right detail in the world building?

[quotefeeling]

But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you’re thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterwards.

John Corey Whaley; Noggin

[perfectfeelings]

But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you’re thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterwards.

John Corey Whaley; Noggin