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[wickedwitchofthewilds]

Getting to Know Your WIP-Week Two

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Event put together by @the-wip-project

It's the second week of the Getting to Know Your WIP event and this week's theme is…well, theme. A subject that is very important, not just to UNTETHERED, but to the entire Underhill series. All of the books share themes while each tackling other, separate themes within those specific narratives. Having the books share certain themes has made it a bit easier to tie them all together even though they don't all quite share the same genre. All are fantasy of course, but where UNBOUND is sort of your run-of-the-mill middle fantasy book, UNCOVERED leans a bit into a dark fairytale with its atmosphere and the tropes I chose. UNTETHERED plunges the series into dark fantasy tinged with horror, and that will remain for UNFORESEEN as well.

Series Theme: Change

Change began with Alannah. A cursed half-witch, bound to remain in between realms until the day she died. Settled with her lot in life and then the right person comes along and gives her hope. Then there was Makenna. Unhappy being her village's sacrificial lamb for everything that would go wrong. A fire witch born amongst healers and made to be an outsider. She makes a deal with a wolf that shifts the trajectory of her life and uncovers deadly secrets. In the course of both books, Alannah and Makenna find that they are both tied to a fate of death in sacrifice that may end up being meaningless anyway. How can they change that fate? How does Deirdre continue this theme in his story?

Character Theme: Death

The end of all things. The beginning of others. Death is an important and necessary part of life that comes for us all eventually. For some it's just an end, and for others it's the beginning of another journey. But what happens in a place where Death fled a long time ago and never found a way to return? When spirit can be cleaved from body but both remain, stagnant. Badb was Death before. Why is Deirdre more important taking on the mantle of Death now?

These were questions I asked myself while crafting the narrative and characters of UNTETHERED. What makes Deirdre so important that so many people want to get their hands on him? Deirdre has lived his entire life in the human realm, living like a human and never believing he was anything else. How do I get Deirdre to acceptance of who he is and who he is going to be? These questions helped me discover who Deirdre is from the horrifying circumstances of his birth to all the ways in which he must die to truly become Death.

Villain Theme: Control

When I first wrote about the legend of Reluvethel in UNBOUND, I knew he was going to be my Big Bad. I touched on some things about him in UNCOVERED as well but there was something missing. Something I needed for UNTETHERED and UNFORESEEN. He's typical in that he wants power, hoards it, and considers some people as unworthy of it. But why? What put him on this path? And what is his end goal?

This also led me to thinking about Underhill as a whole. Where these events exist in time. Underhill is recently reborn after a Convergence swallowed the previous iteration and birthed it anew. Magic is chaotic. Order, to a large extent, has not yet been established. What if one were to find a way to impose their order upon the realm? That is Reluvethel's goal. How does he intend to achieve it? Well…that's a question for UNFORESEEN to answer.

Weekly Word Count: 2780

I kept to my 500 a day word count goal, often getting more, until I decided to take a break for the weekend. I finished chapter ten and I've almost hit 40k on the WIP. I got myself some mozzarella sticks as a treat for hitting one of my short goals. I'm already looking forward to what I'm going to get done this next week!

[blacksgarden]

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Hey! Glad you made it, I'm the Gardener. Or you can just call me Sasha! I reblog a lot of random stuff like fics I'm absolutely in love with, artworks that catch my eye, funny memes... It's chaotic, but such is a garden. Beautifully chaotic ;)

I tend to go back to art when I'm bored so I may post my artworks here.

I love music. It's my therapy. Music from the 80s era till date? I know a majority of them, and by majority, I'll beat anyone and everyone in a 'Guess the Song'. My favourite artist? Hard to choose. Same goes to favourite song, because it really depends on my mood and how I change as a person. Though, off the top of my head, I love me some Adele, Ben Barnes, Guns N' Roses, Queen, Avicii, Built by Titan.... Yeah, it's a long list.

Fandoms? TV? Call me geek because I memorized every single dragon species in the HTTYD franchise. All. By all, I mean I watched the series too. Here are some shows I fell in love to start with:

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

How To Train Your Dragon

Harry Potter (Both Marauders era and Golden Era)

Shadow and Bone

Marvel

Star Wars

His Dark Materials

I'm pretty confident this list will continue to grow but as of now, that's all I can think of. Also, I'm a very proud ENFJ/P Gryffindor!

I am open to requests. Real sucker for angst, however I will NOT be writing anything NSFW. I am uncomfortable with writing it, that and I have quite a busy schedule.

Kindly DO NOT copy my writing on any other platform without my explicit consent. Reblogs are more than welcome, but I will not stand for people stealing my creativity and claiming it theirs.

[lincolndjarin]

22 and 59 for the gtkyw!!

Personally for 22, I'd experiment with anything but i don't write Poems, and i likely wouldn't write horror since that seems a lil hard.

As for 59, Alot of my friends know i write fanfics. A couple of them actually read my writing. Funnily enough my dad read my markiplier fanfics from like 7th grade years ago 😭😭 i wish i didn't share my wattpad to fb and forgot to use a dif acc!

Anyways I'm excited to see your answers! 😋

mwah thank you for sending an ask!!

22- Are there certain types of writing you won’t do? (style, pov, genre, tropes, etc)

i answered this for someone else earlier but actually i also can't write poems lmao, i didn't include that in the last one but i've never been able to write a poem that i liked

59- Does anyone in your personal life know you write fic? if not, would you tell anyone?

yeah i have no shame regarding it lmao. when i was 13 i got caught by my dad writing skydoesminecraft fanfiction lmaooo (i used his email address to make my wattpad account lol) but i talk to my mom about the plot stuff and my friends have helped me when i've needed advice. my boss who is letting me just write today knows i write fic lol and one of my moms friends reads bks lol.