#halleyLXVI

[halleyuhm]

I saw you were looking how to get into the writeblr community.

And I was wondering, what are your current WIP’s or blorbos? Rambles welcome! (No seriously if you look at my blog I am nothing without rambling)

I don’t really know you, but I too want to get in the community more and know more people! Writeblr can be a struggle!

Hi, thank you for the ask and the kind words! I've been working on the answer for a while because tbh I have so many wips (ENFP issues with finishing stuff) that I had to choose those that do have a chance to be completed someday haha

So these are my more advanced wips:

Route LXVI. Status: Fixing plotholes, reducing the number of words, and editing in general. It's my only slice of life so far. I began writing it because I wanted to practice my English and use a real-life setting. I got hooked haha. It tells the story of Liv (Olivia), whose past has affected the way she approaches relationships. The story follows her character development throughout the events that take place around her. I actually wrote a synopsis, soo copy-paste:

Living with her sister in Orlando, with an exhausting job and trying to finish her studies, Olivia has no interest nor time for distracting stuff. But after her online friends suggest she should start taking her gaming channel more seriously, her life changes. Quite literally. Behind anonymity, Liv can have whichever life she wants, away from her most hidden secrets. The new hobby allows her to turn into LXVI, a joyous and bubbly girl with a perfect life. And maybe that's what Liv needs to feel happy again. But, she also has to deal with real life as well, including bad choices, faulty relationships, and the hot new problem called Damien. And, when real and virtual life mix, how many lies are too many lies? How much can you trust someone on the other side? And, what happens if you fall in love with a boy on the other coast of the country?

Lunática. Status: writing. Genre: fantasy. The idea is to have the story set in the current modern world but with magic creatures aka Beasts (werewolves, vampires, witches, and the like), and Hunters of those. It's a mash-up of some different blorbos I previously had and couldn't manage to finish, so I'm still working out how they fit together. In the basic storyline, the main character's family (code name: Lex) belongs to the Hunters faction, but she doesn't know anything about this. Until she saves a "wolf" and later finds a human with the same wound markings, so she adds two + two. As a bonus, she develops water powers that change according to the Moon phase... and she wears hearing aids, which sometimes pick up voices that shouldn't be there... I want to play around with synesthesia, portals, clans, and abilities for this one.

Ichor. Status: planning and world-building. Just like the previous wip, this is a mash-up of ideas, but now in a High Fantasy medieval-like setting where different realms come into play. In this world, the only creatures that are magical by nature are the inhabitants of the other realms (which in layman's terms are shapeshifter angels and demons). Humans have discovered that they can also cast spells if they use the blood of the first group, and this leads to the expected wars, refugees, famine, closed realms, and prejudices. The main character's story is still a mess of imagery I'm yet to put together, but the main idea is for her to be a shapeshifter affiliated with the human military who slowly discovers the plotting going on behind closed doors, as well as the truth about her past.

By the stars foretold. Status: writer's block. This is a High Fantasy set-up where I have 4 different narrators whose stories are alternatively told through the chapters. Each one belongs to a different background, culture, ideology, classical nature element... Their code names are Ruby, Zak, Silva, and Enzo. They intertwine and separate along the story while they all pursue their own goals, which slowly converge into the same one, in a sort of "tangled destinies" story, and I plan for at least one of them to become a 'villain'. There are dragons and other magic creatures, different countries in war, magic academies, royalty plots, tournaments, and bustling city life. The issue? I started writing with no plan in mind because I just wanted to enjoy the characters, and now I've reached a point where I should already know what the end game is. Besides, some ideas overlap with the previous wip! I still have a long way to go but at least I like where it is going.

So these are the most advanced, but I have more blorbos around there which are just a basic idea and some scenes, names or even endings: I have a wip about a magic (called Modulation) Academy where everyone has their own ability, and I have the beginning and the end but not the middle xd.

Anyways! Thanks for letting me ramble! Writeblr is indeed a struggle and this has immensely helped me start expressing myself (and I really like your blog, btw!).

See you around!

[halleyuhm]

Ohh, thanks for the tag, it's such a good question! I wanted to do my main OCs from The trees don't let you see the forest because it's my NaNo project and I have Brainrot, but my most fleshed-out characters are those in Route LXVI, so here we go. I chose some of the most importan ones:

Liv: mental health is important!! Don't bottle it up, don't struggle alone, ask for help. Anyone can benefit from a therapist. Your struggle is not insignificant. You are allowed to make mistakes and learn from them. You are allowed to change and improve as a person. You deserve to be loved. You deserve to be happy.

Emma: Shakespearean insults. A whole speech just studying the creative properties of the English language and how to use expressions like "thou fustilarian!" in your daily life. She would also want to talk about sign language, maybe teaming up with Soda and their respective ASL users loved ones.

Soda: the importance of keeping our oceans clean to preserve the marine life and the beauty of our beaches. He'll get sidetracked midway through and will end up talking about that one time his dog made friends with a dolphin.

Damien: road safety. Wear your seatbelt or your helmet, pay attention to the streetlights, keep your distance... you are allowed to go past the speed limit sometimes though. Don't drink beforehand, don't do drugs, stop if you are feeling stressed or sleepy. Completely unrelated, but books are nice.

Lowzs: he'll ramble about his new game hyperfixation or how many different types of error messages you can get in a single programming session and not cry because why, why doesn't the computer add a semicolon if the syntax error implies it knows it's missing!?

Maeve: AI art is not art. Human artists (either traditional or digital) struggle enough to make a living in an already competitive and invisibilizing world. Why buy fake art when actual human beings are fighting to be seen, to live doing what they love?

Mason: how to destroy the life of those who wrong you™.

The next question is: What do your OCs do when they think nobody is looking at them?

I'm soft-tagging @lexiklecksi, @thepitflower, @saintedseraph, @maddstermind, @tzipor-feather-blog, and @e-klair in case they want to answer, and keeping the tag open for anyone to jump in.

OKAY!

WRITEBLRS if you're seeing this, you're legally obligated to reblog with an answer, and then a new question for the next person!

Here's the start:

Which of your OCs is most likely to punch somebody in the face?