#i keep saying “writing excerpt tag list” every time in order to differentiate it from my tag games tag list. sorry for the repetition

[finickyfelix]

Time for a trial run of my brand new and shiny writing excerpt tag list. I recently got back to writing Foxglove Dust, and I like this description of Tievis, so here you go.

The first thing he noticed, in the flickering lamplight of the cramped room, was that there was a mirror, and the man staring back at him from the mirror startled him so much he froze, forgetting that he was supposed to be hurrying. Now he knew why everyone in town looked at him as though they were certain he was either diseased or a crazed felon on the run. He was gaunt, aged beyond his years, paper-pale skin stretched tight over visible bones, and the deep bruises at his throat stood out stark against that skin. A little blood was still dried in the creases of his throat. His hair had grown out; he'd been entirely neglecting his appearance for… weeks, he supposed. It fell in unkept clumps about his neck, longer than it'd been in years, and the roots showed the dark hair of his father that he'd spent so long desperately bleaching it to avoid. He tore his eyes away. He hardly recognized his own reflection– or rather, he recognized it too well. The man staring back at him from the mirror had his father's face, if his father had been a haggard madman instead of a sickeningly respectable village leader. There wasn't time for this. He needed to get moving.

Hello, brand new writing excerpt tag list: @leahnardo-da-veggie, @diabolical-blue, and @saturnine-saturneight

(Please let me know if you would like to be added or removed from my writing excerpt tag list.)