#nanowrimo introduction

[surroundedbypearls]

NANOWRIMO 2023 PROJECT

~ The Seal and the Ravens

Genre: High Fantasy, Fairytale Features: Magic, curses, witches, thorns, poison, princesses, family problems POV: Third person (multiple) Books: Standalone Content Warning: Violence of the fairytale variety  Status: Ready to draft! Synopsis: Based on a few fairytales by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, mainly Snow White, Rapunzel, The Twelve Brothers, Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, and The Travelling Companion. While the princess of Iarannor sets out to find her lost brothers, cursed by a wicked enchantress, her childhood friend is rescued from a storm by a selkie who's dreamed of the human world all her life. All fates are intertwined by the mysterious woman who sleeps in a tower in the centre of the Sleeping Lake. Where do you think it got its name?

It's my nanowrimo project for 2023!! I've had this idea in the works for ages but only committed to outlining it properly recently, as I decided I'd give drafting it a go!

Let me know if you're interested in being tagged in future posts about this project!

Main Characters:

Astra, princess of Iarannor

Daiyu, the fairest of them all

Orion, the huntsman

Tarni, the little selkie

Jeric, a lost brother

Thia, locked in a tower

Dala, the enchantress

Chessa, the sleeping beauty

[saphira-approves]

Okay so I finished Murtagh last night and I think I’m just going to put a lot of my slightly more coherent general thoughts here under a readmore. Spoilers ahead! Beware!

Right off the bat I want to bring us back to The Fork, The Witch, and The Worm. Not to Essie (although reliving that encounter from Murtagh’s perspective was EXQUISITE), but to Eragon, because the thing I love most about that story is that Eragon is glad to see his brother, even from afar, and is glad to see he’s alright, and hopes that Murtagh will one day join him at Mt. Arngor. We’ve talked recently on the blog about ill feelings and condemnation towards Murtagh during the war, especially on Eragon’s part, but the ending of The Fork makes it clear that—while I would love to see Eragon acknowledge and work through them—Eragon no longer holds those feelings, and in fact really wants the chance to reconnect with his brother and his friend, because he loved him like a brother before he even knew they were related, and after everything that’s happened, he loves him still—even if Murtagh is going to have some trouble believing or internalizing it.

And so I present the theme of this initial reading response: Murtagh is so, so loved, to an extent that he does not fully realize. He knows that Thorn loves him, obviously, but I believe it’s significant that—even though he has some Complicated™️ thoughts about Selena and harbors resentment towards her for, in his mind, choosing Eragon over himself—the memories of her that we actually get to see/“hear” (page 90 my beloved) are fully memories of Selena’s love for him. “…beautiful boy” anyone? “My strong boy?” That is her BABY and she LOVES HIM. Also, again, DESPITE HIS RESENTMENT, Selena’s love is the REASON HE KEEPS HIS SCAR! Scar lore alert! Scar lore alert! SELENA WAS THERE AND SHE’S THE ONE WHO HEALED HIM! (though I am still partial to thinking Brom was involved. I’ll write about that later it doesn’t matter right now)

(Also, on a bit of a lighter note, HIS HORSE TOY?????? Horse girl Murtagh CONFIRMED!!!! Little me would have been so jealous. …on a completely different note, I have woodworking connections and access to real horse hair. Hm. The Ideas.)

And then Tornac, son of Tereth, may your name live on forever. THE FIRST MEMORY WE GET OF TORNAC IS A HUG. THE FIRST TIME HE HUGS MURTAGH. MURTAGH HE LOVES YOU SO MUCH DO YOU KNOW??? I KNOW YOU KNOW A LITTLE BIT BUT DO YOU KNOW????? And the way he LEAPS to Murtagh’s defense when he falls in their escape, he REFUSES to let Murtagh languish in Urû’baen, that’s his BOY, his BEAUTIFUL STRONG BOY, that’s HIS SON, NO TAKE BACKSIES, MORZAN! He sees Murtagh’s darkness, yes, but more importantly he sees Murtagh’s goodness, and he knows Galbatorix will do everything in his power to destroy it, and that is something that Tornac simply cannot abide. You remember how I posted about Brom saying it’s easy to die for what you believe in, and then like ten pages later he dies for Eragon? Yeah. Yeah that one. That post. Do you see the point I’m making?

Tornac died for Murtagh. Selena did too, I’m pretty sure—it’s never been explicitly stated, in this book or the rest of the Cycle, but we know Selena was anxious to leave Carvahall as soon as Eragon was born, and that she died shortly after returning to Murtagh. I think Murtagh knows, on some level, but I also think that actually acknowledging it is going to break him just a little bit. Selena left Eragon and returned to him, presumably to spirit Murtagh to Carvahall as well, but she left too early. She wasn’t recovered. The real tragedy of this is that, if she’d left any later, she might truly have been too late—Morzan had been killed, and Murtagh would have been collected to Urû’baen before she reached him. Depending on how much she was coordinating with Brom, she might have known this, and made the choice to return to Murtagh anyway, because it was the easiest choice in the world. Eragon and Murtagh both believe that Selena left them. As Murtagh believes Selena chose Eragon over him, I’m pretty sure Eragon believes the inverse. In truth, Selena was trying to choose both of them, to save both of them. It’s a tragedy that she failed, but the most important thing about such a tragedy is that the love is there. It didn’t save them, not at first, not until much later, but the love is there and it matters because those are her babies, those are her sons, and she would gladly die for them. She did die for them. It was easy; she believed in them.

So yeah, I think eventually Eragon and Murtagh are gonna have a talk, and some revelations are going to be made, and a good long cry is going to be had all around. Catharsis! They need it!

But that’s not all! Murtagh is loved not only by the dead and the distant, but by the living and the near, too. Up to this point, the werecats we’ve met have been aloof, proud, intentionally distant. I always got the sense that Solembum likes Eragon and Saphira, but I don’t know that he would call them friends, even if Eragon and Saphira would, and he’s the most in-depth werecat we’ve met. But now we also have Carabel.

Carabel, who, from her position within Gil'ead, watches the people around them, and discerns their character: this is a skill I would say she has honed to near-perfection. When we meet her, she is desperate, though she hides it well. She sees Murtagh, and she measures his character, and what she sees is enough to make her take a chance on him, and she's right. Murtagh saves Silna, compromising his own principles to do so—swearing an oath he knows he'll have to break—and is so clearly relieved to see Silna safe with Carabel, despite the deceptions. We know, also, that Selena had been liked enough by Solembum for him to speak with her, and I wouldn't be surprised to discover that Selena was at least respected by werecats, if not outright known as a friend; it's possible that this, too, helped push Carabel to take a chance on Murtagh, though she makes no comment about it. Whatever the case, ultimately it is Murtagh's character that she gambles on, and Murtagh being simply who he is fulfills her hopes—not only in saving Silna, but his kindness towards her even when she was difficult, carrying her only when it was necessary and setting her on her own paws when he deemed it safe. Just in being himself, he earns love from two strangers, and the respect of an entire race.

(This echoes throughout the book, in all of Murtagh's interactions with children—he cares so much about kids. Not just as an abstract moral stance: he truly, genuinely cares for children on a deeply personal level. Essie in Ceunon; the two boys in Gil'ead he gives coins to, twice, and reprimanding their father for using them to pick marks; Silna; the children in Nal Gorgoth. In telling his story to Nasuada, he broke when he reached the children he slaughtered under Bachel's control.)

And Alín! Alín, who was raised to revere dragons, who cannot help but idolize Thorn. She is terrified of Murtagh, as a stranger and a strange man, but his connection to a dragon allows her to view him in another light. I can write so many essays about Alín, I'm probably going to, but here I'll just say this: despite her circumstances, despite how she was taught, despite how thoroughly she has been programmed by the cult of the Dreamers, the simple truth of Murtagh's compassion gave her the room to question, to think for herself, to ask herself if what she has been taught and raised to believe is truly right. Murtagh doesn't make the decision for her, he physically can't—it is Alín herself who finds the strength to break herself free, inspired by Murtagh, but not wholly because of him.

And in the dungeons of Nal Gorgoth, Murtagh meets Uvek, an Urgal shaman, and can I just say: I would kill and die for Uvek. He's got similarities to Murtagh that aren't discussed in plaintext, but are easy to draw: they both tried to be alone in the wild, thinking it would be better for them—different reasons, but they came to the same conclusion—but both have come to discover that they are better off in a pack. With friends. With brothers. With family. (As an aside, I really hope Uvek becomes one of the first Urgal riders.) I love the metaphor they share, about trust being a knife with a blade for a handle; and I love that once they decide to trust each other, they both jump in, feet first, 100% on board. That's always been Murtagh's method anyway (Eragon-era Murtagh my beloved, looking after this stupid dumb kid with his whole ass), and it is incredibly refreshing to see someone else with the exact same mindset throw their whole lot in with Murtagh. The gentle forehead bump! Uvek loves this crazy squishy Murtagh-man.

And finally, finally, Nasuada. The Guinevere to his Lancelot, and there's not even an Arthur for them to dance around, except for the Arthur of Public Opinion that would prefer to view Murtagh as dread Mordred. I couldn't keep from laughing, just a little bit, every time Murtagh was encouraged to/shown visions of taking the throne, because lol! Nah, you dumbasses, that's the love of his life for whom he broke his own shackles and turned on his tormentor and slave-master. The day he turns against her of his own volition is the day he is No Longer Murtagh. He keeps the newly-minted gold crown so that he can keep a piece of her with him—a coin!! A tiny little portrait!! An accurate tiny little portrait, to be sure, but one he'll soon be able to find in any decently full purse!! He may not want to admit it to himself, he may try to distance himself for her own good and the good of her rule, but he cannot truly deny his heart. As for Nasuada himself, she doesn't even hesitate to take him in—and she would have no reason to, having heard about Gil'ead, except that she knows him, she has seen his true being in a way only Thorn can relate to, and even in uncertainty she cannot believe evil of him. She's the one who reaches out to comfort him when he crumbles in telling his story, she supports him without a word when he struggles to stand, and she wants so badly for him to stay, Public Opinion be damned. She won't destroy what she's built, but she will move heaven and earth to be able to keep him near, for as long as he wishes to remain.

This whole book, really, was just a chorus screaming to Murtagh, "YOU ARE LOVED!! YOU ARE WORTHY OF LOVE AND YOU ARE LOVED!! IT IS THE LOVE THAT ENDS WARS, THAT DEFEATS FEAR, THAT PERSISTS IN THE FACE OF DEATH AND RUIN!! YOU ARE LOVED!!" And maybe he can't hear it yet, not with his ears, but his heart, eventually, might start to catch him up. And I absolutely cannot wait to see it.

[intwrimo]

Introduction

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2023 Nano WIP Intro: Ecliptic Mirrors.

When everything you thought you knew is not there anymore, how do you define yourself?

Genre: New Adult, Technological Magic, Fiction.

POV: dual POV, first person.

Status: drafting

Summary:

Orion works for The New Moon, the government of his country. He is an Agent, one of the few people who managed to escalate higher up enough to be the executioner hand at the service of the State. He thinks he is doing a good job. Protecting his city. Protecting his friends. Protecting his way of living. He just has one thought, one task to accomplish in life: track, chase and eliminate Subject 1807, also known as Vega, a rebel who works solo, which should make her an easy target, but it doesn't. And, as much as Orion enjoys the chase, he is getting tired of 1807. The government needs to extract Order - the only resource that powers up not only the whole country but also makes everyone's well-being increase- soon and Orion always gets sick when it happens, his sensitivity higher than average to the imbalance of power. When he finally manages to corner 1807, the procedure is clear: elimination for the good of society.

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Vega has a happy life, living under The Full Moon government. Her boyfriend Orion and her enjoy the sustainable life, the green growing everywhere, the fresh air... Order is extracted from living things thriving, and The Full Moon knows this.

The problems start the morning after Orion is gone missing. He is an ethical hacker working for the State, so it wouldn't be a problem that he leaves in the middle of the night to take care of some kind of system problem, Vega knows, but usually, Orion leaves her a message. Some words scribbled on the pad of their apartment. Or sends her a Holo of a dancing dog... Or something. Anything.

And worst of all, Vega is left all alone days before The Full Moon is going to extract Order again. Vega, who is highly sensitive to Order changes.

Her path of thought is clear: finding Orion ASAP for her own well-being.

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Both Orion from New Moon and Vega from Full Moon suddenly find themselves in a place that is not here nor there, and where nobody else but them seem to realize they are clearly not meant to be.

The Order seems to be the only logical explanation.

How do you find a way out with a person who is supposed to be your enemy? How do you love someone who, according to him, killed you? And how do you realize what is different and what it's not when you don't even know where you are?

Taglist: @rose-bookblood

Tags: #wip:em; #wip: ecliptic mirrors

[vandijkwrites]

Of Art & Augury: An Interactive Fiction WIP

Genre: Historical Fantasy Format: Text-based interactive fiction Tags: Text-based, historical fiction, romance, fantasy/magic, art and artists, late 19th century Paris Current Status: Drafting (NaNoWriMo 2023 Project)

Synopsis

As a writer for one of the top Parisian society gazettes, you've advised many readers about the up-and-coming artists of the Paris Salon. The best painters there know how to weave subtle enchantments into the likeness of their subject to make the image come to life but, recently, something had been going wrong with the magic. It's up to you to head to the academy and figure out to truth for yourself.

Setting

Set in Paris at the end of the 19th century, you will explore the city and the art exhibitions of the academy. This version of Paris has an undercurrent of magical power which artists use to create enchanted artwork for society.

ROs

Odette [F]

Occupation: Commercial Lithographer Artistic Inspiration: Alphonse Mucha Odette is an Austrian artist who moved to Paris to start her career as an artist. She has little formal training and started her career by taking any artistic work she could get her hands on. Now she does mostly lithography for product advertisements and theater posters.

Sainte [M]

Occupation: Journalist Artistic Inspiration: Édouard Manet Sainte was born in Paris and studied under a successful portrait artist from a young age, but left his studies to pursue journalism for reasons he doesn't like to talk about. Now, he works as an art critic for a Parisian newspaper, covering the Salon and other exhibitions.

Armand [M]

Occupation: Portrait Artist Artistic Inspiration: John Singer Sargent Armand has been passionate about art for most of his life and moved to Paris from New Orleans to start his studies when he was still young. He has been studying portraiture ever since and has already painted portraits for some very influential young socialites.

Helene [F]

Occupation: Socialite Artistic Inspiration: Berthe Morisot Helene is a Parisian socialite who fell in love with painting during her private art education growing up. Although her family encouraged her to keep painting, they refused to let her receive any education in enchantment, a requirement for being taken seriously in artistic society. Ever since, she has been trying to teach herself magic in secret.

[helioselene]

GRACES TO THE GRAVE ⤳ aka GANG WIP; a nano '23 reintroduction

Looking at Ruth Granville, Juliette cannot help but be consumed by the desire to be simply human. To be loved for who she is and nothing more.

GENRE; alternative historical fantasy

AUDIENCE; new adult

STATUS; draft 2

COMPS; twelfth night meets the folk of the air

TROPES; enemies to lovers, gang rivalries, trio of best friends and their shenanigans, victorian era!steampunk world building, secret identities, marriage of convenience, "who did this to you?" but subverted

AESTHETIC; pomegranate juice slipping down your chin, blood on a knife, dancing in the moonlight, stolen kisses, hatred that consumes you, love that makes you cannibalistic

WARNINGS; violence, kidnapping, murder, adult content, swearing, gore and blood, cannibalism metaphors

LINKS; main tag (x) | excerpts (x)

SYNOPSIS;

Victorian London is on the precipice of destruction.

As civil war breaks out between the city’s most formidable gangs, Juliette Edevane finds herself with a daring mission: kill the leaders of the Bonellis and secure her position as heir to London’s underworld. But orchestrating the deaths of Ruth and Cassius Granville is not as simple as it may seem.

Juliette is swept into a world of murder, magic, and marriage - where a wedding between her and a long-time rival may signify the line between success and failure in her mission. Armed with such an alliance, she must navigate the dangerous waters of a London built on the blood of gang rivalries, where betrayal and death hides around every corner. And yet, with her own heart on the line, she must confront where her true allegiances lie: with her gang, with her husband, or with those she once thought to be her greatest enemies.

CHARACTERS;

juliette edevane. she/her. the jinx. a half-fae born into the night.

misty lygon. she/her. the jinx. a banshee made of death.

lun qi. he/him. the jinx. a warrior built from blood.

isaac farley. he/him. the bronze vipers. a criminal founded in sanguinity.

ruth granville. she/her. the bonellis. an assassin bathed in poison.

cassius granville. he/him. the bonellis. a wolf in sheep's clothing.

taglist under cut!

gang wip taglist: @worldsfromhoney @seasteading @lasbrumas @ikilledmyocs @redbloodprose @serpentarii @atelierwriting @moariin @socialmediasocrates @sourrcandy @anarchyandroses @halleyuhm @nightlylaments @cheshawrites @akiwitch @veneritia @n1ghtcrwler

reblog or send an ask to be added/removed!

[helvelloides]

WIP INTRO · UNSEEN

GENRE: Horror, Supernatural, Mystery

STATUS: First Draft

· BLURB ·

THE HARPER BROTHERS Didn’t believe in the paranormal. Ghosts and spirits were nothing more than a figment of the imagination to them. However, young and opportunistic, they were willing to do just about anything to make a quick buck. Even if it meant lying. ELEANOR MARIE PARKER Is at her wit’s end. A curse passed down from first-born daughter to first-born daughter landed in her lap, and no matter what she did, she couldn’t quite shake it. So, despite her reservations about paranormal investigators and their methods, she found herself sending out letters to every crew she could. Only one crew responded. Faced now with an increasingly real threat, the three find themselves inexplicably tied together as they work to untangle a web of lies and secrecy. All the while something grows ever closer, lurking within the shadows, waiting for its chance to strike.

(Ask to be added/removed from the taglist)

[carnivalls]

hi everyone sorry real quick. just checking.

+ propaganda & plot synopses:

— TERRAS TOWN.

plot: terras town is about a girl, lev alvarez, who falls into a parallel world layered right under hers, and who needs to find a way back home before she brings her world crashing down alongside. however, lev's life back home is not going too well right now, and this goal rapidly starts to vanish as she deteriorates more and more into escapism in a world that carries no consequences for her.

if i did this for nano, i'd probably just throw myself into writing as much as possible since i've got her entirely outlined, and post little excerpts of my progress if the fates allow it. definitely won't hit 50k words but still. we said abridged.

— GOOD INTENTIONS.

plot: good intentions is about the first academy in the saints-square built with the aim of anchoring cores (people who possess raw, explosive, very dangerous magic) to mages (an artificially created class of people who can siphon cores' magic into 'usable' forms); and more specifically about the experience of two girls (hess tiamaret & juve mizani) in the process. hess flat out refuses to become some rich girl's magical battery, and juve is very much keen on making her buckle and accept her 'help.' they're also both really fucking crazy and there's more to them but i'm still learning how to summarize their deal.

if i did this for nano, i'd probably need to split my efforts into outlining since this is a fairly new project and i don't know everything about her yet. having said that, i'd work on smaller drabbles and chapters where i do know what's happening etc and try and post parts of those. so there's that.

[mxxnlightwriting]

Not Another Cinderella Story — A WIP Masterlist by mxxnlingwriting

— Logline —

When the King gives the Crown Prince an ultimatum to find a wife before he abdicates the throne, he has no choice but to throw a ball in the hopes of finding his future wife. In the hours of the event, he strikes up a conversation with a mysterious woman. Finding her after the ball is only half of the battle as convincing her to change her ways to suit the royal life proves to be a much harder task than he initially anticipated.

— Details —

age group/genre: new adult contemporary romance type: novel pov: dual, third person, past tense status: brainstorming | outlining | drafting | editing | proofreading started: october 2023 | finished: — | released/published: —

— Features —

small fictional european country (think parisian architecture with monaco geography/lifestyle), modern-day royalty, socialities, high society, bakeries and lots of baked goods, strangers (to friends) to lovers, family dynamics, the power of friendship, lots of parallels to cinderella (hence the name of this WIP) and more!

— Index —

All Posts

About

Character Profiles

Inspiration

Excerpts

Moodboards

Playlist

© mxxnlightwriting 2023 All rights reserved. Copying, reposting, translating and/or modifications of my work are strictly prohibited.

Tari's Note: This is going to be my NaNoWriMo 2023 Project! It came to me while I was trying to come up with some sort of story to help me fall asleep, and I ended up mentally plotting this entire thing in my head in the hours it took me to fall asleep. Now, it's almost time to write it down, and I couldn't be more excited!

[supersymmetrys]

QUE LOS MUERTOS AQUÍ ES DONDE TIENEN QUE ESTAR . . .

An introduction post for my Camp Nano WIP!

Title: Neon Bible

Genre: Horror

Status: First drafting

Setting: Mexico, 1950s

POV: Third Person

Warnings: swearing, alcohol use, violence, and mild sexual content.

Synopsis:

A small town in Mexico is divided when the child of the Ríos family, one of the most important families in town, starts claiming to hear voices and see things that aren't there: half the town believes it must be the devil's work while the other tries to find a medical solution. The situation escalates with the arrival of a foreign guest, who clashes immediately with one of the most beloved and respected men in town.

Tag: # wip ; neon bible

Pinterest Board: Here

Spotify Playlist: Here

Characters: (will add the links for their introduction posts in the future)

Felipe Ávila Reyes: (27, he/him) An agoraphobic and devout catholic, Felipe is a school teacher who spends most of his free time at the town's church, either praying or helping Father Posada with the mass. Father Posada is the one who asks for his help with the Mabel Ríos case. Dr. Sebástian de la Torre: (25, he/him) A young Spanish doctor asked by the Ríos family to take a look at their child, Sebastián likes to do things his way, trusting only logic and science. Cassandra "Sandra" Ávila Reyes: (29, she/her) Félipe's older sister, unlike her brother, Sandra isn't catholic and instead practices santería, much to her brother's dislike. Maribel "Mabel" Ríos Juárez: (17, she/her)The youngest child in the Ríos family, Mabel scares the whole town with a sudden and strange behavior, claiming to hear voices in the dark and screaming for no apparent reason. Lucía Juárez de la Cruz: The matriarch of the Ríos-Juárez family and the one who's most concerned for the daughter, Lucía is the one who calls for Sebastián to help her family. Alejandro Juárez de la Cruz: Brother of Lucía and uncle of Mabel, he lives with her sister's family in the Ríos family house and is the one in charge of Mabel most of the time. Alba Gracián Ríos: Felipe's fiancée, and a relative to the Ríos family.

Taglist (ask to be added!) ; under the cut

@ofgoldenfools

[hemlucks]

―; a writeblr [re]introduction 

previous url ; latrantem

long time, no see! it's been over a year since i was last active on this lonely little writeblr. but with a newfound fire under me to complete these wips that have been loitering in my brain for years, i've decided to come back!

―; about the author/blogger

name ; dylan

age ; 25

from ; chicago, usa

blog type ; writeblr, personal

mbti ; isfp-t (turbulent mediator)

what i write ; dark academia + campus thriller, romance, contemporary, literary fiction

―; works in progress

i have quite a few wips (will be posting more intros for those soon!), but here are loglines for my three main wips that i’ve been working on every day:

the last twist of the knife (campus thriller)

in rainy portsmith, rainier academy students unearth a dark conspiracy tied to town and school leaders. guided by a found journal, they strive to expose the truth and thwart a malevolent ritual.

those who tempt fate (dark academia)

amidst the intoxicating atmosphere of a secluded campus, brilliant students unite in their pursuit of immortality, delving into the eerie legacy of an ancient cult.

treacherous (campus thriller/mystery)

within the seemingly tranquil halls of echelon academy, a sudden tragedy drives everett and hudson to uncover a conspiracy surrounding the school's rowing team.

the man i am (contemporary romance, coming of age)

after his supposedly straight childhood friend is outed to the entire school and ostracized from their entire community, river williams decides to re-kindle a friendship he once lost.

i thank you for reading this horrifically long introduction and look forward to sharing your edits and reading all of your wips !

[thelivingdeceased]

writeblr introduction — thelivingdeceased

hi !! here’s an introduction because i haven’t done one :D

about me // October, he/she, aro/ace !!

genres/tropes // sci-fi, horror, found family, dystopia, supernatural elements, morally grey characters, etc :D

hobbies/likes // minecraft, cats, d&d, photography, ice skating, music, and writing (of course) !!

fun facts // i have six cats !! one of them (olivia newton john) is my writing buddy !! (she likes to “help” by stepping on my keyboard)

socials // @//teafrog_literature on insta !!

other // my dms and asks are very much open !! :D

my wips !!

i have two main series’ at the moment (though i do have a few standalone projects) :D

The Unreality

The Unreality is a big big series that I’ve been working on for just under a year. It has stupid teenagers, world bending powers, cosmic horror, what more could you ask for. | Book One | Book Two

genre: sci-fi horror

status: working on the second book :3

summary: It’s the 1970s and a group of teenagers have accidentally ostracised themselves from the general public by joining the Unreality, an entity that allows them to bend reality. With no control over it and the constant weight of everything on their minds, they get into more trouble than it’s worth, and find they have no idea how to get themselves out.

retellings

idk i like retellings and i’m writing a lot of novellas and maybe some novels that are retellings :3

genre: retellings (if that’s a genre) and most times horror :3

status: currently plotting a novel and novella

summary: Hugo Adler has been cursed for most of his life to watch the world from a bird’s eye view, literally. Only able to be human for a few hours at a time and with all eternity to wander, he takes up documenting the lives of interesting people. Watching and transcribing everything live, he learns just how individual the world can be, and how many struggles a human can have.

yippee !!

[buffythevampirelover]

NaNoWriMo: Red Ring of Fate

Hi! I’m Buffy and this is my NaNoWriMo project :) *NOTE FROM FUTURE BUFFY: I did not complete this lol, she is still in progress!

wlw romance, duel POV, chinese mythology elements

“Jingyi is a manager at a cafe, saving up for flight attendant school. Renée is a student at the University of Saskatchewan, months away from getting her bachelor's degree in kinesiology. The two don't recall ever crossing paths, nor seemingly have anything in common. Except they have the same tattoo; a red ring on their pinky finger symbolizing the red string of fate. An ancient Chinese myth about soulmates. The two meet. They suddenly see each other everywhere. They befriend one another. They fall in love. But is love enough when you're both about to head off into the world in different directions? Will the string connecting them snap, when tested by thousands of miles of distance? In this romance story that centres around the Chinese myths that subtly take over two Chinese-Canadians lives, soulmates seem to be more of a choice, than a fate.”

The story has two main characters: Jingyi and Renée

My NaNoWriMo goal is 50,000 though idk how likely that is but I really am just hoping to get this story into motion and break my writer's block that has been bugging me for a few months now!

[urlocalwitch555]

painting be rand burns

WIP INTRODUCTION ๋࣭ ⭑⚝

because camp nanowrimo is starting tomorrow, i decided to do an intro for the novella i'll be writing this camp! (which is also my first camp nano)

✧┊ title: veil of shadow

✮⋆˙┊ genre: high fantasy

✧┊ literary genre: novella

✦┊ current word count: 1,241

✶┊ goal word count: 30,000

๋࣭⭑┊ setting: land of the moon; enchanted forests and mountains

★┊ tropes and themes (i'm so bad at this): werewolves, vampires, monsters, witches, dragons, dragon riders, lost heritage, finding one's identity, feminism, equality, slavic folklore, dictatorship

☆┊ playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6GM91iRqdFluI1pAyCJZPi?si=5oFyf8B7QjOyoVR8Xq7f8Q&pi=e-9aGJpn3MR_K9

🌙 plot summary

when alesya has been found by druids as a kid, all she had was a golden medallion of an unknown coat of arms. soon the full moon came and the druids found that the girl was in fact a werewolf. for years they've held her closed off from villagers, hiding her during full moons, and times when wolven features showed on her human form. behind closed doors, they took care of her and teached her all magic and knowledge they had. alesya was a quick learner and soon enough became a proper witch.

one day, when alesya was already an adult and got sick of being held back by the druids, she decided to run away. what made her make that decision was meeting of a spirit guide familiar, and the fact that villagers wanted to hunt her down. alone with her horse and wolf familiar, she went on a quest to find out where her medallion came from, and find her biological family. along the way she met new people and creatures, helping them, taking down regimes, and learning about the world after not seeing it for her whole life.

₊ ⊹ ┊ inspiration (aka the playlist that made me write this story): https://youtu.be/BaFuOrwIAK8?si=Kjr0OwKwVXZqZl84

✪┊ an excerpt:

The sun was low on the horizon. Night was approaching, and with it the full moon, ominous in its silken light. Children were returning home, running away from what hid in the shadows, and Alesya was what they were running from.

painting by dennis sheehan

[helsinkirose]

Hi!

I haven’t used Tumblr very much, but I wanted to try it out :]

I’m 23 and my pronouns are she/any. I’m an English major, I have a Grant writing internship, and I will be graduating in December 2023! <3

I have two projects currently. One is 50k words for camp nanowrimo and one is for 100k words by Christmas. The book I’m focused on for camp is called “The Lost Prince” and it will be a mystery/thriller/horror. The book that’s due by Christmas is a sort of sci-fi/drama called “The Sky Inside The Ocean”.

I love to try out any & every genre. My favorite trope is found family. I have a few other projects that I will most likely start working on next year, but that’s a long time from now. My focused project for camp, (”The Lost Prince”) is too difficult to summarize at this point so I’m not going to try. I got most of my inspiration from Stephen King’s “The Outsider” and the video game “Little Nightmares”. I also prefer using soft magic systems because hard magic systems ruin the whimsy for me; (you guys should watch CJtheX’s yt video on Coraline ;)).

I actually don’t have much time to read outside of what I read for class. I’ve recently finished “The Maltese Falcon” and the “Norton Anthology Volume F” for a Modern Literature course, (I’m actually in love with modern lit now lol). My main sources of motivation are tracking goals/accomplishments, going on walks, daydreaming, maintaining my sleep schedule, and talking my way out of writers block with friends.

I am very excited for camp because I’ve completed my condensed summer course and my internship is remote, so I have a lot of time! I have a few other summertime goals that I want to complete, so those might get in the way, but I’m positive that I can accomplish my writing goals! :D

I’m excited to mingle with people on here even though I’m busy. I hope I get to read some cool stuff and that we can inspire each other to complete our goals!

[rowanwriting]

— REVENANCE nanowrimo 2023 accountability thread

genre. paranormal romance // lgbt+ audience. adult // 18 pov. third person summary.

Ten years ago, Malcolm was turned into a vampire. On accident. An outcast from his Maker, Malcolm only knows life as a servant. That is, until Kazimir, the mortal enemy of his Maker, offers him something he cannot refuse.

goal. 50,000 words