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domesticated-feral · 3 years ago

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ask game!

thank you for the tag @scribeoffate and @nacreousgore

Name: Feral also known as Tyler.

Fandoms: I like a lot of media, of various types. But the ones I've done the most interaction with is this one bandom that shall not be named and the Teen Wolf fandom. Although im not as immersed in these as I was because other cool things joined the chat, but im still knee deep in it though.

Most popular oneshot:

By Kudos: surprisingly (because i havent gone on ao3 in like months) Fake It 'til You Make It is top with 174 kudos!!!! It's a stackson fake dating/office setting/besties AU

By hits: it's I'm Yours which is also surprising but not unexpected. A smutty sciles oneshot.

Most popular multichapter: I have like 4 multichaptered fics and its undoubtedly the sterek AU fanfic i pantsed during nanowrimo of 2020.

Actual worst part of writing: having no time to write, having motivation but being unable to write. As a writer, thats the most frustrating part to ever experience and continue to experience.

How do you choose your titles? I understand that many writers find this part hard. But I find it pretty easy and I can think of titles in a moderate amount of time. I have three methods: placeholder title that you get attached to, or jumble up key words to make something or PUNS. If situation is dire, just resort to fic #19239283. (this is a callout to 2019 me who titled the first two sterek oneshots i posted to ao2 titled sterek oneshot #1 and sterek oneshot #2 respectively)

Do you outline? Pantser here. But sometimes i write down how i want a fic/chapter to go if i get too confused, its a 50/50 chance whether the outline gets followed or not.

Ideas I probably wouldn't get around to, but wouldn't it be nice if I would?

Most of ideas, blurbs, vague plotty dialogue exchanges which end up jotted down in the notes app probably. Some of them, I think about a lot, I yearn to write them but I haven't gotten around to doing it yet. For one, I would really love writing a fic where Scott is as recklessly selfless as he is in canon and Jackson having none of that bullshit, uses his paralyzing venom to stop Scott from being selfless to the point that he's willing to risk his life against a threat. He can get around to defeating that threat later when there's a better plan but for now, Scott's gotta sit tight. Whether that be voluntarily or involuntarily is up to him....or not.... idk where this idea is going but i want more of it.

Callouts @ Me: liking other things doesn't mean you're abandoning one thing for another. ALSO, don't feel guilty that you're prioritizing studies and stuff like that over stuff that's less arduous like fic writing or drawing...you'll get time to do them soon.

Best writing trait: I don't necessarily overthink about what others might think of what i write and i just write what i want? is that a good trait?

Spicy Tangential Opinion: S4 could've been greater if they had gone with one plot arc instead of trying to balance both the kate werejaguar berserker arc and the deadpool arc at the same time.

I don't think that's as spicy as one would think, but like...s4 could've been less confusing if the writers just focused on one or the other.

Tagging @ all my writer friends who havent been tagged to do this, i cant think rn im so tired and i wanna sleep. it's only been 2 days into this week and im already tired whyyyyy

#tag game #YAY FUN #thank you so much for tagging me #feral says things

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waywardfangirl · 4 years ago

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Both @captain-aralias and @palimpsessed did really nice posts to share their fics from this year as well as their thoughts on what they wrote, and I enjoyed reading their posts (and their fics!) so much that I thought I would take them up on their open invitation to do one too! I’m a big believer in keeping lists of your accomplishments to look at on days when self-doubt creeps in, so I encourage anyone else who might be interested to do this too! (All the questions are copied from @captain-aralias)

List of Completed Fics this year:

I wrote ten fics this year, as well as starting a ton of WIPs, which is amazing to me, considering I have only written fic once before in my life!

Slow - General, 3k

We’re Not in Genovia Anymore - Teen, 28k

Promises - General, 3k

A Privilege to Love You - Teen, 7k

Early Riser - General, >1k

Write This Down - General, 3k

As You Wish - Teen, 13k

The View from the Veranda - General, 4k

Down By The Sea - General, 2k

Just Want You to Know Who I Am - General, 1k (written in 2020, posted in 2021)

Total: 10 fics, 67k words, 100% Snowbaz

Pretty good for what is truly the first year that I have been an active participant in fandom!

Questions answered below the cut.

Best/worst title?

A Privilege to Love You is my favorite title, because I think the line is just so sweet, and it makes my heart melt.

We’re Not in Genovia Anymore is definitely my worst title, because that was just the placeholder name I gave the WIP, but then I got so used to it I forgot to change it to something better before posting. I still cringe a bit at that one.

Best/worst summary?

l am horrifically indecisive, so I have a few summaries that I like. Just Want You To Know Who I Am is short and sweet, and I think it conveys exactly what I want it to:

Baz is fine. He's fine. Everything is fine. (It just isn't.)

~A fic about being loved in all the little ways~

But I also really liked the quotes I pulled for The View from the Veranda, As You Wish, and A Privilege to Love You.

Early Riser also has a summary that I let break my heart:

Baz wakes up early now, even though Simon doesn’t.

I does very little to convey what the fic is about, but after reading the fic it hurts like I wanted it to, sooo.....

I think that Promises has the worst summary though:

Inspired by the song "Promises" from the musical Hadestown.

Simon and Baz have spent the last three years working on themselves and on their relationship. Now it's time for their next step together.

Best/worst first line?

Baz says it best to open The View from the Veranda:

I am not a man accustomed to enduring want.

However, Simon deserves an honorable mention for starting us off right in As You Wish:

Baz is such a prick.

As for worst opening lines, I don’t really think I have any. I have some that stand better as an opening paragraph than an opening line, but I place a lot of importance on the first line of a story, so I like to make sure all mine are strong.

Best/worst last line?

I am not going to spoil any last lines for anyone (I cover up the last page of books when I read to reveal it slowly, word by word, so I take last lines seriously!), but I will say that As You Wish has an adorably predictable last line that I love.

For worst last line, I have to say Slow. I liked the line itself when I wrote it, but then I learned later that people were interpreting it in a more steamy way than what I had intended, and because I feel like Slow is such an innocent fic and really highlights how important it is for Simon to not be rushed into every decision he makes, I don’t like that it sounds like he and Baz rushed into something else. (I just meant that they talked and maybe kissed a bit! That’s it!)

Looking back, did you write more fics than you thought you would this year, less than you thought, or about what you predicted?

On December 31st, 2019, I was pet sitting when I came across a prompt for a Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement Snowbaz AU. I impulsively started to write, even though I had only written one other fic in my life (Check, Please!), and I had never written Snowbaz before. I kind of thought that maybe I would write one fic and that would be all, and that maybe one fic is all I would ever write, but I am so happy to have been wrong about that! I wrote way more than I could have predicted, and I even did NaNoWriMo! (I failed NaNoWriMo too, and I’m okay with that, because I want writing to be something I do for fun, not something that stresses me out.)

As a fun side note, Carry On is a fandom that I have returned to many times in my life, and it seems to have a special place on New Year’s Eve/New Year’s Day for me. I was given Fangirl as a Christmas present, and started reading it on New Year’s Eve, only to finish it and realize that the new year had arrived while I was engrossed in the book. I have spent multiple New Year’s Eves since engrossed in a reread of the book, or reading fic, and so it feels really fitting that I got into properly writing fic for Carry On as the year turned over.

What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted last year?

Literally all of this was unexpected, as I never planned on writing any more fic, but I think I am most surprised to have written multiple songfics. I never read many songfics, and didn’t often care for them, but I wrote Promises off of the song from Hadestown, Write This Down off of George Strait’s song, and then Just Want You to Know Who I Am because Caity got the Goo Goo Dolls stuck in my head.

What’s your favourite story this year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you the happiest.

My favorite might actually be my most popular, so I’ll go with my close second favorites (it’s a tie)

A Privilege to Love You is a soulmate au, and those are my favorite things ever. I also received some of the best feedback on this one, and I feel like I did a lot of things that worked really well in this fic.

The View from the Veranda is just so wonderful for me though, it combines my love of history with absolute silliness for a friend (I love you Liz!!!), @krisrix did some INCREDIBLE art for it, and I just had so much fun writing it.

Okay, NOW your most popular story.

As You Wish was the most popular, hands down, with more hits, kudos, comments, and bookmarks than any other fic I wrote. It’s also the fic of mine that I reread the most, because it makes me so happy and I love all the silly moments.

Story most underappreciated by the universe?

We’re Not in Genovia Anymore is probably the answer here. This isn’t entirely backed up by metrics, since it does have more hits and kudos than some of my other fics, but for how long it is and the work that went into it, I think it only got a portion of the attention I was hoping it would. That’s mostly my fault though! It was the first fic I wrote for this fandom, and so I have definitely grown as a write since! Additionally, while I feel like it has a lot of great moments and fantastic lines, I have some lackluster bits too, and it really suffered from not having a beta (I was too shy to ask anyone back then). It’s also an AU of a movie that isn’t as widely viewed as I previously thought, so that didn’t help either, and as I already said, this fic could have a much better title.

All that aside though, the people who have read and talked to me about this fic have really seemed to like it, so I’m glad that I did right by my fellow Princess Diaries 2 fans! (and all of the wonderful people who read it and commented nice things having never seen the movie, y’all rock!)

Story that could have been better?

Everything I wrote before asking someone to beta. I just talked about what I would improve in We’re Not In Genovia Anymore, but Promises could use some work too. Having a few wonderful friends help me edit my fics has really improved what I post!

Sexiest story?

Oh gosh, I am not someone who writes sexy things.

Having said that, The View from the Veranda was written in the style of a bodice ripper, so I think that makes it the sexiest story by default. Kris’s art also enhances its sex appeal by at least 200% (I laughed out loud when I was making the list at the start of this post, because I had entirely forgotten that fic is rated G - honestly, that tells you everything you need to know about me, my romance novel fic can be read by children haha) (I might give it a T rating at some point, just because I feel like it should have that)

**I just remembered the bonus chapter for As You Wish.... that might be the sexiest thing I’ve written haha 🤣

Saddest story?

Early Riser - I am a big believer in giving everyone who deserves it a happy ending, but this one is just an interlude of sadness and depression without any resolution in sight.

(If you read it though, please know that in my head they do get therapy and things do get better! Snowbaz always has a happy ending in my fics, even if I don’t write it out fully)

Most fun?

As You Wish - this one to me feels like the happy chaos of running and sliding around a big house in stocking feet, and I don’t have a better way to describe it than that. There’s a tiny bit of angst from Baz, and a little bit of panic from Simon, but I was smiling and having so much fun while writing this fic, and I really think it comes across.

Story with single sweetest moment?

A Privilege to Love You - I’ll let you decide which of the many sweet moments is actually the sweetest ❤

Hardest story to write?

Promises, no question about it. I had written two fics by that point, and people had been so nice, and some of you lovely folks had even started tagging me in WIP Wednesday posts and in Six Sentence Sunday posts, but I felt like I had no inspiration left and I kept worrying that I wouldn’t be able to write again. So, I forced myself to write something, and it felt like pulling teeth (and it honestly wasn’t very good), but I gifted it to the person who had been my biggest cheerleader and who had tagged me a million times, and that’s how @foolofabookwyrm and I became friends. Writing the fic sucked, but her friendship is worth it, a million times over 💜💜💜

Easiest/most fun story to write?

The View from the Veranda. I’m a historian, and I work a lot with primary sources and spend time speaking with others in 18th century language, so once I got into my “work mindset” the words just flowed. This was also a silly, happy story for me, because I included a lot of jokes for Liz, and there are a ton of details that are just hilarious if you work at the same place I do (sorry that none of you do, but let me just tell you, the descriptions of Simon are all based off of my most attractive colleague, and at least 15% of this fic is silly quotes from work). I think this was only supposed to be about a thousand words long, and I messaged Kris multiple times while writing just to tell him that it was getting out of control and I couldn’t stop writing 😂

Did any stories shift your perceptions of the characters?

Writing for Agatha in We’re Not in Genovia Anymore really made realize how much some of her (canon) story resounded with me, and I liked the deeper character study I ended up doing for her. I’m still always going to be the most in love with Baz, but I have a deeper connection to Agatha now too.

Most overdue story?

It’s still overdue. I have so many WIPs, at least seven of which are soulmate AUs, and I just keep starting more. In terms of actual planned release date though? I started writing a The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue AU for NaNoWriMo, with the intention of publishing it in January. It’s already the longest fic I’ve ever written, and I don’t think I’m even a quarter of the way done with it. I wasn’t happy writing for NaNo, because I don’t do well with creativity on a deadline, and I chose to pause work on that fic so I can actually enjoy writing it and end up with something I like once I finally return to it. Apologies to those who are anxiously awaiting the fic, I do hope to finish it this year, and I won’t post until it’s all done, so you’ll get a very rapid update schedule when it does come out!

Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?

I signed up for my first fandom event! I participated in the Secret Snowflake event, and wrote Down By The Sea for the wonderful @fight-surrender (and ended up with ideas for some other new fics too)! Even though I was actively failing NaNoWriMo when I signed up, I did manage to complete my fic on time, and I learned that it wasn’t quite as daunting as I was expecting it to be. (My biggest problem was my laptop breaking and having to do almost everything on my phone - I also learned once again just how amazing Liz is, as she helped me format and post to ao3, since I couldn’t do that properly without a computer)

I struggle with being creative on a deadline, but wanting to write a little over 1k in a month was much more achievable than feeling stressed about writing 50k in a month!

This year’s theme and the story that demonstrates it most:

I like the idea of the inevitability of love. I adore soulmate AUs, because I love the idea of a universe where not only does someone have a perfectly matched other person, but that there is a surefire way to find them. Even though I only published one soulmate AU this year, I feel like every time I write Snowbaz I am writing about a couple where love will, inevitably, win. In my mind they are always going to have a happy ending somewhere down the line where they are just purely in love. Even though love doesn’t magically fix everything, it’s still incredibly powerful, and I only want to create stories where Simon and Baz truly love each other.

Of course, with that as the theme, A Privilege to Love You has to be the fic that best demonstrates the idea of inevitable love - it’s a soulmate AU and a universe where Simon exercises his free will.

What are your fic writing goals for next year this year?

Finish and publish my Gentleman’s Guide AU

Finish and publish more soulmate AUs (I have so many WIPs you guys)

Plan more before writing

Work on improving dynamic scenes and the overall flow of my fics - I sometimes feel like I have too many lulls, and I want to write in a more engaging way

Promote my own work more! I am partially doing this post because there are multiple fics that I never shared on here! I plan to make banners for all of the fics I write this year, and to post them on tumblr at the same time I upload them to ao3.

The last few years have been a time of tremendous personal growth for me, and I really feel like I’m starting to understand who I am as a person, settle into myself, and like who I am. I’m thrilled to discover that fandom is still part of who I am and what I enjoy, and that I have more creative outlets in my life now than I ever expected to. My biggest goal is just to keep building on all of that, to use fic to explore who I am, to reflect what I like, make myself happy with my writing, and to hopefully make at least a few of you happy with my stories too!

#2020 fics #my writing #about me #year in review #fic masterpost #fanfic year in review #my fic #snowbaz #carry on

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nana-writes · 4 years ago

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⚸ NaNo 2020 Project: Aeleine Bk 1

title is a placeholder

genre — dark fantasy, LGBTQ+, adventure, (new) adult, high fantasy

pov — third person restricted; single narrator: Aeleine

⚸ synopsis —

Aeleine is a half-elf living in Murisgal, a merchant oligarchy city where people really only have two career paths: they are either merchants or mercenaries. She is also a runaway slave from the Aaspercy Empire, right next door, and, as far as she knows, one of the few remaining people capable of wielding magic - and she intends to watch the human empire burn.

But her magic comes at a price, and collection day may be close upon her. Can Aeleine keep her promises to herself and her family, or will the fire keeping her alive consume her instead?

In a world long ago depleted of magic, where fear of the unknown reigns, this is a story of retribution and vengeance, but also of learning not to let that consume you - and maybe gaining some friends along the way, too.

⚸ cast —

aeleine - 20, she/her; a half-elf warlock. blight - 26, she/her; an aruma believer lilis - 24, (all pronouns); a changeling soldier micah - 21, he/him; a human witch faeir - 50s (looks 22), ze/zir; an elf assassin

⚸ NaNoWriMo Notes & Goals —

If you’ve been around for a lil bit you might have seen this story about before! My plan is to spend NaNoWriMo hamering out the first draft to book 1, in order. I made a full outline in October and now all I have to is write ^_^

I made a schedule based on how busy I am each day of the month and I want to try and post daily updates.

If you too are participating in NaNo this year I’d love to hear about your project!!

⚸ Links —

wip - [ tag, wip page, mobile friendly, nano, writerblr community ]

find me - [ writerblr | studyblr | instagram | nano | discord ]

#nano #nana nanos #wip intro #wip: aeleine #aw: book 1 #nana writes

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pens-swords-stuff · 5 years ago

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WIP Introduction: Project Vestige

“The earth is alive. It sings, it breathes, and it remembers.”

— Project Vestige; @pens-swords-stuff

Placeholder Title: Project Vestige

Genre: YA/NA, Magical Realism, Mystery

Current Status: Nanowrimo 2019 Project; Outlining and planning

Synopsis:

When Brooke started hearing voices, she thought that she was going insane. There was laughter when she was all alone, she overheard arguments in empty spaces… She’s not losing her grip on reality however. The earth remembers. It remembers the conversations, the laughter, sobs, and the shouts. It’s called place memory, and the places whisper and repeat them out loud so that nothing is ever truly forgotten. Anyone can hear it — all you have to do is listen and pay attention. Most people can’t hear place memory or ignore it because they’re too distracted with their own lives, but Brooke is listening now, and she’s paying attention to every murmur.

People are disappearing in Antium. At first it seems like no big deal — just a college student skipping town — but one by one, more people go missing. It’s the Bay Witch, the locals say, the Bay Witch is snatching people away just like she did in the past; it’s happened before. Could it really be a local legend that’s responsible for these disappearances, or is there something far more sinister happening in Antium? Using her newfound discovery of place memory, Brooke and her friends start unraveling the truth behind the Bay Witch and missing people from over a hundred years ago. Little do they know, learning what truly happened back then may pave the way to them finding the missing people in the present.

Current tag: #project vestige

This is a bit barebones right now because there’s a lot in development, but I’m really excited to finally be able to share my Nanowrimo project with you guys! More information will be posted as relevant, including a Project Vestige tag list post and an eventual Project Vestige masterpost. Please stay tuned, I’ll be talking about this a lot in the next couple months.

Please let me know if you’re interested in being on the tag list!

#writing #writeblr #nanowrimo #wip #wip introduction #wip intro #creative writing #amwriting #original writing #my wips #project vestige #q #scheduled post #please forgive the sloppily put together synopsis #it's the best i can do with what i have so far

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legacysam · 4 years ago

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WIP WEDNESDAY

I was tagged by @lizksy (thank you!)

Tagging: all y’all with art/writing you haven’t looked at in too long lol. go look at your stuff, it’s better than you remember.

I had to think a bit about whether I actually had a WIP bc my writing has been....extremely sporadic lately. But I DO have a nanowrimo doc, which is something I work on for a few days at the start of every november, promptly forget about/get distracted from, then remember again a year later and the cycle starts all over again. Here’s a piece that I’m pretty happy with (but with the names taken out bc I actually hate the placeholder names I’m using for a bunch of the characters lmao)

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The tall man’s scales glowed softly, pearly grey in the dark of the club; he had to lean down so that she could hear him over the roar of the music, an inarticulate clash of instruments over a beat meant for dancing, not talking. His face lacked human flexibility, but the gentle sibilance of his voice was familiar and sweet.

"I missed you."

"I'll bet you say that to all the girls," she answered, smiling indulgently and looking past him into the crowd. The lights moved over them all like falling leaves, bodies blending into one another in the shadowed places, and faces rising, falling, and vanishing again into the dark. Her dark skin glow red and orange and flash as the lights crossed the copper jewelry that twined around her rounded arms.

"Only the girls who taste like snow," he answered, and she laughed loudly. She had loved him once, a love that had settled into a quiet place in her heart, never urgent, not like it had once been. Another night, and she might have pulled him away from the crowd and given him all the memories of snow she could conjure, just for the comfort of being close to someone again.

"You're trying to charm me."

"Of course I am,” he admitted with a small bow, “but you’re too distracted to appreciate it, I think."

“Apologies, darling. I'm here for someone else tonight."

She offered her hand, though, and he took it with a sound of joy, bending deeper to kiss the skin of her palm. Snow, she thought, remembering one morning from her childhood when the weight of the snow had bent the trees almost to the ground, and the drifts were so deep she could only find home by following the trail of smoke from the fireplace against the clear blue sky. Only a moment, but bright and cold and very fond.

Her friend shivered, and when he raised his head again, the tip of his forked tongue was tinted faintly blue.

#no r/b pls!

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kaaramel · 6 years ago

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pretty sure i dont get to call it “designing npcs” anymore when this is at least in theory an uhhh, Novêl, but thats sure as fuck what my internal monologue insisted on calling it

#i still dont think nano is Likely considering how bad i'm falling apart WITHOUT trying to write 1.5k words a day #but brainstorming about it sustains me or at least distracts me so im thinking about who i need to round out the cast #uhhh thats not two rithos or anything theyre deceiver shards with regular mundane rifles #all details still up in the air pending me rereading the deceiver shard rules #karma draws things #placeholder nanowrimo tag #in case it does happen

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donotfeedthewildauthor · 4 years ago

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WIP Title Meme

Tagged by @septemberskye . Ohhhh boy, you have no idea what you've gotten yourself into here.

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Send me an ask with the title that most intrigues you and I’ll post a little snippet of it or tell you something about it!

In Progress on AO3

In the Ocean We'll Hold Hands (I'm working on it okay??? I know it was for MerMay)

A Sudden, Simple Twist of Fate (getting back to it)

Fairytale End from the Staggering Blow (this one is more of a companion to Twist of Fate, so it gets updated sporadically by definition)

To Keep You Warm (sometimes the vanity fic is the hardest to write)

In Progress Fanfic (do any of these have names???)

Unnamed modern au DH fic (with @septemberskye , we'll write it eventually)

Unnamed FNV fic that is currently titled "Selene" as a placeholder

Another unnamed FNV fic that's more of a one-shot tentatively titled "Foils" because I have a lot of Ulysses feels

Title to be determined DH one-shot featuring Daud and baby!Billie working through the emotions of losing Deirdre

A short bit from Whaler Quinn's POV at the start of DH2

"In which Galia hunts down Daud (and joins the Whalers)" (Backstory for Galia and Quinn, intended to eventually be attached to Fairytale End)

In Progress Original Fiction (oh no)

The Witch King (was a nanowrimo story, wrote myself into a corner and I've fixed it, but now the problem is how to make it gay enough)

Phantoms of the Past (LITERALLY started this in middle school. I've started writing it at least 3 times and have a shitton of world building, but laws of physics got in the way of a major plot device and idk if the world really needs another knock-off Tolkien story)

Stupid romance that doesn't have a title (if I had managed to get it down at the height of Twilight's popularity, I might have had something. To give you an idea)

Assassiny story whose title I've forgotten (I think what I have of this is noted as Meryl after the main character, and it was almost a nanowrimo story, but then plot elements were close to the Mortal Engines series and I lost confidence in my writing. Might actually make a better comic if I could draw)

I tag @neosatsuma for funnsies and anyone else who wants to participate. Consider this an open invitation :3 (mostly because if I do know you write fics I'm probably scared to try talking to you ^^;)

#ask meme #tagged meme #my problem is i get too many ideas #and i don't have enough follow through

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khrysantemvm · 5 years ago

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NaNoWriMo Support Group

Week One

tagged by @thewriteblrarchives

Questions for you:

How long have you been writing? - Since primary school; when I was six I started a fairy tale which totally wasn’t inspired by Barbie in Swan Lake. Never finished it.

When you start a project, how do you start? With character, setting, plot, aesthetic, something else? - Usually genre or a single scene. I spend too much of my time daydreaming, so I end up with a scenario that I want to explore more e.g. what if I had superpowers. Then I change the names haha

What’s your favourite part of the writing process? - World building! Coming up with a rough time period, deciding what available technologies are available, what people wear and look like, how that society came about, adding in little details about day-to-day life the characters would take for granted but make their world differ from ours.

What genres do you write? - My main WIPs are all subgenres of urban fantasy. I like writing magic, and about vampires, good and bad. I also like writing sci-fi, but I find it a bit more daunting. I’ve been developing an anthology for such a long, long time that I no longer know where to begin.

Where’s the strangest place you’ve ever written? - Waiting room at the GP office?

Questions for NaNo:

Have you participated in NaNo or camp NaNo before? - I signed up in 2014 but school and depression got in the way. This is my third year in a row doing NaNo, and I’m hoping to make it a winning streak.

What made you decide to join up? - I’m terrible for starting projects and not finishing them. NaNo provides just the right amount of pressure and motivation to see a project through to the end, even if I look through the draft and find it missing important information.

What are you most excited about/looking forward to? - Just getting back into the habit of writing.

Anything you’re a bit nervous about? - Finishing...

Have you done a lot of preparation? Or none whatsoever? Quite a bit- I’ve been working on this universe for two years and this particular set of characters for 18 months.

Do you have a workspace, schedule, or daily goal? I have none of those. Should I?

Questions for your wip:

What’s your NaNo wip titled (if it has one)? - It’s not titled yet, but I’ve been using the placeholder ‘Outlaws.’

Tell us a bit about your NaNo wip! For example the plot, genre, themes… It’s young adult, it’s urban fantasy, it follows various young criminals as they eventually band together as a caper crew. There’s LGBTQ+ characters, POC, many different types of families, secret societies...

What is your protagonist like? I have seven- oh dear. Ruben is weighed down by his families debts, and everything he does it for them, but he is easily manipulated. What Neri lacks in a formal education she makes up for in sheer nerve, but she’s too quick to judge others which makes them think she’s full of herself. Olivier is studious, with a lot of interest in magic, while his parents push him toward a career in medicine or alchemy. Ylis exists on the edge of society, and he’s okay with that, because he’s good at his job and his quick-thinking get him out of any pickle. Elisabet is a hard-worker and more perceptive than she sometimes lets on; she knows what she wants and she’ll do anything to get it. Kedi dreams of being a noble knight, his reluctance to accept his daily life comes across as laziness, ultimately, he is too romantic for his own good. Siaryn is deeply religious as her grandparents raised her, but she decides to run away rather than tell them that she has second sight.

Have you been planning it for a while? Conversely, do you know anything about it yet? I’ve already answered this one lol

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turduckenail · 7 years ago

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NaNoWriMo Procrastination Drabble 1/? - Mother

So I wrote a thing to procrastinate writing the thing I was supposed to be writing and I’m actually really happy with how it turned out so I thought I’d share it with y’all! This hasn’t been proofread or anything so let me know if you spot any glaring mistakes and I’ll fix em up. Hope you enjoy! :D

Warning for a very brief mention of animal death. Very brief. Like one sentence and definitely nothing graphic, just referencing that it happened.

She is the very last.

The ocean ebbs to the beat of it's tides, it flows to the tune of it's currents. The sun, so very, very bright and so very, very harsh, filters thin and watery below the surface into the depths below. The sun that had, without an atmosphere to guard against it any longer, damned everything on the surface to burn.

Here though, far below the waves, where the water is kept cool by the icy dark of it's depths, where there is no bottom to be seen, no base to the mountains that rise from the deepest dark of the world, where all is still, and calm, and silent, it is safe.

She clings to the side of a precipice. The sunlight falls soft along the length of her body and dances across her scales, and the currents tug at her hair, causing it to sway to the tune of an unheard melody.

She is alone.

There is no siren song echoing, the beasts that sang them all long dead. There are no minnows biting at her fingers, their bones lie scattered, feeding the weeds that grow up from the rocks.

Below the dark stretches on forever. It calls to her, tells her to throw herself down to be consumed by it, to be lost to it's depths. Perhaps she will listen. There is nothing in the dark that she fears. Not anymore.

Perhaps there is something there, something quiet and sleeping, waiting for the world to stop burning, waiting for it to quiet, so that it may one day rise and peacefully live out the rest of it's days.

If there is such a beast, she hasn't seen it. She wishes it luck, if it is there. She hopes it is there. She hopes she will find it one day. She could use the company, and she is so tired of being alone.

She turns from her perch, to a craggy fissure in the stone. It is wider than it is tall, half hidden by the moss and seaweed. It's dark in here, completely hidden from the sun, but near the back, hidden in a bed of sand and smooth seastone, there is a soft glow.

It is soft, barely strong enough to light the ground around its sources, but it makes the seaglass shards caught in the sand glitter and shine a pale blue-green. A dozen spheres, like lanterns, are piled together in a dip in the ground. Inside them, past the light, there are the barest hints of shadows. A sign of something growing inside. She floats above them and counts.

One, two, three, more green than blue, their light strong and their shadows dark. Four, five, less green, with an almost violet taint to the blue. Six, seven, eight, nine, ten, their shadows squirm under her gaze, all strong, all safe. Eleven, twelve. Smaller than their siblings, their light wavers and gutters, then flickers to life again. They are not strong, but they are fighters, like their mother. They will survive. She can feel it.

Stars, she hopes they survive.

She curls her body around them, the bars of light along her side glow bright, and the eggs glow brighter in response. The sand begins to warm with the heat from her body, and she curls herself tighter, to protect all she has left, to keep them warm and safe.

She is tired, and lonely, and she is the last. For the barest moment, she allows herself to hope that, someday, she will also be the first.

#my writing #turduckentalk #I had a lot of fun writing this!#This was actually inspired by one of the people on the nanowrimo discord server I'm on #They got me to listen to The Source which is part of the Ayreon project #excellent album 10/10 progressive metal space opera would recommend #anyway this was inspired by a few story aspects from that album that i wanted to explore in my own way #specifically the whole 'last of your species' trope they had going on #thanks Zhi for ruining my life and getting me really invested in this weird mermaid-adjacent single mom #i love her so much and i want to write more about her someday #placeholder tag

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