#suzannegabrielle

[suzannegabrielle]

Get to know me tag!

thank you @darkangel319 for tagging me!!

Rules: Tag 10 or more people you want to get to know better

Relationship status:

i've been married for over 2 years now!

Favorite color:

i'm a sucker for olive green

Song stuck in my head:

oof there's so much songs battling for dominance in my head right now, but let's go with 24 hours by savatage

Favorite food:

ravioli with a ricotta/spinach filling and lots of olive oil always does it for me 🤤

Last song listened to:

7empest by TOOL

Dream trip:

my parents went to new zealand a while ago and that's definitely high on the list! also south-africa, patagonia and the very north of norway to see the northern lights 💫

Last tv show/movie:

blue eye samurai on netflix (it's great!!)

Spicy/sweet/savory?:

can't choose!! if there is a combination of all three then i'm in heaven

Last thing I googled:

pictures of patagonia and now i REALLY want to go there (and whether or not it was a country because i wasn't sure)

i know i have to tag 10 people but i just started this blog a few weeks ago so i literally have like 3 followers 🥲 anyways feel free to join in!

[darkangel319]

Get to know me tag!

Tagged by @mrbexwrites Thanks for tagging me!

Rules: Tag 10 or more people you want to get to know better

Relationship status:

long-term engagement and practically married.

Favorite color:

I never had a favorite color, and I had a placeholder color for whenever I got asked. Yellow, and it was a silly reason to me. I hated that color especially when I kept getting stuck with it in dance class for our costumes, but my opinion changed when a friend told me that yellow was my color because I was like sunshine to her. (I doubt that she remembers this, but it's stuck with me.) However, I like pale pink and black, but under pressure I still say yellow.

Song stuck in my head:

Killer in the Mirror - Set it Off Same as the last song I listened to.

Favorite food:

I'm not sure that I have a favorite (this will be a trend): There's a local ramen house that has a great Garlic Tonkotsu Ramen and Swedish meatballs are always a default choice for me.

Last song listened to:

Killer in the Mirror - Set it Off

Dream trip:

A dream trip for me would be to go to Japan or to travel around western Europe.

Last tv show/movie:

Grey's Anatomy (Season 8)

Spicy/sweet/savory?:

Sweet and Savory, I have no spice tolerance.

Last thing I googled:

I looked up a recipe for earl grey cookies after seeing a tiktok recipe. Other than that, I was researching ways to enhance my worldbuilding for my wip: A Tale of Frost and Flames. I feel like I have several elements missing.

I'm tagging @soulofstarsandink @just-a-girl-with-interests @tabswrites @clairelsonao3 @winterandwords @talesofsorrowandofruin @izzylovesyou2022 @suzannegabrielle @theprissythumbelina @macabremoons

[suzannegabrielle]

on the one hand:

i know choosing to work on my wip right now will make me feel accomplished and happy with myself afterwards.................

on the other hand:

there's mindlessly consuming tons of media

[suzannegabrielle]

Word find tag (Love, Soul, Shine, Beauty)

i was tagged to find the words Love, Soul, Shine and Beauty in my WIP 'To Redeem a Soldier'.

thanks so much for tagging me @darkangel319!!

Love

I love roaming the docks in my free time and watch the ships come in. The people critically searching the wares on the fish markets, the bustle and noise of the merchants. It’s an entire world on its own.

Soul

My hands are around his throat in an instant and the power rises up, up towards my hands and through, pouring into the poor soul currently trapped within my grasp.

Shine

One of the waiters leads us down a few steps to a closed off section, not any less astonishing than the main area of the restaurant. Two large tables take up the entire room, set meticulously with fine cutlery, the candles’ glow mirroring their shine.

Beauty

Even though the chipped stone leaves out some of his features, his solemn and reverent gaze is still striking. I stare into his gray eyes in front of me for a while, which are captivated by a beauty below that I cannot seem to find.

[suzannegabrielle]

if you get this, answer w/ three random facts about yourself and send it to the last seven blogs in your notifs. anon or not, doesn’t matter, let’s get to know the person behind the blog !

oooh i love this!!

okay here's three random facts about me:

i'm obsessed with peanut butter

i make bad puns all the time (&when i get people to roll their eyes at me, i know i have succeeded)

i am a verrrrry impatient driver 🚘

[suzannegabrielle]

about me!

hey!! welcome to my blog. i'm 28 years old and currently writing *drum roll please* my first ever fantasy young adult novel! gah! exciting, i know.

i'm happy to share some stuff about me and my current wip below:

i DEVOUR books. what started with historical fiction when i was younger is now fantasy, sci-fi, crime, romance, thriller, whathaveyou. i love the power of a good story and immersing myself in a different world.

i'm a huge music nerd. i mainly listen to (prog)rock + (symphonic/proggy) metal. think pink floyd, led zeppelin, yes -- but also muse, black sabbath, TOOL and other less well-known bands (any ayreonauts out there??) my guilty pleasure involves violently headbanging to cheesy powermetal in my car

when im not writing im usually binging films & shows (anything really -- right now i'm addicted to the office but if i had to pick a favorite movie it would definitely be lord of the rings)

i get extremely excited talking about one of my (current) obsessions. so if you share anything or -- better yet, have any recommendations you think i love... get ready for a rant ♡

other stuff i love -- in no particular order:

(podcasts about) d&d

my orange cat hannibal

peanut butter(!!!)

here you can read more about my wip:::::

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To Redeem a Soldier

~ a Loya Cinder Story

‘To Redeem a Soldier’ follows 22-year old Loya Cinder, one of the few Gifted Soldiers in the land Asiri - but if you ask him, cursed is more like it. With the Soldier's Gift he can hurt and even kill with just a touch. Feared and hated by the rest of the community, he makes his living by working for the police, using his Gift to extract valuable information from important suspects. Over the years, he has learned to don a mental armor to hide from their screams.

When he is offered a dangerous job to take down the most criminal family in the town of Sina, he doesn’t hesitate to take it, hoping to redeem himself and his deeds by doing something good. But it requires for him to get close to the eccentric but charming son of the godfather: Elias Veste.

How much can he give away without revealing who he is, and without Elias seeing through the careful armor he has donned? And can he decide his own path and redeem his sins, even though he is a feared Soldier?

~ themes of the book include

☆ family ☆ legacy ☆ expectations ☆ choosing your own path ☆ right and wrong ☆ morally gray heroes ☆ redemption ☆ coming of age

lmk if you're interested so i can send you a little bit of the first chapter!

[suzannegabrielle]

the only 2 sides of a writer

side 1: (without a pen or notebook for literally 3 seconds) i’m having all these thoughts and nowhere to jot ‘em down! where’s my stuff? throw me a napkin! i’ll write with my own blood if i have to!

side 2: writing? nah man, there’s chores to do ! i have to clean the house. water the plants. get rid of that wallpaper that’s been bothering me for 3 years. do a barista course! you know! stuff to do!

[darkangel319]

Word find tag (Fight, Find, Follow, Fill)

I was tagged by @winterandwords to search and find the following words in my WIP. So, thanks for tagging me!

These are all excerpts taken from my WIP: A Tale of Frost and Flames

Fight

Learning that my brother had lost his life fighting in the war for our kingdom was the last news I wanted to hear.

Find

With trembling fingers, I explored the confines of my prison, tracing the grooves of the iron bars that held me captive. Desperation fueled my every movement, each touch a fervent search to find any semblance of salvation.

Follow

Whispers soon followed after me as I stepped forward; I sensed there must be speculation about why I'm here. However, I couldn’t bring myself to focus on them.

Fill

Worry filled my stomach like a leaden weight as we entered the castle. It was familiar and yet I was estranged from it, as if the life within those walls had always been just out of reach.

Tagging @fanizzy-2, @saltysupercomputer, @theprissythumbelina and @suzannegabrielle. No pressure or anything and as always there's an open tag for anyone else who wants to do it.

The words to search your WIP for are Love, Soul, Shine, and Beauty