#therainsoakedwriter

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800 Followers Ask: Could I get a poem based on my @rainsoakedwriter username?

[Help me celebrate 800!]

I’d be honored to write you a poem, @therainsoakedwriter! 

I… may have gotten a bit carried away with this one. It started with the idea to write it about a Viking skald composing a song on the way home from a great battle, but then I remembered that one folklore class I took where we looked at oral poetry forms. 

So I had to write it in heroic meter. Or, rather, dróttkvœtt meter. (Which is very hard to do for someone who mainly writes blank verse!) You could say I like to kick it old school. 😎

And I used some legit Norse kennings. Because I love kennings and I am #extra. I’m pretending this was written in Old Norse and then translated because I do not know Norwegian.

Midst stern and aft was heof the field-chargers, all waylaid by a hurtling storm that tossed the wind-steeds

unto the skyward breach.With mighty a voice and a keen eye, Skald Calderpaced its length, hands bracing,

his body twixt mast and man, called against thunder and roaring rain a songto rally his people:

We cried aloud and raised our swords, We broke the gates and soldiers’ lines, We shattered their shields and cleft in twainAnd were gloried with Welsh gold.

With oars striking sea and hot battle-blood flowing,they cross the wave-world wideand journey on to home.

I think I did a pretty good job for 5 minutes of research and a quick skim of a single page of Beowulf.

Here are my sources! If you want some good reading, browse the kennings webside because some of them are freakin’ cool.

Skaldic Poetry Information

Skaldic Forms of Poetry

Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Ages site

Kenning Index

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Want more original fiction?  Take a gander at my original writing tag and my short stories tag!

For writing advice and observations, check out my advice tag.

Want info on my WIPs? Have a look-see at me WIP page!

Do you like the way I put words together? Consider buying me a Ko-Fi! (Link in my blog description!)

Want to be added to my original fiction tag or my WIP tags? Let me know! 😊

Originals Tag List: @piratequeenofpixies, @quilloftheclouds, @snickertoodles, @carmenwrites, @purpleshadows1989, @ofvisitorsthefairest, @theevolutionofledarose, @kriss-the-writing-nerd, @waterfallwritings

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Writer Have You Ever

I was not tagged, but I know this is the new tag game going around the community. I haven't been very active in the last few months and I’m looking to change that. This is the first Writeblr game I’ll be participating in to jump start my blog! If you see this and want to participate feel free to tag me so I can see your responses and play along! And feel free to tag me in any future tag games.

Rules: Tag the person who tagged you, then bold the things in this list you have done, then tag five to ten other writers!

First Person

Second Person

Third Person

Omniscient POV

Past Tense

Present Tense

Future Tense

A complete story

A story longer than 1K

A story longer than 5K

A story longer than 10K

A story longer than 50K (technically, but it isn’t competed yet. One day!)

A story longer than 100K

A story longer than 150K

A story shorter than 1K (Drabbles count right?)

A story shorter than 500 words

Fanfiction

Original Fiction

Fantasy

Science Fiction

Historical Fiction

Dystopian

A story in the Romance Genre

A Story With No Speculative Elements At All

Non-fiction (if you count college research papers)

A children’s book

A story about vampires

A story about werewolves

A story about robots

A story with a non-human protagonist

A story with a main character based on yourself

A story with a character based on somebody you know

Male POV

Female POV

A POV character the opposite sex from yourself

Animal’s POV

Multiple Viewpoints

POV character under age 15

POV character over age 30

A story told in non-chronological order

Story with a happy ending

Story with a sad ending

Death of a minor character

Death of a major character (Coming soon; TBW)

Death (offscreen)

Death (onscreen) (TBW)

Antagonist death

Protagonist death

Villain gets redemption arc

Kissing scene?

Sex scene (offscreen)

Sex scene (onscreen)

Swears (Mild)

Swears (Heavy) (Working on it)

Violence (PG or under)

Violence (PG-13 or over)

Fight scene

Torture scene

A flashback

A dream sequence

A scene that made you cry actual tears

A scene that made you laugh at your own joke

A prologue (Love prologues)

An epilogue

A story with more than 30 chapters (TBW)

A chapter with fewer than 100 words

A poem

A prophecy

Story that takes place in the future

Story that takes place in the past

Story that takes place in a world that is not Earth

An anti-hero

An anti-villain

A parody

Description of male character’s scent

Description of female character’s boobs (Respectfully)

Character with eyes of a non-natural color

Tagging: @themildestofwriters, @the-children-of-the-stars, @girl-star-bastard, @kittensartswriting, @i-rove-rock-n-roll, @therainsoakedwriter, @mastery-in-procrastination, & @thexscarletxwitchx

And I know this game has been making its rounds, so apologies if you’ve already been tagged. Feel free to play along or ignore. If you don’t want to participate, this is just a friendly wave across the internet from me to you.

[pens-swords-stuff]

My Writeblr is @therainsoakedwriter What I like best about your blog is that your writing/writeblr advice is specific, practical, and actionable. A lot of writing advice out there is abstract or hard to apply to real situations, but yours can be, particularly your writeblr advice posts. Your blog is great for new writeblrs.

Thank you so much! I work hard on the advice, and I’m really glad you think so!

I think I remember when you joined writeblr, actually!

And true to your username... The aesthetic I see you as is a rainy day at a cafe. Even though it’s raining, maybe you’re sitting outside with your mug of coffee, underneath those large cafe parasols in a brick-laden area of town that’s slightly off to the side that many people don’t know of, watching as people run through the rain holding newspapers over their heads.

4k / 5k Follower Celebration: Let me celebrate you!

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Last Line Tag Game

Thank you so much to @therainsoakedwriter for tagging me!

This is a little more than a line, but why the hell not:

The candlelight cast Markham’s shadow across the far wall, tall and thin. His shirt was sitting skew, his hair a disheveled mess and the skin beneath his eyes dark. Silver brimmed his eyes and he started crying before either of them could speak. A quiet sob hunched his shoulders and sent two perfect tears rolling down his cheeks.

She was across the room before she realised she’d moved. As their bodies crashed together, his arms engulfed her completely. He buried his face in the crook of her neck and clutched at her nightgown as if she was a lifeline in the stormy current.

Tagging: @rainbowpitofdoom @el-queen  @isanyonetoknow @writingwordsanddrawingpictures

[theouterdark]

Tag: Last Line XVI

This is the first of many last line tags I have to catch up on, courtesy of @zmlorenz.

This is from the new draft of Coldwater Sound. More on that soon. Honest to blog.

Rules: Write the last sentence in your current WIP.

The colonnade of aspens enclosing the approach to Rosenford bent near to snapping.

Tagging: Tagging @zmlorenz back, @writingmyassoff, @sassypandacandy, and anyone who wants to participate.

Tag list: @writingmyassoff, @erinisawriter, @zmlorenz, @els-writes, @midnightstreetwanderings, @sassypandacandy, @bethwrotethis, @doux-ciel, @hilunawrites, @ghost-possum, @doubleviewfinder, @veronicadent, @dantedevereaux, @tlbodine, @hypotheticalwriterquestions, @hazeywrites, @reeseweston, @withered-rose-unbreakable-lotus, @dotr-rose-love, @katabasiss, @byjillianmaria, @james-stark-the-writer, and @therainsoakedwriter. Let me know if you’d like to be added or removed from the tag list.

See you soon with more.

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last line tag

I was tagged by @therainsoakedwriter, thank you cutie <3

this is from my recently resurrected WIP, and since my last line is dialogue I threw in a couple lines before the last just for some context and length.

He looked startled. “You don’t have to. It’s really not that big of a deal.”

“Yeah, I know, but you want to know what it’s like. I can at least put my big girl pants on and deal with it, right?”

He laughed a little, amused. “Big girl pants? What does that mean?”

“It’s an expression. Nevermind.”

His eyes twinkled. “Sure thing, America.”

Tagging: @iwantmyinsanityback @writingmyselfintoanearlygrave @inkspilledqueen @writing-promp-ts @edomusings

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11/11/11 Tag

Got tagged by @candy687 thank you

The rules: Answer the 11 questions of the person who tagged you, make up 11 more questions, tag 11 more people

1.have you ever been inspired to write something based off of something other than another piece of writing?

Yes usually nature and the most random of things but mostly my dreams

2.what kills your creativity the most?

Boredom and tiredness (except when I'm trying to sleep lols)

3.what do you think the best thing you're ever done for your writing ever been?

Practice and trying random things and tricks

4.Do you plan to publish any of your work?

Yes if I ever finish something

5.what genre do you like to read the most?

Sci fi and fantasy a little bit of everything really

6.what do you think has influenced your writing style the most?

I don't know I kinda just write what feels best

7.do you come up with setting, character or plot first?

Usually the characters

8.is your plot the rule or is it more like guidelines?

Guidelines

9.if you have to pick between accuracy and what just sound cool, which are you going with?

Whatever works best with that story

10.do you make up creatures for your stories or prefer to stick with natural animals or mythology?

I more lean toward making my own stuff but sometimes I go toward more natural

11.best story you've ever read/seen that wasn't in a book?(movies,games,ect count for this.)

I don't really watch tv I mainly read so...

(My questions)

1.whats your favourite author?

I would have to say Sarah j Maas

2. What book are you currently/most recently read?

Windwitch by Susan Dennard

3.what genre do you dislike the most?

Romance it just bugs me

4.what do you love the most in a book?

Usually the villains

5.how many pages is a ideal book?

500-600 pages

6.if you could travel anywhere, where would you go?

Norway or Ireland

7. How do you make names for your characters?

Usually it comes to me first sometimes I look up meaning of names and chose which one I like best

8.who's your favourite character, and which book/series are they in

Nixs in Akarnae by Lynette Noni

9.are your stories more based in ancient times or modern times?

A mixture

10.how often do you write?

Occasionally, when ever I feel like it and have time

11.do you usually have 1 or more main character?

Usually more

Tagging: @floridagirlwrites @sensiblescribbler @secretofthefire-novel @luminosity2 @littlefearsdoodles @iwearplaids @myreadingislit @therainsoakedwriter @ren-c-leyn @beccatheauthor @pens-swords-stuff

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11/11/11 tag game!!

i was tagged by @therainsoakedwriter !! thank u for the tag!! 

answer 11 questions, ask 11 questions, tag 11 people

1. What do you predict the topic of your WIP after next might be?

hmm... high fantasy. i’ve got a whole bunch of high fantasy ideas kicking around, but none of them have really solidified yet. i have a feeling they might soon though. 

2. What’s the best movie based on a book in your opinion?

i don’t watch a lot of movies based on books (or in general) so... more data required. i did watch into the wild recently and that was some remarkable cinematography, though, so /shrug 

3. What do you like to write on? Paper, keyboard, tablet, typewriter?

while i love writing on paper, i hate the writing i do on paper. i can type faster than a hummingbird after a venti espresso and still my mind goes faster than my fingers do, so writing on paper feels abysmally slow and i always seem to skip things. hence: keyboard. 

4. Do you have a favorite nonfiction book?

stiff by mary roach (science book about dead bodies by a layperson rather than a scientist. amusing, good read) or the mind of the raven by bernd heinrich (good birbs)

5. What kind of pencil do you like?

i vastly prefer pens but i am fond of those mechanical pencils that nobody bought but everybody seemed to have

6. What books are sitting on your shelf or in your e-reader waiting to be read?

mm, not many. i haven’t read a lot recently. archenemies by marissa meyer. the uhh grishaverse trilogy. my sister is the one who visits the library (i never seem to have time to), so i always end up reading whatever she’s reading, lol

7. Have you ever written something inspired by a song or poem?

all my writing is tangentially influenced by songs because i’m obsessed with music, but nothing in recent memory has been specifically and wholly the result of a song or poem

8. Do you prefer to write dialogue, thoughts, or actions?

dialogue is my absolute favorite and i despise writing action since i can never quite figure out blocking. 

9. What would your dream writing space look like?

i already have it! anywhere i can write is my dream writing space! although a cork board would be nice

10. When you start to write, what’s the first thing you do? 

i always start with dialogue :) i am thoroughly a pantser and my stories tend to be character-driven so dialogue is a go-to starter

11. How do you make yourself kill your darlings?

as shia lebouf once said: “just do it”

questions for the audience: 

1. what’s your favorite opening line from one of your wips? 

2. what sports do you like to watch and why? 

3. is the screen of your phone cracked? 

4. what’s the best piece of writing advice you’ve ever gotten? 

5. if you could see any scene from your wips on the big screen, which would it be? 

6. who’s your favorite fictional character... ever? 

7. on a scale of 1 to 10 how irreverent do you feel right now? 

8. what have you learned about yourself recently? (i have learned that i’m bad at asking questions.) 

9. what was the last thing you bought at a gas station or convenience store? 

10. what’s the weather like? in the most vaguely limpid way, reminiscent of novels from the romantic period (or the world’s worst adult literature, your choice), of course. 

11. what was the last song you listened to? 

tagging some (not quite 11) people (as ever, please feel free to turn this down if you don’t want to do it): 

@writerightmegpie @ahotpeaceofshit @vieliwrites 

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get to know me tag

I’m so f*cking late to this but I was tagged by @aquiniawrites

nicknames: sam

gender: female

astrological sign: scorpio

height: 5′2″

sexuality: straight

hogwarts house: slytherin

favorite animal: in general i guess? dogs?

number of blankets: depending on thickness, most of the time 2

where I am from: born in Arizona, currently live in Ohio

dream trip: greece

when I created this account: sometime this year, hell if i remember

why I created this account: so I can share my love of writing. sometime the writing community and the general atmosphere of twitter is too much

Tagging @adeleiswriting @quilloftheclouds @therainsoakedwriter

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What are the types of traits you choose first when writing an OC? And what are the first types of character traits you tend to revise or rewrite as you develop them? (And have a good Saturday!🎊)

Storyteller Saturday!

Hey hi howdy @therainsoakedwriter! (I finally got the tag right yay!) Thanks for the asks! And a good Saturday to you, too! 😊

Get ready for a ramble!

Hmmm… I gotta think about this one.

I do it a little differently every time. I’ll use some examples so my rambles make sense. I tend to start structuring the whole dang story from the get-go, though. And I plan characters from the end to the beginning. I know where they end up and go backwards from there to figure out what kind of person they used to be. My brain is weird.

For H2H, Gemma was the first character I started drafting, since she’s the one the story centers on. The rough plot idea at the time was “apothecary and not-human person interact somehow,” so her first trait was what she did for a living. Then I thought about the setting, starting with her house, and worked out from there. What kind of person would willingly work with a supernatural person? What kind of magic is in the world and how does she feel about it? She’s a helper, so what are her limits for helping? What are her opinions on where she lives? 

After I got a good idea of who she was, I thought up Mel, starting with asking “why is she in Linsay,” which got me to “she runs from her problems,” which got me to: What problems would make her run away? Where is she from? What does culture shock look like with her?Why does she want to stay, if she even does? What kind of person willingly leaves their home? How does she compliment Gemma and the setting/rest of the cast?

So, to summarize: First, what they do. Second, what kind of person would do that in this setting? Third, their whole-ass arc. I plan the entire thing out, working backwards from where they end up to where they begin. The rest of the details happen as I build the story world, the cast, and the relationships between everything.

The first things that tend to be revised are their opinions, general vibes, and base personality traits. Gemma started off as “laundromat as a person,” meaning she was a little grumpy, a little distant, very resourceful, and only really got excited about her job, which she was very afraid of losing. Then I realized that would be super boring to read about and goes against the themes of the story, so I adjusted to make her brighter, more active, excitable, interested, and involved in her community. Her fears stayed mostly the same from her initial concept, though. 

I do a lot of thinking before I start actually writing anything down, so I have a ton of time to consider and reconsider character traits so they fit the narrative. It’s like rearranging puzzle pieces and adjusting the sides so they fit. All my characters need to have connections to each other, and those relationships have to (sorta) fit the ABC plot structure in relation to their parallels with the main plot. 

(That was a lot of jargon at the end there, my b.)

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Hi! My writeblr is @therainsoakedwriter I post writing inspo, advice, and prompts. Which might make a cool bujo? (PS your Literery spread is great.) 📚📝

Hi! Oh, yes, I follow it :) I would love to make you a spread! It’ll probably be posted sometime early this week

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What’s your new graphic novel? (And what kind of experimental literature?)

 Hi Hi @therainsoakedwriter! Thanks for the ask!

This is my new baby. I’ve wanted to get it the past 4 times I’ve been in the bookstore but it just went on sale and I got excited and broke my no-books-until-you-finish-the-shelf-of-unread-books rule. I am so pumped to read it. It looks so cute, and it’s all blue! I love artists.

Thank you for asking about my weird interests!

So I took an experimental lit class and I got kinda into it. Stories told using existing mediums in new ways, using new mediums in fun ways, digital storytelling, hypertext fiction, the French Nouveau Roman, etc. I like weird.

[Also, hypertext fiction is fiction that is also told outside of the text. Like, House of Leaves has a companion music album that the author’s sister, Poe, made. Or a story you navigate through hyperlinks.]

Some examples from what I remember:

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

One of the more famous experimental novels. Very weird, did not super enjoy it because I am a scardey cat and I stopped with 100 pages left because I didn’t want to finish it out of spite. Does a lot with the printed book. The one you see people reading upside down and sideways. Jorge Luis Borges short stories

I’m talkin’ “Garden of Forking Paths,” “The Library of Babel,” “Funes the Memorious.” Stories that question literally everything about stories and information and physical space. GoFP is about quantum mechanics, ish, and messes with time and space. LoB is about a literally infinite Library and how it would be organized. There’s even a website where you can navigate the library (not sure if it still works, though). It’s trippy. Alain Robbe-Grillet stories and films, and Alain Resnais films

Time is meaningless so why tell stories in chronological order? Or spacial order, for that matter? #NORULESIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

A story about “you,” who has purchased and is reading If on A Winter’s Night a Traveler, but because of how books are put together in the warehouse, your copy contains not the whole story, but the first chapters of several different stories! Now go figure out why. Very meta.Patchwork Girl by Shelley Jackson

You like Frankenstein? How about a hypertext retelling of it? With a female monster and Mary Shelley? It comes on a memory stick. Very cool.And some weird movies:

Decasia: the State of Decay, Upstream Color, Run Lola Run, eXistenZ, 12 Monkeys, Vertigo, Memento, It Felt Like a Kiss, Code Unknown

My projects for the class were all about point and click video games. I have a post on interactive love stories, and I’m working on a game recommendation post right now. I’ll spoil it though:

Anything by Free Bird Games: A Bird Story, To The Moon

Digital: A Love Story

The Stanley Parable

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800  Follower Story Master List

Huge, enormous thanks to everyone who sent in a prompt for my 800 celebration! I’m blown away by your immeasurable creativity and your uncanny ability to pin down my writing aesthetic in just a few words.

These prompts challenged me as a writer in a way that I haven’t been challenged in a long time. Thank you, thank you, thank you for making me a better writer with your support!

💜

Here’s the final list of all the writing I did for this celebration in chronological order:

1. Short based on dialogue: "Young man, do you realize what you've written is inappropriate and offensive?"

-for @inexorableblob

2. Username Short - Skywriting at Dawn

- for @quilloftheclouds

3.  A short based on these three words: Silence, love and menorah

- for @disfunctionaldeity-writes

4.  Short: Apollo melting his lover's, Icarus', wings

- for anonymous

5. Username Short - A Welcome Home Holophonor Recital

- for @holotones

6.  For a short story: dragon, found family.

- for @royalbounties

7.  Username Short - Alistair’s No Good, Very Woopsie Day

- for @abalonetea

8. Short: Forest trails, holding hands, and a birds distant song

- for @otters-holding-hands

9. Username Poem - Norse Skald Composing in a Storm

- for @therainsoakedwriter

10. Short: Persephone reuniting with Hades

- for @writevevo

11. Poem: The moment after the storm ends, where there's a light drizzle but electricity is in the air. 

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- for @aslanwrites

12. A short with these 3 words: brothers, post-apocalypse and dust

- for @writingonesdreams

13. Poem: f/f ice mermaids

[Process post here, 3 images]

- for @purpleshadows1989

14. Username Short - She Can Stop Whenever She Wants To

- for @timefire25

15. Username Short - Storm Chasers Mail Service

- for @cataclysmic-writer

[Tag list and blog info under the cut!]

Want more original fiction?  Take a gander at my original writing tag and my short stories tag!

For writing advice and observations, check out my advice tag.

Want info on my WIPs? Have a look-see at my WIP page!

Do you like the way I put words together? Consider buying me a Ko-Fi! (Link in my blog description!)

Want to be added to my original fiction tag or my WIP tags? Let me know! 😊

Originals Tag List: @piratequeenofpixies, @quilloftheclouds, @snickertoodles, @carmenwrites, @purpleshadows1989, @ofvisitorsthefairest, @theevolutionofledarose, @kriss-the-writing-nerd, @waterfallwritings, @abalonetea

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10 Words and Phrases Tag Game

Tagged by a few buddies but the only one I can find in my notifications is @therainsoakedwriter - thanks!

I’ve done this with both of my WIPs, so here’s ten things my new stories (that’s right, plural. I’ve gone off the writing deep end this week and it feels good) have:

The lasting hope of grasping stars

Humanity

Finding a home where once you were lost

Reluctance

Distant gods who stand beside you

Rockets

Mothers who try and fail and try again

Apocalypse

Standing on rooftops like before

Family

Bilbo Taggins: @writingonesdreams, @purpleshadows1989, @a-story-im-writing, @ren-c-leyn, @fantasy-studiies, @cvrmillas,  @bookish-actor, @minusfractions, @urbanteeth, @aslanwrites, @ink-flavored

[theouterdark]

Tag: 8 People I’d Like to Know Better

Thanks for tagging me, @writingmyassoff​.

ONE — Name

Dylan

TWO — Birthday

January 24

THREE — Zodiac Sign

Aquarius

FOUR — Height

5′10″

FIVE — Hobbies

Beyond reading and writing, I enjoy film analysis, drawing, 3D modeling, cooking, camping, photography, and gaming. Lately I’ve been gaming a lot. Primarily running a long Call of Cthulhu campaign for some friends of mine. We’ve been recording it too, if anyone wants to listen to us nerd.

SIX — Favorite colors

Somewhere between indigo and eggplant. Black is nice. All colors in general.

SEVEN — Favorite books

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Annihilation, S., House of Leaves, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Watership Down, The Trial

EIGHT — Last song listened to

“Starálfur” by Sigur Rós

NINE — Last film watched

The Tree of Life

TEN — Inspirations

I get inspired by good storytelling the most, both film and TV, and the written word. Music is a big part of my inner landscape, and my work would definitely be worse off without the inspiration it brings. Poetry can do it too, if it instills a strong emotion or sense of place.

ELEVEN — Dream job

Show-running a television adaptation of one of my pet-projects, definitely. Something that allows me to create. Hell, even DMing TTRPGs would be a great gig.

Tagging: @zmlorenz​, @sassypandacandy​, @dotr-rose-love​, @midnightstreetwanderings​, @hazeywrites​, @els-writes​, @dentseymour​, and @therainsoakedwriter​.

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[theouterdark]

Tag: 5 Facts

Thanks once again, @zmlorenz, for the tag. I’m trying to remain active even though I’ve been a busy bee lately.

Rules: Give five lesser known facts about your WIP.

Okay, let’s talk about Coldwater Sound.

The book was originally 3-4 stories in one, and told within different time periods. In the initial version, Coldwater Sound was an unfinished book by the fictional author Henry Ambrose. He wrote it in 1953 and it was published posthumously, against his wishes. In 1985, a ghost writer (and Ambrose scholar) was hired to complete the work by the company that owned the publishing rights to the story, and this ghostwriter eventually discovered that Ambrose did not create the story, but it was based on the real accounts of a woman named Jane Chambers, whose journals and letters were given to Ambrose some time after WWII. It was vastly more complicated. Who knows, maybe I’ll give it a go.

Blake Livingston’s name was originally Jane Chambers. I prefer her new name.

There are complicated pieces to the story that make me think its sequel, The Devil from the Outer Dark, will actually be completed first. That one is simpler, and honestly more compelling. Maybe I’m biased. Who knows.

The works of HP Lovecraft and the Poirot novels by Agatha Christie inspired this piece. I don’t want to get to spoilery and tell you why. The original concept was also heavily influenced by the novel S. by Doug Dorst and JJ Abrams, but in truth it only came about from a sleep-deprived string of consciousness note I fumble-keyed into my phone one night. It was more of a voice experiment than anything else, but both Blake and Kenny Deegan were created in the scene, and parts of it remain unchanged from the original version. A line or two at least.

Coldwater Isle’s original location was going to be kept a secret. I wanted to hint at various times that it could be near Nova Scotia, Scotland, the Falklands, or the Canary Islands, as spatial disorientation was important to me. That has mostly fallen by the wayside, but there are relics to each still there. I may explore that again. We’ll see.

Tagging the usual suspects: @writingmyassoff, @erinisawriter, @zmlorenz (gotcha again friendo), @els-writes, @midnightstreetwanderings, @sassypandacandy, and those interested in the project: @leofailsatwriting, @bethwrotethis, @doux-ciel, @hilunawrites, @ghost-possum, @doubleviewfinder, @veronicadent, @dantedevereaux, @tlbodine, @hypotheticalwriterquestions, @hazeywrites, @reeseweston, @withered-rose-unbreakable-lotus, @katabasiss, @byjillianmaria, @james-stark-the-writer, and @therainsoakedwriter.

Don’t feel like you have to participate, just thought you might be interested in these tidbits.

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