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I do have a piece of writing advice, actually.

See, the first time I grew parsnips, I fucked it up good. I hadn't seen parsnips sprouting before, right, and in my eagerness I was keeping a close eye on the row. And every time I saw some intruding grass coming up, I twitched it right out, and went back to anticipating the germination of my parsnips.

But it turns out parsnips take a bit longer than anything else I'd ever grown to distinguish themselves visually. It's just the two little split leaves, almost identical to a newly seeded bit of kentucky bluegrass when they first come up, and they take a good bit to establish themselves and spread out flat before the main stem with its first distinctive scallopy leaf gets going.

I didn't get any parsnips, not that year, because I'd weeded them all out as soon as they showed their faces, with my 'ugh no that's grass' twitchy horticulture finger.

The next year, having in retrospect come to suspect what had happened, I left the row alone and didn't weed anything until all the sprouts coming up had all had a bit to set in and show their colors, and I've grown lots of parsnips since. They're kind of a slow crop, not a huge return, but I like them and watching them grow and digging them up, and their papery little seeds in the second year, if you don't harvest one either on purpose or because you misjudged the frost, so it's worth it.

Anyway, whenever I see someone stuck and struggling with their writing who's gotten into that frustration loop of typing a few words, rejecting them, backspacing, and starting again, I find myself thinking, you gotta stop weeding your parsnips, man.

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Hestia is officially on break! I'm aiming to finish writing it in the next 1-2 mo and then start posting again 😁 very excited to share the rest of the story with you guys

As of right now, ch 38 is the most recent chapter. I'll still be popping by to respond to comments as they come in so hopefully you won't miss me too bad!

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@theplacewhererobindied why did you have to do a word with a 'y' 😭 this was far too difficult for me 😂😂😂 only sentence I have that starts with 'y' (that I found without digging through more than 40k words) happens to be kinky, enjoy lol

All of this is from Hestia verse (Pragma). It's two different stories though. 52 and an as-of-yet unnamed arc that may or may not be included in Hestia (probably will be posted as a side story later after Hestia has concluded)

S

Slipping silently inside, he stretches the strip of duct tape he brought over the latch all in one move so the door can't lock him in. Normally, he would’ve had five-seconds before the alarm sounded, but his program disabled the alarm on this door too.

H

He'd have liked to have brought more of the solution in, but there wasn't another way to safely transport such a highly reactive substance so close to his person. Even this had pushed his comfort zone since neither the compartments nor the vials would've stood up to a sudden impact.

I

I don't have time for this.

N

Normally, Jason would banter back. Right now, however, it's all he can do to respond intelligibly because what they just did wasn't nearly enough. Not when Dick is looking at him like that.

Y

“Yeah, Dickie, need you to knot me.” He tugs at his brother's hair, trying to pull him up. “Take me to bed, please.”

WIP game

Rules: You will be given a word. Share one sentence/excerpt from your wip(s) that start with each letter of that word.

Thank you @striveattemptfail for the word WHALE

Well, he’d probably categorize it as come hither, but to each their own. “Copernicus Dale,” I say. “That’s me,” he says. Slowly. Langorously. I hate him already. “Okay, well, I’ve come to get you out, so if you have anything to take with you, pack it up or finish up your deals for it,” I say. He tilts his head, like he has all the time in the world. God. (I feel the demons turn to look at me when I think that.) “Who sent you?” “I didn’t get a name,” I say, “just yours.” “Really?” he says, and the smile finally lights up his eyes. He doesn’t seem like as much of a smug douchebag like that. I hold up my hand so he can see the scrawl, if he can read it. I assume he can read Adamantine if someone sent me to get him here, but I can’t vouch for my handwriting.

(Another excerpt from SDATT. original)

He sighs. “Dr. Green says I need to confront my fears.” “You’re afraid of quiche,” I clarify.

(From the main storyline of WHC. original)

“Are you a necromancer?” he asks. I pause. “I think we all are. Or, at least, all of us whose templates are necromancers, which is going to be most of us overall. I don’t know whether it’s part of the process or part of what we’re copying.” “Do you know what we’re doing here?” he asks. I look up at him. He has unassuming features. I wonder whether he’s trying hard not to make any expressions right now, or he just always looks like that. “You are supposed to be watching me, to make sure I don’t start committing atrocities or something. I am just trying to survive long enough to remember what I planned to do here.” He looks vaguely worried at that, but it’s all in the eyes. “It wasn’t committing any kind of atrocity, was it?”

(From the thing with the necromancers and the cloning, as yet untitled until I think of one. original)

Luxury like I’ve never seen before. Oh there were some that looked just like us – or like I will look, with my new clothes; I’ve bought pants that suit me very well if I do say so myself – but some of them! The men look dashing and the women ethereal and all of them in so many layers with hats and belts and ribbons and tassels and so much embroidery on everything! I think, when I come back home, I’m going to have all of my clothes embroidered and never go about plain again. It was like being in a play, and I was on stage with a whole troupe dancing their way around me while I made a lovely moving scene, dying in front of the prince so he could cry over never having loved me enough, or what have you. You should come yourself, if it wouldn’t upset your sensibilities too much.

(From the Hill House/Dracula crossover)

Extended silence is unusual for humans when spending long periods together, so I’m attempting to make small talk. Murderbot has given me a guide to this, which is very helpful, although I do sometimes wonder if I did anything wrong asking for help, because it gave me the strangest look when I brought the topic up. A look similar to the one Ratthi is giving me now, something I’ve come to interpret – with high 90s accuracy – means that I’ve done something out of the social norm.

(From the Murderbot story for FTH)

If you were tagged on the last one and want to be tagged again, let me know. If you weren't tagged either time and you want to be, let me know. Or just pretend I tagged you! @confusedshades @elodieunderglass @teashoesandhair @clockwayswrites

Your word is: MYTH

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Writing is a process that often undergoes heavy edits… that includes responding to feedback. 

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Aaaaaand an addition to the Pragma series that looks at world building! Literally just comment strings lol have fun

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Look at us go!! Posted within 24hrs of the chapter update!! So good! Yay me!

Without further ado: ch32

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I'm so good at this 🙃 😂

Here's chapter 31 lmfao

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Apparently I'm just like super optimistic about how quickly I can finish something when I'm exhausted and it makes me a terrible judge of a reasonable timeframe 😂😂😂😂😂

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So..... I'm gonna split this chapter in two cause it's like 7k long already, buuuuut I'm going to be nice and post them both at the same time when I'm done! That way you guys won't have to wait to get JayDick in the same room and I won't have lied to you 😂

BUT I'm then going to take an additional week off cause I'm watching two extra dogs rn and it's exhausting 😩 one of them goes home in a week though so it'll get more normal then!

So, to recap: after this double chapter update we'll have a pause of two weeks (which is going to leave you guys in a cliffhanger hahaha sorry 😅 but you'll live)

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Fingers crossed that ch 27 will be up tomorrow! This week has just been insanely busy and exhausting (but in a good way).

Wish me luck!!

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Chapter 26!!

(yes I know I have been... Not good at updating here 😂)

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Chapter 24!! (No idea if I posted the previous chapter here cause I've been so bad! But here's this one 😅)

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the issue with writing for yourself is that you will get sucked into rereading your own fic over and over and pretend it’s “editing,” but really you’re just reading because it’s exactly what you want to read. because you wrote it. for you.

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So Bêchafa / Make sure you follow > Shot By Canipel & Instagram

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Hey look at me remembering shit!!

Chapter 22! Enjoy 😊

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Chapter 21!! (I posted it a couple days ago and forgot(classic) to dump it here shhhh)

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Hestia update should hopefully be up tomorrow! I've been traveling over the weekend and would've had time to finish this chapter and post it on Sunday EXCEPT we had an issue that kept us out an hour and a half late so no writing time 😭