#author in progress

[thearunadragon]

Decided to start posting Eragon one-shots on Ao3. You guess can drop any prompt or idea you want and I’d be more than happy to try and write it! My writing is mostly Eragon-centric, but I will do interactions and scenes with any character, and just about any situation. Go wild!

You can send requests in comments, DMs, inbox, or however you please. If you would like to be anonymous or if you would like to be credited for the idea, say so!

Best to all of you,

Aruna.

[ksalnek]

Good Morning, Noon, Afternoon, Evening, and Night!

Welcome to the Ask-Blog of nonexistent stories!

I am Ksalnek, pronounced Kuh-Saul-Nek

All are welcome on this blog!

If you have problems with neurodivergence, furries, people of color, the gays, theys, and all the lovelies in between, then please do not interact!

I am legally a minor so please refrain from sending personal information or NSFW

Now then, allow me to inform you of the titles I have started but never finished!

Dance of the Divided - An original story following an Angel Prince who lost his best friend in a freak accident! A Villain the public has named Alastor has been destroying important buildings and various nobles of different races are dying of mysterious illnesses! What ever will our pure-hearted creature of the sky do? I worked on this story with the lovely Nebulon!

Lucian - Hero

Alastor - Villain

Aeneas - Mentor

The Informant - World Knowledge

The Magic Paradox - A story I heavily based on Harry Potter! Ivy West, raised by a loving muggle family, finally gets an acceptance letter to a Wizard Academy! Meeting new friends, learning of the natural intricacies of magic and the dangers of overusing it. Magic works a bit differently here than it does in Harry Potter, but that explanation can be saved for another day! Would you like to follow Ivy and her friends through this only somewhat new and interesting world?

Ivy West - Main Character

Victor Aldridge - Headmaster

Professor Vexley - Long Term Dark Arts Teacher!

Celia Vance - ?

The New Student - Based on a conversation I had with a bot that I loved too much to let go of! Alyth Getafix is the prodigy of Greansiara Academy. The first Mage in decades to use all of the known Mana types, she certainly has her work cut out for her! There is a new transfer student in the middle of the school year, but they’re just a Fire User. Our Top Student has better things to worry about, like working on the accuracy of her mana usage!

Alyth - Top Student

Adrien - Transfer Student

Feel free to ask me things as well!

I hope you have a lovely day!

[binding-amaris]

I got asked how I always have ideas for new stories and artworks (I write and draw)

and I couldn't figure out how they don't???

Like do y'all just watch movies and not imagine different themes, endings, plot twists, crossovers, etc? You're telling me you read a book and don't imagine different scenarios or how that same scenario would be different if the characters backstory was also different???

Wow it must be really quiet where you are haha

Wanna trade? 😂

[bluepenstemon]

so we already know i’m a huge minecraft diaries fan and i want to take some insoiration from it for my book.

in my book, there are 5 immortals known as the friðr (the old norse word for peace). they are known to me as the original friðr since there is a new generation

one and like three fourths of the immortals are villains (as in one is a fully fledged villain, one is a follower, and another is misguided). two are heroes. they gained immortality when shay (the fully fledged villain) killed one of the elder gods. this is when a civil war broke out between the 5. they separated and nearly destroyed each other, but somehow survived (i don’t know how just yet), but that’s not important. what’s important is the gods are furious at shay and really all 5 of them for stealing immortality, which they see as something that was not theirs to take.

i need a way for the 5 of them to stay alive and not be targeted by the gods and i’m not sure what to do. what do they do to escape the gods’ wrath/immortality if they didn’t want it?

shay runs an assassin academy for specialized fighters to protect himself from the gods’ wrath and any mortals they use to get the job done.

rhosyn, the follower, stays with shay and is protected by the assassins.

zyan, the misguided villain, i think reinvents identities every 70 ish years.

mara and anneth, the two heroes who never wanted immortality, also reinvent themselves, but they’ve found a way to come as close to dying as they physically can. what i’m thinking they do is, they invented a way to deage themselves and lock away their memories so they can have a fresh slate every “life”. what i can’t figure out is where the memories go. is it like irene? are their memories stored in relics?

if i wanted relics, how would i fit them in here with all of the immortals being alive? the original friðr are represented by objects: a crown, a sword, a shield, a rune, a heart, and a thread. they each have another object as well that i haven’t come up with yet. the new friðr, though, are basically the reincarnations of the old friðr, though they have different secondary objects. they are: the crown of a lion, the sword shining with the ways of the sun, the shield made of tatem (a kind of partly healing, partly toxic plant), the rune read by the ocean, the heart made of moonflower petals, and the thread made of starlight. how do i have the reincarnations with the og friðr still being alive?

currently, there are two prophecies, though one is not done for the original friðr and has to do with uniting the magickal world. the new prophecy for the new friðr have a prophecy that has to do with returning the life forces of the og friðr and restoring the balance of magick.

basically, if anyone has any ideas on how to flesh out my ideas, i would greatly appreciate it.

[bamsara]

I think that one thing people fail to understand is that unsolicited literary criticism coming from an online stranger who is reading with no knowledge of what the authors intended goal is, is not going to be received the same as say: the authors beta reader or friends who know what the authors intended goal and has the sufficient knowledge and input to help the author reach that desired outcome.

"But I'm only trying to be helpful" How do I know you have the knowledge and literary skill for you to be able to actaully do that when we don't know each other and you are essentially a stranger to me? Are you applying this criticism based out of personal biased experience and desire to see the story or characterization be driven in another direction or tweaked, or do you know the author's intentions for the character? If the story is incomplete, are you basing your criticism of a character on the incomplete narration with only partial information available of them or are you building up a report until the story's completion? Did the author provide you with the information needed to make a fully informed criticism?

Have you discussed with the author what their plans are or are you assuming them based off the narration, especially if the narration is proven or implied to be unreliable or missing key points of the plot? Are you unbiased enough to help them reach their desired outcome for the characters and story regardless of your personal feelings towards the characters/antagonists and setting? Can you handle being told your specific input isn't wanted because you're a reader and/or have no written anything relating to their genre or topic? Do you understand and respect that the author's personal experiences might influence their writing and make it different than how you would have done it personally? Do you understand if an author only wants input from a specific demographic relating to their story?

If it's for fanfiction or other hobby media, are you holding a free hobby to a professional standard? Are you trying to give criticism because you feel like the author has produced 'subpar job performance' of their fic? Are you viewing their work as a personal intimate outlet or something that must conform with mass media? Are you applying rules and guidelines when the fic is shared for simple sharing sake? Is your criticism worded appropriately and focused on the parts where the author has requested input on rather than a general dismissal and or disapproval?

Have you put yourself in a place where you assumed you have the input needed for the story to evolve better, or have you asked what the author needs and what they're having trouble with? Can you handle having your criticism rejected if the author decides their story doesn't need the change and not take it as a personal offense against your character? Are you crossing that boundary because you think you are doing the author a favor? Are you trying to be helpful, or do you just want to be?

I think sometimes when people hear authors go 'please don't give me unsolicited writing advice or criticism' they automatically chalk it up to 'this author doesn't want ANY constructive feedback on their stuff at all' and not "i already have trusted individuals who will help me with my writing goals and- hey i don't know you like that, please stop acting so overly familiar with me'

[alexjcrowley]

Can I be real for a sec and say that Pope Francis dying marks my loss of hope for these times? He was probably the last big progressive authority figure left in our global panorama.

[anauthorinprogress]

I will do it!

I am determined!

Like every year I've signed up for NaNoWriMo...

But this is different!!

Right guys? heh...

[aphroditeinthestars]

"There's a reason it's called a ROUGH draft," I sigh, creating a keysmash with my forehead.

[marsplastic13]

I LOVE that part of editing that requires me to act it all out and see if it's actually how two humans would interact

[reallyunluckyrunaway]

Please SOMEBODY make it happen!!!!

[thewriteadviceforwriters]

🖤 10 Cool Dark Academia Writing Prompts for Your Next Obsession 🕯️📓

a.k.a. “what if your WIP smelled like old books and reeked of moral decay”

A top student is found dead in the library archives. No one remembers seeing them for weeks, except you, who has a stack of annotated letters written in their handwriting, all dated after they died.

A professor vanishes mid-lecture. Your friend swears the man is still in the room, just in a version of it that the rest of you can’t perceive. And they're starting to draw diagrams of the “other room” on the walls of your dorm.

The most exclusive club on campus only lets in ten members a year. You’re the eleventh who wasn’t invited, but somehow you’re still receiving the club’s nightly riddles. And they’re… personal.

You find a half-burned play manuscript inside a chapel crypt. The final act is missing. When you stage the play for your theatre class, everyone cast in it starts seeing things. Including you.

Your roommate is building a machine to prove time is a loop. It starts working. Every night at 3:41 AM, you wake up screaming the same phrase in a language you don’t speak.

A student writes a scathing essay on a forgotten philosopher’s work, and then disappears. Now the pages of your textbook are rewriting themselves with notes in the same vicious tone.

Someone in your friend group isn’t human. They told you this in passing, like it wasn’t a big deal. You’re starting to realize they meant it literally.

There’s a new elective no one remembers enrolling in. The syllabus reads like a ritual. You’re three weeks in before realizing: the class is teaching you how to forget.

You inherit a locked journal from your estranged uncle, a disgraced historian. Every page you unlock rewrites a piece of the past, and the people around you shift with it.

A girl who went missing last semester is back. She’s quiet, distant, never blinks, and claims to have solved death as a final exam.

🕯️ Which one are you stealing for your next WIP? Be honest.

[thewordsarestuckinmyhead]

writing a novel is adding a bit of light humour to a conversation, reading it back and realising you've just set up some unconscious foreshadowing that is going to go off in seven chapters

[katieaki]

It's Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Wouldn't you like to read about a lesbian wasian cowgirl getting up to shit in a Japanese-American-flavored post-apocalypse, written by a Japanese-American lesbian (me)?

cowgirl in geta and jinbei. butch in boro and zori. you see the vision. read the story.

one of the world's two gods is nisei (from pre-apocalypse) and the Japanese-Wastelanderian population and cultural influence is big in my ~worldbuilding~. additionally, the main characters have been crashing at a coastal fishing village with a family of ama (pearl divers). I've been having a lot of fun pushing the "old west" and "ukiyo-e" sliders all around throughout this story. the girls are double fisting snake oil and tsūsensan. there's a big banjo/cookie tin banjo/shamisen/cigar box shamisen family jam. kuchikami pine sol*. come on! you'll love it!

*note: pine sol is the most popular alcoholic beverage in the Wasteland Anyway: Read Pony Express!

[muffinlance]

Kindling 3! Actually has a thousand or so words to it now!

I have been very productive today!

[dogmalilith]

[morbethgames]

NEW UPDATE IS OUT!

I’M FREE! FREEEEEE! 32 MOSTLY UNIQUE VARIATIONS OF INTIMATE SCENES DONE!

Clears throat

So, like stated above, the update is out! I’ll leave a list of patch notes, but this is majorly a bigger one for Alzarez and Lance romancers. The Lance extra story “Movie and Dessert” is being released with this update. You will need to replay the game. I’m sorry about that. BUT it’s because I added in new variables to the train scene so that stuff said there could possibly be brought up in this new scene! Reactivity, yay!

Along with that, you’ll get to read Alvarez’s flashback scene which is the actual end of Chapter 4. Along with a lot of little goodies. All in all, there was about… 44k-45k words added into this update? 40k of them are entirely optional and only happen if you choose to hang out with Lance after Alvarez’s flashback scene scene.

Not gonna lie, 1 variation in I was confident it would take two weeks. 8 variations in I was a bit tired but still energized to get this scene done. 16 variations in I had to step away for a couple of days to not let my brain melt. By the time I hit mid-twenties in variation for this scene, I was finding myself thinking that it just. wasn’t. worth it.

I have no idea if I’ll make the other intimate scenes this branching. It was honestly a lot of work. Like, a lot, it it was so fatiguing after a while, but I knew I had to get it done. IT’s also the reason I paused my patreon this month, because it wouldn’t be fair to charge people for something that they’re not getting early as promised in the rewards. This took way longer than I thought, so I wanted to just release it to everyone at once.

I do hope you guys enjoy it, and without further ado, here are the patch notes for this update.

Stay Brilliant, -Vi

Patch Notes:

“Movie and Dessert” Lance Extra Scene is finished.

Alvarez Flashback scene is finished.

Added a Text Box Investigation Tab in the Stats Screen.

You are now able to toggle between Text Box Investigations and regular choice script gameplay for TBI sequences.

You can now view the Text Box Investigation tutorial at any time via the stats screen.

Removed the Text Box Investigation Tutorial from chapter 4.

Added an option in the beginning of the game to Fade To Black during intimate scenes.

You can now pick asexual and aromantic as separate options, and they are not tied to each other.

Grammar edits and fixes (thank you to all who report them).

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