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Heads Up, Seven Up [ 16 ]

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Thank you to @kyofsonder for leaving the tag! You can find his response right here!

Rules: Post 7 lines (or paragraphs, or whatever!) of your WIP, then tag 7 people!

Tagging: @leahnardo-da-veggie | @talesofsorrowandofruin | @magic-is-something-we-create | @enchanted-lightning-aes | @wintherlywords

Snippet from Bentley's Resolve

“Mumera."

Bentley almost laughs with how much more he being left behind, instead nods at the word and gives the child a small smile.

“What a name. I didn’t anyone really named their kids after the World itself.”

The child frowns, something sitting in that expression, but Bentley doesn’t get to explore it. It is like the waking of a dream, his eyes distrusting his environment one second and then blinking him back into his room the next.

He stares into the darkness, his eyes slowly adjusting to give him all of the context he needed to know that he was indeed in his own room again. No plants were crawling over the walls, no lantern was lit and burning without expectation, no child was sitting only a few feet away from him, filled to the brim with both Magicks and mysteries.

Bentley tries to wrap his mind around his environment, one hand running distractedly over his familiar sheets before they ghost over his side. He glances down, finds that the black stains are still gone, along with the soreness that had followed him into sleep during the night. He touches against his side, tries to remember when he was stabbed, remember what could has cause something like Blight to sit beneath his skin, like it had settled there with permission.

It reminds him of the Shade, of the Phantom that had more than devoured the Being of Humanity that it was attached to. The thoughts make Bentley’s skin crawl in the worst way possible, and he immediately shakes them away for favor of getting up, thoughts shifting from the Blight to the child that kept him from whatever fate awaited him.

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Find The Words [ 07 ]

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We are dropping deep in the Drafts Hoard, and getting out some really old tag games that we are sure everyone has more than forgotten about, but it's totally fine, new surprises.

Thanks to the lovely @verba-writing for tagging us! You can find her response right here!

Our Words: wonder | forever | company | arrive | breakfast

Open Tag For All Who See And Want To Join! Your Words: professional | duke | confuse | clue | advertise

Wonder | A Knight's Honor

It makes him smile and he gently shifts through the others to find the same condition throughout. He has to wonder if the Lady Swallow had found them in one of the Libraries; maybe they were hidden gems in the pristine manner that the Lords forced every room into. Then he opens the first book, flipping through the pages and stopping as he takes them in.

Forever | Elden's Fight for Ebathara

“May the Worlds treat you kindly my child, Minerva Fiducia. Your Family will always be welcomed within the Lands of Ebathara. Never forget this.” Minerva smiles, moves forward and gives Azoterra a hug, holding onto the Being for what would probably be the last time. It only takes a few seconds before the hug is reciprocated and she can feel the steady hands that had been with her forever hold her back, gentle yet solid. “I won’t ever forget you Azoterra. None of us shall.”

Company | Bentley's Resolve

He gets a hum, the man closing his watch and stuffing it in a pocket as he takes him in. "A good name, indeed. And I am guessing, Bentley Thaddeus Hawkes, considering the lack of any sort of company, that you have kept the matter of our previous encounter to yourself? Why is that?" Bentley lifts a brow, "Would you rather I turn you in? The Reapers do not take nicely to murderers."

Arrive(d) | A Magician and A Curse

“I had trained. I knew what I was doing. I was ready. They even sent me to a Witch that was half-gone, the magic corruption had already begun to rot the skin.” Rune breathes deeply, like she had to drag the story out of herself. “But I was late, I hadn’t kept track of time and arrived after midnight. It seems the Witch had found a house, a family, to attack already.”

Breakfast | Random Fantasy XV

He was looking at Noct in disbelief, his eyes showing his utter happiness at the situation. The birds finished their breakfast, some of them moving back to Wiz as he handed out food to the older birds. Three stayed, all of them plopping onto Prompto’s lap and squirming until they were settled, letting at small “kweh”s in Prompto’s direction.

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The Not Yet Abandoned Works [ 08 ]

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Introducing Bentley's Resolve

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Original Work, Standalone Novel Science Fiction, Steampunk Differing Perspectives, Third Person Present Tense

Mature Content: Deaths, Death Mentions, Murder, Violence, Blood

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First Draft, Worldbuilding and Outlining Scene Drafting

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Bentley Thaddeus Hawkes has always lived under the influence of the Reapers. Giving himself to the soft whispers of Knowledge of his mentors, he has held faith in the abilities of his World and their purpose. Until a mysterious man comes, unraveling more than the Knowledge Bentley has clung to and showing him that even the most orderly societies holds more than just the darkness of the Phantoms.

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Links To Be Added/Updated:

Masterlist | Work's Page | Writing Tag

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Third Day Snippets [ 01 ]

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Here we are, at our first checkpoint towards the goal of NaNoWriMo! And gods, are we getting some major things done and trying to do our best with both progress and process! We are sorry that this update is a little bit late, we ended up having to handle some things from the Realities, but let's take a look at everything!

We will not be including today's counts bc one, we have not been able to add up what we have, and two, we ended up doing a lot more in the Realities than we thought we would have to!

But here are the stats so far!

Traditional NaNoWriMo | 10,810 / 50,000 Words

All Month Long | 10,810 / 150,000 Words

Hit the Mark | 2 / 30 Days

A Snippet from Bentley's Resolve

The child is done and away in the next moment, nothing more than a whisper of an experience, and Bentley blinks at them before his mind catches up with his body.

He immediately shifts to take in the side again, hands ghosting over where there was black stains. Everything is gone now, nothing remaining for his skin and flesh and bones. The Reaper sighs a little, letting his shirt drop again before focusing on the child.

“How did you…”

He gestures as he lets the sentence hang, watches the child as they seem to debate whether or not they should share anymore. Bentley almost gives them a way out, almost dismisses it for something else, but the child writes out a single word.

Observer.

The word doesn’t mean a lot to Bentley; he lifts a brow at it, tries to find some form of Knowledge in the simple thought. He shrugs at the child, tries to convey his confusion without giving the child too much trouble.

“Sorry, I don’t- not really sure what you mean by that.”

The child blink in slight confusion, and Bentley almost wishes he actually understood the significance of the word. It is gone in the next second though; the child erases the word and replaces it with something else, even less of an explanation.

Mumera.

Bentley almost laughs with how much more he being left behind, instead nods at the word and gives the child a small smile.

“What a name. I didn’t anyone really named their kids after the World itself.”

The child frowns, something sitting in that expression, but Bentley doesn’t get to explore it. It is like the waking of a dream, his eyes distrusting his environment one second and then blinking him back into his room the next.

He stares the darkness, his eyes slowly adjusting to give him all of the context he needed to know that he was indeed in his own room again. No plants were crawling over the walls, no lantern was lit and burning without expectation, no child was sitting only a few feet away from him, filled to the brim with both Magicks and mysteries.

Bentley tries to wrap his mind around his environment, one hands running distractedly over his familiar sheets before they ghost over his side. He glances down, finds that the black stains are still gone, along with the soreness that had followed him into sleep during the night. He touches against his side, tries to remember he was stabbed, remember what could has cause something like Blight to sit beneath his skin, like it had settled there with permission.

It reminds him of the Shade, of the Phantom that had more than devoured the Being of Humanity that it was attached to. The thoughts make Bentley’s skin crawl in the worst way possible, and he immediately shakes them away for favor of getting up, thoughts shifting from the Blight to the child that kept him from whatever fate awaited him.

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Happy STS, I hope you're alright!

Is there a piece of your story or a character in a certain scene that you are incredible proud of? If yes why?

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Happy Belated Storyteller Saturday, beloved Leia! We are sorry we are so late to the game, but we are definitely alive and fighting with our brains about writing and all. But we are mostly alright, we think? Probably... Maybe. hopefully.

But this question is absolutely lovely!

This is from a story that we have not really talked about, currently called Bentley's Resolved, but we are very very proud and happy with how Grayland and Bentley's interactions always end up going. Bentley is so rigid in his beliefs and thoughts, and Grayland loves playing his absolutely opposite that every interaction ends up like fire and ice trying to dominate one spot and ending in the lovely obsidian of zero compromise.

We think we love it so much, bc we tend to have trouble writing out varying opinions and people, it normally ends up with one defaulting to the vibrancy of the other. But it doesn't happen in Bentley's Resolve, and the story is very much Bentley trying to hold onto his willpower against the steady and unwavering confidence of Grayland's existence! :D

This Ask Led To A 100 Word Drabble! ╭( ･ㅂ･)و ̑̑

Into The Word Box: 13,870

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NaNoWriMo 2022 Masterlist

NaNoWriMo General Content List (here is the tagging post!) | @andromedatalksaboutstuff | @bardic-tales | @lockejhaven | @midnight-and-his-melodiverse | @perasperaadastrawriting | @writingpotato07 |

Welcome to our Masterlist for NaNoWriMo this year! We will be focusing on multiple projects this year, like a true Rebel of the WriMo, so we will have this Masterlist posted so everyone can default to this throughout November!

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Introducing The Goals,

Traditional NaNoWriMo Goal: 50,000 Words Total | 30 Consecutive Writing Days

Since we are going to be using the NaNoWriMo website and everything, our official goal is the normal NaNo one of 50k Words during the month. We are going to be using this as Goal 01, and have our real goals, for the month and per project, be other goals afterwards!

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Personal Goals: 120,000 Words Total | 4,000 Words Daily | 24,000 Project Goal

Our Giant Goals for the Month will be aiming to write 4,000 Words a Day! We have been going through both September and October with these numbers, in order to get ready for things. We think we will be able to do it, if we sit in and focus on our Works, so hopefully we can make this happen!

And with that, if we manage to get to 4,000 per day, our total word count for the month should hit around 120k words! Which, looking at it now, seems like a wild amount, but hopefully we can have some fun with this thought and challenge!

To make it a little easier too, we will be aiming for 24,000 words for every work, so that we can spread out the words a little, and give ourselves a bit more leeway, instead of just forcing ourselves into one work and trying to adding too much to too little! 24,000 isn't a solid novel length or anything, but we are hoping to make progress, more than just throw out one work without anything else, so hopefully this NaNoWriMo will be a wild rebellion!

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Introducing The Works,

Constellations By Orion Tags: constellations.b.orion | Constellations By Orion | nano.01 |

Initial Concept: Orion is the first one she goes for, as he always points North. "I am just saying, your little stowaway is pretty cute." "I don't need a man Orion, I need directions across the sea." "Trust me, if you want a purpose, you should find Ursa Major. She's the guide of adventure, new life." "And where can I find her?" "At the heart of the ocean. She is the Guardian of Polaris and her baby, Ursa Minor." ~ novel, third person present, high fantasy, adventure ~ outlining, scene drafting, worldbuilding

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Bentley's Resolve Tags: bentley.resolve | Bentley's Resolve | nano.02 |

Initial Concept: Bentley Thaddeus Hawkes has always lived under the influence of the Reapers. Giving himself to the soft whispers of Knowledge of his mentors, he has held faith in the abilities of his World and their purpose. Until a mysterious man comes, unraveling more than the Knowledge Bentley has clung to and showing him that even the most orderly societies holds more than just the darkness of the Phantoms. ~ novel, third person present, two perspectives, high fantasy ~ scene drafting, outlined and planned

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The Villain's Hero Tags: villain.hero | The Villain's Hero | nano.03 |

Initial Concept: The villain and the hero end up as cellmates, the villain slowly unraveling a plan that seems to have been in place before the hero was even chosen, and discovering that maybe his role was simply to be the scapegoat, rather than the actual evil. ~ novel, third person present, two perspectives, high fantasy, mature contents ~ outlining, scene drafting, worldbuilding

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The Witch's Mage Tags: witch.mage | The Witch's Mage | nano.04 |

Initial Concept: Zachery didn’t know much about the Forests, besides the fact that the only ones who could safely traverse them were the Herbalists, and Witches would crawl out and eat his flesh if he was disobedient. That didn’t stop the pull he felt to them, the small instinctive desire to run through the Trees and feel his Magicks trudge through the unknown. But something more is pulling him, and when he finds a small shack guarded by wards of a priest, he almost wishes the pull wasn’t so strong to that old abandoned piece of history. ~ novel, third person present, high fantasy, romance ~ outlining, scene drafting, planned and plotted

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When Nature Is Left Behind Tags: nature.left.behind | When Nature Is Left Behind | nano.05 |

Initial Concept: Kind of developing randomly now, but it goes off an idea of being left behind, and how a boy meets a girl who has something that either needs care and attention - my brain supplied a plant - or the girl was the last of something - maybe of a race that is valuable or something - and she was left behind because she was mortally wounded or got sick or something? And the boy is basically racing against Time to get this girl from point A to B so that she can be saved/helped or so she can complete her mission and live long enough to see it through to the end. ~ novel, third person present, two perspectives, post-apocalyptic, survival adventures ~ zero drafted, outlined and planned, scene redrafting

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