#snowtrainwip

[alistonjdrake]

Through Ice & Terror: AKA The Project June Hopes to Outline this Year

one girlfailure black/bi protag + my geniune love and defense of love triangles/messy romantic situations + a gilded age America-inspired fantasy setting + a drop of an ice age + fantasy of manners = the wip I hope to fully outline this year!

Her dangerously charming ex-husband, her loyal childhood friend, her beguiling former fiancé, and a mysterious politician in need of a wife all threaten to upend the slight peace of Naomi Nettles' existence. Born without the gift of Insight, the ability to see the monsters that plague the world outside the cities in the Frost Wastes, and a trait ruefully abundant in her family, Naomi is treated as little more than expendable. An embarrassment to her family and peers and seemingly with little social standing in a stifling community, when her mother calls her home to introduce her to one Vivian Quinlan -An upstart politician from the capital desperate enough to marry the last single Nettles daughter - Naomi finally believes things are looking up. That is until one of her former romantic prospects winds up dead and Naomi finds herself firmly in the middle of a murderous conspiracy between several factions that could threaten to undo the fragile alliances between the cities among the Frost Wastes and what little normalcy remains in Naomi's life.

This is a less a wip intro and more so the beginning of what I hope will serve as a year-long accountability thread as I flesh out my ideas, characters, and get a concrete hold on the story before I officially start it (but, as I am myself, some stuff is already written and I'm really doing this to feel out interest)

[alistonjdrake]

I’m essentially asking someone else to do a coin flip for me. It may not seem like it matters but should Naomi Nettles from the snow train WIP (summary found here ) be 29 or 32. It has once again become a topic of debate in my household

[alistonjdrake]

Oh my god speaking of names I need to name a character after my husband (as is my new tradition)

Olaf du Auclair and Clarence Starkweather in a “who has the least sexy name” off

[alistonjdrake]

I am making a list of possible projects to work on now that the awoni draft is finished.

There is ORG 2025, a restart of TSS where Argus' mother is alive, I've changed a few things about the governance of the Escana Empire, Leo is a little older, etc. This would involve me hopefully rereading the original drafts I have so far which is a LOADED task I haven't prepared for yet.

Snowtrainwip/Through Ice & Terror, a fantasy gilded age America setting where the girlfailure protag has to find out who murdered one of her exes.

Council of the Olive Grove, the novella I started 2+ years ago and dumped for awoni but Stephania al-Khatib still holds a strong place in my heart and I would like to see it finished. I just lost direction.

I would flip a coin but there are more than three options here. And ORG/TSS will take up another several years of my life if I so choose.

[alistonjdrake]

after much debate, I think I'm going with the eye patch

Through Ice & Terror: AKA The Project June Hopes to Outline this Year

one girlfailure black/bi protag + my geniune love and defense of love triangles/messy romantic situations + a gilded age America-inspired fantasy setting + a drop of an ice age + fantasy of manners = the wip I hope to fully outline this year!

Her dangerously charming ex-husband, her loyal childhood friend, her beguiling former fiancé, and a mysterious politician in need of a wife all threaten to upend the slight peace of Naomi Nettles' existence. Born without the gift of Insight, the ability to see the monsters that plague the world outside the cities in the Frost Wastes, and a trait ruefully abundant in her family, Naomi is treated as little more than expendable. An embarrassment to her family and peers and seemingly with little social standing in a stifling community, when her mother calls her home to introduce her to one Vivian Quinlan -An upstart politician from the capital desperate enough to marry the last single Nettles daughter - Naomi finally believes things are looking up. That is until one of her former romantic prospects winds up dead and Naomi finds herself firmly in the middle of a murderous conspiracy between several factions that could threaten to undo the fragile alliances between the cities among the Frost Wastes and what little normalcy remains in Naomi's life.

This is a less a wip intro and more so the beginning of what I hope will serve as a year-long accountability thread as I flesh out my ideas, characters, and get a concrete hold on the story before I officially start it (but, as I am myself, some stuff is already written and I'm really doing this to feel out interest)

[alistonjdrake]

you have chosen the path that allows for a very unfunny inside joke

I’m essentially asking someone else to do a coin flip for me. It may not seem like it matters but should Naomi Nettles from the snow train WIP (summary found here ) be 29 or 32. It has once again become a topic of debate in my household