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Daily Write 8-07-2020

Newstart

The pause lifted. All at once, the thoughts surged outward like a wave, crashing upon stagnant shores.

The first step was the hardest.

But she had made it. She was alive, breathing, thinking, conscious, panting on the edge of the sea, exhaling breaths that had been held for years. She dropped to all fours, hacking and coughing and feeling the sand beneath her fingers, clinging to her wet, naked skin, grains burrowed underneath her fingernails.

There was no time to think- or rather, to think now would be a waste of what she could instead experience, eternal in the moment. Gasping, and laughing, she looked back at the silent ocean, lapping noiselessly against the shore.

She remembered being submerged. She had been trapped in that limbo, legs clenched against her chest, pounding against the spasms of her suppressed lungs. She had been dragged across the ocean floor, for what seemed like years, carried by the tide, not once opening her eyes for fear of the reality she might orient herself to.

But she had not drowned. She had thought and deliberated her own death yet emerged unscathed from the other side. She could feel her lungs, her heart, beating in joy of being alive.

She gazed out at the ocean again. Still and silent. The eerie moon lay over the horizon, and the breeze of the night chilled her wet skin. And carried by that wind, a faint cry. A cry for help.

Looking towards the horizon, she saw an irregularity bobbing. A small shining figure, thrashing, barely floating. Their eyes wide open, bloodshot from salt and terror.

She stood paralyzed, strangely at peace with the moment. The distance between them seeming eternal.

The figure’s head disappeared under the water.

Her heart beat again. No time to think, to find bearings. To appreciate the stars peaking out from beyond the clouds, the way the horizon curved beyond her view. One foot in the water, then another. She knew the consequences. What she had fought, struggled to escape in the darkness behind her closed eyelids. Yet nonetheless, she surged forward, body disappearing below the line, becoming again unseen, unknown, unspeakable.

She dived under, and the pause of silence came crashing over the beach once again.

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NGL strongly considering creating an entire new universe, cast and wip, just so I can use it to facilitate the scene of “bad guy gets redeemed, lives, and has to have an awkward family dinner with the people they’ve tried to kill and/or torture in the past.”

Or maybe I’ll find a story to put it in.

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If you have a bunch of stress and personal flaws relating to Starting creative work–well, I’m not gonna say it gets better, but I will say if you ever start writing, you’ll get to learn about an entirely NEW host of anxiety and personal flaws you never knew you had! yayyyy!

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this week on “things i can’t post to my writing blog yet but still desperately want to post SOMEWHERE”

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inspired by what deserves to be an iconic scene from the steven universe movie

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god if ur trans and ur name is like aphrodite, apollo, jupiter, artemis, orpheus, eurydice, icarus or any shit like that you are quite literally the sexiest person alive

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The creator of "queers in love at the end of the world" spilling tea

Even if I feel that her sentiment about major indie games is kinda oversimplifying the issue (also, when are we coming up with a word for games not made by either two people in their spare time, or a small country's worth of artists and programmers)

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Big Congratulations!!!!

I FINISHED PART ONE!!!

I did it! I finished the rewrite of part 1 of Feilan!! It’s been so many years, literally, I haven’t actually gotten something finished (albeit by a very loose definition of finished) since like 2016!!! 

As a whole, the doc clocks in at 55,656 words right now, including chapter titles and a couple miscellaneous notes-to-self. This is both a good thing, because wow that makes me feel productive, and very bad because if that’s only part 1/3 then I am definitely not hitting my 150k maximum goal for this story. So much for this being a normal-length fantasy novel… 

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A trio of covers for a trio of books!

The first two books are available on ebook, audible, and print!

The third book won’t be out at least six months, but I was so excited about the new cover I wanted to show it to everyone!

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@periakman me every 3 chapters of *Heroes*

*slams book closed*

*breathes quickly*

*SCREECHES*

*breathes heavily*

*re-opens book and continues to read*

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when ur fave is one dimensional or treated poorly by the writer but as a writer you can see how much potential they have for interesting and engaging storytelling

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