#VIAwip

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This revision is some slow going. I’m not sure it’s ACTUALLY going slower than Salty did but right now it sure freaking feels that way

this is my own fault for being Ambitious ™️ and later once I beat all the kinks out of this

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Last line of this morning's first block of writing:

When we returned in the small hours, both of us drunk as lords, it was over.

last line tag

tagged by @rachaellawrites and once again late by days and days for the same reason as the other tag, oops lmao

ANYWAY

I'm supposed to be revising my murder mystery, but instead I've been drafting a nonsense collaborative story with friends for fun, which has spawned fanfic of itself, so this is the last line I wrote for my crossover fanfic between our nonsense story and Edna Fisher lmao

Like she was an odd fae creature who might not trap one forever in the fae realm upon learning one’s name but who would certainly meddle well-meaningly in one’s affairs.

tagging anyone who wants to do this! show me your last lines and go ahead and say I tagged you, if you want

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So among the other ways in which I’m a nerd, I like to look for face claims for my historical fiction characters in actual historical photos. This is late 19th century broadway actress, Minnie Ashley, and she is such a dead ringer for Daisy Faye, the protagonist of Ashy WIP, that I seriously thought she had walked out of my own imagination, perfect in every big eyed, dark haired, sweetly round-faced detail.

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My back burner project has officially jumped the queue and is now my side quest while revising the WIP already in progress so that’s interesting

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I made it over the first of my Major Narrative Hurdles for this rewrite! Already pondering some further revisions but for the love of god I am MOVING ON with the PLOT

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Currently deep in revision hell. Pretty sure one of these things that I said I’d try to see how it worked is definitively not working in spite of the amount of time I’ve spent massaging it the last two weeks. It’s well written! It’s engaging! And it’s shooting the plot as a whole right in the foot unless I am very much mistaken which is just uuuuggh

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"Frankenchaper" 1 of VIAwip is almost complete and either I am a genius, or I am totally screwed? Either way, I have fallen completely in love with Eliza, aka POV character #2:

I was tall and gawky and freckly, and it was so unfair. Our mother said one day I'd be striking, but one day isn't much consolation to a child. Until the promised day came, I determined to make up my lack in boldness and charm and good humour, thinking of my father. At ten, I wanted to be a man of leisure. To go racing horses and playing cards and smoking, when I grew up. I'd a vague notion of wanting girls to laugh at my jokes. 

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16 double space pages later: Freshly re-ordered detailed outline ahead of commencing draft 2 is complete, right down to colour-coded pov swaps. Will it stay like this? who knows??? but it feels like a damn good start tbh

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I have just arrived at the exact point in vacation where all I want is to go home. A bit weird in this case because in terms of WHERE I am, hopefully in a year this will BE home— but right now I miss my morning routine, my kitchen full of my food, and I am beyond eager to start working on VIAwip again after having my editor present me a really earth shattering option in terms of narrative structure. I am dying to play macaroni necklaces with my plot and it’s two POVs and see what effect some of the options might have!

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Wrapping up my first read through of the first draft of the WIP and while I have a couple of intimidating, gonna take some serious effort and brain work Revision Tasks(tm) I also have some truly delicious ideas for subtly digging deeper into character conflicts and motivations and all in all? I’m really proud of this thing. The climax is freaking ✨cinematic✨ if I do say so myself and I can’t wait to see where révisions take it!

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Thought it might help with my writing today if I lit a candle beside me as I work.

Turns out the candle is the exact same shape and size as my glass of water.

Guess who came within two inches of shooting back hot cedar-scented molten wax while not looking just now

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Hey friends! A different sort of an ask from me today: An important character in a project I’m working on right now has epilepsy. I’ve done a fair bit of research, but I’m wondering if anyone I know who has epilepsy might be willing to talk with me a little bit and answer a few questions about your experiences living with and managing it? I’m hoping get a sense of folks’ lived experience (rather than just seeing what medical professionals have to say about it which is where my research keeps leading me)so that I can be both respectful and as accurate as possible.

I’m also hoping once I have this draft in a decent shape for beta readers, you might be willing to have a look at it specifically for the sake of calling me out if I do misstep, because getting this right is important to me.

If this sounds like something you might be interested in helping with, please feel free to slide into my DM’s and say hi. Thank you so much.

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Last Line Meme

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote and tag as many people as there are words in the line. Tagged by @scifrey (thank you!) I’ll tag @brightmouth, @kcrabb88, @mysunfreckle @theteaisaddictive and @jannagnoelle and then I’m knocking off because this line is too long and I need to get on with my life lol Last line of Chapter 18 in my current WIP:

The sweet, hot thing I chased caught me, burning away thoughts at last, and dropped me trembling back into my sweating skin to cool and catch breath, and be swallowed whole by sleep without thinking another thing at all.

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Today, in feral lines from the WIP:

If she'd been in arm's reach, I'd have ripped her heart out, and eaten it raw in front of her, just to show her I could be as cruel as she was.

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What I have written today, I am so sad I cannot just share with everyone RIGHT NOW, but sadly this tale is a long way from public consumption at this point. So will have to scream privately in my own room about how much I LOVE these characters 

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Ugh please someone hold me accountable I need to finish the last chapter of this section and I am struggling just hold me down and make me work please