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“It is said that, during the fantasy book in the late eighties, publishers would maybe get a box containing two or three runic alphabets, four maps of the major areas covered by the sweep of the narrative, a pronunciation guide to the names of the main characters and, at the bottom of the box, the manuscript. Please… there is no need to go that far. There is a term that readers have been known to apply to fantasy that is sometimes an unquestioning echo of better work gone before, with a static society, conveniently ugly ‘bad’ races, magic that works like electricity and horses that work like cars. It’s EFP, or Extruded Fantasy Product. It can be recognized by the fact that you can’t tell it apart form all the other EFP. Do not write it, and try not to read it. Read widely outside the genre. Read about the Old West (a fantasy in itself) or Georgian London or how Nelson’s navy was victualled or the history of alchemy or clock-making or the mail coach system. Read with the mindset of a carpenter looking at trees. Apply logic in places where it wasn’t intended to exist. If assured that the Queen of the Fairies has a necklace made of broken promises, ask yourself what it looks like. If there is magic, where does it come from? Why isn’t everyone using it? What rules will you have to give it to allow some tension in your story? How does society operate? Where does the food come from? You need to know how your world works. I can’t stress that last point enough. Fantasy works best when you take it seriously (it can also become a lot funnier, but that’s another story). Taking it seriously means that there must be rules. If anything can happen, then there is no real suspense. You are allowed to make pigs fly, but you must take into account the depredations on the local bird life and the need for people in heavily over-flown areas to carry stout umbrellas at all times. Joking aside, that sort of thinking is the motor that has kept the Discworld series moving for twenty-two years.”

— “Notes from a Successful Fantasy Author: Keep It Real” (2007), Terry Pratchett. (via the-library-and-step-on-it)

[theaugustblue]

August's Blue

August's blue is different from

November's wind and April's sun

For at a time when when carelessness

Is capitalized, so I digress

I find no joy in sand and sun

And rather see me on the run

From storm clouds that billow ahead

Loom in the sky and carry dread

Hearing thunder roar I know

A sign to go and hit the road

Shake things up and start anew

Or dare fall prey to August's blue

That catches in the viper's grip

No way to flee, no way to slip

Away from claws, away from talons that

Rain on down by quarts and gallons

The earth is drowned in woeful blues

That bear the title winter's muse

Without a child to her name

A grave to bed, no home to claim

So blue I find myself to roam

In August's world without a home

No place to lie me down to sleep

Me alone, my soul to keep

[theaugustblue]

#the illness is So Real.

While I haven't written in a while, I *have* been doing some planning and world building

:3

On one hand, it's the middle of the night

On the other, I really want to write

One a suddenly-grown third hand, I have no energy or vocab to write right now

One a mysterious-looking fourth hand, I really want to make tea

Circle back around to the first hand, probably a bad idea

[theaugustblue]

I promptly forgot to write and got stuck on Minecraft and now need to pack

On one hand, it's the middle of the night

On the other, I really want to write

One a suddenly-grown third hand, I have no energy or vocab to write right now

One a mysterious-looking fourth hand, I really want to make tea

Circle back around to the first hand, probably a bad idea

[theaugustblue]

Anyways. I have since woken up, decided to make tea and play Minecraft, then write some

Chapter 1 is somewhat finished >:)

One day I'll ramble a bit about the universe and the book trilogy and maybe the extended universe as well, and maybe make a master list of characters 🙂‍↕️

*clinging at the bars of my creative enclosure, violently shaking them* I need to ramble for hours without noticing the passing of time

On one hand, it's the middle of the night

On the other, I really want to write

One a suddenly-grown third hand, I have no energy or vocab to write right now

One a mysterious-looking fourth hand, I really want to make tea

Circle back around to the first hand, probably a bad idea

[theaugustblue]

RORY.

On one hand, it's the middle of the night

On the other, I really want to write

One a suddenly-grown third hand, I have no energy or vocab to write right now

One a mysterious-looking fourth hand, I really want to make tea

Circle back around to the first hand, probably a bad idea

[theaugustblue]

On one hand, it's the middle of the night

On the other, I really want to write

One a suddenly-grown third hand, I have no energy or vocab to write right now

One a mysterious-looking fourth hand, I really want to make tea

Circle back around to the first hand, probably a bad idea

[theaugustblue]

I am August Blue, "Windy B," or more simply, August

I use any pronouns, and am the author of two current WIPs: Vivere (and its universe), and The Soulwalker. This is just my little corner of the internet, and I hope you enjoy your stay~

(Will be updated when necessary)