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Love this, super fascinating!

Ahhhhhhh i love having a negative amount of attention span yeah sure I can think about give me ur eyes today does anyone have any questions for me

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How does godhood and immortality work in give me ur eyes? I also have a story about old gods and new gods and such, and I find very interesting to hear different approaches to questions of how immortal beings die (or don't) and how one might become immortal.

Ahhhhhhh i love having a negative amount of attention span yeah sure I can think about give me ur eyes today does anyone have any questions for me

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yeah yeah fire-based characters are destructive and angry and violent and evil blah blah blah BORING overdone. more fire as a lifegiver. warm and comforting. fire-based characters as guides lighting the way. personal heater in the cold and dark but don’t sleep too close or you’ll wake up with heat rash. fire sterilizes and cauterizes!! more fire-based healers. plants perking up and flowers turning towards them and they attract moths. fire-based characters who are hearths instead of wildfires!! the core of a home the pillar of a community the key to societal advancement. give them an internal flame that visibly glows and flickers instead of a heart that beats. extinguish that light when they die. etc

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it is honestly amazing how much of writing and editing is just. logistics. like... do i use a name here or a pronoun? if i move this dialogue tag to the middle of this line and break it in half, does the end of the line hit harder that way? what if i move the tag to the front? what if i remove it entirely? ...wait, whose point of view am i in; can i reasonably say this character is appalled, or must i say they look or seem or sound appalled? is this a deliberate action or a step-removed one; is her hand closing on his shoulder, or is she closing her hand on his shoulder? environment environment environment, we need to break all this dialogue up with some narration, the scene is coming untethered. what! are! they doing! with! the rest of their bodies that are not hands! fuck fuck fuck FUCK i forgot we covered this two chapters ago and now i either need to cut this whole chunk or find a reason to reprise the conversation from earlier. name or pronoun? name or pronoun? name or pronoun? move this clause around in this sentence? oh i'll add this phrase-- nope, never mind, past!me added the same phrase two lines down. okay, if i add too much environmental narration it's going to take away from this bit, but not enough and it won't feel grounded. what if i move this to its own line? where the FUCK are their hands?

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"I did it for you" has gotta be my favorite form of betrayal. You gave me a gift I never asked for, and now I have to look around at the world you destroyed with the knowledge that it was gift wrapped and addressed to me.

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At my recent choir concert, they encouraged us to show off other talents during the little intermission show thing. I read out a poem I wrote for my girlfriend.

Afterwards, a few other members of the choir approached me and started gushing about my poem and saying I need to look into publishing it.

The next choir practice, one of them caught me after and started telling me about local writing groups and a local literary arts magazine. She desperately wants me to join a group and to submit something to the magazine. And like...

This lady is a publishing and publicity agent. Helping writers get their work out there is literally what she does for a living. And she thinks my writing is Good. Like, she genuinely thinks this silly little poem I performed is Really, Really Good.

So... I think I am going to submit to the magazine. And maybe over the summer I'll see about attending a few of the writing group get togethers to see how I feel about it... My plan was to focus on writing this summer. But this was totally unexpected!!

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personal favorite trope of mine

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This is so cool!! I love the idea that the places themselves are sentient and just. Decide to dump you across the city for funsies 😂

It's also fascinating the idea that portals and how easy they are to access have changed over time, with hell being easier to get to now than in the past.. interesting implications there! Honestly, interesting implications in the differences between all of these dimensions or planes.

Worldbuilding: PD (Part One)

I promised @aesterea a rundown on my worldbuilding for Personal Demons, so here’s how heaven, hell, and faerie work. (Because yes, faerie is a thing, and that’s something that will come up eventually) 

(I hope I remembered everyone that wanted to be tagged, and if you didn’t want to be I’m So Sorry, lemme know) @nicholewrites​, @kclenhartnovels, @theguildedtypewriter, @oddlylovingsouls, @golden-eyed-writer, @letolatona@knightedwriter, @polapipo, @thebluepolarbear, and @the-true-shadowmaster

Part One  | Part Two | Part Three

Basics:

-Heaven, hell, earth, and faerie are sort of like dimensions, stacked on top of each other (and earth), in the same place and at the same time, not.

-Faerie was created first, and then heaven, earth, and hell was created last.

-Heaven hell and faerie are semi-sentient, and highly attuned to those that run them. (The archangels for heaven, Lucifer and those he places in the highest places of command, and in faerie, the two oldest fae first and foremost, and the princes/princesses below them. Faerie is a little more lax with power, and more willing to listen to the occupants than those in heaven or hell as well as the ones that run faerie)

-Heaven hell and faerie are all a little mischievous in their own way, though heaven is the least so (because Michael. Fuck Michael.) Their sense of humor brings me joy.

Keep reading

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Ooh yes! I'd definitely be interested in reading more about it - I'd if you'd tag me in a reblog of that post!

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What if I, the reader, do want to sit through a geography lesson right now, huh, Cadoc?

(jokes aside, this seems like really fascinating lore - and really fascinating character building in how Alice asks if she'd be dead so plainly)

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Becoming a writer is great because now you have a hobby that haunts you whenever you don’t have time to do it

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I’ve said this before but I think all sci-fi and fantasy adventure needs a little bit of horror as seasoning. It doesn’t need to be full sci-fi horror or fantasy horror but a little bit of scary adds flavor. Build a world and then explore the fucked up implications of that world a little bit

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romance is lame and overrated i love mentor/mentee relationships in fiction and especially when theyre sort of fucked up

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just found out i've been abandoned by god which means he's not watching anything i do anymore. you should come over.

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I love all the descriptive language you use! Very easy to picture or feel what the characters are seeing or feeling.

I'll look for those lines in my work and make a post sometime soon!

Lines Tag

Thanks for the tag, @incandescent-creativity

The first line of a chapter/scene/section- Treasure Triplets

It was a beautiful day.

The last line of a chapter/scene/section- Treasure Triplets

"Meliodas, set course for Klein Manor."

A line of dialogue where someone is lying- Bite Me

"No," she lied out loud. She didn't have time to be scared.

A line you think would go well on an aesthetic edit- Bride of Loki

"Well, I could. All I needed to do was have confidence that what I cast was real and others believed it. Confidence in yourself, even if it's forced, is the most convincing illusion you can create. Do you think you can cast that illusion for a bit?"

And a line where a choice is made- Bite Me

A burst of fury-fed fear shot through her veins and the adrenaline kicked in. She lunged forward. His neck was closest. And Melody found herself not opposed to biting a man's throat out if it meant she lived to get her niece out.

And something with world building if you have it- Bad End

It looked like a huge old gothic manor. The paint outside was light pink. Probably to make it look cheery but it ended up looking depressing, due to the weather and time wearing the color down. The garden was a mess of dead plants that might’ve been roses once. Kudzu covered one side of the house entirely, a goat munching and looking uncaring of the car that had just driven up. "I got it off special!" Frida continued, not noticing her daughter's growing horror. "Apparently, it used to be a girls' school, then an insane asylum. Then it burned down and got rebuilt into a museum! Before the owner sold it."

I'll tag, with no pressure, @enchanted-lightning-aes, @westywrites, @aye-write, @atelierwriting, and @inky-duchess. My lines request is:

A line that shows what season it is

A line showing a favorite thing

A line you hate personally

A line that describes food

A line that has an animal