These Wicked Words

Hello everyone! I've created this blog so that I have somewhere to rant about all the world and character building that I've been doing in my head. Stick around if you want to share ideas about writing and exploring! Everyone welcome!

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DESPERATE to interact with people and make new friends on writeblr so please tell me about which of your OCs is getting most of your attention right now and why. I want to know, ESPECIALLY if they're not the MC.

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My supporting character Eunoia keeps demanding to be written about haha. She's a sweet princess with terrible powers who is slowly descending into madness. The more I write about her the odder she gets! I'm kind of loving the development honestly

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I stroke the fear within me

Caress with tender breath

Until it looks so sleepy

As nightmares do in death

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Sometimes I feel like my characters ignore me :(

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I stir tea with bones

Liquid the color of skin

Do you take sugar?

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I do feel the winters chill,

Crave the scent of frost,

I feel it's breath with every will,

Until time is lost.

[moonlit-sunflower-books]

i think the most exciting thing about writing is that you never actually know what's going to happen next. even when you plot things, there are always plot twists you didn't see coming and lines of dialogue you didn't expect and you do genius things accidentally and it's like no matter how much you write, you never run out of ideas.

[awickedreader]

lol like when my main character suddenly goes to war and I had NO idea that it was gonna happen. staying tuned to see if she wins this one

[moonlit-sunflower-books]

what people think writing is: worldbuilding, churning out entire chapters in one sitting, metaphors, character building, finishing novels, flawless plotlines

what writing actually is: random 1 am thoughts, zoning out into fictional worlds, associating songs with characters, writer’s block for six weeks at a time, coming up with plot twists at the most inconvenient times

[awickedreader]

My Anxiety’s Fantasy Land-An Introduction

Hello everyone! I hope you’re having a good day. :)

Throughout the *last year and a half* my anxiety has increased dramatically, and I’m positive that I’m not the only one! So I wanted to share a way that I found to combat and deal with the increasing pressure of this terrible world; I created a new one! 

What I mean is that I have for awhile looked around at the world and felt despair, surrounded by politics and oil spills, but recently I have found something else to look at; the absolute beauty that sprawls around us in forms of vast jungles, tiny meadows encased in lush forests, air deserts the color of gold, etc. I jumped into learning about that beauty and I spent the beginning part of the pandemic taking up a new hobby (as everyone did) : geography. I can now proudly name every country in the world. It’s one of my only talents! so i’m very excited about it. 

But learning about different countries and regions of the world really segued into a broader understanding of culture and religion, of plant life and cuisine, of art and the patterns of history. And interestingly, I found that delving into the wacky idiosyncrasies of various places in the world really settled my anxiety! 

So I started developing the world that one of my WIPs takes place in. A first it was nothing but the shadow of a place; a dark, sprawling forest with a potential name. Maybe there were plans for some clouds. But as I considered and learned about the various intricacies of real cultures and places I began to consider how those elements would look like in my WIPs world; what do the trees look like? how to people say hello? what’s the proper time for dinner time? are people superstitious, and what of?

These questions have led to have a fairly fleshed out fantasy land, full of different countries, philosophies, histories! And whenever I feel anxious, or like the world is surrounding me a little to much, I mentally hop over to my fantasy land and my anxiety can relax as she/it contemplates the various aspects of existence in an entirely false place, where I have utter control and there are no real consequences.

This has been a highly useful mental exercise (?) that has allowed me to have a bit of escape since the pandemic and to just really stretch my creative muscles. I have even really taken up writing, and I think that this exercise will expand as I continue to add characters, places, and implement ideas!

 But I wanted to start this blog so that I could share this fun idea and have a safe space to ramble about world building. Stick around if you want to ramble too! I would love to hear your ideas :)