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[baroquesse]

one year already! how time flies :’)

About Me

you can call me Baro (24 they/them) i’m an art history student and aspiring author. most of my wips are high fantasy set in the same areas at different points of history.

WIPs

The Deposition of a Minor God [link]

adult, high fantasy, just started draft 1.5, my main focus atm

Two immortal kings are forced to resolve their four-century-long quarrel when one of them is deposed by a usurper seeking to conquer their kingdoms.

okay from the top but good this time (working title)

Seraphine’s father has been on the warpath assembling his empire for her entire life, and he has never lost, until he picks a fight with the neighboring island kingdom of Changxin.

Less of a wip and more making my ocs kiss

oho? (working title)

The heir to the throne of Changxin is holding a beauty pageant and the prize is getting laid. Yes, really.

Swanwood Manor

Milo Jenkins, a student and apprentice bookbinder, is asked to help restore the library of the young, wealthy, mysterious Cassius Goldenbane, who lives with his friends in an old manor house. But something about Cassius is a bit strange...

i use Deposition for tag games and things, since it has the most material, but i may be slow(er) to take part as i work on draft 1.5!

[lypsys]

"Write character relationships that are normal" WRONG ☝ CODEPENDENCY BEAM 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

[automatonwithautonomy]

greatest dynamic in the world IS strange, eccentric asshole and their normal and polite friend who on closer inspection is actually worse in deeply weird and unexpected ways

[prophetic-writer]

I'm sorry but I have one draft that I never finished but I laugh every time I see it

[hellsquills]

Writing Tip

Neither do i

[eviliens]

Unreliable everyone

[top-cheese]

ok so its a pretty good story but you know what would make it better? a liar. a character who lies. maybe two.

[rozzed]

why not have the reader re-read a sentence now and then? it won't hurt him....

[sotrias-labyrinth-deactivated20]

I feel like when I say ‘relatable’ what I really mean is ‘resonant.’ I don’t want characters who I feel are like me, I want characters who have emotions so strong I can feel them through the page.

[secretlyatargaryen]

I think this is important because a lot of us forget the power of stories to make us feel things about characters who are not like us, who have experienced things that we never will. The purpose of listening to someone else's story should not necessarily be identification, but understanding.

[the-punforgiven]

I'm just saying, if you're going to worldbuild magic being a "raw, primal force, akin to and interweaving with nature itself" you gotta explain to me why animals don't use it

[the-punforgiven]

I know the normal answer is "they just aren't smart enough for it" but idk I've seen enough media where a character uses a spell in a moment of brain-off panic ilI feel like animals could probably stumble into a spell or two like, accidentally

[sabertoothwalrus]

(said with the intonation of a YA novel) a plate of cheese and crackers

[writers-solace]

I don't think Tolkien is a good fantasy writer because he scored the highest at some objective Best Fantasy Book Test that every fantasy writer has to take, I think he's a good fantasy writer because he created a world based on things that he was interested in. I feel like a lot of fantasy writers think that they need to create a whole language for their world because Tolkien did and obviously his books are the best so they have to emulate him, but Tolkien did that because he was a linguistics nerd. I think the lesson to be learned from him is not that you have to include elves and deep history and new languages, but that you have to write endlessly about the things you are a huge nerd about and use those things to create your fantasy world

[foone]

some of my OCs are trans but I don't know their deadnames. that's personal, they don't need to tell me that

[concerningwolves]

You will never 100% idiotproof your creative work & if you try to, you will only succeed in smothering the soul out of it. btw

[unalivejournal]

Nobody knows if writing a story is possible

[desolationlesbian]

fiction got off soooo lucky with dreams and hallucinations. imagine if the human brain didn't come with a built-in path to surreal imagery that could perfectly represent abstract themes and emotional truths through metaphor. we'd be so fucked man

[pinterestinfluencer]

not enough scenes in books where characters kill someone and throw up afterwards. like something has to be done

[m-l-rio]

The good plot twists aren't the ones that are wild left turns out of nowhere, they're the ones that make all the other little things that didn't quite add up before suddenly click

[godlessondheimite]

i would kill for the confidence of novelists who write genius-poet characters and then actually write samples of the “genius” poetry in the book. if i were a novelist writing a genius-poet i’d just be like “trust me, the poetry’s real good.”