Artistic Distractions

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Insights: Flavors of Viewpoints

With the induction of social media, especially BookTok, I have been introduced to different trends and viewpoints of romantic writing. I wanted to add my own choices I tend to gravitate toward. 1) Slow-burns 🔥 – I’m not referring to the whole within a couple chapters they have already kissed. For me: minimum 200 pages and then they express their feelings for each other. The reader has endured…

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Edits, edits and more edits

I noticed a theme with my returned comments that I needed to add more of Dolores’s actual homeland background into the first few chapters. I plan to post the rewrites here, just so you all can see the difference between Wattpad and the new chapters as I get them rewritten. Whole chapter editing is also mentally draining on me. I asked them to just go ham on their critiques because I rather have…

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Chapter Eight is up!

Time keeps fleeting away from me. I had the chapter saved as a draft on the Wattpad for awhile as I modified a couple things within the chapter before I published it. This chapter was very fun to write because it is the first time Cyrus and Dolores (Nichole) actually test each other in a combat situation within a relaxed environment. Writing their heated banter will always be a favorite of…

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Abner Morris

Besides Cyrus and Dolores, Abner is my longest standing secondary character. The first iteration of the Dream Team was Nichole directing the team and Abner was actually part of the team. It was easier to have one person in the dream state and another person in reality. While the interactions were progressing, the players were more interested in Abner as a character than Nichole. As the online…

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I am still here.

I am still here.

Do not worry, life decided to become busy. I have given my first ten chapters to my beta readers. Since then, I have been going through their comments and grammatical corrections (Once my brain runs off on a scene, my grammar goes out the window). I have been updating my Wattpad chapters and rewriting a few parts if you all wish to reread. I have enough of an outline to the plotline that I can…

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Character Development: Outfits

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Height and Weight Differences

Cyrus and Dolores Now that you all have seen the detailed visual representations of my main characters, I thought it would helpful to also show their height and weight differences. Their heights are: Cyrus is 6ft 5in (196 cm) and Dolores is 5ft 4in (163 cm). I tossed around the idea of a very drastic height differences but I settled on Cyrus being about ‘head and shoulder’ taller than Dolores.…

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Random Questions about My Writings

“How long have you been writing for?” I have always had a knack for written words. I remember getting praised for my little poems and stories I wrote when I was very young (maybe 5 or 6), but it dwindled off as I grew. When I was about 14, I rekindled the love of creating worlds and people with stories within those worlds. I starting drafting my first fantasy novel when I was 16. More and more…

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Personality Insight

I have received the WIP of Dolores’s character sheet. I was once again very pleased with her overall appearance. As Cyrus is serious and stoic for his full body piece; Dolores is sassy and confident in her full body piece. I was also comparing the two pieces and as characters, they are very much the opposite of the other. The visual concept I was going for was Fire and Ice. I have always…

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Completed Character Commission

Cyrus Spirios Thank you to my dear wonderful friend, Peche for taking my incoherent ramblings and turning it into a masterpiece. He is no longer an image in my mind anymore. You did a perfect representation of him. Thank you, thank you, thank you! 😊

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Over the Moon

As I look back over my writings, I realized that over the last 10 years, Cyrus and Dolores have been the majority of my musings. So I decided to take the financial plunge and have colored character sheets done of them both. Cyrus being the easier of the two characters, I wanted to see how the artist’s interpretation would match up with my mental image of him. I received a work in progress…

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Nostalgia: A Joyful Sadness

Sometimes the memories that you create can also remind you of the mistakes that you had to overcome.

I am at the point of writing in my novel that I am reminded of the time I started exploring other ways to gain inspiration. I was on an online site with other like-minded people with an interest in text based role playing. One person presented the main plotline as others created characters and posted actions and reactions to the primary storyline presented. I presented the idea of lucid dreaming…

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Chapter Three Sneak Peek

…She cut back at the figure, her eyes now dark with conviction. “How can I trust a–a demon!” “Demon?—Demon.” The man pondered the title for a second, “I have never been called that before.”… Who exactly did she meet? Find the answer in Chapter Three.

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Chapter Two

Chapter Two is available to read on Wattpad! Beauty of the Shadows – Chapter Two

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Dolores, Flower of Sorrow

I wanted to give you all a brief visual of our female protagonist.

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Chapter Two: Sneak Peek

The air went from arid to musty as she walked down the torch lit passage. Carvings of a great beast rubbed under her fingertips as she ran her hand along the wall. Dampness soon set in as the passage opened into a large cave several stories high below her. In the middle of the cave on a lit stone pedestal glinted two blades, their metal strange to what she was familiar with; they were a darker…

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A Ribbon?! :O

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