DARKOUR

Here is a collection of my inspiration, settings, photos, concept drawing and character development.

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I was today years old when I learned that when you type "otp: true" in AO3 search results it filters out fics with additional ships, leaving only the fics where your otp is the main ship

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Gamechanger

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Here’s a cheatsheet of all the available hidden search functions. “-creators:[whatever]” is another exclusion that can be particularly useful.

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100 Questions

Send one to ask my muse…

1. What’s your philosophy in life?

2. What’s the one thing you would like to change about yourself?

3. Are you religious or spiritual?

4. Do you consider yourself an introvert or an extrovert?

5. Which parent are you closer to and why?

6. What was the best phase in your life?

7. What was the worst phase in your life?

8. Is what you’re doing now what you always wanted to do growing up?

9. What makes you feel accomplished?

10. What’s your favorite book/movie of all time and why did it speak to you so much?

11. What is a relationship deal breaker for you?

12. Are you more into looks or brains?

13. Would you ever take back someone who cheated?

14. How do you feel about sharing your password with your partner?

15. When do you think a person is ready for marriage?

16. What kind of parent do you think you will be?

17. What would you do if your parents didn’t like your partner?

18. Who is that one person you can talk to about just anything?

19. Do you usually stay friends with your exes?

20. Have you ever lost someone close to you?

21. If you are in a bad mood, do you prefer to be left alone or have someone to cheer you up?

22. What’s an ideal weekend for you?

23. What do you think of best friends of the opposite sex?

24. Do you judge a book by its cover?

25. Are you confrontational?

26. When was the last time you broke someone’s heart?

27. Would you relocate for love?

28. Did you ever write a journal?

29. What are you most thankful for?

30. Do you believe in second chances?

31. What’s the one thing that people always misunderstand about you?

32. What is your idea of a perfect vacation?

33. What did your past relationship teach you?

34. What are your thoughts on online dating or tinder?

35. What’s on your bucket list this year?

36. When have you felt your biggest adrenaline rush?

37. What is the craziest thing you’ve ever done and would you do it again?

38. If a genie granted you 3 wishes right now, what would you wish for?

39. What’s your biggest regret in life?

40. What do you think about when you’re by yourself?

41. Does your job make you happy?

42. What did you want to be when you were younger?

43. Why did your last relationship end?

45. What’s been your biggest mistake so far in life and what did you learn from it?

46. Where is your favorite place in the entire world to go?

47. What are your top five favorite movies?

48. What are some of your favorite songs?

49. What qualities do you admire about your parents?

50. How would you describe your best friend?

51. What’s your favorite hobby to do alone?

52. What’s something you can’t go a day without doing?

53. What’s the most spontaneous thing you’ve done lately?

54. What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done for love?

55. What’s your biggest pet peeve?

56. Why do you think you’re still single?

57. What accomplishment are you most proud of?

58. What is one dream you have yet to accomplish?

59. What is your greatest fear?

60. What are three things you value most about a person?

61. Who are five people you are closest with?

62. What is the greatest struggle you’ve overcome?

63. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?

64. What’s the most exciting thing that’s happened this past year?

65. What’s your favorite beer?

66. What’s one thing that bothers you most about the world today?

67. Who are you closer with your mom or your dad?

68. If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be?

69. If you could change one thing about the world what would it be?

70. Who was your favorite teacher and why?

71. What sport did you fall in love with?

72. What is the weirdest thing about you?

73. What was your longest relationship?

74. What would your best friend say is your best quality?

75. Who is your favorite historical figure?

76. What made you choose the college you went to?

77. If you could tell your former self one thing right now what would it be?

78. What food could you not live without?

79. Dogs or Cats?

80. What’s closest you’ve ever come to being arrested?

81. What was your best birthday?

82. What’s one thing you wish you knew how to do?

83. Where’s one place you’d like to go that you haven’t been?

84. What was the last book you read? And When?

85. Where do you usually get your news?

86. What are some of your own personal goals in the next 5 years?

87. What would you consider your greatest accomplishment so far?

88. If you could get away with anything that you do?

89. Who is your greatest hero?

90. What’s the greatest risk you’ve ever taken?

91. Why are we here?

92. If heaven is real and you died tomorrow, would you get in?

93. Do you believe in fate?

94. How do you think people see you?

95. If you had the ability to erase something that you did in the past, what would it be?

96. What song makes you unconditionally happy?

97. If you could have anybody else’s life, who’s would you take?

98. What fictional character do you most relate to?

99. If I asked you at age 5 what you wanted to be when you grew up, what would you say?

100. What is your biggest irrational fear?

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Darkour anatomy

[cilein]

I found a cool old book in our doctors room, ‘Blakiston’s illustrated pocket medical dictionary’ from 1952. I love this sort of traditionally painted medical art! Does anyone else want to see more of this in today’s medicine?

[brynwrites]

I’m deathly afraid that when I publish Pearl, no one will buy it.

Is this a silly fear? Probably. A few of you have sent asks just to tell me you can’t wait for it to come out, and many of my beta readers have already decided to purchase multiple copies.

But brains are dumb little goblins.

I guess what I’m trying to say is, if you have these fears too, you’re not alone. None of us are. Writing is a scary business, but we shouldn’t let that dictate whether we do it and enjoy it and try to share our stories with the world.

Because I don’t know if I’ll manage to sell many copies of Pearl. But the only way to know for certainly that I won’t is to never publish it.

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Oh gosh. He is finally finished. The Black Darkour.

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Following the post on burn scarification / branding, here is one of the branding’s that some of my book characters have on their back.

They also have burn marks on their necks and wrists depending on social status and job role. I shall finish drawing those tomorrow.

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42 character development questions!

PHYSICAL PRESENCE AND GESTURE. 1. How do they move and carry themselves? Pace, rhythm, gestures, energy? 2. How much physical space do they use, active and at rest? 3. How do they position themselves in a group? Do they like to be the center of attention, or do they hang back at the edges of a crowd? 4. What is their size and build? How does it influence how they use their body, if it does? 5. How do they dress? What styles, colors, accessories, and other possessions do they favor? Why? 6. What are they like in motion–in different environments, and in different activities? What causes the differences between these? 7. How do they physically engage with other people, inanimate objects, and their environment? What causes the differences between these? 8. Where and when do they seem most and least at ease? Why? How can you tell? 9. How do they manifest energy, exhaustion, tension, or other strong emotions? 10. What energizes and drains them most? 11. How are they vocally expressive? What kind of voice, accent, tones, inflections, volume, phrases and slang, and manner of speaking do they use? 12. How are they bodily expressive? How do they use nonverbal cues such as their posture, stance, eyes, eyebrows, mouths, and hands? DISPOSITION AND TEMPERAMENT. 13. How do they greet the world — what is their typical attitude towards life? How does it differ in different circumstances, or towards different subjects? Why do they take these attitudes, and why do they change? How do these tend to be expressed? 14. What do they care deeply about? What kind of loyalties, commitments, moral codes, life philosophies, passions, callings, or spirituality and faith do they have? How do these tend to be expressed? 15. What kind of inner life do they have — rich and imaginative? Calculating and practical? Full of doubts and fears? Does it find any sort of outlet in their lives? 16. Do they dream? What are those dreams like? 17. Are they more shaped by nature or nurture — who they are, or what has happened to them? How have these shaped who they’ve become as a person? 18. What kind of person could they become in the future? What are some developmental paths that they could take, (best, worst, most likely?) what would cause them to come to pass, and what consequences might they have? What paths would you especially like to see, and why? CONNECTIONS WITH OTHERS. 19. How do they behave within a group? What role(s) do they take? Does this differ if they know and trust the group, versus finding themselves in a group of strangers? Why? 20. What kind of individual relationships do they have with others, and how do they behave in them? How are they different between intimate relationships like friends, family, and lovers versus more impersonal relationships? 21. What kind of relationships do they tend to intentionally seek out versus actually cultivate? What kind of social contact do they prefer, and why? 22. How do people respond to them, and why might these responses differ? 23. How do they respond to difficult social moments? What makes them consider a social situation difficult? 24. How do they present themselves socially? What distinguishes their “persona” from their “true self”, and what causes that difference? 25. What do they need and want out of relationships, and how do they go about getting it? 26. How do they view and feel about relationships, and how might this manifest in how they handle them, if it does? ACTIVITIES AND PREFERENCES. 27. What do they strongly like and dislike, in any category? Why? 28. What are they likely to do if they have the opportunity, resources, and time to accomplish it? Why? 29. What kind of activities, interests, and hobbies do they have? What significance and impact do these have in their lives, both positive and negative? 30. What is their preferred level of activity and stimulation? How do they cope if they get either too little or too much? 31. Is there anything that counts as a “dealbreaker” for them, positively or negatively? What makes things go smoothly, and what spoils an activity or ruins their day? Why? 32. Do they have any “props” that are a significant part of their life, identity, activities, or self-presentation somehow? What are they, how are they used, and why are they so significant? How would these props’ absence impact them, how would they compensate, and why? THINKING AND LEARNING. 33. How do they learn about the world–what is their preferred learning style? Hands-on learning with trial and error? Research, reading, and note-taking? Observation or rote memorization? Inductive or deductive reasoning? Seeking patterns and organization? Taking things apart and putting them back together? Creative processing via discussing, writing about, or dramatizing things? 34. How do they understand the world–what kind of worldview and thought processes do they have? Why? 35. How and why do they internalize knowledge? What effect has that had on them? 36. How much do they rely on their minds and intellect, versus other approaches like relying on instinct, intuition, faith and spirituality, or emotions? What is their opinion on this? 37. Have they had any special education or training that colors their means of learning about or understanding the world? Conversely, do they lack some kind of education considered essential in their world? What kind of impact has this addition or lack had on them? 38. Is there anything they wish they could change about their worldview or thought processes? What, and why? 39. What sort of questions or thoughts recur in their lives, either specifically or as a theme? Why are these never answered, or answered permanently to their satisfaction? 40. What do they wonder about? What sparks their curiosity and imagination, and why? How is this expressed, if it is? FREE FOR ALL. 41. What associations do they bring to mind? Words or phrases, images, metaphors or motifs? Why? 42. I have a question of my own!

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Darkour: War is Peace Initiative Comic / Manga style introduction These ‘beasts’ are scientifically engineered warrior hybrids designed to be pure killers in the war effort. This work is copyrighted. Do not repost, reblogs welcome.

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Following the post on burn scarification / branding, here is one of the branding’s that some of my book characters have on their back. They also have burn marks on their necks and wrists depending on social status and job role. I shall finish drawing those tomorrow.

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Human branding / Burn scarification / Burn mark Here is some more inspiration for me, as well as examples of Scarification. All my book characters posses these brandings, in much the same way that shadowhunters have runes, and divergent has tattoos.

[marley-warriors]

Writing a Novel Part 1

What it is really like.

Trust me, I have been there.

Having an idea for the novel. The power is yours.

Writing your first words and paragraphs. You are god of this creation.

Then staring at the page blankely in desperation…

Finishing your first chapter :)

Keep on writing…

Running spell check :/ Things are starting to go wrong.

Reading your first draft. It is horrid. You think of giving up.

Editing your first draft. So much rubbish and pain.

Keep on writing and fix those mistakes. Lots of re-writing.

Re-reading your work.

(To be continued)

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Writing a Novel Part 2

Editing the second draft.

Editing the 3rd draft. Will this ever end?

The final finishing touches and edits. Prepare manuscript for publication.

Telling others you finished your novel

That feel when someone reads over your manuscript. You will want to vanish into thin air.

Holy shit! The book is actually finished. It finally sinks in. Yoy promised you would never write a book again, but now you miss it. You miss writing and you miss your book.

Sending your book to the Publisher. Let the waiting games begin.

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Not to mention the countless rejections.

You check your email, not expecting anything. And there it is. A publisher has accepted your manuscript. A proud moment indeed.

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If Darkour were a PS4 game.

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The real body exhibition. Helped with my study of anatomy and the human body. Novel inspiration / source material

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My OC; The Black Darkour (He has a name, but spoiler) Age: 19 Scientifically engineered Humanoid / Hybrid created to be a pure killer in war efforts.

The novel is finished. It will be send to the publisher this week. DARKOUR War Is Peace: Initiative.

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Wrong blog again. But the book is finished.

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Darkour book characters. Im so proud that the cast is so diverse. :)