The Gemini Library

Writer, artist, musician—I write tonnes of words. Some of it awful some of it endurable. Let me know if you enjoy. I also occasionally post Narnian discourse.

[daisylambs]

[minimalistquotes]

I confuse people. I have a happy personality and a sad soul. I'm bold but shy. I love deeply but sometimes I feel heartless. I'm healing and hurting at the same time. I'm dedicated to growth, but I self-sabotage.

[luthienne]

“September came in with golden days and silver nights,”

— J.R.R. Tolkien, from The Return of the King

[andsobelovedbesoalone]

Nothing makes me so feral as a promise turned into a threat:

“I’m going to live, because of you”

vs

“I’m going to live in spite of you”

[quotemadness]

Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place.

Robert Brault

[geminiwriter1881]

THE WORLD THAT HE FORGOT

In the darkness something’s lost—

It was broken with the frost.

In the mountains an echo rings

Calling to forgotten things.

On the wind a whisper sighs—

And a shadow, falling, dies.

In the weeping of the rain,

A high wail goes out again;

In the silence of the night

He searches without a light,

To find everything he’s sought

In the world that he forgot.

[witchyautumns]

🍂annesvintagediary🍂

[lindagoesmushrooming]

[quotemadness]

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Henry Ford

[heart-for-god]

Romans 10:13

[whisperofvintage]

[whimsigothwitch-deactivated2026]

A witchy kind of of autumn

[happyheidi]

[endlessburningdarkness]

how to go from daydream to draft:

begin by daydreaming as you normally do, or just after you've finished doing so. write down every thought you have. one after another. do not reread. do not stop for spelling mistakes. just dump out every thought. this is called stream of consciousness writing. you can do this for every scene you need a first draft for.

struggling to draft the scene? try to daydream about it. start thinking about how it would look, feel, what the characters would say, act it out in your head and then write out the stream of your thoughts as they arrive.

by now you have a few scene dumps. you may be tempted to go back and edit. do not do this expect for obvious spelling mistakes. do not read closely and start thinking "i need to rework this sentence." that is for later. now you're in the zone. draft more scenes. or work out what the next scene needs to be, scaffold it with a few comments. this will be the inspiration for your next deliberate thought stream that you will write out. repeat this process until you have the whole draft.

now that you have a draft or part of a draft you get to do this very fun thing called revise until you're happy. sweep through your draft with specific goals each time. one sweep to fix spelling/grammar. another for character voice. another for plot. repeat until you're happy with it.

leave it alone. just leave it for a bit. at least a few hours or days or even weeks. forget it exists. this will allow you come back with fresh eyes. then you can do your revisions with an eagle eye. now you may realize you need to add/remove scenes. you know how to get the first version down. close your eyes and daydream at your desk if that's what takes!

remember that fiction writing is persuasive writing. you are trying to persuade the reader to care about what happens next, the character's, the world, the feelings. as you're revising, consider whether you are persuaded. is the feeling/thoughts you wanted to provoke being felt by you when you read it? when working with beta readers, be sure to communicate what you're trying to convey so they can tell you if you've been successful or not.

this got a bit beyond getting the first draft done. hope you found it helpful.

bonus tip: check the spellings of names and places and other nouns that are not typically used, like the name of a magic tool!

[eyecatcher-for-real]

[mary-maud]

“I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I’m going to be immoderate - and volatile - I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.”

— Armande, Chocolat by Joanne Harris (via mentallydatingahotcelebrity)

[deviika]

— William Chapman