The Rooted Mother

Welcome! I'm Khylah, I'm a writer of fantasy, mother of boys, and wife to Zeke. I've been writing for over half my life and my dream is for people to fall deeply into the world of Eloae where they'll meet the characters and places that first sparked my love of writing. You can find an overview of my current WIP, Uprooted, here.

[blookisses]

do you ever just

[sun-daddy-yoriichi]

Y-Yeah

[siarvenart]

this is it... my art has peaked

it's all downhill from here

[sincerestaffect]

A mood and a half. 🙏 Always tired.

[lightheartedsuggestion]

Stop convincing yourself you’re wasting your life away. The time you’ve spent resting and healing was and is necessary. You’re not a waste of a person if you find yourself struggling right now. Healing, recovering, sitting with your pain is foundational. It’s not a waste. You are still whole.

[sincerestaffect]

Past me: one day I'll figure out this plot hole.

Present me: I still have no idea, I guess it's not one day yet.

I am rarely on tumblr these days so if you want a more consistent account to follow I'll point you to my writing Instagram here.

[sincerestaffect]

HOW TO WRITE MY EPIC STORY THOUGHTS???? ONTO PAPER???

[sincerestaffect]

Plotting hard. How do??

[sincerestaffect]

Why cant we skip to me having a really cool book to show people???

[sincerestaffect]

Christmas Baking

Read this recipe for 'Browness River Truffles'. It is hilariously translated and I can't stop laughing.

[sincerestaffect]

Me: we must decorate the Christmas tree in front of our largest window so that it can be seen! If you can't see the tree from outside, does it even really count?

Also me: OH MY GOD WHY IS THAT CAR DRIVING SO SLOWING BY OUR HOUSE?????? ARE THEY BURGLARS?????? ARE THEY GOING TO KILL ME??????? CLOSE THE CURTAINS!!!!!!!

...I have a problem. 🤦‍♀️

[sincerestaffect]

Last night after the kids went to bed, me and @zekethegm played minecraft together. The first day he started playing on my server I told him I wanted to completely flatten the mountain that was right outside the window so that I would have a clear view of the sunrise and sunset from inside the house. So he worked on that for the last week irl (it was a really freaking big mountain) and as we were playing I said, "You moved mountains for the person you love. I turned one into a home for you."

Sidenote: my house was not pretty before I knew he was gonna start playing. I told him he had to wait until I made it good enough for him. And I completely remade it and put our beds side by side and filled a chest with armour and iron tools for him. I also filled a chest with cooked food and left several stacks of 64 torches in the tool chest so he wouldn't have to worry about it.

[overfalls]

IT’S NOT ‘PEEKED’ MY INTEREST

OR ‘PEAKED’

BUT PIQUED

‘PIQUED MY INTEREST’

THIS HAS BEEN A CAPSLOCK PSA

[owlbearcounter]

THIS IS ACTUALLY REALLY USEFUL THANK YOU

[ranetree]

ADDITIONALLY:

YOU ARE NOT ‘PHASED’. YOU ARE ‘FAZED.’

IF IT HAS BEEN A VERY LONG DAY, YOU ARE ‘WEARY’. IF SOMEONE IS ACTING IN A WAY THAT MAKES YOU SUSPICIOUS, YOU ARE ‘WARY’.

ALL IN ‘DUE’ TIME, NOT ‘DO’ TIME

‘PER SE’ NOT ‘PER SAY’

THANK YOU

[tassiekitty]

BREATHE - THE VERB FORM IN PRESENT TENSE

BREATH - THE NOUN FORM

THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE

WANDER - TO WALK ABOUT AIMLESSLY

WONDER - TO THINK OF IN A DREAMLIKE AND/OR WISTFUL MANNER

THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE (but one’s mind can wander)

[fairywails]

DEFIANT - RESISTANT DEFINITE - CERTAIN

[melancholicmarionette]

WANTON - DELIBERATE AND UNPROVOKED ACTION (ALSO AN ARCHAIC TERM FOR A PROMISCUOUS WOMAN)

WONTON - IT’S A DUMPLING THAT’S ALL IT IS IT’S A FUCKING DUMPLING

[proletariatbitch]

BAWL- TO SOB/CRY

BALL- A FUCKING BALL

YOU CANNOT “BALL” YOUR EYES OUT

[soggywarmpockets]

AND FOR FUCK’S SAKE, IT’S NOT “SIKE”; IT’S “PSYCH”. AS IN “I PSYCHED YOU OUT”; BECAUSE YOU MOMENTARILY MADE SOMEONE BELIEVE SOMETHING THAT WASN’T TRUE.

THANK YOU.

[everylineeverystory]

*slams reblog*

[leonawriter]

IT’S ‘MIGHT AS WELL’. ‘MIND AS WELL’ DOES NOT MAKE GRAMMATICAL SENSE.

[penbrydd]

SLEIGHT - DEXTERITY, ARTIFICE, CRAFT (FROM ‘SLY’) SLIGHT - VERY LITTLE, FRAIL, DELICATE

IT’S ‘SLEIGHT OF HAND’.

[maverlok]

[celynbrum]

DISCRETE - SEPARATE, DISTINCT, PARTED

DISCREET - SUBTLE, STEALTHY, DIPLOMATIC

[ceruleancynic]

AND TO CONTINUE THE OP’S THEME

IT’S SNEAK PEEK

NOT SNEAK PEAK

A SNEAK PEAK WOULD BE A MOUNTAIN ENGAGED IN ESPIONAGE

THEY ARE VERY LARGE AND WOULD FIND THIS GENERALLY DIFFICULT 

THANK

(OH AND ONE OTHER THING

BULLION = PRECIOUS METAL

BOUILLON = STOCK, FROM THE FRENCH “BOUILLER,” TO BOIL)

[jumpingjacktrash]

SHUDDER:

SHUTTER:

NOT SAME NOT SAME

[the-real-seebs]

sleight of hand: magic tricks slight of hand: President-Elect

[lilacandgoooseberries]

I love this post so much oh my god 😂

“A MOUNTAIN ENGAGED IN ESPIONAGE” I’m losing my shit

[stephrc79]

I would just like to point out that you CAN ’ball your eyes out’, you just need a really good melon scooper and a willingness to try hard enough.

[sincerestaffect]

My problem isn't writing a bunch of characters that don't have personalities. Oh ho ho, boy is that not my problem.

My problem is having an already large cast of characters, AND THEN adding in an entirely new set of characters and giving them all amazing backgrounds and sparkling personalities and they are the best people EXCEPT THAT THEY LITERALLY SERVE NO PURPOSE TO THE PLOT BUT NOW THEY ALL WANT THEIR OWN STORIES.

Just. Let me figure out draft 1 pleeeease. I'm already drowning but you all just keep piling on.

^This is me, and the waves are pointing to their own stories and won't stop until they've been heard.

[sincerestaffect]

Reading a book and thoroughly enjoying it when one of the characters asks "why is this the first time I'm hearing about this?" and all I can think is because the author didn't know until then, either. :') And it's just one of those moments when I feel really good and there's this strange connection between writer and writer because the struggle is real.

[portraitoftheoddity]

One of my favorite things ever is when one person’s creativity inspires and motivates someone else’s. And you get this beautiful feedback loop of imagination and creation and people motivating and inspiring and supporting one another and goddamn that’s just fucking delightful. 

[that-twink-over-there]

I kinda lied and said I know what D&D was and how to play it so I could sleep with this cute guy and he invited me over to play with his friends at his place (I'm hoping to stay a little longer then anyone else if you catch my drift) but I realized I'm now fucked in all the wrong ways now. Help me please, he's a hung bear with a beard, I can't fuck this up. I got a week to learn thankfully

Okay soldier, so here's what your ass is gonna do:

Read a basic intro into what D&D is and learn basic character creation.

Watch the Handbooker Helper series on youtube to learn gameplay concepts.

Watch some combat and some roleplaying scenes from Critical Role or another D&D game online. This'll show you how those concepts work in-game.

That's your homework.

Then message me if you have any questions.

[snyggvur]

[sincerestaffect]

If I may be so bold as to suggest just telling him straight out that you've never played before, and that you only said that you had because you're interested in him? Honesty is important in relationships and starting one off by lying, however minor, is just setting yourself up for future disappointment. Don't try to be someone you're not for someone else. That being said, I definitely think learning to enjoy someone else's hobbies, especially a love interest, is very important.

I had never played dnd before I met my husband but wanted to learn how because it was something he loved. If anything, play into the fact that you don't know what you're doing. GMs love teaching new players, and if you play your cards right maybe you'll be able to score some one on one time to learn. Have him teach you the art of roleplay. ;)

[sincerestaffect]

Old Writing

With Nano coming up, I've been itching to look back on my old WIPs and thought I would share this cringey thing I wrote 14 years ago.

A first glimpse at 'The Cold Blood Princess', for your reading pleasure. 🤣

Princess Katrin and Princess Cailen are two sisters, who couldn't be more opposite. Queen Floranna (their mother) favores Katrin over Cailen, because Cailen doesn't like the "Royal Lifestyle" and Queen Floranna doesn't understand why.

Now, Queen Floranna has a dark secret from her past. A secret that not even her own husband, the King, knows. Now, there is a good thing that happens because of her secret.....eventually. And, her secret is the reason why the sisters have to embark on their long journey. A journey that could either lead to the end of all evil in Kildomsea and it's surrounding kingdoms, or......The War to Change all Things.

With Cailen and her expert archery skills, and Katrin and her hidden powers, will they be able to put a stop to the Evil Lord Sentriass? Will they find true love? Will they find a way to convince both Kingdoms Malvron and Kildomsea that through their differences, they'll make great Queens?

11 year old me definitely had the drama down. Would you read this? 🤣 I can't wait to rewrite TCBP now haha.

Definitely comment with some of your own old writing, I know I'm not the only one who has it stashed away somewhere.

[sincerestaffect]

Nanowrimo 2019

Well I just got a notification that someone liked a post from last year's nanowrimo prep, so here I am pulling myself out of my tumblr slumber to ask the question I wait all year to ask:

Who is doing nanowrimo this November?

And not to cause panic, but are you aware you have 8 days before November 1st is upon us?

8 DAYS UNTIL NANOWRIMO!!!