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SOLANGE-ANNICK'S MASTERLIST

First of all, thank you so much for visiting my blog! I've been writing for 10+ years and I hope my ramblings bring you some joy (or, if angst, not). Fic recommendations at the bottom. Includes Marvel, Star Wars, Prodigal Son, and Gotham fics.

#oh look i finally made a masterlist #will add perpetual virginity later plus a link to my fic recommendations #dominion #solange-annick #maebh #margot #margot maroni #ava morvois #ibahpt #masterlist #if youre tagged in this lmk if you got another notification after i edited it #shake off your flesh #xmen #charles xavier #madeline rice

tenderwatches

sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

I like being a terrible person and creating angst so here's a fic of Helmut digging up his family's bodies

#love being a terrible person and writing angst #technically part of dominion but standalone #will i write more even though i have an idea of what i want to continue.... idk #but here ya go #helmut zemo #zemo #tfatws #cacw

ao3 down the exact moment i wish to post a new fic

POV: you fall down a rabbit hole bc you are obsessed with The Character and wrote a throwaway line in a wip that hasn’t been published yet

#this is all I have so far and I wrote it a while ago but it’s calling my name #Helmut zemo #dominion #Karen page

#hi yes I am very proud of The Implications in this #dominion

I just realized that I’ve been working on Dominion since before my niece was born and she can like. Talk in sentences.

notesbyash

think that everyone has their own personal theme in life

notesbyash

every nolan film is about time. it winds its way through his filmography; it is fractured in memento, distorted in inception, expanded in interstellar, reversed in tenet.

every hopper painting is about stillness. it is found in every brushstroke; at dusk in automat, at dawn in morning sun, at noon in office in a small city, at night in nighthawks.

i have a friend who orbits ideas of power, another who delights in the prosaic and the plain. one weaves around systems and structures, another returns always to wonder at the sea.

there are other elements of course - our lives cannot be measured by single concepts no matter how large they may be - but time and again i think we return to the things that fascinate, the things that intrigue, the things we cannot quite tear ourselves away from. the themes of our lives.

zitasaurusrex

I read Betsy Lerner’s The Forest for the Trees once years ago and have been carrying this idea she has about writers, form, and subject/themes around in my head ever since (bolding mine):

Finding your form is like finding a mate. You really have to search, and you can’t compromise—unless you can compromise, in which case your misery will be of a different variety. But just as there are probably only one or two people to whom you could commit yourself, there are probably only a few things you can write about, and only one genre, or maybe two, in which you might excel. It’s no coincidence that most authors’ bodies of work hover over two or three basic themes or take a single basic shape. Think of the novels of Trollope, Austen, Dickens, or Hardy; think of Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald. They each revisited the same themes, settings, and conflicts over the course of their writing lives. The James Joyces of the world, those who can move from short story to novel to epic, are rare, but then again, few writers master each form the first time out of the gate.

Even though most writers have a limited literary arsenal, readers find infinite pleasure in watching those gestures change and deepen over time. But if you aren’t yet sure what your themes are or what category you should be writing in, you need to take a full accounting of all the reading and all thewriting you have ever done or wanted to do. If you are one of the many people who dream of writing but have never successfully finished or, perhaps, even started a piece, I suggest you compile a list of everything you’ve read over the past six months or year and try to determine if there is a pattern or common denominator. If you read only literary novels, that should tell you something. If you’ve always kept a diary noting the natural world in all its variety, you might want to try writing nature essays.

It never fails to surprise me, in conversations with writers who seek my advice as to what they should write, how many fail to see before their very eyes the hay that might be gold. Instead of honoring the subjects and forms that invade their dreams and diaries, they concoct some ideas about what’s selling or what agents and editors are looking for as they try to fit their odd-shaped pegs into someone else’s hole. There is nothing more refreshing for an editor than to meet a writer or read a query letter that takes him completely by surprise, that brings him into a world he didn’t know existed or awakens him to a notion that had been there all along but that he had nevermuch noticed.

Some of the most striking and successful books in recent history were clearly born of a writer’s obsession and complete disregard for what, supposedly, sells. Few editors would have gone for a queer book about a little-known murder in Savannah that took its sweet time describing every other quirkof the city and its inhabitants before addressing the crime.Whatever John Berendt was thinking when he set out to write Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, it couldn’t have been the bestseller list, because almost anyone in the publishing industry would have told him that nobody would care about the story of a gay antiques dealer who languished in jail after shooting a cheap hustler. The book does, however, draw on what most certainly are Berendt’s strengths as a reporter, as a travel writer, and as a southerner with a gothic sensibility and taste for the macabre. Clearly, he was born to write this book, and he worked through whatever ambivalence and uncertainty he might have felt within himself or encountered from others.

Most writers have very little choice in what they write about. Think of any writer’s body of work, and you will see the thematic pattern incorporating voice, structure, and intent. What is in evidence over and over is a certain set of obsessions, a certain vocabulary, a way of approaching the page. The person who can’t focus is not without his own obsessions, vocabulary, and approach. However, either he can’t find his form or he can’t apply the necessary discipline that ultimately separates the published from the unpublished.

hi. new chapter of my dominion ficlet. here you go

dzgrizzle

“Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one. To be able to recognize a freak, you have to have some conception of the whole man, and in the South the general conception of man is still, in the main, theological. That is a large statement, and it is dangerous to make it, for almost anything you say about Southern belief can be denied in the next breath with equal propriety. But approaching the subject from the standpoint of the writer, I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted. The Southerner, who isn't convinced of it, is very much afraid that he may have been formed in the image and likeness of God. Ghosts can be very fierce and instructive. They cast strange shadows, particularly in our literature. In any case, it is when the freak can be sensed as a figure for our essential displacement that he attains some depth in literature.”

~ Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

cranberry-queen

Tips from a Beta Reading Writer

This one's for the scenes with multiple characters, and you're not sure how to keep everyone involved.

Writing group scenes is chaos. Someone’s talking, someone’s interrupting, someone’s zoning out thinking about breadsticks. And if you’re not careful, half your cast fades into the background like NPCs in a video game. I used to struggle with this so much—my characters would just exist in the scene without actually affecting it. But here’s what I've learned and have started implementing:

✨ Give everyone a job in the scene ✨

Not their literal job—like, not everyone needs to be solving a crime or casting spells. I mean: Why are they in this moment? What’s their role in the conversation?

My favourite examples are:

The Driver: Moves the convo forward. They have an agenda, they’re pushing the action.

The Instigator: Pokes the bear. Asks the messy questions. Stirring the pot like a chef on a mission.

The Voice of Reason: "Guys, maybe we don’t commit arson today?"

The Distracted One: Completely in their own world. Tuning out, doodling on a napkin, thinking about their ex.

The Observer: Not saying much, but noticing everything. (Quiet characters still have presence!)

The Wild Card: Who knows what they’ll do? Certainly not them. Probably about to make things worse.

If a character has no function, they’ll disappear. Give them something—even if it’s just a side comment, a reaction, or stealing fries off someone’s plate. Keep them interesting, and your readers will stay interested too.

chaapanya

This is fantastic, but to add to this even more:

A character "disappearing" can also be utilized as a tool as well! Do you have a character who the others tend to forget or you're attempting to give the tone of even the reader easily glossing over?

You can utilize this lack of jobs and function as a way to almost place this character in the background before they suddenly gain semblance of form and surprise everyone that they are still there!

Dominion (Ver. II) :: Chapter 2

Edith Piaf’s voice grew in volume as the electronic music of the club faded away, the discernable static of an old record lacing the music. A subtle memory of Helmut’s grandmother listening to the French singer on lazy Sunday afternoons as she smoked and drank tea on the balcony after attending a long liturgy pushes itself to the surface. He shoves it back down with a frown. She’s been dead for decades.

Helmut feels himself becoming gradually unsettled the further into the Brass Monkey the trio is taken. The sounds emitting from behind closed doors offer little in the room of imagination and the few glances he’s able to spare into cracked doorways offer a bleaker picture. Women (or teenagers, as their true age are obscured by makeup, dim lights, and curtains) peer at the passing men with varying degrees of disinterested dissociative pouts and overt flirtation. As he more-or-less leads the other two down the halls, Helmut knows Sam’s incredulous and angry stare is burning a hole into the back of his head. For this, Helmut does not blame him. Explaining himself out of this one will take work.

Keep Reading

#dominion #maebh #tfatws fic #here we go again

Helmut: Having a nice, peaceful, home cooked meal in the presence of women will be good for Maebh both socially and emotionally. She really needs this!

Maebh:

#she’s googling how to build a pipe bomb in her mind the entire time #dude is doing his best but Maebh really only likes one person (him) for prolonged periods of time #and will start biting people if she has to socialize like a bad dog #dominion #maebh

fragmentedink-archived

YALL. Holly Black has a list of resources she's used for writing her books on the fair folk. I'm OBSESSED. I love her work and world building. it's so true to the heart of faeries

void-botanist

Some other resources that might be worth checking out (not strictly about faeries but related):

The Corpus of Electronic Texts, or CELT, a collection of Irish cultural materials. This includes English translations of Irish myths.

Mary Jones - similar to CELT, and a resource we used for translations in the Irish mythology class I took in undergrad.

An Encyclopedia of Fairies by Katherine Mary Briggs, a British folklorist.

The Folklore of Cornwall by Ronald M. James. Unfortunately this book is harder to access and is often only in university libraries, but if you're interested in piskies it's a potentially very helpful read.

Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall by William Bottrell.

becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys

British Goblins by Wirt Sikes is THE encyclopedia of Welsh faerie mythology

Hey guys,

Sort of gradually coming back to the Dominion universe. I've been putting out chapters to a Dominion fic that I've been working on for about a year that you can read here. I also made the decision to start posting my rewrite/revision of Dominion on ao3 here and I will no longer be updating the original version. Not making any guarantees regarding an update schedule nor am I holding myself to one. Just decided it was time to finally share some of the writing I've been working on, even if its not 100% were I want it. Its for fun and part of the enjoyment is actually sharing it, instead of it simply sitting in my google docs for years while I chip away at it. Besides. Its fanfiction. I don't need to put crazy amounts of pressure on myself.

#just feeling some sort of way bc I realized that I've been working on this for four years now #by far the longest ive ever worked on something consistently #and i just. haven't shared a majority of it? I've probably only published like 5%?#I do enjoy the lack of pressure of not publishing but I'm also allowed to keep working on things while sharing them #call that growth

I love giving them problems

I start writing and think “ugh I need to read more” so I start reading and then I think “ugh I need to write more” so I start writing and then I think “ugh I need to read more” so I start reading and then I think “ugh I need to write more” so I start writing and then

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