Aug 14, 2020
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A necessary call out post
Last Line Tag!
Hey! So I was tagged by these amazing people: @elonanwrites @alextriestowritestuff @carrotgirl-weeb @sunflowersfor-amy and @creatinmaven !!! I already did this and haven't had time to write anymore since (😭) so I thought I'd just provide you with a nice length excerpt! This is from TSA, my wip about spies, and this is how Carol met her friends 😄
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When she had initially received the scholarship, she hadn’t expected anything extraordinary to come from it. Sure, the fact that spies were real was unexpected, but it would still just be another school that she would inevitably get kicked out of for her impudent attitude. Another school filled with teachers that droned on about things she already knew and another grade full of idiots who took pleasure in attempting to degrade her confidence. It would just be another building of people whose IQs didn’t even come close to surpassing hers.
How wrong she was.
It was the first time since she was four years old that she was confronted by questions she didn’t know the answer to. She had never heard of the first spy to create a school, she had never studied how to defuse bombs, and she had never cared for Physical Education so she had trouble with combat training. For anyone else, the whole year would have been a disaster. Nevertheless, thanks to her IQ of 160, she was able to cram ten years of information into her brain in only one week. However, despite her swift adaption to the world of espionage, she wasn’t exactly welcomed with open arms.
“And where do you think you’re going?"
Carol looked up at the boy who had spoken (whom she would later learn was named Zachary Layton). He was tall and gangly, with black hair, and acne covering half of his face. His appearance was completed by a glare. A posse of glaring students emerged from behind him, all slowly surrounding Carol.
“To class,” Carol said matter-of-factly.
“I think you’re in the wrong place.”
Carol looked very unimpressed. “I may be new, but I’m not stupid.”
“You aren’t meant to be here,” the boy spat. “You’re a Normo.”
“A what?” Carol asked with a laugh. The boy only glared more. “What is that, the spy version of a Muggle?”
“Your kind is not welcome here,” he said, shoving her backwards. She looked rather affronted after being assaulted, both physically and verbally, for no rational reason. He continued to force her backwards harshly. “You’re not a spy. You got in on a scholarship. You don’t belong here and never will. You’re a Normo. Normos are not meant to be exposed to the concept of secret agents. No matter what Miss Hope thinks of you, you will never be accepted. You will never be appreciated. You will never be a spy.”
Carol raised her eyebrows in impassive surprise. “Wow. Rude.” She squeezed past the students who surrounded her as they all glared. “Not exactly the welcoming party I was expecting, but I’ve never been liked before, so why should anything change at the first school that’s wanted me here?” She entered the classroom, ignoring how the rest of the teenagers filed in behind her. “Also, boy-whose-name-he-never-gave, I am able to fully one hundred percent guarantee that I will be a better spy than you.”
“What makes you think that, you scum?” A different boy had spoken this time, and Carol simply looked at him boredly.
“Wow, very creative insult. Truly, I’m hurt by your words,” Carol said, her sarcasm remarkably evident. “But, if you must know, I am a literal genius, with an IQ higher than you can count—although you bunch seem like you couldn’t get past ten without trouble.”
There was a small snicker from the back of the room and every one of the bullies’ eyes widened in horror. Carol turned to see two more students sitting in the back of the classroom; the boy, looking at her with an impressed smirk, and the girl, looking at her nails stoically. The boy had side-swept black hair and warm brown eyes, while the girl had a messy blonde bun perched atop her head with eyes of icy blue—they were a perfect yin and yang. She watched as the boy gestured for her to come sit with them. No hesitation was needed for Carol to make her decision.
“Another genius at school,” the boy said. “It must be Christmas.” Carol’s eyes widened in surprise and hope. The boy was still grinning widely. “We’re both geniuses too.”
Carol felt her heart soar.
“I’m Gideon Zones,” he said, “and this one,” he thumbed at the girl next to him, “is Moira Lake.” Moira barely glanced at Carol, but nodded curtly. “Don’t take her aloof personality seriously, she’ll come around,” Gideon said with a laugh. “Hey, do you want some of my shrimp chips?”
Carol smiled in awe, feeling like maybe, just maybe, she was finally home.
First Three Lines Tag :)
I was tagged (a while ago, sorry!!) by @lady-redshield-writes and @toboldlywrite, thanks lovelies! <3
These are the first three lines of Eosophobia’s third scene :)
Jackal stares down at the glass, opalescent and cracking, that has been placed in front of him. He lifts it and gives it a swirl, watching the runny copper drink swirl against the glass. He gives it a sniff--rubbing alcohol and gasoline and fucking fire, burning deep between his eyes-- and Viktor gives him a look, the same look Aardwolf used to give him followed by don't play with your damn food.
You can find my other first line tags here :D
Tagging (feel free to ignore): @alextriestowritestuff @thewingwriter @jade-island-lives and, of course, anyone else who like to join in!
A lot of my characters are opposites. I have characters that are indecisive and ones that know exactly what they want, when they want it. And somehow, they get along really well.
Same!
I often create couples this way! They’re often similar enough to find each other attractive, but different enough that their relationship doesn’t become boring!
Shoving very different characters together and figuring out how they would work as a team is a lot of fun (and basically the backbone of all my WIPs tbh).
I also love really cheesy and obvious symbolism when it comes to creating opposites.
Kat, Aaron's best friend from The Island, has dyed her hair every color of the rainbow.
OOooh niceeeee I love different colored hair!!!!
Hair dye isn’t really a thing in my world, but if it were I think Declan would be all about it lol
Tell me a fact about your oc and I will respond with a semi-related fact about mine
Quarterly Writing Goals Jan-March Update!
Hey friends! Another quarter down, time to update what goals I did and didn't accomplish. If you don’t know how these go, I set a few goals to accomplish (All are more manageable pieces of my overarching 2022 goals which can be found here) every three months and at the end of those three months, I update this post to see what I did, (and more often) what I did not accomplish.
1. Finish beta read-ing a novel for one of my critique partners. It’s a YA fantasy and I have about 100 pages left!
Done! I finished this in January, the same week I posted the quaterly goals. Coincendentally, this author now has an agent for this book so that's super awesome!!! She had gone through betas and revisions months before I read and was actively querying already so it wasn't like my reading had anything to do with her success in acquiring an agent, I was reading it for funsies, but I'm still so proud of her!
2. Read my book’s club book of the month. So technically there will be 3 books in this singular goal since this is a quarterly goal but currently, our January pick is The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe.
Did this in January, hated the book haha. I didn't read our Feburary pick so this goal is partially fulfilled and our March read actually got moved to April.
3. Read Story Genius by Lisa Cron. It’s a craft book, I just like to brush up on some skills so might as well.
Done! I did this in February. So freaking helpful but the author goes on tangents, I recommend reading after page 100 because the first 100 pages are literally so irrelevant and full of personal anecdotes. This book is heavy on character development so if your story is character-driven, I highly recommend it. I usually get a complete sense of characters AFTER the first draft which is good but a pain because then I have to insert their voice more clearly in the second draft but with this book, I knew the motivations and how the characters impacted the plot right away.
4. Outline Heavy is the Crown. This is my YA historical fiction retelling about 2 twins who masquerade as one person–the princess’ guard–in order to kill the Queen and reclaim their rightful throne.
Done, did this after reading Story Genius in Feburary.
5. Draft Heavy is the Crown. That being said, I don’t think I’ll finish the draft in three months, I think I’ll finish it in April so that’d be next quarter but for now this goal is just requiring me to at least start on it.
I'm half laughing at this one lmao, did I think I could write consistently for three months straight lmaoo. But I consider this one completed, I wrote the first 10,000 words in feburary/march. It's currently April 2nd and I have 11,676 words.
I think this is the first month where all my goals have been accomplished (more or less) so yay! I think making them attainable has really helped. Thanks for reading, my quaterly goals for April-June are coming up soon!
It’s a constant state of being