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[desperatlytryingtowriteabook]

CampNaNo July 2020 Update#2

I’m still alive. Tired af, I didn’t get a good night sleep since March, this is wonderful.

Super behind my goal, but I had a wonderful writing session on Sunday, and I can talk about my writing to an online friend and to a irl friend, and that’s priceless!

Here have some Girolamo catching up with his old mentor:

“I’m married, now.”

“Ah, marriage! My brother was married, once, regretted it all his life, God rest his soul. Is she a good woman? Pious?”

“Yes,” he lied. “Duke Sforza’s natural daughter.”

“Rich, then. Your uncle always had his priorities in order.”

[kateera]

I have 5,000 words of D&D meets The Magicians fanfic. I'm so overjoyed to finally be writing for this world. Rejecting canon forever!

[dru-c-alba]

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[thewriteadvice]

07.31.20

Time: 30 mins

Words: 906

Excerpt:

Ryker smiled, feral and sharp. “Oh, don’t you worry about me, Princess.”

Theme: “The Young and Beyond Reckless (feat Tyler Carter)” - Slaves

Thoughts: Goal reached! Still have more manuscript to get through to finish this draft, so I’ll keep working on it through August, but Camp is done for now, and I’m going to give myself a few days of rest before jumping into it again. 

[thewriteadvice]

07.30.20

Time: 2.5 hrs

Words: 6502

Excerpt:

The show began before he could reply, and she turned her attention to the display, her eyes glittering. He could see in her face what the fireworks were to her—her magic, brought to life, brilliance and beauty and passion. She loved them fiercely, with all of her heart.

He was sure that the fireworks in Minstrel were inconsequential when compared to the displays created in Mistandael, and yet she sat enraptured all the same. He wondered if she had a hand in the fireworks that came out of her homeland. He found that he hoped so.

After a moment, he turned away from her to watch as well, and tried to see them as she did. He braced himself on his good arm, and with Ana pressed into his shoulder with her arm in his and Ciena leaning against his shin, they watched the sky light up with fire and light.

Theme: “Blind Love” - Awaken I Am

Thoughts: I love me a romantic firework show. Squeeee. Unfortunately, pain is next. A lot of it. I am a cruel, heartless god.

[thewriteadvice]

07.29.20

Time: 2 hrs

Words: 3100

Excerpt:

“There are some men passin’ ‘round posters with your likeness, one Ryker Faol and a runaway Princess of Mistandael, by gods.”

Ryker sighed, scratching wearily at his stubble, overgrown since he’d missed shaving that morning. “Aye, Rand, I can’t say I’m surprised. If you’d like me to leave, I will take my friends and go, you know I don’t bring trouble to your door.” He was waiting for it, for the blow to fall.

“Rye, my friend, I only wish ye’d trusted me earlier. I don’ care who ye are, ‘cept that yer a good man, and that much I know already.”

Ryker couldn’t help it, his gaze snapped up to catch Rand’s eye, too surprised to speak.

Theme: “Is Everybody Going Crazy?” - Nothing But Thieves

Thoughts: It’s nice to have friends in unexpected places. 

[thewriteadvice]

07.28.2020

Time: 2 hrs

Words: 3083

Excerpt:

“Wonderful.” She said with a gleam in her eye, turning back to the stage where the next act was starting. “Just wonderful. We should build a place like this in Mistandael.”

And that, He thought to himself, is where she differs from Nidane.

She differs from her dam in more ways than one. Sikh responded.

The rest of the show passed, drawing raucous laughter from the crowd as often as it drew tears, and Ryker sat in the center of it all, watching the emotions play across Ana’s face, finally unguarded around him now. Lin and Prestan were also enjoying themselves, of course, but Ryker couldn’t bring himself to look away from Ana.

Sikh was right. She was not her mother at all.

Theme: “Family First” - Woe, Is Me

Thoughts: Ah, young love. These next few chapters really give me life.

[thewriteadvice]

07.27.20

Time: 1 hr

Words: 1684

Excerpt:

The way her mother had described Ryker, she had painted him cold and calculating, utterly ruthless and unmatched in battle or magic. She’d spoken of a man who could chill anyone to the bone with nothing but a glance, who could freeze foes in place with fear, who could shape the shadows around him into anything he imagined, and who could turn into a wolf and tear a foe apart with tooth and claw.

And Ana knew all of that to be true. But that was not all there was to see in Ryker, even if that was all that he ever expected people to see.

Theme: “Wake (E-Bow)” - Crywolf

Thoughts: Gotta step up my game, only a few days left of camp!

Also, there’s something about this song that just conveys the FEELING--love being a dangerous thing, especially when you love dangerous things. Could you love a monster? Could a monster love you back? Is that kind of love all-consuming--not just of the soul, but physically too?

Eeek, the feels.