Since I just started being active on here again, I tought about making a new intro post to pin and reblog!
On this blog I will mainly post about my Wips, do tag and ask games, post about worlbuilding, and reblog writing tips. All asks are welcome, and if you want to be added to the taglist or if you would like to receive asks, let me know! My intro is under the cut!
Who am I
My name is Sam, I write in English. I love languages and I study French and Arab at uni. I started on writeblr actually quite a bit ago and this is my reintro! (The first one is here)
What genres do I like
I mostly write low fantasy and dystopian, but I also like working on short stories and folk tales. I write a lot of queer characters and disabled characters because I am disabled myself. I write many found families too.
I used to read a lot of everything when I was a kid, now I am in a serious reader's block. I like to read a lot of slice of life and contemporary stories, at times also mystery books, short stories and poetry.
Favorite tropes
Enemies to lovers and fake dating for romance. In general I love found families, impulsive character who gets more logical/logical character who goes apeshit!
Some of my works (their own intro post is linked)
Causing and Apocalypse trilogy: about a group of guys who have to save their siblings, and possibly the world. Stage: wrote the first few chapters but needs a bit of rework
Tales of Aontas: (the one I am most active on at the moment): five people get resurrected and given a mission to fulfill, but is that what they really want? It comprehends five books: "The Ship of Undead" and "Blood to the Water" are the first ones, I still miss the other three. Stage: chapter II, worldbuilding complete.
My favorite part of writing
I like worldbuilding and outlining and character planning. I mostly write to get them a story they deserve, I love spending time with my blorboes.
I like being here on tumblr, I have known amazing people, and I hope to know many more! Happy writing to y'all!
I also have a writing server on discord if anyone wants to join us to talk about their writing!
Hello, my name is Sam, (she/they) and this is my first WIP (I did write some short stories, and have a couple ideas for new WIPs). I will mainly post about it and/or writing tips, especially in regards to worlbuilding, maps, and character building. All asks welcome.
It is my first time on writeblr, and I'm excited to meet other writers.
Especially if you are very keen on character planning, but it's also nice if you don't like it!
I write mainly for middle schoolers/ high scoolers, and I made a point of writing what I would have wanted to read.
I started 5 years ago so I'm currently reworking my charachter a bit, especially my MC.
I like to write dystopian, a bit of horror, and also fantasy.
A proper writeblr wip introduction is under the cut :)
NAME OF THE WIP: Causing an Apocalypse
WHAT IS IT: A trilogy, the titles are: Memory's Fire, From City to City, In Ruins.
GENRE: Dystopian and LGBTQ+
PLOT: The year is 2092. The main problem for humanity is currently finding a new source of energy, after everything else has failed. Thankfully the mysterious and rinomate school C.D.E.A. can provide to that. How? No one knows, except the children who are admitted. They are all between 6 and 12 years of age, and they must maintain the silence.
Poor Liam however could not care less about energy sources. His main preoccupation are instead the strange dreams he keeps having. They revolve around a house fire and a little girl he knows nothing about (even if he has the sensation he really should).
Moreover, one day, he discovers that the C.D.E.A is not a prized school as everyone believed it to be. And he slowly understands that there is a connection between the little girl and the C.D.E.A. institute. But what could it be? What does C.D.E.A mean? Who is the girl he keeps dreaming so often? He has the sensation he should know all the answers, but he does not remember a single one of them.
His only option is to search for the central building of C.D.E.A. and hope to find the information he needs.
What started as a simple research, will however turn into a much more difficult quest. Liam will have to save the future, while trying to remember his past. Thankfully he will have some precious help by people who, just like him, are looking for answers around the mysterious C.D.E.A.
MAIN CHARACHTERS:
Liam Wordsworth (he/him): a young 16 year old boy who suddenly has more to worry about than the math test he could have failed. His main goal? Look for a girl he feels strongly attached to (even if he does not know why). What will that imply? A travel across the USA, Europe and New Africa. And discoveries he would have rather not made. He tends to get angry often, and he has lost all his memories in a house fire. He is an orphan and got adopted by Clem, and elderly lady, albeit still very energetic. He will be the leader of te Sibling Squad. He is trans AFAB, this has not a big impact on the story but it is mentioned.
Kyle West (he/him): a bisexual young lad from Canada who is looking for his brother. When he does not call him back after being offered a work opportunity as C.D.E.A., he knows something is wrong. He will embark in a travel looking for him, and will meet Liam and the Squad in the process. He is ADHD, fidgets a lot. He will grow feelings for Joshua.
Helen Marquez(she/her): her nickname? Bonebreaker. She is a fierce teenager who would never pass up an opportunity for a fight. Her parents are divorcedand her little brother, Diego, is currently lost. She knows he can't be dead tough. She saw him on a C.D.E.A. minivan. And she does not think twice before following that van in order to discover what C.D.E.A. is and where are they bringing her brother. Her father is Mexican, and Mexico is where her Abuela lives. She should have been called Elena but her mother changed the name later. That was the first fight her parents had. After the divorce her mother started taking drugs, and she had to take care of Diego a lot growing up.
Nia Otieno (she/her): she is a shy 13 years old black girl, and she does not know anything about her parents. Her mother died while giving birth, and her father disappeared leaving only an address behind. She will be very surprised when that address will lead her right into C.D.E.A. main building. Why is she there? Who is her father? She does not know how to swim. She will be like a sister for all the others in the Squad.
Yossel Siegel (he/they): he is gay, nonbinary, and jew. He was born in Egypt, 7 years after his brother Isaac. Theyr parents were Jew and could speak Yiddish and Arabic. His father was from the USA, his mom from Egypt. When his mom died theur father returned to USA. At home they spoke primarily Arab and Yiddish, but at school he learned English. He struggled less then his brother because he moved at 2, while Isaac was already 9 and struggled more with learning a language. Their life is not easy at all, especially because his brother will have him steal in order to support his family. After moving his father struggled finding a job and they are extremely poor. One day, however, he will return home to find absolutely nothing and no one. The only trace left are some tire prints. Following them he will see his brother making a deal with a man who claims to be a C.D.E.A. operative. They will have no choice but follow them remaining hidden. At least until he meets the Squad. He is quite religious, and likes dressing in colorful ways. They will develop strong feelings for Kyle.
Simon Csizmadia (he/him): pale, frecklish and asthmatic, he is the nerd of the Sibling Squad. His father is Hungarian, his mother is Russian, but born in Hungary. The Squad will all end up in his motel, and once he will reveal he knows something about C.D.E.A. he will be immediately recruited. He hopes to find his little sister, Anya, who got recruited years before. He has a feeling something bad happened to her tough. He is a real computer nerd, and that will come in handy when the Squad will need a hacker.
Kora Leeland (she/they): she could not care less about her gender. She is 22 and in a stable relationship with Jack. They are disabled and with limited mobility: she often uses crutches or a wheelchair. That does not stop her from being an excellent strategist. She and Jack know what C.D.E.A. really does to children and her goal is to stop them. They and Jack have been boycotting them for a few years, with scarce results. But thanks to the Sibling Squad everything could change.
Jack, short for Jacqueline, Hamilton (she/her but does not really care): she is 23, and she is ready to sacrifice everything to fight C.D.E.A. she works as an operative, but really that is just a cover in order to get better information and help Kora out. She can drive almost everything. She is often exchanged for a male, but she is actually Kora's long term gf.
Lucas West (he/him): Kyle's brother. Will he be really working for C.D.E.A
Isaac Siegel (he/him): Yossel's brother. He is Jew. He would do anything to get his family money to survive. Included siding with the bad guys. Will Yossel be able to change his mind?
Kate Wordsworth (she/her): Liam's little sister. They got separated but she never stopped hoping to see him again. Will her dreams come true?
Diego Marquez (he/him): Helen's little brother. He aspires to be as strong as his sister, but for now he is just really good at drawing. Will he make it out of that van safe and sound?
Anya Novikov/Csizmadia (she/her): she is Russian, and she is Simon's adopted sister. She did not correctly develop her vocal chords while in the womb, and as a result she remained mute since birth.
Jennifer Leeland(she/her): Kora's little sister. Kora knows what happened to her, but that only gives her strength to keep fighting C.D.E.A.
Kabir Hassam and Javier Parra: Liam's school friends. They will help him even from afar. Up until C.D.E.A. will try and recruit them. What will their answer be? Karim is Nigerian, and Javier Argentinia.
Yohannes Otieno (he/him): He is C.D.E.A's leader. All other informations are top secret.
CURRENT WIP PROGRESS: planned all three books in general, planned the first half of the first book in detail, wrote the first 4 chapters (out of maybe 40 🥲)
That's all. I know it is a long post lol, so thank you if you made it to the end and it's ok if you did not follow everything.
Everything about this WIP will be tagged #CAA or #Causing an Apocalipse
Ooh thanks for the ask! Oh god, I had not tought about CAA for a while. I kinda missed Helen ngl
So #23. What emotion is the hardest for your OC to process? How about express?
So Helen has a lot of difficulties in managing her emotions. She is the eldest daughterâ„¢, and basically she has gotten used at pushing stuff down and bottling up. So what emotion is gard to process? All of them. Especially grief. When her little brother is taken away from her she pushes everything down for half the book, until she explodes.
And what is difficult to express for her is love. She struggles some with showing her affection for her team, and especially when she will try to flirt with Liam
1. What is the main lesson of your story (e.g. kindness, diversity, anti-war), and why did you choose it?
Hi! Thanks for the question!!
This time i will answer with Causing an Apocalypse!
The main lesson would be fuck capitalism essentially. But at the same time that some things cannot be fixed. The characters at first seems to succeed but then there is no alternative to be set in place for the bad thing they destroyed. So people go back to doing that once again and ignoring them.
Also of course the positive values of friendship and the theme of grief.
