#charvaughn-writes

[druzydabbles]

Hey Quill! How/what do you use to make those WIP-specific line break markers for your WIPs? For ex, for your new WIP Circuit, you had special blue circuit lines that divided the segments of your post, and for One Siren's Soul, you had a seashell type line breaker. I wanted to make one for my WIP and was wondering how you made yours? Thanks!

Oh oh!! I love them so much, I’m so pleased with how they came out, I’m glad you like them, too!

I actually used this tutorial by @cogesque to make them! The main difference was that I drew the vectors myself for the seashell and shark tooth, and the overlays were heavily edited! But if you head over to that link, you should be able to make your own just fine~

Be sure to tag me when you post them up, I’d love to see what you come up with!

[aureliobooks]

Hi!! I’m so excited for Seventh Siege and Sevensworn!! I love Aevar lmao. I also have two questions: 1) what inspired your url name? and 2) what made you decide to release 7s on wattpad only?

hello!!! i’m glad you love aevar, he was definitely one of those characters that i was indifferent about until i looked at him one day and realized how much i cared about his arc, and i’m VERY excited at the prospect of exploring it further in seventh siege :’)

but as for your first question, i wish i could say it was inspired by my pen name, ej aurelio, but my pen name was actually a product of the url! when i first made my blog two years back i was pretty unsure of how to do things, but i caught the usual naming conventions with writeblr urls: writes/books/stories/etc is typically added after a name or pen name, but as i’ve been trying to settle on a name for the past five/six years, i didn’t want to choose a name that i would change in a month. to save myself from having to change my url in the future i went with aurelio, meaning “golden”, because i liked the sound of it. i’ve definitely considered changing my url to the name of one of my projects or characters, but i’ve honestly gotten pretty attached to this one :’) 

in terms of 7s and wattpad, that decision came about initially because i preferred the formatting of wattpad to other platforms, but it was seriously solidified due to wattpad’s increased traffic for original fiction and its tagging system, which i felt would be helpful when getting 7s out to new readers. i considered trying to traditionally publish, but i didn’t know how well a 150k queer high fantasy novel would do on the market, and honestly wasn’t super keen on finding out—the same goes for self publishing. i plan on trying to traditionally publish/self publish in the future, but i decided that since 7s is my first original novel and something that many people on here have expressed excitement for, i would post it online for free!

[raevenlywrites]

Happy Storyteller Saturday! What has been the hardest thing to write in your WIP, plot-wise?

Plot :P More seriously though, I think nailing down the exact wording and mechanics of the wager has been the hardest. Everything comes down to specific words choices, because faeries, and that changes motivations and means, and honestly i’ve just been writing around it XD

[tenacious-scripturient]

Happy Storyteller Saturday! If your OCs has a job in the real world, what would they be?

@panic-at-my-sexuality asked me a similar thing! thanks to the both of you, and sorry i could only answer now lol. <3

in the story, we know that WYATT is a scientist and VRENHT is a retired blacksmith, now a tour guide! so i suppose both of those would carrying into the real world.

but for the others: EASTON is a student... so no job, i suppose. he hasn’t really figured out what he wants to be. ARYIA, being a mercenary in the story, would probably be part of some armed force—maybe the army, or the police force! CAELYM would be a baker (he’d never admit it), opening his own shop, and FEVIRA enjoys smithing and crafting things, so maybe a blacksmith! or maybe she would create prosthetics and other technology, as she has her own ^w^

[givethispromptatry]

Your prompts are god tier and fill me with the greatest source of inspiration omg ❤️❤️

Oh my gosh, thank you! I’m so happy that you like them! <3

[effervescentbi]

YOUR HEADER IS SO CUTE OH MY GOD I LOVE IT!!

THANK YOU BABE! I LOVE IT TOO!

[merigreenleaf]

Bc i'm in a wonderfully curious mood, hit me with a few facts about your least favorite character in your WIP/series! (Please :))

Ooo, thank you for the ask! I know exactly who I'm going to pick. *pulls Feren out of the neglected secondary character bin and drop kicks him to the front*

-Okay, so first off Feren is Adair's ex-boyfriend. They've known each other since they were about 6, but they spent a few years of Feren being a bully to Adair before they became friends and eventually dated. Even then he was still kind of a jerk, or at least he's just a really bossy, know-it-all person.

-Feren has a scar that runs across his face over his nose and below his eye from being in a cave during a rockfall. He managed to keep Adair and Nina safe by covering them with his body, but got injured in the process. (Nina's Adair's ex-girlfriend, still currently dating Feren until she comes to her senses and kicks him to the curb. Please, girl, kick him to the curb.) Feren took this as a sign of being a failure as a sentinel-intended because even though they were safe, he feels he should have predicted this happening, so he dropped the sentinel career option. Immediately. This says a lot about him because...

-If anything gets too hard, he decides not to do it. His occupation is "layabout" because he basically just hangs around Nina's restaurant avoiding doing any work.

-No magic and he’ll never ever forgive the world for not giving him this. Like Feren's a fluke as an Artisan because children born into Artisan families almost always have magic. This is where the entitlement comes from- he feels like he deserves more than life gave him. He's *brilliant* and could easily make a career as a scholar of some kind, but he doesn't think this is worth anything as a job, so he just... sits around at the restaurant, complaining about everything. And I mean everything. He doesn't have a nice thing to say ever.

-He's got choppy looking hair because he literally chopped it off because he’s melodramatic as heck. Sentinels (and anyone who's a Protectorate- the people who protect art and artists, which includes sentinels) always wear specific long braids to designate their occupation and when they fail at this or drop out, they cut their braid off. Feren, ever overdramatic, just left it choppy instead of styling it because he wanted to show the world how much of a failure he was. (Normally it's only people who are kicked out of the Protectorates who have to keep their hair choppy for a specific length of time. Like you do something really wrong and that gets done to you before you're kicked out. Feren was all “woe is me” and put himself through this.)

So yeah, that’s Feren. He becomes important in book 2 and none of the dorks like him and I’m placing bets on which dork is going to punch him first.

[aureliobooks]

Just checked out all the updated links you made to your page! Super cool! And for some reason idk why, it was relieving to find out we’re the same age because I somehow got the idea that you were in your 20s lol. And we’re in the same time zone! Do you live in Cali, by any chance? (Don’t worry, I don’t plan on stalking you lmao, it’s just hard to find close or somewhat close writeblrs, especially when you’re my age and write in a genre I love.)

I’m in Cali right now visiting my sister, funnily enough! I was born here, but I live in Oregon. And I know what you mean!! I share a ton of interests with people on here, but I only know roughly one other person my age :’))

Lmk if you want to chat!! I’m on discord n everything if you ever want to yell about writing or anything else!