#draft 2

[malachitegriffin]

Would you like me to give your book a fresh eyes?

I'm going to be doing the edits for Drafts 2-4 before I take on any Alpha or Beta readers; I'd appreciate it when the time comes! If you want, I can give you my contact information and you'll be updated asap I'd like to bring you on (I still need to get a few other documents in order to go along with this process)

[witch-hazels-musings]

Gone again, but I had a reason 😭

Draft 2 is done, look at this beast !!

152k words

433 pages

I'll be taking a break while my alpha reader looks it over, so I'm going to poke at some stuff here to curb my need to look at the dang thing - harbinger diluc, I'll finish you yet

[kay-m-sinc]

Powering through edits💪🏻

[actualhumancryptid]

I’m at the point in the new draft where all that suffering, that early work to fucking get back into it, The ‘oh my god is this all bad am I just a terrible writer. I shouldn’t be writing this. I clearly am not supposed to be’. And pushing through, figuring shit out, persevering.

Until…

Until…’Fuck I love this project - how did I forget how proud I am of the plot? How did i forget I actually do know what I’m doing?’

Took… six weeks? But part of that was having to reconfigure so much about the protag. It was actually properly writing the beginning and figuring out how I am introducing so many things to the reader. Actually getting a handle on that exposition problem…

Anyway. I am certainly not in any position to celebrate because I literally feel like I can finally fucking start and get some momentum going, confidently. But I feel proud of it anyway. Because I spent so many days thinking ‘no really, is it time to choose a different project?’

I don’t really think this is of interest to many people here, but it helps me to write these thoughts down (mostly I journal in private about it though). But I feel excited to get up tomorrow and continue working on it. Which is what it’s all about, really,

[theadventureto-be]

Hieroglyphics on my jawbone // artifacts behind glass and all the fingerprints from passersby

I must have been loud in a past life.

That is why my jaw always hurts. That is why I can’t stop tucking my hair

behind my ears.. 

I never needed to learn about the edges of letters

and how sharp they can feel pressed against an unspoken moment.

I must have been fragile in a past life.

That is why my bones are so big. That is why

I am able to close my ribs tighter

and tighter together until my heart cannot escape.

In a world where softness feels like a curse, I 

know my soul once yearned for it.

I am a body adapting to an ancient

callous. A soft paint stroke of an amnesiac soul

trying to remember

what it never had. Someone, somewhere, long ago

is proud of me for continuing their journey.

[v8mphcn]

you were gone ❄️ @tyunlouv 

[kiki-is-writing]

the feminine urge to do nanowrimo versus the feminine urge to just write it now

[the-land-of-eternal-winter-novel]

One important idea about the worldbuilding (in draft 2) is that the characters live 1000 years after an "apocalyptic event" and the world before was in many ways more advanced then theirs.

In real life, we says that the powers that be want to bring about the New World Order (the NWO)

But if the villains in their world would like to bring back the allegedly better world from the distant past, does that mean that they want to bring about the Old World Order (the OWO)?