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[v8mphcn]

coming of age 🫀  @iluvrei

[theawkwardwriter64]

Ok I WAS gonna do a Halloween themed post but if I don't do this one I'll forget.

So, here's my little list of headcannons if the Murdoch Mysteries characters had: Netflix.

Emily: Is going to watch every episode of Great British Baking Show, and is going to make Lillian watch it with her

Lillian: Has to endure Emily's baking shows.

Julia: probably watches crime shows

Murdoch: any science show,

[ratcarney]

i know ive said this before but the funniest moment in all of musical theatre history is when pierre shoots at dolokhov and immediately goes “NO WAIT I DIDN’T MEAN IT—“

[tracle0]

If I’m honest, gamers, I don’t really know what to do with my life now. 

[creativewritingmoose67]

Life Is a Book

As a writer, I have always seen life as a book with each chapter representing a different part. Tomorrow I start the next chapter of my life, but in order to do that I have to end this chapter first. Ideally, each chapter would have a happy ending, but we know this isn’t how life works. We know that life can be cruel and unforgiving yet kind and caring at the same time. There have been many good and bad times in this chapter. There were things I’ll never forget and things I wished never happened. There were times when I wondered “What could go wrong?” and times I wondered “Could it get any worse?”. There were times where I didn’t push myself enough and times I pushed myself too far. I’ve learned that people care not for others, but for themselves. I’ve learned that people’s true colors shine the brightest when you’re at your lowest. Those who cheered me on in my success have made me humble and those who abandoned me in my time of need have made me stronger as a person. I’ve reconnected with old friends and lost friends I thought would always be there. I’ve learned who has my back and who doesn’t. Most importantly, I’ve learned that it’s okay to put myself first every once in a while.

     Am I happy with how this chapter is ending? I wish it were ending differently, but no matter how much editing and rewriting I do I can’t change how people act and treat other people. So, I’ll end this chapter the way it is and hope that one day I can go back and fix things before the final printing.

[anakins-27th-lightsaber]

This is honestly the clumsiest photo I ever took. We were in some museum in Vienna and I tried to depict the size of whatever that thing in the background was so I took a selfie but my arm wasn’t long enough and I didn’t fit, nor did the thing.

[tracle0]

NaNo update no. whatever

Day 22? Sure sure. 

I reached my goal a while ago but hey - I still really love the graph so I’m gonna keep going. 

WORD COUNT - 22,013 / 15,500

FEELING - pumped! Ten chapters down! I’m on the second side of my very small planning sheet! 

A BIT I LIKED - Chapter 10, in which Sam is asking questions about Glalis to Andy and finally finding out about some political turmoil. 

“Three years ago,” he said, “Sonder flopped. It was a bad year for all crops. Too dry, not enough water. Their lake sunk of half the usual depth. So, we gave them their fair share of food, took what little they could give us and we both got by. A bit hungry, but we survived.”

Andy ran out of strawberries. The crow on his lap pecked at his fingers a little, trying to get the last of the juice off, then craned round to look at me, considering whether it was worth squabbling for the food I still had. It decided against it and settled back down on Andy’s lap, preening a wing.

Featuring: two crows because crows are great.

EXTRA NOTES - Okay so basically at this point it’s less a NaNo update and more a ‘hey I’ve been writing’ update. Actually, the only reason I made this post was because I drew a cool picture and wanted to share it. 

Look it’s a cool picture!

I’m very pleased with how consistent I’ve been with writing. NaNo brings out the best in me, it seems. Maybe it’s the graph. 

[tracle0]

I have things to Ramble About about Sonder and so I’m gonna do that here, publically, rather than in my private little notebook where things usually go in, hope you enjoy. 

BASICALLY, the issue I have at the moment is that I’ve realised Atlas, the radio kid themselves, rambles, and within those rambles is a lot of info-dumping. Which is, y’know, fine, it is a radio broadcast, telling the news about an island in a quick way is their job. 

HOWEVER. It may be boring. I find it boring to read over and over. Atlas gets these huge chunks of text where they’re just talking about things that are important, but the important part gets hidden under all the Other Stuff they say. 

Solution? Well. I’m trusting you’ve all read books like ‘The Rest Of Us Just Live Here’ by Patrik Ness. He’s got this cool structure where, at the start of every chapter, there’s a little box of text about another story happening. 

Or, in ‘Noughts and Crosses’ (Malorie Blackman) - there’s pages dedicated to a newspaper or some sort of public media. 

Or even the ‘Unwind’ series, by Neil Shusterman - the media thing happens quite a lot there, and it’s often interconnected with things that are happening in the narrative we follow. 

If I did something like that for Sonder, where Atlas gets a little chunk at the start of each chapter, they could say something that even relates to the chapter, and provides various pieces of foreshadowing for Glalis mischief, for Midsummer, or their first entrance in the book in general and also it’ll be very interesting to write during the last few chapters when the war is happening. 

The only thing putting me off it now is the fact I’ll have to go back and edit, and I don’t have much time as it is. But I’m quite sold. If anyone has any thoughts, I’d be eager to hear them.

In other news, look at this beautiful mutation of pigments I found which occurs in crows oh my god I’m in love.