#fbaxterwrites

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Hearing your WIP as a podcast/audiobook: NoteBytes

So there is another awesome website called NoteBytes, that turns your notes into a podcast for you to listen to.

I will be using this and Audiblogs. Audiblogs for turning articles and various research resources from text to podcast, and NoteBytes for turning my own words to podcast.

I think for any aspiring writer this may be an amazing option to:

1. See what your work sounds like aloud like an audiobook.

2. Gage the pacing, is it too rushed? Too slow?

3. Hear your writing or grammar errors, if you switch perspectives, use too much exposition, etc.

Overall, I am really psyched about this tool and will definitely implement using this daily for both general research and my WIPs. I would highly recommend others do the same.

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Dracula

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Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Fiction

Novel Type/Format: Standalone, epic/super novel word count

Point of View: Third person omniscient perspective

Setting(s):  Any public locations you can think of that people would rush to during an apocalypse.

Status: Outlining, Storyboarding for a potential webcomic, character creating (since there will be a ton explored and a TON more to die)

Features:  Hegemony, apathy, strong versus weak thinking, pack mentality, heightened elitism and discrimination, dogmatic thinking and doing everything it takes in the name of survival.

Content Warnings and Triggers:  Gore, mentioning gore, extreme physical and sometimes sexual violence, murder and torment.

Tag(s): Dracula, Fatima Baxter’s Dracula

Overview: This one's name is still kind of undecided. I feel like obviously only Bram Stoker can pull the title Dracula but so what. Fatima Baxter’s Dracula it is for now. Let me live.

This is my dream of what a Vampire should be.

Logline:  Set 2 years after the destruction of civilization due to the apocalypse brought upon humanity by nearly half the population becoming snarling blood-lusting beings, whoever is left must do anything to survive.

Links: *links to outline doc, to doc, to drive folder, to tag(s) and calmpaper(?)*

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If you would like to be added to Dracula's taglist or my general taglist for fbaxterwrites, please send me a message or an ask.

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The KLAUS Project

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Genre: Science Fiction, Drama, Suspense

Novel Type/Format: Standalone, novel word count

Point of View: First person perspective

Setting(s): Within a zoo prison for the majority of the time.

Status: Outlining, Storyclocking

Features: A literal animalistic sense of hierarchy and survival of the fittest, human rights violations and exploring the idea of what society should do to their “worst” and what forms of punishment is acceptable and justifiable.

Content Warnings and Triggers: Crime, mentions of crime, violence and slight gore descriptions.

Tag(s): The KLAUS Project, TKP

Overview: The KLAUS Project was based on a writing prompt from the legendary Prompt Guy of @writing-prompt-s​ before the great delete. It had something to do with prisons being zoos and whala. There is an homage to Klaus of American Dad in this.

Logline: A boy sentenced to 9 years as a bird for a mugging tries to serve his term as conflict arises with other prisoners in animal bodies.

Summary: This story explores criminals being sentenced to spend their time in the bodies of cloned animals, depending on the crime. The protagonist, as an accessory to a brutal mugging that leaves the victim with permanent damage, he is sentenced to 9 years as a bird.

Links: *links to outline doc, to doc, to drive folder, to tag(s) and calmpaper(?)*

Sidenotes:

If you would like to be added to The KLAUS Project's taglist or my general taglist for fbaxterwrites, please send me a message or an ask.

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Just made Debra, Deana and her daughters

I have been creating faces for my characters every day for nearly a week now. Once I do so for every character for all my stories I can feel better about plotting and writing them. I have to see them!

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Getting into my characters, specifically my antagonists.

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Musk goes to buy Twitter and I actually start using it...

Gonna try and write a cute historical fiction piece of late 60s or early 70s where two guys are stuck together and fall in love. The funny side character is the best friend to one of the guys and is the protagonist of the story. They all go through shenanigans and she spends her time pretending to be her best friend's secret boyfriend's girl to keep up with appearances until they can get away and have a new life together. Yea.

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I want to write about scarecrows as an underutilized horror. Not a horror prop, or a horror element- but a horror in itself. It's own opportunity to be a monster or a fear.

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If I could take, like, Satoshi Kon, Junji Ito, Carnby Kim, Keiichiro Toyama for Silent Kill and Afro Surrealism...

...make a baby, and birth that baby to the world I would be so powerful.