#flowerprose

[asher-writes]

(from @flowerprose)

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🌞 - i really like your blog!

✨ - i love seeing you on my dash!

⭐️ - you have a nice aesthetic!

💫 - you’re super talented!

🌸 - you’re really sweet!

Thank uuuuuuuuuuu I'm 🥺👉👈 I love seeing u on my dash and ur writing makes my heart fly i swear.

It's insane to me that someone as talented as you thinks I'm talented I'm just vibing with the most self-indulgent shit u ever did see. 🥺

[writeblrsupport]

@flowerprose 's wips are so interesting and I look forward to seeing more about them

[virgaversa]

Queen of the Night

You know what I am? 

Everyone tells me that I am special, I am beautiful, and I am worth the wait. But honestly, what is so special about a Tan Hua? Its sumptuousness? Its rarity? Its delicateness? What is so special about a flower fabled as the Queen of the Night if, after taking its precious time all its life to bloom, it dies? 

Yes, you may think I am special, beautiful, and worth the wait, but I am only so because you know that once I am gone, it will be costly, difficult, and demanding on your side to replace me. Yet I am still replaceable.

[megarywrites]

(from @flowerprose) Happy STS!

From your WIP - can you share a line or passage that you’ve been musing about lately? Why is it so significant to you?

What writing advice do you implement often? What writing advice have you not found particularly useful for you and your craft?

thanks for the ask @flowerprose! sorry it took me an age and a half lol

the passage that I'm gonna talk about it something that I was thinking about today. It actually has to do with Solera and her family and their whole backstory, the explanation of which spans several chapters (both books, low-key, tho there isn't much of it shown in book one) now, I can't talk too much about it, because it is pretty spoiler-y, but I will share this little bit (some stuff redacted for spoilers and to shorten it)

"I know I should have gone after her. Fought for her so that he wouldn't take her. But how many more of us would have been lost? He still would have won, and what would have been the reason?" My stirring slowed, and I gulped, the words that I know I shouldn't say perched on the tip of my tongue. "Geros was right about you." Her head snapped up, her eyes boring into mine. "You are frightened of him." Rage was simmering behind her eyes, in the tense way she was holding herself as she gripped the table she sat behind. But I hadn't said my piece quite yet. "I understand why. He's a terrible man who's done...unspeakable things for years. [...] I'm scared, too, of what he's capable of. But, [...] we know what it is he does. We know his reign won't end when he's dead. Isotrei will live on, unless it's defeated, and isn't that what [redacted] is all about? Putting an end to all of this?"

I feel like it's self-explanatory, but this part is at the heart of the call to action for the character she's speaking to and it's why Thala has gone to her in the first place. Because she knows that she needs her help to get the revenge and closure that she needs.

as for writing advice: my personal favorite (which I've been struggling with implementing personally lately but the past two days have been good) is Terry Pratchett's (I think) advice to keep your daily word count goal low and manageable so that it's easy to achieve and 1) if it's a good writing day, odds are you'll keep going after you hit it but 2) if it's a bad writing day, once you hit it, you've reached your goal and you can stop. My personal word count goal is 200 per day because I work full time at a job and in an industry I'm long since burnt out in (lol) and am usually exhausted by the time I get home.

and for writing advice that I don't use, I can't really remember any at the moment? I'm sure there's some tho lol

[positivelyruined]

(from @flowerprose)

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Send me a 🌹 for a sentence from one of my works in progress

Un — Of Everything That Flies Above | Contemporary Romance

He ran his thumb over a picture of her freckled cheeks, remembering how she’d laughed when he’d compared them to constellations.

Gone. Just gone.

Before they’d had the chance to actually name a star Ava Minor or go on an adventure to see every place that started with the letter C.

He’d written Cambodia at the top.

She’d circled it in red pen, her green eyes sparkling like there was no tomorrow. Because only days ago, there had been.

Deux — Unamed WIP | Contempary YA Fiction

Aster liked to be on the move: to the music, to the beat of the sirens, to the steady waves of people on city streets next to her. She was someone who had to continually push herself forwards in order to balance the pace at which her heart beat. It had been that way ever since she was a child. The easiest way to combat the flutter was to dance rather than walk. A half-step ahead everyone else and then moving into the brisk contortion of the allégro. From allégro to arabesque, Aster's morning routine was easily filled with learned movement that carried her through the day. Her parents, her friends, and her partners had always complained that she kicked too much in her sleep. Perhaps, it was just that she never stopped dancing; but the last few months her feet had been strangely still — stagnant. Just like the rest of her life.

Trois — The Broken Crown WIP | YA Fantasy Fiction

“You could make me believe anything, Aurelie. The world could stop spinning and the lights go out, but if you told me that the sun was shining…I would believe you.”

[writinglittlebeasts]

5, 7, and 14 :)

for the writeblr ask game !

5. COSTUME - How much research have you done for your WIP?

PROBABLY NOT ENOUGH!!! i keep meaning to do more, i have a list of things i still need to solidify. like i need to research norwegian folklore to see if i can wedge my werewolves somewhere in there (thts where the pedersen ~*family*~ or pack or whatever are from they're fucking ancient, too) + then, like, follow those naming conventions for my mythical werewolf-killing super predators. i've already got my western werewolf Lore DOWN i did a paper on it in college + i'm doing my own shit anyway lmfao now i just need everything else. and i need to triple-check that raleigh's mother's name is alright bc i can't do anything without worrying about it for ten years, and even though everyone lives in the usa i feel like i still need to know more about laos and vietnam like, culturally to build raleigh's childhood and home life that we Barely see but the prospect is supes intimidating for that worrying about it for ten years thing that i mentioned. also i keep needing to figure out what parts of trailers are called, technically, and i don't know how to drive but the book is at least 40% people driving. n that's just wolf's tooth. god knows what else i have going on

7. CREATION - What was your first WIP?

i have foggy memories of starting to write my own warrior cats oc story in middle school, shoving it into one of the drawers in my dresser, and forgetting it there forever.

14. EARTH - What inspires you most?

this is sort of terrible but when i find a piece of media that has a stellar concept but the execution is absolute ass i feel the strongest creative urges of my life. obviously i don't want to nab the entire base concept, but i can take my own 'this would've made more sense'/'this would've been more compelling'/'this character should've been written like this' to tailor pieces to my own tastes. i can't think of anything i've gotten serious about w/ this, beyond the first brainstorming phase that happens in a complete trance, but there's nothing like that rush. so i guess maybe horror movies.

[bloodlessheirbyjacques]

(from @flowerprose) Happy STS!

Which character do you struggle to write? Which character comes naturally?

What writing advice do you implement often? What writing advice have you not found particularly useful for you and your craft?

Hey friend!! Thank you for the questions <3333

Which character do you struggle to write?

Antor and Edrei are a struggle for me atm. A soldier and his queen. Those two have a connection that I'm not a good enough writer to capture as well as I have in mind. not yet anyways. ill keep trying.

I actually just posted some smut with them an hour or so ago and I feel like I'm getting better at it!!

Which character comes naturally?

Elijah's playfulness and Astrea's witty responses are becoming easier and more natural for me!

What writing advice do you implement often?

Write badly, and write often.

What writing advice have you not found particularly useful for you and your craft?

Write what you know. I write too many things I don't know. I love writing what I don't know the most.

[monstrousfreedom]

@flowerprose makin me all 🥺 over here. I found you a littol intimidating at first because I greatly admired your writing style and then the intimidation went away once I started interacting more and discovered how kind you were. <3