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WTW Ghost Gala - Day 10: Witch
🧙🏻♂️ Witch 🧙🏻♂️ - Write or brainstorm the opening paragraph.
Just now I'm noticing that maybe, just maybe, this event is to help start a WIP and not for started WIPs but efe, I will use it to share the first paragraph of my two main projects right now: Mimi & AngelDemon.
WTW Ghost Gala Days 13 and 14: Coffin and Haunted Mansion
⚰️Coffin - Where's your favorite place to write?
Snuggled under some blankets beside the fireplace and some hot cocoa by my side.
🏚️ Haunted Mansion - Describe a setting in your WIP.
If you follow the chirping and the silent footsteps, the fairy lights and the wild blooms, you arrive in which is little less than a clearing in the grove, swaying under patches of light that sink through the ochre autumn leaves. The wooden house fuses with the giant oak surrounding it until planks and trunks can't be told apart, to the point where it looks like a reformed hollow tree rather than a house. Busy bees pollinate the carefully potted plants, the hydrangeas, and the wild blooms by the soil path. Fox and barefoot human footsteps follow the path up to the door, ajar, that lets out the sound of a teapot whistling, someone humming old fae melodies. Ivy in bloom laced with firefly lamps climbs from the marigold gardens to the hay roofs attached to the oak, slithering on both sides of the bay window and embracing the chimney that looks more like a thick branch than a human made construction. A wide back porch extends almost over the lake's edge, with nest chairs and egg swings overseen the lake in between half-finished books. And all around you and this tree-house fusion, fae critters crawl and jump, fly and run, always on the edge of your vision.
Only a sly-looking black cat dares to graze her tail along your leg and invite you inside. Periwinkle guides you to the front and lets you in the almost round house. The sun rays coming through the window golden the only room, so filled with books and trinkets it almost looks smaller than it is. Plants and fairy ligths hang from the high wooden beams, and some swirl along the balustrades, through which, standing on tiptoes, you can see shelves filled with books, journals, and scrolls; a busy desk, cozy armchairs and a bed right beside the large bay window, overlooking the lake. Below the second floor, mysteryous doors alternate with windows, complex anatomy drawings, hanging herbs, and shelves to decorate the naturally stripped walls of the hollow oak. You know behind one of them there's a private study and an emergency clinic but you've only been to the latter. To the right, a fireplace happily burns warming up a space that is both a dining and living room. The couches covered by cushions and sewing kits work as a divider for the study space to the left, cozily fitted below the stairs. At the back, the complete kitchen allows for cooking and brewing with nature as a landscape, and to the front the hall welcomes you with mirrors, rugs and mud-stained boots.
Periwinkle meows. It's time to work.
WTW Ghost Gala - Day 14: Haunted House
Haunted Mansion - Describe a setting in your WIP.
Tobarsha is a small coastal city in the Summer Band of the planet Rade, which means that it's basically always summer there. It's the capital of the island of Aephar and hosts the majority of its population. It's where most of AOM takes place, and also specifically where Leon, Edith, Horatio, Celia, and Allison all live. Most of its buildings are only two stories tall, with exceptions for important buildings like the central library and post office. Houses are normally painted bright colors and are clustered around semi-open courtyards, usually four houses to a courtyard, and neighbors often share small gardens. Rooftop gardens are also extremely common. Its two wide central streets are known as the Runway and the Sunway, and the city's central plaza sits where they cross.
WTW Ghost Gala: Days 7-9
I am home sick today so time to catch up on some Ghost Gala!
Skeleton: Have a favorite plot structure? If not, share how you plot! When I'm reading, I love a book that starts out with a predictable structure and plot beats in Act One, and then something happens in Act Two that totally throws off expectations! This is probably why I was a fan of Wings of Fire--there are a lot of moments that totally change up what you think would happen, but also flow naturally from the preceding events. As for my own plotting, I make heavy use of outlines throughout all drafts. I actually really like going back to the outline after the initial draft is done and seeing where to expand, add, or move things around!
Trick or Treat: Set some writing goals and milestones for your WIP I really want to finish this draft of Shifting Roots and get it to my editor before the end of the year.
Candy Corn: Tell us how you chose the title for your WIP Star Cat Studio and I came up with Shifting Roots because we wanted the title to reflect nature, but also that there are a lot of changes in this book from where the characters and colonies start and where they end. Roots in the title refers to the Alliance colonies' beliefs and leaders, several of which shift throughout the course of the book.
WTW GHOST GALA - DAY #6: Vampire
Tell us where you find motivation and inspiration
Ooh, plenty of places! Here are the major ones though:
Movies and shows: Interview with the Vampire (1994 and the AMC show), Skeleton Key (2005), AHS Coven (2013)
Music: sooo much southern gothic music, from 1920s New Orleans jazz to alternative country, from Dr. John to the Haunted Mansion soundtrack
Aesthetics: pinterest has my entire booty lol
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WTW Ghost Gala - Day 2: Raven
Raven - Create a tagline for your WIP.
The one I thought about was for AngelDemon, the project I'm trying to keep on focus and should be strictly hidden but I can't help to share something every now and then, hehe
In a black-and-white world, they go gray.
Yeah, that's all.
WTW Ghost Gala - Day 6: Vampire
🧛🏻♂️ Vampire🧛🏻♂️ - Tell us where you find motivation and inspiration.
Where you DON'T find them?! That's what you should tell me.
I can feel inspired by anything, and the motivation comes from how much I want to tell a story or how much I want to know about that story.
WTW Ghost Gala - Day 7: Skeleton
Skeleton - Have a favorite plot structure? If not, share how you plot!
I am extremely bad with plot structures. I might use them for vague inspiration (e.g. oh maybe a turning point here would be helpful) but I can't follow them for the life of me. Lately, I plot mostly by saying "here's where my characters start, here's where I want them to end up, how do I get there" and then filling everything between the beginning and the end with a series of disasters and problems to solve. This can be almost episodic (see: Nicea, a space opera where they encounter new problems in every system) or more drawn out (see: my NaNo project, Another Ocean's Moon, where each of the POV characters has their own specific problem they're trying to solve that mirror each other but diverge pretty sharply). I'll also spend some time throwing ideas for scenes into Scrivener and arranging them in a way that makes sense, but I don't wait until I've come up with all the events to start writing. I'll come up with more as I explore the characters and the setting more deeply.
