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WbW Tag :D

Happy wbw! I got tagged by @nana-writes to answer this question ♡

Have you come up with any creatures for your worlds? Tell us about them!

I have not come up with any entirely new creatures in any of my worlds bc I play around with a lot of mythological themes that come from reality, like ghosts, phoenixes, dragons, and even cybernetic humans. In my Phoenix Queen wip, during the fight with the New Dragon King, the girl dies and comes back to life in a raging fury with flaming wings and a furious revenge in her eyes. She's sort of not really a phoenix, and I guess she's a little like the Phoenix from the X-Men, except instead of telekinetic capabilities, she just has pure rage that manifests as physical fire all around her. She can fly, and more than anything she is intensely fierce and passionate.

Thank you for this question it was so much fun! I tag my friends @beezlebubss and @sjjsalamanders to answer it too, if you want/have time :)

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hey y’all! so, as per the target audience of one disclaimer (it’s not a disclaimer. i’m just floating around in the abyss too shy to interact), i decided i should start interacting more with the writeblr community and making an effort to become more of a member. this includes starting my own themed week, which i’m going to list now!

please note, these were Not my ideas. with the blessing of some of these wonderful people, i’m going to partake in some of these events :) i hope you’ll all enjoy and please be sure to pop me a message regarding anything and everything, i’m around <3

starting with monday: meet and greet monday by @manitamuerte 

- this revolves around a writer’s OCs and who they are as people in your wips! it can be questions regarding their childhood, backstory, random facts or thoughts, and i’ll post an open ask or two in the next few weeks (on monday hehe). i’ll also be sure to send some writeblrs these as well. (shout-out to @nana-writes for introducing me to this)

tuesday: truth-be-told tuesday by @hannahs-creations

- this revolves around the behind-the-scenes of a writer’s novels or wips! anything from concepts to the meaning behind a character names or even some juicy, juicy backstory (!!) as for most of these days, i’ll have some open asks n interactions x

wednesday: worldbuilding wednesday by @incandescent-creativity

- as the name suggests, this is some worldbuildin’ schtuff! questions about a writer’s world, new features or languages, creatures n creepies, whatever suits your fancy! i have a few fantasy pieces in the works, but there are some liberties i’ve taken for my earth-based worlds, too! feel free to send me an ask y’all <3

thursday: nothing, as of today! i haven’t found something that piques my interest here yet.

friday: feedback friday by @abalonetea​

- made by the wonderful abalonetea, i have seen this floating about for ages and may have partaken without realising it! i think it’s so important to create a culture of care and constructive criticism within a community like writeblr, so! i’ve decided to recommend and rant about the wonderful members of this community and my new thoughts as i develop through this wonderful place hehe. (aka the love/ rant day)

saturday: and here we get to the beloved storyteller saturday by @lonely-pages-of-ink and @drist-n-dither !

- storyteller saturday is about all sorts of things regarding stories! ask away when it comes to writing, wips, fun facts, little things you’ve been itching to know <3

sunday: one of a lil ooc ones i have decided to start, feel free to use it should you please! spotlight sunday by @lefttigerobservation​ (aka me!)

- this is when i’ll be recommending all of my favourite fanfics and ranting about the wonderful people on archive of our own or wattpad or any other platforms i find! i’m super excited, since this is where i first started finding my love for writing so i hope i can give back just a little :)

and that’s it, folks! hope you have a fantabulous day and a wonderful rest of week/ weekend, i’m out for now ! peace x

[adayforducks]

spoiler! (signed: nana-writes)

For Aptitude:

The rat is just a rat, but the rabbit is something more.

[sleepysera]

Storytelling Saturday Tag :)

I was tagged by @nana-writes for Storytelling Saturday. Thank you! For this question I tag @beezlebubss and @eveesque, if u want :)

What’s a common writing tip that you swear by? What about uncommon? What's a common writing tip you mostly ignore?

A common writing tip I love is to write all the time! Just at least a little bit every day, even if it's in your journal about what you did or who you saw that day. It all adds up and the words begin to flow more naturally and it becomes easier to finally find ways to express yourself and your feelings about everything. The more details you can include and the more individual studies you do the better, like one writing exercise I like to do is to sit somewhere and just write/type out everything that you can possibly notice. There'll be a thousand things! Write them all! Notice everything and be unashamedly poetic about it all. Romanticize your life!!

An uncommon writing tip that actually is a common life tip is to spend time really just living your life. Give yourself time to experience and explore and feel. Be present. Read what you can about literally anything, and be willing to go into the parts of yourself you are afraid of. That is where the secrets lie, deep in the depths, and that is where you can find that which would help the most people in the world.

The writing tips I largely tend to ignore are all the ones that tell you to replace words lmao. Do what you want, it's your story! I'm not here to care if you've used the word said five times in a row. I want to know what the point of it all is. If changing "said" to "cried out in pain" helps you, the writer, convey what is in your heart to me, the reader, then I care. But beyond that?? I just don't care <3

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Happy Storyteller Saturday! How much do your characters care about other people respecting their authority? - @nana-writes

Thank you for the ask @nana-writes!

I think for Anjelika, that Depends on who is doing the disrespect 😅

She is generally respected by everyone especially her Maidens of Honour, and she is mostly respected by her parents and the various staff who work for the Royal Family.

But her cousin has made his disrespect a sport, and she does her best to ignore it. She learned at a young age that responding to his disrespectful behaviour got her punished and it just wasn't worth it.

She can let some disrespect slide, mainly because it so rarely happens and if it does someone else usually calls on it anyway (like some soldiers who were speaking out of turn when she was passing with the General, and he ordered them to apologise.)

This was an interesting question, thanks for asking!

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Heyo! It's a bit late (for me at least) but Meet and Greet Monday! Are any of your characters on good terms/still friends with an ex? If not, do any of them wish they could be? Do this for whatever WIP you want to ^^ - @nana-writes

hi there ! thank you for sending me these asks, I appreciate them n it definitely feels cool to explore this. i’ll answer for TFG since it’s the one I know best :) oliver and zephyr technically dated, so I would consider them to be exes but they are on brilliant terms which rocks because their dynamic is personally one of my favourites. i think that lucille would probably want to remain friends with abi... but circumstances show otherwise, and if not, oliver and zephyr & emile and zephyr are still good enough for me xx 

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what is your favourite *side* character? - @nana-writes

That is honestly a good question that I did not expect to see when I opened Tumblr! So first of all, @nana-writes, thank you very much for the ask!

Going on the assumption that "side character" here means kinda like a side character in a video game, I think I have a few favorites...right now in the main series Mercury is a side character and I think he's my favorite if not a close second. That’s slightly cheating though since he’ll become a secondary character in Eternal (that’s the hope anyway; he’s slated to be part of Thrive and Warren’s team), so I’ll think of a better one.

Honestly, I think my favorite side character is Tristan, the owner of the Vortex Motel in book one. He’s very sassy and snarky and an extreme penny-pincher, it was a lot of fun to write him. I almost had him be like a weird crush for a sleep-deprived, stressed Warren to indicate his burgeoning awakening, if you will, but ultimately decided that wasn’t in the best interest of the story...though I will say from behind the scenes that I still somewhat intend the sparks of questioning to come from him as well. That part I think is up to the reader.