19 for the novel prep asks! If you feel like it :)
I’ll be answering for Lost Girls, if that’s okay!
19. What excited you about this story? Honestly? Writing it. The idea of Lost Girls came to me after years of not being able to write much of anything. I just didn’t think I would ever be able to write again, so when I got the idea, I was ecstatic. I got the idea for the characters, and then I began making aesthetics and Pinterest boards and RPing with a friend, and before I knew it, I was obsessed and couldn’t stop writing! This story brought back my love for writing and I just wanted to share it with the world!
for the novel prep asks if u do them : 3 & 4 & 19? 🖤💕💋
Hi, love! Is it okay if I answer these for With A Bloody Smile? You can ask again if you want me to answer them for any of my other WIPs
!3. What other stories inspire your novel? WABS was largely inspired by the world of Supernatural, a roleplaying game that I think you would love called Vampire The Masquerade, another roleplaying game called Hunter The Reckoning, Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles, and a D&D podcast called The Adventure Zone, the campaign Dust in particular.
4. Share 3+ images that give a feel for your novel
19. What excited you about this story? I’ve never written dark or urban fantasy before, though I’ve always wanted to. I’ve really been getting into this genre lately and I’m having fun writing it! I was so excited to create a cast of different characters, some of them inhuman, and to do some world building! I hope everyone likes it!
(Thank you so so much, my love. i love you. all the pieces of my twisted heart are for you)
1984, Les Miserables, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn!
1984 - Spill a secret about yourself.
I really, really don’t like centipedes. Too many legs.
Les Miserables - What do you do when you’re sad?
I mean, I’m diagnosed with ‘mild to moderate depression,’ so I usually try to assess whether this is sad-because-something-sad-happened or sad-because-my-brain-eats-serotonin. Then I usually nap. Or take a shower. This weekend I was having a very bad day, and I left the house and went to a store and looked at very expensive designer shoes that no one had wanted so they were on clearance. I didn’t want them either, and it didn’t make me feel better, but I did discover that you can spend a thousand dollars on a single pair of shoes. And they were stupid looking shoes.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - What is one place that you’ve always wanted to go?
Jane Eyre - What’s a fictional character that you believe you are most like/you relate to most?
I suppose it’s awful to say Draco Malfoy, and perhaps at this point I mean fanon Draco. I’m not (I hope!) a horrid racist, and I’m certainly not insanely wealthy, but that combination of parental pressure to succeed combined with feeling like the only person you can talk to is the ghost in the bathroom? That I can weasel my way into.
Though there isn’t a ghost in my bathroom.
I think.
Emma - What was your first kiss like?
Bland. I was 16. It was after school on one of the backstreets between the high school and the town library. The sun was shining. The earth did not move.
I don't even know what your og story is about but I'm very interested. Even though (based on that snippet and previous works) that it is probably gonna hurt a lot at some point.
(Referencing this snippet) Can I ramble at you? Of course I can, this is my blog. I’ll give some context for the swap and some characterization notes. Warning for some pretty dark themes under the cut:
Lora is my protagonist and she feels things very deeply. So for the swap I put her in the antagonist, Vitari’s, place, under the assumption that she was stolen from her family while he was adopted into it. In the real story, Vitari grew up as a slave directly under the head of the largest and most powerful slaving company in the Empire. He was, as you would assume, horrifically abused. His character came out of that by killing his Master and taking over the slaving company. Hypothetically, he’s doing it to make conditions better for all the slaves, but it’s fairly obvious that he just thinks ‘if I’m on top, no one can hurt me ever again.’ He has a very cold, pragmatic, logical temperament.
Lora in that situation, by contrast? She kills her Master, sure. But then she slaughters everyone in the company and sets her eyes on slaughtering the Imperial family, which is the Royal House Perdel—her family. She knows this. Her eyes were gold, which is a special trait of the House. She burned them out of her head when she finally realized why she’d always had to wear a blindfold over them. She’s not Ameliora. Without the eyes, no one can ever prove it.
But why stop with the House? The world is dying, she learns as she slaughters her way across the land. Why not take the Empire with her to the Void? She’ll start with the stupid Prince who’s been chasing her ever since he figured out who she used to be, and then she’ll slaughter his family, but after that? Down goes the Empire, and down goes the world.
Vitari, for his part, is spared by being adopted into the House as a blood heir, grandson of the Emperor. He, and the rest of the family, thought Lora had died at birth. With the love of a family behind him, his logical temperament grows into something well-rounded instead of icy. When he figures out his sister is alive, he and the rest of the House to everything to try and get her home.
Is the normal story less painful? Well, no, it’s me writing it, but the pain is in a different place and for a different reason. Swapping them is definitely the most horrible thing I could think of though.
