#open veins

[brdbecca-writes]

First Line Tag!

Tagged by @savvyscrivener

Rules: Post the first line of a WIP and tag as many people as there are words in the quote.

Here’s the first line of my rough draft for Open Veins:

“The sun we see is not the only star in our sky, period.”

I don’t have many mutuals yet, and I’ve seen a lot of the ones I do have already do this, so I’ll just say if anyone sees this and wants to do it, consider yourself tagged!

[brdbecca-writes]

1 & 5 :)

1. What genre is your story?The Broken Dart is a noir suspense story! Open Veins is a post-dystopian slice-of-life (though that one may change! It’s going through some severe editing right now.) 5. Is there any romance in your story?There is! Both my protagonists are wlw, and while the romances aren’t a huge part of the plot, they’re there on the side :)

Thank you!!

[brdbecca-writes]

For the writer ask meme: 1, 18, 26

Thank you!!

1. Tell us about your WIP

I just made a post about The Broken Dart today, so I’m gonna do my other wip, Open Veins, for this!

Open Veins is a post-dystopian where a cruel empire that emphasized isolation, modernization, and efficiency was overthrown and broken into smaller watershed-states eighty years ago.  Twenty-one-year-old Leah Faige lives in one of these, in a time where the rebellion’s just a thing on history tests, and corruption is on the rise. She doesn’t believe it’s a problem and knows she can’t fight it anyway, but her idealist brother attempts to rebel and risks their entire family’s safety.

Meanwhile, June lives in a separate watershed-state. She didn’t grow up there, but rather faced her home’s discipline for a crime she no longer remembers.  They stole her from everyone she knew and every bit of her identity, giving her a new name and a job in a society she knows little about.  Struggling to integrate, she forgets who she used to be. A year into her new life and no longer able to recall much about her past, a gaggle of teenagers and her kind neighbor start to spark her memory.

18. Tell us about that one book you’ll never let anyone read

The first book I ever wrote!  I started it when I was 7.  It spans several notebooks, and the story is absolute crap. It’s about rabbits who battle against the humans that come to steal their island, and it’s full of basically young me making up the world as I went and abhorrent grammar. I’m still super proud of it, but no one needs to read a book where I didn’t even use quotation marks and where I sometimes killed characters only to forget they were dead later!

26. What’s the most research you’ve ever put into a book?

Definitely Open Veins! I’ve put a lot of research into revolutions and what happens after, philosophy about societies which value things like cost-benefit economics over people and which lose their connection to the natural world, and personal identity and what that actually means. Unfortunately, I did it all a long while ago and didn't take very good notes, so I’m going back to reread a lot of it!

[slashyrogue]

[shitredditrocks]

Abstracter - Open Veins

"Open Veins" by Abstracter

posted in r/ProgMetal

[guatepolitics]

It is like someone has torn open an artery in Honduras and other Central American countries. Fear, grinding poverty and no future mean we are losing our lifeblood – our young people. If this continues to happen, the hearts of our nations will stop beating.

Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga of Honduras

[bloodsportvisual]

“Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.”

― Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

[bloodsportvisual]

"the hands of the dispossessed, the humiliated, the accursed."

- Galeano