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WRITEBLR INTRO

🌟🌟⭐Hey, Everybody. My name is Kay Gilbert (Blue Kyber), and welcome to my official Writeblr intro! ⭐🌟🌟

It's about time I did one of these.

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My official pen name is "Kay Gilbert." You'll find my original works on Deviantart under this name.

🌟 My dad is the reason why I got into sci-fi and fantasy when I was a very little girl. He's always encouraged my creativity. "Out There" is dedicated to him.

🌟My favorite tropes are:🌟

found family

powers

profound bond

chosen one

last of their kind

kind-hearted himbo

reluctant hero/rogue who hates that they have a heart of gold

space jalopy that's a homeship with a soul

the power of platonic love

slow burn.

🌟⭐MY MAIN WORK. ⭐🌟

"Out There" is a sci-fi fantasy adventure novel containing all the aforementioned tropes and more. :)

These are the four MCs - (top left to bottom right) Yune Darrak, Selka Kelnaris, Terra Kitridge, and William Kade.

Here's a Link to "Out There: The 1K" on Deviantart under AuthorKayGilbert.

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I accepted a challenge to describe my story in the worst way possible, and came up with this:

It's about a reluctant disaster space found family running from people out to throw two Terran-Human ten-year-olds with powers from an extinct Human species at their collective galactic problem.

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🌟⭐🌟SYNOPSIS🌟⭐🌟

One thousand children prophesied to free a galaxy embroiled in war are spirited away from Earth at the turn of the 21st century to save them, the destiny they hold, and the fourth and youngest Human species - Terrans - from genocide at the hands of the mysterious, antagonistic destroyers of worlds, the Keth. 

This series follows the frightening and fantastical adventures of two of those children - Will and Terra, who are genetically altered by the Regents to possess a strange power intended for use in an unknown plan to end the war - and the two spacefaring rogues they end up with. 

Yune Darrak - a lone devil-may-care salvager, and Selka Kelnaris - a disillusioned Ai Hiri bounty hunter with mental capabilities - accidentally rescue them from a secret Regent lab while on a bounty hunting job for the traitorous Senator Runell, who attempted to commander the Intrepid - the ship ferrying Will, Terra, and forty-eight of the One Thousand to their new homes. 

Upon discovering who they are, and thus the seriously deep trouble his actions put him in, Yune wants to transfer guardianship of Will and Terra to Selka on the small, ringed, outer rim agrarian world of Ilthall and retreat back to his bachelor nomadic life. She makes a deal with him to recover her confiscated ship from the planet’s ruling monarchy first. She wants to protect Will and Terra and the destiny they hold to free the galaxy from the terror of the Keth. He reluctantly agrees.

In the days that follow, Yune is faced with life-changing situations that challenge his perception of the world and himself, Will and Terra are faced with the daunting task of figuring out who they are, their new place in the galaxy, and what they’ve become, and Selka is forced to confront the faults of her hubris. 

All the while, all four are inadvertently caught up together in the middle of a complicated conflict in the galactic theater they never wanted to fight.

ABOUT ME:

I go by she/her. I'm a jeans, tank top, and flip flops kind of girl.

I'm a Millennial

I'm demi-heteroromantic-ace. Sex is great and all, but have you tried going off-the-wall bonkers at a trampoline park???

I have ADHD and high functioning autism.

📕 I've had a novel published in 2011: "Itara: Son of C'reseth." - a sword and sorcery story. I consider it my biggest accomplishment while simultaneously my biggest failure.

🎙 I'm an audiobook narrator.

I have a spiritual side, yet keep myself based in science.

🎬 I've worked on movie sets and been in a couple of films. I have a music theater and choral background.

I got to meet Carrie Fisher - who was absolutely a pillar of confidence. Princess Leia was the first strong female role model I had.

🌟THINGS I LIKE🌟

STAR WARS. I am an unapologetic nerd who has crushes on both Luke Skywalker and Han Solo.

I love space! :) 👽 Sci-fi and fantasy are in my blood. If given the chance to go to space, to see home from orbit, I'd take it in a heartbeat. In my next life, I want to be a pilot and explore the galaxy. 🌌

🎙 I love to sing. :)

I like to roller skate

I like shiny rocks. :)

I prefer pie over cake🥧

I'm a cat person😸

I like coffee ☕

Can't stand cilantro

I love heights. 'Flying' is the superpower I've always wanted ✈

I put the toilet paper roll over (under is for monsters) 🧻 Even the emoji shows it over!

Tacos are a gift from God. 🌮

Waffles or pancakes?

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NANOWRIMO FINAL WORD COUNT FOR COMPLETED FIRST-EDIT CHAPTERS AND REWRITES AND ADDING A NEW CHAPTER! (which was the goal for Nano this year.)

Visit Original Link

Word Count: 121,991

Sadly, I didn't finish the whole book - just 1 /2 of it. I still have about 4 chapters to go, and some more rewrites to do.

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I HAVE FINISHED THE FIRST DRAFT OF THE BOOK!!

It is a cohesive story now!

627 PAGES!!

This took me over 4 years to create.

I am so tired.

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I’ll leave you with one more bit of worldbuilding technology from “Out There: The 1k” 

Yune Darrak’s contact lenses record everything he sees. They’re medical grade masakan specialized optomemetic cortical stimulators.  (without the chip in the middle. This is just a concept. The outline is gold, and his eyes are a really pretty maple brown.)

From the story:

Those contacts hadn’t been removed since the day the doctor put them in. They acted as a second layer over his eyes without causing irritation or infection. These were specifically designed to fit his anatomy and not move at all, even during REM sleep. He vaguely understood the science behind it, only that they absorbed patterns of light on the visual spectrum, converted it to electrical impulses, saved the information in the iris that could be retrieved and cleared with a scanner, and sent those impulses to specialized nanite technology he received through an eyedrop into each eye. They were programmed to move to the damaged parts of his eyes and act as replacements, sending those signals along optic nerves directly to his brain so it could ‘decode’ them into visual sensations. 

All he cared about was that they worked. 

Most of the time, he forgot they were there. His vision would begin pulsing red if the iris storage neared capacity. He had never seen that, even after forgetting to transfer and clear the information for a full week. 

They gave him perfect vision with zero delay. Like the yondi technician said; they were the next best thing to getting his eyes replaced.

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OUT THERE: THE 1K. Part 1. - read it on Wattpad. (It's free. :) Cover created on Canva through wattpad using a copyright free photo.)

A sci-fi fantasy adventure

Synopsis:

One thousand children prophesied to save a galaxy embroiled in war are taken from Earth at the turn of the 21st century. The children are scattered throughout Alliance worlds to hide them from the terrifying, unseen antagonistic force that would destroy them, the Keth.

This story follows the frightening and fantastical adventures of two of those children - Will and Terra - who are genetically altered to possess a strange power for a plan to end the war.

Yune Darrak - a lone devil-may-care salvager, and Selka Kelnaris - a disillusioned, empathic, Ai Hiri bounty hunter - accidentally rescue them from a Regent secret lab while on a bounty hunt. They travel to a remote agrarian planet where Yune will hand the kids over to Selka once he gets her ship back from the planet's leader, so he can get his life back. A simple plan spirals into a deep, confusing mess involving a mysterious blue light, a political coup, and more questions about the kids and Yune himself as all four are inadvertently caught up together in the middle of a battle they never wanted to fight.

Will and Terra want to know who they are and where they belong. Yune wants to get his life back of salvaging spaceship wrecks and living alone. Selka wants to protect Will and Terra and find meaning to her life.

The story isn't so much about the war as it's focused on the lives of this little disaster space found family, their struggles, their small moments, and their growth aboard a jalopy homeship. The war is something that's happening around them.

The four portrait combo are the MCs I created in Artbreeder. Each photo is where I stopped and said "That's it. That's them." - Yune, Selka, Terra, and Will.

(I am very, very proud of this story, and in love with it and the characters. It's close to my heart, and contains my heart and soul. I wrote a story that I would enjoy reading or watching.)

That is the cockpit of my beloved home ship, the Horizon.

I spent way too long making that cockpit out of free commons stock items that were morphed and recolored beyond recognition. Way too much work, but well worth the hours to see my baby for real. Those cupholders retract into the control console, btw. :)

The space background is also a royalty free image. All of the images used at the headers of each chapter are either mine, or royalty free stock images.

If you want to be added to the taglist for posts about this story, please let me know. :)

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I just love my characters. :)

Clearly she hadn’t been given the update on the shift in their relationship, “I’m not sure if you’re aware, but he placed an eighty-thousand credit bounty on my head. I’m not his favorite person right now.”

“It’s actually up to a-hundred-and-sixty,” Daj sounded a little jealous and impressed with a hint of irritation that she couldn’t turn him in for that tasty reward herself.  Yune whistled low. “Ok. I officially can’t blame any of you,” he glanced around the area at the people who all, moments ago, had multiple weapons trained on him, “I’d turn myself in for that.”

Tag list: @muddshadow @cedar-west @athenixrose @penspiration-writing @runningoutofbooks

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*blares a loud, triumphant clarion trumpet call..... with her mouth through her hands cupped to her lips*

HEAR YE, HEAR YE!!!

PART 2 OF "OUT THERE: THE 1K" WILL GO LIVE SOON!

Once the first couple of chapters are up, I'll post a Wattpad link.

Here's a tidbit for you to feast upon.

   Desperation quickly snared his exhausted mind around a singular thought as he pulled out rock after rock; Terra. I have to get to her. I have to find her. 

      Her face flashed through his memory. A profound loneliness knotted in his core. It hurt more than any of the scientists’ tests. At least at Strafsend, he knew he would get her back. 

      His small hands ripped out stone after stone, maniacally searching for an escape until he reached the massive boulder itself. He pounded his fists against the barrier's solid, rough surface. A pulse of blue energy burst outward at each impact, but his power had weakened significantly. Rocks and dirt scattered away from each push. “Terra!” he attacked with everything he had. The rock remained, unyielding, mocking his pain, “Terra!” 

A blast of energy knocked the light over, casting their shadows onto the boulder, and emphasizing the large size of the wide cave mouth.

“Sparky, hey!” Yune called, but torment had locked the boy in its claws. None of Will’s attempts produced a blue light anymore. After fighting against the troops, and creating the shield, he had nothing left. It was the power equivalent of a dry heave. 

Yune grabbed his right wrist, seeing blood darken the kid’s knuckles. 

Will pulled against him despite it becoming harder to move or speak, “Let me go!”

“Will, stop! Stop!” Yune grappled with the crazed kid to snatch both of his wrists. The young terran was so weak, he didn’t have to exert much force to keep him in place. A sharp zap buzzed down his arms, but he held on, “Stop! It’s no use. There’s a whole mountain out there.”

“I don’t care! I have to get her back!”

“Hey! Hey,” he looked him in the eye, gripping his shoulders, “I’m right there with you, pal, but we can’t brute-force our way out of this. It’s blocked solid.”

He beat his fists against Yune’s chest, “Why did you take me away? Why?!” 

“They’d have gotten you, too.”

“Then let them take me!” he struggled, “This is all your fault! I hate you!” He hit Yune again, and again, his mind whirling from thoughts of the cruel things Yune had said and Terra’s abduction, “I hate you! I hate you!” 

Yune tightened his arms around him and held on through the fight to keep him from lunging at the rock, to calm him, and to stop him from hurting himself any further. He let the hurtful words fog past him, knowing the kid lashed out from raw emotion. 

“Why?!” Will gripped Yune’s jacket, unable to escape the strength of the mik’s embrace - which now kept him from fully collapsing. The longer Yune held him, the more he didn’t want to be let go. “Why couldn’t I stop them? Why couldn’t I save her? Why wouldn’t it listen to me?! Why?! I tried!” He gulped down air from hyperventilation-crying, “I tried! Why!?”

Tears slid down his cheeks. His voice wobbled, “I can’t feel her. I ca-I can’t find her.” His tirade turned to a plea, “Why can’t I find her, Yune?” Saying those words out loud slammed the reality home that Terra, his twin, his other half, was gone. And being without her presence terrified him. It thrust him into a cold, cavernous, lonely darkness. “I can’t - can’t…” the rest of Will’s strength abandoned him.

The bigness of what he felt overwhelmed him. He sobbed uncontrollably into Yune’s shirt. He didn’t know what to do. Part of him had been ripped out, leaving a hemorrhaging wound in its wake. He devolved into an emotional mess of helplessness, crying into Yune’s stomach - a child begging for an adult to give him the answer, to light the way, to take this pain and fix everything and say it would be alright - to save him.

Tag list: @muddshadow @cedar-west @athenixrose @penspiration-writing @runningoutofbooks @tobiornottobithatisthequestion @roll-top-writing @subject-2-change @dreaming-in-seams @mismatchingart @midnights-melodiverse @thewriteflame @writingventriloquist @ren-c-leyn @asher-orion-writes @aninkwellofnectar

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I'M UPDATING BOOK 1 ON WATTPAD!!!

(The death scare I had yesterday really kicked my ass into gear getting this finalized and ready for publication.)

Here's the link for the polished up and edited first chapter.

"OUT THERE: THE 1K"

Chapter 1: Transmission

William Kade, a 10 year old kid from Ohio, thinks his biggest problems are the school bullies, and being grounded. His father hides codes within white radio noise for him find, since Will has the ability to pick out minute details in sound. He dreams of becoming the pilot of Earth's first intra-system ship, the Nova Star.

That all changes on the eventful night of New Years Eve, 1999.

Tag list: @muddshadow @cedar-west @athenixrose @penspiration-writing @runningoutofbooks @tobiornottobithatisthequestion @roll-top-writing @subject-2-change @dreaming-in-seams @mismatchingart @midnight-and-his-melodiverse @thewriteflame @writingventriloquist @ren-c-leyn @asher-orion-writes @aninkwellofnectar @winterandwords @raevenlywrites @nanashi23 @athenaannarose @the-tired-writer @space-cadead@cljordan-imperium