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[sarandipitywrites]

Happy STS!

What is your favourite genre to read? Is it the same as your favourite genre to write?

What subgenres within that genre are your favourite to read? Are they the same ones you like to write?

hi Kate, happy STS!

my favorites pretty much always come back to fantasy and speculative fiction, and it's 100% because of the magic. i'll devour damn near any book that has an interesting magic system - throw in some monsters/paranormal shenanigans, and i'm pretty much sold (shoutout to a couple of my favorite non-Tumblr books i've read recently, Siren Queen by Nghi Vo and No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull). so it's probably no surprise that all of my stories, regardless of genre, somehow involve magic and monsters 😅

my writing is extremely self-indulgent; if i wouldn't be head-over-heels THRILLED to find a book like it while browsing for my next read, i don't write it. which usually means i have a hard time figuring out the genre of my own stories. but there's magic and monsters, always!

thank you for the ask! 💜

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Heads-Up, Seven-Up

Tagged by @squarebracket-trick! Thank you for the tag!!!

The last few lines I wrote were for my Gods of Creation WIP. I spent far too long smash typing this out at 1:00-2:00AM, but I still am pretty in love with how it came out. (Okay these aren't the last seven lines per se, more so the last seven little...uh...breaks? Paragraphs? Idk man)

“What do you mean by ‘sustenance’?” Time ask quizzically. “Well…we are able to exist idly. We can create others like us, just like how you created me. However, I’m…different.” Life pauses a moment, reflecting on themself. “I’m not sure I can create beings like you two can. Not yet, anyway. The beings I can create cannot just idly exist without a source to keep them going. That’s what this is for.” Life uses their thumb and middle finger to flick the wet substance toward Light. Little bubbles waft through the empty space. As they approach Light, the circumference of the bubbles slowly diminishes to nothing. Time and Light both look at Life perplexed. “I’m not sure I’m following, dear,” Light says with a slight chuckle. “This is all very confusing, but I am curious.” “It’s a life force. A sort of fuel to replenish lifespan. As long as they have this, they shall continue on living.” Light points at the star. “And this one. It’s not for the beings, but for their home. It’s warm and bright. It reminds me of how I felt when I first saw Light. I felt protected. I felt safe. I want them to feel that emotion as well.” Light tilts their head, their heart swelling with pride. Life had obviously inherited their compassion and Time’s wisdom. “So, what are they called?” Light asks. Life hesitates, but only for for a moment. “In honor of Time, The Sage Deity, their life-force shall be called ‘water’. In honor of Light, The Antecedent Deity, their star will be named the Sun. These two creations shall harbor living beings in, around and among them. And so it is.” “And so it is,” Time and Light echo in unison. And so it was.

Tagging: @elizababie, @dyrewrites, @mthollowell-writes, @stanrendipity, @stesierra + Open Tag! (I'm still learning everyones blog url's so y'all gotta work with me here >.<)

[talesofsorrowandofruin]

Happy STS! (It's still Saturday in my time zone and, in my defense, I was watching Nimona.)

What is phrase do you use way too much in your writing? Mine is "breathed a sigh of relief."

Happy STS! I know I use a ridiculous number of adverbs, and there are a crazy number of adverbs in my WIPs, but I think the phrase I use most often is "bared [their] teeth in a parody of a smile". Or a similar description of someone smiling without really smiling.

Examples from The Power and the Glory (both used about the same character too!):

Ilaran bared his teeth in a parody of a smile. (several chapters later) Prince Ilaran bared his teeth in a parody of a smile. "Oh, do continue, my lord. I'm most interested to hear what you have to say."