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@surroundedbypearls  is a big inspiration as writeblr and an incredible writer

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Share a GIF that represents your WIP: (Paper Hearts)

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STS (for a story of your choice) could you ever see your WIP being adapted into another media form? And if so, have you ever thought about aesthetics/casting/anything like that? (basically tell me about if you've had the Adaptation Dream™

Happy Storyteller Saturday!

Fun fact, but when I initially came up with the concept behind One Siren’s Soul, I thought of it in a comic/graphic novel format! The character designs are all so unique and distinct in my mind, and the action and expressions are very visual for me! Alas, I knew I didn’t have the motivation nor time to draw comic pages, so I’m having fun with writing it, instead~ c:

But that said, there still are specific epic scenes that I can so easily see in a visual depiction!

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Hello, nice to meet you!! I haven't written in a while unless you count my dissertation, but I've been working on outlining/planning multiple WIPs simultaneously bc I'm a masochist

Hello friend!!! It’s great to meet you too!!!

I do count the dissertation because that must have been a lot of hard work and taken many hours! I can’t even imagine! Good job on getting through that!!!

Ok in this household we love and respect juggling an impractical amount of stories lol. But all that planning is no easy task so excellent work on getting all that down!!! It will definitely come in handy once you start writing your stories to make sure you don’t confuse any of them!!!

Tell me about what you’ve worked on today!

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STS, what do you like the most about writing a seires?

I think it’s probably the amount of time I get to spend with the characters?

Because series can be challenging in a lot of ways, but the good part is I get to work and explore with these characters for quite the long time :D

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STS, what are the best and worst pieces of writing advice you've ever gotten?

The best piece of writing advice I’ve received was actually just the tiniest thing:

Don’t use orbs to describe eyes.

The worst writing advice I’ve received is to write for the audience. Can’t remember who gave me that advice now.

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STS, I love the concept of your WIP and am also a big HP fan, where did the idea come from?

Thank you so much! And thanks for asking, I’ve been waiting for someone to ask because I personally love how they came about, and I’m sure it’s hilarious only to me.

So I’m assuming that you’re talking specifically about one of my WIPs, but I actually have two Harry Potter fanfictions: Morsmordre and Post-Script.

I guess I’ll just talk about both!

MORSMORDRE

So this all started when I was trying to entice @decantae into writing with me. I PM’d them on the website where we met, and pretended to be a complete stranger even though we’ve been friends for years at that point.

If anyone has been paying attention to all of my projects at all, it’s no secret that literally every single one is written with @decantae. There’s a lot of reasons for that, but one tiny reason is because I literally don’t have WIP ideas ever. So because I didn’t really have any plot ideas to coax them into writing with me, I just included a massive list of prompts that I found all over the internet to see if there was anything they liked.

In response, they sent me a few that had caught their attention. This was the one we settled on.

Person A and B attend Hogwarts. Person A is a Hufflepuff and B is a Slytherin. One day, A is seen having trouble with their studies and magic and B offers to help. Over time, A improves and they become an inseparable duo. Unfortunately, Slytherin isn’t seen in a good light and there are some rumors about A and B so they have to meet in secret.

Somehow, this very simple, wholesome prompt spawned this massive, angsty AU where Harry Potter died as a baby, and the First Wizarding War never ended with several different plots spanning several years, including a huge post-Hogwarts story. The main ship was supposed to be Casimir and Callisto since the prompt was about Hufflepuff and Slytherin… But once we started contemplating bringing in Clara and Caerwyn, two characters of ours who never had the chance to be written before, Clara and Caerwyn decided to steal the show.

You know, I don’t think we’ve ever actually talked about Callisto helping Casimir with magic… 

POST-SCRIPT

So Post-Script takes place in an AU very similar to Morsmordre, just because this started when we were discussing Blake and Alistair in the Morsmordre AU.

@decantae always had a liking for letter-writing, where all of the interaction and everything was done solely through letters. They actually made their own story prompt for a letter-writing story, though I think the original prompt was for a fantasy setting.

So they were the ones to say “Hey, what if we did letter-writing for them.”

And I was like “heck yes”.

And that spawned an entirely new fanfiction, separate from Morsmordre.

Storyteller Saturday! Send me questions about my writing!

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STS, aside from your current WIP however long it may be, what's the longest thing you've written?

Happy Storyteller Saturday!! Thank you for the ask~

At first I was… so confused on what to answer with. For some reason, the fact that I wrote over 415k completely slipped my mind? This got long, but you can find a snippet under the cut!

To be fair, this was a collaboration au piece with my best friend, who also happens to be a writer (not on writeblr, though). I probably wrote less than half of that since my writing style tends to be less descriptive than theirs, but that’s still ~200k. This project was done mostly to better develop both of our writing skills and our characters, in preparation of writing an original book! It was simply a crossover between my gem characters and their wip’s universe, but it uh… it got… out of hand.

This project was made up of five separate google docs, with technically four separate stories. One of them, over 200 google doc pages at 11-size calibri, had to be split in two because the doc started lagging too much to work on it. -u-

As it’s traditional for us to name our writing collabs as (Synonym for terrible event) in the Making, this one was Catastrophe in the Making, the first one of the whole project and the only one to be completed. It’s over 130k words. Whew. Since this was a personal project with no editing and complete and utter nonsense at some parts, I won’t be sharing it online, but I can at least give a snippet:

Her expression swiftly changed to shock as she was knocked to the side, yet again pinned to one of the walls of the train car, though this time by another presence. Upon realizing who this was, she tightly closed her eye, immediately regretting her previous choices. She dismissed her weapons to let her hands dangle at her sides, tilting her head away from her attacker.

“You are very close to breaching our agreement, Celestine,” Diopside remarked, her tone cold with antipathy. Like you even care for the humans yourself. Celestine apprehensively reopened her eye, acknowledging with a glare the blade that was now held at her gem. The greenish tinged metal shown pale blue, reflecting the stone’s vitreous facets.

“Why protect them when they don’t deserve it?” she retorted, pausing as she perceived the other’s expression, “She w–!” She flinched as Diopside gently tapped her gem with the tip of her rope dart, though managed to continue after a few moments of hesitation, albeit in a smaller voice. “… She… was asking for a fight.”

“And you were ignorant enough to indulge her?”

Context? Celestine hates humans, and she may have tried to kill one just now. These are the gem origins of my OSS main cast, but they’re very, very different.

If I stare at this for too long I will die. This is 3+ years old. -u-