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WIP WEDNESDAY

Tagged by @crownedinmarigolds 💖💖💖

Death&Taxes is a black comedy about the IRS sending a team of armed repossession commandos to a woman's house for filing her home office wrong. It is being told in Twine in the manner of my butcher's shop horror Handle It.

This is an early draft of the first few panels!

[syntheticmortal]

WIP WEDNESDAY

Thank you @crownedinmarigolds I love you and you keep my quiet self feeling including 💖💖

For those that don't know, the game Destiny 2 just got its last update yesterday. I was there early in the series during House of Wolves in D1, and used the series to spend time with my partner before I could immigrate to the US. It's immensely bittersweet to see the series end, so I felt compelled to write a little something. This is the start of an in-universe religious text for a Hive God OC I've had for like a decade, and hopefully it walks that fine line between comprehensible and obtuse!

THE UNSATISFACTION OF KAROK DREAD CLIMBER

- As inscribed upon Traitor Leather Tomes by Nurlat Statar the Refathomed (Recovered by Hal Vanos of the Revenant Host, Sworn to Blaire, Celebrant of Chains Translated by Ofani of the Revenant Host, Sworn to Orpheus, Celebrant of Chains)

Karok Larvae is born Mud, and is unrestrained. Compassion, Loyalty, and Love tug the tendons in his arm as he uses the whet stone that is TRUTH to sharpen his edge. He spends his Eras in Proving, then in Worship, and then in Obedience-Through-Lordship. He emerges imago into the Court of Mud and clads himself in Chitin Strategy. He defines opposition to Gravel, Fault, and Flood along with Iron-Who-Aren't.

War is elevated on the only planet to exist. He takes his first wife, and devours her split remains so everything she was may become a step in his glorious journey. (Her flesh is incorporated as one page in this book to balance the sin of the WITCH UPPER with kind affection.)

A Time passes, during which Karok Knight sees the flaws of King Mud, and slits him over his banquet. He takes Queen Mud, she who now rules the Engine Of Gentle Winds, casting a shadow over the Covenhalls in War Stone Willing, as his second wife, and starts spawning.

With new vision of smiting the fear that consumes every Tribe – that of the Iron-Who-Aren't who do not walk like us and do not talk like us and do not think like us but who, when we are brave, can die like us – Karok Ascendant amalgamates with catastrophic violence on the endless replenishment of fluid-shells until his philosophies can do only but seek the truest oppositions.

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The madness of wanting to write new novels is taking me

Not before All It Cost/Cyberpunk Vampires is edited, but it's bubbling

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WIP WHENEVER

Tagged by @c-n-i-d-a-r-i-a-n!!

Here's one of my favourite paragraphs from the current first chapter draft of my ✨Cyberpunk Vampire✨ novel, All It Cost!

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Reoutlined the last two chapters of my cyberpunk vampire novel 😭🙏 So SO ready to get this thing DONE! It's the most pleased I've been with anything I've ever made!

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oh shit yeah this is a blog and I can blog on it

so I'm on the second draft editing process of my cyberpunk vampire novel, and I'm getting close to having the first chapter a little prettied up for my mates to look over for the 'is this anything?' vibe check

So I'm going to try and talk more about my ✨j o u r n e y✨ as I trudge through it, in part to help me reflect on the work I am doing. Writing is a marathon, not a sprint, and all that

SO currently I'm having to try and conceptualise whatever the fuck a sentence even looks like, so my big focus is based off of Seth Dickinson's Let's Hurt Sentences blog post, trying to make sure every sentence is at least expressing something. Which is I think the big step up from just faffing about on a word document. I think it's working!

I just want to try and hold onto the following tweet. I can only imagine little inspirational quotes get a mixed reception, but sometimes one really sticks with me. It's hard to balance the perfectionist streak with the more rational views I have on making art and I

All I have left for this chapter now is fleshing out a transition section (always the case tbh) and going over another 1300 words (ish). Going to see how much of it I can smash tomorrow! I feel progress at my fingertips now and I'm SO ready to get there!! 🙌🙌🙌

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Edited up and handed out the first chapter of my Cyberpunk Vampires novel to my mates and there is something so utterly miraculous about feedback - so nice to get out of my own head on something Ive been staring at for ages 😭 😭

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Onto Chapter 17 of my Cyberpunk Vampire novel, ALL IT COST💪🥰