#thepen&dagger

[medeaes]

seeking beta readers!

Is anyone interested in beta reading for a YA Arthurian Fantasy (99k)? Whims and Wishes has a whole lot of druids, fairies, banter, tragedy, mystery, and adventure. More than anything, it's about ~friendship~

I’m primarily looking for mutuals. Message me if you’re interested!

(PSA I’m looking for beta readers, someone who will provide general feedback about their reading experience in a relatively short period of time.)

@sondials  @lottieiswriting @iamnotelise @livvywrites@homesteadchronicles @apollosvotive @naowei-codex @starshots @ladywithalamp @treesandwords @teriwrites @serpentarii @nana-writes @nikolae @dc-hollis

tagging @adroitely and @wyldlynxx if you're still interested

[redbeanpress]

OUR JULY ISSUE HAS ARRIVED — READ HERE

The second issue of Red Bean Press is out! This issue revolves around identity and compels each of us to look within ourselves and ask, "Who are you, really?" 

We hope that you enjoy the work our authors have so kindly submitted, and we hope to see you for our next issue in August.

You can also download the issue via Google Drive here. 

[furysreign]

WIP (Re-)Introduction | The Dead are Bitter (working title)

Imelda once asked me if I ever felt afraid of my connection to the Afterlife; if I ever tossed and turned at night thinking of my own mortality, my own finality. I said I had never, because the spark of humanity is never completely extinguished. Light and laughter carries on with the soul, memory keeps one alive even after death. And how scary could it be, really, to cross from one threshold to the next just as billions before I have done? Death is the sole constant of life, so it has been since the first moments of consciousness, and so it shall be until the last. It is not death that scares me, it is what comes after it.

Synopsis

When a near death experience as a child left Abilene Whitlow orphaned and vulnerable, she discovered her ability to cross between the land of the living, and the land of the dead. Now eighteen years old, she works at a shop run by a self-proclaimed psychic, performing seances and comforting mourners with messages from the deceased, while in dreams she walks with friends long since departed. It is all routine, all normal, until she hears the frightened soul of a long dead teenager call out to her, and increasingly frequent visions of a man with bright green eyes begins to haunt her in both worlds. Something nefarious lies in wait, hidden between the fabric of two dimensions, and Abi must track down the dead boy before it’s too late, the both of them the only ones capable of stopping what threatens to bring carnage from the dead to the living.

Genre

YA/Supernatural/Urban Fantasy/Elements of Horror

P.O.V

First person (for now anyway)

Series or Standalone

Duology

Status

Outlining

Word Count

About 80,000

Taglist (adding my regular FR taglist but let me know if you’d like to be removed from this one <3): @storelmykva | @ketterkind | @ahusaka | @noloumna | @the-ichor-of-ruination | @sprigofbasil | @vanzhuo | @samplewriting | @dorogayas | @ashvayr | @rkmoriyama | @moariin | @serpentarii | @scioltezza | @write-like-babs | @sautrns | @hiraethas | @inheriting | @medusaswrites | @mayawritesbooks | @zmlorenz | @honeywharf | @sondials | @herondalelucies | @alternativeforensicscientist | @carumens | @klywrites | @caelum-writes | @ladywithalamp | @priwrite | @thenondescriptwriter | @enchanted-lightning-aes | @guulabjamuns | @kowlazovdi | @writingbyjillian 

[mahalii]

— FORGOTTEN SUN. a prologue from @mahalii​​

after five months of writing, it’s finally here !! it’s a little long for a prologue though, so i might just change it into chapter one in the future :)

taglist + the rest of the prologue is under the cut ! ( ask to be added or removed )

@emdrabbles​ @nepeinthe​ @rcvolutions​ @onceihadadream-blog​ @vanzhuo​ @atbwrites​ @astralis-elysian​ @atelierwriting​ @caelum-writes​ @noloumna​ @tarttisms​ @azrance​ @honeywharf​ @hiraethas​ @sondials​

[noloumna]

WELCOME TO THE PEN & DAGGER FAMILY.

INTRO.

thank you so much for three hundred followers! you all have been so wonderful, and so very supportive of my new blog. i’d like to celebrate this milestone together by re-introducing my writeblr family, pen & dagger!

TO JOIN.

to join, thou shalt...

— follow me ( introduction ).

— reblog this post ( likes count as bookmarks ).

— send me an ask with your 

name/nickname ( whichever you prefer to be called ).

pronouns.

writeblr ( if it is not your main blog ).

the name of the wip you’re currently working on/your main wip.

the genre.

& a quote from said wip ( please make it short )! 

— feel free to send more than one ask if you cannot fit it all.

+ MORE.

and that’s it! once you’ve submitted your ask, you’ll be added to this page and can tag your original posts with #thepen&dagger! i’ll eventually be making a discord as well, so stay tuned for that! the goal is to be supportive of one another without the commitment to a taglist, make new friends, and discover new wips. thank you so much, and i hope you all have a wonderful week!

[vanzhuo]

hahaha in which i am sleep deprived and make this mess because i hate powerpoint but wanna do something like that. this link is here in case you’re all curious about what the hell i’ve been trying to get across here. 

here’s my taglist for everyone who asked to be tortured with this mess, to be added just give me an ask or reply to this post, to be removed just idk message me or something: @aelenko , @vigilantscar , @rhyaxxyn , @starshots , @carumens , @theforgottencoolkid , @inkingfireplace , @aepreall , @bellenzier , @startreatmentmp3 , @nepeinthe , @ahusaka , @scribonaut , @goldbonne , @shaonharryandpannisim , @zeeverkenner , @neptnez , @noloumna , @viciousvenganza , @tarttisms , @sondials , @scioltezza , @vandorens , @oneleggedflamingo , @liarede , @sprigofbasil , @sautrns , @the-ichor-of-ruination , @leftover-starlight , @aquillas , @ninazeniks , @whorizcn , @honeywharf , @medusawrites , @furysreign , @lightyearly , @medeaes , @semblanche

[kazino]

9.29.2018 // so i dug this up from my docs and might be developing this concept into a wip? stay tuned for more!

send me an ask to be +/- to my general tag list 

(tagging some mutuals because i don’t really have one yet)

@sondials, @atelierwriting, @ahusaka, @vanzhuo, @medusaswrites, @soigne-writeblr, @towntimes, @scioltezza, @noloumna, @nepeinthe, @ninazeniks, @acrimoneous, @starshots, @priyaele

image transcription under the cut!

We are always told that every great story has a hero and a villain, or some great conflict that prevents the hero from reaching their goals. We are always told to root for the hero, no matter how morally ambiguous they may seem, because there is always someone who’s done worse. The villain is the unlucky scapegoat: a person that the hero can always blame when things go wrong, the person who is supposedly responsible for all the bad things in their life. 

However, there are no heroes and villains. There are only victims. For we are all victims of time and circumstance, and that changes everything. 

[medeaes]

Whims and Wishes: A Quest Across Elsewhere

First Draft Status ↠ Complete

Word Count ↠ 103k

“If history is not done right the first time around, history will repeat itself.”

Disease blackens the realms. Druids are persecuted, Aos Si hide away in their hills, and history has been rewritten into lies. The lady of the lake’s sword is in the hands of a wrongfully chosen king, unbalancing the forces of life and death. Only when a new chosen takes the sword back can the land be healed, but it will take a quest across Elsewhere to do it. 

In a twist on King Arthur and Irish mythology, Ronan Glenwood must face the horrors she’s been sheltered from and let go of her doubts if she is to save the realm from itself. 

A vengeful druid with too much faith in destiny. A spy who’s given up on his court. A king with a two-hundred year debt to death. And Ronan, desperate for a cause worth dying for.

wip intro | tag | pinterest

[ I’ve never finished a WIP before. This is so exciting! I will start to post more excerpts as I work on the second draft. ]

[taglist below the cut]

@exygon @vanzhuo @noloumna @sondials  @creatvrae @lottieiswriting 

@iamnotelise @livvywrites @homesteadchronicles @apollosvotive

@naowei-codex @starshots @ladywithalamp @carmina-solis