#valefarer

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Thank you always to @yuri-puppies for tagging me to share the last 5-6 lines of my wip! The last thing I worked on was actually my novel, so you get a dramatic moment :tm: from Valefarer.

Barely edited because it is in fact a WIP and I wrote it last night.

Tagging all my writerly friends tbh! Share what you're working on and let me know you've done so. 🙏💕

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Since I’m already talking about Valefarer here, I’ll give you some more details:  It is “high” fantasy in that it is extremely fantastic and definitely otherworldly, and I am prioritizing the fantasy elements by digging into a lot of the things I love best about the genre: adventuring & mercenarism as a profession, wild & misunderstood magic, divine and arcane magical schools, overcoming incredible odds to defeat evil and injustice with the power of goodness, righteousness, kindness, and love. 

It features a tight-knit group of adventurers with a focused protagonist, Lark Valefarer, who is on a mission of the utmost importance: rescue her best friend, Briar Emberwill, from the brink of death so that she can tell her that she’s in love with her. 

It wouldn’t be me if there weren’t a whole host of tropes at play here, but I’ll definitely be hitting that best friends in love button pretty hard, as well as digging into found family and love conquers all and redemption through self-sacrifice.

Ultimately Valefarer is a story about coming into your own power despite overwhelming odds - a story that I feel like a lot of us can find things in to resonate with. I’m still very much in the planning-and-plotting stages, but I’ve got some cool things in progress that I’m going to start sharing, and I hope you’ll dig them. 

 A sneak peek at some art I’ve commissioned that’s in progress: 

:D That’s all you get for now! Feel free to send me questions though - I’m happy to talk about whatever. 

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What’s that sound? Me, being productive all day and well into the night after taking my medicine appropriately and getting enough rest and being properly encouraged by supportive friends? Me, working for almost 3 hours straight on original writing so that I can make my dreams come true? Me, making quick decisions about storycrafting things or just rewriting sentences altogether so that I don’t get bogged down into the Wastes of Decision Paralysis? Me, sharing the four new premises I wrote with friends to get their feedback and thoughts before I move forward to plot outlining? 

Sounds lovely.

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Merry Christmas to all who celebrate, dear friends!

I was gifted a pivotal scene + the thrust of my first act while in the shower so I'm quite pleased with the universe today lol

Also! If anybody knows of artists who do OC commissions and would be willing to do character design sheets (the kind with multiple outfits? Not sure what they are called...) I am looking for recommendations! After the start of the year I'd like to commission two of these + two busts to help focus my vision for my two primary characters.

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It's a night for catching up on my mentions! Thank you for tagging me in the WIP acrostic game and giving me the word PERIOD, @yuri-puppies! One line from your WIP for each letter. Let's see what we have from Valefarer.

P: Prosper looked away from her and toward the Gate, with its enormous runic carving, the silent fall of water, the low thrum of power she could still feel in time with her heart. E: Even the Temple of Themera had a white carved facade, marred by a sign on the large wooden doors proclaiming that it was closed until a Priestess returned from the capitol. R: Return to Aberanthe at once, on order of the throne. I: If Valewater could cut Lark off from the necromancer inside her, it could cut this necromancer off from Cinder. O: Or, perhaps it was that he spoke so plainly of Briar’s inclinations, and in the context—not laughing like they did at a tavern when she tried to pull some pretty maid, or sighing dramatically with her over the delicately painted ladies in the Saraeli art she favored—it seemed somehow shameful, and unreal. D: "Do you truly think you deserve to rule these people when you have done naught for them in their time of need?"

This was fun! If you're a writer and you have a WIP to peruse, I challenge you to find sentences that begin with the letters in QUEST! <3

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Death and The Star, artwork by @arimesi, characters by @quicklikelight

These two works of art depict two of the major characters in a project I have on hiatus currently but am still 100% committed to, Valefarer.

Death depicts Briar Emberwill in her truest form: a sacrifice to the greater good. Briar is a knight, a princess, a woman running from destiny, a dead girl, a lover, a daughter, a thorn.

The Star depicts Lark Valefarer, Springsworn Priestess of the goddess of Life and the Harvest... and sometimes accidental necromancer. Lark is a healer, a water-bringer, a leader, a loner, the victim of misunderstanding, and the champion over death.

And yes, friends, they're 100% gay.

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Made some critical writing breakthroughs on _Valefarer_ today which is very good. Very exciting stuff y'all. Wish it was exciting enough to sustain me past 11:30, but it isn't, so off to bed I go!