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[bayoucurse]

THE TRAGEDY OF THE CROW → A NANO WIP INTRO

↳ genre: ya/na fantasy ↳ pov: single, third past limited ↳ status: planning / nano project ↳ themes: secrecy, magic, court politics, found family, identity exploration ↳ posting location: ao3, maybe wattpad or tapas, with tumblr updates

CARA FERNHERDT doesn’t know who she is. This has never been a problem, because no one else knows anything about her either. Not until now. A bodyguard-for-hire now contracted to a minor noble with a very major role in the country’s future, she’s thrust into the political ring of a country and threatened with the exposure of secrets she didn’t even know she had.

ALTERA VON SÖNNIGHEIT has been betrothed to the Prince of Kriga. An extremely important but perilous match, she’ll have to navigate her future court that would rather her dead than ruler, all while juggling her responsibilities to her people, herself, and whether or not her new bodyguard is a person worth aligning herself with.

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[starsfallings-archived]

I’ve said this and I’ll say it again: @vespatrix is a talent and a legend and if you’re not following them what are you waiting for!!

1. this cover is showstopping and my new lockscreen 2. their WIPs are all super cool and with such amazing characters and plots that you will fall in love instantly 3. THEY ARE SO NICE. SO FREAKING NICE. WHAT A WONDERFUL PERSON. ILY VERV <33

[sometimesnat]

for the zodiac asks, pisces? ♥

pisces: how do you visualize scenes? do you see it like a movie in your head, or do the words just flow?

I think, especially in outlining, I tend to see things more like scenes from a show or movie. A professor pointed this out to me when he was looking at an outline for my novel (which was my senior thesis actually)! There are definitely some scenes that I don’t visualize as much and focus more on what’s being said, but for the most part I definitely try to play it out like a sequence internally before going in to write it!

[skeletins]

42 and 99 for the spotify ask game!

Thanks for the q!

42: Power - Little Mix, Stormzy

99: Destroyer - Saint Motel

Send me a number between 1-100!

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vespatrix

  okay time to get down and dirty and rework the...

I’m not an authority but I can usually figure out what sounds something makes! (and one of my good friends took linguistics in college so I can use them as a reference, too, haha)

it’s all transcription though.........

[prioryangels]

vespatrix replied to your photo “Me and my cat here to bless ur tl”

HER NAME IS LADY SANSA??? (my cats are myrcella and yara so like. l o v e)

THAT’S SO CUTE. I considered Myrcella for her, but then I was like...Sansa is my favorite character....of course i’m gonna name her sansa!! (do u have pictures of ur babies) 

[you-are-my-neverland]

❣️and 💕?

I’ll just do this for Fairbone, also, since that’s done - thank you for asking!

❣️: which scene has been hardest to write so far? 

As much as I adore writing the emotional scenes in Fairbone, I did push them off a bit because I wasn’t sure how to go about them. Slow parts, or ones with a lot of dialogue and setting up of the story can be hard to get out. I also had to write a death scene that I had pictured perfectly in my head, but had trouble articulating.

💕: what has your favorite scene been?

It’s hard to choose just one! Once I got past the set up, kind of, of everything, and started part 3, when all the actions and events all come together and then (basically) explode, there were a lot of tense scenes I really enjoyed. Of course, the climax point was one of my favorites - I wrote 3k in an hour like I was on some sort of caffeine (I wasn’t & it was at a super weird time too? I don’t know how that happened, but anyways). I also love one scene with Aurelius and Xanthe that’s really emotionally charged and really delves deep into their relationship. 

[jjongieee]

Technique asks~! 5. Do you know how your story ends before you start writing? and 12. How do you choose chapter and/or story/book titles?

Thanks for the asks!!

5. It really depends on what type of story I’m trying to write. I’ve always wanted to make one of those fantastical adventure stories with *spoiler*   everyone dying. Like, all of the main characters sacrificing themselves and being gone for good.

On the other hand, with like cutesy stories I’m more “I want them to be happy” and I end up finding that key ending when I’m in the middle of writing and coming up with random conflicts for them to go through.

12. I choose titles in very random ways. Recently, I kind of end up putting some part of the story in there - One Rink was called One Rink, Two Men, and uh lots of Cats? That was a little weird. I wanted to trim it down to One Rink just to remind me that the ice rink needs to be a major location in that lol.

I do like to have short names too though like I made a very short-lived pirate story The Crew because the captain’s family were her fellow companions over anyone else. I picked Partly Fantasy for this new novel because I want to see if I can make this a modern/fantasy/still-sort-of-history thingy.

All in all, my choosing is very, very random lol.

Thank you so much for the asks <33