#wip diary

[iii-days-grace]

trucking along with the rough draft, I estimate this will be about 4k at my current pace although who knows after edits

sometimes i feel like i over-describe things but Jim has a lot of limbs and its important to know where they all are

(scrivener resets your session at midnight by default which is a bit annoying but I changed it since that is mainly when I write :P)

[mcfrankauthor]

The Mermaid Diaries (2) - Salt for Air Aesthetic

My first ever Salt for Air aesthetic.

Bathtubs and books, scales and mirrors, shells and bruises.

I do not own the rights to these images, except one, which is created and fully copyrighted by me (can you guess which one? *wink). Please do not use without permission+credit.

Synopsis:

Ellie dreams of mermen.

She writes fanfiction about them, spends time in underwater kingdoms in her imagination, and reads tons of books and blogs about them, trying fiercely to escape reality: she is an orphan.

And not only that, but she’s bullied every day at school -she’s a nerd, she hates sports, she loves books and TV shows and she used to be overweight. Also, her dad who died a few months ago was a math professor at her school. What’s not to bully, right?

One day, the bullies go too far.

They didn’t mean to actually kill her (isn’t that what they always say afterwards?) but they did push her head in the toilet until she started drowning. But before she actually gave up, someone showed up in front of her. In the water. (You know, the toilet water.) He told her to live.

He also told her that she wouldn’t be able to save anyone if she couldn’t even save herself.

Which was weird. (Toilet-talking merman aside). Because she sees Emerald Eyes (that’s what she calls him in her head) again after that, so he wasn’t a figment of her imagination. Also, he told her she was going to save someone. Who? And also lol (she’s about to get evicted from her home, she can’t save even that, let alone saving an ancient civilization and the life of its exiled Prince).

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If anyone would like to share this aesthetic and spread the word about my Greek mythology inspired novel, I would really appreciate it!

I’m leaving you with my favorite non-spoilery quote from SFA:

“If you die for me, I’ll kill you.” -Salt for Air  

©2018 M.C. Frank

Read Salt for Air Salt for Air spoilers Read the previous Mermaid Diaries Read the Robin Hood WIP Diaries

[clown-baby]

the way this story is shaping up i’m jokingly going to refer to it now as Fear and Loathing in South Africa  

[beedragony]

oh shit I just realized if james wins scorpius loses wtf am I writing why did I do this to myself

[beedragony]

yes in sport events in high school I always played with my classmates even though the only thing I liked was playing chess and you bet I'm gonna project that into Teddy

[beedragony]

I read very slowly and I wanna reread my wip but it's almost 25k now and that would take me at least 2 hours to do and aaaAAAAAA

[beedragony]

my first draft is just exquisite

[beedragony]

so they're really kissing after 22k words huh