I'm Trying

All the breath in your lungs is stronger than the tears in your eyes.

[teawitchy]

An Introduction :)

I'm hoping, maybe, this gets me somewhere on my writing progress, so here goes nothing.

Hi! I'm Hanna (she/her)

I'm on the verge of twenty-seven

Demi and hella bi

Give me all of the tea

New Hampshire born Canadian

I am an avid fan of whatever piques my interest (livin that ADHD life)

Crochet, video games and reading mostly in my down time

Love writing in the realm of science fiction and fantasy--seldom horror which is funny because I am a HUGE Stephen King fan

Grew up writing fanfiction, floated back and forth over the years

I live in BC with my fiance, our shepherd, and two lil leopard geckos

I currently have...oh god, too many stories on the go

I finished NANOWRIMO in 2022, and that is my primary work at the moment

Likely going to post a little bit of everything, really hope to one day get something published!

WIPs (at least the ones w/ decent progress)

Dead Embers

Scifi/fantasy/military-ish

Futuristic post apocalyptic

Powered superhumans and aliens

Variety of queer folk

Going for a Destiny meets FFVII type thing

Themes: Alienation and belonging, Love (romantic and familial)

Hiraeth

Contemporary romance

Three musketeers friendship

Childhood friends to strangers to lovers

Small town romance

Themes: friendship, forgiveness, love

Music inspired

[teawitchy]

So uh, been kinda away for a lil bit CAUSE I GOT MARRIED!! The legal bit anyway, we're going to do a ceremony next fall!! Aside, I think I'm going to self-publish Hiraeth once it's done, I've got a few long weekends worth of writing ahead of me, and I've just replaced my old laptop with a new macbook. I'm psyched. I'm so so so excited for what's to come.

[teawitchy]

So uh, I got Covid last week and my head's been full of GUNK but the past day or so I've been coherent enough to more or less properly outline my romance idea?? So...Working on that this weekend? Tentatively, I think I'd be interested in putting Hiraeth out there on Wattpad maybe? I'll probably pre-emptively try to have it done first (or at least be certain enough of it before starting to post).

I've been trying to use beat sheets to get a good idea of the structure but they always make me feel weird about the pacing I've got going.

[lillagrim]

[teawitchy]

Okay so I know I've seen this pass my dashboard, but how do you guys divide up your drafts?

Do you use one draft for all of it, break it up later? Pre-break chapters? Separate docs?

[teawitchy]

Character Aesthetic - Sgt. James "Gunner" Riley - WIP: Dead Embers

(he/him) 30s A bullheaded Scot who dislikes Fireflies isn't what one would expect in a PMC full of them, but he's spent over a decade shouldering rifles and as far as his boss is concerned there's nobody better to have at your back. He's a smartass and often difficult to read behind the mask but nobody's getting left behind. Not on his watch.

[teawitchy]

I am very torn at the moment. So for Hiraeth, I have two camps of thought. The original premise included the death of a best friend that brings everyone to town--which honestly, I love as a motivator to bring characters closer together after not speaking for a while because lots of raw feelings. However. I also looooove the idea of said best friend being alive and casually trying to tell his friends 'you're both idiots who clearly have some stuff to say to each other'....Do I just. do I just write both?? Do I do that to myself?

[teawitchy]

I saw this video recently about how Stephen King likes to write “six fairly clean pages” everytime he sits down to write-I’m gonna have to go watch the interview with him and GRRM—which I guess maths to 1500 words roughly. So. Maybe gonna try that for my next draft? I think I’ve got a good outline going so that seems like an attainable goal to get a first draft I’m happy with :D

[tinkerbitch69]

Keyboard go BRRRRRRRRRR

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[teawitchy]

WIP Intro - Hiraeth

Genre: Contemporary Romance Status: Drafting Setting: Fictional small town of Westbury, NH

Summary:

For Amelia Cartier, her hometown of Westbury is a bittersweet piece of who she is. The mountains, treed roads and a village of people who have known her all her life evoke feelings of nostalgia and safety, but she tries not to view it through such rose coloured glasses. She's made a name for herself running a radio show, which she hardly has time for lately since her best friend's birthday is coming up--and he's invited everyone he can get a hold of.

Including Wes MacNamara, someone who hasn’t seen Westbury since his band made it big about a decade ago in the metalcore scene. Once upon a time the three had been thick as thieves but between ambition, touch of rumours and adolescent friction that came with age they haven’t spoken in a decade. At least he and Amelia haven’t.

Despite having left the town in the rear view, Wes seems like he wants to mend things with her and she’d be lying if she had said she hadn’t missed her old friend. But seldom do wants take precedence when life gets in the way.

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[icapturedthecastle]

[prince-princess-bunny]

[teawitchy]

[teawitchy]

WIP Intro - Dead Embers

Destiny 2 x Final Fantasy x lil greek mythos

Genre: Scifi/Fantasy Status: Redrafting + Development (Book 1 of ?) Tag: wip: dead embers Features: Found family, powered super humans, aliens, queer and ND main cast

Over a century ago, a blackout struck planet earth, the skies filled with ash, and with it came the asteroids like falling stars that caused untold damage the world over before simply dissipating. In the years that followed, beings seemingly marred by starlight began to appear among the surviving populace, able to wield the wildest of abilities--Fireflies. Humanity began to rebuild, and with these new abilities came growth in technology, space exploration, and evidently conflict. Those not directly opposed to the Fireflies being there were hesitant if anything, concerned about the danger they might pose. Some who did not have such power sought it for themselves.

Short summary: Svea is desperate to get as far away from this lab as possible, and she's been trying most days for the past several years to do exactly that. When ultimately a stranger lets her out and offers her a chance to fight back against the people that put her there in the first place the last thing she's going to do is turn it down. Even if that means joining a PMC full of Fireflies, aliens, a lieutenant who hates her guts, and being exactly the kind of monster they thought she was.

[mikathewriter]

HEY WRITER

YOU!

YES YOU!

Unclench your jaw. Fix your posture. Relax your shoulders. Stop frowning. Drink some water. Take a deep breath.

You got this.

I'm proud of you.

[teawitchy]

Oh god, hi everyone!! Thank you so much for the follows, looking forward to sharing more and getting to see all of your projects!! :D

[teawitchy]

Last Line Tag

Thank you for the tag @constellationandcompendium ! Doing some restructuring and whatnot but here's a bit from the first draft of my WIP Dead Embers :)

“Need ye to lean on me kid.” “For support?” “Yeah, why else,” he responded with a chuckle and she gave a snort of amusement in spite of herself, her vision already a little wavy. “Stay with me. Got a little ways to go.” She gave a nod and they started walking—shambling, really—forward through the woods, James half carrying her in an attempt to alleviate the pressure on her side. “You’re not gonna let me live this down are you,” she mumbled, half slurring her words and thought she saw the front end of a vehicle ahead of them after several minutes. “Not a chance, Novyk,” he replied, practically lifting her off the ground as they walked. She winced, inhaling sharply as his hand pressed in above her wound. “Sorry,” he mumbled. “Almost there. Don’t go sleepin’ on mae.” “Do you like the sound of your own voice?” “I do, no gonna lie,” he chuckled, and Svea was certain even through her spotting vision of what was ahead of them.

[night-owl-writes1]