A Collection of my Words

Ahhhhhhh i love having a negative amount of attention span yeah sure I can think about give me ur eyes today does anyone have any questions for me

How does godhood and immortality work in give me ur eyes? I also have a story about old gods and new gods and such, and I find very interesting to hear different approaches to questions of how immortal beings die (or don't) and how one might become immortal.

Originally there were only the two. Basic light/dark dichotomy. They were told they could make more gods, if they were so inclined, but for the longest time they never really needed to. They balanced each other just fine. Technically. The old gods don’t need to die. If they could coexist with the new ones they created they would be just fine. Some people just don’t like to share power. And some are just ready to hand the burden of power onto the next generation. I don’t think these gods can be killed by humans, just other gods. I don’t think they get sick, they just grow weak. I like the concept of gods whose power relies at least somewhat on the people who believe in and worship and love them. Or some combo of the above. I’m not fully settled on how much is what for this wip, as I have older projects I’m trying to give attention to (including Dragonmarked, whose gods do heavily rely on belief to exist, and that is a minor plotline, but w long explanation). I wont say that in give me ur eyes (proper title pending) the godhood HAS to be given willingly exactly, but genuine god-making divinity cannot be stolen by a human who wants it. It does have to come from the god themself. From what I understand right now, and this may change as I haven’t even outlined the book much less drafted it (tho i did write scenes that were stuck in my head), the goddess of darkness, Merel, gifted her successors with their divinity or whatever intentionally. She chose them deliberately, picking people she thought would do well. Cyril, the god of light, did pass on his own unintentionally. As he never knew and did not attempt to nurture that godhood, it was dormant for years until they learned of it. How could they be gods until someone believed in them? Or something poetic like that 😂😅

#other's words #thanks for sharing!!

Love this, super fascinating!

Ahhhhhhh i love having a negative amount of attention span yeah sure I can think about give me ur eyes today does anyone have any questions for me

#other's words #I love everything you've posted about this story!#very interesting!

miseria-fortes-viros

yeah yeah fire-based characters are destructive and angry and violent and evil blah blah blah BORING overdone. more fire as a lifegiver. warm and comforting. fire-based characters as guides lighting the way. personal heater in the cold and dark but don’t sleep too close or you’ll wake up with heat rash. fire sterilizes and cauterizes!! more fire-based healers. plants perking up and flowers turning towards them and they attract moths. fire-based characters who are hearths instead of wildfires!! the core of a home the pillar of a community the key to societal advancement. give them an internal flame that visibly glows and flickers instead of a heart that beats. extinguish that light when they die. etc

#this is vibes for #avenir #in the second book #the corvine #the corvine book two

dalniente

it is honestly amazing how much of writing and editing is just. logistics. like... do i use a name here or a pronoun? if i move this dialogue tag to the middle of this line and break it in half, does the end of the line hit harder that way? what if i move the tag to the front? what if i remove it entirely? ...wait, whose point of view am i in; can i reasonably say this character is appalled, or must i say they look or seem or sound appalled? is this a deliberate action or a step-removed one; is her hand closing on his shoulder, or is she closing her hand on his shoulder? environment environment environment, we need to break all this dialogue up with some narration, the scene is coming untethered. what! are! they doing! with! the rest of their bodies that are not hands! fuck fuck fuck FUCK i forgot we covered this two chapters ago and now i either need to cut this whole chunk or find a reason to reprise the conversation from earlier. name or pronoun? name or pronoun? name or pronoun? move this clause around in this sentence? oh i'll add this phrase-- nope, never mind, past!me added the same phrase two lines down. okay, if i add too much environmental narration it's going to take away from this bit, but not enough and it won't feel grounded. what if i move this to its own line? where the FUCK are their hands?

angelumcaedis

couldn’t not preserve this tag @spottedenchants

#yeahhh #this is where im at as i pick up working on #the corvine #again...

winterstaryu

"I did it for you" has gotta be my favorite form of betrayal. You gave me a gift I never asked for, and now I have to look around at the world you destroyed with the knowledge that it was gift wrapped and addressed to me.

#this is major vibes for #the corvine #specifically #the corvine book two

dionysiaproductions

At my recent choir concert, they encouraged us to show off other talents during the little intermission show thing. I read out a poem I wrote for my girlfriend.

Afterwards, a few other members of the choir approached me and started gushing about my poem and saying I need to look into publishing it.

The next choir practice, one of them caught me after and started telling me about local writing groups and a local literary arts magazine. She desperately wants me to join a group and to submit something to the magazine. And like...

This lady is a publishing and publicity agent. Helping writers get their work out there is literally what she does for a living. And she thinks my writing is Good. Like, she genuinely thinks this silly little poem I performed is Really, Really Good.

So... I think I am going to submit to the magazine. And maybe over the summer I'll see about attending a few of the writing group get togethers to see how I feel about it... My plan was to focus on writing this summer. But this was totally unexpected!!

#west rambles #i plan on becoming more active on here again as i get back into writing regularly #needed somewhere to vent my overwhelm with all this for now #i just...#her job is literally to support Real Published Authors #and she told me that im a stand-out talent #she reads A Lot of aspiring authors work #she knows what she's talking about #im so flattered #and so definitely feeling imposter syndrome #like.. me? really?#this reaction to that silly poem??#surely i don't deserve it #but it's literally her job!!!#and she has no reason at all to lie to me!#she wouldn't have sought me out after practice and even Demanded i show her that i wrote down the info for the writing groups and magazine #if she wasn't serious

ad-wills

cosmicisbored

personal favorite trope of mine

#avenir #from #the corvine #especially in book two

Worldbuilding: PD (Part One)

I promised @aesterea a rundown on my worldbuilding for Personal Demons, so here’s how heaven, hell, and faerie work. (Because yes, faerie is a thing, and that’s something that will come up eventually)

(I hope I remembered everyone that wanted to be tagged, and if you didn’t want to be I’m So Sorry, lemme know) @nicholewrites, @kclenhartnovels, @theguildedtypewriter, @oddlylovingsouls, @golden-eyed-writer, @letolatona@knightedwriter, @polapipo, @thebluepolarbear, and @the-true-shadowmaster

Part One | Part Two | Part Three

Basics:

-Heaven, hell, earth, and faerie are sort of like dimensions, stacked on top of each other (and earth), in the same place and at the same time, not.

-Faerie was created first, and then heaven, earth, and hell was created last.

-Heaven hell and faerie are semi-sentient, and highly attuned to those that run them. (The archangels for heaven, Lucifer and those he places in the highest places of command, and in faerie, the two oldest fae first and foremost, and the princes/princesses below them. Faerie is a little more lax with power, and more willing to listen to the occupants than those in heaven or hell as well as the ones that run faerie)

-Heaven hell and faerie are all a little mischievous in their own way, though heaven is the least so (because Michael. Fuck Michael.) Their sense of humor brings me joy.

Keep reading

@westywrites

apparently past me even managed to link all three posts, but this is the one that talks specifically about heaven/hell/faerie

#other's words #very cool imagery in my mind based on how you explain it all here plus the connotations about these places #from pop culture and mythology #thanks for sharing!!

This is so cool!! I love the idea that the places themselves are sentient and just. Decide to dump you across the city for funsies 😂

It's also fascinating the idea that portals and how easy they are to access have changed over time, with hell being easier to get to now than in the past.. interesting implications there! Honestly, interesting implications in the differences between all of these dimensions or planes.

What if I, the reader, do want to sit through a geography lesson right now, huh, Cadoc?

(jokes aside, this seems like really fascinating lore - and really fascinating character building in how Alice asks if she'd be dead so plainly)

I do actually have a post that explains everything in depth if you want!!

Ooh yes! I'd definitely be interested in reading more about it - I'd if you'd tag me in a reblog of that post!

#other's words #thank you for sharing again!#i saw and liked this yesterday when i didn't have a moment to leave a comment and totally forgot to come back to it #glad i saw it again so i could show my appreciation!

What if I, the reader, do want to sit through a geography lesson right now, huh, Cadoc?

(jokes aside, this seems like really fascinating lore - and really fascinating character building in how Alice asks if she'd be dead so plainly)

prophetic-writer

Becoming a writer is great because now you have a hobby that haunts you whenever you don’t have time to do it

#trust me i am thoroughly haunted by the fact that i haven't had time to do any creative writing for myself in...#like almost two years #feels like part of me is dead and risen as a ghost in my own mind

kittykatninja321

I’ve said this before but I think all sci-fi and fantasy adventure needs a little bit of horror as seasoning. It doesn’t need to be full sci-fi horror or fantasy horror but a little bit of scary adds flavor. Build a world and then explore the fucked up implications of that world a little bit

#im always trying to do this in my writing!!

romance is lame and overrated i love mentor/mentee relationships in fiction and especially when theyre sort of fucked up

greatest hits:

- You started out as a bet/challenge to see if I could successfully wrangle the infamous Problem Child but oh whoops I got attached!

- You are my kind, bright-eyed protegé who would never do so much as rip a tag off a mattress. anyway I am going to acquaint you with Criminal Activity

- I showed you genuine kindness and it was maybe the first time you’d ever experienced it and accidentally ended up becoming more of a parent to you than your “real” blood family ever was. Uh. Do you want to play catch in the park or

- I will gladly take any punishment meant for you. I would go to the ends of the earth to protect you, even if it meant I had to die in the process. I would do it a thousand times over, and I wouldn’t regret any of it.

- I taught you how to fight, and now through some circumstance or another, I’m forced to engage you in life-or-death combat without holding back.

- I put you through training from hell to make you the person you are today, for “your own good”, and now you’ve realized that you can hit back. And you can hit hard.

- I have made you into something greater than yourself - but you are changing from how I have designed you, and this is something I cannot allow.

- I taught you everything you know, and it was the greatest mistake I’ve ever made.

- I will make you just like me - by force, if necessary.

stop taggin this with ships / “and then they kiss” / “but what if it WAS romantic” you are missing the whole point of this post so bad. this is a Certified Aro Post. get weird about platonic dynamics NOW