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Heads Up Seven Up

Rules: write the last seven lines you wrote and then tag seven people.

I was tagged by @aohendo and and I’ve written a whole chapter prologue today, so perfect timing!

Three sets of eyes track their progress, watching until the lift doors close and obscure them from sight. The three watchers share a look and then silently return to their work, relieved that it had all gone to plan. Excited that this was only the beginning. Satisfied that the mother had not noticed anything amiss.

Like the way the child hadn’t responded to their name at first, or the faint circle of white that now ringed their pupils. Or the fluid way in which they moved, with far more spatial and mental awareness than any child had a right to possess.

Or the fact that, all things considered…

… that wasn’t her child anymore at all.

Tagging: @zombiefaepunk, @writing-with-melon, @phantom-does-a-thing, @touchingmadness, @if-all-i-have-are-words, @crowandmoonwriting, @peepos-prose, & anyone else who wants to join in!

#tagged in #tag games #heads up seven up #wip: sg #thank you for the tag! #and apologies if i tagged anyone who doesn't like tags #i can't remember who i normally tag for stuff like this #feel free to ignore if you so desire

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Heads Up Seven Up

Rules are to write the last seven lines you wrote and then tag seven people

Thanks for the tag, @fearofahumanplanet! I’ll send this over to @athenixrose, @adayforducks, @smilingpaperbag, @emelkae, @jezifster and an open tag to anyone who’d like to participate!

“Strauv would remain whole,” Nazvili said, gently. “And I will not speak of your studies in Projection.”

He could always ditch the ‘Yphant na Suem’ identity. He would hate to—it’s all he had left of Dyrmos, his mentor—but he could. He could run. Strauv would die, though, or, more likely, Nazvili would restrain him for Projection, and then it wouldn’t be long before she realized the Headmaster of Cym used him for something far more devastating. Kiris scoffed. How would that be any different than what ‘L Tuola would do to him?

At least this way, he could keep Strauv safe.

#others' #ooh angsty!! #love the indecision and the internal debate

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Last Line Tag

Tagged by @muddshadow, thank you!

And the person – the child – does, unnoticed by their mother and unmissed by anyone who could have prevented their departure.

Tagging: @zmwrites, @aohendo, @thelittlestspider, @kcsmall, & anyone else who sees this and wants to join in!

#tagged in #tag games #wip: sg #still settling into this wip so no idea what it is yet #but i'm having fun #thank you again for the tag #and no obligation to anyone i tagged

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Never forget how much fun writing is. You get to make up little guys and other people will love the little guys (because of their stupid human pack bonding brains) and then you can do things to the guys and make readers feel things. You get to make up little mysteries and put them in and watch readers tear themselves apart puzzling it out, but you don’t have to go through that, you’re safe because you know. You already know all the answers and they don’t. You get to put a guy in a situation and surround him with mysteries and be like “hahaha everyone is going to HATE this.”

But they won’t leave. No. They’ll stay to see what happens to the guy and what the answers are. You can force them to think and feel things for YEARS.

#positivity

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Last Line Tag

I was tagged ages ago by @emelkae and I finally have something to share, so here we go.

All that matters are appearances, the illusion of hard work and the implication that anyone in a less fortunate position is there due to their own poor choices and lack of determination.

Tagging: @pertinax--loculos, @diphthongsfordays, @siarven, @squid-scribe, & anyone else who wants to join in!

#tagged in #tag games #last line tag #wip: sg #no i'm not heated about capitalism again wdym #this is just a fantasy wip #no allegories here #anyway ty for the tag! #and no pressure to anyone i've tagged ofc

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me: i miss my wip

wip: then get back to writing

*blankly stares at page*

#humour

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tag the OC who is autistic

#oh boy #ap: josh #ap: rosie #(probably?) #sg: pearl #ihp: georgia #definitely forgetting some

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*through gritted teeth* every day i choose to be kind *barely restraining myself from violence* i choose to have compassion *tamping down the vicious bloodlust inside me* i choose to care and to be kind and to love

#not writing

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BREAKING NEWS! secondhand book, upon first reading, is discovered to have the underlinings and annotations of a previous owner. a hundred hearts have been healed, more at 8

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HUGE fan of the enemies forced to work together trope. not even in an enemies to lovers way just 2 ppl who absolutely despise each other being forced to tolerate the others presence and being like once we’re done with this i won’t fucking hesitate. top 10 tropes of all time

#tropes

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group trip to the local library with the mutuals

#hell yeah #let's go

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Btw if I say things like “by god” or “good lord” in posts please be aware I don’t mean it in a catholic way I mean it in a 1950s scientist reacting in horror after they create an evil creature in the lab set in the distant future year of 2005

#not writing

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Sometimes I want to write a fantasy epic with incredibly deep lore and meaning, other times I want to write a dystopian setting with a lot of uncomfortable truths. I also want to write a tragedy that will make people cry, and a romance that is so sweet that I'll give myself cavities. I want to write a story with no meaning or message at all, it's just chaos and fun, and a novel that explores the depths of humanity and the meaning of life. I want to write contemporary fiction and historical fiction and something that takes place in the future. I want to write mysteries, post-apocalyptic stories, thrillers, horror, urban fantasy and—

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Plot tables: Mapping out and organizing all your plots and storylines

Can’t organize your plot and are juggling between several plot lines? I got your back, I present: Plot tables!

(I’m probably not the only person to use these, but I have no idea if these are commonly used and I just don’t know about it or I actually did something with this)

Here’s a loose example I threw together. It’s just a normal table where each column represents a different storyline within the same story. It shows you roughly what should happen in each chapter / scene.

e.g., from the example table, we see that in chapter / scene 1, there’s a chase scene where the police lose track of the criminal they’re following, as well as in the same chapter we see character B and C break up.

It’s nothing groundbreaking, but it’s something I want to share considering the amount of people I see complaining about juggling 50 million storylines and having no orderly way to keep track of it

#tips & tricks #plotting #ohh #i hadn't thought of this before! #might have to give it a go

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Text: “I’m sure your body will turn up,” says mother, placing a cup a tea in front of our guest just as someone starts to knock on the window. “Oh look! There it is now.”

#prompts

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i love you morally grey characters i love you ethical dilemmas i love you stories where "good" and "evil" are subjective terms that depend entirely on where you're standing i love you unconventional personal moral codes i love you blue and orange morality i love you nuance

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i love the narrative of things only being discovered after they are lost. Character development that is so slow and subtle that it is only noticeable after they regress to their old ways. Trust between people so guarded that it can only be revealed in a betrayal scene. Love that is realised after parting forever. They didn't get to cherish it but they get to mourn the loss of it. There won't be a second time and they missed the first.