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Usually it’s video games instead of music but this is pretty much accurate hehe

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2023 Nano WIP Intro: Ecliptic Mirrors.

When everything you thought you knew is not there anymore, how do you define yourself?

Genre: New Adult, Technological Magic, Fiction.

POV: dual POV, first person.

Status: drafting

Summary:

Orion works for The New Moon, the government of his country. He is an Agent, one of the few people who managed to escalate higher up enough to be the executioner hand at the service of the State. He thinks he is doing a good job. Protecting his city. Protecting his friends. Protecting his way of living. He just has one thought, one task to accomplish in life: track, chase and eliminate Subject 1807, also known as Vega, a rebel who works solo, which should make her an easy target, but it doesn't. And, as much as Orion enjoys the chase, he is getting tired of 1807. The government needs to extract Order - the only resource that powers up not only the whole country but also makes everyone's well-being increase- soon and Orion always gets sick when it happens, his sensitivity higher than average to the imbalance of power. When he finally manages to corner 1807, the procedure is clear: elimination for the good of society.

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Vega has a happy life, living under The Full Moon government. Her boyfriend Orion and her enjoy the sustainable life, the green growing everywhere, the fresh air... Order is extracted from living things thriving, and The Full Moon knows this.

The problems start the morning after Orion is gone missing. He is an ethical hacker working for the State, so it wouldn't be a problem that he leaves in the middle of the night to take care of some kind of system problem, Vega knows, but usually, Orion leaves her a message. Some words scribbled on the pad of their apartment. Or sends her a Holo of a dancing dog... Or something. Anything.

And worst of all, Vega is left all alone days before The Full Moon is going to extract Order again. Vega, who is highly sensitive to Order changes.

Her path of thought is clear: finding Orion ASAP for her own well-being.

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Both Orion from New Moon and Vega from Full Moon suddenly find themselves in a place that is not here nor there, and where nobody else but them seem to realize they are clearly not meant to be.

The Order seems to be the only logical explanation.

How do you find a way out with a person who is supposed to be your enemy? How do you love someone who, according to him, killed you? And how do you realize what is different and what it's not when you don't even know where you are?

Taglist: ASK TO BE ADDED OR REMOVED!!

Tags: #wip:em; #wip: ecliptic mirrors

#oh my god #you literally never miss #HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO WRITE MY WIP IF I KEEP #THINKING ABOUT THIS #AAA #I LOVE THIS SOO MUCH #meli #nano 2023 wip intro #wip:em #wip: ecliptic mirrors #wip introduction

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dissertation writing advice

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Did you ever have a great idea for a Story, but knew that it was far beyond your skill level? What did you do?

That was how I felt about The Graveyard Book. So I wrote and wrote, determined that one day I would be a good enough writer to write that book. And nineteen years later I started it, and twenty one years later I finished it.

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How do you get past the feeling of your work not being good enough to publish? I’m currently working on a one shot comic book with a local publisher and I have imposter syndrome really bad.

You do it anyway and hope to get it right next time.

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Have you ever fully plotted out a out a story and then felt completely uninspired to write it? I just did that and I feel really disheartened now. Do you have any advice?

Write a different story.

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Hi Mr. Gaiman!

I adore your work so very much; many of your books, but especially Good Omens have turned me into the writer I am today and I thank you so much for it. Lately I’ve been struggling to write more than a few dozen pages a story and I feel that it’s hindering my writing. Do you have any advice on how to write in the long form without sounding too long-winded?

Once again, thanks!! I hope you are doing well.

Why not take this opportunity to write some short stories? And go long when you have an idea that demands to be long...?

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“I think fanfiction is literature and literature, for the most part, is fanfiction, and that anyone that dismisses it simply on the grounds that it’s derivative knows fuck-all about literature and needs to get the hell off my lawn. Most of the history of Western literature (and probably much of non-Western literature, but I can’t speak to that) is adapted or appropriated from something else. Homer wrote historyfic and Virgil wrote Homerfic and Dante wrote Virgilfic (where he makes himself a character and writes himself hanging out with Homer and Virgil and they’re like “OMG Dante you’re so cool.” He was the original Gary Stu). Milton wrote Bible fanfic, and everyone and their mom spent the Middle Ages writing King Arthur fanfic. In the sixteenth century you and another dude could translate the same Petrarchan sonnet and somehow have it count as two separate poems, and no one gave a fuck. Shakespeare doesn’t have a single original plot—although much of it would be more rightly termed RPF—and then John Fletcher and Mary Cowden Clarke and Gloria Naylor and Jane Smiley and Stephen Sondheim wrote Shakespeare fanfic. Guys like Pope and Dryden took old narratives and rewrote them to make fun of people they didn’t like, because the eighteenth century was basically high school. And Spenser! Don’t even get me started on Spenser. Here’s what fanfic authors/fans need to remember when anyone gives them shit: the idea that originality is somehow a good thing, an innately preferable thing, is a completely modern notion. Until about three hundred years ago, a good writer, by and large, was someone who could take a tried-and-true story and make it even more awesome. (If you want to sound fancy, the technical term is imitatio.) People were like, why would I wanna read something about some dude I’ve never heard of? There’s a new Sir Gawain story out, man! (As to when and how that changed, I tend to blame Daniel Defoe, or the Modernists, or reality television, depending on my mood.) I also find fanfic fascinating because it takes all the barriers that keep people from professional authorship—barriers that have weakened over the centuries but are nevertheless still very real—and blows right past them. Producing literature, much less circulating it, was something that was well nigh impossible for the vast majority of people for most of human history. First you had to live in a culture where people thought it was acceptable for you to even want to be literate in the first place. And then you had to find someone who could teach you how to read and write (the two didn’t necessarily go together). And you needed sufficient leisure time to learn. And be able to afford books, or at least be friends with someone rich enough to own books who would lend them to you. Good writers are usually well-read and professional writing is a full-time job, so you needed a lot of books, and a lot of leisure time both for reading and writing. And then you had to be in a high enough social position that someone would take you seriously and want to read your work—to have access to circulation/publication in addition to education and leisure time. A very tiny percentage of the population fit those parameters (in England, which is the only place I can speak of with some authority, that meant from 500-1000 A.D.: monks; 1000-1500: aristocratic men and the very occasional aristocratic woman; 1500-1800: aristocratic men, some middle-class men, a few aristocratic women; 1800-on, some middle-class women as well). What’s amazing is how many people who didn’t fit those parameters kept writing in spite of the constant message they got from society that no one cared about what they had to say, writing letters and diaries and stories and poems that often weren’t discovered until hundreds of years later. Humans have an urge to express themselves, to tell stories, and fanfic lets them. If you’ve got access to a computer and an hour or two to while away of an evening, you can create something that people will see and respond to instantly, with a built-in community of people who care about what you have to say. I do write the occasional fic; I wish I had the time and mental energy to write more. I’ll admit I don’t read a lot of fic these days because most of it is not—and I know how snobbish this sounds—particularly well-written. That doesn’t mean it’s “not good”—there are a lot of reasons people read fic and not all of them have to do with wanting to read finely crafted prose. That’s why fic is awesome—it creates a place for all kinds of storytelling. But for me personally, now that my job entails reading about 1500 pages of undergraduate writing per year, when I have time to read for enjoyment I want it to be by someone who really knows what they’re doing. There’s tons of high-quality fic, of course, but I no longer have the time and patience to go searching for it that I had ten years ago. But whether I’m reading it or not, I love that fanfiction exists. Because without people doing what fanfiction writers do, literature wouldn’t exist. (And then I’d be out of a job and, frankly, I don’t know how to do anything else.)”

— “As a professor, may I ask you what you think about fanfiction?” (via meiringens)

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*rocking back and forth in the fetal position* miscommunication is a core element of the romcom genre miscommunication is a core element of the romcom genre miscom

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this is such incredible advice for creating any kind of art i have to put it over here to remind myself

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Reblog if you think public libraries are important and should be maintained.

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writing is so silly and stupid its like auggghhh i made a character lie down and it sent me into a writers block for two days 😞😞 turns out the solution was to make then sit up or something and then suddenly its all good. the fuck man 😕

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Hey, sorry to add another thing to your inbox. I have the first draft of a novel about 90% done, but recently I've been having thoughts of turning it into a graphic novel instead. I can both draw and write, but I was deterred by the idea of doing all of the work myself. After some research, it turns out that a publisher would have a team to help me create it if I were to get my proposal accepted (I'm pretty sure).

I'm still genuinely torn on which direction to go here. The story could work both ways, and when my imposter syndrome isn't yelling at me, I think it could potentially be at least moderately successful in both formats. I'm going to finish the first draft, and maybe that will help me see where to go.

Anyway, my question is, what was the process of creating The Sandman like for you, especially in regards to working with others?

And what advice would you give to someone like me, if you have any?

(You're awesome and an inspiration, by the way.)

Finish your novel before you start turning it into something else.

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