#scrivener's moon

[aroaessidhe]

Sci-fi books where a queer woman has the ghost of an annoying dead guy in her head

*Misery is nonbinary (she/they) and who’s in her head is not dead or a guy but I’m counting it, okay

#scriveners moon is also YA and later in a series i just. needed an extra to round out the post #(i am sure there are other books like this around....tell me them..) #a memory called empire #the first sister #the stars undying #ninefox gambit #the genesis of misery #scrivener's moon #i havent read the other ninefox gambit books. i need to do that. one day #(also in TFS i probably wouldn't describe [spoiler] as annoying lol. maybe not some of the others also but anyway) #book list

[russolaw]

Well, you arent invited to the wedding

#mortal engines #Scrivener's moon

[monstercollection]

I’ve been slacking with my Literary Tarot Challenge posts so I’m going to do a quick drop with summaries of the ones I most recently finished, and hopefully get around to longer reviews of them later.

The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon (Nine of Parchment)- diary of an 11th century gentlewoman in the Imperial court of Japan. Sei is just… the most. She’s so much. She’s petty, she’s decadent, she’s conceited. She’s 100% That Bitch. I love and hate her in equal measure.

This was an absolutely fascinating window into the Heian Era but I had to WORK for it. Reading a book written 1,000 years ago is hard enough, but as someone from the US with only a second-hand familiarity with Japanese culture, Buddhism and Shinto, there were a so many new concepts I had to learn. Lots of good appendices in the edition I read that helped with unfamiliar vocab and cultural references (and I’ll edit to include which one I read when I get home). By far the hardest book I’ve read for the challenge and the first one I thought I might not finish.

“The Outsider” by H. P. Lovecraft (The Tower)- Short story about a sad, lonely haunted monster man, so basically my bullshit. My familiarity with Lovecraft and his mythos extends to having read Call of Cthulhu in college and playing a few board games based on his stories. I think I’d have gotten a little more out this one if I’d known more about his interconnected lore but I don’t necessarily feel the urge to delve further into Lovecraft’s work. It definitely stands on it’s own as a solo story.

“Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-street” by Herman Melville (Four of Light)- this is probably one of those stories assigned to me in high school or college that I either read just enough to fake my way through or read but remember nothing about.

It’s a short story about a lawyer who seems to collect weird, quirky, flawed little men for employees. He is extremely compassionate and I can’t tell if the lengths he goes to for them is supposed to make him the butt of a joke or if we’re supposed to see them through his eyes and empathize with them the way he does. I feel like it’s the latter. It’s stance seems to be that no one should suffer for being weird, lonely or mentally ill.

I’m sure my high school teacher bent it into some kind of puritan morality tale about how there is no point in helping those who won’t help themselves, but it doesn’t hit that way.

Emily of New Moon by L. M. Montgomery (The Star) - I don’t understand why Emily has not gotten the same attention and love as Anne of Green Gables. This is a beautiful story deeply into the category of Magical Realism, Emily’s world is as full of fairies and nature spirits and prophetic visions as it is the injustices of early 20th century childhood.

It pushes so many boundaries. I can see why it would not have been popular in it’s own time— there is a healthy level of blasphemy from Emily and her father who believe that their loving God exists as a separate being from the puritanical God everyone else preaches about.

It also radically asserts the idea that children are whole beings deserving of the same rights as adults. Almost every child in the book is living with some kind of abuse or neglect— and it’s not treated as “period-appropriate parenting techniques” but as the actual injustice it is.

I’m going to do a longer post on Emily soon because I have SO MANY FEELINGS about it. It might just be my favorite thing I’ve read for the challenge so far.

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot (The Hanged Man)- How are we all sitting around for tea when the slow march of time leads us ever closer to death? The helplessness in the face of existential inevitability made this one feel just right for the Hanged Man

“The Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin (Temperance)- Hard sci-fi short story about a pilot who has to make the choice between jettisoning a stowaway into space or running out of fuel before he can deliver medical supplies to a colony. This was emotional as hell but a really good story.

#classic lit #blorbo from my classic literature #literary tarot #literary tarot challenge #the pillow book #sei shonagon #Japanese literature #h. p. lovecraft #t. s. eliot #l. m. montgomery #emily of new moon #herman melville #bartleby the scrivener

[nerice]

shoutout 2 my screenplay. i always forget tge is the best fucking thing to have ever been produced

#the style needs updating badly but IM FEELING IT OUGHGH #finished typing off act two into scrivener and resting my wrist now. gonna do the other two acts mon/tue #and then edit!!!!!!!!! which tbh shouldnt take more than the rest of the week (health developments notwithstanding) #and then i finally have a proper version again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #TFW BLACK SWAN. H #elia txts #honest 2 fucking god nothing 2 cure me better than going thru the ch/g inv moon sequence again :)! we like it there

[pearl-kite]

WIP Whenever

Tagged by @ejunkiet for this week, and since it's not Wednesday anymore it's a Whenever. I could just wait until next week but nope.

I think I need to broaden my WIPs because every single writing WIP Wednesday is from the same thing and by the time I finish y'all will be able to just jigsaw the thing together with them

So more Darlin' about to get into a super cool very fun fight, because the fight itself is absolute torture right now

“Wait, they’re the one that squealed on Quinn?” Annika’s voice is incredulous, and when they flicker their attention her way they see a smile stretched wide across her face. She leans forward against the island, eyes wide for a moment before they narrow on them, smile turning predatory.

Shit.

“So what was the plan, anyway?” Neil asks, taking one languorous step forward and pulling their attention back to that end of the room. “You going to beg him for forgiveness? You do know how pissed he is, right?” Another step.

Instinct urges them back but they ignore it, rooting themself in place with more effort than is comfortable, moving only enough to shift into a ready stance. Even if instinct wants them to run, they know that right now their best hope is to intimidate the others long enough to get away or think of a better plan. Any plan, really.

Mmmmm I'm gonna be a bump on a log and not tag anyone this time :3

#wip wednesday #wip whenever #idk let's pull names out of a hat so it's not all he she and they #I finally decided to just make a file in scrivener so I can actually see how many words a day I can squeeze out #because it has a very nice handy writing history tracker #the downside is it also considered removed words to balance it #so earlier today I was at ~60 and now I'm at 5 🙃 #uhhh not gonna tag this as redacted this time #idk why not just... feels weird #like... do character studies of the listener without canon characters really count? #cause I've been doing a little too well at adapting darlin' into a full on OC at this point #going to kidnap them and drop them into other things like blood moon #anyway hi there IS progress being made #it's just itty bitty at a time

[trueloveandotherscificoncepts]

So I've just started Ancients, the fourth and final book in The Librarian's Coven series by Kathryn Moon.

In general, I love these books. I love the characters, I love the magic system, and I really really love the poly representation. This polycule has their issues throughout the series, and those issues almost always arise from lack of communication. They have to learn how they fit together and how to express their needs and insecurities. It's great.

But something that has niggled at me since book one ('Written') is the way the narrative is divided between the characters. The book is written in first person, switching pov between the four leads from chapter to chapter. And I just...kind of wish it wasn't.

Each book is very much centred on one character. Book one is Joanna's story, book two ('Warriors') is Callum's, book three ('Scrivens') is Aidan's, and book for is Isaac's. So it just feels like the series would be stronger as a whole if each book was told exclusively from the pov of the central character. Imagine, if in book three when Aidan is struggling with his insecurity, we were solely in his head. If we as the audience didn't get the reassurance of bouncing to Joanna's or Callum's head to hear them thinking about how much they love Aidan, to know that his insecurities are unfounded. Imagine if we had to wait until the characters got to a point where they were able to honestly talk to each other to get that reassurance.

I just think that would have been more powerful narratively.

Anyway, despite that, I genuinely recommend the series, despite how trashy it is at points (and how truly terrible the covers are). Pretty sure all the audiobooks are free on audible, so give them a go.

#poly things #poly representation #queer things #bi representation #bisexual characters #book rec #book recommendations #kathryn moon #the librarian's coven #written #warriors #scrivens #ancients #endless list of favourite books #queer book recs #booklr

[redjayson]

tagged by @savrenim

RULES: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

List of WIPs:

second-hand alibis

the pale morning sings of forgotten things

murder cave 3

reverse phantom limbs

the girls are fightingggg

winter shizun au

think of the baby

ignis fatuus agelaius

obviously several of these are ongoing WIPs that have been partially posted to AO3, but! they're in the WIP scrivener file(s) with my other works. I'm not totally sure I know 8 people but... @northisnotup @blue-mood-blue @mikkeneko @steves-strapcollection @sun-and-moon-mushroom @horsegirlwarcrimes @nieded and anyone else who wants to join!

#julia writes #ask prompt

[infjtarot]

Magician. Mystic Spiral Tarot

Themes and Keywords: Will. Magic. As above, so below. Words and thoughts with power to bend reality. Words as trickery. Illusion versus change in accordance with will. Knowledge. Skills. Tools. Connection. Transmission. Universal access to all realms. Mind, with all its virtues and flaws. The wand.

Astrology/Element Speedy, tiny Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, has an orbit of only eighty-eight days. It has no moons and flies solo. Because of its proximity to the sun, it rises and sets with it, so it is difficult to see in our night sky. Because its orbit lies inside that of Earth’s, it has phases, but we can never see its full phase as it is always behind or in front of the sun. It’s never more than twenty-eight degrees from the degree of the sun, being either in the same sign or an adjacent one. The sun governs force (Spirit), the positive (masculine) polarity, while the moon rules form (body), the negative (feminine) polarity. But Mercury is androgynous, being the mind or messenger between the two. It’s one of the most important influences on a chart because it tells much about the mind, which creates reality, and describes the intellect and style of communication. It rules messages transmitted and received, travel, motion, magic, the sciences, and logic.

Mercury’s glyph combines the circle of Spirit above the cross of matter and is topped by the crescent of personality (which looks remarkably like a figure wearing a winged cap or transmitting antennae). Mercury has dual rulership over mutable air sign Gemini as its day sign and mutable earth sign Virgo as its night sign. As Gemini, it expresses its quicksilver nature, curiosity, versatility, and wit. As Virgo, it expresses common sense, attention to detail, deep analysis, and logical thought.

Mythology/Alchemy Mercurial gods all bear the creative and compelling power of the logos: the will and word. Hermes (Mercurius) was known as “he of the persuasive tongue.” He wears the talaria (winged sandals that give swiftness) and either the petasos (traveler’s cap) or winged helmet, and he carries the herald’s staff, or caduceus. He is the messenger of the gods, a mischievous trickster, the patron of travelers. Hermes is a friend of those who pursue the occult arts, merchants, thieves, orators, and those in the fields of art and science. In his chthonic form, he takes on the role of psychopomp. Hermes Trismegistus (Thrice Great) is a form of Hermes combined with the Egyptian god Thoth. Thoth ruled in Hermopolis over the Ogdoad (eightfold), a pantheon of eight primordial gods. He was the measurer of time and the scribe of the gods, and he was credited with the inventions of all branches of knowledge, human and divine: astronomy, writing, science, law, mathematics, medicine, and the measurements that established the heavens and Earth. As a scribe, he appears with the head of an ibis. In the underworld, he appears as an ape. His feminine counterpart was Seshet, “she who scrivens”: Mistress of the House of Books, overseer of the royal scribes and library, and dually credited with all of Thoth’s inventions. The “ape of Thoth” trope on the Thoth deck’s Magus is a mercurial reference; here is the ape-as-Magician, complete with the usual wand and analemma. (Prometheus, who stole fire from heaven and gifted it to man, is also a mercurial figure. Other figures cognate are Loki, Ganesha, and Hanuman. It’s usually the Magician, as the Mercury card, where one thinks to find alchemical mercury. In alchemy, mercury represents the spirit (mind), sulfur represents the soul (consciousness, life), and salt represents the body (matter). Because alchemical mercury is spirit and mind, both the Fool and the Magician share this role just as one evolves from the other. Susan T. Chang

#Magician #tarot #major arcana #Mystic Spiral Tarot

[apoptoses]

whats your favourite way of writing.. typing on a laptop, quill in bloody ink, a specific program when the moon is grey etc.. whatever you wish to answer

oh man i have a Method™:

I bought this insane gaming laptop so I could bg3 for like two months but now it's just for movies and writing lol So always, always laptop. I cannot hand write, I used to cry in school over frustration over having to hand write essays in class on tests because my hand cannot keep up with my brain and then i dyslexia all over the place.

-Disjointed fic ideas go in the notes app on my phone so I can add ideas on the go. Anything that I think really hits gets typed over into the fic doc at the very bottom so I remember to utilize it.

-Always start in scrivener, always set to dark mode. I have a single scriv doc for oneshots where I just make a new text 'chapter' for a new fic, so anything non-chaptered and under 20k gets started in there. Write from start to finish, no going back.

-Once the fic is done in scriv I change the icon to a checkmark and paste the fic into google docs (also in darkmode thanks to a browser extension)

-Edit in google docs because it picks up typos that scriv misses, and also because the font change makes me see the words with fresh eyes.

Usually I'm an afternoon writer? Once the adhd meds and the coffee hit I'm ready to go, I feel I do my best work if I can start around 2pm and then putter around most of the day. If under duress I'll write at night but unless I have a friend running a sprinto I usually just don't lol

Also I have my Writing Chair, which is this ugly lift recliner my grandma got but never used. I think better when I'm in it because it forces me to sit up and it's not as cushy as the couch. And also it's next to the bookshelf so all VC books are within reach at all times. But if it's nice out I also like writing outside, less temptations out there like the TV. I got a lot done outside on my porch at night with kacy here but that was in summer when it was warm enough for that sort of thing lol

Anyways I think it's important to have a method and a ritual!! A dedicated Writing Zone tricks your brain into focusing, and then everything else is just finding programs and habits that work for you.

#apoptoses answers

[ospreyeamon]

The calendar of the Reconstituted Empire was instituted by the Sith Emperor during the first year of his reign on Dromund Kaas. It was derived from the calendar of the Old Empire, with most of the modifications serving to make its structure more regular. While the empires and hegemonies of the Sith Worlds have long had their major centres of industry and culture away from Korriban – the planet’s devastated biosphere can’t support a large population – the ancient homeworld’s solar calendar has always served as the unitary calendar for its colonies and their sphere of influence. Ziost, Rhelg, Khar Delba, and Krayiss have spent much of their collective history vying with each other politically, economically, and militarily – all too proud to ever willingly acknowledge one of the others’ planetary calendars as the space travel standard – so Korribani dates have always been used for interstellar trade and communication.

Individual worlds also observe their own planetary calendars. The variance of day-length between worlds means that attempting to enforce the sole use of the unitary calendar would ensure that most of the Empire’s population would be perpetually out of sync with the day-night cycle and their productivity would suffer because of it. All important dates are marked by where they fall on the unitary calendar, but only those on starships, space stations, and Korriban itself fully live by it.

Korriban has an unusually long year for an inhabited terrestrial world; seven-hundred and eighty local days of twenty-eight hours. For comparison, Dromund Kaas’ solar year contains only three-hundred and twelve local days of twenty-three hours; Korriban’s is nearly three times that length. Because of this, most administrative matters are run on a schedule of terciles rather than on an annual basis. Terciles are further divided into three trimesters containing three months.

Each of the twenty-seven months is four weeks long; each week has seven days. The names of the days of the week are derived from the names of the seven moons of Korriban (because every day is Monday when you’re in the Sith Empire). Aihzday is named after Aih the Jealous, Chonsday for Chenshu the Bright, Wodninday for Wodwêrninik the Tide-binder, Tsetuday for Tsotu the Misshapen, Ishazday for Ishat the Scriven, Erohday for Qerohoi the Unseen, and Kunday for Kun the Weeper.

Unlike the days of the week, months in the Reconstituted calendar do not have culturally or historically meaningful names. Instead they are numbered; the fifth to twelfth months are called the equivalents of Quintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November, December, Undecember, and Duodecember.

Outside the months and weeks are the state holidays – twenty-four days in total. Most of the holidays are part of the three great festivals; the Days of Adoration, the Days of Foundation, and the Days of Ascension. Each great festival runs for six days and celebrates the achievements of the Sith Emperor.

The Days of Adoration mark the beginning of each new year. In the old calendar they were the New Year’s Festival; after the destruction of Ziost they become so again. Vitiate marked a new count of years beginning from when he proclaimed himself Emperor on Korriban. This break with the previous dating system provides an ongoing source of headaches for Imperial historians.

Originally the New Year’s festival was seven days long; it is unclear why it was shortened, but many people assume it was to fit the regularised structure of the new calendar. Some communities add an unofficial seventh day to their celebrations, reasoning that to cut the festival short might risk breaking the luck for the incoming year. Adoration co-opted many traditions from New Year’s; fireworks, gifting luck money to children, jewel biscuits, etc.

The Days of Foundation commemorate the establishment of the Reconstituted Sith Empire on Dromund Kaas. The Emperor’s fleet rediscovered the planet that they would make their new home after eight years of journeying after their flight from Korriban (twenty standard years by the Republic’s calendar). Each day of the festival is dedicated to the different series of Imperial institutions said to have been founded on that day, except for the first which celebrates the Empire as a whole.

The Days of Ascension supposedly mark the anniversary of the Sith Emperor’s ascent to immortality. The story goes that the then Lord of Medriaas immersed himself in ancient lore and modern science, delving deep into his inner self and the currents of the Force until he cultivated the absolute command and power that enabled him to extend his life perpetually. His final mediative seclusion ended not long after the news of the Galactic Republic’s invasion of the Sith worlds and the death of Ludo Kressh broke. Upon learning of those events, he gathered followers to perform a great ritual that would have destroyed the navies of the Republic and saved the Old Empire – but the Jedi and the Republic struck before the ritual could be completed, destroying Medriaas. Because he had already attained immortality the future emperor was the only survivor. He then returned to Korriban to warn the remaining Sith Lords of the Republic’s intentions, where he proclaimed himself Sith Emperor.

In addition to the great festivals, there are six other official imperial state holidays; Dancing Drones, Victory Day, Tomb Procession, the day of the Perfect Path, Sagas’ Chorus, and the hanging of the Ghost Chimes.

#Meanwhile in a Galaxy Far Far Away #swtor meta #the sith empire #reconstituted Sith empire #Korriban #in~universe calendars and dates #star wars the old republic #a wild headcanon appeared

[thatstudyblrontea]

23 books for 2023 📖

I was tagged by @booksnpictures and @leer-reading-lire to share 23 books I want to read this year – thank you!!! It's taken... some time to write them down during exams, but I made it. I'm skipping rereads and <20 pages stories that I plan on reading, but I'm including the books I've already read this year, my Substack subscriptions and the entries for the Tackle Your Classics reading challenge. Books from 14th down are really just books that have been waiting years in my shelves, and really deserve some attention!

Demon - Mikhail Lermontov

Carmilla - Sheridan Le Fanu

The 40 Days of Mussa Dagh - Franz Werfel

The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman

The Showstone - Glenn Cooper

Daisy Miller - Henry James

Benito Cereno - Herman Melville

Dracula - Bram Stoker

The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal

Bartleby, the Scrivener - Herman Melville

Young Goodman Brown - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Babylon Revisited - Francis S. Fitzgerald

A Rose for Emily - William Faulkner

Not My Father's Son - Alan Cumming

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

A Day in 2889 of an American Journalist - Jules Verne

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - Benjamin Alire Saenz

The Time Machine - H. G. Wells

The Fall of Gondolin - J.R.R. Tolkien

From the Earth to the Moon - Jules Verne

Shakespeare Stories vol. 2 - Leon Garfield

*book I'll have to read for my thesis n. 1*

*book I'll have to read for my thesis n. 2*

I'll return to this in 6 months, to see where I'm at and how many of these books I've actually read (probably a few – I'm not good at planning my readings in advance). I'm tagging @problematicprocrastinator @the---hermit @studyingfilms (if you haven't been tagged already!!) and anyone else who wants to participate!

#tag game #tagged #23 books for 2023 #bookblr #books #tackleyourclassics2023

[russolaw]

Oh to be touched by the wet inquisitive trunk of a mammoth that is really a mutated elephant

#Mortal Engines #Scrivener's moon

[delightingintragedy]

Mercury Correspondences

From Christian Astrology by William Lilly

(It is mostly word for word. I tried to format it to fit into a nice correspondence list, but the information itself is untouched.)

Zodiac: Rules Gemini and Virgo. Exalted in Virgo, Detriment in Sagittarius and Pisces, Fall in Pisces.

Nature: We may not call him either Masculine or Feminine, for he is either the one or other as joined to any Planet; for if in Conjunction with a Masculine Planet, he becomes Masculine; if with a Feminine, then Feminine, but of his own nature he is cold and dry, and therefore Melancholy; with the good he is good, with the evil Planets ill; In the Elements the Water; amongst the humours, the mixed, he rules the animal spirit: he is author of subtlety, tricks, devices, perjury, etc.

Profession: Generally signifies all literary men, Philosophers, Mathematicians, Astrologians, Merchants, Secretaries, Scriveners, Diviners, Sculptors, Poets, Orators, Advocates, Schoolmasters, Stationers, Printers, Exchangers of Money, Attorneys, Emperor's Ambassadors, Commissioners, Clerks, Artificers, generally Accountants, Solicitors, sometimes Thieves, prattling muddy Ministers, busy Sectaries, and they unlearned; Grammarians, Tailors, Carriers, Messengers, Footmen, Usurers.

Sicknesses: All Vertigos, Lethargies or giddiness in the Head, Madness, either Lightness, or any Disease of the Brain; Phthisis, all stammering and imperfection in the Tongue, vain and fond Imaginations, all defects in the Memory, Hoarseness, dry Coughs, too much abundance of Spittle, all snaffling and snuffling in the Head or Nose; the Hand and Feet Gout, Dumbness, Tongue-evil, all evils in the Fancy and intellectual parts.

Colour: Mixed and new colours, the Grey mixed with Sky-colour, such as is on the Neck of the Stockdove, Linsie-woolsie colours, or consisting of many colours mixed in one.

Savours: A hodgepodge of all things together, so that no one can give it any true name; yet usually such as do quicken the Spirits, are subtle and penetrate, an in a manner insensible.

Herbs & Plants: Herbs attributed to Mercury, are known by the various colour of the flower, and love sandy barren places, they bear their seed in husks or pods, they smell rarely or subtlety, and have principle relation to the tongue, brain, lungs or memory; they dispel wind and comfort the Animal spirits, and open obstructions. Beans, three leaved-grass, the Walnut and Walnut-tree; the Filbert-tree and Nut; the Elder tree, Adders tongue, Dragonwort, Twopenny grass, Lungwort, Aniseeds, Cubebs, Marjoram. What herbs are used for the Muses and Divination, as Vervain, the Reed; of Drugs, Treacle, Hiera, Diambra.

Beasts: The Hyena, Ape, Fox, Squirrel, Weasel, the Spider, the Greyhound, the Hermaphrodite, being partaker of both sexes; all cunning creatures.

Birds, etc: The Linnet, the Parrot, the Popinian, the Swallow, the Pye, the Beetle, Pismires, Locusts, Bees, Serpent, the Crane.

Fishes: The Fork-fish, Mullet.

Places: Tradesmen's shops, Markets, Fairs, Schools, Common Halls, Bowling Alleys, Ordinaries, Tennis Courts.

Minerals: Quicksilver.

Stones: The Millstone, Marcasite or fire-stone, the Achates, Topaz, Vitriol, all stones of diverse colours.

Weather: Delights in Windy, Stormy and Violent, Boisterous Weather, and stirs up that Wind which the Planet signifies to which he applies; sometimes Rain, at other times Hail, Lightning, Thunder and Tempests, in hot Countries Earthquakes, but this must be observed really from the Sign and Season of the year.

Angel: Raphael

Planetary Alliances: His friends are Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn, his Enemies all the other Planets.

Week Day: Wednesday

Correspondence posts for the other planets: [Sun] [Moon] [Venus] [Mars] [Jupiter] [Saturn]

#astrology #planets #mercury #planetary #planetary magic #correspondences #magic #witchcraft #witchblr #astrology witch #magical correspondences #witches #witch community #witch #astro community #zodiac #zodiac signs #astroblr #astrology facts

[void-botanist]

WTW Ghost Gala - Day 7: Skeleton

Skeleton - Have a favorite plot structure? If not, share how you plot!

I am extremely bad with plot structures. I might use them for vague inspiration (e.g. oh maybe a turning point here would be helpful) but I can't follow them for the life of me. Lately, I plot mostly by saying "here's where my characters start, here's where I want them to end up, how do I get there" and then filling everything between the beginning and the end with a series of disasters and problems to solve. This can be almost episodic (see: Nicea, a space opera where they encounter new problems in every system) or more drawn out (see: my NaNo project, Another Ocean's Moon, where each of the POV characters has their own specific problem they're trying to solve that mirror each other but diverge pretty sharply). I'll also spend some time throwing ideas for scenes into Scrivener and arranging them in a way that makes sense, but I don't wait until I've come up with all the events to start writing. I'll come up with more as I explore the characters and the setting more deeply.

#wtwcommunity #wtwevent #ghost gala

[netherworldpost]

re: that handbound fanfic post, it just like. brought back memories of like scribbling fanfic into notebooks from like middle school. i still have scraps of paper or folded up pieces of legal paper with just some oc shit that i wrote at work or something (back when i worked retail or food service) so that's a fucking vIBE and i love it. idk if this is a random ask to send but i felt like sharing i guess?? love your work!!

I say type them up in Google Word or if you've a few bucks and an inclination to learn the organizing structure, Scrivener (I'm on a big Scrivener kick lately, it is damn useful)

Print them out and bind them into a book.

3-hole punch and a binder is the cheapest/most accessible.

Every art store the moon touches will have book binding equipment and kits, they aren't terribly expensive, it isn't terribly difficult once you get the basics

Every office supply store will print and coil bind, or offer countless other options, if you want durable and someone else to handle

Put it on your bookshelf and show it to people who see said bookshelf with the same light and joy as you showoff your favorite books.

Turn the temple of published word work into a public park that you are the groundskeeper and travel guide. Even if it has amateur mistakes and is rambling and doesn't make sense -- maybe especially if it has amateur mistakes and is rambling and doesn't make sense.

[mirrorthoughts]

WIP Ask Game

I know there's an ask game out there that's about your wips but I couldn't find it 😂

Sooo, I'm doing one myself xD

Since I just sorted through my Scrivener projects (I made projects for those wips that were growing too large and made my general project way too complex and confusing) I finally have a better overview about my wips now to actually do this xD

Here you have a list of wip titles! Give me an ask with a number and I'll tell you more about them! :D

WIPs that actually have words

Fae Heart

Inn of the Multiverse

The little things

AC - Regeneration

Sorry not Sorry

Blue Moon

The Witch and The Werewolf

Once is chance, twice is a coincidence, thrice is a pattern

Beyond the Trees

Dead Men Walking

In the End, does it even matter?

WIPs that are only concepts currently

12. On the Other side pt2 13. Creative Magic 14. Tattoos are magical in another universe 15. The Fox, The Bitch And The Oak Tree 16. I Fear For Thee, My Love 17. AC - Pocket Soulmates

.... my conclusion to this game is I do have too many WIPs... xDDDD

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