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yanittawrites · 4 years
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Just an update...
I just submitted "Momma's a Butcher" to a couple lit mags!! abdkbfdjjcbej this is the first time I'm submitting to a lit mag, so...SO EXCITED af!! The worst part is waiting 6 months for a rejection...
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yanittawrites · 4 years
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Color Synonyms
White
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also: pale; blanched; sallow; pallid; waxen; spectral; translucent; albino; 
Grey
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also: dust; stone; pepper;  
Black
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also:  coal; slate; dusky; ebon; shadow; murky; 
Tan
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also: flesh; khaki; cream; tawny; 
Brown
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also:  henna; russet; sepia; chestnut; cocoa; drab; bronze; 
Red
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also: terracotta ; rouge; carmine;  fire-engine; ruddy
Orange
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also:  pumpkin ; rust ; 
Yellow
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also: sunny; amber; saffron; hay; straw; platinum; 
Green
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also: viridescent; grass; jade; forest; 
Blue
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also: turquoise; cyan; ultramarine; royal; aqua; aquamarine;
Purple
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also: berry;  amaranthine;
Pink
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also: flushed; candy; cherry blossom; petal pink ; 
—– source: http://ingridsundberg.com/
—–additional synonyms added by me
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yanittawrites · 4 years
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Resources For Describing Characters
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Physical Appearance
Arms
Athletic Build
Back
Butts
Cheeks
Chest
Chins
Curvy Build
Ears
Eyebrows
Eyes
Faces
Facial Hair
Feet
Fingernails
Fingers
Hair
Hands
Head
Hips
Jaws
Knees
Legs
Lips
Muscular Build
Neck
Noses
Shoulders
Slender Build
Sickly Build
Skin
Stocky Build
Stomach
Teeth
Toenails
Toes
Underweight Build
Character Traits
Affectionate
Ambitious
Bossy
Brave
Calm
Cautious
Charismatic
Clever
Conceited
Courageous
Creative
Critical
Curious
Determined
Diplomatic
Dishonest
Disorganized
Eccentric
Excitable
Friendly
Funny
Generous
Glamorous
Guarded
Honest
Impulsive
Independent
Intelligent
Just
Kind
Loyal
Manipulative
Mature
Modest
Mysterious
Naïve
Optimistic
Prejudiced
Persistent
Proper
Responsible
Sensitive
Sentimental
Serious
Shy
Reckless
Stingy
Stubborn
Talented
Thoughtful
Thrifty
Visionary
Wise
Witty
Worry Wart
Wounded
Talents & Skills
A Knack for Languages
A Knack for Making Money
A Way with Animals
Archery
Astral Projection
Astrological Divination
Baking
Basic First Aid
Blending In
Carpentry
Charm
ESP (Clairvoyance)
Empathy
Enhanced Hearing
Enhanced Sense of Smell
Enhanced Taste Buds
Farming
Fishing
Foraging
Gaining the Trust of Others
Gaming
Gardening
Good Listening Skills
Haggling
Herbalism
Hospitality
Hot-Wiring a Car
High Pain Tolerance
Knife Throwing
Knowledge of Explosives
Lip-Reading
Lying
Making People Laugh
Mechanically Inclined
Mentalism
Mimicking
Multitasking
Musicality
Organization
Parkour
Photographic Memory
Predicting the Weather
Promotion
Psychokinesis
Reading People
Regeneration
Repurposing
Sculpting
Self-Defense
Sewing
Sharpshooting
Sleight-of-Hand
Strategic Thinking
Strong Breath Control
Super Strength
Survival Skills
Swift-footedness
Talking With The Dead
Throwing One’s Voice
Whittling
Wilderness Navigation
Wrestling
Elemental Abilities
Miscellaneous
Voices
Voice Types
Speech Patterns
Speech Impediment
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List of Archetypes
Hairstyles
Describing Body Types & How They Move Around
Secrets To Give Your Character
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yanittawrites · 4 years
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send some names!
--diana, jay, lenore, nannerl, tenny, louis from celestial city
Wait, wait I’m bored and I have a terrible but amazing idea.
Send me a name from my OCs and I’ll give you the pros and cons of dating them! (Or of being their best friend, if they don’t date.)
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yanittawrites · 4 years
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Its Storyteller Saturday! What kind of dedication would you write for your current WIP?
Thanks for the ask! And happy storyteller saturday ;)
My dedication for Celestial City would be:
“For DD and Pammy, thanks for listening to me ramble about omnibuses at 3 am.”
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yanittawrites · 4 years
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Hello Yanitta! What inspired you to have an urban fantasy period drama? I feel like I've yet to see such a concept and it sounds amazing! Does your WIP include a secret other world like (many) other urban fantasies? Happy story teller Saturday!
Hi, and thanks so much for the ask! I love this question!
Well, I personally love urban fantasy, and I think the purpose of reading is to escape into another world! But I felt like the best part in urban fantasy novels was how the magical elements interact or exist simultaneously with the normal every-day stuff. So I decided to write urban fantasy!
Another thing is that, I don’t like the presence of social media in books. It just takes all the difficulty out of things, and honestly?? Spending a whole day on the internet is not at all interesting. I wouldn’t read a book about characters spending the whole day on tumblr (because that’s the reality in 2020 XD)...so I decided to write it in a historical setting. At first, I planned to set it in 1920, but I changed it to 1860 because I love the Victorian era, and it is a period where new modern technology was starting to become more common. The existence of motor cars, steam engines, photography and light bulbs started to become more prevalent, so that is my favorite historical era!
Celestial City includes 3 parallel universes. In the first book of the series, the third one will not be mentioned yet. So the first one is our normal world where the Celestials exist, and the second one is a world specifically for monsters with some supernatural traits (they still look like humans, but they have powers like flame, water, flying, telepathy, etc). In the normal world, Celestials are widely known. Everybody knows that Celestials are the supernatural police that keep the monsters away. People are born with Celestial traits, e.g. heightened sight and speed, etc. So there are people who are normal and not Celestials, but the idea of magic and Celestials and monsters are normal to them. So to sump up this answer, it’s not a masquerade world or a secret other world! ;)
Hope that answers all your questions!!
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yanittawrites · 4 years
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Hello! Could you add me to the taglist for Celestial City? It looks super cool.
of course! this made my day <3 consider yourself added!
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yanittawrites · 4 years
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Last Line Tag!
Thanks @chloeswords for the tag! I have no ideae how old this is, but I finally WROTE something!!
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This is not a happy piece at all. It’s a snippet from my recent spoken word poem called The Bullets Lodged in Our Throats. It’s a reflection of the things that are happening in my country today, and it’s not fun.
I chose the least controversial part of the poem to post because there are laws that imprision the people who lash out against the government or r*yal family in jail for up to 7 years. About 6-7 university students have been arrested for speaking up, a few protesters disappeared and ended up dead, and tens of thousands of people are protesting at the democracy monument despite the COVID-19. They are trying to abolish the lese majeste laws and section 112 & 116 of the constitution that doesn’t allow free speech.
I’ll leave a link here to an instagram post that shows all the protest locations [there’s a carrd qr code in it if you want to learn more] and another post here to a short infographic about what’s happening in my country and another tumblr post here that sums everything up. You can click on the two hashtags: #whatshappeninginthailand and #ขีดเส้นตายไล่เผด็จการ for more info.
Sorry for killing the mood...I tag *anyone who wants to do this.*
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yanittawrites · 4 years
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Character Study: Jay Bonlenet [celestial city update ii]
From my wip Celestial City! Ask or message to be added to the taglist!
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Ok!! Since all of you seem REALLY interested in Jay Bonlenet, one of my characters from my wip: Celestial City, I decided that I would do a short Character Introduction to Jay Bonlenet’s backstory, his stances now and his relationship with Diana!
But first...Boring life update!! — I have so much homework ahahhhhh. And I have 4 exams this upcoming week, so I won’t be really active! Btw, I am sooo obsessed with spoken word poetry atm and I’m so guilty for not writing my novel ;-;
*There will be spoilers to Celestial City, but since it’s not published they might not be final. I’ll add a spoiler warning before I say anything!*
Name: James “Jay” Bonlenet
Age: 16
Nationality: French-English
Relationships: Adoptive Siblings — Louis, Desiree, Lenore, Nannerl Charmaine // Biological Sibling: Tenny Bonlenet // Best friend: Fritz Starkschulz // * SPOILER* Unrequited Love Interest: Diana Jai
Fun and Embarassing Fact: Jay Bonlenet’s character is inspired by the same person I wrote about in my poem: When we talked about things that didn’t exist and broke our brains.
Jay Bonlenet is an enneagram 7 (the enthusiast). He’s always happy and enthusiastic, jokes all the time and is not afraid to break rules. However, he can be really sensitive at times! He likes to ruffle his hair when he’s nervous as well.
He aspires to be a successful scientist and inventor. However, when people ask him what he like sto do, he tells people he used to be an inventor but not anymore. When people ask him why he’s not one anymore, he doesn’t say anything and walks away. He fears that his inventions will cause harm to other people because he believes he accidentally killed his parents due to one of his inventions that went awry. However, his invention did not kill his parents. It was something else he was unaware of.
Jay and Tenny moved from Paris to London after his parents died when he was 10 and Tenny was 8. They lived with the Charmaines at the time. A few years later, he lost his brother Tenny when he was 15 and Tenny was 13 in an accident. Their parents had already died years before the accident occured, but Jay survived the accident and Tenny didn’t. It is a Celestial tradition where the most recently dead Celestials from each family becomes a ghost that works in the Celestial Council and oversees the laws and regulations. However, Tenny died at the age of 14, so he was too young. Tenny is still in ghost form and the only people that can see and interact with him are Jay and Diana.
Amelie Bonlenet was part of the Celestial Council (as a ghost). She was Jay and Tenny’s biological mother. However, Celestials who are part of the council are strictly told not to interact with living Celestials in a “friendly” way. There is a scene in the novel where Jay talks to his ghost mother, and tries to reconnect with her but due to the laws, she cannot interact with him in a mother-son way. (This scene is so heartbreaking I want to cry ;-;)
When Diana shows up at the Charmaine household after being accused for the murder of Catherine Swantide, Jay feels a feeling of familiarity and that he used to see Diana before, but he doesn’t remember it clearly.
Jay and Diana used to meet when they were both 6 in the Cursed World. It’s an alternate universe where monsters look like humans but have some supernatural traits: flying, nightvision, flames, etc. He and his parents and Tenny helped Diana get home safely and sent her back home. When Jay went into her house to escort her back, he witnessed Diana’s abusive stepfather hurt Diana’s mother. Diana begged him not to say anything because she didn’t want to be a ruined woman (though she was still 6 years old!!). — [Diana didn’t know that the man wasn’t her biological father.]
Jay agreed not to say anything to anyone, but he vowed that he would find Diana when he grew up and help her.
SPOILER
Later in the series, after Jay started to realize that Diana was the girl he met in the Cursed world, he started developing a crush on her. But since Diana is gay [she didn’t come out openly yet], she rejects him. Their relationship was jeopardized by that conversation, but after a few months, they start to become good friends again, and Jay finally accepted the fact that Diana doesn’t like him back that way.
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I hope you enjoyed this short insight to Jay Bonelent’s backstory!! You can reblog this if you want to, and I’ll really appreciate it. Also, you can direct message me asking about my wip, Celestial City and the characters in it! I’ll be happy to answer. Tell me which character you want to hear about next, and I’ll do another character introduction! ;)
My REALLY SHORT taglist: @oddsandinks @sunwornpages —ask or message to be added or removed! <3
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yanittawrites · 4 years
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Poetry Update [#2]
This poem is a bit related to this post! If you like it, please check it out ;)
hi!! so so sorry for the lack of content this week, but i’m proud to say that this week, i wrote THREE poems!! like what?? but i totslly neglected by novel hahah..... so i’m going to share a snippet of one of the poems i wrote called:
When we talked about things that didn’t exist and broke our brains.
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This is about my experiences on having my first “crush” and finding out in the end that it was not “actually a crush.” it was just some kind of longing for a platonic relationship (bc i didn’t have any friends at the time ;-;)...this is based on a true story and experience...so hope you enjoy this deep dive into my emotional history hahah,,,
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yanittawrites · 4 years
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i’ve been doing my homework on how to break into a writing career and honestly. there’s a Lot that i didn’t know about thats critical to a writing career in this day and age, and on the one hand, its understandable because we’re experiencing a massive cultural shift, but on the other hand, writers who do not have formal training in school or don’t have the connections to learn more via social osmosis end up extremely out of loop and working at a disadvantage. 
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yanittawrites · 4 years
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hi!! thanks for all the asks for my 100 follower celebration!<3 there are some i still haven't answered because i am currently stressing about school and remembering thai poetry for an exam...so if any of you want to help me hahhahh...i'll answer things later, and i'll post a new update on celestial city and my poetry really soon!! ;)
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help ;-;
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yanittawrites · 4 years
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happy 100!! 🍉 so my character zhen (who is ace) is the most lazy person ever who contradicts herself all the time. like she'd refuse to cook (she's a great cook!) but then will give in at even the slightest push and pretends to not care but cares a lot! who is her best friend from your wip?
thank you!<3
lenore definitely would be her best friend! she could be with diana sometimes, but diana doesn’t like laziness and unorganized stuff... lenore would definitely complement zhen. she would encourage her to cook and possibly make zhen more open with her feelings! they would be good as best friends ;)
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yanittawrites · 4 years
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congrats again!! for the celebration ask game: 🍓idk if this is just me but...jay gives off mlm vibes. like bisexual, maybe??
thanks!<3
i was pretty sure jay was straight until you point this out...maybe he’s bisexual but has a leaning towards women? i guess? i can totally picture him with a man, so ahahah idk whether this is true...but it could be true! it’s a possibility!
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yanittawrites · 4 years
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🍓 Jay has a huge sweet tooth and probably a caffeine addition too
thanks for the ask!<3
absolutely!! hahah i love how everybody’s talking about jay >_< he LOVES cake, especially the one lenore bakes. but he does not like cooking, he likes to be assigned with the task to eat...and he loves tea, strong but sugared!
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yanittawrites · 4 years
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Hi! I’m a new follower, congrats on 100! 🍉 Joan is a 22-year-old, bisexual pirate. She’s sort of an adrenaline junkie— she loves adventure, fighting, and the ocean more than almost anything else. She also loves fashion, fancy weapons and clothes and jewelry. She’s religious, but it’s not always obvious unless you hear her praying to La Mer. She may be a bit morally... not so great, as a pirate, but she protects her own. Who would she be compatible with? (My writeblr is @dragonstoravens)
awh thank you!<3
after reading the description, joan would definitely be compatible with jay!! they’re both adventurous and kind morslly grey! and i gues she’s not afraid to break rules either! jay loves fashion, especially his hair! they would fit great together as best friends because their personalities really match!
but as a romantic interest? i think jay an joan are better off as friends. maybe she could be romantically compatible with nannerl. nannerl’s not as playful or enthusiastic as jay, but she’s ambitious, also morally grey and really passionate about her feelings!
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yanittawrites · 4 years
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Hello there! Congratulations for your 100 followers!! For the follower celebration how about 🍆 for Diana and Lenore from your WIP Celestial City and Percabeth from Percy Jackson? (I hope it's okay to ask two) :)
awh thank you!!<3
Diana and Lenore are like...my OTP!!! I originally wanted Diana to be with Jay, but why can’t Diana be with a girl? So I made her bi, like me! Diana is kind of jittery, strict and organized while Lenore is calm, tranquil and happy! So they complement each other! Also, Lenore is like my “dream girl”?? Ahhh she’s so nice, so considerate and so beautiful >_<
Percabeth, honestly, is my favorite ship from pjo! I don’t remember much of it since I read the books a long time ago, but I remember annabeth and percy being like the best couple ever! There was this one time where annabeth went missing, I guess...and percy without annabeth is....ahhhhhhh...i can’t stop pitying him :((
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