Hey! Someone else completely time shifted from the bulk of campers! I’m in Cork, Ireland. Good morning!

I adore your title. Also fire elementals sound intense.

this sounds fun, and this board is gorgeous!

I'm still tweaking my first pages (Again) but you're welcome to send yours whenever you're ready. Hopefully, I'll have something shareable in the next day or two

I know what you mean but now I'm envisioning frankenstein characters with bits of others sewn on.

I'm your positivity pass partner and I can't wait to read your first pages. Sounds gorgeous.

Ooh, I want to go to there.

I'm in my best lab coat taking notes.

Hallucinations. MC knows better but is in a situation where hallucinations sound better than starvation. It's a choice she regrets.😆

Yes, there's necromancy too. That's what the charm of teeth is for 😜

Love a good mushroom!
These lovely ladies are in the manuscript I'm currently querying.

The milestones method works pretty well for me too. For the most part.

I have one MS with this exact vibe. It's all flower crowns and herbal magic then trees weeping blood and cannibal hags with charms of human teeth.

Swampy middle😂 If that doesn't describe it perfectly.

Picture of a slot canyon with a shaft of light and the book title Bitter Sands. Blurb reads: I’m working on a YA fantasy with trials—my MC lives in utopia, so think less brutality and strength based trials and more collaboration and community good based. Suyana (17) still manages to screw it up though. If she can’t find a way to win, her crush, Oasis’s golden girl, will never notice her and no one will choose her for anything but compost duty ever again.

Hey camp mates! Here's a little about my current project.
#CampRevpit
#CRPDryads

This sounds super fun. I am also not as good at parkour as I want to be.

Amen to the reverse outline!

Chaotic plantser.
Depends on the character- leaning HEA.
Mostly fantasy. I dabble in sci-fi occasionally.
Depends. This demi girl sometimes forgets reader like romance.
Both!
Cat!
Introvert. Critical case. Extends to social media. I'm trying.

I know what you mean by feeling boxed in. When I first learn about story structure I was so psyched. I meticulously outlined a project I'd been kicking around and then I was done and had no more spark to actually draft (my least favorite part).

I've been on discord once, but I'd be willing to dust off my login to hang out with other writers.

Krya, thanks for sharing this. We see so many stories about someone’s first or second novel getting published. It gives me some hope to keep going. I’ve had several projects get requests and even feedback from agents, so I keep thinking, maybe the next one.

I think I might’ve seen mine!

Can you give us a few examples of what makes you marketable? I imagine there are authors here who have those qualities but have never had to think about it in this way and might not recognize which qualities they should be leaning hard on.

None of my betas seemed to have a problem either, but maybe the 15yos I know are just too dang smart.

Multiple POVs in one chapter. I never see it in YA. I always assumed it was because publishers underestimated teens’ ability to keep up. But if it’s more a matter of getting to know characters better, maybe multiple POVs could work but not until later chapters. Thoughts?

Oh man, I hope this is mine. I started with boredom and now I'm worried if I've gotten away with it.

Ditto!

Thanks for sharing. It’s nice to know that it really is harder and not that I’m getting worse as an author.

This is my kind of space!

I couldn’t put it down!