FantasyIndies day 30 wrap up
Septemberthrills day 30 wrap up
#FantasyIndiesSeptember #Septemberthrills
Banner month! Finished the first edit of my summer-long project, HermitageWIP.
Got an acceptance of a shoet story into an anthology (pinned)
Dragged out a couple more shorts and polished them to shining.
Mental health locked-in.
All around great September!
#FantasyIndiesSeptember, #SeptemberThrills, & #QueerPrompts September 30: Monthly Wrap-Up
✍️ Wrote 1,240 words for a story
📌 Posted 37 prompts
📚 Read 5 books
📝 Posted 5 book reviews
🖼️ Commissioned Nix and Max art
🎂 Baked Gravity's Fire cake
😸 Posted Cat videos
Septemberthrills day 29 short characters?
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Talia, the MC of the mystery, is pretty short. Can walk under Brian's arm barely ducking.
Helena, MC of the fantasy, is described as a 'short, athletic goth-girl'. Serasthial, the angel who guides her through Hell, is also a short-king 🥰
September thrills day 28 anyone still have childhood toys
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As a person, I lack a certain sense of childish whimsy, and so I often forget to think about childepren in my settings, my MCs lives, and any toys they may have had. They don’t come ip in stories, but if I dig in my lore-brain, I can find keepsakes some may have clung to.
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"Notably good-looking people"
👀
Where to begin? My Archers series is all about a guild where looks count almost as much as ability! All the Journeymen are hot as Hades! But I suppose particularly handsome is the jaw-droppingly gorgeous Jurian
& Gilles demands to be mentioned! 😆
Septemebrthrills day 27 notably attractive people
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We dont get a glimpse of any hot celebrities in HermitageWIP, but there are plenty of hot actors and politicians in the world.
In story, Dr. Li is a hot woman. Some people who see Bayle in his civies turn their heads to watch him go. (Hes more “invisible” in uniform.)
#SeptemberThrills 26) Any animal characters? Does Furgo count as an animal character? He's 1 of the 3 important characters in Named By Love,🥰 & he's an adorable baby in Bound By Heart.🥺
(The front cover of Named By Love) Beyond a wood like frame, in a grassy meadow with trees in the background, a child kisses the nose of a very cute scarlet feather-dragon. Above the art piece are the words Named By Love, in glowing yellow.
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Does Furgo count as an animal character?
He's 1 of the 3 important characters in Named By Love,🥰 & he's an adorable baby in Bound By Heart.🥺
Septemberthrills day 26 any animal characters
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In HermitageWIP, the only animal we meet is the cat, Professor Silverstockings ("Silvie"). She's not a big character.
In the fantasy, many characters are chimerical and have animal elements, but here a cat (Braxilotl, the demon cat) is more of a character. Not speaking though.
Day 25: #SeptemberThrills
“Magique does not mean you have a soul, simply a core. You cannot trick me with your lies."
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#SeptemberThrills 24) I had to drop in for this, because this line speak so much to me.😢 He may have failed everything he'd ever loved, but that wasn't a reason not to love now.
#SeptemberThrills 24) I had to drop in for today. This line speaks so much to me.😢
He may have failed everything he'd ever loved, but that wasn't a reason not to love now.
Septemberthrills day 24 one line Wednesday
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"The heart of a lonely woman is a dangerous thing. It will cuddle up to any warmth it comes across, even to its own destruction."
Day 24: #SeptemberThrills
"I don't care what it costs me personally, I'm going to save him, Cassius."
From Anhelos Bound!
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Day 23: #SeptemberThrills
“Aragorn rounded up the survivors and stood amongst his men. He questioned the captain, demanding information. What weaknesses there were in the camp, what our numbers were. My captain stayed true. His loyalty and bravery were something I never deserved."
Day 22: #SeptemberThrills
In Anhelos Saga, Aragorn is extremely arrogant. He acts as a foil to Quinn's more humble approach to leading and believes he is entitled to everything simply because he is Twili's Princept.
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Day 21: #SeptemberThrills
There are no named performers in Anhelos Saga, but Poisoning The Well has a whole band full of them 🤣🤣
Rylen love his band amd would do anything to protect it and its members. Jamie kind of throws a wrench in things 😅
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Septemberthrills day 21 any performers?
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This is gonna sound like a reach, but if you’ve ever done customer service, you get it…
Bayle is a high-level personal servant (butler). He needs to put on a hell of an act! Every time he puts on that uniform, he steps into a role that doesn’t come naturally to him.
Day 20: #SeptemberThrills
Luzians tend to wear flashy clothing.
Embree goes through a few pretty garments throughout Anhelos Lost and Anhelos Bound.
Part of this is due to Luzian fashion, bit part of it is Embree's desire to be contrary to what society demands of her.
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Septemberthrills day 20 flashy clothes
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Helena’s clothes are a certain style (goth), but maybe not enough to be “flashy”?
Jack of my Mudlarks can stray into flashy territory sometimes. He enjoys fashion.
Day 19: #SeptemberThrills
Most of my characters have s modicum of ego, except Scion. He doesn't have one yet. Maybe he'll get there by the time his arc finishes 👀
#FantasyIndiesSeptember
Some cute Klaus pictures!
#FantasyIndiesSeptember & #SeptemberThrills 19
For FF, I'll post this ⬇️
It might not look very exciting, but it's a printout of a full draft of Cloaks & Daggers 🗡️
Anyone else like editing on paper?
#Booksky #Romance #Adventure
Another week passed and we're blessed / still here!
Strong not weak we're cut from another cloth with no fear!
Actually? there's some, the enemy will make it hurt / make it burn.
But clarity becomes whole as I await my turn.
#FromOneLine, #kaytpoemprompts, #SeptemberThrills, #Amatory
Day 18: #SeptemberThrills
In Anhelos Bound Embree comes to the realization that she is in the central problem between Quinn and Valerius, she also pieces together what that problem is.
This does improve her relationship with Valerius.
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September thrills day 18 snippet center
Chapter 8 Bayle turned his head to look out the great dome of the Orangerie. The Avalonian sun burned endlessly outside, spiraling around the peak of the dome as the Hermitage spun around its central axis. The sun’s spiral would tighten until it paused, spinning at its noontime high point, and then begin to spiral back out again until it slipped mostly out of view at nightfall. The fifth ring was less a ring and more a disk, no ceiling but for the dome on one side and the tremendous mosaicked wall on the other, with a wide hamster-wheel of a pathway through the center. He still got a little dizzy sometimes looking up to find the path arching above him, his stomach trying to figure out which way was up.
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Anyhow, this is just a description of one of my favorite places in HermitageWIP…
#SeptemberThrills 17) I might be cheating. Furgo looked at him with those innocent little gold eyes. *“Me was bored, and you was sleeping. Me thought you wouldn't care.”*
#SeptemberThrills 17) I might be cheating.
Furgo looked at him with those innocent little gold eyes. *“Me was bored, and you was sleeping. Me thought you wouldn't care.”*
Day 17: #SeptemberThrills
"Do you think I would endanger my kingdom for something as trivial as affection?"
Famous last words Quinn...
(From Anhelos Bound)
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#SeptemberThrills 17
ONE LINE WEDNESDAY
The Archers of Saint Sebastian series featured a huge cast of handsome longbow archers🏹
Cloaks & Daggers features a cast of handsome rapier fencers ⚔️
What can possibly be next? ... maybe a big cast of handsome jousters?🐎
#Booksky #romance
Day 16: #SeptemberThrills
“Hang the rumour. What does it really change. The King is dead, and Quinn is his heir.”
“But if he killed father, then he has no right to the throne,” Scion stated.
Justina hummed, “Do you want the throne?”
From Anhelos Bound
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#SeptemberThrills 16) from Bound By Heart . . . the warmth which surrounded it was not the warm of its Love. Panic and despair rose within it, though all it knew was darkness. To be woken by another than its bonded was the worst fate possible. Its heart needed, yearned for, the one it loved.
#SeptemberThrills 16) from Bound By Heart
. . . the warmth which surrounded it was not the warm of its Love.
Panic and despair rose within it, though all it knew was darkness. To be woken by another than its bonded was the worst fate possible. Its heart needed, yearned for, the one it loved.
#SeptemberThrills 16
#snippet share
From my #WIP, Cloaks & Daggers — a light-hearted romantic adventure about rival rapier academies in (fictionalized) Renaissance Italy 🗡️🗡️
Think Pyramus & Thisbe meets Orlando Furioso with a touch of Ovid 😅 x The Archers of St Sebastian!
#Booksky #romance #histfic
Septemberthrills day 15 weapon of choice.
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Nora- Facts. Statistics. Raw nerve.
Bayle- Diplomacy. De-escalation. All else fails, raw muscle.💪
