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[Queen_of_Alvastia]

@freedomwriter76

Okie dokie! Here’s the writing topic which I have finally added.

Where are you in your WIP?

I’m about halfway in my story. I can’t remember how much I told you about what is going on….

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[Anonymous]

@queen_of_alvastia. Uh…lemme look. Only 20 pages in. 😂 Oh…this story is so far from being finished. 😔

[Queen_of_Alvastia]

@freedomwriter76 Hey that is still a good start!! 👍🏻😊

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[Anonymous]

@queen_of_alvastia. True. 😂 Thank you, girl! 🙂 You are so sweet. 💖

[GodlyFantasy12]

@queen-of-alvastia

I’m 5,460 words in 😭 @freedomwriter76 ur waaaay farther then meeee

I’ve scrapped sooo many drafts it’s not even funny but Ik I’m growing each time so…but I’m determined to finish this one.

 

still I just can’t find the motivation to write rn……idk if it’s a bit of writers block or just lack of motivation….

I mean I’ve got a bit of a “timeline outline” it’s kinda vague but I at least know sorta where the story goes but I’m also pantsing it’s so its a bit of a struggle and idk what to do….

#IfMarcelDiesIRiot
#ProtectMarcel
#ProtectSeb

[Anonymous]

@godlyfantasy12. I’ve scrapped so many drafts too. I get you, girl. ❤️

Writing’s hard. It’s not the easy, sit at your desk and just have all the words come to you and calmly sip tea job everyone seems to think it is. It’s a struggle every day. I know, girl, trust me, I know. 🙂

But if you really don’t have motivation or you have writer’s block right now, don’t push yourself too hard. I did that, and I pushed myself to writer burnout. I literally cried over it. I hated all my writing, I was angry that my book wasn’t coming along, I was looking at my writing and asking myself: “Who in the world would ever read this TRASH!?” So…I took a step back. I stopped writing for a little while, and now, when I write, I remind myself that this is only the first draft. I still have plenty of time. And, most important, I remind myself that the story I’m trying to tell truly isn’t mine. It’s God’s. 😊

If you need to, take a break. We can’t go 100% all the time, as one of my favorite streamers posted a reminder video this morning said, because we are not robots. 😊 If you need a break, take one. If you need to step back, Step. Back. Pray about your book, too, when you really don’t know what to do with it. Let God have it. He knows everything way better than we do. 🙂

Keep going, Girl. You are doing wonderfully. 🥰 I love your characters, I love your story, I love your plot twists(you certainly threw me for a spin!), and most of all, I love how passionate you are about your story and characters. Keep going, girl, and don’t you ever give up. 👍❤️

[Queen_of_Alvastia]

@godlyfantasy12 👍🏻😊🥰 What is your WIP about? I’d love to hear if you wanted to share!

@freedomwriter76 That advice is SO SPOT-ON! Love it!! 🙂

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[Anonymous]

@queen_of_alvastia. Thank you! I try! 🙂

[Ava Blue]

One paragraph along, over here! Here is the paragraph:

There’s Old Gimp. He’s straddling the skyline, bony antlers scraping winter-worn sod. A small harem of cows meander on the hillside below him, feeding on straggly grass. I just need him to come down from that saddle. The fallen leaves on which I’ve been lying prone for the last half hour are beginning to soak into my pants, and my thighs and feet are numb from cold. My legs will probably be buzzing when I get up again. Musings of a cozy nap by the fireplace have occupied my head since I woke up to a wet tent at four this morning. Misery’s half the fun, I remind myself. And it’ll all be worth it when I take this bull. If I take this bull. If I only I could get a backdrop behind der verflixte Elche. He’s still browsing, his furry back dark against an overcast sky. He ambles forward to nose a tuft of grass. Just a little closer. Limp on down the hill. There’s plenty of appetizing forbs down here. I pull my gloves away and blow on my cold fingers, not letting my eyes leave Old Gimp. Tedious minutes elapse as I bide my time in the bush, nursing frozen hands and waiting for a good shot. Then, like an answered prayer, he mosies my way with that signature limp. He lifts his head towards me and my breath catches in my throat. I snatch my rifle and pull the stock to my shoulder without letting my eyes leave the stag.

The end 💀

Sad, I know. My writing process is 75% daydreaming, 23% planning and 2% actually writing. Also, Bronwen is bilingual because her dad is a second-generation German immigrant so that’s why there’s that little snip in German (literally ‘the dang elk’). If you want her life story, just ask and I can go on for days. If you read it, do let me know if there are any typos/repetitive words 😉

that a northern wind
would cool my skin
and fill my lungs again

[Koshka]

@ava-blue

I’m randomly jumping in, but I did read it so…

For one, that’s a looong paragraph.

For two, there’s a typo in “If I only I could get a backdrop behind der verflixte Elche.”

Anyway, it sounds interesting! Is there more to the story?

First Grand Historian of Arreth and the Lesser Realms (aka Kitty)

[Queen_of_Alvastia]

@ava-blue

I think you have an interesting start here….I could see exactly the scene you were describing. And yes, I would like to hear more of Bronwen’s life story 😊

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[Queen_of_Alvastia]

Little question for you guys:

Would this scenario make sense if you read it:

A man (ok ok it’s my MC – poor guy 🙄) is trapped in a burning barn b/c he went in there to get a horse out. He’s also a bit claustrophobic (which I didn’t realize until I stuck him in there). Anyway the horse spooks, he falls toward a wall and outs out his hands to stop himself. Realizes the wall is burning, tries to stop himself but he can’t….

Someone else comes in and drags him out. After he recovers consciousness, he realizes he has gone blind.

(Don’t worry it’s temporary. He gets his sight back @ the end.)

Now there is an actual medical condition called Conversion Disorder where you can go blind from trauma temporarily. It just lasts a couple weeks. But I’d never heard of it until yesterday… Would it make sense to put this in a middle-age ish story without going into detail on the condition/naming it?

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[Anonymous]

@queen_of_alvastia. I believe it would make total sense!

But, for the historical part of it, make sure your character doesn’t understand that the trauma is what caused it. He probably will just think his injury caused the blindness. But, since Medicine, Science, etc, wasn’t well known, researched, or anything like that, he wouldn’t know that his trauma caused his blindness. Does that make any sense? XD

Okay, so, here’s a small example. In one of my favorite books, Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson, the MC’s younger sister, Ruth, has “the falling sickness”. The book took place during the American Revolution. So, the MC and everyone called what Ruth had, which is actually Epilepsy, “the falling sickness”. 😉

[Whaley]

You guys are so relatable on so many levels 😂😭

I’m at 17k with my current project, but trust me this is the fastest I’ve ever written, and I’m reduced to a mere trickle. All my other WIPs are either in my head or were tediously written for fourteen seconds before being dropped into the abyss, never to be seen again. XD

@ava-blue Also, I really like the vibe of that paragraph, good job!

KaPeefers 'til we're old and gray...

[Ava Blue]

@koshka thank you! Not even Grammarly caught that. There is more to the story, that snippet isn’t actually supposed to be the first scene. Bronwen is hunting rocky mountain elk in late autumn when she realizes she made a mistake whil navigating and she can’t find her way back; then the rest of the story is just an excuse to write about life-threatening injuries and how great trees are (jk jk I swear there’s a plot). Oh, and I’m working on writing reasonably sized paragraphs XD

@queen_of_alvastia thank you 😀 I think I’ll start a character chain on here, because I would looove to hear about y’alls charries and rant about my own 🤩 Also, your story sounds really neat! I don’t read enough books set during medieval times and I’d love to hear more about yours.

@whalekeeper thank you! 😁 It can be a bit tricky to write Bronwen from her POV because she’s so different from me, so I kind of have to alter my whole writing style to write her lol. I’m glad it didn’t turn out too weird.

that a northern wind
would cool my skin
and fill my lungs again

[Author]

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