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@freedomwriter76 PUPPY!!!!!! AHHHH!!!!!!!
what kind?!?!
I think I’m gonna do some writing/writing research/Worldbuilding when I get home in a few mins. Probably share it on here.
I wanna write some for the prompts I posted for this month.
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@godlyfantasy12 Yes, he’s so cute but so exhausting 😂 doesn’t help my exhaustion tho, given the fact that I’ve woken up earlier than normal the past few days, AND I worked Nursery at church this morning and had to watch a 3- and 5-year-old too, lol.
He is a Great Pyrenees/Anatolian Shepherd mix!! (his name is Hank 😉) Once full grown, he will be at LEAST 100 lbs, and he’ll one day (if all goes well!! XD) be our chicken dog that will guard the chickens and the house in general. 🙂
Ooh, writing sounds fun!!! Saw the prompts for July. Wanna do them…but…uh, I don’t see that happening while the puppy is so little 😅 (he’s only 6 weeks old!!)
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Oh my goodness I love Anatolian Shepherds ❤ Beautiful dogs – we considered getting one of those, but went with a collie instead. What’s his name?
Edit: Nevermind, reread your post 😅 Hank is a classic choice. My dad kinda wanted to name our dog that.
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So…
I think I need to rework Ara….
I came to self realization in service today.
And originally, Arabella was, in essence, made to be me. An alter ego of sorts, and in essence, every MC has a piece of me/represents a part of me or a struggle I’ve had/have, or I like to think of it as that anyway.
But I’ve always struggled with Ara it seems….even tho she was originally the Epitome of me…
and now…I think I’ve realized why….
Today with my self realization…I was brought back to a series I love (but also broke my heart…and for once I am actually tempted to reread it from a writer’s POV…which is crazy because I said I would never read it again cuz it legit broke me.) and that is Wingfeather saga. And Janner Wingfeather legit got me (which was crazy cuz Kalmar was my fav lol)
but now I think it’s Janner.
And in the last book he comes to a realization that he’s been selfish this whole time.
But during the course of reading it, as a reader we look at that and think “How has he been selfish?” But then thinking about it we start to understand, and it hurts because we see it in our own lives as well.
Thats what makes the book so powerful (especially if u know the series)
so I think I’ve realized some of the issue with Ara…
I made her like me…but not enough if that makes sense. I gave her the issues…but made her perfect. Made her a victim, but gave her no consequences of her victim mentality.
but in truth….
Ara is selfish…
She was selfish as a girl…and it led to the trauma and death of her grandmother. So she became a victim, and gained a victim mentality…
She thought this was the right decision…
But it wasn’t.
And this…makes her so much more…real….and….so much more me….
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#ProtectSeb@freedomwriter76 just looked up anataolian shepherd puppies and AWWW!! Also that’s a BIG DOG!!!
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#ProtectSebI just got back from an outdoor service
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@whalekeeper Actually never heard of the breed before we got him! XD He mostly looks like a Great Pyrenees, but he has the short hair of an Anatolian, so who knows what he’ll look like when he’s bigger 😁😉 Collie’s are really cute tho!!! (our other dog is a Toy sized Australian Shepherd; wonderful dogs✨)
And yes, quite a classic. XD Mom said he looked like a Hank 😂😂 (the kid that had him/was taking care of him before we got him was calling him Potato 🤣🤣)
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@godlyfantasy12 That adds so much more to Arabella, girl!!! (sermons always make me think of my characters 🤦♀️)
I loveeeee seeing that addition to her!!! 💗 And honestly?? I think it’ll make her SOOO much more memorable AND relatable. 😀
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@godlyfantasy12 Yes…very big XXXD He’ll be, like, 7 times the size of our toy Aussie 😂😂
@whalekeeper @godlyGot this pic off the web, but this is pretty much EXACTLY what Hank looks like XD
@freedomwriter76 AWWWWWWW!!! *dies of cuteness XD*
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#ProtectSebI think that’s a good idea – to try and give her more flaws to overcome.
Personally, I shy away from creating self-insert characters, because characters are meant to be types and exaggerations. People say we need to write realistically, and that’s true – but only as far as a story should go, before it becomes… hard to detach yourself from your work.
But that’s just how I think, and as long as you can still detach yourself from Ara, I think it’ll go well 😜 I mean, you’re already looking at her from a bird’s eye view.
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Aaaaagh I showed the pic to Bug, and she was like 😶😍
How has he been behaving so far?? Still in the stressed-out quiet phase, or gone crazy?
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I’m here! How are you doing?
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Dude, you have a new puppy?! What’s the name?
"And so I left this world just as I had entered it. Confused."
Aww that sounds cute! Hope you guys have some good family time!
I’m doing ok, thanks for asking! <3
I just saw a old acquaintance in the mall by chance, it was a little awkward because I was going to a different church now and we knew there was basically no chance we would ever see eachother again… it’s hard when theirs those people that just never work out as friends, not for any bad reason, she just never wanted the same kind of relationship I was wanting, besides she was older and in a different stage of life. Idk it just reminded me of how much I’ve changed since a year ago.
I’m trying to figure out what career I want… bleh. I’m starting to think something in healthcare… but idk. I just saw into the spiderverse with my mom and it was so good! I’m planning to see across the spiderverse sometimes soon while it’s still in theaters.
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@whalekeeper to each their own (: it’s the opposite for me really…I can’t become detached…otherwise they’re difficult to write?? Or not fun?
Main characters just take pieces of me or people I know usually because that’s how I view the world. I want my writing to be an escape and to honor God/help others, and the only way I know how to do that Is to write characters going through issues that I know exist especially issues that I see personally in my own life or the lives of people I love.
I may not be able to speak up into a situation personally, due to age, or maybe just not having the influence, or the right words, but my characters can get across in a way that I can’t (just like Janner)
My goal with this series, and I’ve stated it multiple times, has always been for people of multiple lifestyles, wether in truth or out of truth, apostolic or not, bound or free, to read it and be able to see themselves in at least ONE of the characters.
To be able to go…”Wow…that’s me. I’m in that place. I relate to that.” To find hope, deliverance and God through it.
(This is not hating on how u do it because I ADORE UR WRITING! And again everyone works differently, this is just how I work)
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