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@highscribeofaetherium

Hey, you can do it! It’s just 150. 😁

@thearcaneaxiom

Lol. I was trying to engage some of the less-active KPers. 😉 You can always save it for later.

@ellette-giselle @liberty @highscribeofaetherium @whalekeeper @acancello @trailblazer @the_lost-journal @jonas @thearcaneaxiom @freed_and_redeemed @rae @raxforge *launches snowballs rapid-fire* YOU’VE BEEN SNOWBALLED!

@loopylin

Ah, but what happened to Fel?

@loopylin

But I’m happy with that

And that’s exactly why some of my characters are just chill and happy. There’s nothing less deep about having an average backstory. I can think of some characters who are super shallow because the writer thought trauma equals character depth.

@hybridlore

Honestly I don’t know XD I told someone I wasn’t going to post the words I wrote because they were too depressing, and it kind of escalated from there.

@ellette-giselle I’m sorry I forgot to respond to this. I had like ten emails from KP in my inbox, so I just forgot. XD. I liked it a lot though.

@whalekeeper @ellette-giselle @rae

How did the snowball fight topic turn into a horrible backstories competition? 🤪

@ellette-giselle

I would prove that the Lovedream children have darker pasts, but it’s not worth spoiling the whole thing unfortunately. XD My apologies. You’ll just have to take my word for it.

Here’s Sara’s (the main character, Cole’s twin sister.)

@ellette-giselle

I like it! A little Ender’s Game, a little something else. It’s giving dystopian. 💁‍♀️ I’m usually not sure how to react when people explain backstories since it’s out of context, but it sounds like pretty solid trauma, especially for a whole group of protagonists.

@whalekeeper Thank you!

@grcr @esther-c @ellette-giselle

Thanks so much!! 🤩 I think Everett’s is my favorite. I really like the colors and pictures in his lol.

@ellette

Okay, so for the book I’m working on right now, he’s sort of indecisive. Sara *slight spoilers* becomes a Christian and starts attending the underground church meetings with Everett and Jess, but Cole…[Read more]

@hybridlore

Immaculate vibes. 👌

That’s pretty much how I picture Baron too. Powerful, but not the best teammate, at least for now.

@ellette-giselle

Whichever is worst, lol.

@rae
Alpha need a lot of perspective reorientation. Actually I have a close friend who once reacted to a puppy in a very similar way, haha 😝 He even used the word scrawny.
@ellette-giselle

*Sticks out my tongue at you* What is your most traumatized backstory then?

And Cole Bauer, Sara’s twin brother. I don’t have a lot of quotes for him yet. If anyone has tips on finding some, I’d appreciate it.

Jess McCullough, another member of the underground church and one of Sara and Everett’s friends.

@ellette-giselle @@liberty @esther-c @elishavet-elroi @anyone-interested 🤗

I made moodboards for the other leading characters in The Color of Hope. I’m also working on doing another one for Sara 🤪 We’ll see if they work . . .

Everett Andersen, one of Sara’s friends. He is a Christian and the boy who invites her to the church meetings.

@ellette-giselle @loopylin

Okay, now it’s a challenge. Post what you wrote, and I can almost certainly top it.

Honestly, even writing down the bare facts of the backstory might be too graphic for people. It’s necessary because the end of the story is a reversal of the beginning, kind of like that flash fiction I posted a couple pages back.

I l…[Read more]