Small Updates From The Voices In My Head

small updates from the voices in my head✨

Hello friends!

I hope you are all doing well. This week’s post will actually be a short one today, I promise. It’s been a busy week and I’m a bit crunched for time at the moment. I’ll be heading out to my internship at a local historic site and museum in just a bit, but I wanted to make sure a gave y’all a little update before I forgot. (Also, I have to get my weekly post out for my class assignment. ᕱ__<)

This week my work on this story was a bit scattered. Mostly, I did lots of thinking about how I’m going to approach certain aspects of my worldbuilding. For one, I think I am going to attempt to write a creation myth for my world to get a basis, firstly, on where it even comes from, and secondly, what the people of my world believe in. It will also help me create my magic system because right now I think I want it to work something like how Paladins work in D&D. (Here's a nifty little page that will sort of kind of explain how and where Paladins get their powers.) I also think I want to do some research in the form of reading some of Tolkien's Legendarium, specifically the Silmarillion and study how he developed his fantasy world. 

 I also just finished reading The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings for the class I’m taking on writing witches, harpies, and hags, and it’s given me a lot of good ideas as to how to develop a magic system that works with the natural world. We also just did a writing prompt for that class to attempt to develop a spell of some kind, and that taught me that your girl needs to do a lot more research into herbs and herbal remedies as well as animal symbols and the like so that I can create a magic that makes sense to me. I can’t simply just throw things together for this book, every choice I make has to be deliberate. (The voices in my brain won’t let me do otherwise ᕱ__ᕱ). I’m going full high fantasy with this story and I will create a fully fleshed out world that has and follows its own rules!

So, yeah, that's where my mind has been this week. My goal is to actually do some writing/developing so I can give both y’all and myself a little something substantial next week. And if, and thats a big IF, I get enough done/prepared in the next couple weeks, I may challenge myself to actually partake in my own little NANOWRIMO (not the official one of course bc of all the AI controversy) this year. (If not for writing plot, for doing world building). We shall see.

In the meantime, remember: dot your j’s and cross your t’s! ᕱ__ᕱ

~Clementine J. Quincey 🪷

the best casts of character are always the wacky ones imo

Fairy Tail is so fucking funny to me, because the main characters are literally this:

Gray: Seems like a normal guy, but then you notice he strips constantly, without even realizing it. Has attempted to kill himself multiple times.

Lucy: Ex-heiress who was surprising well adjusted to spending, just trying to not be homeless, is so done with everybody's shit. Doesn't even have the energy to hide it anymore.

Erza: Also seems normal, but just hides it better, murdered people for strawberry cake, actually an idiot around her peers.

Wendy: She's 12 but she's unironically the most emotionally and academically intelligent, and normal.

Natsu: Freak of nature, and in general.

me planning out my story: this will be so straightforward and easy!

me writing: why is there a subplot about flour?

my personal fav has got to be “scientists baffled by man’s incredible ability to f*ck up every time”

the school for good and evil + the onion headlines

taking your own advice is so hard. it’s “make bad art” this and “kill your perfectionism” that until i sit down with an idea i like. the i have to execute it perfectly Or Else

me at the moment

One should always have at least 2 craft projects going. That way, when one of them is messed up and misbehaving, you can switch to another, and let the first one sit there and think about what it's done.