Love How Well You Added That Accent In There. I Was Definitely Able To Hear It In My Head While I Was

Love how well you added that accent in there. I was definitely able to hear it in my head while I was reading.

Heads Up, Seven Up Tag

Huge thanks to @jjm-blogspot for tagging me in this game!!

I’ll go ahead and tag @winterandwords @writersandpoetsunited @leighvalentin @faelanvance @wildswrites @writingpotato07 and @writing-moth (No pressure if you don’t wanna tho) 

I’ve been in the biggest funk this entire November (like every year). My partner has noticed and we decided to start writing our dungeons & dragons story together. So far I’ve been doing most the writing, and he’s going to be helping me with content and line editing. 

My inspiration has been dead in the water and it most likely shows but what can ya do. 

Rane tilted her head to the side. For a second, he thought she would comment on his rudeness. Instead, she simply pointed upward and behind him. “We are about a day out from Waterdeep. Right at the crossroads of the Long and High roads.”

Korzan looked up at the sign she pointed at. He frowned, taken aback. “Waterdeep?” the name felt strange in his mouth, like it didn’t quite fit. 

“Yes? You know, off the Sword’s Coast?”

Korzan blinked owlishly. His frown deepened. “Pardon?”

Rane crossed her arms. “Maybe yer a lil’ more addled than I thought,” she said. 

Her odd accent struck out to him yet again. It did not grate on his ears, not quite, but he was lucky her drawl allowed him to piece together what she was saying. 

When he didn’t respond right away, Rane pressed on. “Well, where’re you from, then?”

Getting ahead of myself, but I’m outlining the arc names for each volume of my book. Kinda stuck on the first arc name tho…

How To Use An Apostrophe by Matthew Inman

(source) Note: this website also has other guides for grammar, eg. how to use a semicolon

Heads Up Seven Up!

Been a little while since @charlesjosephwrites sent this my way, but thanks for the tag!

Passing it along with a soft tag to @eli-writes-sometimes, @muddshadow, @jjm-blogspot, @pandawriterstuff, @ashen-crest, @365runesofwriting, and @did-i-do-this-write, as well as an open tag for anyone else who wants to join!

I'm doing NaNo, so this excerpt will definitely have some edits later lol but I'm letting myself just write for now. Editing will happen later. This is taken from book 4 in my Castle series. It's my backup NaNo wip (which I'm getting more writing done for than my main NaNo wip oof)

"We have discussed this, Aero," Saben said. "We are not going back through the entire jungle just so that you can avoid the sand. You agreed that it would save us much time to just follow the island's coast."

"I did agree," Aero agreed.

"Then why are you costing us that much time?"

"Sand."

Shaking his head, torn between laughing and sighing, Saben stood from where he’d been crouched over his brother in an attempt to make him get up on his own. Then he grabbed Aero’s arm and began dragging him from the nest.

Aero cursed again.

“You can just rinse the sand off in the ocean,” McKenna pointed out.

He let his blanket fall away so that he could glare at her while Saben dragged him from the den.

Like mother, like daughter…

Find The Word Tag

Quick shoutout to @on-noon for the tag. Much love!

I’ll be tagging: @cabaretofwords @spuddlespud @jezifster and anyone else who wants to join.

These are your words: dead, runaway, forest, tower, and blanket.

My words are: claw, afford, hold, ruin, and longing. All these snippets came from my current wip, Sunny Mage.

Claw

Thomas put the necklace on. The chilling look on the kid’s face had sold it for him. That wasn’t a look that could be easily imitated. That kid had been through something and had managed to claw his way out.

Afford

A knot of unease twisted inside Sunny’s stomach. With the next level fast approaching, and the devious plans their enemies had cooked up for them, Sunny couldn’t afford to lose an ally.

Hold (I have like 74 of these, holy shit...)

Sunny threw her arms up. “Hold up, in your example the snowball still made direct contact with the flask. Yeah, the energy was conserved, but the objects still physically touched. So how can I transfer energy to something that’s out of reach?”

Ruin

“Ruins the vibe.” Harmony said, “They want the audience to see us the way we really are: damaged and resilient. My older brother, Cam, competed a couple years ago in the semifinals. The guy who became the champion got hit with a pipe to the chest during the level. It missed his heart, but it nicked the bottom of his left lung.”

Longing

Despite what hollow fairytale books said about Mermaids, about them being kind hearted creatures who broke out into song, they were far from the truth. In real life, Mermaids were worse than sirens. Because at least sirens lulled their prey in with peaceful songs and longing looks—giving them at least a sense of security before they pounced.