I Have Spent Two Days Thinking And Rethinking And Rewriting This SCENE And How It Can Entwine With The

i have spent two days thinking and rethinking and rewriting this SCENE and how it can entwine with the story and i am driving myself INSANE.

For the wip challenge: I wish I could just ask for every wip in your post but I guess it will be too long 🙈 so I start with these two lovelies 😌

Korean Myths & Destination Seoul

HELLOOOO <3 thank you @orphicpoieses for the ask!

ahhh you can ask anything you want! just letting you know that 12:01 has already been answered in my previous posts hehe.

ooh, destination seoul. the project that has my heart and also the project that drives me insane. basically, it's: a fake dating ya romance set in Seoul, Korea where a teen tries to escape the blind dates her chaotic family sets her up on for her aunt's wedding. mostly it touches upon going back to your roots and really accepting it, as i've seen (and felt personally) more of a trend where as people are pulled between two cultures, they struggle to choose both, and think that they can only choose one. I just hope it represents the idea that it's not too late to accept your culture, and you don't need to live in a place to accept your family's origins!

anyways. onto the korean myths because this is still in the work and an interesting one. the premise is still in the works, but it's based on the tale of the abandoned princess in one of the folklore there, and possibly with a mix of beauty and the beast.

an abandoned princess sets out to find the cure of a disease plaguing the kingdom while it is on the brink of rebellion in order to prove her family's worth and save her father from treason. the cure: a dragon's pearl, except the owner of the pearl - the exiled prince - is cursed to turn into an imoogi, a beast of war and destruction. one desperate to save her family, and the other desperate to prove his worth, they set off to the depths of hell to truly find the plague's origins, and who caused it.

and that's kind of what i have for now? i'm still plotting act 1, but there's definitely all kinds of mythical creatures (gumiho, dragons, etc.) and betrayals and themes of worth and found family woven in!

Last Line Tag!

CAN WE. CAN WE JUST TALK ABOUT THE IMAGERY HERE PLEASE. LIKE THE OPENING. THE BADASS CHARACTERS.

anyways. thank you @thetruearchmagos for the tag!

also from a new wip that i've started outlining, and just wrote this little snippet for the opening scene:

Every part of me revolts against this marriage, like snakes slithering up my skin, but I know I can’t continue to be in this place of ambivalence, like the waves, coming back and forth. Whenever I see my father’s face—the one that I know now doesn’t resemble me at all—do I see the choice I must make: my past, which I have no attachment to, or my future. And so, I walk around with this pendant the weight of a mountain, clinging onto the hope that it will be sold. 

tagging: @mschvs @writingbyricochet @orphicpoieses @hahaha-darn-it @sweetieguk @moonscribbler @pixelw0rds @catharticallysarcastic @thepixiediaries @anjaspace

Last Line Tag!

Tagged by @sleepyowlwrites , thank you kindly!

The following is from a new WIP I've started off, "The Commonwealth Calls". Still so new that there's still not much there, but I look forward to getting more for it!

Steel Clad Coffin

On all sides, smoke plumes against stormy skies shrouded the land in a darkness only lit by the fires of burning machinery and rubble, the only trophies of this most sudden war. Under the sleet grey sky, thunder and lightning were drowned out by the rumbling booms of far off howitzers and the crashes of their sent-off greetings, the cracks of rifle fire finding home, and above all the growls of the great machines that sallied forth into battle. A pair of such machines, two ACV-612 Chariots, glided and sailed across the open road that cut through the wide plains and open farmland, bearing down on a wide hill at 65km/h. Drawing closer, Major Hilda Goyan, her armtrack in the lead, finally crested the ridge before her. Out in the lowlands before her, peering through the turret mounted periscope with its streaks of rain, she could see the rest of A Company, 4th Liichtu Hussars lined up in their own armtracks, ready to move up with their commander's arrival. She flipped on the Company radio, and sounded off. Alright, folks, let's get moving

Welcomes for anyone, and I'll tag @moonscribbler , @athenswrites , @mj-is-writing , @sanguine-arena , @moonlitinks

feeling very confident and good about my writing at the moment which is rare so here ✨✨✨ is me spreading the magic ✨✨✨ and good vibes ✨✨✨ to the rest of y’all may your writing prosper and may you feel accomplished

i'm telling you this because i'm struggling with it, too.

stop second guessing and doubting yourself. stop getting imposter syndrome while writing. stop comparing.

i know it's hard to stop, and this is a process i always struggle with. but it's awful when you get tunnel vision, seeing all the plot holes and every little grammatical error made. i open my wip's sometimes, and get such bad anxiety that i can't even write, because i'm so scared. it literally doesn't make sense, but it happens.

but learn to love what you write. grow attached to your characters, and write whatever you want. write for yourself first. and no matter what, whether it's one word or sentence that you wrote that day, be proud of yourself.

self validation and self care comes before a completed novel or mesmerizing characters.

<3

HONESTLY (more than i can count too haha)

thank you so much! it's just one of those drafts that helped me refine my writing overall, and gave me writing practice. maybe one day i'll completely start from scratch and rewrite it, but not today haha.

12:01 has me like 👀, I want to know more!

i'm glad (young me would be proud lmao).

the short version of it is: about a teen who has recurring nightmares about her father's death a minute after midnight, the time the accident happened

the longer explanation: young me had no idea what to do. i had an interesting premise and ran with it for like 50k words, then got stuck, then never went back.

maybe future me knows better than to follow through with a shiny idea when it won't go very far? 😂