WIP Wednesday

WIP Wednesday ✍️

Shhh it's still Wednesday in the next timezone over..

Rolling all my writing tags into one here, so thanks to @willtheweaver @cowboybrunch and @tragedycoded for the tags!

Here's another clippet from Ch 8 of 🌐7 Circles🌐, Response Ability

He looks towards the door of the fridge, then shakes his head. "No, you first. PAs don't eat before their Masters.. Or Messers."

"..I see." Seeker says with a frown, but then a light sparks in their gold-speckled eyes. "Am I expected to completely finish a meal before you can start yours?"

Valian oscillates. "It depends on the person, and whether their PAs are servin' or somethin.' Since I don't think you're askin' that of me, I s'pose that makes it your call. But don't think I don't know what you're up to."

"I'm not 'up to' anything dear Valian.." they say, one of their hands opening the fridge and reaching into the fruit basket. They pop a singular grape into their mouth. "I'm simply beginning my meal.." they say, eyes sliding over to the ifrit to see if he'll take the loophole.

I love Seeker 🌠, what a good bean. Hope to finish this chapter soon!

7C taglist: @gioiaalbanoart @biblicallyaccuratefruitbat @katenewmanwrites @lychhiker-writes @autism-purgatory

@wyked-ao3 @zackprincebooks @smellyrottentrees @aalinaaaaaa @the-golden-comet

@quillswriting @nbkuhn @ddgraywrites @desastreus @theglitchywriterboi

@shanakin-skywalker @honeybewrites @sincerelydorky

...really feeling this one today.

He's my favorite character, my comfort character, even. I hate him and he's the worst.

A Musing Monday 🎐

Today I'm musing on movement vs lack of movement. Right now there's a lot of movement around me, and yet im feeling stuck. Immobile.

One of my partners is on a family vacation, a close friend of mine is moving, another friend started a new job. I know people finishing their book drafts and starting journeys to learn drawing and going back to school and marching up to businesses to ask for jobs.. it's amazing. Its breathtaking. Achingly so.

I feel petrified in comparison. Im having moments of movement- a little inspiration, a flash of bravery, and idea of things that could be. But it feels like an engine that rumbles with the start of something only to immediately fade back to stillness. Sometimes a lack of movement means peace. Not here.

We dont expect that stutter in our protagonists, we dont see it much in books and media. Is it because of the way it itches? The way it reminds us of headaches that keep us from sleeping while also dragging us into feeling sleepy? Perhaps its just not interesting to show someone putting forth surges of effort only for nothing to come of it. Perhaps its too scary. Too reminiscent of the futality we run from.

This musing doesn't have a pretty bow on it, no positive note to soften- but I invite you to ponder on it. How does it sit in your chest? How are you defying it or being defined by it? How would you write about it? How can a protagonist be defined by the way they can't move when they're trying to?

Fanart Friday~ 🎨

@the-golden-comet keeps drawing my ocs and I'm so touched and grateful 😭💕 thank you as always for the care and consideration you use drawing them!!

Look at these sweet beans!!!!! LOOK AT THEM!!! It's Seeker from my WIP 7 Circles having their hair braided by Goldens angelic boy Tenshi and.... ugh it's just cavity-inducing holy shit 🥺💗 the two of them would enable each other to incredible degrees I think 😂. Thank you so much Goldie, your art always brightens my life.

Art stuff!: @lychhiker-writes @gioiaalbanoart @quillswriting @wyked-ao3 (hmu to be +/- to my fanart friday posts)

A Musing Mondays 🎐

I gonna start doing a Monday post based on what in the past week has amused me or been my muse. Could be a quote, could be a new perspective I gained, could be a neat rock that I found.

I think as creators it can be easy to forget that the things we experience in the now fuel our work too- not just our pasts. If you're feeling uninspired and unmotivated, if your 'muse' seems to have left you, that's when you probably need to step away and live a little.

This weeks a-muse-ment is in the neat rock category for sure 🤘

This weekend I visited Bryce National Park and went on a challenging but very rewarding hike where I took all these photos. It really got me thinking about environments ✨️ The Outlands in my WIP 7 Circles is largely desertscape, but there are soooo many geologic features you can find in a desert. Slot canyons! Hoodoos! Petrified dunes! Carved-in sandstone dwellings! I'm buzzing with thoughts of how to twine these in later in my story. Do any of yall have cool geological features in your stories?

@katenewmanwrites @smellyrottentrees @wyked-ao3 @lychhiker-writes @the-golden-comet

@tragedycoded @cowboybrunch @zackprincebooks @urbiggestnightmare-blog @quillswriting @dragoninatrenchcoat

Last line/WIP Wednesday tag ✨️

Thank you to @the-golden-comet @cowboybrunch and @tragedycoded for the tag! 💕

Here's the last line I wrote for 🌐7 Circles🌐, in Chapter 8: Response Ability (Seeker POV)

They shine the bangles as promised, their eyes dry like a receding tide sure to surge back later, chuckling to the empty room as they recall the gruff man who had taught them so much.

Someone give this sweet bean a hug 🫂 🌠

7C taglist: @gioiaalbanoart @biblicallyaccuratefruitbat @katenewmanwrites @lychhiker-writes @honeybewrites

@autism-purgatory @wyked-ao3 @zackprincebooks @smellyrottentrees @aalinaaaaaa

@quillswriting @sincerelydorky

@nbkuhn @ddgraywrites @desastreus @theglitchywriterboi @shanakin-skywalker (hmu to be +/- from my list✨️)