Peantbutter-honeycombs - Kind Words Are Like Honey🍯🐝

Raise your hand if you hate small talk but would push through a crowd to listen to someone ramble about something they're actually passionate about.

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Writing advice from my uni teachers:

If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.

Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.

Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.

Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.

Ocs: Charlotte-June

Backstory

Charlotte grew up in the spaced out Iowan countryside with her mild-mannered maternal aunt. She herself is quite ordinary, her father not so much. On November 21, she's invited by her father to accompany him on a "business" outing. While she is aware of her father's abilities she didn't expect him to bring her with him to 2019. However, she is her father's daughter and quickly adapts apparently there's an apocalypse to prevent. Charlotte over the course of eight days finds herself becoming quite the addition to the abnormal family.

Bio

Full Name: Charlotte-June Pedersen

Face Claim: Olive E. Abercrombie

Fandom: The Umbrella Academy

Occupation: Daughter?

Personality: sweet, witty, rational, ride-or-die, bubbly, and candid

Relationships: Number 5 (father), Renate Pedersen (mother), Dolores (step-mother), Magdalene Pedersen (maternal aunt), Luther Hargreeves (paternal uncle) Diego Hargreeves (paternal uncle), Allison Hargreeves (paternal aunt), Klaus Hargreeves (favorite paternal uncle), Ben Hargreeves (deceased; paternal uncle), Vanya (paternal aunt), Reginald Hargreeves (paternal grandfather), Grace (paternal grandmother), Topaz (bestest friend)

Fun Fact: Five calls her Lulu. To the rest of the family it's kind of a mystery where the nickname came from. As a baby she struggled with her J's. So she'd have pronounced Juju with syllables she could formulate creating Lulu. Five totally fell in love with her adorable mispronunciation of her own name. Her mother hates it.

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