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30 DAYS, 30 LINES CHALLENGE
Day 10, 7/31/22
From Where Paradise Died and Lived:
Her life ran on autopilot now. The continuous relay of six hour shifts, rotating between night and day, seemed to be the strongest sense of time she understood. Her off days swung variously between feeling interminable and fleeting.
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? 😂
30 DAYS, 30 LINES CHALLENGE
Day 25, 9/1/22
From Where Paradise Died and Lived:
"You’re too much. I admit it."
Tag list: @canofpeaches @wayoftheghost
*peeks around a corner to do a double take* Did you update your icon?? It looks lovely and I'm obsessed. (Or if you didn't, I'm just woefully unobservant haha.) Also--THIS IS ME YELLING AGAIN BECAUSE AAAHHHH I MISSED YOUUU *THROWS CONFETTI*
YES I DID UPDATE MY ICON <333 THANK YOU SO MUCHHHHH
nono, you're very observant haha.
AHHHHH *ALSO THROWS CONFETTI* I MISSED YOU TOOOO
🎶✨when u get this, list 5 songs u like to listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (positivity is cool)🎶✨ @writingbyricochet
this is so late but I'M IN A MUSIC MOOD LATELY SO AHHH && thank you for the ask!
(1) my tears ricochet (2) forever 1 (3) september (ts's cover!) (4) the way i loved you (5) back to december
lmao if you can't tell, i've been on a taylor swift streak 4/5 times.
I KNOW I'VE SEEN WPDL GROW AND DEVELOP THAT I FEEL LIKE I'M ITS GODMOTHER
no lmao but in all seriousness, i'm so glad you're still working on it! and i genuinely hope the archives respond soon, that's awful that you have to wait for it )): YES. books are so helpful! lots of them have really good insight to history - though you're right, documents are much, much better
14.5k WHOOOOOOO! oh God, I understand the not-so-fun filling in part haha. AND YES. "this love" by ts is so, so good. all the nostalgia vibes (also august by her EEK).
it's nice that you're bouncing back and forth! wish i can say the same... it's hard to get into writing once you're outside of it in a way, so i've resorted to drabbles somehow. i'm really hoping i can start my myth & folklore research up again soon, and start outlining!
I'M SO GLAD LIFE IS GOING WELL! it suddenly got SO cold here, it's unreal. pumpkin patch! no way! i love thattttt. and AHHHH. CONGRATS ON YOUR PROMOTION! so well deserved. and i hope the wedding went well!
TELL ME HOW WHERE PARADISE DIED AND LIVED is DOING bc last i remember it was still in the research works and i was so invested and then i disappeared but i missed it so HERE I AM
also let me know how you've been! and how life + writing has gone! <333
HI AVE THANK YOU FOR ASKING ABOUT WPDL YOU KNOW IT'S MY BABY
I'm still working very slowly but surely on it! It is currently at 14.5k words and I'm still waiting for the Archives to respond to my request (bureaucracy strikes again 😭) BUT a new book came out a few weeks ago that I bought right away and it more or less answered the question I was wondering about anyway, so I'm somewhat satisfied—I still want to get that response for the official documents though!
I've written quite a few of the most important scenes, which leaves all of the not-as-fun filling in to do, hence the reason for some slow down. I also got sidetracked for a hot minute in writing an essay on how "This Love" by Taylor Swift is the ultimate theme song for Sophie lmao. (Haven't finished that either yet, typical.) Literally did not touch any of my other WIPs in all of August just to focus on WPDL and was super productive; then I felt a good refresh and recharge to go back to BHE, so I've been bouncing back and forth between them in the last couple weeks.
As for myself, life is going well! I'm luxuriating in the proper arrival of fall and cooler temperatures! I'm going to a pumpkin patch this weekend! I got promoted at work! And last week I went to my best friend's wedding as her maid of honor!
Thank you for checking in my sweet friend! 🥺 <3 xxxx
YEEES the best promotion i got this year LMAO
i am so, SO excited for her new album! seriously, i hope your writing streak lasts! and thank you so much! i think it's more that i'm scared to start again, but the ideas have been coming back to me hehe. and awww, thank you so much! (that seriously makes me want to write now AHHHH)
life is going well! uni ): but surviving pfft
TELL ME HOW WHERE PARADISE DIED AND LIVED is DOING bc last i remember it was still in the research works and i was so invested and then i disappeared but i missed it so HERE I AM
also let me know how you've been! and how life + writing has gone! <333
HI AVE THANK YOU FOR ASKING ABOUT WPDL YOU KNOW IT'S MY BABY
I'm still working very slowly but surely on it! It is currently at 14.5k words and I'm still waiting for the Archives to respond to my request (bureaucracy strikes again 😭) BUT a new book came out a few weeks ago that I bought right away and it more or less answered the question I was wondering about anyway, so I'm somewhat satisfied—I still want to get that response for the official documents though!
I've written quite a few of the most important scenes, which leaves all of the not-as-fun filling in to do, hence the reason for some slow down. I also got sidetracked for a hot minute in writing an essay on how "This Love" by Taylor Swift is the ultimate theme song for Sophie lmao. (Haven't finished that either yet, typical.) Literally did not touch any of my other WIPs in all of August just to focus on WPDL and was super productive; then I felt a good refresh and recharge to go back to BHE, so I've been bouncing back and forth between them in the last couple weeks.
As for myself, life is going well! I'm luxuriating in the proper arrival of fall and cooler temperatures! I'm going to a pumpkin patch this weekend! I got promoted at work! And last week I went to my best friend's wedding as her maid of honor!
Thank you for checking in my sweet friend! 🥺 <3 xxxx
THIS IS SUCH A TREAT. i love, love, love instrumentals and always end up browsing through playlists on youtube. and it fits the vibe of poco a poco so well???
and you were a cellist- the talent. thanks for this!
trick or treat asks/event here
I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT
TRICK OR TREAT
Hi Ave I am TREATING you to this little baby micro-playlist for Poco a Poco! Two things about it: There are some repeats because in some cases I preferred a certain recording where there was no video but I wanted a visual reference. A few selections were also included because of my experience with them; I played Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 (literally what cellist hasn't) and the Haydn concerto in high school! Ironically enough, I like all of the pieces I didn't play more :)
