avrablake:

WIP Title Tag

Thanks for the tag @diphthongsfordays

Rules: post the names of all the files in your wip folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have wips.

I’m using the folder titles in my Google Drive writing folder since that’s where most of my old wip ideas are being hoarded. 

• Beyond the Darkness: current main wip. The files for Nightshade and my second prequel (simply calling it Prequel 2 for now) along with all my worldbuilding, brainstorming, and character sheets live in this folder.
• Elf Story: The first wip I every seriously worked on, many years ago. I wrote about half of it, then went on a long writing hiatus. A lot of my other wip ideas through the years have just been cannibalizations of this story. I was really into Magical Realm stories back then. BtD is my first serious wip since
• Merpeople and Space Angels: my newest wip idea, in the brainstorming phase but also very much on the backburner.
• Guardian Soul: took an idea from Elf Story and tried to take it in a different direction. Basically an ordinary person inheriting the soul of an Ancient Magical Guardian, along with their knowledge and powers, feeling like the guardian is slowly taking over. Yes I love this concept, yes I went feral for Oscar/Ozpin in RWBY. I was writing Elf Story and Guardian Soul many many years before RWBY though.
• Endless Summer: another wip idea that drew from Elf Story. I think I worked on this a bit a few years after abandoning Elf Story as an attempt to get back into it. A lot of the same concepts but from a different angle. 

I also have a folder called Ideas with random ideas, free writing, scenes I wrote that weren’t attached to any projects. The files in this folder are:

• blood was raining from the sky
• free writing
• magic conversation
• parallel universes
• random story scenes
• storytelling elements
• the girl on the green hill

Everything here (aside from my current wips) is pretty old. I mostly keep random ideas and scenes in my notes app now.

Tagging (no pressure): @emelkae@valpur@aalinaaaaaa@psychic-timetraveler@songbirdsandathenixroseplusOpen Tag for anyone who wants to do this.

avrablake:

Okay enablers, it’s bad poetry time. Got a last line tag from @zonnemaagd and I’ve been working on this poem thing. I still feel like it needs some tweaks, and I feel pretty self-conscious about it, but also I want feedback so here you go.

I decided to go with prose poems rather than breaking the lines. These are also the new first lines of the book so figured it would be a good idea to sneak some themes in here too.

Moonlight pours around me as shadows hold my limbs and I search. What beyond the darkness waits? Light or night or choices I must make?

Slowly slipping through the shadows, mist and whispers brush my skin. Solid milky white and thick it swirls and dances, blocking sight of night and light alike.

Heavy. Weary. Searching endless. Pain erupts and burns. Lashing, grasping, thrashing, scratching. Hopeless struggle through an endless sea of white and gloom. Pulling, clinging, calling. Slowly sliding, sinking into soft silver-white caresses of endless empty loss and loneliness.

Tagging my enablers @emelkae@diphthongsfordaysand@sleepyowlwritesplusOpen Tag for anyone who wants it.

avrablake:

ROY G  BIV Tag

Thanks for the tag @emelkae

Rules: find the seven colors of the rainbow in your wips

Red

The fresh hum of energy from the medicine gave him the strength he needed to rip his shirt into strips. He tied multiple strips together and used the rest to wipe at the wound at his side. He sucked in a breath and ground his teeth through the pain. His efforts were futile. Blood continued to flow from the wound, soaking the thin fabric and staining his hands red. It was Kaori’s specialty. She’d explained the ingredients of her poison to him once, though he didn’t really understand it. All he knew was that the wound would bleed like hell and using his channeling would make his body burn like it was on fire.

Orange

Thea rushed off toward the back of the large main building, heading in the direction of the orange glow, and the loudest shouting. She rounded a corner and stopped abruptly.

Kaori stood in her path, swords drawn and gleaming menacingly. The blades were wet—Thea assumed with blood. Her stomach lurched and her vision swam. She sucked in a quick breath, willing her legs not to collapse under her.

Yellow 

(the only yellow I could find comes from this colorful excerpt. Didn’t want to just post this for the other colors though)

She couldn’t really explain why she felt that way, and consciously told herself she was being silly. She had never been one to be afraid of the dark. In fact she loved the night sky, filled with glittering diamonds overhead. Moonless nights like this one were her favorite. Without the additional light, the stars stood out even clearer in the blackness that wasn’t just black but deep purple and navy blue folded together behind twinkling white, yellow,red, and blue gems of light. Thea had once loved leaning against her mother’s shoulders as they found pictures in the stars together. 

GreenandBlue

After that, time seemed to slow to a crawl and there was only darkness—thick, hot, and endless. Just as she felt like she the blackness would suffocate her, drown her, the darkness thinned and gave way to bluesky,green trees and a gentle breeze.

tagging@valpur@asher-writesand@thegreatobsessoplusOpen Tag for anyone who wants it