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UNBOXING MY BOOK | TO WEAR A CROWN COVER REVEAL | PRE-ORDERS | ARCs
I had some amazing To Wear A Crown character art commissioned by @foxsteel–fanart (who is stunningly talented). I’ll only be revealing it on 25 March, but I’m just sitting here looking at it like:
Having to keep the beautiful cover a secret for so long was hard enough on its own
March 25th can’t come soon enough!
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I hope that my writing advice videos can help fellow authors, and that you will continue to join me on my publishing journey ❤
“I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I actually had fun tonight.”
“Of course you did. I know how to treat a lady.”
“Ha-ha. Think you can pull it off again?”
“Ooh, a second date? Have I wooed you already?”
“How far is the village?”
“Farther than I’m comfortable letting you walk until you’re healed. We’ll go another time, if you want. I’m sure they’ll be more than happy to rescue you from me.”
“Rescue me? Why would they do that?”
“Leave it to [X] to believe we can outmaneuver an ancient, incomprehensible force of nature.”
“Oh, he doesn’t. He believes hecan.”
“That lake is haunted.”
“Don’t be stupid. It’s not haunted. There’s a lake monster in it.”
“You know, you’re not doing a very good job endearing yourself to him.”
“I wasn’t aware that was the goal.”
“I think I get it now. You were never going to be able to save me. There’s nothing either of us could have done.”
“That’s not true. I’ll try again. I’ll keep trying until I get it right.”
“I don’t want to die, [X]. But I don’t want you to destroy yourself to save me.”
“I don’t understand why you’re doing this. Don’t you love me?”
“Of course I love you. The problem is that youdon’t love me.”
“Quit getting yourself into trouble.”
“Why? You’re always around to get me out of it.”
“How is he?”
“Beat to shit. What’s it to you?”
“Can’t I just be concerned for his well-being?”
“You? Never.”
“I can’t be around you. You’re poison.”
“I’mpoison, am I? Just last week I was the love of your life.”
“Which one of you told a rookie she could come with us on a hunt?”
“That’d be me, Cap'n. She practically begged me.”
“They all beg. Every one of ‘em is desperate to get gored to death by monsters. Doesn’t mean we let 'em.”
The Loch Kelpie
Ay, thou saw her prance
Along the loch’s stone-beaded rim,
Kicking her hooves in a spritely dance
As though inviting thee to swim.
Wild and free with her breeze-whipped mane,
She whinnied for thou to come beside.
Thou didst and grabbed her ragged rein.
Her deep brown eyes begged to ride.
Thou saddled her dappled back
And pulled her hence towards home,
Yet she galloped into the lake waters black.
Both vanishing beneath the foam.
‘Tis why whence ye spoke of wild pony gray,
A premonition dost come.
Beware the kelpie’s longing neigh,
Or else thee too shall soon succumb.
thank you so much @crystallized-ink for always tagging me in these things !! i seriously have to catch up w/ my tag games ripp-
throat
She didn’t have time to read the person right now, her mind was set on blocking them off from the loudening threat. Outstretching her arms, she twisted her body away from the rubble and trash. Kaede looked right at whoever was approaching them.
Her heart slammed into her throat.
That wasn’t a person.
flower
The spring heat today was stronger than usual; she made sure to keep her meek steps under the chilly shade of the school building. The garden’s trees, veiled by the warm shadow, were twiggy and sparse, and the flowers were a bit shrivelled at the tips of their petals.
dust
Bright blue light flashed from behind the creature, and slowly the crystals on its body began eroding into a dark fog. Its body was crumbling into dust; curving, twisting thin trails of mist faded into the dull orange of the late evening. It thumped onto the rock.
song
––sorry ! i have nothing :”)
will be tagging: @lanawritesalittle@atomic-insomnia@loopyhoopywrites @wannabeauthorzofijaand@fields-of-ink!!
ARCANA — chapter three excerpt.
hello ! i have been inactive for god knows how long due to schoolwork piling up :”) very sorry for not saying anything about that :”)))
shfjbsjd but i’ll do my best to start posting more excerpts and updates on my wip(s) !!! so here’s a scene from the draft for arcana<33
✴︎ transcript and taglist under the cut !!
Haku told her to close her eyes, and she did. After hearing a deep and focused breath, Kaede felt five, cold and slender fingers touch the side of her neck. The tips gingerly curled around to her nape and their thumb rested under her jaw. Slowly, she felt the remnants of her strength fade from her body.
The world drifted further from her body by the second. Soon Kaede was caught in Haku’s cloaked arms. Energy was sapped away from as far as her toes and fingertips. Their loose embrace felt as comfortable as pillows and the icy water around her bare feet soothing and kind. Before the final slivers of her consciousness left her, a distant voice reached her ears.
“Please Kaede—”
“—make the choice you won’t regret.”
✴︎ taglist (lmk if you’d like to be added/removed!)
Your English teachers lied to you.
Thought I’d post my old writing advice guides onto this blog since I deleted my old one. I hope it’s helpful!
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Listen. I respect the hell out of teachers. The vast majority of them work crazy hard and most of the time, including the times they give you well-meaning ‘writing rules,’ only want to instill good and helpful habits into you.
That doesn’t change the fact that many of these rules are stupid.
Here are my top five ‘writing rule’ pet peeves, and five rules that should be followed.
✗ Don’t write ‘said.’
Okay, I know this is common knowledge by now, but it’s so important. The concept that you can never write ‘ so-and-so said’ is hurting novice writers’ narratives. Said is invisible. Said is powerful. Said is transformable. If every quote ends in a strong synonym, it is distracting. Sometimes, in an established repartee, quotes don’t need to be tagged at all. Or an adverb following ‘said’ might be better for the narrative than any single verb.
Eg. //
“I hate the rain,” grumbled David.“I love it,” Claire announced.
“You love everything,” he muttered.
“Including you!” she giggled.
versus.
“I hate the rain,” grumbled David.
“I love it,” said Claire.
“You love everything,” he said impatiently.
“Including you!”
✓ Don’t write ‘something.’
Cold hard truth, baby. ‘Something’ is a draft word. It’s what you write when you want to think of a replacement. I cringe when I see it in a sentence that would have been improved tenfold by a specific noun or descriptive phrase in its place. There are times when ‘something’ works or is the only option, but experiment by replacing that word with more description before deciding it’s necessary to keep.
Eg. //He pulled something shiny from his pocket. She craned her neck to see what it was. A metal flask.versus.A flash of light caught the metal he pulled from his pocket. She craned her neck to see what it was. A drinking flask.
when i opened my eyes,
the walls dripped red &
blue blood revenge
when i opened my eyes,
the light of your dark was
yellow sunshine, golden
when i opened my eyes,
you were empty handed,
empty hearted
when i opened my eyes,
i wished to close them,
tightly.
pantser? you tellin me a pair of pants wrote this book??
