#writers life
I feel so called out right now…
Gotta be greater than the haters, friends.
Writing a conversation between Isolda and Henry/Thadeus where he explains WHY he gave her his middle name instead of his given name when they first meet. It’s taking longer than I expected.
I think for the second draft of Roman and Isolda I am going to have to add some non-conversation content because right now my book is about 90-95% conversation. And readers might find that boring after awhile. So that might mean I will have to add more POVs. But that would also probably annoy readers not to mention confuse them. HHHhhhmmm
Also, I am 12 pages into my The Bare Witch Project Review that I started two years ago and am only on chapter 2. Maybe I should post this in sections….
I finally reached 100-pages for Roman and Isolda. My story is coming along slowly but surely. I hope to have this novel finished by the end of the year so I can start getting it ready for a 2023 release.
I will eventually reach 100 pages for Roman and Isolda. Hopefully it will be before this month ends. But at the rate things are going probably not. Either way, wish me luck and speedy typing.
So, I finally got around to updating my website. I hope to make it a regular thing and will probably work on making it look more professional in the coming months.
https://ndecastra.wixsite.com/mysite
I also think I am going to start a patreon for my book/Murder, She Wrote review series, assuming of course I can make updating them a regular event. So I need to figure out some good tier rewards for patrons. Any thoughts?
I also am kinda annoyed that I didn’t take better notes on what I want to happen in my Chrysalis and Whips series, in regards to Vergil and Falena’s relationship. I remember how I want it to go in the first and second but I can’t for the life of me remember what I was going to have happen in the third book.
Speaking of Chrysalis and Whips I need to go back to my most recent chapter and change the location from a restaurant to the club/dungeon.
I have a BDSM interview list and am wondering if anyone would be interested in answering them so I can get a better idea on how people experience the lifestyle. Does that explanation make sense? Anyways, if you are interested in answering the questions please drop me a line.
I am still working on Roman and Isolda and still hope to have it out later this year or middle of next year.
Also, just a remember but Red is available in paperback not just ebook now. And the audiobook will be available later on this year.
And An Icy Road to a Warm Heart is available in ebook, paperback, and audiobook
So, last night I finally managed to finish the conversation that was giving me such an issue, thanks to Tori, and now I just need to close out the chapter and move on to the chapter 12. Woot. Sadly I didn’t meet my page goal last month because of the above mentioned conversation. So this month I am hoping to get past the 100 page mark.
You and your MC preparing for the final push:
Writers in the middle of a first draft like:
Pulling that bait-and-switch on your betas like:
When someone says they don’t like your genre:
So Blood Passion Ch. 02 went up last week. There was a big mistake with it. Just waiting for the edit to get approved. Basically people were asking if something was missing with the chapter. Something was missing…an entire chapter. I put up 3 as 2 by accident. I thought the edit would be up by now but it is still processing. One it is up, I’ll re-submit chapter 3 as 3 to make everything good.
Writing is just. Random shower thoughts. Existential crisis. Writing two sentences. Scrolling through Pinterest for half a day. Crying. Not writing for three weeks. More existential crisis. It’s 3am and you’re writing two chapters at once while on eight cans of red bull. Panicky flipping through all of your Notebooks and note book Apps and family trees for that one character’s last name instead of just re-reading your last chapter. existential crisis. Shower thoughts.
How am I supposed to write anything, when any time I open one of my (many) documents I am overcome with rather intense feelings of Cringe, and something that feels remarkably like Dread?
(actual question. suggestions welcome. please help.)
character: it’s like I said-
me, scrolling through to seven chapters ago, muttering under my breath: yeah, what DID you say
What if your multi chapter fic got so long that you split it into two volumes and you have to go all the way back to VOLUME ONE CHAPTER ONE??
I obviously wouldn’t know anything about that…
Newsfeed #127 June 13, 2021 (13 Nárië)
I have NO issues in any representation of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. I do not care if it is animated, live action, literary or spray painted on the side of a building. Expression is the highest form of flattery.
What I have a problem with is a representation that does not lead back to Tolkien. I purposely created “The Kingdom of the Woodland Realm Trilogy” and its subsequent standalone books for the sole purpose to lead back to Tolkien’s original works. When someone says to me, “reading your story has made me want to read (or reread Tolkien),” my mission has been fulfilled.
I do not do what I do for money. I do not do it for notoriety which I have gained worldwide. I do it because of the love of reading and out of respect for my literary hero J.R.R. Tolkien. In the early days, when people confused my story with Tolkien, that upset me greatly. First of all, I do not think I sound like Tolkien as my story is told in the first person. Granted, I studied his language patterns and felt the need to take out anything “modern” in order to ensure my stories maintained a certain believability.
I have created characters when necessary but never once have I ever taken the works of Tolkien out of context. I “write around” the original material. I work with the original material. I am always referring back to the material to make sure I am capturing the essence of Middle-Earth as Tolkien created it. I made that promise to my father and Tolkien the very second I decided to write my story. I took the path less traveled at a time when Middle-Earth fan fictions on Tumblr were often filled with vulgarity and graphic sex.
I was on the last rung on a ladder of stories when I began “The Saga of Thranduil”. At any time, I could have turned the tide for more attention, but I refused. I could not bring myself to lessen the work of the man inspired me to write fantasy when I was a child. I knew anything less than my best would have disappointed my dying father. I continued on the path I chose.
When teachers started telling me they liked TKWRT and asked if they could read it to their students during a unit on Tolkien, I was shocked. When soldiers deployed in war zones asked for a copy of TKWRT, I was humbled. When high school students wrote me during Winter Recess about wanting to read TKWRT because they could not get to a library, I realized I had done something wonderful. When other published writers asked if my work was a continuation of Tolkien, I finally allowed myself to accept the reason so many people told me they had written to the Tolkien Estate asking about a “lost” book about Thranduil.
I know what I have done and will continue to do. I do not have any issues with how Tolkien is represented. I know how I represent Tolkien. He is never far from my mind whenever I write sentence. In fact, I am always surrounded by his books when I am working. I am telling histories through the eyes of his characters in his world. I make sure he is always front and center in that moment. From the naming of characters (often mentioned but never named) to new place names, I never am looking to the outside. My guide is Tolkien. Until the very last word, he will be the inspiration. He has to be, otherwise I am disrespecting his legacy, genius and his work. This entire series is dedicated to J.R.R. Tolkien. I would not wish to give him anything he would not be proud to read himself.–Jaynaé Marie Miller, from Excerpts, A Memoir.
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How do you expect me to feel
when you put the entire
universe inside my heart?
And then one day you decided to
burn everything we nurtured?
The sun died and the clouds
weren’t even crying.
The flowers stood still,
and I cut off the thorns
on all of the roses you gave me
because what was the point of
trying to save them from the wild?
My chest felt like a love struck
battleground, and I was just sitting
next to the armor. Now everyone can
see that I’m not the same person
who once had the entire universe beating
inside the heart that once lived.
-Alexa Evangelista, the book I’ll never finish writing
I always struggle with myself and who I am. I have a hard time dealing with things like imposter’s syndrome and anxiety. I overthink and tend to care very much about what other’s think of me. It often breaks me and then I become filled with stubbornness and anger. I shut down and refuse to continue on in my life and I realize that this ends up hurting me more in the long run. It hurts me to constantly make myself small because I am so afraid of being told all of the things that were told to me in my childhood; that I am so unworthy of any kind of platform or voice.
I try to be proud of how far I have come in my life (personal and writing) and be happy but it’s so hard. I feel like I’m constantly fighting with myself; constantly convincing myself that I am worthy of love and this art that I sometimes hate with all of my heart but words keep saving me. Words keep bringing me back out of myself and showing me the way to my own happiness. At the end of everyday of my life, after I’ve done everything I can to pull my happiness from others I find myself disappointed until I release here. In this way. In this form. This is the only way I know .
’ but I wanted to share this and say, I truly appreciate everyone who sticks around and reads my work and shows me love and appreciation. It’s amazing how much I have grown just by joining this amazing, insane, random, beautiful community. This is literally the first time I’ve written in maybe a month? and it turns out I had two pieces inside of me so here you go! I haven’t ever done one of these before here but it’s a poem within a poem… You can read it on the first slide or you can swipe and read on the next slide (separately).
Thank you again for following/liking/sharing/commenting. I truly appreciate all you
ReBecca DeFazio
More Than a Flower
As some of you might have already known, @tcstu‘s competition has come to a close after whole 47 months of running! And what a load of fun it’s been while it was active <3
Gotta admit to something here - ever since I’ve started joining this contest back in January 2019, I’ve kept track of all my entries. And if you know me, you would guess that quickly escalated to keeping track of every morsel of publicly-available data regarding this contest So, when I heard the competition was going to end, i thought to myself: would I really let all that data I’ve kept go to waste? The answer was no.
After a number of conversations with TCSTU and other artists and writers who have participated in this event over the years, I have created the infographic you can see above. Let me assure you, it is much prettier than the spreadsheet with raw data xD
So! To the artists who left the biggest impressions - @mnstrcndy,@hydraart,@mienar,@4threset - and the 37 others who’ve joined us once; to all the 60 writers who have ever participated, and especially those whose words landed them on the charts - @evanthenerd83,@daalseth,@moonlightchess,@winterrose42,@coppercreationcreator,@to-kill-a-procrastinator,@vanrambling,@the-art-of-honormancy - and, most importantly, to @tcstu:
Thank you for taking your part in this and bringing us all joy via this amazing contest!
If you’d like to see the art pieces included in their full glory, I’m including the links right below:
By@mnstrcndy:“Bake-kujira” in May 2021
By@hydraart:“Scientia” in December 2021,“Hide and seek” in January 2021,“They are coming back to life” in January 2020,“Nightmare fuel” in May 2019and“It wasn’t that long ago, apparently” in January 2019
By@mienar:“Reaching for the stars” in June 2020and“Getaway” in May 2018
By@4threset:“But Maybe, One day, You might be able to move on. Just Maybe” in March 2020and“And I Am Breathing in a Sinking Room” in March 2018
(make sure to check them all out, but especially the ones by the last two artists - the originals are animated!)
@emilyelizabethfowl - Thank you so much for putting this together! I’m honored that someone cared enough about my contest to do this!
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