As you probably all know by know, today, November 18th, is my 4 year Blogversary!
I've never done anything big like this before, mostly because I've not really done anything else on my blog in the past? so obviously this is new! I don't have much planned other than I wanted to answer the questions you asked me. And if they'll stop getting sidetracked discussing various weapons, I have a few girls here to do a quick interview about their stories and their hIsToRy! So some fun stuffs coming up!
Q&A
-Favorite movie?
My favorite movie at this point in time is Polycarp, although Call of the Wild and Catching Fire are close seconds.
To read? My favorite genre (other than fantasy) would have to be sci-fi. I also have started liking the couple of books that are a fantasy/sci-fi mashup, like the Children of the Bard series by Bryan Davis and the Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyers. It's probably the same for writing.
"He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.
30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;
31 but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint." -Isaiah 40:29-31
30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;
31 but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint." -Isaiah 40:29-31
How I do feel about the Olympics? ... Is something happening to the Olympics that I don't know about? I don't really follow the Olympics' news these days. I'm more invested in what's happening in the chess world. Are you saying I should go to the Olympics? I don't think I'd even make it to qualifiers anymore.
Most of the same stuff that's been on my TBR for the past year, because I've been completely derailing from it for the most part. A few highlights:
-Echo of the Fae by Jenelle Leanne Schmidt (I own it... I just need to read it)
-The Silmarilion by J.R.R. Tolkein (I've started it 3 times and have never gotten past three chapters...)
-Howl's Moving Castle by Dianna Wayne Jones (I keep telling myself I need to read it before the Silmaril awards, bc there's always a Howl character in the top five... I never have succeeded)
-plus others I'm not certain of where I'll be in the series by the calendar flip, so they won't be mentioned.
Well, after I finish A Word Unbroken, I'll be editing The Last Phoenix to get it ready for pitching at Realm Makers next summer!!!!! For new stories, however, I'll probably be working on the next installment of the Black Crystal Trilogy (the series AWU is book 1 of), currently being called A Fight Unfinished.
In my Know the Novel part 2 post earlier this week, I included several snippets. You can hop over there and see WIP galore. But because I'm nice, here's another tidbit for you:
Elly ran a hand through her hair as she stared at him. “The revolution here. Everything that’s chasing Ryder and the other two. The Gazebo. The dragons. It’s all connected.”
“All of it,” Ollyn repeated. “And I need to know who he is. He killed my dad. He’s hurt Wren and Dabe and me deeper than I think we know. He’s tearing apart Qaris.”
He met her gaze, his dark eyes darkening further as he readied himself to say the words that he’d sworn that first day he quit speaking. “I’m going to kill him.”
-What is your best tip for combating writer's block?
Keep pushing through. Taking a break, moving on to somet
hing else, all the stuff I used to do, it doesn't actually help. It makes me discouraged and completely detached from that story, and I'll never come back to it. So just keep going. You might write crap. I certainly do. But it'll come back, and you can fix it up during the editing process.
So that's what I have question-wise! Hope you enjoyed that. Anyways, moving on. I managed to get the girls to calm down enough to have a conversation with them.
Please welcome Tanny, Winera, Ariel, Perpetua, and Serwrenna!!!
Me: so, girls. Which of you five is the oldest?
Serwrenna: Hello, hi, that would be me. I'm the oldest.
Perpetua: Sorry, I think we're the same age.
Tanny: I think she meant which of us is the oldest created character, which would be me.
Me: Yeah, that's kinda what I meant. But yes, Pet, you and Wren are both sixteen.
Winera: Wait, they get to be sixteen, and I'm stuck at fourteen? I've existed a lot longer than either of them.
Tanny: Ha, well, I'm only twelve. You can only cry so much.
Me: I'm in a different phase for ages with them than I was when I was writing you two. But that doesn't matter. Both of you do plenty at your ages. Anyways, Tanny, as my first character ever, tell us a little about your story.
Tanny: ...
Me: ...
Tanny: What story?
Me: You-your story? The thing I'm writing about you?
Tanny: You scratched my story a few years back and are now claiming you'll write the new one very soon. Except that story focuses on someone named Kathy. Wrong name, Kal. I think--
Me: Okayyyy, someone's bitter. Let's move away from telling about stories. How about a round of what-would-you-do?
Perpetua: You just don't want us blabbing about all the stuff you aren't writing, do you?
Me: ...
Perpetua: ...
Winera: ...
Ariel: SO! What-would-you-do?
Me: Ah, yes. Um. You all have a fellow main character, a male companion, so to speak. Let's say he'd fallen in a river and was drowning. What would you do?
Perpetua: Scream and cry because it's Kalleb, and he can shape-shift into a fish, so why is he drowning?
Winera: Laugh at him until Sikito tells me to jump in and save him.
Me: What if it is Sikito?
Winera: ... jump in and save him without hesitating.
Tanny: See, my guy is Ben, and Ben would punch me if I tried to save him, so I'd let him drown.
Winera: Seriously? You'd rather let him drown than get punched?
Tanny: Are you kidding? I was making a joke! Of course I'd save him.
Ariel: If it's Wilson, jump in and save him.
Me: If it's Maximus...?
Ariel: Jump in and save him.
Winera: There're piranhas in the water.
Ariel: Jump in and save him.
Serwrenna: It's raining acid...
Ariel: Jump--
Me: Okay, let's stop making this terrible for Ariel. Wren, what would you do?
Serwrenna: I mean, if it's Kel, I'd save him in a heartbeat, although he'd probably get mad and tell me how I endangered myself. If it's Dabe, I'd just laugh at him and let Alith save him.
Winera: Really?
Serwrenna: ... no. I'd save him. He'd probably dunk me, though.
Me: Well then, next question. You have a chance to go back in time and stop your villain before your story happens. Would you?
Ariel: No.
Tanny: Yes.
Winera: Yes.
Perpetua: That means I would go back like five hundred years... no.
Serwrenna: Which villain?
Me: Hakkyn.
Serwrenna: Um. Yes. If I was alone, I would.
Me: I can see Winera getting ready to ask something that will take us into a very dark conversation, so let's move on. If you could pair up with one character from a different story than yours, who would you choose and why?
Ariel: Emma Grant.
Me: From a story represented by one of these five girls.
Ariel: Oh. Um.
Winera: I suppose Kathy from Niinia. From what I've heard, we sound similar, and I think we would be unstoppable. You know, with her lightning and my skills.
Serwrenna: Kalleb. You have a great man, Pet. He just sounds like someone I'd want at my side.
Perpetua: Why, thank you. I was just about to say Andre from your story for basically the same reasons. Except I wouldn't have to worry about keeping him alive as hard core.
Ariel: Tanny. I want Tanny at my side. We can watch each other's backs, and she's basically a smuggler.
Tanny: I was about to say Lyra, but I might switch it over to you now. Thank you. That means a lot.
Me: Alright, girls, thanks so much! I'm glad I can pull together a group who doesn't want to kill each other the whole time. Do y'all have anything else to say before we wrap up the post?
Serwrenna: Thanks for reading through all this chaos, everyone! We are embodiments of chaos, every one of us, so it has to CrAzY, but you still keep reading!
Perpetua: It's been discouraging, wanting to get our stories out there for people to start getting excited about but not having many people really interested. It means a lot that you care about us enough to keep coming back to this Place.
Ariel: I know we don't always make sense, but we're trying hard to make this an enjoyable area. Please keep coming back. It's been an amazing four years of helping Kal create posts for your enjoyment, and a little less amazing in the points where we poke her into posting more, and we don't want that to stop anytime soon.
Winera: Not wanting to brag, but I'm basically the reason this blog became a thing. It's been hard, like Pet said, to want to post when there aren't many people reading the posts, especially since we don't have any platforms to advertise on, so I-- we-- are thankful for each and every one of you readers. Thank you so so so so so so so so so so so so much for reading all this chaos. Please keep coming back!
Tanny: As Kal's earliest character, I've never had much publicity, so the fact that she's letting me say this is great. It's been four years of Kal struggling to find her pace in writing. With me as the exception, all of the other four girls were created in this time period. I've sat on the sidelines watching all these new ideas take flight and knowing that one day something big is going to happen with them. That's still in the works, of course, but having people read her blog has been giving Kal confidence to keep going. I know everyone's said it already, but please keep reading! You reading her little flashes of chaos on the weekends is helping her remember why she loves writing in the first place. So please, keep coming back. Help us have another amazing four years of crafting worlds.
Like the girls all said, thank you so much for reading along with all my crazy. It really means so much to me, and I can't wait to see what happens next in this Place of Chaos!
thanks for reading! byeeeee
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