Tag: mediocre young adult writer problems

For the OC thing: 4, 21, 29, 41, 52, 64, 76, 81, 90

4. How many pairs of shoes do you own?

One that makes little to no noise on most terrain, then a bunch of throwaways to traverse blight-infested areas.

21. Rant about something you dislike (don’t worry, we’re not limited on time)

I don’t know, man, I don’t got much to rant about….

…..

Alright, let’s talk about Lourdes. Who’s Lourdes? Umm, only the Devil Herself, thank you very much. And Morlene’s new girlfriend, that’s who. But who is she really? She says she’s a teacher but… I mean, would you believe her? Have you ever seen her at work? I haven’t! Not that I was looking but you know… plus… pLUS!!! She moved out of Morlene’s and back to her parents AND you want me to believe they’re still dating? Sure that sounds like a committed relationship to me. If she can’t even look past the fact that I sometimes stumble through Morlene’s doorstep with my guts in my hands and she has to patch me up together again well I say that proves my point.

AND have you ever seen her and the royal witches in the same room? That’s right, you haven’t. It’s because she’s evil. I’m pretty sure she works for the king and only got close to Morlene to somehow get to me. 

She’s eeeeeviiiiil.

29. What’s your favorite place to be?

Cobaltcast 28
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Hm? No, that’s not where Morlene lives. Nope. Not at all. Just a random house, shut up.

41. What’s your most treasured possession?

Ummm…. *rummaging through backpack* discombobulators?

52. What does your voice sound like? Do you think it’s pleasant? Do other people?

I don’t talk in my own voice much these days. I bet it sounds sexy though.

64. Drama is going on. Do you grab the popcorn and watch it unfold or just ignore it?

Ignore it. Who cares? Extra ignore it if it has a chance of compromising my current job *glares at Cephas who keeps getting involved with drama*

76. You’re given $1000 and told you have to spend it in an hour or you get to keep nothing. What store do you go to? What do you buy? You are not allowed to use it for online shopping and you are only allowed to go to one store.

KNIVES SHOP

KNIVES

81. For one day you’re in charge of babysitting a younger version of yourself (5 and under). What do you do? You are not allowed to give yourself back.

uh… knives shop? That’s what I did when I was five.

90. You think you might be getting sick. Do you pre-emptively take medicine or wait to be sure?

Ugh, sick or not sick, who cares, if it ain’t blight it don’t matter.

1 & 12 ✨✨

1. The one place they end up falling asleep (where they’re not supposed to)

Whenever and wherever someone drugs me. Happens more often than you’d think. (I would say also wherever a pub crawl ends but I’m pretty sure you’re supposed to fall asleep after a pub crawl. That’s what they’re for, right?)

12. Honestly, has anyone seen you in your underwear in the past 3 months?

Even I haven’t seen myself in my underwear in the past 3 months.

I collected all the Vale facts from my twitter, just to have them in one place because they’re fun 🙂

  • Fun fact about Vale: Cephas was almost called Kieran in the beginning. No idea why. 

  • Another fun Vale fact: though there is a church in the story, religion isn’t explicitly mentioned, and no gods actually exist but hell is referenced several times and is widely believed in.

  • Fun Vale bits while I’m editing: Vale’s mum was always “the tallest person in the room, by far”.

  • Further Vale tidbits: Zavier, Ormandy, and Cephas are the only named male characters in this book that have a speaking line. There’s some other named dude but he dead. (edit: this is actually not true, Eamon and Tulip are also male characters but they don’t have many speaking lines)

  • Sad Vale tidbit: Cephas never had a friend in his life until he met Vale. Good times!

  • Vale secrets! I made Caelmoor into an island because this way it’s 1) a town 2) a country 3) a kingdom 4) an island, and I never run out of synonyms to call it within a sentence without repeating myself :3

  • Vale insider info: in my 1st outline Morlene and Vale weren’t exes just friends. That was a stupid that idea and I’m so happy I decided they used to be together cause it made some of my favourite relationship dynamics possible, including the one between Vale and Morlene’s new gf.

  • A longer Vale insider info, this might take several tweets so bear with me: the song History by One Direction fits the story very well so naturally it’s on my playlist and because I’m an idiot I keep imagining a movie made from the story while the song plays over it.

    Except the song has a part that goes “good champagne, and private planes” which is not that relatable to Vale cause planes don’t exist in Vale so I usually just change the words to “good champagne, and bad champagne”. That’s… that’s the info… that’s all I wanted to say…

  • other Vale tidbit: before I had the scene written fully, I used Scanlan’s answer to Vax’s “How do you do it?” question when Cephas asks Vale why she came back for him. (as a placeholder)

  • Fun Vale tidbit: I was actually going to find Vale a badass assassin name but then Bloodslinger came up and I thought it’d be so much funnier if she had a dumb name she hated, the way Ed hates being short in Fullmetal Alchemist, despite being the damn Fullmetal Alchemist.

  • Vale insider info: Leo, Morlene and Lourdes’ kid, was taken from the acid water-world story that I had where they were the agender sibling of the protagonist. That story was also completely revamped and then turned into what is Risk of Rain today (another story I never finished).

  • More fun Vale facts: Cephas was originally the name of the villain from a story called Part Time Goner where he was a demi-god who promised a mortal girl immortality and with that deal he bound his soul to her. The girl then spent the rest of the story

    trying to get rid of him and finding a way to stay immortal. That story also had the chapter with the Festival of Flowers that I eventually used for Vale as well because it was too cute to be wasted.

    That story also included a family of demi-gods who were just trying to fuck with each other. The Original Cephas’ sister had wings made of bones!

    Eventually the girl found Cephas’ body and put his soul back into his body but then she started dying for some reason, I got no idea. In the end they bonded and Cephas sacrificed himself to keep the girl alive. WHICH IS IRONIC, CONSIDERING [VALE SPOILERS]

procrastiwriting:

My main problem as a writer is that I don’t write because “I have a story to tell”. I write because there are worlds I want to visit, ideas I want to explore, people I want to meet, conversations I want to hear, emotions that I want to express, and impossibilities I want to make real.

Which means that I still need a fucking plot.

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Get to Know Me -OC version

I wasn’t tagged lol but I’m tagging m’self. Stolen from writeblr extraordinaire @perringcentral go give them a follow if that’s your kinda thing ♥

Name: Vale Callaghan

Nickname:  Vee to people who can’t know her real name and then she has like a hundred aliases

Gender: Female

Star Sign: they don’t exist in Caelmoor, years aren’t even 365 days so I couldn’t even guess it. If I went by the fact that she was born three days before the month of snow/winter solstice, I’d say that’d put her somewhere late November or mid-December which would make her a Sagittarius innit.

Height: 171cm (let it be known that I determined this by seeing how tall the actress is that I would want to play Morlene and Jessica Williams is 180cm so….. there)

Orientation: ace lesbian

Hogwarts House: Gryffindor which she would be very pissed about

Nationality: born and raised in Caelmoor

Favourite fruit: I don’t know cause it ain’t relevant

Favourite flower: I also don’t know cause it ain’t relevant, it never fuckin comes up and she probably wouldn’t care ugh.

Favourite season: spring because that’s when she gets to see Morlene again, even though she acts like it’s winter cause that’s when she gets to be alone, because she’s an idiot

Favourite scent: whatever ingredients Morlene is using for her spells, listen, Vale is a lovestruck idiot

Coffee, tea, or hot chocolate: tea

Average hours of sleep: I’ll say not much, around 3 I reckon.

Dog or cat person: definitely cat person, she is a cat, I mean.

Favourite fictional character: none canonically cause that much worldbuilding is just too much, to have fictional books in my fictional book? No, thanks. In our world it’d probably be Wonder Woman.

Number of blankets they sleep with: none blankets, makes it easier to jump up in the middle of the night and stab your attacker, duh.

Dream trip: the Mainland.

Random fact: out of two aspects of her job, conning and stealthing she loves stealthing more but she’s absolutely garbage at it, however every time she has to con and lie and deceive her way through situations she just absolutely shines and she hates that.