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My WIP masterpost

Here I am, starting another WIP. ima use this blog to keep my junk organized, so I’ll add to this post and link to my other posts as I go. tag will be, dumbasses lost in space so I can find my junk. Everything’s under the read more. This post is also a work in progress to keep track of my place as I write, so when I go back and rewrite eventually I’ll not have to use the shitty first draft as a guide.

Characters

People of Mayflower II

Cassie Veld

Eric Carter

Grandma Veld (deceased)

Leah

Myra

Antony

Quinton

Michelle

Darren

Marcus Durham

People of the Core Republic

Kai Melchior

Monks of the Church of Saint Cornelia

Zara Cortana

Settings (so far these are just spaceships but we’ll get to actual places eventually)

Mayflower II

The Pelican 

Plot stuff

idk ill tag it when i get to it

#dumbasses lost in space #novel wip

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you know that character you love so much? (you know – the one from that movie you always watch when you’re feeling sad the one from that show you’ve seen so many times you can quote the episodes the one from that book or comic you’ve read more times than you can count) think about how much you resonate with them how they’re like a mirror image to the way you see yourself how they empathize with pieces of your soul in ways that a real life human cannot how they feel like a representation of you you see so much of yourself in them and you love them so much so why can’t you love you too?  if you can find it in you  to look past their flaws  and see gold shining in their cracks maybe you can do the same for yourself after all if your favorite character is a reflection of you, and you love them more than words can say maybe its possible for you to love you too

(cc, 2020)

#too real #other people's writing #characters

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By the way, writing a book is really fucking hard.  Like, it’s so much harder than you think it’s going to be.  You think, oh, I’ll just write 500 words a day and eventually I’ll have a book, but no.  You won’t.  You’ll have a lot of words in a row with insufficient stakes and spelling errors.

#relatable

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#writing inspiration

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#faerie

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How the frick do you get back into writing when you haven’t done anything of consequence in the last couple years because you’ve been smacked in the face over and over by school. guess start back at step one but what is step one i cant rememeber

#it me

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sci-fi jobs that must exist that i find inexplicably amusing:

space customs

tow trucks except they’re towing illegally parked spaceships

for that matter, spaceship thieves, if only for how much more effort i imagine that would take

irs agents who have to find tax evaders who went 2 or 3 galaxies over

literally everything about the concept of the space version of the dmv

imagine being the person who teaches hapless 16 year olds how to fly a spaceship

people who analyze Old Earth media for a living the same way people now analyze shakespeare or beowulf, aka a bunch of scholarly and serious academics writing papers arguing the true meaning of Mean Girls and Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure and A Very Potter Musical

cruise spaceships. you’re taking a slow tour of saturn’s rings and people are still complaining about you running out of cocktail sauce

feel free to add more

#sci fi

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Freshly minted grownup (w/ 2 degrees AND a job!) with a whole bunch of time on my hands now that I don’t need to study what school tells me to study anymore so it’s time to get back into writing

Oh goodness I’m so happy about it

So get ready for my complaining and OCs and undeveloped plots while I try to actually learn how to do this hobby that I’ve loved literally all my life and maybe finally I write a real life book

#blog intro #it me

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the beef between STEM and arts + humanities is so tired. science and art are the same. sister subjects. they’ve fueled one another for years. one cannot exist without the other. they’re both made of the same kind of wonder, one tries to attain long sought after things in reality, and the other impliments the stuff of dreams. logic and emotionality. they’re both exercises of imagination. it’s all just beautiful, academic sludge.

#relatable

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Doesn’t look too hard

#corona

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Types of Writers

Writer 1: The writer that never sleeps

Writer 2: The writer who sold their soul

Writer 3: The writer who kills everyone

Writer 4: The writer who doesn’t know what happens next

Writer 5: The writer who researches every tiny detail

Writer 6: The writer who forgets what they’re writing

Writer 7: The writer who never writes

Writer 8: The writer who edits as they write

Writer 9: The writer who disappears for 1.5 years

Writer 10: The writer who is never heard from again

So which one are you?

#tag yourself #2 and 6

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#nature

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#nature

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#thanks i hate it

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I drank wine and worked on my novel on the porch while it rained

#and i feel guilty cause i should have been studying #amwriting #novel writing

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…you know the vibe

#writing memes

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Popular opinion: Flirty Victorian Sleeves

#fashion