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ivyaugustetc · 3 years

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hello!! i'm giving you pure creative freedom here, do whatever you please!!

i'll try my best to describe myself, as that is my fatal flaw. i have green eyes and messy brown hair. my classic scent is marine water and driftwood. im a entp, aquarius, and slytherin. i use the pronouns she/her. i'm extremely stubborn, i have a good sense of humor, and i love learning. i also love to argue/debate, and i'll do anything to win [even if I'm wrong, but i'm never wrong ;)]. i probably need glasses, but alas, my stubbornness kicks in so i'll never admit it. my favourite hobbies are reading, writing, researching, and baking. i love learning about all types of mythology + astrology. i have a knack for history, and i'm super into foraging, although I don't get to practice it much! i play many sports, some of which including ice hockey, baseball, and volleyball. i would describe my aesthetic as a mix of academia, cottagecore, and goblincore. i have an extremely flirtatious personality, even when i don't mean to come across that way. my friends say i have an old soul- they also say i'm a nerd but we don't talk about that. i was on our schools honor roll and I received two other awards, one for my academic achievement and one for my leadership skills. i am a die-hard romantic, although i'm the person you least expect it from.

hopefully this information will suffice!! I'm excited to see what you come up with :)

hey!! this is so much good information omg i love it i have SO MUCH, this one was so fun to write. okay okay here we go:

ship: i ship you with cameron + you would be besties with meeks and stick!

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you're like a more adventurous version of cameron, and that's something that simultaneously draws him to you and give him a healthy fear of you ;)

allow me to elaborate: he's convinced that he can get good grades and keep himself stable whilst keeping his head down and doing his work—you manage to do both of those things while being an absolute firecracker of a person

and besides just school, you're into so many other forms of learning and all these other athletic pursuits that he's just like how can one person do all these things and be great at it???

little bit of enemies to lovers coming up here

at some point in class you'd get paired up for a debate and spend a lot of your time socializing with your group mates and having a good time, which cameron, in all of his smug hard work, thinks is a good thing because he'll be able to crush you in the debate

long story short, he does not

you end up in a heated debate in the front of the classroom, both of you just throwing knowledge back and forth at each other with so much aggression and of course you wipe the floor with him and win the whole thing

you just brush it off because duh, ofc you won you're always right, but cameron cannot stop thinking about it

it haunts him for so long that he eventually goes over to your dorm, knocks on the door, and when you open it he asks, "how did you do it." "what do you mean?" "the debate."

and so you invite him in and show him how you planned out your argument and stuff and he's like "...it's oddly simple?" and thus you introduce him to the fact that you can be smart and do well without being wound up so tight that you might spontaneously convulse ;)

he still doesn't believe you, so you take it upon yourself to show him the magic of not giving a shit while also giving a shit

you encourage him to have fun and think more freely rather than within the rigid guidelines of how the school teaches you to think

you show him that there's more to life than just work, something he probably wouldn't have been able to figure out on his own

and he starts to enjoy not just the new mindset, but hanging out with you and getting to know you :)

onto you and meeks!

you and meeks are similar in the having an old soul, he gives me really smart old man trapped in a teenager's body kinda vibes??

but you always want to be grouped with him for projects and stuff because you get the info dump and he makes it neat and organized

and at some point when cameron asks him about you, he describes you as someone who's really nice and fun to be around

i firmly believe that meeks loves mythology and astrology as well and therefore you would have conversations about it that would last HOURS about everything pertaining to those subjects

like a teacher would say something semi controversial and you'd lean over to meeks and whisper "that's very scorpio of him to say" and he'd be like "i was thinking the exact same thing"

onto your partner in crime (and my future husband but whatever), stick!!

this boy represents your chaotic side,,,, sO WELL

i have this weirdly specific idea that you would meet because you could simply not see the board (but again, you're too stubborn to get glasses) and you would ask to borrow his for a second and he would just. go with it.

and now every time the teacher writes something on the board, he just hands you his glasses long enough for you to write down the info in your notes

i just imagine you two walking down the hallways together, cackling over your own jokes and thinking you're the actual epitome of comedy (which u are, duh)

he would listen to your sports talk because he doesn't play sports but his brother does so he knows all about them

he gets the flirtatious personality and he also has one lmao which leads to some,,, interesting conversations that piss cameron off

but as i said, you're this free spirit that makes everyone around you smile, even richard "stick up his ass" cameron ;)

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ailuronymy · 6 years

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hi Grey~ i've been hit with some inspiration recently, and i'm working on some folk-lore/myths stuff for my clans. however, i really have no idea where to start! i've started a bit on a creation story, but then i jump around to some mythical figures and then i'll move to some omens/general folk-lore stuff. do you have any suggestions or maybe a word of advice?

Hello there! This is a difficult one to answer, because I can’t really tell you your process for creating and in trying to answer, I can really only draw on what I personally know to be useful (for me). So, I guess that’s my preface to this answer: some or none of this might be useful to you! Take whatever feels relevant and good and ignore the rest. Hopefully that’ll be enough to get you started.

First of all, I think it’s always worthwhile to take stock of your cauldron and see if you’ve been giving yourself enough fuel to work with. If you haven’t, the best thing for you to do isn’t write–it’s read, and watch, and talk to people, and look at art, and walk in parks, and overall replenish your soul with inspiration and curiosity and things you want to talk about. You sound like you’re topped up on inspiration, but it’s possible that some of your trouble is coming from not having any motivation to write or anything to bounce off from. For example, a decent amount of my motivation for writing fiction tends to come purely from exasperation and dissatisfaction: I have a selection of books on my shelf I read specifically to piss myself off enough to get to work. (Shout-out to Anne McCaffrey and friends). When I’m mad like that, I usually know exactly what I want to write–usually, a literary version of the academic In Response To, in which I do the damn thing right.

With that in mind, something that might help you know where to start and find what you want to say is seeking out things (not necessarily fiction) that make you really feel something. It might be anger, or disappointment, or curiosity to know more and understand or experience something outside of what you personally know, and whatever your feelings are, that’s your motivation. Writing solely for the sake of writing is hard, even when you desperately want to write something, whereas writing because you want to do something with what you’re writing is much easier, I find.

Additionally, I think there’s a difference between writing “just for fun” and writing with purpose–i.e., writing because you’re curious or excited about an idea and want to explore it more, and writing to tell a holistic story. Both of them are good, and occasionally they overlap! But the goals and processes are different, and the mindset you bring to them is different. If you’re frustrated with your writing, sometimes it can be useful to sit back and figure out what it is you actually want to achieve.

So, my next word of advice is: figure out what you want to do. I know that doesn’t sound like helpful advice, but if you’re trying to create a completed story, you’re going to want to focus on different things than if you’re only looking to have fun frolicking in the rich landscape of your imagination. I believe that sometimes we use world-building as procrastination: it’s often easier (and more fun) to think up a million ideas about a world than it is to physically write the world into being in a story, sentence by sentence.

It sounds to me you’re stuck in the mire of being overwhelmed by world-building and not knowing what you need to know about your world, so I’d say the fastest way to get through that is to simply not play ball with that whole trouble. Instead, I recommend sitting down with the skeleton of the story you want to use this world-building to decorate, and start writing it out. Let it be rough and messy, because the idea is to get your story–not the world-building–onto the page. Beautiful world-building is the wonderful skin and bones of your work, but the story you’re chasing should be the heart of what you’re working on.

As you scribble out this story idea, my trick is to put TK every time I don’t know something about it–whether it’s a name, a concept, a piece of world-building, whatever. (TK because it’s the easiest letter combination to search for later). Block out chunks of how you think your story should go. Put TK in every gap and just keep going. Then when you’ve got some idea of the shape of your story, that’s the time to look back and go, “Okay, where does a creation story fit in? When would telling that tale that add something to the narrative?” and “Where does it feel right to experience an omen?” and “Which characters would talk about/care about/be influenced by mystical and/or historical figures?” and so on. Knowing where the gaps are in your story re: myth stuff is going to help you know which elements of world-building need to be thought about first, and it’ll also help you think critically about the structure of your narrative. From there, you can build outwards, but it might be useful to know upfront what bits are crucial to telling your story.

Which brings me to my last bit of “advice”–or, rather, a previous observation, perhaps a warning. In a good book, most world-building isn’t shared with the reader. Less is often more when it comes to making a delicious world that is just unsatisfying enough, withholds just enough, to make the reader think about it for years afterwards. I know that the books I love best always leave me slightly–or sometimes very–hungry for more, but I’m always grateful to have that hunger, because there’s not much worse than a world that gives you far too much, plus all the answers, and nothing to snack your brain on for later.

So I suppose what I’m saying is experiment now knowing that you’ll hold back later. In the end, you’ll only put the best pieces into your work. For now, feel free to jump around and try a dozen different things! I don’t believe any writing is ever wasted. These explorations with ideas will contribute to how you conceptualise your story in your own mind, and even the ones you decide to cast aside will help you learn what your story isn’t about.

I can’t tell you what you care about or what you’re interested in or what you have fun writing about, but in my experience, you should write the things you can’t leave alone. If you expose yourself to enough of the world (fiction, non-fiction, real life experiences), some things are going to stick to you whether you like it or not and you’re going to find it hard to get them out of your head until you write them out of there. If you don’t have those things, it’s only because you haven’t come across those sticky moments yet–every writer has them.

The other thing my experience has taught me to value is patience, I’m afraid. Some days the writing just doesn’t work. Sometimes you need to stew ideas for years before it’s their time to come to life. I try to enjoy it as a journey, because it’s not worth stressing over. I hope some of these thoughts have been useful to you. Good luck with your writing!

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