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minas-writing · 4 years

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Writeblr Life Week 2 - WIPs

So like... which wip? Because I have many. How about a brief overview of the major ones? With progress and tags? I’m more of a worldbuilder than I am a coherent storyteller. I usually build world, then characters, then kind of plot.

Unhallowed - an original fantasy world with politics and races. A longish story written (not posted), other drabbles, a mostly-finished essay on one of the original races. Strongly considering turning this into a homebrew D&D campaign setting instead of a novel. #unhallowed #saihrwn

Unveiled - a modern urban fantasy where almost every kind of mythical, magical creature exists. A lot of the plot pieces focus around a romantic vampire couple and their family and friends and drama. Lots of short stories, drabbles, and character intros. #unveiled #unveiling (I think?)

Into Technology - a cyberpunk found family with superpowers and a crazy setting. It’s more about the characters than the plot at the moment. One short story finished, several drabbles, a few ideas for longer ones. #intotechnology

Lucite - a novel about a demon princess and her magician friend who go to high school and have to stop the big bad guy. I have a whole plot for this, okay characters, okay lore, and maybe about a quarter to a third of this written. #lucite

The Prince of Vacea - old NaNoWriMo project I mostly abandoned because the plot wasn’t working. About two warring planets and a prince who gets caught between them. There’s science and magic and spaceships. Half a NaNo written, but the plot kind of died. #vacea

Tea Parlor of Doom - old story characters are alive and living in their own communal dimension. Alice (from Wonderland yes) and her friends have to stop a nefarious plot that threatens the ability to imagine. Plot is mostly worked out. I wrote a complete short story long ago but it’s not very good and the ending was very rushed. Trying it again. #teaparlor

Other stories: Fairytale superheroes (fairytale characters like the Little Mermaid and the Ugly Duckling and Aladdin’s Genie reimagined in a modern superhero setting like Marvel or DC), The Scales of Magic (plotted for nanowrimo but didn’t get far, about mages and dragons in a modern-ish but semi-post-apocalyptic world), Eulalia and Caspian (two magical siblings caught in a web of intrigue and big crime), and various fanfiction projects. Not to mention the myriad of unfinished and abandoned stories and characters under 5k words. #mywriting is the tag, I think. Not all of it is on tumblr but there’s a bunch yes.

#writeblr #writeblrlifeweek #creative writing #fantasy #wips #wip

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ashfordlabs · 2 years

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🍿🍫 (@mcximilians)

writeblr emoji game!

───── 🍿share an out-of-context line from your WIP / All because of a stupid text that he was waiting for, it sounded ridiculous the more he thought about it, but his anxiety couldn’t seem to die.

───── 🍫recommend another writer’s WIP and tell us why you love it / i'd have to recommend an unhallowing of magicians by @houndmouthed i'm someone who generally struggles with fantasy but whenever i see a work that is that specific genre, i cannot get enough of it, especially with the concept of this wip. i always get excited to see a new post about it.

#* / BILLIE SPEAKS.#thank you for the ask <33 #also not gonna lie very tempted to explain that quote #but unfortunately that would be giving context

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cassandratongue · 2 years

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Hi! I absolutely live for your vibe and your blog. I'm not very familiar with fantasy sub genre's, could you tell me what gaslamp fantasy is?

Ahhhh saying my vibe is on point is such a compliment thank you 😍

Gaslamp Fantasy, to my understanding, has several core elements that set it apart from similar genres (such as Steampunk and Historic Fantasy). Namely, what makes a story Gaslamp Fantasy is the magic system, the inspired time period, and the subtle nod to its precursor genre, Gothic Horror.

For example, as the name implies, the novel is usually set in a world in which electricity has either not yet been utilised universally or is in its early stages of development, giving either a Regency/Victorian/Edwardian setting or Victorian+ style world . It must be noted that like a lot of Fantasy, a failing of Gaslamp is it's Eurocentrism. A facet of this movement away from the technology of known history, can be the exploration of magic as a means of supplementing society and life where electricity was beginning to be known. Furthermore, this use of magic and magic systems set Gaslamp Fantasy apart from Steampunk as the aspects that make it fantasy are rooted in the use of magic rather than the speculative inclusion of an alternate steampowered society. The Historical aspect again proves important in this distinction, as steampunk has been able to break into the Sci-Fi genre whereas Gaslamp remains fantasy. However, Historic Fantasy is again, a different genre. Historic Fantasy is set in a certain time that usually mirrors or is heavily inspired by a real period of his history, alongside the inclusion of fantastical elements whereas Gaslamp Fantasy is usually set in a Victorian+ or Victorian+ adjacent world and the magic is not just present it is essential to the story.

Finally, Gaslamp Fantasy's origin in Gothic Horror is important to the genres characteristics as many aspects of Gothic remain. The inclusion of the mythological or folkloric within the world, such as vampires, witches, werewolves, ghosts, demons etc. is pulled from Gothic Horror. The genres differ in their treatments of the supernatural, Gothic Horror serves to alienate the otherness or intrusion of a supernatural being or event and ultimately remove it from the world in order to restore balance (think Carmilla, Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, etc.) whereas the supernatural merges with the everyday in Gaslamp Fantasy and becomes part of the world building (think Infernal Devices, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel, A Marvellous Light).

Anyway, like any genre it is not set in stone, and I certainly missed something in my explanation but I hope that helped and I'm sorry I wrote an essay (I'm an English Major at Uni).

#gaslamp fantasy #gaslight fantasy #gothic horror #steampunk #fantasy #genre #again this is not the be all end all of gaslamp just a very quick overview of what I know #get to know me better #historic fantasy #lit #frankenstein #dracula #carmilla #tid #jonathan strange and mr norrell #a marvellous light #wip. an unhallowing of magicians #thanks for asking!#writing

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