Character interaction tag

I was tagged by @willtheweaver. Thank you so much! I'm so excited about this one, you have no idea!

Will's OC: Opal has served as the village chief of Fernstan for most of her life. A white fox with red eyes, her appearance is striking and instantly recognizable. Knowledgable, good natured, and always on hand with advice, she is well loved by the community. Much of her wisdom was learned through experience, some of it the hard way. Growing up fast and having had to rely on herself at a young age made Opal aware of how disadvantaged some are. Most of her tenure has been dedicated to the welfare of the village. Though considered by many to be a sweet and gentle soul, beneath is a firmness and strong will that borders on stubbornness. Those who push their luck be reminded of their mistake for days. But she also has quite a large capacity to forgive, even tolerating children when they commit antics that would drive their parents crazy.

My OC: Yarren was born into a world where his people are oppressed - their way of life, religion and language were all suppressed and made illegal under foreign rule. But even though his parents were killed for keeping the Istritu traditions, Yarren stubbornly hangs onto the old customs and fights the oppression with all he has. He got his face tattoos and wears his braids proudly. Since a young age he showed signs of being touched by a god - he has the power to manipulate plants. As for his personality, there's a lot of anger in his short body and it doesn't take much for it to bubble to the surface. He's arrogant and prickly and doesn't trust easily, all to the point of self-sabotage. He cares deeply, though, about his friends and all of his oppressed nation. He is good with words and quite charming when he wants to be and people naturally follow him. Secretly he dreams about a big romantic love, but it's the kind of love that is also forbidden.

How would they interact: When an Istritu boy turns into a man, he undergoes a ritual that involves a vision of an animal that he then gets tattooed on his body (in Yarren's case his chest). Guess what Yarren's animal is? Yes, it's a fox! So he would be absolutely delighted to meet Opal and he would take it as a sign from gods. He wouldn't be surprised by a talking fox at all. He's also in desperate need of a parent figure and they have a lot in common, so he would gladly soak in any and all advice she could give him about being a good leader.

No pressure tag for: @sunset-a-story, @rachaellawrites, @vinniehorrible, @annotated-catastrophe, @steh-lar-uh-nuhs

@dyrewrites, @satohqbanana, @frostedlemonwriter, @illarian-rambling, @theeccentricraven

@words-after-midnight, @sarandipitywrites, @sleepyowlwrites, @oh-no-another-idea, @did-i-do-this-write,

My debut novel Built on Ruins is now available!

Generations after The End, there are two ways of living — gangs of scavengers roam the Wilds and hunt for relics of lost times, while the re-settlers spend their lives building a new civilization on the ruins of the old. Jan Xiaoli is the leader of Ryningare City — one of the largest and most prosperous settlements this side of the Rift. With the purist movement growing stronger, the scavengers getting more hostile, and the incurable disease spreading, ruling the city feels like sitting on a ticking time bomb. When he meets Shi Saxe, the infamous Vulture, who lives alone in the Wilds, Jan Xiaoli feels as though the storm raging around him is sneaking its way into his heart as well.

Available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited!

A greeting for negligent penpals and procrastinating authors. Postcard from my collection, 1911.

I am invading askboxes today! Please accept this question;

As a romance author, which is your favorite genre to combine that with? And why?

Any genres you'd like to try adding romance to but haven't?

I'm so sorry it took me so long to get to answering this!

I LOVE sci-fi and fantasy combined with romance and that's what I will always write (despite the little voice in my head telling me it would be easier to just write contemporary from coms).

I love to explore all the possible sub-genres! I wanna write space opera and steampunk, high fantasy and urban fantasy and faes and EVERYTHING that counts as sci-fi and fantasy!

nothing makes u feel stupid quite like being a writer. out here googling “rooms in a house” to make sure i didn’t forget one of em. blockhead behavior.

Thumbprint challenge

I was tagged by the lovely @willtheweaver

Rules: look back on your works, both past and present, finished and unfinished. What are five to ten narrative elements or tropes that continuously pop up in your work? Give a list of these things!

OMG this one his hard, but I'll try.

Self-worth issues: most of my characters have to realize their own worth throughout the story

Love doesn't fix your problems but it gives you the strength to fix them yourself - that's it, that's what my stories are about and always will be

Supportive characters - I don't like my heroes to exist in a vacuum, they are always surrounded by people that support them and that they care about

Lovers coming from different backgrounds - I have yet to find true enemies to lovers but my MCs always come from the opposite end of a scale

Dreams and nightmares - meaningful (prophetic?) dreams or nightmares occur in all my works. I don't have a rational reason for that, maybe it's my own messy relationship with sleep 😄

Gentle tag for: @astorichan, @ramwritblr, @sunset-a-story, @satohqbanana, @sarandipitywrites

Moodboard Monday

aka me trying to post consistently and share one moldboard every week

Jan Xiaoli

Jan is the young leader of Clarion City. The safety and wellbeing of his people is the most important thing for him. So much that he forgets to care about his own hapiness. That changes when he gets stranded in the Wilds with a mysterious loner and he starts to realize that maybe it's okay to want something for himself.

Jan is the MC of Built on Ruins: post-apocalyptic MM romance now available on Amazon.

Do you ever just start writing and then it's a few thousand words later, and you're just like, 'Where the hell did any of this come from? This was not the plan. Wtf?'

my ocs wanted to ask if your ocs wanted to come over for a play date

OC bingo tag

Huge thanks to @willtheweaver for tagging me! I've never done this one before and I hope I got it right.

Rules: Fill out the bingo(s) of the person tagging you, then generate one for your OC here

I'll be filling Fen's card for both MCs from Foreigner God

Yarren on the left and Thiery on the right

I got a bingo for both!

I'm tagging: @buffythevampirelover, @druidx, @oh-no-another-idea, @did-i-do-this-write, @tinyducklings-kooky-insane-stuff, @coffin-hopping + OPEN TAG

And here's Yarren's card for you to fill

Cosmic eyeshadow

Find the Word

I was tagged by @words-after-midnight. Thank you! 💚

Rules: search your manuscript/draft for the words given and share a snippet for each.

My words: fresh, green, made, right

WIP name: Foreigner God

She lets out a laugh that is simultaneously light and fresh like spring rain and harsh and cracking like a call of a crow.

He grabs his ankle to stop him but it’s too late. As his skin makes contact with the green stone the central light flashes so bright it blinds Thiery entirely.

He's never seen anything like that. The sea is coming up like a gigantic limb made of water. With a horrifying ease, it swipes the monks off the cliff, leaving only streams of water running over the ground.

Thiery is sleeping with his back to him. Yarren takes a moment to trace the scars on his back with his fingers. King’s bastard. Lord governor. The god of water. Right here Thiery is none of those. He’s just Yarren’s lover and that’s what matters. But it won’t last long. They still have to face Lothir and the Darkness and for that, they will both have to assume their roles.

No pressure tag for: @every-eye-evermore, @heymacareyna, @willtheweaver, @flock-from-the-void, @moondust-bard + OPEN TAG

Your words are: excuse, exhausted, excited, examine, enjoy

Keyboard go BRRRRRRRRRR

“Oh you’re really into worldbuilding!”

“Yeah I watched every single one of the Lord of the Rings Extended Edition behind the scenes at a young age and it gave me high standards and now I’m trapped here.”

Reblog the writers’ fortune cookie for luck!

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