Desert Desserts - Group Editing

Just checking in quick. Is anyone active on here yet, or have we all given up the group?

Hey all! I’m still here, still checking the fourm every now and then. My goal is to begin the query process this year. Exciting and terrifying. I feel like I can keep editing it forever.
Happy new year!

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Wondering the same thing! Maybe more writers would help liven things up a bit!

I’m glad to see some signs of life lol! I’ve been trying to keep an eye on it here while growing my writing group on discord. That one is so busy…over 35 people now I think. We had to break out into groups by genre. But I miss everyone here. Any idea when you’re going to query??

Im not sure! I was hoping to test the waters this September. We’ll see!

Oh I used to love discord! But could ever find one with romantasy. It’s all scifi haha. Did you start the server or join one?

I started one. had some interest on tiktok and I figured why not? i hated discord but then I joined a server from an aspiring author on youtube and hers was configured so that it wasn’t confusing to me. I think that was the problem in the other ones I’d been on. We do sprints there, critique, just chatting, running ideas past each other. it’s not the same as here, but there are a lot of writing resources shared there and I’m going to share some of the stuff when I start my MFA

Oh! I would love to join if there’s room! I don’t need a group, but I LOVE sprinting with others!

Not to include myself like that LOL I understand if theres a cap or system in place. This isn’t my first rodeo >.<

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Oh nooo >.< I do not envy that! Hopefully your out of the box craze phase soon and it takes time just give yourself grace. <3

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Oh invite me too if you wish. I am way more active on discord! Have most of my writing pals there except my closed one.

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I’m still around. I check in quite often. My husband has just been home because he took about 2 weeks off for my birthday (Jan 14th) so we’ve been just off adventuring as a family. :cupid: I’m missing the group big time!

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Here’s the invite code. There is no cap and anyone is welcome. I hope to post some things in there once I start my MFA and there is a section for workshops and contests.

Brittani- I’m glad you got to spend some quality time with your family. I hope you’re feeling better. Did you get any answers about your GI issues??

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Thank you! I will join and lurk muhaha!

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JANUARY UPDATE 2025.

Hi I’m still here too! I just forget to check the group as much as I used to!
I’m sorry to everyone that count on me being here or being active, writing has been tough. But I’m planning on re-writing a fan fiction, and I’m looking for some active people in the fandom to discuss it with! (more below)

Also, it may happen this month or the next one… but my grandmother (Anita) on mom’s side has been living with cancer for 9 years, and it’s finally taking a toll on her body to the point she’s unable to fight it. She’s in Palliative Care inside the hospital near us, and mom goes to visit her whenever she can and make sure everything is sorted before grandma receives Euthanasia. Which she verbally (orally) requested and in written form. So, we should be good legally, but they’re still processing her request. Not many doctors here are eager to grand that request since 2 doctors here, got sentenced for murder. When all they did was grand a patient’s wish to get Euthanized.
Enough about that though!

ARMY OF THE DEAD.

As some of us, if not all of us, we all started our journey with writing in fan fiction.
I’m still writing fan fiction and after seeing the movie Army of The Dead (2021) by Zack Snyder, I have been writing a fan fiction about the cast (characters) and the story. Building on it and building on the story of the “first zombie” or Alpha. Named Zeus. His mate is named Athena by many fans due to the fact their home base was located in a casino called The Olympus.

Now, I created a story about a young woman who travels to quarantined Las Vegas and also the city that has been blocked off by containers, to keep the zombies inside.
This young woman has been part of the experiment, developing and taking notes on the participants, in creating a super soldier inside Area 51. Working under a guy named “Torrance”.
She gets fired and sent hush money when the experiment goes awry and the very first zombie is on route to be re-located. On their way through the Nevada desert, a newlywed couple collides with the convoy and “Zeus” breaks out. Going ham on Las Vegas. Creating his kingdom and subsequently finding his mate and expecting a child.

Technically this is a heist movie. But, it’s categorized under horror due to the … well zombies.
It has drama and action. The sequel, Army of Thieves came out after Army of the Dead and focused on one of the characters and how he got to Las Vegas. The sequel is focused on the Ring Cycle vaults inspired by Richard Wagner’s opera. With 3 vaults: Rheingold, the Siegfried, the Walkure (Valkyrie) and the Götterdämmerung. The latter appears in the first movie. So the prequel, technically, ties into the first movie.

I’m looking for people in this fandom who are still looking to experience the movies, watch the movies, read the fan fictions, etc. People that I can bounce ideas off of and share my plan for the fic. Even going as far as having some of them beta read the fic before posting to make sure it’s polished enough!

I know this group is mostly for original work, so I don’t know if any of you enjoyed both movies and would love to help me out. I also have no idea if there’s a Discord that would be helpful. I do plan on making my own (server) for the fandom, but I doubt people would still be interested in the fan fiction or fandom.

Helloo, I dont know if anyone is writing right now but I’m available to swap some chapters >.< (mine is a later draft of TOM)

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I’ll swap with you! Let me know if you wanna do Lavender Hall (spirit in painting) or Come Away with Me (dark horror fae)

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Oh my gosh, I suck for not checking up on here sooner. I’ll do the painting one!

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I have so been MIA. What’s the discord thing?

Okay I jinxed myself. My toddler gave me a sweet common cold about a week after my birthday. (conveinetly right after I finished my first period postpartum) and I’ve been in a miserable flare ever since I got sick! Leaving the couch other than to go to the bathroom 100 times has been the life for me in this house.

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Ugh that’s miserable! I hope you feel better soon!

Hello everyone,

I hope you had a great holidays <3

Things have settled on my end (for now) and my escapism was to write and read to no end. I started fifth draft (and I hope final one) of The White Forest, and I start another story, so far it’s going to be Junn - No title yet. I hope it will be a short story within 80 to 100k words max.

If you are interested to swap chapters, add me to you current WIP :wink:

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