I want to do an entire redo of the House of Naivin story, BUT I want to make a bunch of changes and set the story on Gaia instead of Llyria.
It will be standalone only and not some novel series.
I want to do the same format of a few chapters broken into lengthy parts.
I like the story and I might post it on some website.
I don’t know which writing website to use though. It’s either Wattpad (again…ugh.) or Fictionpress.
This will be a fun story that I will do my best not to take too damn seriously.
New me, new year, new fiction!
EDIT: I made a decision…check out the new comment, please.
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I just came up with an interesting thought and a fun challenge for the House of Naivin story. This is going to be a game changer…for me.
I will set the House of Naivin story on Earth in America focusing on a insanely rich family dealing with drama and whatnot before and during and even after the COVID fiasco and it involves some magical elements.
I am about to write a fantasy story focusing on a black family of multi-billionaires and billionaires who wields magical powers, but are dealing with struggles and whatnot with COVID, life, drama, BLM (black lives matter), magic, and other crazy shit in their daily lives after the mother/matriarch passed away and the siblings are scrambling to figure life related things out after her passing.
Oh my gosh! This is going to be so interesting and new.
Do you guys like this idea because it sounds so different and fun?
Nothing else to report. 
EDIT: Never mind! This story doesn’t need magic and fantasy elements! There was no magic in the House of Naivin story neither. Magic will placed in my other stories, but this brand new House of Naivin will be without magic and not fantasy.
Oh my god…is this me growing a bit as a writer? Holy shit, Qualeshia, kudos to you, girl!
Bye for now!
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Write smarter. That’s what I’d like. Each book takes me too long to finish. I never get it right on the first draft, always needs a rewrite. I’d like to get more efficient at the skill of figuring out what story I’m about to tell.
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I don’t know if I have any useful advice, but I wish you luck.
I really agree with your assessment of planning as “gruesome” though, hah. Plus once planned out, it can take the improvisational fun out of writing, and you feel like you’re just feeling in already-set lines.
If you know generally where the story is going to go, though, that’s helpful. But it sounds like you do? Might just be some little roadblocks. I have faith you’ll figure it out.
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Happy new year, everyone!
Here’s my writing update for today:
- yesterday I started writing a oneshot for a friend who’s sick. I got almost 1K down
so today I’ll write the ending, which I’ve already vaguely planned.
- hitting a research block with my book! D: I’m going to finish outlining it before I start worrying, but… I’m worrying, lol. Part of my needed research is direct experience, which I THOUGHT would be easy to get, but due to the nature of the experience, the pandemic is a big wall in my way.
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I don’t post much on here, but just felt like sharing this because it’s making me happy right now.
It’s been months since I’ve written much of anything—I hit a mental block toward writing that was hard to break, on top of school being more exhausting than normal this last semester—but I’ve finally been able to write this last month 
Worked on my passion project, and even started a new hobby project. It’s been wonderful, and I’m having a great time with it.
'22 was very much an epiphany year for me. Lots of things I discovered about myself, and I feel like I’ll be able to hold strong and be more confident throughout '23. Hopefully this means more writing from me 
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I hope you will have a great and productive 2023!
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I am just full of ideas today…or maybe that is just normal for me. 
Anyway, I need to create a universe that involves three grand fictional planets called Llyria, Alagossa (the moon colony), and Cithrel.
((Don’t worry because there will be a place for Gaia (fictional earth), Mars, and good ol’ Earth in my fiction, just my fictional universe just take priority.))
Yup. I am taking my love for action/adventure fantasy/science-fiction manga and webtoons then turning it into a major yet exciting novel.
I am going to do it!
I wasted enough time here!
TIME TO WRITE!!!
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@DomiSotto I know you like to write romances with crazy rich dudes so I hope this man’s antics inspire you creatively.
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I am doing Paranormal next, but I might do something crazy and rich for the ONC 
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You can’t get crazier than the billionaire who attempts to have a The Bachelor type event while manic but ends up ignoring the women later. Paul inspired a character of mine with the same type of Bipolar, and for good reason.
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I added up all of the words I wrote last year, and I was 1k short from hitting 60,000 words. I didn’t think I wrote nearly that much O.o so I’m absolutely shocked. It’s lower than my yearly average (70k) but still pretty good considering how awful '22 was for me lolol
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i want to support local self-published authors so bad but NONE OF THEM HAVE DECENT LINE EDITORS. like who tf let Edward Willard use ellipses as commas constantly 
fired. immediately.
if y’all ever see me use this many ellipses and/or em-dashes, please know that i have been kidnapped and that is a cry for help.
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I am going to worldbuild for Alagossia (Llyria 2.0) now.
See you all later.
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It was a stylistic choice at some point in time. I saw it in Mary Stewart’s ‘Nine Coaches Waiting’ and she was big at the time of publishing it. Em-dashes is more of a novelty in punctuation. Tbh, the paradigm to use only commas and periods is beyond me. I like every type of punctuation and use it. Yes, even the interrobang.
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i don’t mind other forms of punctuation (the interrobang is on thin ice but it’s okay), but all punctuation needs to be used with intentionality and a decent understanding of their purpose. There’s nothing wrong with using em-dashes and ellipses, but they get used really carelessly really often.
Like for example, comma is a pause like taking a normal breath when you’re speaking. An ellipsis is an emphasized pause, more like hesitation when you’re not sure if you should say what you’re saying. But here there are places where Willard uses an ellipses in place of a comma or a period, like so:
Swirling currents, waterfalls, rapids, all meant nothing to the power of the Lady of the Lake… they sped through them as if they weren’t there.
that ellipsis adds nothing, in fact that should probably be a full stop and not a pause since those are two seperate sentences.
I can be more forgiving of stylistic choices, but again it has to seem purposeful. The choice has to add something, it has to be used well and well-developed. And again I don’t see a lot of that, especially in self-pub/indie books by new authors.
Still gonna buy them tho.
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I use em-dashes all the time. I’m with you on ellipses though: they’ve always felt wrong to me in any other context but someone trailing off in dialogue, since unlike other forms of punctuation they’re tied intimately to dialogue. I didn’t even think their overuse was ever considered stylistically acceptable; other quirks like comma overuse have had enough time in the limelight where I don’t consider them objective mistakes but rather historical homages.
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that’s funny bc i feel it’s the other way around 
i most often see/use em-dashes in dialogue to indicate sharp cut-offs/drop-offs. Although I also see them used in-text too. Ellipses I usually find in first person or close povs, when characters are thinking. so not dialogue, but close.
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The way I saw ellipses used was when you have a lot of verbs describing a sequence of actions committed by the same character. It takes place of the repetition of ‘I’ or ‘then’. There is little wiggle room in such action packed sequences to vary nouns without losing the pace and catching criticism for purple/metaphorical/asides that distract the reader. Plus, as I found out recently, even if you try, you often end with a bunch of sentences that invariably start with ‘The ‘some noun’’, which are also interpreted as repetition of the same by an English speaker.
We are kinda caught in the trap of modern writing that wants short charged sentences, and avoiding repetitions, while not using punctuation aside from comma and period.
In the past 100 years, the writers delighted in long sentences with commas and colons and semicolons. We can’t do it any more without having a book thrown at us. Even when we lose fluidity because of it. Because people simply don’t have the gumption to untangle the clauses.
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