WIP Masterlist [UPDATED]
(Let me know if you find any of them interesting and would like to be added to my WIP Taglist)!
Arcadian Wilds
- The Poison Complex (Book One) [ Mystery | Dystopia | Sci-fi ]
Synopsis: In the overgrown forestry of Blue Oak, something long forgotten has become unearthed.
April Adams, a chemist, poisoner, and ever elusive criminal, finds himself in charge of mitigating the disaster beginning to poison the forest and its residents.
But as April's past begins to haunt him in the vast woodland - and the discovery that more than he'd bargained for lurks beneath the surface of his home village - he starts to realize there might not be a way out for any of them.
- Out of Sight and Mind (Book Two) [ Mystery | Dystopia | Romance ]
The quaint religious commune of Sight is a highly sought after place to live. People will convert religions, leave families, marry unhappily, just to live there. But a dark secret that transpires through history is slowly revealed through the death of the commune's most prominent leaders.
Desperate for help, Arizona Close is visited by his sister-in-law with the news his parents are dead, and his brother needs his help. Wishing to repair the damage he'd done when he'd left, he begrudgingly agrees to return for the funeral. But his need for answers soon cause secrets to become unearthed.
- Neon Glow in Gold Dust [Book Three]
I physically cannot give a synopsis of this book without spoiling book two, but here's something:
The book centers around the character of Ana, who founded the organisation that Ari and April work for. The book is centered in the city of Cyber, so it has more Cyberpunk vibes. It's less of a mystery and more of a thriller, with countdowns against the clock, lots of tension, and heartache. Ari and April are also in this book, but both are reeling from their homecomings and are worse than functionally useless - they are self-destructive. So, trying to solve (the plot) and trying to keep her friend, and insane chemist together, Ana has got to figure out who she's willing to become.
Cardinal Sins
- The Anthology of Cardinal Sins [ Fantasy | Mythic Fiction | Anthology | Fable ]
In the beginning there was the Forest and the Sea. The Sea so loved the Forest that it gifted it life; the Forest so loved life that it moulded it into humanity. Humanity's complexities grow as they do, and with it, so do their crimes. To relieve humankind of its imbalance, the Forest created the Seven Cardinal Sins. This is their interactions with humanity.
- Sleep of The King [Fantasy | Mythic Fiction | Apocalyptic]
Balance is stored in the magic of the Forest's king. His sleep ensures that stability is kept between all the elements. When he wakes, long before he should, the balance collapses, and the end is nigh.
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Dea has spent her entire life trying to fit in, trying to understand the people around her. Luckily her best friend is an outgoing, talkative, always-in-the-centre-of-attention sort of person. If only she'd figure out sooner that it was because it was a bored fey going for its sixth university degree.
Aspen was charged with guarding its lover, the Forest's King, as he slept to maintain the balance. But 150 years is a long time, and getting distracted is its specialty. Now its got to find him again.
And it looks like Dea's coming with it.
Other WIPS
Released [ Psychological horror | Cosmic Horror ]
There was always that knowing. Stood in the silence of a dark room, walking the lonesome path of a muddy forest. Each time, you knew, you were alone, and you weren't. When you looked into the dark sky, in place of the moon was a single eye, and you knew.
You were never alone.
30-year-old Mallory Everton is just looking for a quiet life, a calm life. Recovering from an injury and hiding from his rapidly deteriorating health, he quickly realises that the apartments he's moved into are not what they seem.
Join Mallory, his less-than-normal neighbours, and his oblivious husband, as they try to uncover the purpose of the building they're now bound to.
Golden Dandelions [ Fantasy | Fairy Tale | Plot Twists ]
She was a sacrifice to their gods. But their gods loved her more. And she, she would realise, would love them just as much.
When Fleur wakes up in the dirt of the dandelion forest, she doesn't have the answers to any of her questions. But with the help of the charismatic and overly-friendly fairy that has met her acquaintance, she might yet have a chance to find them.
✍🏼 Writing share tag + Nine lines nine people
Thanks to @asher-writes for the writing share tag and @sergeantnarwhalwrites for the nine lines tag!
These are from Name From Nowhere, and for anyone unfamiliar with that world, rehab is prison (and it's awful)...
Ten years though. Ten fucking years. I’m thirty. I don’t even know what that means. How am I meant to be thirty? How am I meant to be anything? I’ve been in rehab nearly as long as I’ve been an adult. Who the fuck am I? Who remembers my name anymore?
Tagging @eyes-talks-ocs, @finickyfelix, @gaslightwestern, @i-can-even-burn-salad, @indecentpause
(new paragraph to appease the Tumblr link gods)
@inseasofgreen, @kaylinalexanderbooks, @mysticstarlightduck and @oh-no-another-idea if you'd like to do it, with an open tag for anyone else who wants to join in 🩷
Reblogs, replies etc on my tag posts are always welcome, but if you're doing this tag yourself, please make your own post instead of using mine to start a reblog chain.
✨🎉 With no little pride and much, much love,
it's Friday and that means that Flash Fiction Friday is about to start! (right now!)
Today is a very special day for us, some of you might have anticipated it: It's the day of our 300th prompt(s), and we prepared a little celebration for you! But 300 prompts also mean 300 weeks of Flash Fiction Friday, and with some breaks, we had our 6 year anniversary this February. That is why we also prepared an extra announcement down below.
We wish you a lot of fun with our six brand old prompts and happy writing! ✨🎉
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Realistic Fiction by Anton Solomonik
ALTFinally, a book for men!
Have you ever engaged in totally normal male behavior like:
Stealing porn magazines?
Hooking up with guys on Grindr?
Attempting to work in an open-pit mine despite having no relevant job experience?
Crossdressing as a woman?
Attending Gnostic Mass?
Running for government office?
Then this is a book for you!
It is definitely not a deeply felt collection of transsexual short stories, engaged in dissident metaphysical investigation of the normative tenets of gender in our society! Bro, how could you say that? It is very dramatic and exciting, yes, but it is not metaphysical at all. In fact, it is Realistic Fiction.
As if Charlie Chaplin re-wrote the works of Kafka, and he was a Russian trans man, Anton Solomonik brings a funny, heartbreaking, and startlingly unique new voice to contemporary short fiction.
Every once in a while the internet points me to a good horror short film. This is one of these times. This one is also good because it's entirely free of jumpscares, it's all creepy atmosphere and boy howdy is it creepy
9 Lines, 9 Folks
Tagged by @asher-writes to share 9 lines from a WIP and to tag 9 people if I choose to.
I've started to add more scene writing into my writing. I'll share that.
The night is young, and at the same time an ancient beast. Its entire cycle of life to death coincidentally follows the moon. But not the phases, or so it seems. The gleam of light the white of an eye; there are times the entire city is on surveillance from above, so there are times the entire city warrants nothing but a pass. And tonight of all nights is no different. The moon above them an orange rind, picked to pieces until there’s nothing but an impression of the outer skin. There is still an out if the night’s forgiving. It can look away, play pretend. It could say the lifetime it leaves behind is more distracting than Linkon City.
Soft tagging: @voxofthevoid, @bowties-are-cool3000, @thechaoscryptid, and anyone else who wants to play!
Writing Share Tag
Tagged by the ever-talented @saturnine-saturneight thank you!
Some more writing from Released, which has consumed my waking and sleeping life:
When I say that stepping into Kieran’s flat was like walking through a portal to another place entirely, I am not exaggerating. A wave of tranquillity bathed me as the threshold fell closed in my wake; locking out a busy and complicated world, forgotten in an oasis of green that coated every surface. The whole place was covered in plants. They hung from walls and cluttered shelves, the windowsills made of propagations that lay roots-bared on trays, and many stood from floor to ceiling like trees.
I only briefly wondered how they thrived so beautifully, as the window’s light would not reach all of them - but Kieran looked so cheerful that that dimness in his eyes had gone, and I couldn’t ask. This was his home, and I could see a radiant change in him as he collapsed into a rocking armchair by the window. “I don’t get out much,” he explained, pulling a blanket around his thin shoulders, which served only to make him more gaunt and sickly than before.
“I wouldn’t have thought it were a room if you’d shown me a picture and said it was a garden.”
He laughed, beaming with a shine to his eyes. Despite this, he sunk into the chair and held the blanket with a now-shaking hand.
“Do you need anything?” I wondered. I had never been particularly paternal, so it surprised me to worry about the boy.
Tagging: @writeintrees @sunset-a-story @bloodlessheirbyjacques @cyril-v-pyromancer @winterandwords
✨FFF 299 Masterlist
Thank you for all your wonderful entries last week! We loved reading all of them ^^ (If we missed your entry, please let us know)
Consider checking out your fellow writers’ pieces, give out those likes and reblogs. The new prompt will be up at 12pm CET <3
ALT[#FFF299 Stranger Than Fiction]
- Something's Missing by @lizardperson
- Stranger Than Fiction by @landofspaceandrainbows
- Not a Surprise by @darkhorse-javert
- Stranger Than Fiction by @anonymousdandelion
- The Less You Know by @cocoamoonmalfoy
- Jefferson, Leda, and an Angel by @betweenthetimeandsound
- Lies Easier Than Truth by @drowning-in-cacophony
- An Introvert's Guide to Love and Lust by @asher-writes
- Tall Tales by @scatteriskity
- Attack of the Dead Men by @ruvastuon
- Campfire Story by @genesisgrey
- Something to Hold Onto by @colection-of-chaos
- How Many Miles to Babylon by @seekers-who-are-lovers
- A Box of Pens in the Closet by @starlightswitch
- Caught In the Act by @polizwrites
- Implausible Signal by @lisbeth-kk
- Things in Heaven and Earth by @frozenwolftemplar
- The Truth Will Out by @baubeautyandthegeek
- Sicker Than Nonfiction by @hd-literature
- Multimedia Franchise by @zorilleerrant
- Planet of the Birds by @odysseywritings
- Beneath by @ark-inkweaving
- Truth Comes to Light by @elycwinters
- Stranger Than Fiction by @nandawrites
- Set Her Free by @aalinaaaaaa
Writing Share Tag
Thank you to @writingrosesonneptune for the tag [here]!
From Particle Decay, chapter 4 (or 5, on AO3):
At a quarter to eleven, she finally unlocked the door.
"What are you doing here?" She squinted up at them through the chiming of the shop bell, her voice thick with exhaustion. "Is this about the email I sent you?"
"In... a way."
"In what way?"
Johannes cast a shy look over their shoulder. "Could I come in?"
After another moment of groggy squinting, Ms. Somoza rasped a "sure" and stepped aside to let them in. "Sorry about your client," she said as Johannes oriented themself in her office again, surrounded by mountains of paper and technology. "Pity."
Johannes regarded her. She sounded sincere enough, but the platitude still rung hollow. How could a 'sorry' make up for the horror of Ms. Czajkowska's life slipping through their fingers like this? How could that plaster over the bitter rage, the disappointment, the self hatred of letting it all happen like this?
"Thank you," they said anyways, softly, because none of it was really her fault.
Tagging @monstrify @marlowethelibrarian @asher-writes and anyone else who'd like to share!
my favorite kind of character is the kind who deep in their soul is constantly screaming LOVE ME LOVE ME LOVE ME and outwardly expressing literally anything else
this post has been very fun for me because I rarely post anything that's not like, specific to my fandoms yk but now I get to see everybody tagging this with their favorite traumatized guys and it's cool
@asher-writes Ari vibes
Yeah that’s pretty much nailed the vibe.
Right lads, who are your favourite writblrs? My dashboard is dead as hell (keeps following gaming content)
I can offer you some beautiful people in these trying times!
@henrike-does-writing @theaistired @vacantgodling @chauceryfairytales @chayscribbles @ink-flavored @elkieselkiewrites @magic-is-something-we-create
There are many more but I am eepy
Aw thanks for remembering me! :D
Let me add a few more people I see regularly on my dash: @space-writes, @oh-no-another-idea, @albatris, @saturnine-saturneight, @writingrosesonneptune
@willtheweaver, @akindofmagictoo, @eccaiia
...I'm sure I'm forgetting some blogs too.
back at you!
TIME TO SHOUT OUT MORE OF MY FRIENDS
@ashen-crest a literal published author and icon, we cannot help but stan. writes the best soft dynamics 🥺
@zmwrites best name buddy on writeblr, we are an unstoppable duo, and I will never not be feral about Remnants
@dragon-swords-prophecies always up to something fun! still curious about these pigeons
@isherwoodj I’m enjoying hearing more about your writing progress of late, and your stuff is always very considered
@teriwrites loving the current analysis of your old work, it’s so thoughtful and gives me even more respect for your skills and hard work
@sleepyowlwrites the sweetest writeblr that ever there was, so much love to give and I love the way you think about your stories
I likewise have almost certainly forgotten some oops
co-signed AND adding off the top of my head (so I know I'm going to miss people, particularly since I've been less active and my brain is a sieve. I apologize!)
@writeblrfantasy has several books out now!! wow!!
@magic-is-something-we-create has both a series in the works AND a webcomic!
@oh-no-another-idea has several great wips (love Invisible Girl)
@antique-symbolism I haven't! forgotten! about your vampire ladies!!
@cwritesfiction I love all of your premises, love what I beta read, cannot WAIT for your books to get picked up
@artdecosupernova-writing Warren and Thrive 5eva, obviously
@nothwell do you want hurt/comfort? you go to Sebastian Nothwell. no questions, just Go.
@ettawritesnstudies is going to have a book out very soon!!
@toribookworm22 sends the best asks that I am the worst about answering!
@talesfromaurea your stuff is so cool!!
@ashen-crest is definitely one of the best writers (and loveliest people) I know!
Let me shout out some of my lively mutuals:
@sergeantnarwhalwrites @rhikasa @forthesanityofstorytellers @primroseprime2019 @risingshards
@acertainmoshke @the-stray-storyteller @sunset-a-story @writingamongther0ses
@albatris extremely talented, fun to talk to, and an incredible artist AND writer?!?!?!
@writing-is-a-martial-art with how many viral posts you've written I'm surprised you even follow lil ol me. also extremely talented. and has saved my life via Tumblr dms a couple of times :D
@asher-writes still think about Ari sometimes, hope he's doing well :3
@2ramtrucks irl friend and Tumblr mutual.....read their fanfiction NOW!
Thank you so much <3 Ari is doing…uh. Well he’s doing, for sure! I’ve not killed him off yet! I’m having a time with his personality at the moment, he’s gained a mild sense of humour.
Firstly, pretty much everyone in this thread is a writer I admire greatly. I also have @winterandwords @bloodlessheirbyjacques @tc-doherty @did-i-do-this-write and @oh-no-another-idea who were some of the first writeblrs I ever followed and got to know, and whose writing is diverse and unique to them. I know I’m absolutely forgetting to add people, because I am on and off writeblr a lot whilst I deal with some…health issues, amongst other things.
Thank you so much again <3