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Just Trying To Do The Write Thing

@daisywords / daisywords.tumblr.com

writer • reader • casual artist • she/her • 20s

Hello everyone! You can call me daisy if you want to. I'm an editor in my 20s and the world's slowest writer!

What you'll find on my blog is mostly writing-related content, art (my own and reblogs) and rambling about my own wips, the books I read, and general life updates, as well as anything else that strikes my fancy

I'm generally interested in fantasy but I also dabble in scifi, historical, contemporary, whatever looks interesting

always tag game friendly but I do them based on the capricious whims of my brain gremlins

feel free to come to me with any copyediting/grammar related questions btw! I am a nerd about this kind of thing for real

always on the lookout for writing friends but also everyone is welcome feel free to come and chat about books or art or linguistics or folklore or whatever you want

Check out my art (creatively tagged "#my art") and my writing (you'll never guess)

Main projects:

Deep and Dark, Beautiful and Bright

(working title: second chance wip) tag: second chance wip

Two people wake up with no memories. The world they stumble into is scarred and ruined—something terrible has happened here, long ago. Stumbling upon a treasure hunting party, they are relieved to find that a remnant of humanity has managed to survive, making their homes among the ruins of a past age. But when their memories begin to resurface, they are forced to question if they can really trust each other.
Starring: Trip, a thief who poses as the chosen one to escape his criminal record, and Lya, another (so-called) chosen one, who's world-saving destiny is getting more complicated than planned
Fantasy with sci-fi and horror elements. Romance but really weird about it. Story switches between pre-apocalyse (past timeline) and post-apocalypse (present timeline). Maybe this is a book (or series) in final form, or maybe it's supposed to be a monster-length web serial. who knows

Fear Me (working title: Starlight; also starlightverse*) tag: starlightwip

Alya and her brother Eli have grown up on the run, hiding from the mysterious cult of Rin. When their pursuer finally catches up to them, their guardian is left dead and the siblings are separated. Alya’s quest to find her brother brings her back to her native land of Daenar, into a world of cutthroat politics and secret societies, marked by a series of ritualistic murders.
She finds refuge with her mysterious aunt, a high-ranking government official who teaches Alya to harness the power to manipulate the emotions of others. Maybe there was a good reason she grew up on foreign soil. But Alya will do anything to find Eli, even if it means leaving a trail of destruction in her wake.
*"starlightverse" referring to the full storyline, which is three books in total if I ever get that far I mean When I get that far

Back burnered but I might briefly resurrect and post about them without warning:

The Long, Long Way to Kaminatra (tag: tllwtk) • intro post

An unlikely duo is conscripted to escort a princess with a target on her head to her coronation in a faraway city. Hijinks ensue, the plot does some twists, etc. etc.

Magpie Jones

- vampire romance wip. what can I say - (girl Comes Back Wrong to her small hometown after her first year of university)
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coxal

mutual: has rarely if ever spoken to me but consistently likes my text posts

me: i would die for you

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they're making a new movie or something and everybody agrees it's going to be bad but for some reason we will have to keep talking about it and paying attention to it and writing a million thinkpieces about it and unpacking every aspect of it on youtube. yeah sorry it's the law

they're making a new movie or something and everybody agrees it's going to be bad but for some reason we will have to keep talking about it and paying attention to it and writing a million thinkpieces about it and unpacking every aspect of it on youtube. yeah sorry it's the law

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learned to draw body horror 👍

[ID: A screenshot of a reply from @daisywords reading "tell us your secrets 👀 (eyes emoji)]

best tip i can manage off rip: treat exposed muscle like a mix between hair and a stretchy slug crawling around bone.

its Lumpy and Made of Strands and specifically in the context im working with making it stretch and snap like a very viscous liquid is Worse (better for impact)

i'll come back with more once ive actually colored this panel because the lines are a bit confusing if you dont know whats going on so DONT LET ME FORGET

OKAY @daisywords HERE'S THE LONGER FOR REAL TIPS behind a readmore because i have. screenshots. and i know most people dont want to see that stuff just On the Dash

for those who are curious: you'll see partly-done art of gross exposed muscle and bone moving in ways it shouldnt behind the cut. you have been warned

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My main writing tip is not "murder your darlings" so much as "if it seems too on-the-nose, get rid of it and try again, this time sideways."

“When I finally get out of THIS transitional period my life will finally be real and good” (starting to think that life is just one transitional period after the other) (and sometimes they overlap)

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you know how you'll be about to consume a media and be like "no! why is that his name? that's a terrible name! it's stupid!" and then later you're going to write a story and are hit by the primeval urge of "what if, what if, haha- what if his name was something stupid, tho, like what if his name was Roland and! better yet! he also thought that was stupid so he went by something stupider! like, like just R!"

and then you understand those medias a lot more

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