VYCatto

#Writer of adult fantasy, YA fantasy
WIP = "Fates-Lost", Book 1 of the Elara Trilogy
she/her, #ADHD

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@thetjedwards Congrats and good luck! 🤞🤞

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@kevinklehr 😂

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#Auswrites D18
WIP = "Fates-lost"
🧺🕳️🫢❤️‍🔥⚔️👩‍🎤🛶🖐️🎼⛪️👀🏃‍♀️💆‍♂️💥🤬🏃‍♀️🌳💍=🤢🫢❤️‍🔥⚔️⛓️😱😱🧚‍♂️💀⛓️🪓🤼⛵️
This was weirdly hard.

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July #auswrites
18. Describe your WiP with emojis.
(thanks to @Gazrj01 for this prompt)

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#Auswrites D12
I tend to focus on the protagonist's arc, rather than thinking in terms of themes, and it usually turns out they're the same thing 😁

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July #auswrites
12. Do you explore a theme or message in your writing projects?

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@JonesyWriteNow That's a good way of putting it 😄

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@truedialogue 🤣 This is great!

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@DamienLawardorn That sucks! You'll get back to it, and this hiatus will seem like a distant dream 😆

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@Ali_Stegs 👋

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@midnightmuser1 Fantastic!

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@ABFinlayson1 Lol, I feel seen and attacked by this title.
Seen. And. Attacked. 😳

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@Gazrj01 Beautiful!

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@callanjmulligan 😮 oooooh

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@rayseewriter Oh, that sucks! Don't give up, yours will be the book only you could write 😄

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@truedialogue 😆

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@truedialogue I should do this more often. I'm good at drawing, but often end up with a distorted sense of times and distances because I can't relate my pretty maps to reality. Even with scale lines.

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#Auswrites D6
I research as I go, because you never know when some little element of your world building will avalanche into a major plot mechanic 😆
I'll leave some for later, the stuff I know will have minimal impact on my cause/effect threads.

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May 6 #auswrites
Do you research before, during, or after your first draft?

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#Auswrites D8
Ghoul and gargoyle folklore, Blue mountains flora/fauna, fortification architecture, viruses, subterranea, cults, pre-mill logging practices, and a thousand other things that I probably didn't *need* to know. (But I needed to know!)

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May 8 #auswrites
What have you researched for your WiPs?

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@drhelenedwards 😮 That's a hell of a list!

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#Auswrites D10
All of Terry Pratchett. A handful of classics, like Dickens, Austen, Tolstoy, etc. All of PG Wodehouse (especially the Bertie books) at least five times. And I've just started rereading the epic fantasy I loved as a kid: Kate Forsyth, Robin Hobb, Sara Douglass, etc

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May 10 #auswrites
Which novel have you read more than once?