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For context, watching Father Brown and hit episode 2. I love this series, but I haven't watched season 1 before.
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...up onto the decks of one of the nearby boats, gasping. The darkness became a shadowed figure and a contralto voice whispering.
"...So you are a merrow after all."
With that, it was gone.
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...masterfully pulled through the water. It was like darkness had formed a fast-growing icicle and was reaching out for him. It took hold of the belt strapped across his coat and he was pulled up.
The chill of the water became freezing and painful as his head breached the waves. He was thrust...
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...a stronger chill and his eyes unfocused as his lungs began to protest. Down seemed so much easier than up. He weakly paddled at the water around him, but it was too cold and he'd been in it too long.
There was a disturbance at the surface. Something plunged from above, a shadow shape that...
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This whole problem goes back to my outlining vs writing dynamic, IE:
Outlining: Oh this will be perfect.
Writing: Oh, but this... This might be good too...
#Writing
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That PLOT is actually PLOT with all caps because Person C is essentially an antagonist who causes a lot of character development (ie PAIN) for Person A.
Person B is supposed to have a different plotline.
...But A and B have such great chemistry...
#Fiction #WritingProblems
Part 2/2
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Is there a colored circles app for writing? I bet I would write so much if that existed.
#Writing #Thoughts
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“The human soul is a rose that bursts out of the body in a flow of Vitea at death. Not literally, of course not, but that is where the symbol comes from. The rose is a symbol of ascension, memory, understanding of the beyond, and surrender to the greater flow we cannot escape.”
#WritingPrompt
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If you told me this came out of the ocean, I would believe you.
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Peter glanced down at Himmel with his blue eyes and gripped the blade of the kitchen knife. The man who’d been a monster only moments before gripped the knife and wrenched it free. Blood so dark it was purple flowed down his side. “Why do you think? How did a human stumble on her?"
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“You really are just human.” A familiar voice spoke from near the door. “I didn’t believe it until now.”
Elizabeth collapsed into her parent’s arms before he could get a good look at her demonic form, but he knew what he’d seen in the dark moonlight. “Why are you here?”
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Camilla Draymarch - Empress of Talking to the Walls
Herbs - Mint and Chives
Symbol - Probably some weird amalgamation of an octopus hugging a teddy bear.
Offerings - Fresh baked bread, new recipes, snuggly turtlenecks, and pens. But only the good kind.
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Do you mean anatomy? They're the chefs.
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Geography is technically a science.
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Shouldn't have studied the humanities if they didn't want to be consumed by humanitarians.
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Literature professors.
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You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last tv show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
I'm either losing half my vital organs to a mysterious illness or I'm out of here in thirty minutes.
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No! Don't encourage me to find healthy coping strategies! Have mercy!
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AAAAAAHHHH, a manic pixie boyfriend! No! Please don't guide me out of my routine and into strange adventures!
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Needed to hear this today. I always thought I would be a published author by now. But I'm always going to keep going. Even if it means I'm an 80 year old lady typing my little novels.