Absolutely forgot about this blog ngl but I'll give an update despite no one really seeing them lmao.

I'm in university!! Currently in my second year doing a creative writing degree which is a bit helpful for this project that doesn't seem to be going anywhere really, mainly because I keep getting distracted with a load of other ideas and problems with my health etc etc.

But, I am determined to get this book done; as a novel, novella or anything, I want to finish it, even if it takes DECADES lmao. It will get done, eventually.

I did submit one of the chapters for an assignment in my first year of uni and I got some pretty good feedback on it, very helpful but it was also terrifying.

Currently I'm on chapter 12 with a word count of 26,326 (not that much really considering how long this project has been going on). BUT!! One of my current modules is Science Fiction for Survival, and it's gotten me REALLY into Sci-Fi (I hated the genre before but not anymore lol), and so I've started a Sci-Fi project which I'll probably double up and use them as my submissions for my Writing Fiction assignment due in a couple months. Because of that, I've got that initiative to actually write both of them which is good.

I would explain all my medical issues that's stopped me from writing but I don't think that's too important for anyone reading this to actually know lmao; but I will say there's a lot of stuff going on and I'm constantly fatigued which makes even just living difficult. That won't stop me though, I'm a tough cookie like that.

That's the jist of everything though, hopefully I'll remember this blog exists and actually use it and reach out to people!

Okay, hi guys! This blog has gotten the tiniest bit of attention recently and it felt appropriate to do a mini update (of sorts). 

I have been writing, getting my first draft down into an A4 notebook, but much to my dismay i seem to have lost the fucker.

I had around about 15 chapters written up and its completely disappeared to the fae realm or something - so that’s a bit annoying. Plus, college has been kicking my ass recently so things have been a smidge bit stressful. 

HOWEVER! 

I have kinda made ability charts for Keres, Calder and Zorya. I’m not too sure if i’ve done it correct so i have to check that before anything, but it has been done!

But yeah, i am back down to chapter 3 rather than 15 - but who knows, i may find it soon (im keeping my fingers crossed for that)

That’s all for now, ta ta lovelies  

I had started the third chapter a little while ago and just forgot to update it on here, so my apologies. 

I have been trying to write when i can but i do have a controlled assessment for one of my a-levels in a couple weeks (worth 25% of my final grade), so writing is slow lately. 

Alright, so a lot of things have been happening (and I know its a lot of excuses and not enough writing, but to be fair...life does get in the way of doing things sometimes, its why novels take years to write sometimes). 

I’ve started college, going into my fourth week and I’ve been preoccupied with settling in there and spending time with my friend, plus the homework seems to be a lot despite it only being three a-levels, haha. Also, I’ve been doing quite a bit of art things - painting, sculpting, sketching and just drawing in general. 

HOWEVER!!

I’ve done a bit of thinking about the premise of why Keres goes well...apeshit. I cant remember if I’ve mentioned that here or not, if not well...they do! My thought process was the classic traumatising and whatnot - parents died in a battle, they get abandoned as a baby and by fate is found by a family that happen to be in power so they take them in, but it turns out they’re not happy and do some bad emotional abusive stuff. Y’know, the classics. But no, I’m not doing that and that change has kind of altered everything about what I’ve written so far...so I’m basically at the start once more. 

Yippee! But anyways, hopefully I shall write some more. 

D R A G O N

(absolute shit quality so my apologies, I have no clue why don't ask)

Yeah so I'm treating that guy as a trial run for what I imagine Calder's dragon looks like, there's details that I have in my mind that I physically couldn't put onto it because of the way I had it posed - along with the fact that I don't actually have a stand for it so it dried all weird. He will be painted eventually, but I'm kinda wanting to improve my clay sculpting skills, maybe I'll post those on my main rather than here (even though it is related to Lies of the Lost, it's not writing). So go follow that if you're interested: @q-a-a-m

This shit is hard

But rewarding so...I'm probably gonna updates this blog with pictures of the sculptures I'm doing because they're mostly going to be things from out of my story.

This is probably gonna help me visualise a lot of things better and get a bigger understanding of the actual characters if I've made them 3D - drawing them is helpful but I have a feeling this is just going to make things easier.

I have been dead on here because of exams (GCSE, ugh) - currently took a halt on writing The Lies of the Lost to not overwhelm my poor brain.

BUT hopefully i will be writing some more over my break because i have a while off until college (around 9 weeks i believe). Ive also gotten into clay and making sculptures like that so i may do some fancy little things in association with my little world soooo :) 

THE FIRST CHAPTER IS FINISHED

i think. 

The way that I’m doing this is i’m writing my initial ideas down by hand in a notebook - its a personal preference for me as its easier to quickly edit the things i catch as I’m writing. After i finish whatever i’ve written i take it to google docs, that’s so i can type it all up (obviously) in the format how i’d like, check for grammatical errors as I’m making myself reread my work and add in any extra scenes, dialogue etc.

So considering all that, i have finished typing up my first chapter; thus making me think i have it finished. I’m writing this as if I’m arguing a case in court and you’re going to have to deal with it whoever you are who may be reading this. 

Yes i have done lots of brainstorming to come up with a fantastical name for this equally fantastical book...

...and by all that i mean i looked up a name generator and went hay wall on that thing.

So now, i’m pretty sure i have got a name for my book: The Lies of the Lost

I am hoping to God that this isn’t already a title and is at least semi-original (ironic because i didn’t even come up with it but shush). Anyways, that is it - a relatively short post for once :))

I hath been trying to write some things. I have successfully written about three/four pages in my first draft. i will now bestow upon all ye lovely lads some precisely picked first few paragraphs to get a taste of what i’ve gotten :)

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‘Smoke from peoples hardships blurred your vision. Brutality is the only word to describe anything about this, now, heinous place. The healthy, vibrant, green grass now scorned and blackened. Trees as tall as the elemental giants. burnt and dead. Nothing is as it used to be. It will never be the same. 

But for the better or worse? Well, the unrelenting indigo hue emitting from herds of children - teens that is - would give you some idea to what would happen. But with this world, you can never know the outcome. And it doesn’t matter how hard anyone tries, it’s pointless. Younger kids are going to die. Warriors. Merchants. Parents. All are going to die.

They may mourn their own loss - the warriors, that is. They’re aware to how this will go. Each swing of the sword. Each released arrow. The drain of energy from each spell. Pointless. 

These kids are just too strong for their own good. For some reason...  they’re too strong. 

Each valiant effort though isn’t to save themselves. No, not to save themselves. It’s in hopes that someone, anyone even just a couple people could escape to a save haven. Because in the moment, no one knows what the hell is going on. Or even how this all has escalated this quickly.’

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Zorya

Their primary goal/motive is to serve and protect like she was taught to do their whole life since they’re a rare kind of being. Essentially they’re a hybrid of an elven creature and a dragon-kind. They have the exceptionally rare ability to be able to shift into many different types of animals rather than just their dragon form, but as he’s a hybrid she has a couple of different abilities. And because of this, it has been the soul goal of the people of the tribe to train them up so they can be protected, all been asked if they’re okay with that and they have taken that role of protector of the village. Now, as they have this role they do live up to it, when Keres spirals she does everything in her power in order to ensure as many people are safe. Training them as well, because he’s most skilled in that area it made sense. Theyre also 1 out of 4 kids who were recorded as hybrids in the MODERN world. Another one being Keres which gives some people speculation to whether theyre related but tis a no. (there would be obvious “crossing racial lines” for families, but it got more and more uncommon as time went on because of feuds etc…)

Greatest fear is harming people with their overpowered nature, or making people feel less of themselves (especially children who long for a role they have but have a minimalistic ability, much like Calder). They have the ability to control heat and parts of the earth (think toph from avatar). That coupled with the shifting ability is a bit out of control yet because its so much its something they’e always aware of and have to control, because if they’re not careful they could accidentally start a tornado or a super windy day depending on the environment and her emotions. Smaller fears are probably jump scares, people not keeping them informed etc… stuff they can’t control. 

She doesn’t actively go out hugging people and always wanting to be near people, they respect peoples boundaries and all but he doesn’t oppose hugs. That’s why them and Calder get along so well, they balance each other out and help all the time and know each others boundaries. But because they’re always welcoming of it doesn’t mean they want hugs from everyone. Certain people are a definite no-go to her. However, because she is bi-romantic with those they’re close with and possibly want to be with, it can be seen that they’re more open to physical touch with that person and actively tries to be closer with them as long as they’re okay with that. 

They can be seen as quite a stoic character, seemingly serious but its really a facade they felt was needed for the role they plucked up. Military ready and always aware of their surroundings as much as one possibly can be so nothing can be a surprise. As such, he’s very observant (obviously) and can pick up on smaller cues, and with the shifting ability they have been able to utilise that to catch smells and essentially trained themselves to be able to focus on the different senses to heighten them as some animals can do. Obvious protector role and wanting to make everyone safe, differing from their outer appearance they do really care for their ever expanding small-ish village. Though on the inside they’re constantly lying to themselves to ensure everyone safety, not even compartmentalising they just ignore all her problems until it bubbles up and she snaps. Happened only a few times and a few people got hurt the first time giving him unbridled guilt and whenever they feel like they’re getting to that point again they make Calder know and take the day off of her duties to let it all out before the cycle continues. They try not to be prejudice against people, but can’t help being cautious of new people because of - as has been said - the protector role. So for  those people with strange backgrounds they’re extra careful of until all suspicions have been rid of. Very professional and have clear leadership qualities, mam friend. 

They express affection by helping people like training someone to be stronger so people don’t have to worry about them and so others can defend themselves, its a way of showing she cares because he wants to ensure that amount of security and safety. Much like with Calder and how when they realised that he always neglected his feelings which led to occasional angry outbursts, Zorya helped him by finding an outlet and training him in order to get some of these emotions out; which helped massively. And that’s something that Calder is eternally grateful for as it was getting more and more difficult over time to deal with. Every now and them he’d go up to her and signal to her he needs their help with this and she’ll drop whatever theyre doing in order to help. 

If anyone got hut who Zorya promised to protect, it would devastate them and be a root for core anger. But, their real weakness is not being able to protect themself. If he was in a fight and got too hurt to help the others, it would break them. Destroy them more like because they would then have to watch all these people they deeply care for get damaged and nothing can be done because they’ve probably already pushed themself to the bone to get to that stage. Especially if one of those people was Calder or her trainer. (Also if something happened to nature in a bad way, especially the water it would be bad). 

Something that will change is their unwillingness to use their abilities on other people, after the hard battle they get more control over their abilities. As one of their fears was hurting people who don’t deserve it, that will probably largely dissipate. All the events will lead them to believe until a person has proved themself to her, everyone could be deserving of being hurt by their magic - and they could have the ability to suffocate people or get them to a near death experience with their heat control talent. Much like how Calder can freeze people from the inside out, they could heat people up from the inside out. Boil them. Both horrible ways to die but also shows the duos likeliness to be together and get along. Ying and yang if you would. At some point they will lose their head and forget that people still need to prove themself to be innocent and gets close to going on a rampage like Keres, but Calder is always there. Reminding her of what they (Keres) did brings her back to their senses and always feel disgusted with themself afterwards. 

Thats all i have for now, you can tell i got less and less detailed throughout XD 

If you actually read all three posts thank you so much! Moving from a comic book to a regular one is more of a difficult transition than i thought; feel like ive got to do a bunch of “extra” work to sorta reassure myself instead of jumping in head first. 

I’m introducing a few more characters (as you could’ve probably guessed from Keres’ post). Introducing their siblings: Sauda, Hadeon and Morana - listed in age order - but i will do a more detailed post about them eventually.