Fantasy-Mystery WIP

Hello! I am Rani! There is nothing better than a rainy day to get me into a writing mood! (which is where I got my pseudonym)

This is where I've decided to post about some WIPs.

FanMys: A portmanteau of the two main genres: "Fantasy" + "Mystery" Link to Summary

TBD: An old fantasy wip I recently found and I want to revitalize. More information soon!

Hopefully this account will hold it accountable to actually continuing and perhaps one day finishing either drafts.

I have at least a memory of some spitballing ideas, like it's a letter or written declaration that makes JT -the fmc- think the revolution is actually still around but i skipped that because she's supposed to be doing this on her own and her grandfather would immediately jump to help her and I don't want that. it has to be vague, maybe magical? There's a spell that is a huge spoiler, so maybe an orb thingy that can help cast that spell, which would be a good full story moment if in the end she... reverses the spell, but then how does that lead to step two? I know the twist, and I thought if I knew how it started and how it ended I'd be able to fill in the blanks sort of easily. But I don't this is so frustrating. why did I try to write a mystery????

I failed! I'm not upset about this, I knew I wouldn't make it to 50k, especially when I had much less time over this month to write and didn't know what I was doing half of the time. What disappoints and confuses me more about my writing this month is that I somehow didn't even start my main plot?? In hindsight, I probably wrote a few scenes that I could skip, and could rearrange most of what I've written to be after the scene which kick-starts the main mystery. I just wanted to establish some things first, and blinked and now not only is the month done but I hadn't gotten to where I wanted to be. Oh, well. I started this project because I explicitly don't consider myself good at writing and I want to be better. This is how you be better. You write baffling bad drafts.

I had lots of fun this month fleshing out my world and characters, and this has taught me how different priorities are when world building vs writing. Like, I still haven't really settled on an eye or hair color for my main character, but that's not really important since I haven't needed to describe her to the reader that explicitly. BUT I have described her grandmother, so I have a more solid idea of what she looks like! Interesting, right?

I'm going to continue writing this WIP, and I'm going to continue trying to write daily, until I meander my way into the end of the story. I then plan on rereading my work, annotating it, and then writing my second draft based on those notes. I have no plans on what to do after that.

I had a fun experience with nanowrimo, and I would have never started this WIP if i wasn't for the challenge!

It's about trade, with a "trade diplomat" from another country being a bit of a jerk to the MC's father because he's not really king. It's supposed to be early fall, so I guess it could concern each country's harvest and renewing contracts. But the lingo is hard to research because all I can find is modern tariffs and opinions on the current's american presidential administration choices concerning international trade. I dont need that. i dont want that. i want an example of simple, medieval/historical/fantasy that I can read/watch and learn terms and something I can turn into my own scene.