we're writers. we don't cry. we bleed on paper.

As guardians, Alex/Night calls Jakira/Sunray "Sunshine." She calls him "Night Hawk" or "Night Owl."

As civilians, she calls him "Al," and he calls her "Jak."

Both of them call Raevyn "Rae." Synthia (Jakira's mum) will occasionally call him "Rae Rae."

Raevyn calls Jakira "Kira" (he thinks "Jak" is solely Alex's nickname for her lol).

(fun fact, nicknames were another thing Raevyn had to get used to. He was chill with it once they explained the concept, but had never heard of the idea before then.)

Synthia called Tizian (Alex's dad) "Tiz" or "Tizzy."

⊹ What do they want vs what do they need. these should not be the same thing. what they want is the surface goal ( the job, the person, the revenge, the answer.) What they need is the thing underneath that they can't name yet. The story is what happens in the gap between those two things. if they're identical your character has nowhere to go.

⊹ What are they wrong about. Not morally wrong necessarily. just. what belief do they hold that the story is going to test. What assumption do they make about themselves or the world that turns out to be incomplete? A character without a wrong belief is already finished. They have no arc, give them something to learn even if learning it hurts them.

⊹ How do they talk when they're nervous. Do they go quiet or do they talk too much? do they deflect with jokes? do they get weirdly formal? do they ask questions instead of answering them? the way a person behaves under pressure is who they actually are. And it should be different from how they behave when they're comfortable.

⊹ What do they find funny. this one sounds small and it is not small at all. Humour is worldview. What makes someone laugh tells you what they value, what they're afraid of, how they handle pain. A character with no sense of humour is just flat. even the gravest person finds something absurd. find the thing.

⊹ What are they ashamed of? not their tragic backstory. their actual shame. The small ugly thing they would never say out loud. The time they were a coward. The feeling they pretend not to have. The desire they think disqualifies them from being a good person. Shame is where the most interesting character work lives and most writers skip straight over it :(

Thanks for the tag @winterandwords

Describe the plot of your story/ WIP in five words or less

Alrighty then. I think I found a new way to describe Snow on the Pines:

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Just what is going on?

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No pressure tag @ark-inkweaving @dyoniawrites @aalinaaaaaa @corinneglass @i-do-anything-but-write

TRS:

Saving a Dumbass from himself

JoR:

Everything is on fire... 👍?

The Flames of Revolution:

Idiot teen descends into darkness

Phoenix:

Supers have citywide custody battle

Spy series:

Learning to be human again

Where Light Meets Dark

Damaged people guided to healing

give me the name of your story and at least two verses you would pick (or have picked) as epigraphs for it.

for Birds of the Shattered Sky:

▪︎ And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them (Is.42:16).

▪︎ He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler (Ps.90/91:4).

tagging:

@narulanth @larissa-the-scribe @lady-merian @irishironclad @alexadelphia-official @cupcakegalaxia @geminiagentgreen (no pressure🙌) and anyone who wants to join!

Days of Resistance:

Proverbs 3:31-32 — Do not envy a man of violence and do not choose any of his ways, for the devious person is an abomination to the Lord, but the upright are in his confidence.

Proverbs 16:32 — Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

Mark 3:24 — If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

Romans 12:17-21 — Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Where Light Meets Dark:

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10, 12 — "Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls. For he has no one to help him up. Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him. And a threefold cord is not quickly broken."

John 15:13 — "Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends."

I've been developing Finn & Morena's post story kids, and I've been letting the rest of the Wolves float around in my head

Blake is feeling really lonely and misrable and crying on the roof at night

Kairos anger issues caused big problems for the gang bc hes a total crashout

Tara is feeling immense guilt about everthing she did in her past

Peg is... just there. Being cute.

Isom is hanging out in the back of my mind on loop through various scenes of being retraumatized by his abuser

Alex wore himself out with too much scary magic and is currently stuck unconscious in a lucid nightmare

Raevyn just got full-on stabbed and is fighting for his life