#book project

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I pitch to you: doing an ELA book project on your own book. Take your book (or manuscript if you're unpublished) and fill it with sticky notes and annotations.

You could choose literally any style, but some options are:

Literary analysis essay (symbolism, motifs, literary devices, author's purpose, etc.)

Book float (Create a parade float out of a shoebox inspired by the book)

Slideshow presentation (about maybe a specific part of the book or a general summary to pitch it to the "class")

Board game (Create a board game inspired by your book! I had one of these once, a good game to base it off of is either Life or Candyland!)

Journey box (Full of "artifacts" from the book, and how each object in the box is tied to the book)

Passion project posterboard (think those foldable posterboards in a science fair- but about the book! This one is actually pretty fun ngl)

Pizza box report (you use an old pizza box and you cut up the circle to show each piece of the story- you can look it up for more info)

Alphabet book (word for each letter and how that word fits the book)

These are just the ones I could think of, but feel free to do a project that you find interesting or did during school!!

Why do this?

Well, nostalgia, mostly. That's how I came up with this idea ngl, but it's not the only reason to do it! Personally, I feel like it would be fun to do this for my own story (but that may just be as someone who loved creative ELA projects).

Think about it: your teacher telling you to find the symbolism that the author probably didn't intend. You don't have to take it seriously, you can make up all the symbolism you want out of your own story and stretch it to your heart's content.

I write, and I often procrastinate writing, and here's my current project...

It is a historical fiction set in the late 19th century world of opera. We follow the story of a renowned prima donna, someone who thrives on stage, but fights what seems to be a never-ending battle after curtain call.

Her rise to the top was not by pure chance, but rather highly thanks to a contract made between her desperate father and her patron–an older gentleman with money, a title, influence, and his own troubles. He once brought her to where she now stands and funds her lavish life...and, in return, controls it in any way he pleases. From the way she dresses to whom she spends her time with and how, he gets to have a say. She faces his abuse, both psychological/emotional and sexual daily, and it has become as much a part of her as the rest of her life. The outside world considers her lucky, when in reality this is hardly true–they don't know even half of the truth she lives with. She is prisoner of a contract with fine print at the bottom of it, any of which she never had any control over, and she wants out, away from him.

The answer to her problem seems to have come in the form of a kleptomaniac conductor and a group of thieves gathered around him. The group, consisting of musicians and backstage workers alike steals from their rich clientele, each with their own intended use for the money they set aside in secret. She has joined in, hoping to one day have saved up enough to flee and never look back.

However, the price one must pay for freedom is hardly ever quite as fine.

At the end of 2025 I got a flash of inspiration for my next one, which I started back in January. And usually I don't share my projects until they're over if I share them at all, but since I think this one is going to eventually become something I publish in some form, I want to share it as it's in progress.

Basically, I'm going through the Rider-Waite tarot deck and writing a spell for each card, but not based on the meaning of the card. That's been done at least once, probably many times. I'm looking only at Pamela Coleman Smith's illustrations and interpreting them as if they were a pictoral guide to a spell. Then, of course, doing the spells that come out of that process to see how they work.

So far I've written the spells for Fool through Hermit and done all of them through Hierophant except High Priestess (haven't had the right situation come up yet to use it for). Plus I skipped ahead and did Strength because a great opportunity arose to use it. It's a great proect for pushing me out of my routines and sometimes my comfort zone - for instance I'm not used to doing magic out in public places, but sometimes that's what the spell calls for.

Hi there! I'm back with another iteration of Re:Vamp in development after 6 years of letting it rest. Woof. It's been a while. Nearly everything about the concept has changed except for 3 core things i always intended: A grumpy messy-haired co-protagonist, vampires in a modern setting, and political allegory that is unflinching in its criticism of modern (blood-sucking) society.

This time Charlie will be sharing the stage with a dead-smiled shapeshifting Vampire named Elliott and she's not the only one unnerved when their eyes meet.

How will they get along when they're both trapped in a 'rehabilitation' center designed to weed out bad apples who haven't bought into the way the Ancient Vampire Families have run Earth?

Hello and welcome to Midnight Radio!

Today I would like to share with you my writing projects I have been up to!

I really enjoy writing stories, it's something I have enjoyed doing since I was small and I always seem to come back to it after some time when I stop. I tend to write a lot of short stories, they tend to be a lot easier for me and I don’t have to worry about how many pages or word counts as I am not aiming for a story on that scale. I do have a genre that I have noticed I like to stick to and that is horror, I enjoy reading, watching and listening to audio stories that is really is no surprise that I write horror stories as often as I do. I have been trying to expand my horizons however by making attempts at dark fantasy and romance and I will say it has been a challenge for me but a fun one no less.

I have last month just finished my first short story book collection, a small A6 sized book full of all my favourite short stories that I have written over that past two years and this month I will be finally printing a few copies for myself, family and friends. I don’t have much confidence in myself to publish something to the public yet but I hope to one day be able to. I have begun to write a few other projects that I hope to print as well along with a  few concepts that I have recently made as well.

I am wanting however to print out a book that is one singular story. It is most likely going to be something small as I am not use to writing one full story so it'll be a book you could read in one sitting if one wanted to. I have come up with a few ideas as of recent, one being a horror romance between a tired witch and an obsessed vampire as they try to find a cure to turn the vampire back after centuries of living in the darkness. The other, a dungeons and dragons inspired dark fantasy where wizards, witches and warlocks exist in a world forgotten by the old gods and left to the demi gods to rule over. The main character is claimed by one of these demi gods and is on a quest to find them to remove it. For the demi god's claim holds something twisted.

My latest concept, has been surprisingly a sci-fi story. I haven't polished anything yet but I was inspired by Belle and cosmic princess Kaguya and their virtual worlds and some concepts of ghost in a shell and player one. The concept so far: a world heavily relying on a digital world to cope with reality becoming too much to handle humanity has found refuge in a digital reality where you can be anything. However, there is a strange phenomenon going on where avatars are hijacked and altered in to some digital defect that after a certain amount of time then takes over the person in real life, almost as if possessed. These are called Quantum ghosts and there is a special task force that deals with them before they hijack the user's brain in real life.

Again the last one is a bit of a jumbled mess right now and needs polishing but it is a concept I have really enjoyed working on. I hope to be able to work on these projects more and be able to physically hold them one day. I have so many ideas I can't seem to keep up with them these days.