#ellenwritesstuff

black cat, misunderstood girl

gold retriever, excited boy

bunny rabbit, sweetheart girl

without meaning to, i’m writing in a new way than i usually do - somewhat out of order. 

by which i mean, i’m writing each chapter, and the moment i feel myself loosing steam, i jump to the next chapter even if i’m not finished the previous. 

and because of that? this is my progress after only 4 days...

This book has gone through about four different names now, and none of them have ever felt totally right, so I’m hugely relieved this one fits. Ironically, it was the name of a story I wrote way back in high school that has nothing to do with this book at all! 

((Also thank you to all the people who said congrats on my ‘finished’ post about this book, it means so much! <3))

Hide. Survive. Stay awake. But the nightmares always found a way. 

His secret out. The palace walls no longer able to protect him. The sands of Friday starting to seep through his fingers. Time is running out. Seth’s only hope is to join a hunted girl’s blasphemous journey, in the hopes it might save him from the Taint that is slowly consuming him. If the Abbey don’t catch him, sleep will. 

Genre: Fantasy, adventure.

Status: Complete, massive edit underway. 

Includes: diverse characters, lovable assholes, traversing lands from desert countries to flooded cities, ridiculously detailed world-building, yet more characters sticking middle fingers up at ‘gods’, a magic system with rules and massive consequences, and a whole damned language made from scratch. 

Thank you @theouterdark for the tag! I’m so bad at remembering to do these XD 

I’ve been editing like crazy the past few days, so I think this was the last line I wrote in the unnamed rewrite that may no longer be unnamed! ^^

Because he was the nightmare of the waking world.

Godless

They don’t exist, not really. And so, who better to undertake the impossible task of finding the Gods that have vanished from this world? Five unlikely companions, and even less likely survivors, battling for their right to an existence. 

The first is dead. The second is a child of a childless man. The third is the one who will kill. The fourth has no future. And the fifth? 

Well, the fifth is something the world has been long overdue: A Storm.

Master List:

All posts :||: Main Characters :||: Prologue :||: Snippet: Out of the Crevice :||: Snippet: Miss Evelone :||: Snippet: Seeing Red

Lesser Men Series: 

Godless is part of the Lesser Men Series. It takes places twenty years after the events of Shoreless! They can be read in either order.

Tagging: @nyxnevin

I’m building a tag list for Godless, so if you would like to be added, please let me know ^^ 

'Cal’s eyes opened slowly. They were like the ocean, really. The deepest blue depths, waiting to swallow up a sailor who wasn’t too careful.’

“Mother of Gods, his name is Rical, Spinel! Are you so far removed from this Plain that you really think I’d hurt him?”

‘“You haven’t answered me,” Laszlo said again, his hands covering Cal’s – to keep him gripping tightly, he told himself.’

‘Cal was silent a lot, he said little, but the words were always there, lingering just behind his eyes. Laszlo watched as the thoughts flickered and danced in Cal’s eyes – like the stars in the lake behind them.’

Thank you @silver-wields-a-pen for the tag! <3

Rules: post the last line of a project (or projects) that you’re working on!

“I must admit,” Miss Evelone said, putting the tray down beside Cal. “This is not how I usually get men into my bed. And I certainly don’t intend to make a habit of it. For a skinny Crevice boy, you were very heavy to carry up the stairs.”

- from Godless, chapter 2