#gowaniiwrites

I finished the outline. It ended up being 350 chapters. Six acts. A cast of 30 POV characters. I have genuinely lost my mind and I am so proud of myself. The title is a reference to Preiddeu Annwfn and refers to Gweir, the imprisoned man singing bitterly before the spoils of the Otherworld—and it maps onto Peter with an almost uncomfortable precision. Even though drownedrat is the main ship, calling this just a drownedrat fic is a disservice. It's a slowburn, multi-ship, epic fantasy political drama and I'm super excited to write it. I should have the first chapter done by the end of the week :D

“It’s not all moss.”

Regulus looked at him.

“Some of it is lichen,” Peter said.

I got inspired a couple hours ago to write a story where Peter surprises Regulus with a bed and breakfast that's falling apart and I think this exchange sums up their relationship pretty well, actually 😭

So I spent like 6 hours studying the wikipedia style guide and the four horsemen so I can do a fake wikipedia page for the characters in my novel Built for Sin. This is the result. It's not finished yet, obviously, because that's a lot of writing. But I'm super proud of it.

I achieved this layout in obsidian. I am using the retroma theme with a CSS snippet to make the headings & formatting Black + add that line under yhe large heading as well as a CSS snippet to allow obsidian to render the info block + render the picture in color (retroma theme automatically renders images in B&W)

The info block itself is HTML. Looks like this:

Anyway, it's a metric fuck ton of work but it might become a core element of my process. This is because writing about Mash'al in this style has taught me a lot more about him than if I'd just done a normal character sheet or a character study. I think it's because I can just write objective facts about him in a neutral way.

Title: The Devil's Breath | A Baptized with Gasoline Character Study

Summary: Pigeonberry, West Virginia, 1945. Stokely Kitchen is a moonshiner, a drunk, a father of two with a third on the way, and seven years deep into a secret he can't name and can't quit. Reverend Ephraim Adkins has a wife, a pulpit, and a congregation he's held together through sheer force of will and one genuine conviction. Neither of them is a good man. Both of them are trying.

Content Warnings:

Alcoholism

Infidelity

Internalized homophobia

Internalized shame

Period-typical racism and homophobia

Mentions of slavery

Generational trauma

Grief

Poverty

Illegal activity

Interracial relationship under anti-miscegenation laws

Religious hypocrisy

Segregation

Note: This is written in Appalachian English, so some of the writing may feel grammatically incorrect. This is also unfinished, I just wanted to share my dialogue work.

Critique welcome!