#lady-redshield-writes

Sorry it took a little while to respond to this, my friend! I had a few unexpected, but urgent, circumstances arise today that I had to take care of ASAP. Nonetheless, still doing well and I hope you’re doing even better :)

3. How would they describe love?

Oof. You had to start off with a hard one, didn’tcha?

The hard part about answering this question is that Oeden would readily admit that he doesn’t know what love is. He knows he’s horrible with love, considering his upbringing and flawed family dynamic. He likely wouldn’t know how to define it. In fact, he’d be genuinely embarrassed in his inability to provide a definition for something so seemingly simple.

If he had to summarize how he experiences love, in any form, it would be someone that makes him feel like he is home. They’re his shelter, his comfort, his hiding place. He can be himself around them without fear of being judged. Together, they can grow, just like you could expand upon a house with new additions and ripping out what no longer works. You can come to them when you’re weary and they will both hold and uphold you. Oeden struggles so much with finding his “home” - literally and metaphorically - throughout the series that I think he would feel the most love for someone when he feels as though they are a home to him in and of themselves.

14. What smells or tastes do you associate with them?

I know I’ve definitely answered this before for my characters…but I don’t think I recorded my conclusions lol whoops! Well, if anyone remembers those old answers, good on ya, but the author doesn’t, so let me consider something fresh instead. Heck, maybe it’ll be more fitting for the newest draft of Oeden, anyways.

For scents, Oeden would need to stand in stark contrast to the rest of Aeonor. Aeonor, especially in its capital, is clean linens and pine trees and newly-roasted meat from a fresh kill and never-ending bonfires to ward off the winter. Oeden is almost none of those things. He is the stinging scent of salt water in . a land of snow, the incense from the temple censers, the spicy sweetness of cinnamon.

For tastes, Oeden is a citrus. He is that first bite into a lemon, the unexpected taint of raspberry, the shock of a Sour Patch Kid - sour…and then, all of a sudden, sweet. Oeden comes off very strong, even harsh at times. It’s not something everyone would be suited to, appreciate, or understand why anyone else would want that. That’s the sour - and his family and few friends the only ones who push through to reach the sweetness. For underneath all of those emotional barbs and sharp words lies a hidden kindness, a compassion few get to see, because they abandon ship when they come into contact with the initial bitterness.

20. Would they make vines if they could?

Okay, honest confession: I may or may not have thought this meant vines as in grapevines. I was like “well, I mean, yeah I guess he could have a little vineyard one day down the line? He’d like wine and the aesthetic of a winery and all that, so sure?” Apparently, ya boy has been playing too much Harvest Moon to understand all this hip, fresh millennial slang!

Y’all. Could anyone imagine Oeden of all people making Vines? Never in a million years would he ever indulge in that. Royan, however, would undoubtedly think he’s going to be the next big Vine star and drag Oeden (unwillingly) into his vines. The irony is that only the Vines with Oeden in them are the ones that get popular, so Royan pouts and Oeden blames Royan for making him internet famous.

29. Is there a quote and/or lyric that truly resonates with them?

Oh, I have a billion. This could be a book in and of itself. For Book One, I find myself drifting back to the phrase “a golden cage is still a cage”. Aeonor is a place of natural beauty, one at peace and with enough to provide him with food, water, shelter, wealth - all he would need…yet still, he is dissatisfied. Sure, the cage is pretty. Sure, his captors keep him well-fed. But does that not mean he feels at home here, for he can never be free of it.

Armored Soul by @lady-redshield-writes

This is an awesome tale from everything I’ve seen. One of these days I will have the time to actually dive completely in and reblog the hell outta stuff, with comments of course! In the mean time, you all should definitely check it out. 

aw, thank you! i’m gonna be honest with you, i was totally planning on making one for Lev regardless of if you asked so a) thank you for enabling me and b) yes i get to make one for Havel too my sweet boy 💖💖

Lev: Let the Band Play; Badflower he put his finger to his lips like this and he turned up the radio // Emperor’s New Clothes; Panic! at the Disco heroes always get remembered but you know legends never die // Villain I’m Not; Three Days Grace cos you know i’m the only one who knows what you need

Havel: Help Is on the Way; Sixx:AM even though we’re damaged goods, i would love you if i could // Avalanche; Cemetery Sun you make me feel weightless, flawless, like no one i have ever known // Visions; Dirty Heads you’re a mirage, it’s all in my mind, this is just love playing tricks on my eyes // Elevate; Papa Roach but i can’t stop me cos i gotta reach my destiny // Lion; Hollywood Undead i am a lion and i want to be free, do you see the lion when you look inside of me?

Was scrolling through tumblr and saw this tag by @dreamsofboksandmonsters reblogged by @lady-redshield-writes and thought, “why not”. Rules you must post;

1.The first sentence of your WIP (see look, first line tag right there)

2. The genre

3. The name and age of your main character

4. The first line of dialogue in your WIP

I’l be using F.E.A.R (working title) for this meme

1. It was a combination of factors what had Keith so upset: the suffocating heat that was still lingering in his cell despite it being 9 pm, the mosquitoes and flies that insisted on sticking on his sweaty skin, the nauseas he was experimenting from lack of food, and the anguish mixed with fear and a bitter regret of not having lived his life while knowing that in an hour he’d be dead.

2. Action, cyberpunk

3. Keith Reeds, age 31

4. “Thaddeus? Holy shit, you’re alive? You look like crap.”

So, have I made a good impression? 

#...but what if your main character *is* the antagonist? ;) #(technically speaking)

I was tagged by @katywritesbooks @converginglives and @lady-redshield-writes thanks lovelies! 💖

Here’s another line from Eosophobia...

"I've heard whispers with more personality than you've got in your entire body."  Oswald flicks the ass of his cigarette onto the table with a shrug.

The boy furrows his eyebrows, jerking back in offense.  Some people are offended by everything.

Lady Redshield: “Maestro” Award Whenever I think of your work, all I can hear is an orchestra in rehearsal. The cellists clean their strings, the pianist’s fingers flutter through sheet upon sheet of arrangements, the conductor raises her baton, and the entire audience sits in breathless anticipation. When you put a pen to paper, all the world waits without inhalation for what they are to read.

Your musicianship transcends through the performing arts and onto the pages of your writing. Each syllable is a note, each word a tune, each sentence a melody. The paragraphs form bars upon bars of harmonious symphonies that engage each and every sense known to man. The words flow like a lament, slow and soothing. And the audience sits entranced.

You, my friend, conduct the orchestra with each stroke of your quill - and it is all too willing to follow your lead. Do not hesitate. Do not doubt. You were born for this. You are a master of music and a maven of literature - the virtuoso of our age.

Your Prize: “Symphony Number Five” Moodboards It is no small secret the incredible attachment I have to this series. Today, I wanted to honor a story so close to my heart with moodboards that embodied the impact of your epic.

Thank you, @lady-redshield-writes. I appreciate you, I support you, and I believe wholeheartedly in the work you will continue to produce. Be bold, my friend - the world awaits your innermost symphonies :)

So I’m like, suuuper late but I was tagged by the lovely @an-author-in-progress, thanks hon! 💖

I’m gonna do the OC section for Jackal! 

List 5 basic facts about your OC: 

Young 20-something with basically no self-agency, who fucks up phenomenally the first time he ever tries to take control of his own life

Has dark, curly hair

Has gray eyes.  Because is it really a SFF novel if a character doesn’t have incredibly rare eyes?

Loves to tinker with scrap metals, and makes little statues and figurines with them

Can’t aim to literally save his life

If your OC could have any superpower, which would it be and why? Stopping time!  So he could, ya know, sleep forever and be as lazy as he likes.

Post a pic/gif that describes your OC

there’s nothing wrong with your MC being an attractive version of Smeagol, don’t let society tell you otherwise

Summarize your WIP in 10 words or less: Death plays himself and everyone suffers for it.

Do you have any villains in your story? All of them.  They’re literally all villains in their own ways, and it’s glorious.

What’s easier for you to write, dialogue or description?  Depends!  Some days I’m in a dialogue mood, some days I’m in a description mood :P I’m hard to pin down

Do you have a favorite writing-related quote?  Stephen King’s “Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings” was the first writing quote I ever heard that I honestly agreed with, tbh. 

If you could assign your story one song, what would it be? This is such a hard question, it changes like every day omg.  Today it would be Three Days Grace’s Strange Days ... “Raise a glass to the end of it all/ Who’s to blame when it’s everyone’s fault?” 

Where do you get inspiration from? Haha... the shower. LOL. Hm, I take inspiration from everything.  I’m always looking at the world and turning it into words, trying to pull story ideas out of every song, trying to make strong emotions last, etc. 

Do you tend to overwrite or underwrite in your first draft? I usually overwrite, but not by much!  I’m verbose and write passive and all this shit that boosts my word count, but I also usually find that I need to add scenes/conversations/whatever, so the edited word count is still about 90% of the original count.