#shadowswiftpack

Good afternoon, folks!  At last, here it is, the celebration!  It was going to be 200 followers, then 300 followers, and now I’m up over 430 followers.  Wow!  Thank you all so much!  I’m so flattered and delighted that you all find my content, original and reblogged alike, worth keeping track of.  As a thank you, I have some gifts available, activities planned, and an extra-special treat I’ll be revealing in pieces over the next week or so!  

>> Special Treat: The Release of Daydream Walking’s Original Nine Chapters!

To thank you all for your support, I have decided to release what was originally Daydream Walking’s first nine chapters!  They are betaread but largely unedited, and I would like to have it understood that I do not desire constructive criticism on this writing at this time.  This writing is meant to exist as-is for now, even if that existence is imperfect! (This is the first draft, guys, gals & nonbinary buddies!) I would simply like to allow you guys a taste of DW’s world, characters, and original concept through this release.

The first chapter is available NOW, on Wattpad!  The other eight chapters will be released in individual posts over the next week or so.  Without further flapping of my lips, here is a tiny excerpt from the first chapter:

The Hall of Forms and Records produced Quince after several long, extremely boring minutes during which Clay shuffled, fidgeted, and glanced up and down the long halls to either side of him.

>> Send an Ask for a Gift! (max. two per person)

♪ Moodboard w/ a 3 Song Playlist like the following: X, X, X, X, X

for:

❄ A Wip

❅ A Character

or

☾ Your Blog 

For the Wip and Character ones include AS MUCH information as you like!  But at the very least a title, setting and plot description for Wips and a name, appearance, personality, and role in your wip/work for Characters.  For Blogs, you can describe yourself/your aesthetic or let me go off your theme/about me.  Up to you!  Generally though, the more info I have the better the moodboard/playlist will be!!

♬ Blog Name Playlist  

The only info I really require for this is whether or not you’re comfy with swearing or explicit songs, but feel free to throw me any other specifications you like!

>> Ask Activity: Get to Know Me, Get to Know You!

To celebrate all you lovely people following me, I would love to get to know you more!  

Send me a fact about yourself and I will respond with a fact about myself! (”facts” can also be small stories from your life if you like, feel free to get creative!)

Tell me about your pet/s or an animal that has/had a role in your life, and I will respond with a picture of one/both of my dog/s or a story about my dogs, past pets, or other animals that have passed through my life! 

Make an assumption about me and I will not only confirm or deny it, but I will make an assumption right back!

>> Hold on a second!

Before you send in your ask/s, please:

Be following me! 

Share this post to spread the word!

Tagging some people to get this rolling: @farrradays, @livingdeadwriteblr, @requiemesque, @storyteller-kaelo, @cawolters, @knightsofeclipse, @writingonesdreams, @newdivinities, @cadewrites, @omgbrekkerkaz(for that DW content), @usuallydecentwriter, @elliswriting, @dahl-my-life.

Months after surviving the explosion of his home Station, Harlow crash-lands on known planet Margaric, within charted space, and must learn to survive on his own.  Supposedly recent maps and data on Margaric are inaccurate or straight up wrong.  A research station stands overgrown and abandoned.  A fire burns endlessly in one spot.  Strange noises echo out of a deep, dark hole at night. While he fights to remain alive, Harlow must also unravel the planet’s secrets.

Title: The Mystery of Margaric fka Harlow in Space Status: World Building, Character Developing, & Outlining Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Science Fiction Age Rating: 13+

Main Characters:

HARLOW - 18, male, he/him, young scrappy weapons expert with a love of knives, quiet, guarded, & serious, very cautious, detail-oriented, hates bugs, always touching things, 5′6″ stringbean, freckles, long auburn hair kept in a ponytail, hazel eyes, oval face, soft jawline.  He was a loner on The Station, where he was born and raised, and somewhat estranged from his family.  Even if it wasn’t all gone, he isn’t sure he would have wanted to go back.  There is nothing to keep him from becoming consumed by the mysteries his new home has to offer.

THE RESEARCHER - The woman who last occupied the abandoned research station.  Her research and her belongings, both personal and otherwise, were all left behind.  According to public access data on Margaric research, she and her station are still active on the planet.  Tell that to the grasses growing up through her keyboard. Setting:

THE PLANET OF MARGARIC - A small planet somewhere in the known, charted, explored universe.  60% of the planet is covered in tall, steep, snow-capped mountains that are impossible to traverse if you’re not prepared.  Between the mountains and in the large valley that spreads over the other 40% of the planet, trees similar to Earth’s pines and firs grow large and wide, and at their feet grows thick, lush thickets, bushes, wildflowers, and ivies.  Dominating one side, and about one half, of the valley is a deep lake that appears eerily still and mirror-like.

Some Songs:

Fever by Baltazar Revolution 9 by The Beatles Bonfires by Blue Foundation Black Mambo by Glass Animals Faraday Cage by Elliot Moss

Taglist & some comments under the cut!  I’m posting this initially with DW’s taglist, please let me know if you want to be on the longterm taglist for this work to be tagged on future related posts!

I was already planning to offer character moodbroad/aesthetic things with a three-song playlist.  Now I’m thinking as a little extra treat, I might release the original first nine or so chapters of DW?  I’ve seen wattpad floating around, haven’t used it before but I was thinking I might post the full chapters up there and post lil posts with a lil excerpt from the chapter and a link to it here?  Thoughts?

(The chapters are largely unedited and are probably gonna end up being completely reworked/rewritten once I’m finished with my first draft, since I’m fairly certain I want the story to start out in a different place now, but I’m not letting myself touch them until I’ve finished the first draft!!  They’re still a nice little intro to the original concept, world, and Clay and Quince’s characters.  (Alistair doesn’t show up at all in these chapters))