#soq

This really sucks but if you have anything in messages or groups that you want to save, do it now!. The groups and messages officially go away on July 1st. Personally I'm going to be saving my journals as well since I don't trust Quotev not to chuck another bomb at us.

4. Assign your WIP a taste

HMM freshly baked bread or hot soup I would say!! SoQ has definitely a big comfort vibe, at least to me, so I would tend to go for something like that :D

What’s Stories of Qelt? 

A project based on this one-shot, that I decided to turn into a novel. The novel is quite different from the one-shot, as it has more characters, more plot, more worldbuilding, etc. It’s also an “own voice” novel (I think I can call it that?), and features a diverse cast of characters.

The story follows a nameless protagonist (that will take the name Lasair eventually, so I refer to her as Lasair) through various steps of her life, from childhood to adulthood, as she grows up and faces her own challenges, and meets with the whimsical Fæ that watches over her village - Áed. Strangers at first and with no reason to trust each other, they gradually grow close, brought together by their mutual loneliness and desire for freedom. 

I’m also planning on writing a spin-off centered around two characters that appear in the novel, because I got attached to them. I’ve thought about several short stories revolving around various secondary characters, because once more, I got attached to them. Oops.

What’s already written?

In have a masterpost in which I list all the things I’ve posted about SoQ so far, and I update it whenever I post something. I also have a FAQ that I’ll update soon (and probably with some parts of this post), for all your first questions!

Where can I read the novel?

On Patreon! For 1$, you can get excerpts of the chapters every month. Each chapter is divided in 3 excerpts. For 4$, you get the full chapters every month. I try to update at the beginning of each month, but sometimes life gets in the way, and I update towards the middle of the month TT If you’re a Patron, you also get early access to some additional content like occasional doodles of the characters or drabbles, or poems, etc. :D (sometimes it’s exclusive content because then I forget to post it on tumblr >_>”)

Why Patreon? For various reasons. First, because I still consider what I post there to be a “first draft” (no matter how much I work on and edit my chapters) so I feel more comfortable with a limited audience at first. Then, because I’m sure my Patrons see what I post, and get to read it. For example, on my tumblr blog I have nearly 4000 followers, but I generally feel like not even 5% of my followers see what I post. Also, being remunerated for my work pushes me to finish what I write. The insecure perfectionist I am could keep on editing her chapters forever, otherwise. Writing is a lot of work, it takes a lot of time and efforts, and it helps motivate me that I’m getting something from it. Admittedly, it also prevents the very dreaded “pls update” comments that all writers and fanfic writers have probably experienced at least once when posting something with several chapters.

I’ll also be posting some snippets of the novel from time to time on tumblr, little bits of chapters that I like, for my followers to see what’s going on!

Who are the main characters?

Lasair, the main character, that you follow from age 8 to 20, a free-spirited and impulsive, but kind and sensitive girl who loves the outside and dreams of traveling the world - a dream which is rather frowned upon, in her village. Master of threatening Áed with her sewing scissors. Lasair is a nickname she’ll get eventually: she is never named throughout the novel.

Áed, a Fæ of fire that watches over Lasair’s village and lives in the færie ring in the forest near the village. Terribly bored, his main distraction is using the villagers’ names to take them away. He’s a bit of an asshole, and doesn’t care about many things, but his malicious behavior hides a deep loneliness and despair from being trapped in the færie ring. 

The babes in modern clothings (except usually Áed doesn’t have glasses), drawn by @annoyedlord 

I’m going to start reblogging drabbles listed in the masterpost for the newcomers! Feel free to ask any question (but please read the FAQ before! :D), I love talking about my project and my babies!

When she was not Lasair yet, when her wish to leave Vail still belonged to a faraway, uncertain future, she had no way to answer whenever the world tugged at her heart, willed to lead her somewhere.

It would often begin with an old map in a book, and "I want to go there," she would think. "I want to see this." She would then imagine thousand beauties, paths stretching endlessly ahead, landscapes and cities beyond measure, the caress of the ocean on her skin, the fog of her breath up high in the mountains; but would be too soon reminded she could not go anywhere.

How hard, for a wild child, to remain sitting and only daydream, when her entire body was ready to walk over the world - feet and legs, swift and light, kicking the air in front of her chair to mimic the steps she would take if she were a traveler.

"You only need your home, child," Grandma would say, shaking her head in disapproval.

She wanted to believe Grandma; but her house and her village have turned into a cage when she has outgrown them.

Somehow, she has always known she would do so. They have never been enough for her.

Now, home is on the road, home is the world and Áed by her side - and yes, maybe, if it is so, she does not really need anything more.

Because when the world tugs at her heart and draws her somewhere, she answers. She goes. She sees thousand beauties, walks along the paths that stretch endlessly ahead, looks at landscapes and cities beyond measure, feels the caress of the ocean on her skin, breathes out fog when she is up high in the mountains.

She fits in. She belongs. She wanders.

And now, it is the world which needs to answer her when she asks: