#time undone

What genre(s) you write

It’s a bit complicated, but long story short, historical paranormal fantasy, I guess. By that, I could mean 80s time travel, Victorian crime, or early 2000s punk rock, all with a supernatural bent.

What’s on your reading wish list

Um... too many things? I’m waiting for Umbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion to drop in its entirety, and for the paperback edition of Strange Stars: David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded for the novel research. I’m also waiting (im)patiently for Gerard Way’s Doom Patrol: Nada to finally make its way to my local library.

Your favorite character from your current WIP

It’s still early days, but I’ve been getting horrifically swoony over Aster Maddox, though who can blame me, because he is a broody punk boy just out there being angry on stage, but taking care of everyone offstage. (Oh no... I have a type.)

Some writing tropes you like

ride or die siblings, dysfunctional families, strong female characters, vampires, time travel

The story behind your WIP’s name

I will never tire of answering this question!!!

Time, Regardless: I literally don’t remember how this came about, but I think I was just messing about with different words to pair with Time, because that’s the series name, and it’s about time travel. But I like to think the title means “time is gonna come back around and get ya no matter what you do to change it”, but also “Marnie’s gonna go back and try and change time regardless of what anyone tells her to do”.

Time, Undone: This is the sequel to Regardless, which tackles the repercussions of time travel, and what the world looks like when you undo a certain timeline and re-establish it as something else. But as I said before, time’s always going to correct itself, and undo what you’ve gone and changed. A certain unravelling, if you will...

Moonage Daydream: is a David Bowie song. I name all my fan fiction after songs, and I needed a good song title that fit with the space/celestial/moon theme. The fact that Sargent is my biggest David Bowie-ish character to date also helps.

Haunt Your Murderers: is a twist on my favourite quote from my favourite novel, Wuthering Heights: 

Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you - haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!

I mean, this one’s pretty obvious... This is a novel about criminals, most specifically, murderers, and how killing people may just come back and bite them later... 

Heaven’s Tiny Daggers: is a twist on one of my favourite My Chemical Romance lyrics, from “Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na)”:

And right here, right now All the way in Battery City The little children raise their open, filthy palms Like tiny daggers up to heaven

And all the juvie halls and the ritalin rats Ask angels made from neon And fucking garbage scream out, ‘what will save us?’ And the sky opened up

I'm quite proud of this one, because this is a novel about angels, and how their work to preserve status quo as fate intends doesn’t have people’s best interests at heart. There’s a bit of an uprising of angels questioning that. But also, there’s the demons, who were originally created by falling from heaven for their defiance, and also people like the literal band Heaven’s Tiny Daggers, who named themselves so because they’re small but mighty. So there’s all kinds of different beings in this novel weaponizing themselves against The Man, whether that’s the industry, or The Powers that Be. And there’s that nice little nod to MCR, whose work is very anti-establishment already, and “Na Na Na” is perfectly representative of that.

Are you a pantser or plotter?

Like, a very solid plantser, in that I will plot everything out, down to the very last word, and then when I actually  get to the writing part of it, my characters will veer so far off the original plans, I have no choice but to just roll with it...

Do you post your work somewhere?

I post little snippets I’m proud of during/after every writing session here on Tumblr, and Moonage is up in its entirety on AO3.

Do you also read/write fanfic? If yes, for the same genres as what you write?

I started out writing Harry Potter fan fiction when I was 9. And then my brother complained that I should be writing my own stuff, so I did. I’ve not written fan fiction since Moonage, just because that was almost my magnum opus in a way, and it’s hard to really top that after that... I do tend to write in the same genre as my original work though, and being able to carry Moonage’s TRC fantasy readership over to my own work has been the biggest boost to my writeblr.

Your favorite dessert. Because why not.

Pie! 

Tagging @msmeaghanrey @msautumnmagnolia @vargulllf @fallynephemeron

I mean... here I am trying my HARDEST not to mention Milo Marsette, but here I am, talking about Milo Marsette because he’s possibly the only one who knows how to flirt?

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Milo shamelessly flirted his way through an anesthesia-induced haze upon first meeting his husband, who was the nurse who helped stitch him back together after spontaneously combusting at a raucous 21st birthday party...

Yes, I wrote those words.

Tagged by @thejadewizard​!

Rules: Choose at least three songs for each of your current WIPs then tag someone for each WIP.

Time, Regardless

Look What You Made Me Do- Taylor Swift

Thunderstruck- AC/DC

Alive and Kicking- Simple Minds

Time, Undone

Fight Like a Girl- Emilie Autumn

Past Lives- BORNS

Back in Time- Keane

Moonage Daydream

Cosmic Love- Florence + the Machine

American Beauty, American Psycho- Fall Out Boy

Spellbound- Siouxsie and the Banshees

Haunt Your Murderers

Welcome to the Grand Guignol- Penny Dreadful soundtrack

Romani Holiday- Sherlock Holmes A Game of Shadows soundtrack

The Moors- Wuthering Heights 2009 soundtrack

3.) Will cut you if you hurt their loved ones

All of my ladies, but specifically, Lanie. (Marnie learned from the best, of course.)

16.) Is naïve

Eric Matthews, Milo Marsette’s boyfriend in Time, Undone.

18.) Has very exaggerated facial expressions

(...because woaaaah, do I have a lot of plot straightening out to do...)

Marnie Marsette remembers nothing of what she’s done to save her family from certain death at the hands of her mother. Yet an inkling deep down niggles at her, a dark anger that won’t let her live her life in peace. She begins tracking down criminals in the dead of night, in hopes it’ll appease the vengeful soul left within her.

Meanwhile, a mysterious stranger summons Thom back to Earth – a thing never allowed for any celestial guardian. He doesn’t know why he’s been brought back, just that he's been given a second chance with Marnie. He goes to find her, but is intercepted by her brother, Zach, who takes to him immediately. As he infiltrates the Marsette household, Marnie’s less than pleased with his presence, and continually balks his attempts to explain why she feels so divided between two lifelines. Although she knows developing feelings for him would be nonsensical, a part of her feels a stab of jealousy for Zach, who grows closer to Thom every day. 

The youngest Marsette sibling, Leo, is dissatisfied with his life. He escapes the monotony he finds among his family by spending his time in a field of abandoned circus tents, hidden away from society. There, he’s under the thumb of a mysterious woman in the hall of mirrors, who bids him to bring her wayward children. As children are reported missing around San Diego, they begin building a life as their new mother’s underlings, and may just grow up to become something sinister...

The Marsette parents, Max and Lanie harbour a secret they’ve been keeping from their children for the past ten years. One they hope will keep the family cohesively together. But when Marnie and Thom stumble across a locked box, those secrets begin to unravel. The revelations they uncover lead to a new mission back through time, an opportunity to reclaim what the family’s lost. On the other side, someone else has taken on the very same mission, and the two parties stand in one another’s way. Unable to reach a compromise with dire consequences, Marnie and Thom have no choice but to follow their target through a portal into another dimension.

Also Me: Omg but what if they're so over the top scary, they become camp???

Milo: I'M GAY!