HeliaXyana

Crell, 3 months ago to random

Hey @nextcloud #Nextcloud folks. I'm stuck on v27, because the News app (I use extensively) still has no v28 version, despite being a recommended app. And v29 is coming soon. This is very unusual.

How do I resolve this? I don't want to drop News, but I also don't want to get left behind on versions again. (It's a pain to dig out of.)

HeliaXyana, 3 months ago to random

Gosh, there are so many stock photo model ladies being appreciated this #internationalwomensday

HeliaXyana, 3 months ago to fantasy

#TimeTravelAuthors 7 Disabilities in your story

• Misha is blind but can still see ghosts.

• Kritea is deaf but a pianist. She sees and feels the reverberation of sound from her piano.

• Xavier’s voice hurts him, so he only speaks sign language.

• Orin and his fellow elite fighters are all blind.

• Zonasius is missing his lower left leg but has invented an arsenal of prosthetics that inspired him to create a set of wings. Isn’t he glorious?

#fantasy #disability #writing #blind #deaf

HeliaXyana, 3 months ago to writing

#writerscoffeeclub 6 Five Things to become a writer.

• Room in your cognitive landscape for a theatre. Space in your mind to incorporate a universe.

• Control of your temporal existence. Time is not money. It is life.

• a language to record and grow your creations. It's not specific; just use the one that resonates with you.

• Empathy towards the fictional beings dancing on your stage.

• The courage and freedom to be unapologetically authentic and face your doubts and fears.

#writing

HeliaXyana, 3 months ago to random

#PennedPossibilities 243 karaoke

• Cedric would somehow sweep the karaoke bar into a full-blown musical frenzy.
• Pelly would make up different lyrics.
• Dio would rule at hair metal and air guitar.
• Zonas would manage to get the karaoke machine to also make toast.
• Sabre would fail to understand the phenomena.
• Freya would try to perform a karaoke version of Yoko Ono’s work.
• Val would be mesmerized by the disco lights.
• Titus would refuse every duet idea Pelly would come up with.

HeliaXyana, 3 months ago to random

Behold the first ever Audiobook? Podcast? Thing of sounds! of #MagicMAgeMadness !

The first chapter of "Something Fishy in Tu-NA"

A zero-editing fantasy story that sort of just happened.

Chapter One is The Quest for Krakens and Milkshakes.

Conjured up by yours truly and:
@strangeseawolf

HeliaXyana, 3 months ago to fantasy

#writerscoffeeclub 2 Have you ever based a character on a real person? Do they know?

A bunch, mostly on request.

My younger sister wanted to be the ultimate witch mother, with an army of rugrats at her disposal to cause elaborate mischief.

A friend of mine wanted to attack bureaucracy with a fantasy book tornado.

#fantasy #witch #writing #writingcommunity

HeliaXyana, 3 months ago to writing

#writerscoffeeclub 1 What inspired you to begin writing?

Keeping a dream journal and lucid dreaming. I started writing within my dreams so I figured I’d try to write the story I was dreaming I was writing.

Any one else keep a dream journal?

#writing #author #writingcommunity #dreaming

HeliaXyana, 3 months ago to fantasy

#PennedPossibilities 239 How does your MC feel about babies, children, and teenagers?

To Freya, they’re people. She takes a conversation with a four year old just as serious as she would, talking to a forty year old. In her mind you’re a person from birth. Even when you’re trying to see if you can eat soup without using your hands.

I never set out to make Freya a mother but the world being in the aftermath of a war had it littered with orphans. She met a few she could not let go.

#fantasy

HeliaXyana, 3 months ago to writing

#PennedPossibilities 236 allergies

• Pelly claims to be allergic to metal because she always wants to eat with her own wooden spoon she carved out of a smaller spoon.

• Zonas is slightly allergic to compound number 17 and a half. A glue he invented that makes him sneeze when he tries to work with it.

• Dio is actually allergic to boring conversations. It immediately gives him a itchy rash which makes it hard to hide when nice people are being boring.

#writing #writingcommunity

HeliaXyana, 3 months ago to writing

#pennedpossibilities 235 — MC childhood nicknames 2/2

What I like most about her name is that all in Ethereal who identify as female adhere to their mother’s first name as their last name. Officially her entire name is also every mother that came before her, finishing with her birth coven. So, she is “Freya Ophelia Esmee Pilna Actrea of the Seven Star Coven”

Any else put some unconventional naming conventions in their world building?

#writing #worldbuilding #writingcommunity #fantasy

HeliaXyana, 3 months ago to writing

#WritersCoffeeClub 24 Reader Feedback

Absolutely. Some readers offer insights I had been blind to while writing.
How ever, simple bitching does not equal feedback.

Worst “feedback” came from a man complaining that the MC wasn’t sexy enough in book one. Whole book is about her emerging from a mournful depression and adopting four orphans, with some ghosts and spirits helping out. Sexy was not relevant.

What’s the most nonsensical feedback you’ve ever received?

#writing #writingcommunity

HeliaXyana, 3 months ago to writing

#WordWeavers 23 First ever story

I did not always write but I told stories while pretending to read a book to my friends when I was little. Earliest one I can remember was about a witch that had lost her teeth and now tries every tiny white pebble she can find to see if it fits. I did not understand why it freaked my class mates out as much as it did. I never said she was mean. She just cast a spell a bit wrong and her teeth walked out of her mouth while she was sleeping.

#writing #witch

HeliaXyana, 3 months ago to writing

#writerscoffeeclub 22 What is a chapter?

I was told a chapter should not be more than 5000 words so I do some chopping. Yet, now that you mention it, I don’t think that’s how the story arcs in my novels work and perhaps I should not try to chop for the sake of it looking like normal chapters. My story arcs are usually chunks of 20.000 to 30.000 words. Perhaps I should work with parts instead of chapters? Any one use parts only?

#writing #writingcommunity #author #authors

anderlandbooks, 3 months ago to random German

#TimeTravelAuthors Feb 17 Saturaday excerpt (missed it yesterday). Optional word: dull

#JulesNVera

HeliaXyana, 3 months ago to fantasy

#pennedpossibilities 229 How comfortable is your MC in their body?

She assumes herself to be in control of it but it is brain transport for her until she meets Cedric and Sabre. Suddenly she experiences physical attraction for the first time and gets insecure. She’s taller and more muscular than the dainty women who are considered attractive by popular standards. But a few moments in which she had to rely on her own strength and speed rekindles a connection with her physical self.

#fantasy

HeliaXyana, 3 months ago to writing

#WritersCoffeeClub 18 Do you suffer for your art? 1/2

Physically it’s not much different from my day job or visual work but at times I wonder about my mental health. I’ve been a dreamer all my life and in the culture I grew up in, that was considered unhealthy. While I largely disagree with that notion, at times I do find my self wondering if embracing that side of my brain is indeed unhealthy. Perhaps it is keeping less compatible with the rest of the world.

#writing #writingcommunity

HeliaXyana, 3 months ago to writing

#wordweavers antagonist eat healthy?

Not really a antagonist but one cultural eccentricity comes to mind. Within high society it is considered very pure not to need food at all. There is a myth that the more divine you are, the more you can exist on air alone. This is why a lot of popular dishes are incredibly beautiful but have the nutritional value of a sneeze and, the bakery is open at two in the morning so the nobility can drop by in secret and gorge them selves on large pies.

#writing

HeliaXyana, 3 months ago to random

#randomfact All Dutch babies are born bringing little mice to snack on.

In the “beschuit met muisjes” tradition we celebrate a birth by handing out pieces of toast with butter and sugar glanced anise seeds. The tradition dates back to dangerous birthing times when the survival of mother and child was greatly celebrated. It's said that the newborn 'brought' the delicacy nicknamed "muisjes" (little mice) with them.

Perhaps it explains our fondness for cheese.

#dutch #nederland #nederlands

HeliaXyana, 3 months ago to writing

#WroughtWorlds 2024 02-16 : World Building : Cultures and People
How do you create/handle cultures & people?

I start with a general philosophy or motivation of a new character and build their world around them. Asking my self what sort of world would give a person a certain perspective. Once I’ve worked that out a fair bit, I scrap it, do something else entirely and work that out. It’s how I manage my own assumptions.

#writing #writingcommunity #fantasy

HeliaXyana, 3 months ago to random

In light of the delightful discussion:

"To bear or not to bear, that is the question. Shall a woman's worth be determined by the fruit of her womb, or the fruit of her intellect and labor? Insooth, a woman remains resplendent, her humanity untempered, whether she chooses motherhood or treads a solitary path, for her worth is in her being, not her begetting."

Wilhelmina Shakespeare

#writerscoffeeclub

HeliaXyana, 4 months ago to LGBTQ

To the wonderful diversity of love on this planet, happy Valentine’s Day

#lgbtq #valentinesday #lgbtqia #valentine #love

HeliaXyana, 4 months ago to writing

#pennedpossibilities 224: Do you have a specific playlist or mix for your current WIP?

I have a playlist to which I write, which is usually a bit of shoe-gazing madness and instrumental post-rock, and I have a playlist of how events in my WIP sound. Everything from soundscapes to ritual chants.

Today, I’m incredibly amused by this odd soundscape story of a universe needing fixing from a stern 1960s seamstress.

https://open.spotify.com/album/0ttLYWtlypzTBwyMUgmX4a?si=aUXsrCMtS9awZ8RvwHkH1w

#writing #writingcommunity #shoegazing #soundscapes

anderlandbooks, 4 months ago to random German

#TimeTravelAuthors

I just did a word count of my wip and came out at 84k,with the ending nowhere in sight.

Huh. I might have split this one up into two parts...

How high do you think I could go?

#JulesNVera