HeliaXyana

HeliaXyana, 1 month ago to writing

I wonder what tense you've all chosen to write in and why.

I know past tense is likely the most common, but I have experimented with both and decided that present tense offers more direct immersion for my purposes.
This also ties into who the narrator is. In my WIP, it is a person in the room invisibly tagging along with the MC.

How did you decide, and is it reflected in the identity of the narrator?

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HeliaXyana, 3 months ago to books

#reading #author #writing #writingcommunity #ebooks #books #bookstodon #privacy

Please help.

I am looking for the most privacy friendly way to buy ebooks.

Every shop and platform I've looked at would index and sell my purchase and a lot of other information.

I can get my ebooks in different ways but I explicitly want to pay the author for their work without me and my behavior ending up a resell product for which ever platform I use to complete this purchase.

Any ideas?

HeliaXyana, 2 months ago to writing

#WritersCoffeeClub

Wondering if I'm alone on this:

When I casually read my work while, for example, being on holiday, I take notes on my e-reader, but I can sometimes find an error I can not tolerate and have to fix it as soon as possible.
I can't think of anything else until I do.

Now, is that just me, or have you ever had to drop everything to fix an error in your writing as soon as possible?

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HeliaXyana, 1 month ago to fantasy

#TimeTravelAuthors 30

Freya has no idea how many times she stepped into her two-year-old self to reset reality.

This made me wonder: Do your characters know and remember all their time travel adventures?

#fantasy #writing #writingcommunity

HeliaXyana, 3 months ago to writing

#WritersCoffeeClub 12 grammar/typography

I blend colloquialism in dialogues with a strict narrative style.

My long sentences includes detailed, immersive descriptions.

I prefer an archaic style but I'm unafraid of breaking grammar rules.

I use active voice for enhanced immersion and vary dialogue setup on context.

I don’t adhere to specific style guides but focus on readability.

I boldly split infinitives and usually write in OpenDyslexic, but export in Merriweather.

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HeliaXyana, 1 month ago to writing

Today's #WritersCoffeeClub question has made me curious:

What is your favourite chapter title?

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HeliaXyana, 1 month ago to random

#PennedPossibilities 292 MC POV: What is your biggest fear?

Being unable to avoid reality from falling apart and so losing everyone and everything I love to the unfeeling void of nothingness as my consciousness lingers on for eternity alone and shapeless until the memory of my loves and life is nothing but a distant faded echo in a language I no longer comprehend. Also evil sockpuppets.

HeliaXyana, 19 days ago to privacy

In light of World Press Freedom Day, here is a small list of free and open-source software I like that safeguards freedom:

https://www.unesco.org/en/days/press-freedom

• #nextcloud for data storage. Self-hosted or hosted and managed at #thegoodcloud

• #Collabora or #cryptpad for online writing and collaboration.

• #joplin for end-to-end encrypted notes on mobile.

• #protonmail or #tutanota for end2end encrypted mail.

Help expand the list!

#privacy #journalism #opensource #journalists #worldpressfreedomday

HeliaXyana, 2 months ago to random

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

HeliaXyana, 2 months ago to writing

#TimeTravelAuthors 22 Whatever

Could a character in your story kill their own grandparents?

In my story, the characters become detached from the time stream during such events, meaning they exist but have never been born.

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HeliaXyana, 1 month ago to random

#3GoodThings

• Wrote a nice chapter.
• Found a old ring I thought I lost.
• Doodled some flowers.

HeliaXyana, 4 months ago to writing

• Sneaking into the library, adding books to the shelves.
• Leaving a books on a bus.
• Reading a chapter out loud in a train station.
• Sneaking books into the secondhand bookstore.
• Bring a bunch of books on vacation, leave them around the hotel.

Any one have any more fun ideas for #GuerrillaPublishing ?

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HeliaXyana, 2 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, 2 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?

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HeliaXyana, 18 days ago to vegan

I'm making some #vegan #icecream today. I will never not refer to my ice cream maker as "The Mighty Cauldron of Cold".

Now what is the vegan equivalent of "Eye of Newt"?

#witch

Simpsons characters Patty and Selma dressed as witches stirring a large pot.

HeliaXyana, 2 months ago to fantasy

#PennedPossibilities 250 Does your SC have next-door neighbors?

One day, Castus comes to Freya to ask if he looks malnourished. He doesn’t, but he asks because all his neighbours keep bringing him food. He trains his combat and magic skills in the back garden every early morning and usually does so in just his underwear. He’s rather fit, and his lovely posh neighbour ladies very much enjoy the show. However, he is very gay and absolutely endearingly oblivious.

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HeliaXyana, 2 months ago to fantasy

#wordweavers 8 What food does your MC associate with home?

For Freya, it's pumpkin soup. Home is where a giant bubbling cauldron of soup is available throughout the day.

She loves the pumpkin soup because they grow all ingredients in the garden themselves. After a summer of tending the plants together, cooking them up feels meaningful and unifying. To Freya, a good soup feels akin to a warm embrace from the inside out.

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HeliaXyana, 2 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, 25 days ago to writing

#WordWeavers 27 Who's blaming who in your story?

The wealthy are blaming the re-emerging witch cultures for anything bad as they are a direct threat to societal hierarchy.

Most of the kingdom is getting pretty fed up with the blatant attempt at scapegoating, but there are still large groups who really want to believe it. They're tempted into such a belief by the wealth dangled in front of them like a carrot in front of a donkey.

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HeliaXyana, 25 days ago to paganism

#3GoodThings

• Got my copy of @ashtardeza 's ghost novel. Looking forward to a bit of neo-pagan spookiness!

• Expanded my seashell collection.

• Stirring up some absurd madness at #MagicMageMadness with the brilliantly strange @strangeseawolf 💜

It's a good day. 😀

#seashells #pagan #ghosts #books

Hand holding a paperback novel. Messy background with lots of trinkets and a guitar.

HeliaXyana, 25 days ago to feminism

There are billboards lining the city streets telling me that my smile looks good on me and every single time I pass one my brain goes:

#feminism #vampire #smile

HeliaXyana, 23 days ago to writing

The story so far.

Catch up on the adventure so far in "Something Fishy in Tu-na" a lovely but absurd Mastodon authors D&D style role-play fantasy... Hmm... Thing.. with zero editing Happening in #MagicMageMadness written by myself and the delightfully strange @strangeseawolf
Download or read the PDF here: https://cloud.cumulonimbus.space/s/fAff2gztLLHpySq

Or the e-book: https://cloud.cumulonimbus.space/s/PyDqC8bsRmWLQcF

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HeliaXyana, 22 days ago to random

#PennedPossibilities 300 — How does your MC or SC react to change? Do they struggle to adjust or go with the flow?

Dionysus reacts the most heavily to change, especially when he's younger. He never had much as a child and is aware that he needs the other Rascals to feel that he can take on whatever fates throw his way. If anything in the dynamic changes, he gets uneasy and scared to the point where he gets frustrated and angry until the others notice and find a way to reassure him.

HeliaXyana, 1 month ago to random

Healthy habit reminder: Please remember to drink lots of fresh water. Your insides are a swampy bog, and a water shortage would affect the local frog population. 🐸

#witch #witchcraft #frog #frogs #healthcare