HeliaXyana

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, 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

HeliaXyana, 3 months ago to random

#KnowYourAuthors 3 Who inspires you as a writer?

Honestly, as a writer, it’s likely all of you. #writingcommunity

Might sound a bit sappy, but it is true. You’ve all inspired me to embrace being a writer and shown me it’s not a world I am excluded from.

The stories come from empathy and pondering being alive and, would have been in my creative or visual work in some form regardless but this community has shown me that it’s not such a bat-shit crazy idea for it to emerge in a written form.

HeliaXyana, 1 month ago to writing

#PennedPossibilities 284 What are common traps for new authors?

Sucking the fun out of it. The most crucial thing is that it keeps being fun. Don't let ambition or self-discipline blind you to that, or it will murder your delight.

Preserve the enjoyment of writing. First and foremost.

This also means you should not fall for the romantic idea of being obsessive. Invest in healthy working habits for your creative endeavours.

#writing #writingcommunity

HeliaXyana, 1 month ago to writing

#writerscoffeeclub 3 Do you use semicolons?

I like using a semicolon to make the seemingly unrelated related; reading is a little more fun with unpredictable polka dots in the mix.

#writing #writingcommunity

HeliaXyana, 1 month ago to fantasy

#WordWeavers 374 Antagonist POV: How do you feel about animals?

Armand junior:

They lack the intellect to serve their betters unless forced. Showing them kindness is nothing but a weakness parading around as a virtue. Each of them screams out for subjugation. The genuine cruelty is leaving these wretched souls stumbling around in the dark with no light to follow. And yes, this includes humanity. Aimless beast with half a brain cell and the arrogance to think themselves equal to me.

#fantasy

HeliaXyana, 1 month ago to writing

#TimeTravelAuthors 5 Which of your characters could you be friends with?

Ethereal:

I’d connect most easily with Valentine. The world can be a bit overwhelming to him. Even if he’s a teenager, I imagine us finding a rapport while quietly observing the universe. No pressure, no strings, no obligation, just standing together and creating intricately complex, none-sense for the sake of aesthetics and entertainment.

#writing #writingcommunity

HeliaXyana, 2 months ago to writing

#PennedPossibilities 259 — Sum up your MC in three adjectives.

Let's do the whole family:

Freya: Melancholic, philosophic, primal.

Sabre: Stoic, vulnerable, fierce.

Cedric: Alluring, tumultuous, imaginative.

Dionysus: Strategic, extroverted, insecure.

Valentine: Phantasmal, contemplative, introverted.

Zonasius: Inventive, calculated, protective.

Pelliniana: mischievous, chaotic, spirited.

#writing #fantasy

HeliaXyana, 2 months ago to writing

#IrishCoffeeClub - How would your characters attempt to catch a leprechaun?

Pelliniana stands the best chance. She's the most mischievous. She would go undercover and spend weeks gaining the trust of forest animals to recruit them for this elaborate scheme. Only to end up honestly befriending the leprechaun and teaching him to bake pies.

Instead of capture, she would lead a rebellion, and the world would fear their leprechaun overlords.

#writing #writingcommunity #author #stpatricksday

HeliaXyana, 24 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

#TimeTravelAuthors #writing #writingcommunity #fantasy #strange #absurd

HeliaXyana, 1 month ago to writing

#writerscoffeeclub 27 How does it feel knowing that strangers will read your work?

My instinct is to horde my writing and guard it like Smaug protecting his gold, to hiss loudly when anyone tries to peek at any of it.

I’d love to find my niche audience, but having to go through a horde of potentially mean strangers in this world where spouting hate has been so normalized to reach them seems incredibly daunting. I may never be brave enough to face it.

#writing #writingcommunity #writers

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, 26 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.

#writing #fantasy

HeliaXyana, 26 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, 1 month ago to writing

#WritersCoffeeClub 2 Do you keep a journal?

Once upon a time, I did, but I learned how dangerous it can be to keep a record of private thoughts, and as a result, I now only journal in my mind.

Please be safe and secure your journals. Even the seemingly innocuous can be weaponized against you.

#writing #writingcommunity

HeliaXyana, 26 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 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

#TimeTravelAuthors 15 Time suddenly stops. What does your MC do?

Elli tries hard to imagine a song Eddy would devise to work the theremin. She gets distracted by the surreal problem as she tries a little too hard to imagine a song that never existed.

This triggers the theremin to hurl them all through time and space to find the closest thing to that song, which would likely fling her into Eddy's past.

And they lived paradoxically ever after. 💜

#MagicMageMadness @strangeseawolf

HeliaXyana, 1 month ago to random

#WritersCoffeeClub 10
Do you have favorite words you like to use? If so, what are they?

Herein lies the origin of the series title: "Ethereal."

I initially used it to describe the pagan deities. It became their species designation, and later, the kingdom's name as the world-building showed an entangled history between the kingdom and these gods.

Sadly, now I have incorporated it this way, I must break my heart and edit/replace my most beloved word when used in descriptions to avoid overuse.

It's a clip of a black-and-white movie scene where a fancy-dressed lady dramatically lets herself fall down the last steps of some stairs.

HeliaXyana, 1 month ago to random

#TimeTravelAuthors 17 Wednesday short Snippet:run

I loved this move from Elli.

#MagicMageMadness Snippet:

"Zarathustra came running. His frustrated and angry roar announced his arrival so clearly that it gave Elli time to ponder. She could imagine him being made of jelly or trapping him under a large glass like she would a pesky fly. Finally, she decided that he was not worth such intricate attention, and so she turned to meet him. He reached for her, and she kicked him in the groin."

HeliaXyana, 1 month ago to random

#PennedPossibilities 279 Favorite type of food?

Freya loves "Sweet Fish," a dish I invented for the series. It's neatly sliced, honey-roasted, pink, salty sea fish. She indulges in this delicacy once a month.

I am no chef, but I thought it would be neat to include the recipes for the dishes. So, I got a chef to create a detailed recipe for the dish, which included things I had not considered, such as how to clean and prepare the humongous fish using a couple of swords and some salty snow.

HeliaXyana, 1 month ago to writing

#TimeTravelAuthors 5 Which of your characters could you be friends with?

I forgot I was answering based on the #MagicMageMadness story.

Something Fishy in Tu-Na:

I suspect I'd befriend Elli in an obscure bookshop as we both try to make sense of the world while keeping our friends and loved ones from injuring themselves.

Somewhere down the line, it feels like Eddy has become @strangeseawolf 's MC, and Elli is mine. Turning into a bit of lovely but absurd D&D play. 💜

#writing #fantasy

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?

#writing #writingcommunity #amwriting #author #authors