HeliaXyana

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, 2 months ago to fantasy

#MagicMAgeMadness

The story so far: The first three chapters of our journey into the confusing world of Tu-Na.

A zero-editing story that just sort of happened.

Download or read here: https://cloud.cumulonimbus.space/s/3YqCnjX6xgJT86d

Audio version available here:

Chapter one: https://mastodon.nl/@HeliaXyana/112032875204588776

Chapter two: https://mastodon.nl/@HeliaXyana/112090264655181553

Chapter three:
https://mastodon.nl/@HeliaXyana/112090311395852223

Conjured up by yours truly and:
@strangeseawolf

#fantasy

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

#WritersCoffeeClub 11 Imagine scenes like TV show?

I have Hyperphantasia. I constantly see my imagination as vividly as I do, what is commonly accepted as ‘reality,’ but it’s not exactly like a TV show. It doesn’t have that visual storytelling structure.

It’s more like a VR fantasy game in which you’re not the hero. I’m in that world, but I must look around and follow the events and conversations myself.

#fantasy #writing #writingcommunity

HeliaXyana, 2 months ago to fantasy

#PennedPossibilities 249
MC POV: What is something you were insecure about when you were a child?

Freya:

Never truly being in the same world as everyone else seemed to be. That was the story of my teenage years. I went to the mages guild and studied, but for the life of me, I could not seem to hold a conversation with anyone. I would ramble on about some details of the world that had become my week's obsession, and my enthusiasm would turn people away.

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HeliaXyana, 2 months ago to writing

@ixtlidekami @ChrisWinters @Ink_Soul
@Klepsis @johnhowesauthor @strangeseawolf

Thank you all for stopping by the #IrishCoffeeClub last evening!

I explicitly tried to post a silly question to induce tipsy giggles, but all your answers are amazing!

You should all get tipsy more often. 😜

To that end, the #IrishCoffeeClub might randomly appear every few weeks from now on. 💜

Cheers! 🥂

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HeliaXyana, 2 months ago to writing

You are all invited to the grand opening of the #IrishCoffeeClub
this evening. It's like #WritersCoffeeClub but tipsy.

So, grab a 'whatever' consume until giggles ensue and answer the following:

What would it look and sound like if you could invent a new letter?

Cheers! 🥂

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Crell, 2 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, 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, 2 months ago to random

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

HeliaXyana, 2 months ago to writing

#PennedPossibilities 247 Who does your MC or SC share their deepest secrets with?

Pelliniana, her daughter. But very carefully since she’s still just a young teenager.

They care so much about their loved ones that they carry elaborate hypotheses, schemes, worries, and stress that they don’t show others. They don’t want to burden anyone else with it but will silently work on finding ways to make the world a better place for the people they love.

#writing #internationalwomensday #fantasy

With their daily commitment to restrain their magicka relinquished, they bellow into the fierce wind, a defiant display of their shared strength. Like a monumental applause, the surrounding wind and sand respond in an orchestrated frenzy, bolting away from their immediate vicinity, a palpable testament to the formidable force within them. And in that potent, cathartic release, they finally acknowledge an invigorating truth - they are no longer the solitary guardians, tirelessly spinning benevolent plots to safeguard their beloved family. They stand together, mother and daughter, ready to face what ever it may be that reality will throw on their path.

HeliaXyana, 2 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.

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HeliaXyana, 2 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, 2 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, 2 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, 2 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, 2 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.

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HeliaXyana, 2 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.

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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, 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.

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HeliaXyana, 2 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?

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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?

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