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In Craven’s Home for Destitute and Forgotten Children, a missing child was nothing to get excited about. Or take notice of, really. For they would always return in the end and no questions were to be asked of where they had been or what they had seen. By anyone. Not even staff. It may seem strange to you, but it was something that we had all become quite accustomed to. Not asking questions wouldn’t save you from getting a lashing but you might get less of them as opposed to someone who asked what was deemed too many questions.⠀ Most of us knew no other way of life. Using myself as an example, I had been an unwanted and unloved child since the day I was born. At least that was what I was told almost daily. And in the fifteen years since my birth, I had never seen any evidence to contradict this. Why would I? After all, if my mother didn’t deem me worthy enough to keep why would anyone else feel differently. At least that was my thinking. ⠀ You can find the rest on my site. Link in bio!⠀ #amwriting #amediting #fantasy #darkfantasy #YA # #authorsofinstagram #authorsofig #writingcommunity #writersofinstagram #indieauthors #writerscommunity #writers #writing #authorslife #creative #bookish #bookstagram #darkfantasy #writerslife #reading #books #igauthor #booklove #bibliophile #booknerd #booklover #writersofinstagram #instabooks #bookishfeatures
Prologue⠀ ⠀ A Keeper⠀ ⠀ We are the Keepers of Knowledge and we are no more. Or few I should say. As I and I alone have returned to the Tower of Knowledge, I dare say I am the last. While I still hold out hope that some of my brothers have gotten away, realistically it is unlikely. Upon my return I wasn’t sure what I was expecting to find but it most certainly wasn’t this. With the multitude of horrors I have seen in the last few months I don’t know why I expected our island to be untouched. Maybe it was hope or wishful thinking but I’m afraid now I am all out of both. The tower I had called home since my infancy has been laid to ruins. The lifeless bodies of my brothers who had volunteered to stay behind and protect the archives, littered the hallways.⠀ .⠀ .⠀ For the rest link in bio..⠀ #amwriting #authorsofinstagram #fantasy #authorsofig #writingcommunity #writersofinstagram #indieauthors #writerscommunity #amediting #writers #writing #authorslife #creative #bookish #bookstagram #darkfantasy #writerslife #reading
I don’t know why but for some reason I find it hard to focus on one project at a time. I have to have a few projects in the air for me to be happy. So, here’s what I’m working on.⠀ ⠀ Kindling: The world outside of Crystal Lake is vast and complicated. Kindling is a book of short stories about the people who will play a big role in the upcoming series A Fiery Revolt. I was having a hard time with this one. Trying to figure out which stories to put in the book and which ones I could use for AFR. I think I figured it out.⠀ ⠀ *Illiria*(working title): Basically a dark fantasy YA novel about a strange girl in a magical school set in a dark whimsical world. This was supposed to be a middle-grade novel but I got in a few thousand words and decided it didn’t work. I wanted to make the world extremely dark and that just didn’t work. Mara Ludlow is a character I really identify with.⠀ ⠀ *Raven*(working title): it’s about pirates, at least it started out that way. I got 20,000 words in when I realized I wanted to take it in a different direction. I’m in the process now of reworking the outline. I’m thinking it’s more of a novel about how a pirate crew haplessly helped bring about the end of their world. It follows some of the members and a couple of people with ties to the crew. It is proving to be a bit more difficult than anything I’ve written. But it’s fun. I created a map, created some pirate folklore, some pirate songs, I created some words in a language and some interesting tribes. Isla, an orphan living on the island of Death and Dreamers with one red eye and one white, is one of my favorite characters.⠀ ⠀ These are my main projects. I have a few others but they are mostly in the brainstorming stage. I might post a sample chapter from Raven and Illiria later this week so you can tell me what you think. What are you working on?⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .#amwriting #authorsofinstagram #authorsofig #writingcommunity #writersofinstagram #indieauthors #writerscommunity #amediting #writers #writing #authorslife #creative #fantasy #bookish #bookstagram
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Feeling a little stuck today, so switching over to writing by hand. Hopefully it'll help get the juices flowing. #amwriting #bookstagram #authorsofinstagram #amediting #writersofinstagram #writingcommunity #igreads #indieauthor #books #creativity
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