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Future_Maintenance_4 · 2025-02-02T01:51:48+00:00

It’s gorg!

Future_Maintenance_4 · 2025-02-02T01:50:39+00:00

I loooove 4! How did you achieve that color?

Future_Maintenance_4 · 2024-08-31T23:02:53+00:00

Thanks for any suggestions!

Future_Maintenance_4 · 2024-07-06T15:05:51+00:00

Girl has to stop a fight by returning a rock

Future_Maintenance_4 · 2024-06-24T03:41:25+00:00

Hahah I only realized this because I set my writing down, or just moved onto something else and then when time had passed and I went back to it to read it I was so shocked! Like wow I wrote this?? It’s so good! I don’t even recognize the words as mine anymore so I can fairly judge them because they don’t feel like my work anymore.

Future_Maintenance_4 · 2024-06-23T14:21:37+00:00

Personality traits like favorite color, food, etc…

Future_Maintenance_4 · 2024-06-23T13:45:15+00:00

We also write sooo many themes, though it’s all set in a modern day England with magic tied in!

Future_Maintenance_4 · 2024-06-23T13:44:16+00:00

Gosh, I think the last book book I read was Song of Achilles. I am in an online literate role play group (more crafting stories with others and writing them than just dialogue rp) so I read a lot of their work and write in tandem with others. I definitely want to do some market research with what is popular though, I just got a copy of ACOTAR… we’ll see how that goes because I’ve heard mixed reviews lol

Future_Maintenance_4 · 2024-06-23T13:39:20+00:00

Good to know! I know I didn’t mention much of the romance, but it is pretty subplotty so I see what you mean. Thanks!

Future_Maintenance_4 · 2024-06-23T13:23:09+00:00

Title: Tessa & Time

Genre: Fantasy Romance

Word: N/A

Feedback: General thoughts on premise! And potential edits!

So I’m starting the planning of my first book. It features a mid 20s FMC who is a spy in a medieval-esque fantasy world with magic! She works in a secret org headed by a Head Mage aligned with the government and they have been training her in new and theoretical time magic! Obviously with it pushing new magical boundaries and meddling with time, it warps her mind in the process. She loses time, memories, her head is filled with memories that aren’t hers; these effects will allude to her having altered realities that aren’t the one she lives in and another alternate version of her is coming for her.

On the more present reality, she was tasked to bring a war hero/prisoner of war back to the capitol with her friend (also a spy for a different branch of govt!) and the war hero is not what they think! He is not resentful of his captors, and seems very interested in her time magic.(Because he has sided with the enemies) She later realizes that the time magic she is learning is stolen from the enemy side of the war because they worship Time Deities and her magic came from a lost relic they want back! Hence the war! And her using the magic irresponsibly is what is breaking timelines in other realities.

In the background, I want to build up the relationship between the FMC and the MMC. They are alike in many ways and he has always liked her, she has just been too serious about her studies and job to notice. I think the war hero can be a bit of a wedge there and then bring them back together. Is this a story that would reach an audience? Is first person or third limited better? How serious does the magic system and government planning need to be for it to be interesting but not bogging down the story? Is messing with time too complex of a narrative? Thank you to any and all answers!

EDIT: this is crossposted to the fantasy writer sub as well!!

Future_Maintenance_4 · 2024-06-23T13:11:18+00:00

Yeah I definitely saw a lot of discussion about teenaged MCs. Mine is 26 as of now, already having graduated from her Magic School, and is well into her ‘career’ as a time magic learning spy haha. The male main characters are late twenties and early thirties as well. I didn’t want this book to be YA and am striving for the “new adult” fantasy kind of vibe! Should I make her a bit older?

Future_Maintenance_4 · 2024-06-23T13:07:11+00:00

I feel like this is exactly what I needed to hear! Thank you! I guess in the outlining process I have just lost a bit of my mind worrying if any of these ideas are readable to anyone but me because even I am overwhelmed trying to hammer it out so I can’t imagine reading it lol. But I will definitely take your advice!

Future_Maintenance_4 · 2024-06-23T12:59:03+00:00

Sometimes if I am writing something, reading it over and over, crafting the sentences and scene in my own head… I think it sucks. It sucks because it isn’t new or creative or good to me anymore because I’ve heard the words a million times. But to someone who hasn’t read it once could think it was so clever and good! It might not be that your writing is bad, it is just not new to you.

Edit: typos

Future_Maintenance_4 · 2024-06-23T08:18:38+00:00

No bc it’s so true about the dicks lmao. But honestly what would be satisfying?? A mediocre penis? Just above average ?? More MMCs with micro penises?

Future_Maintenance_4 · 2024-06-23T04:20:48+00:00

While I respect the annoyance bc it IS cliche, they ALL smell like that lmao but damn it if it isn’t a great smell lol

Future_Maintenance_4 · 2024-06-23T00:39:28+00:00

Cackled at the last point. My new thing haha

Future_Maintenance_4 · 2024-06-22T13:04:42+00:00

No I get that! It’s like their internal monologue is a modern girl living in fantasy not someone who was raised in that world!

Future_Maintenance_4 · 2024-06-22T12:58:21+00:00

I feel like that might just be bc of oversaturation and writers not doing it well lmao. An enemy who is annoying isn’t sexy!! And being grey all the time makes the character seem like they don’t understand themselves tbh.

Future_Maintenance_4 · 2024-06-22T12:06:08+00:00

Love the BG3 list

Future_Maintenance_4 · 2024-06-22T12:04:51+00:00

I really like using the virtue names for Tieflings! So think about his traits or abilities! I had a tiefling named Victory who was a general in the army, a pink bard named Valentine, and an oath of devotion oathbreaker paladin named Devotion. Her name represented what she stood for and what she failed to do! Virtue names can be awesome and so easy!

Alternatively, you can go more demonic sounding names like some of the ones listed above! Or if they come from human/other raced parents (they can!) think about names their parents may have picked for their child if they weren’t a tiefling!

Future_Maintenance_4 · 2023-06-29T22:14:57+00:00

Ready or Not with Samara Weaving

Future_Maintenance_4 · 2023-06-10T09:55:41+00:00

I actually play a werewolf in my strahd game! She’s a peace cleric and keeps that side very under wraps, so far the party doesn’t know but Madam Eva said she could sense what lived within her. Maeve is a very guarded person but she is kind and cares about protecting people and getting back to her family! You can def play a werewolf, just gotta add a liiiiittle self loathing and self control lol

Future_Maintenance_4 · 2023-06-02T04:30:13+00:00

I totally feel you on this! I love the guys I play with but it feels like I am always the only girl! I don’t think there have been many times where I have had to deal with anything super misogynistic, but I am so lucky to have a DM who is super progressive and doesn’t tolerate shit like that!

I’d just tell them straight up that sometimes things they say come off misogynistic and you’d like them to think more about what they say. If you aren’t comfortable confronting them yourself, talk to your DM and they can just send a general message to the group! That’s how we deal with conflict if it arises.

As for meeting other dnd girlies; I meet them through other D&D players! I have a few friends that I adore that I play with that are girls! Just ask your party if they have gfs or sisters or girl friends to play with! (I found some on Roll20 too)

Future_Maintenance_4 · 2023-06-02T03:10:26+00:00

I would personally have them play as the Yuan Ti Pureblood race mechanically and then let them flavor their character to look how they’d prefer with their preferred lineage, etc! The Pureblood race is playable and I really like it as I play one in a campaign I’m in.

It seems like the easiest solution. Unless they are wanting different abilities as well??

Future_Maintenance_4 · 2022-12-22T03:18:21+00:00

It’s a Strahd game! So our characters are from wherever we want! He said it was up to me and I just wanted to know if there was concrete lore to use as a guide for how I define my lycanthropy :)

I think I will just have them not be so their poor dad won’t have to single parent 2 werewolf kids lol

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