HeliaXyana

HeliaXyana, 4 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, 4 months ago to random

#wordweavers 9 What kind of touch does your MC hate?

The kind that lacks consent.

HeliaXyana, 4 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, 4 months ago to writing

#WordWeavers 6 SC smell memory

Cedric has no idea why but he loves the smell of vanilla. He keeps a piece of vanilla next to a shard of a mirror in his pocket at all times. Unknowingly he has a identical twin and with all identical twins born from witches, the mother cast a scent spell to tell them apart. He smells like cinnamon, his twin brother smells like vanilla. Separated at birth there is still a undefinable memory. He befriends his reflection and loves the scent of vanilla.

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HeliaXyana, 4 months ago to random

#WritersCoffeeClub 5. Can you feel the emotions of your characters as you write them?

Yes.

To stand here in reality, looking through multiple eyes and experiencing the weight of being a myriad of conscious entities in all its diversity. Don't let anyone tell you it is weakness, it takes incredible strength.

There is nothing as profoundly beautiful and powerful as empathy.

HeliaXyana, 4 months ago to random

#WordWeavers 3 antagonist wardrobe

There are groups of nasty mages trying to unbalance reality in order to utilize the result as a source of power. Perhaps they’d like my frozen star design. Since they’re trying to take control of both the frost realm and the starlight realm. Or the interstellar space potato. They'd assume it hides some secret to a power that could be obtained because they're not good at getting jokes.

Woman wearing frozen star design shirt

HeliaXyana, 4 months ago to writing

#PennedPossibilities 212 Prejudices

Freya initially assumes all men to be blundering idiots in danger of injuring them selves because that is how she perceived her older brothers. They weren’t, they just liked to worry their little sister.

While she is a bit of a witch she was taught at the mages guild. Like many mages she assumes that witches are just not academically inclined until she meets Mona. Mona’s super power is knowledge and she is very witch.

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HeliaXyana, 4 months ago to writing

#wordweavers 2 If your MC stayed in your place for a few weeks, what would their favorite room be and why?

That's fun! Never imagined my characters here before.

The kitchen. Not because she likes cooking but I can imagine a microwave being a endlessly fascinating object to play with when you’re a alchemist. Between that and the odd assortment of plants in my back garden, I suspect she’d quickly discover what a smoke alarm is.

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Firlefanz, 4 months ago to random

Today, I will finally upload "Sky Falls", Pillars of the Empire Book 2, which is #6 in the Winds and Pillars series.

I love the cover to bits, so I'll give you a little preview after playing in GIMP with it.

Thing is, I really adore these little pics with the arrows and tropes, so I made one for Sky. I doubt any of that will surprise you.

I'll let you know when it's up in the stores, as usual, this can take a while.

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PamPortlandWriter, 4 months ago to random

#TimeTravelAuthors #Day31
This chat continues to inspire me and keep me excited about what I hope will be the focus of my writing throughout 2024. Wish me luck!
Thanks to @juliebihn for her creativity and inspiration!

HeliaXyana, 4 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?

Mushroot, 4 months ago to random

"Facebook is a company that was founded to nonconsensually rate the fuckability of Harvard undergrads, and it only got worse after that."

—Cory Doctorow @pluralistic

HeliaXyana, 4 months ago to writing

#WordWeavers 30 Has your main genre changed with time?

Once upon a time, in a mind far, far, younger than my current, my creative world was nice, wonderful, filled with pure aesthetics and naive optimism.

With time, I’ve embraced the epic, the bizarre, the deviant, the disconcerting and downright dark as I’ve started to see that there are fights to be fought in this world.

Here is to the beauty in a fight worth fighting and a melancholy worth dwelling upon.

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HeliaXyana, 4 months ago to writing

#WritersCoffeeClub 29 Describe the saddest moment you’ve written. Excerpt

I’ve written a couple of painfully sad scenes but this one always gets to me. Zonas has been unconsciousness for days and the realization that they might now just be tethering his spirit and preventing him from moving on by keeping his body alive is hitting hard. His little, now teenage, sister crawls into bed with him and whispers the same words she whispered when she was six years old.

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HeliaXyana, 4 months ago to writing

#PennedPossibilities 206 — Does your MC often reflect on their own actions? Do they ever think about the past, and what they could have done differently?

Initially Freya dwells a lot but she discovers all she is failing to see and participate in so changes her perspective. She then focuses on the current and future despite her home being located right underneath a crack into the memory realm which causes her memories to perpetually play out in front of her eyes.

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HeliaXyana, 4 months ago to writing

#WritersCoffeeClub 27 Hollywood is filming one of your works. Which actors are playing the main roles?

There is only one that I’d really feel comfortable with. Eva Green as Freya. The main character. Eva has a excellent range in her expressions. I love the way she portrays anger while remaining feminine. Often when a woman is asked to portray strength, it is presented as a more of a male aggression which would not match Freya’s character.

Elegant but deadly.

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Book cover featuring the main character

HeliaXyana, 4 months ago to writing

#WordWeavers 24 hardest scene

The days after Lazarus died. To really empathize with that surreal sense when you suddenly lose some one incredibly close to you, I had to explore what I felt when it happened to me.

He had a identical twin and the description of his struggle to breathe without his counterpart was intense to imagine. Writing grief often hits a little too close to home for it to be easy to write.

Luckily, I named the character Lazarus for a reason.

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HeliaXyana, 4 months ago to writing

#WritersCoffeeClub 23 Publishing

Publishers seem conformist and restricting to me. I'd rather keep it experimental.

I am looking to self publishing but the marketing aspect is daunting.

Might create a “read along” type of podcast with music and sound effects. I’ve always liked soundscape art, it could match up really well with the more bizarre aspects of my stories. Carved out a bit of a budget for it, found artists willing to work on it, we’ll see what materializes. 🤞

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HeliaXyana, 4 months ago to writing

#WordWeavers 23 movie rating

Entire series: US NC-17/ EU 18

I embrace the dark side of fantasy and dislike the overly convenient twists in a narrative that offers a forced pleasant resolve to a conflict. It’s very Hollywood to sanitize a story like that.

Even in the relatively endearing narrative of book one the MC hunts down and suffocates people with plants, slowly kills using a rose bush and describes in detail how her own mother once disemboweled a man.

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HeliaXyana, 4 months ago to writing

#WritersCoffeeClub 22 storyboarding

A few times, just to visualize my writing. With more complex interactions I sometimes fail to point the mental camera to a character before the dialogue. This really helped me comprehend what I needed to write to make sure it is clear who is speaking.

It also helps with very dynamic action sequences. It visualizes what is seen and what is purely narrated.Trying to write everything as sees can be a mess in such cases.

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