HeliaXyana

HeliaXyana, 4 months ago to writing

#PennedPossibilities 201 pseudonym

This is my pseudonym.

My visual art I had always done under my own name but that has lead to some unpleasantness. This allows me to chose my battles and fight for the perceived controversies in my work instead of getting blind-sighted by them.
I am not hiding. It is me in the picture.

The name Is a homage to the beloved grandmother I have never met. I’ve only ever known her by the pain of her absence in my father’s heart.

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HeliaXyana, 4 months ago to writing

#TimeTravelAuthors 21 Time-travel story TBR

Too much TBR! I honestly don’t have a mental list, I have closets full of chaos. I would not know if these contain any time travel at all.

But today I am a bit charmed by this wish for happiness I discovered in a 1935 Agatha Christie bundle book I found at the thrift store the other day,

The book its self has time-traveled with demanding message for happiness to be here.

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HeliaXyana, 4 months ago to writing

#TimeTravelAuthors 19 Punctual

There are clocks in this world but often times people still estimate time by checking the sun’s rotation. Punctual is there for still more approximate. Freya tends to dive into things too deeply and forgets the time. Sabre, how ever is military trained and very punctual because of it. Cedric isn’t used to any schedule. He flies in and out of events and assumes “dinner time” means there will be a cauldron of hot soup available from dusk to midnight.

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HeliaXyana, 4 months ago to writing

#PennedPossibilities 198 spirit animal

This is Dawn. A albino raven. She frequently guides Freya back into the light. She does demand shiny things and peanuts as payment.

This is where she is watching Freya go down into some abandoned ruins. If you look closely, you can almost see her roll her eyes.

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HeliaXyana, 4 months ago to writing

#PennedPossibilities 197 Do any of your characters have their very own "kryptonite" of sorts?

There is a contraption nicknamed a “reality bomb”. It disrupts the balance of reality, forcing all the more cosmic beings to step back out of their corporal form and correct it.

Besides that each character has their own, more mundane vulnerabilities. Freya tends to drown in total darkness. It actually suffocates her.

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HeliaXyana, 4 months ago to writing

#writerscoffeeclub 18 BookTok?

Some one offered me a BookTok thing for a hundred euros. Which showed me that it’s not all as spontaneous and genuine as it seems. Besides that I have not published anything yet. So it all seemed a bit pointless.

While I don’t inherently dislike the method of interaction, the platform is more of a infection than a app. Always ask yourself where the money is coming from. If it’s unclear, it’s you, you’re the product.

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HeliaXyana, 4 months ago to writing

#WordWeavers 17 unsure about a story

I’m not sure I can write any of it. All of it seems absolutely impossible to me. Even now I’m on 150 000 words in book three, have outlines for all 20 books in the series, I’m not sure of any of it. While I know I can create stories and characters, I am very unsure I’ll manage to create any thing resembling a coherent book out of the chaos in my brain.

I can still hear my English teacher telling me to go find a rich husband.

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HeliaXyana, 4 months ago to writing

#WritersCoffeeClub 17 WIP obsession

No, the best insights come when I don’t force it. I suppose on some level it plays in the back of my mind constantly but I purposefully take breaks and clear my mind.

Don’t dive into obsessive behavior because it’s how the movies portray creativity. It’s a harmful stereotype. You need a healthy attitude towards creative endeavors. It’s always heavy on the mind. If you’re not careful, you and the work you love burns out.

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HeliaXyana, 4 months ago to writing

#writerscoffeeclub 16 ISBN

It’s ISO’s international book indexing database. It is important if you want your book to be found.

But be cautious when purchasing. Most third party resellers will offer some perks and extra options but you’re handing them a lot of control. They will be the publisher of record for your book. Enabling them to control in which country the book can be sold, determine new additions, set the retail price and restrict how the book is promoted.

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HeliaXyana, 4 months ago to writing

GuerillaPublishing list update.

Thanks to:
@strangeseawolf
@AirlockDoc
@T

More ideas welcome! #GuerillaPublishing

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HeliaXyana, 5 months ago to writing

• Sneaking into the library, adding books to the shelves.
• Leaving a books on a bus.
• Reading a chapter out loud in a train station.
• Sneaking books into the secondhand bookstore.
• Bring a bunch of books on vacation, leave them around the hotel.

Any one have any more fun ideas for #GuerrillaPublishing ?

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HeliaXyana, 5 months ago to writing

#WordWeavers 11 What writing was going to be like?

I am a writer in the sense that I press the buttons that make little black and white scribbles appear in a sequence that I enjoy.
Which is something I never imagined enjoying as much as I do.

As for all the professional aspects, I still don’t have a clue.

The one publisher that my friend pushed forward only urged me to make my characters younger and "not too woke".

As if my story needed a boob-job and a doze of 1980s misogyny.

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HeliaXyana, 5 months ago to writing

#WordWeavers 9 Jan
Is there a decision your MC has to make where all options are bad?

Infinitely and repeatedly.

When reality falters, at the brink of the void, that is where she stands. Drenched in all the pain life can throw at a person.

“You could be holding reality hostage. What if it will never be good enough to last?”

“It will still be beautiful.”

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HeliaXyana, 5 months ago to writing

#WritersCoffeeClub 9 Do you avoid or embrace adverbs?

It should not be one way or the other. It’s about balance. I tend not to avoid the usage but am mindful of overuse.

In my perception, choosing and forcing one way or the other does not benefit readability.

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HeliaXyana, 5 months ago to writing

#PennedPossibilities 185 Emotionally strongest

Castus, he remained imprisoned for fourteen years to ensure the safety of this daughters. He died but still could not abandon them. He killed the lord of nightmares so he could still rescue his girls. Possessed his twin brother in order to safe all of Solitra from a curse. Reluctantly returned to the living, he has dedicated him self to providing his children a home while having to build a life with no experience.

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HeliaXyana, 5 months ago to writing

#WordWeavers 6 Jan: MC POV: What would you ask a genie if you feared they might trick you?

As I do with all unknowns. I would first ask this person if they would like some tea.

I would aim to start a conversation and ask if they enjoy granting wishes. It’s a strange calling to say the least so I would ponder on what may have happened to this powerful being that lead him or her to dedicate their time and effort this but I would not risk all that is for a wish.

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HeliaXyana, 5 months ago to writing

#writerscoffeeclub 6 Writing competitions

No, but I have judged a few art and poetry competitions.

Trying to force creative endeavors into a hierarchy is, in my view, inherently flawed.

Granted you can spot things like minimal effort or incomplete works but with enough submissions you will always have a wide array of diverse works that qualify. From there it's totally subjective. Comparing such works is like pondering what is better, a shoe or a sandwich.

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HeliaXyana, 5 months ago to writing

#WritersCoffeeClub 5 preposition at the end of a sentence?

Unless you're writing in Latin, it's fine.

I honestly find it much more problematic if you adhere to outdated grammatical rules that counter the flow and readability of a text.

Literature already has a long history of adhering to such pointless rules just to exclude people. Lets not do that anymore.

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HeliaXyana, 5 months ago to writing

#pennedpossibilities 182 thesaurus

It is veritably pronounced that I exploit a lexicon of synonyms on a diurnal basis. I have unveiled an abundance of intriguing linguistic units in this endeavor, inducing a modicum sentiment of fond dependency.
Occasionally, it's challenging to effectuate cessation of this. Help! The thesaurus has infested my cerebrum! Moreover, the linguistic unit perpetually evokes imagery of a prehistoric beast composed of literary compilations.

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HeliaXyana, 5 months ago to writing

#PennedPossibilities 181 New Year's resolutions

One of the MCs will have to finally concede that he will have a future. He was always certain that he was about to be assassinated and so, vowed to go out fighting for the future of others. But now that the devotion and strength of people close to him have become blatantly obvious, even to his oblivious eyes, he will have to invest in his own future and well-being. With some subtle hints, that would be his resolution.

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anderlandbooks, 5 months ago to random German

#TimeTravelAuthors Dec 22 Whatever

Don't know what's wrong, but I suddenly feel so disconnected from my WIP. Like it is no fun anymore. I'm 25k in, and this is usually the place I start to feel truly connected to my MCs. But today? All seems bleak.