Silver in the Ashes (Argentum in Aqua 2): Chapter 37

In which several of our heroes, sick of being on the back foot, decide to take matters into their own hands

https://saranadosfiction.com/2023/09/10/silver-in-the-ashes-chapter-37-draft/

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#WordWeavers Sep 7: Why did your antagonist become an antagonist?

Because she believes entirely in her mission. She believes she's protecting the world from a violent threat, that that protection requires sacrifice and vigilance. It's not even a hard call, for her.

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7 September 2023

Why did the Mer-Princes become villains? Simple. They had ambitions that were somewhat problematic, and they wanted to rule the world, which got in the way of other people wanting to rule the world, and the happiness, peace and wellbeing of countless other people. Did they care? Nope. They wanted what they wanted, by any means necessary.

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6 September 2023

Things I consider when I want to add details:

1. Setting and Blocking: how much is needed to establish the sense/tone impression of the world of the story?
2. Pacing: How much is needed to establish pace, how much would detract from it?
3. Beats: (also related to pacing), how much description would contribute or detract from emotion or action beats?
4. Dialogue (related to blocking and emotion beats): how much description would augment a conversation and make it come to life? How much would detract from it?
5. Character: is it possible to have less detail to establish a character? If minimalism is possible/required, go for it.

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I haven't tried drawing the characters from my WIP in a while, so here is one of Antiiss!

She is one of those characters that start off weak, but gets stronger as time goes on.
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I really enjoyed this panel from last year's QuaranCon about neurodiversity in SFF
https://www.youtube.com/live/tXFCESKW_o4?si=S4_RBHkzS275wjyg

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What are the non-negotiables for you as a fantasy writer? We all include little details in our writing that we know our readers will eat up. Read about what fantasy readers love about your novel. https://www.ajeditorialservices.com/post/how-to-please-your-fantasy-readers

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I read that #Novel lengths in the industry are minimum 50K words, and the sweet spot is 70K to 100K.

I'm so relieved! I thought it was 120K! My book will probably arrive at 70K, maybe a little less. A short novel, not another unsellable novella.

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It was a short work week, since I went away for a long weekend - but I still got plenty done!

Weeknotes - https://alobear.co.uk/?p=1240

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I think I just wrote the ending to The Threads That Weave...I am both relieved and overwhelmed by the idea of editing it all to flow like a novel, but I'll just forget about it for the rest of the year.

Unless I get the random urge to tinker with it later...it's roughly 80k right now, but may be 100k after revisions.

It'll be a fun challenge, either way.

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A couple of Patreon posts, because I now have the brainspace free to actually put more time into that.

A Q&A answer about my current projects: https://www.patreon.com/posts/projects-88592491

And a teaser for the next chapter of Silver in the Ashes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/brief-teaser-for-88646602?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

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Last night, I remembered that I can have transparent windows in Linux. This is going to save my eyes.

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Inner Worlds submissions open for members of marginalised groups on 1st Oct, then for everyone on 15th Oct

✨ Scifi, fantasy, or horror
📝 500-2500 words
🥳 no sub fees
👍🏻 simsubs encouraged
💷 £0.01 per word

http://inner-worlds.org

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1 September 2023

A new hashtag for a new month, allons-y!

The twenty-five Mer-Princes are one of the major antagonists in the Cantata of the Fourfold Realms, and this happened because their blasphemous (and deeply problematic) scientific experiments caused them to be expelled and exiled from the Empress Rhavella's Mer-Kingdom on the realm of Gaeirn. I suppose it's a case of "What if Dr. Frankenstein became embodied in twenty-five Mer-Princes who wanted more power and dominion over more than one element?"

The main Mer-Prince in #Watermyth is Prince Rinaldi and I guess the positive things about him is that he actually does care for his daughter, is urbane, very cultured, has excellent tastes in food and in books. As a whole the Mer-Princes are also brilliant architects and scientists, are charismatic and good company, but their cruelty is subtle and unparalleled.

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August is over with a lot of disappointments and frustrations but at least I'm starting September strong. Work on both my novel and my academic writing. (as my supervisor when I was a PhD candidate, Professor Carole Ferrier, always used to write to me as an encouragement, "Onwards and upwards.")

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August writing blog post: I covered my whiteboard with colored post-it's today, re-outlining my first POV.

https://escapewindow.com/blog/2023-08-31-august-in-writing/

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My writing group is starting up again next week after taking August off. I send my first piece to everyone yesterday at 8pm and woke up to everyone's comments! I think we must be eager!

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31 August 2023

Has your MC or antagonist ever approved of something the other's done?

In a very bilateral conflicted "Daddy Issues" kind of way, yes.

Can't say more as it counts as a major spoiler but more than one important beat hinges on this dynamic.

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30 August 2023

Have you ever planned to kill a character and then not done it.

I very rarely kill characters so I very rarely change my mind about it. When I do, there's a really pivotal reason why that death was necessary. But I also really don't like death as a plot device so it happens only when the plot demands it, rather than having that death to be a catalyst for a causal chain.

Hope that makes sense, haha. It's super-late here!

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29 August 2023

Does you antagonist believe you MC has a chance of succeeding?

Within the context of Finora and the Mer-Princes: Of course, that's why they did what they did. (to say more would be to spoil)

Within the context of the Fjekres: that doesn't come into their line of reasoning at all.

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