《Meet the authors showcase edition volume #2 Est. 6/5/2020》A showcase with @Zoe_Blessing, author of Becoming Bionic
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My brain loves to wander in random directions. One time, after a tiring day of working on a computer, I rubbed my eyes and thought how cool it would be to have cybernetic eyes. Then they'd never get tired. More thoughts soon followed... "Ooh! What if I went in for one thing and woke up with a bunch of other parts replaced? How weird would that be?" I kind of latched onto the idea and came up with a story premise. The plot was cobbled together later over time. #pansterlife
Finishing! As happens to a lot of writers, I was super-excited for the first half, then stymied about what should happen in the second half. It sat in my folder for nearly a year, half-finished.
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I've always enjoyed the emotional aspects of character development. We all react to extraordinary circumstances in different ways. It's that internal struggle to Do The Right Thing that fascinates me. Because it's not always apparent what The Right Thing is.
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This one is a standalone. I suppose it could be made into a series later, but I've never had the attention span to write the same main character in more than one story. I like switching things up.
Above all: self-acceptance. It's natural to care what others think of you, but your own opinion of yourself is what matters most of all. Each of us have to accept our shortcomings as part of an entire package of a wonderful human being. Even if parts of that human being are missing
Finishing can be difficult, but doable! Sometimes taking a break is what you need, but if too much time goes by, you'll lose touch with your story. If you're still stuck after the break and you don't know what comes next, here's my favorite trick: Think about how the story ends. Just jump straight there in your mind. Don't worry about any of the subplots. Just imagine how the main plot is resolved in the end. Does the good guy vanquish the bad guy? Does the girl get the woman of her dreams? Has balance been restored to the solar system so Earth is no longer in danger of plummeting into the sun?
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Coming up with the story ending serves as a beacon for your foggy writing, and it's usually not that hard. It's connecting the dots that's hard.
Now that you have your ending in mind, ask yourself, "What needs to happen to get there?" Does the good guy need to find the bad guy's lair? Does the girl need to overcome her shyness? Do the scientists need to make the aliens leave the solar system alone? What is the thing that has to take place to get the ending you want?
Figured it out? Now what needs to happen for THAT to happen? Do you see what we're doing here? We are jumping to the end, and then going backwards one step at a time to figure out the requirements for the next thing to click into place. This is the technique I used to get myself out of my year-long slump for Becoming Bionic.
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I think all my main characters have pieces of me in them. I tap into my own personal experiences to bring them to life. Not that I've ever had parts of me replaced with cybernetics, but I can imagine the shock of finding out such a thing. It's fun to imagine how I might react
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I don't normally write science fiction, but this one focuses more on the emotional aspects of the story. This is material anyone can relate to, but in a setting that far different from everyday life. I think most readers will find something about it that entertains them.
My next endeavor is to finish Book 4 of my Forestfolk series. It's been sitting in my WIP folder for over a year now, half finished. I'm going to have to employ my aforementioned trick to get that story going again. But I will finish! Tessia deserves her own story, just like Siena, Sember, and Nirrin (the first three books in the series).
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Banned From Existence
You appear in an infinite white room with nothing but yourself and a piece of paper saying "You have been banned from existence"
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The Kingdom of One (Hiatus)
My name was ordinary. My face was ordinary. My body was ordinary. My live up till now was nothing but ordinary. My everyday routine was nothing but ordinary. I lived a truly ordinary life. My job was ordinary. My ambitions and goal for the future were also ordinary. My skills and knowledge were ordinary. I was nothing but ordinary. But one day I did something out of ordinary which changed my life. I died and was brought to another world. This world was nothing like the fantasy worlds I had always read about. It was truly a harsh world. And in this world I've promised myself to do everything but ordinary. I shall do the extraordinary, I shall resolve me heart and dare to do the impossible. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Author's note: Writing a story is like giving birth to a child. Even though it was your work that brought the child to this world but you will never know the end of that child. Even if you're the one who teaches him, molds him and make his personality but that child will still learn some things on his own. That child will still form his own personality and thoughts. Similarly, I might right this story but eventually the story will move on its own and I would merely write it down. The rules that would be created of this world I shall create will be of its own which myself as a write, I cannot change. I hope you stay with us till the end of this journey.
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What?! The world outside the village is full of villains.
Saulo Delanova is a young Amish. He doesn't use electricity, travels by horse and carriage, and eats what he sows in a community with a traditional lifestyle, rural and voluntarily separated from modern society. A community that for foreign eyes is frozen in time. When he decides to experience the modernity that he heard so much about the cities outside of his region, a theft forces him to stop on his way to the capital city. The situation would be manageable if it weren't for a detail. In his community they live under the principles of nonviolence! In a world where each being is born with an identifying color, can summon a weapon and fight with the power of the elements -or what is known as trinity or three characteristics of a user-, villains abound because of this power that each person can easily use. Ignorant of the life in the country's most important city, Saul will have to face culture shock to adapt to this outside world unknown to him, and to the people and events that will make him fall into the bowels of the world of temptations. Cover illustration by Demizu Posuka, illustrator of Yakusoku no Neverland (The Promised Neverland).
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Revenge of the Golemman
When the news arrived that a monster horde was on collison course with his home village preperations were made. People were hired to protect the villagers and supplies were bought to help the villagers fight. But not everyone deliverd. But not everyone who was paid helped. And the results of that was a disaster. The village was destroyed, almost everyone died and Balin made a deal with the devil, to make the ones who wronged them pay.
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Sanders Sides Stuff I Guess
Why not?.....I have a constant need for angst. That's basically what this is for. That is your warning.
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Dr Luthor - Supergirl AU
What if I told you that Clark Kent and Kara Danvers aren't aliens. They are doctors working at Danvers Hospital. They were fostered, Kara did go to the Danvers family and Clarke did go to the Kents. Clarke used to work at the hospital until he was called to an overseas job and never came home.Kara now works at the hospital where she made close friends with a certain someone, Dr Lena Luthor.I don't own the characters but I do own the plot and character development.
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