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A post updated every other Sunday discussing my current writing projects and any completed the prior two weeks.
Finished Projects: 1
Project: Story
Working Title: The High Archon
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Type: Original
Length: Novel
Current Word Count: 770
Prior Word Count: 774
Word Difference: +4
Status: Drafting
Progress: Chapter 1
I honestly thought I didn’t have any extra words this week, but I wrote four? Holy shit!
Most of what I did the past two weeks was trying to figure out clothing materials so I could describe what a tie was made of. Am I babbling nonsense? More than likely. I’ll try to explain. So in my first novel The Serpent’s Tale I came up with this system of telling a man’s status by both the material and method of how he ties his ascot/tie. While I didn’t go into too much detail about the knot in TST, I did decide that the “highest” material was silk. Well in attempting to describe her BFF’s outfit, I had to stop and do some world-building on this whole system, which meant researchng fabrics and reaching out to my fabric/historian friends on FB lol. I’m still working on it, and because I am how I am, I can’t move on until I have the foundation laid. I have to know why I’m picking that particular material. It’s…weird. I think a lot of this comes from me needing to justify why I do/think things, and that’s carried over into my writing. Even if I don’t put all the details into the story itself, I always consider, “What if someone asks me why I did this?” so I always want to have an answer. World-buidling based on trauma responses, y’all!
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