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HYSTERIA HEIGHTS/ RE-INTRODUCTION

status: it’s being planned, but like, i’m doing character development with drabbles and short excerpts genre: speculative fiction, sci-fi setting:  the town of hysteria heights. which, if you’re familiar with my palms universe, is a universe that takes place on a different planet where superpowers and doors to different universes exist. but, while the ‘bury me deep’ story takes place when claudia (the main lead of this and bury me deep) is in her mid-thirties, this takes place when she’s 20. the aesthetic is very 1960s and 1970s and while superpowers exist, they’re not a big issue unless they’re dangerous. pov: the story will be in 3rd person, but some drabbles might be in 2nd or 1st, since i’m just exploring. warnings: some horror elements / nightmares and unreality / death / people not coming back quite right / missing people / medical abuse

ABOUT:

Claudia Daviau prides herself on being observant, until it hits her that she’s been blind to her home environment her whole life. While she was able to leave town to attend college with her best friend Robin Kang, not many other people have even wanted to leave their small town. It’s almost like their in a trance.  Then, there are stories that, if they try, they come back different or wrong. She’s witnessed it firsthand with her cousin but it never became obvious until her friend Kit disappeared, came back, and wasn’t the conspiracy theorist she knew and loved. Not only that, but other people have been known to go missing and come back different as well.

Some blame it on the town’s luck, some blame the government, but Claudia’s curious about the fact that not everyone comes back different and some people come back the same. She also wants to know why the others come back wrong, and if it has anything to do with the doors and objects people whisper about that have the ability to take you another world. While Claudia’s not exactly sure she believes in doors to other universes, she does often dream of the missing and sees the dead while she’s awake. She even has slight echoes of thoughts thrown her way when she’s in the company of a grieving family member. It’s all too much, and very confusing, but she wants to learn more.

However, if she learns more, there may be a price to pay. And it’s not something small…

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PINTEREST:i’m still fixing it.

CHARACTERS: (WILL ADD LINKS EVENTUALLY)

tag list:@gothamrains / @bondgirl / @thelittlestspider / @elizabethtaylors / and react to this or dm if you wanna be added for updates.

*Watches scenes from my WIP like a tv show on repeat in my head instead of ever writing them down*

i love going back to the beginning of a piece of media with the full weight of knowing how it ends. you see characters get introduced and it’s literally like

[id: the ‘they don’t know’ meme edited to say ‘they don’t know the profound and life-changing effect they will have on each other’. it shows a simple drawing of a guy with a party hat standing in the corner of a room, looking at two couples who are happy and dancing. the guy is edited to have shiny, tearful eyes. end id.]

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you are all amazing and your WIPs are amazing and you should be proud and happy with them!!!! Talented is not enough of a word to describe you all!! this is the hill I will die on!!!!!!!!!!!!!

love & war characters: cora reeves aka aphrodite

taglist: @gothamrains @adelaide-kane @blackburnannie anyone who wants to be added to this stuff.

Full offense but your writing style is for you and nobody else. Use the words you want to use; play with language, experiment, use said, use adverbs, use “unrealistic” writing patterns, slap words you don’t even know are words on the page. Language is a sandbox and you, as the author, are at liberty to shape it however you wish. Build castles. Build a hovel. Build a mountain on a mountain or make a tiny cottage on a hill. Whatever it is you want to do. Write.

Gentle writing advice indeed.

Having placeholder names for things makes otherwise tense scenes unintentionally hilarious sometimes

[working on a new writing project] Definitely the hardest part of writing is getting started. [working on the middle of a project] Definitely the hardest part of writing is what happens between the beginning and the end. [finishing a writing project] Definitely the hardest part of writing is the end. [editing] Well well well, if it isn’t my old arch nemesis, editing… defiitely the hardest part of writing,

other writers: *well-crafted plot/structure/outlines*

me: hehe —DIALOGUE— and ViBeS go BRR BRR

me choosing what to write

the struggle of being in a one-person fandom for your wip is too real. i don't post about it enough for anyone to even know what the hell it's about but every once in a while my brain gets intensely consumed by the need to talk about every single aspect of it

“i can fix him” i’m writing him