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AUTHOR AVENGERS; July Round Up
This month marked the 12th month of the Author Avengers taking a single prompt and coming up with our own individual takes on it. Can you believe it? I sure can’t! To mark the occasion, Victoria Audley chose this July’s theme a little differently. And it was perfect – a single word, the first time we’ve taken a prompt like this. I had a lot of fun with this one, and already it seems the approaches are going to be vastly unique. I hope you enjoy! INDEX:Victoria Audley – Gentle AlchemyMorris Wayts – A Yearly DanceAradhna Kaur (me!) – Of Sacrifices And Monsters As per usual, any story going up after this post will…
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AUTHOR AVENGERS; Prompt-versary
Tomorrow will mark the 12th story I’ve written and posted for the Author Avengers prompts. It’s been an entire year of vastly different prompts that I then decided all took place in the same universe. albeit in various dimensions and times. Turning these unconnected (for the most part) stories into a large-interconnected web has been an interesting challenge for myself, and has encouraged me to also use World Anvil to further build the world I call Ajahta. Am I going to keep at doing every month’s prompt? I hope so, but I’m not going to be as stringent about it perhaps. Who knows what the future holds, after all? And…
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AUTHOR AVENGERS; June Round Up
It’s difficult to believe this is the eleventh month we have been doing this. Next month will mark an ENTIRE YEAR of prompts and the stories that have come from it. This month’s prompt was given by kabu, and it was a fun one! I wound up with something a little experimental that I connected to an older (non-prompt) story. (And then I started reading an old favourite with dragons earlier this week… Seems to be a dragonified month… LOL.) INDEX:Aradhna Kaur (me!) – The End – And Beginning – Of Eras As per usual, any story going up after this post will be linked in here! If you like…
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July Online Writing Events I’m Looking Forward To
A little bit early, but I’m hyping myself up for a few events that will be happening in the online space this July! These are writing events with an emphasis on community and encouragement, and I’ve had the privilege of taking part in them at least once each before. You can bet I’m taking these events as a way to hit targets I’m setting for myself, and find new writing friends! GWIC – or the Global Write In Crawl – will take place during the first weekend of July. Described as a “virtual event during which participants can visit the virtual writing spaces (Discord) of other regions, participate in writing…
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AUTHOR AVENGERS; May Round Up
After a couple of months of struggling with the prompts – though I am proud of the fact that I managed to write them anyway – May brought about a prompt I was not just excited by, but also inspired by. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that I really wanted to try and write something that fell at least a little bit under the MerMay theme. I like to think I succeeded, but you can tell me better if I did or didn’t. This month’s prompt was chosen by Morris Wayts (via a writing prompt generator), and as this is going up on the blog early,…
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The Importance Of Building A Habit
It’s been a little bit since I’ve had the chance – and inspiration – to write a blog post outside a review or prompt round up, so please bear with me. This is a little bit of a ramble, but I swear I have a point! I’ve written a number of blog posts – tips, tricks, things that work for me – on content creation. I wrote an entire series on it, in fact, and one thing that I keep coming back to is that what works for one person may not necessarily work for someone else. Take each piece of advice with a grain of salt – keep what…
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AUTHOR AVENGERS; April Round Up
Another month, another prompt fill. The last few months have seen me struggling with the prompts – not because I don’t like them, because they have been so interesting! – but because the character voices have been eluding me. The first draft of this one, for example, was very much something I would never want to share. But edits turned it into something I’m okay with sharing, even if it’s not one of my favourite stories. It has, however, given me many world building ideas for Ajahta, and I look forward to expanding on that. This month’s prompt was ironically chosen by me! Be sure to check out the fills…
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AUTHOR AVENGERS; March Round Up
The prompt for this month was chosen by Josh Edmunds – it was his birthday month this time around! – and it was admittedly another one I struggled with. I had some immediate thoughts when I saw it, but none that really clicked with me. Until I actually started writing, that is. The first draft and I were at odds, but draft two? That one clicked, and I found myself having fun with it. (And had some friends read it over which was really encouraging!) Everyone’s got such different approaches to the prompts, but we all adore sharing our work, so do check out all the prompts and leave some…
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AUTHOR AVENGERS; February Round Up
This month’s prompt was chosen by the ever so encouraging and wonderful Morris Wayts – it’s his birthday month! – and my first thought when I saw it was oh no. It seemed very out of my comfort zone, and I struggled with coming up with an idea for it. I was almost ready to throw in the towel before I had an idea that I wound up writing. So far, everybody has approached this in a different way, which I think is the fun of this exercise. Be sure to check out everybody’s pages and leave them a comment and some love! INDEX:Lou Yardley – Mortvell’s NeedleMorris Wayts – Pillar of…
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AUTHOR AVENGERS; January Round Up
It seems apt that the first prompt of 2024 is one with such positive and hopeful undertones. Of course it doesn’t necessarily mean that every story to come out from it will have those same shades, but as a prompt, as a beginning, it has been very promising. I personally wound up enjoying this prompt – though it took me until the week leading up to my upload to write it. I revisited an earlier location, and I think it is safe to say now that I can confirm all these prompt fills of mine are from the same universe. So if and when I ever compile them into an…