Friends, my dad is dying. He has a cancer in his stomach. I am devastated. I belong to a country of four people and one is dying. The pain is immesurable.
Dominique (Philosophika)
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(She/Her)🇨🇴🇬🇧 Hi! I’m Dominique, a philosopher (MA) and EFA/CIEP-trained editor providing substantive editing services to novelists worldwide. When I'm not editing, I'm working on my gothic horror novel, Ingénue 🥀 🔗 www.instagram.com/noumenon.edits
Off to the emergency room with my dad. He's usually a long-walks-up-a-steep-mountain type of person, but he hasn't stepped a foot out of the house today and says he's feeling weirdly fatigued. Hopefully all is ok... The worst part about growing up is watching your parents grow old.
Honestly, if readers come away from my book as confused as I am, then I'll consider the whole experiment a success 😂 Other than that, I'm happy for them to interpret the story any which way they please (and I hope it's more of a debate than something overly obvious). #PretendPanel #WritingCommunity
Kara Moon 🏴☠️💜⚓️@karamoonauthor.com · 2d agoLet's be idealistic today #pretendpanel . I know that when the work hits the reader, it can hit wrong, but in an ideal world, how would it look... October 17th: What do you want readers to take from this work? #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
For no reason whatsoever, here's a little graphic I made of the main #characters of my WIP (*made with stock images from Unsplash). #Gothtober #GothicHorror #Horror #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #HorrorWriters
I'm writing Ingénue because I think it has the potential to become a really good story. There's also something about the main characters that I find... not fascinating per se... troubling in a good way? Disturbing? Incomprehensible? I should look away, I can't--don't want to look away. #Pretendpanel
Kara Moon 🏴☠️💜⚓️@karamoonauthor.com · 3d agoSometimes, #pretendpanel , it's good to remind ourselves why... October 16th: Why are you writing/did you write your current WIP/recent release? #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
I'd love to sit down and have a conversation with Sally Rooney! I admire her both as a writer (Normal People is one of my fav books) and as a person. I'd also very much enjoy sitting down with Toni Morrison. She's an extraordinary person and the author of a masterpiece, Beloved! #LitHodgepodge
Pamela Jeong 🎃@pamelajeong.bsky.social · 3d ago#LitHodgepodge 16 Pick a writer—one living, one dead—for a book tour event! Someone you admire, might vibe with, was a major influence...whatever tickles your fancy. (& we know you're not saying you're as good as them. Though you may well be closer than you think) #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
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FRIDAY FLIGHTS OF FANCY
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Prompt:
16 | You’re on the book tour of your dreams! You get to do an event with any living writer of your choice... AND any dead writer of your choice! Who are you sitting down with?
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Book tour events often involve other writers, either as moderators or conversation partners. I should very much like to speak with that Edgar Allan Poe... I’ve a question or two regarding certain choices he’s made.
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I'm not 100% sure about these, but here goes... The Antagonist: ENFP-T, The Campaigner? He's very similar to Lucifer from Milton's Paradise Lost. Ingénue (FMC): INFP-A, The Mediator? She mediates between past, present & future... Me: ENFP-A 😂 No wonder I like the antagonist. #Lithodgepodge
Pamela Jeong 🎃@pamelajeong.bsky.social · 4d ago#LitHodgepodge 15 Personality typing systems are by nature limited but can provide a framework for self-reflection and understanding what drives your character and how they interact with the world. What's your OC’s MBTI/Enneagram type? How does it come into play? #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
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THURSDAY THRIFTED THERAPY
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Prompt:
15 | Tell us your character’s Myers-Briggs or Enneagram type (yours too, if you want!). Which parts resonate most? Are there poignant ways in which we see those aspects of their personality affect the story?
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The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and Enneagram are two common personality typing systems in pop psychology. The MBTI uses 16 categories based on extraversion/introversion, sensing intuition, thinking/feeling, and judging/perceiving. The Enneagram uses 9 types based on core motivations and fears.
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A BEAUTIFUL VAMPIRE Lady Deverish drains the life force of her entire family, including her dog, to remain young and beautiful. Amazingly this little known #Vampire story was published as early as 1896 by Arabella Kenealy, it predates Dracula #31daysofHalloween #Gothtober
A psychotherapist friend of mine recently told me that people tend to narrate unresolved trauma in the present tense, even if the traumatic event occurred in the distant past, because an unresolved trauma is always fundamentally *present.* I find this very interesting... #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
Note to self: I would like not to have ADHD today, if possible. Thank you! 😊
My gothic horror WIP wouldn't be complete without the requisite isolated manor house. For a while, I thought about setting this house in Colombia and making my novel a tropical gothic, but I ultimately decided against it. That said, I've still included a big twist on the trope... 🤫 #Lithodgepodge
Pamela Jeong 🎃@pamelajeong.bsky.social · 6d ago#LitHodgepodge 13 Archetypal settings tap into the built-in symbolism of recognizable spaces. There’s a cave? We might uncover hidden truths. A 24/7 diner in a mystery? Prime setting for info exchange. What’s an archetypal setting in your WIP? How do you use it? #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
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TUESDAY TROPES
[Graphic of an old man wanderer, with a sack on his back and a long walking stick, and a black cat]
Prompt:
13 | Tell us about an archetypal setting in your WIP. What is it, and how does it function in the story? How do you utilize, and possibly subvert, expected patterns? Feel free to share a snip.
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Examples of archetypal settings range from the broadly symbolic, such as the maze, the garden, or the wasteland, to more genre-specific tropes, like the tavern in fantasy novels or the small town with a dark secret in thrillers.
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IRISH MYTH of FALLEN FAIRIES 'FAIRIES are the FALLEN angels who were cast down by the Lord God out of heaven for their sinful pride. Some fell into the sea & some on dry land & the devil gives these knowledge & power ' Lady Wilde, 187I #MythologyMonday #31daysofHalloween
As much as I despise Christopher Columbus, I love having the bank holiday weekend. 🤣
🥀 Ingénue, FMC: A fascination with the unknown--curiosity. 🥀 Bo, Antagonist: A disregard for the rules/authority--mischief. 🥀 Me: All of the above 😂 + Generosity of spirit. #LitHodgepodge #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompts
Pamela Jeong 🎃@pamelajeong.bsky.social · last wk.#LitHodgepodge 12 Qualities we appreciate in others are direct reflections of what we value, or feel we lack ourselves. What does your character look for in a companion? (Slight modification of Proust's version, which differentiates btwn men and women.) #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky
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An October Prompt Game of Miscellaneous Proportions
MONDAYS WITH MARCEL
[Black & white picture of Marcel Proust, a man of the fin de siècle who had dark hair, sleepy eyes, and a dark mustache, sitting with his elbow propped on the back of his chair and looking pensive]
Prompt:
12 | Answer as one or each of your characters (as well as yourself, if you wish!):
What is the quality you most like in another person?
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The Proust Questionnaire is a set of questions popularized by French writer Marcel Proust. Victorians answered these questions in parlor games, and modern interviewers now often use them. They can also be a great character development tool!
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Ah, this is an easy one. 😂 Honor is of absolutely no consequence to either the antagonist or protagonist of Ingénue. In fact, their mutual disregard for the rules endears them to each other. They'll happily lie, cheat, and steal to achieve their ends. #AwesomeCharacters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
💀 Count Charlie (Chelizabeth) Deltula 🦊🧛♂️@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · last wk.Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters Honor or results? If it came down to it would your character choose to maintain their honor, or would they break their oath/promise/the rules to accomplish their goal? How would they feel about it? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
🎉 Editing News: A book I line-edited and provided some targeted developmental feedback on has been picked up by Simon Maverick (an audio-first imprint by Simon & Schuster)! If you love literary body #horror, give 🪱 Indigent 🪱 by Briana N. Cox a listen! #BookSky #BodyHorror #Gothtober #AmEditing
Indigent
P. Djèlí Clark's Ring Shout meets Alyssa Cole's When No One Is Watching in this creeping body horror novel following the tenants of an apartment co...
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Like the FMC of Ingénue, I was summoned to a cruel elderly relative's mansion so that he could present me to "society." It was such a strange and unique experience, and it changed my outlook on the world so profoundly, that I've been writing this WIP ever since. #PretendPanel #WritingCommunity
Kara Moon 🏴☠️💜⚓️@karamoonauthor.com · last wk.#pretendpanel Loved everyone's answers last weekend! Tell me more about how you got to this point (though maybe just the elevator pitch so we're not here all day) 🤭 9th October: What was your origin story/the spark that ignited your writing? #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
I'll answer for my antagonist, our irascible old tyrant: 🪦 When ~ He wants to live forever. 🧠 Forget ~ Especially people. ⏳ Past ~ If he could rewind the clocks, he would. 💔 Never Show Emotions ~ He needs to be able to hide them from himself. #LitHodgepodge #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
Pamela Jeong 🎃@pamelajeong.bsky.social · 2w ago#LitHodgepodge 8 Thinking from the perspective of one (or more) of your characters, choose one (or more!) of these “would you rather” questions and provide an answer. Feel free to explain your character’s response. #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky
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THURSDAY THRIFTED THERAPY
[Graphic of an old-timey bearded man sitting and leaning his arm against a barrel with a tiny frog crawling up its side]
Prompt:
8 | Answer one (or more) of these “would you rather” questions as your character:
🪦 Would you rather know when or how you’re going to die?
🧠 Would you rather have a perfect memory or be able to forget anything you wanted at will?
⏳ Would you rather time travel to the past or future?
💔 Would you rather never be able to show emotions or never be able to hide them?
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“Would you rather” is a classic icebreaker which I doubt requires explanation. Surely you’ve been asked at some point whether you would rather fight 100 duck-sized elephants or one elephant-sized duck? If you chose the latter, you are clearly unacquainted with very many ducks.
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🎉 Editing News: A book I line-edited and provided some targeted developmental feedback on has been picked up by Simon Maverick (an audio-first imprint by Simon & Schuster)! If you love literary body #horror, give 🪱 Indigent 🪱 by Briana N. Cox a listen! #BookSky #BodyHorror #Gothtober #AmEditing
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Currently reading: 🍂 Centroeuropa by Vicente Luis Mora. ( #HistoricalFiction ) 🍂 Our Cut of Salt by Deena Helm. ( #Gothic #Horror) 🍂 How to Fall in Love with the Future: A Time Traveller's Guide to Changing the World by Rob Hopkins. ( #Nonfiction, #Solarpunk) #BookSky
#WritingQ: What's the first detail that comes to mind when you're developing a character? 🥀 Is it their name, their appearance, their backstory, or something else entirely? I want to know! #WritingCommunity #WritingQ #WriteSky #WritingPrompts
Well, he's a great person when he's not being perverse, so... That's a fundamental feature of his perversity: the goodness, the genuine empathy, kindness, and generosity he's capable of; the wicked pleasure he takes in knowing good and acting on its opposite. #WritingCommunity #AwesomeCharacters
💀 Count Charlie (Chelizabeth) Deltula 🦊🧛♂️@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 2w agoTell me about your #AwesomeCharacters Antagonist day! I think even the most evil villains have things people will connect to, either something big or small. What's something you think people will find relatable about your antagonist? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
I love what Netflix did with this line in EoE: "I believe there are monsters born in this world to human parents. A monster is a variation from the accepted normal to a greater or less degree. But evil is not always apparent at first glance. It can come cloaked in beauty or goodness or power."
I wrote IN SEARCH OF THE ENGLISH #VAMPIRE for the special Darkness Issue of #HELLEBORE in 2023. A bespoke small press publication devoted to British folk horror, founded in 2019 by Maria J. Pérez Cuervo. Link to this back issue below! #Gothtober #31daysofHalloween
The Damsel is a Trickster: My WIP's title and the FMC's nickname is "Ingénue," which is another way of saying "Damsel." She's gentle and unworldly, a true innocent. BUT she's also exceptionally cunning. She's a fox in sheep's clothing, she just doesn't know it yet! #LitHodgepodge #WritingCommunity
Pamela Jeong 🎃@pamelajeong.bsky.social · 2w ago#LitHodgepodge 6 Tropes and the archetypes they're built around help us understand reader expectations. If you know what’s expected, you can lean into that familiarity, or subvert it. Identify a character archetype in your WIP. Who are they? How do you use them? #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
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TUESDAY TROPES
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Prompt:
6 | Tell us about an archetypal character in your WIP. Who are they, and what is their role in the story? How do you utilize, and possibly subvert, expected patterns? Feel free to share a snip.
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Archetypes are like character blueprints that represent something universal about the human experience. Examples include the rebellious hero, the benevolent ruler, the mentor, the wanderer, the reluctant warrior, the trickster, and the reclusive genius.
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It hailed so much, Bogotá looks like it's covered in snow! ❄️ Fun Fact: Bogotá is located high up in the Andes (around 2,640 meters/8,660 feet) so it tends to be quite chilly/temperate, especially compared to the rest of Colombia. Today was actually a little hotter than usual: 24°C/75.2°F.
Videos e imágenes de las fuertes lluvias en el occidente de Bogotá: alertan por granizada este lunes 5 de octubre; vías se cubrieron de blanco
El Instituto Distrital de Gestión de Riesgos y Cambio Climático entregó un reporte de las lluvias en la ciudad.
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