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#PennedPossibilities 1106: SC POV: When was a time where you had to make an impossible choice?
I talked about Caden last night, so let’s do it again.
Caden: It was when I left the cult. I hated every second of it, but I had to leave a friend behind. He needed my help to escape as well, but I couldn’t do anything for him in the moment. I had to run. He told me to go. I thought I could come back for him one day, so I ran, and ran, and ran.
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Just had one hell of an idea for Book 2 of the Bloodbound Legacy Series. I knew it was going to be about Caden (who's a vampire), but I wasn't sure exactly what his story would be or where it would go. Imagine that he becomes enamored with a local Wraith, Phantom, or Spectre (I haven't decided yet on the lore or the creature's species name, but he'll be a more corporeal and tangible spirit). Since Caden was a character that was vaguely based on Crowley from Good Omens, just for a friend of mine, I could make said creature a good/light-hearted, fun, loving, caring one (a bit like Aziraphale). Maybe he even loves books and occupies a library in Moray, Scotland. Haunting a bit, making friends, etc. They could fall in love. Why not do a full dedication of sorts for a friend? We would be the only people who knew where the inspiration actually came from lol.
Let me know what you guys think... Yay? Nay? I really like it, to be honest. 🤔
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On this trip we explore the Hucknall Torkard church, wherein lie the remains of the poet #Byron.
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#PennedPossibilities 1105: What secret does one of your characters keep that is dangerous to them? Does anyone else know about it?
I’ll go with the safe option for this answer.
Caden is a Dreamcaster. Simply put, he can send individuals to sleep and induce a dreamstate. He’s even able to influence and affect the dream if he so chooses. This is precious information, of course, and it’s a skill that he doesn't dare tell others that he possesses. It’s highly sought after, and it’s too dangerous to risk. Years ago, he was in a vampire cult and managed to escape them. They would use him if they knew.
Towards the beginning of the novel, he chooses to tell Fenella and Alistair. Well, I say *tell,* but what I really mean to say is that he *shows* them — of course, by putting both of them to sleep and making them dream. He’s dramatic that way. Anyway, he trusts this secret with them. They’re all such close friends. But the fact that he hid this piece of himself for centuries is mind-boggling to Fen and Alistair…
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#WordWeavers 8/20: If your story had a tagline, what would it be?
Steadfast loyalty, compassion, and care are what make you family, not blood.
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#WordWeavers 8/19: Which character has changed the most since your first draft?
Hati has changed the most for me (and she's still changing). She has gone from what was supposed to be a friend to the MCs and merely a SC to almost a third MC at this point.
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#ScribesAndMakers 8/20: Create a poll describing two characters that feature in your stories and one who doesn't. Ask people to guess the one that isn't in your work.
We're strictly discussing Wings of Quiet Longing for this one, folks.
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Here's some lovely #Victorian #Ironwork outside the Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate, #York. It came from the Walker Iron Foundry in 1852, and still looks great today
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The September issue of History Today is on sale today
Featuring: #Mao’s #China, a #medieval forgery, #Victorian reading, the #BengalFamine, #CivilWar petitions, and more.
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#PennedPossibilities 1104: Where has your MC lived the longest? What kept them there for so long?
It’s Dorcha Castle in Moray, Scotland. In fact, he actually *still* resides there. Memories, loyalty, love, and friendship have all been the reasons why he stayed. It’s his home.
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64 Essex Road, Islington, London, 2025
Former Victorian warehouse with an attractive brick façade.
📸 View HD images at https://modernistdelights.com/64-essex-road-islington-london-2025/?utm_medium=organic_social&utm_source=mastodon
#iphonephotography #photography #islington #london #londonphotography #victorian
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Spent an afternoon at Highgate Cemetery when on vacation in the UK and this is one of my favorite photos from the trip. #photography #cemetery #victorian
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#WordWeavers 8/18: What's your favorite line you've written this year?
What a tough question. How about this one:
The pupils weren’t just black, they were midnight fields, starless and infinite that swallowed distance and sound, leaving a weighted, eternal silence.
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#WordWeavers 8/17: Which scene made you laugh while writing it?
I'll share it. It still makes me giggle.
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4 wks till The Crooked Medium's Guide to Terror. Buy/preorder link below (for this AND the first book!)
#Victorian #spooky
grumpy older #sapphics
brutal railway #murder.
rival medium
prophecy of vengeance.
disgraced nobles
Gilbert & Sullivan
snarky dock-lass
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“This is the biography of an extraordinary family, an impossible sea & an engineering miracle”
Bella Bathurst’s THE LIGHTHOUSE STEVENSONS tells the story of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ancestors – 4 generations who designed & built the great lights around Scotland
5/5
https://bellabathurst.com/books/the-lighthouse-stevensons/
#Scottish #literature #RobertLouisStevenson #19thcentury #Victorian #lighthouse #engineering
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Say not of me that weakly I declined
The labours of my sires, and fled the sea,
The towers we founded and the lamps we lit,
To play at home with paper like a child…—Robert Louis Stevenson’s apologia for deserting the family trade of lighthouse-building & taking up the pen, instead
4/5
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #RobertLouisStevenson #19thcentury #Victorian #lighthouse #engineering
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“I have often thought that to find a family to compare with ours in the promise of immortal memory, we must go back to the Egyptian Pharaohs…”
—From RLS’s MEMOIRS OF HIMSELF (privately published, Philadelphia 1912) – online via the Hathi Trust
3/5https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t7mp5z00p&view=1up&seq=9
#Scottish #literature #RobertLouisStevenson #19thcentury #Victorian #lighthouse #engineering
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“The necessity for marked characteristics in coast illumination increases with the number of lights…”
—One of Robert Louis Stevenson’s lesser-known works, read before the Royal Scottish Society of Arts on 27 March 1871, & awarded the Society’s Silver Medal
2/5
https://digital.nls.uk/rlstevenson/browse/archive/99383648
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I send to you, commissioners,
A paper that may please ye, sirs
(For troth they say it might be worse
An’ I believe’t)…—Robert Louis Stevenson, “To the Commissioners of Northern Lights”, which Stevenson sent to them along with his design for “a new form of intermittent light”
This weekend is International Lighthouse & Lightship Weekend
1/5
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #ScotsLanguage #RobertLouisStevenson #19thcentury #Victorian #lighthouse #engineering