Let's Hear It For The Boys

Me: Ugh, I hate all these writer memes about how writers procrastinate by doing anything but writing.

Also me: Don't mind the construction I'm just re-working my website. I couldn't find a serial for reference for a thing I'm doing and I realized the mess my site was.

Character Inspiration

 I've discovered character inspo Pinterest and these models are pretty close to Jayden, Jacob and Soren.

This little story went through quite a few character edits. In the outline Jayden was just his roommate and not his stepbrother and didn't have any lines. Jacob's name was Landon for a while but I changed it because it looked similar to Luka. Also Soren's name was Mathias for a while but it just didn't fit.

AquaWorld II 
Recap
After an investigative documentary costs animal trainer Jacob King his job at the sea themed park AquaWorld he and his co-workers have a trespassing party where Jacob discovers AquaWorld has been hiding a merman named Soren .  After deciding Jacob isn't a threat Soren asks Jacob to help him find Luka, a mermaid that was taken with him and no longer at the park.

Get ready for a brief Cobalt reference...

AquaWorld II
Playlist
-1- Here Comes The Sun by The Beatles
-2- We Lost Another Sun by Pavlov
-3- Free by Franchesca Blanchard

Script Format !

I don't like too put much thought in mermaid reproduction but this image is cute to me !


 
You: So, how do your mermaids move on land ?

My brain:



You: How is the writing schedule coming ?

Me:

I actually do have most of AquaWorld done but it's just finishing everything else.

Also...I have two more Vice shorties (like less than 5,00 words) . One if from Charlotte's perspective and the other is crack-y Minnow story that is a little more angsty and a little...hotter. I haven't written it but I have the whole thing drafted in my head.


AquaWorld
This story came to me as the first line and then went from there. It has more than one section and it has a similar plot of FTUF but with different stakes.
AquaWorld Part I
Playlist
-1- Untouchable by Tritonal
-2- Way Back Home by SHAUN
- 3 - River Flows by Yiruma

Let's Talk About Mermaids !

This is an alternate cover. You all know how bad I am at titles and names (the other mermaid story still has some placeholder names) so don't think too much about the title. This short story is really more of an experimentation and plays on some similar themes of other things I've done.

Yes. Yes, I"m going to be sprinkling in some of my favorite mermaid pins along the way.

It's interesting, I've been extremely haphazard lately. I will go from kicking around and messing with an idea for months, slowly writing and deleting. The one day, in the span of three hours I'll edit it up, make a cover and post it. I say that to say what I'll post and when has gotten really unpredictable.

FZA
I am actually in a good place with FZA. I've got 8,000 words down and that doesn't include the NaNoWriMo stuff I did last year (!) that I need to edit up. I'm afraid my UL short story might end up DOA, I'm not sure quite how to finish it. But, let's save those for another day....

Follow The Unicorn Fish

Let's try this thing...

Playlist
-1- Silent Whispers by Carter Burwell
-2- Anyone Who Knows What Love is by Irma Thomas
-3- idk by lan.skey
-4- Afterthought by Dane Hyde
-5- In The Sun by Aron Wright
-6- Jurrasic World II: Anyone Who Knows What Love is by Norman Duck

Built for Sin II

CPShawna: Okay, girl time to write something !
Me: Okay ! Let me just do a quick Pinterest scroll

2 hours later on Pinterest:

 

I don't know what it is that makes me late to the game on everything but Pinterest has been giving me so much inspo  lately, particularly for FZA and Fishtales, and it has been a big time suck

I have also oddly found that a lot of fanart is relevant to my interests, particularly when thinking about the physicality of Haley and Luce's height difference. There is so few romantic themed photography with two men. There two are particularly relevant , captions aside.

I've also found a lot of Attack on Titan fanart gives me some serious Bright Lines vibes. I think a lot of this is art commissions of Wattpad fanfiction and have nothing to do with the actual show plot.

Built For Sin 

Recap: Haley and Luce have spent a little over a year experimenting in a D/s relationship. They're fooling around in Luce's car and Luce gets angry when he sees Haley's back has been bruised by a drunk client. But before anything can happen they are attacked by Covalcotti riders on motorcycles with machine guns. After leading the riders into the Sprawl, Luce blows up his car and they run away on foot... 

Built for Sin 2

Playlist

- 1 - Waves Crashing on a Distant Shores of Time by Clint Mansell

- 2- All I Want by Daniella Mason

- 3- Make Me Feel by Janelle Monae

- 4- Go Outside by Cults

Meme me up, Scotty !

2009 Shawna: I know, I know selling meth is obviously a bad thing for our protagonist to do, but Sawyer is only doing it because he is desperate and he is going to be punished and held accountable for breaking the law. .

2009Shawna: Yes, Juliana works in a strip club but she's only a waitress and she's doing it for the money. She'll come out the other side and turn her life around.

2018SHV: Here's that BDSM short story about a cartel hitman and a prostitute I was telling you about.

BFS
It is so weird to have spent months working on all these different novellas and then to just pop this story out in a few weeks and throw it out into the world. But it's the most finished of everything I'm working on and I can't look at it anymore.

This short story takes place after Sweet Prince and I tried to keep it compact but here are some fact to remember:

* After being released from Ft. Pride and spending time in rehab Haley goes to the cartel to take a hit out on Maxwell. Luce wants to take the hit once Haley has saved up the money and they form a friendship

* Haley works first at a factory then at Control, Jean Dory's secret brothel within the brothel , to earn the money

* One Federation Day he gets tired of waiting, goes rouge and decides to kill Maxwell himself. It fails. Twyla Banner, Luce's sister, gets involved but they manage to escape to a safehouse. 

* The cartel gives Maxwell a donation to look the other way on the assassination. Now Haley works at Control to pay for his hit and the money the cartel had to give Maxwell.

This story is like 10,000 words but I'm going to make it a two-parter

Part 1

Playlist

-1- Delicate by Taylor Swift

-2- Choose Me by James Blake

-3- Satisfaction by Benny Bennasi

Fishtales, woohoo ! (Burn 7)

#MermaidAesthetic

I know this is such a tease for what is to come since I don't super have a timeline for finishing anything. I'm really not sure in what order I'll share any of the stuff I'm currently working on (...can I call them WIPs ?) but I wanted to share a little something. These images aren't literal to the story  but more inspiration for the series.

Also...if you have any recs for places I can get names for a male merman let me know...I literally have a character with the placeholder name Mermie.

Speaking of mermaids....Lile, did we ever figure out what your code name Blue Water project was ? 

R&J Fluff ?
So, like I said I have been working on my UL short story but...I may find some room to write short R&J PWP fluff...

Burn 7
Phoenix/Sky is finding life with his parents not what he expected. Maxwell has decided to run for president (since it got taken away from him when Sky/Phoenix was taken) and is dragging his family reluctantly with him. Sky starts school at a UAF Boys Academy and during their public service event in the Sprawl he sees Honeysuckle Street (did you guys get this was a LL ref ?) and remembers his guardian told him to go there if anything went wrong when he first came. In the middle of a school field trip he  decides to take off his syndicate and walk away....

Playlist
Burn 7
-1- Youth by Daughter
- 2 - Rhapsody by Black Violin
- 3 - The War by SYML
- 4 - The Light by Album Leaf

Six Burn !

I've been working on this Haley/ Luce short story and this is me every time I have to type 'Types of Guns' into Google. 

Like any good writer I've been spending 80% of my writing time creating serial aesthetics. Here is one I did for Haley.

 

Burn 6  

Sky/Phoenix  has been back home in Fort Perch for a few weeks. Now that his family is back together and the press is good Kenneth Maxwell has decided he is going to run for president again, much to the surprise of his family.

Also, keep in mind that in the first chapter Sky gets the help of the Atlas captain's daughter Zarina Jeffries and her best friend Faith Morgan, a foster child who had to work to earn her stay on the satellite. Their names come up, that is why I'm mentioning them.

Burn 6

Playlist

- 1 - Tracking Aeroplanes by The Echoelon Effect

- 2 - Pumped Up Kicks by Foster The People