Let's Try Something ?

After the last comment section I considered calling this Sentinel Lost to give it a cool anime-style title but that felt a little disingenuous and I had already made this.

Last year I made a lot of little cartoons to waste time while not writing and this is one of my favorite. I've shared it before and I still love it.

I really can't pinpoint how this idea came about exactly. I started writing it in late 2016 but this picture pretty much sealed Xael in my head.

I'm not going to share too many inspirations for TLS , but  my Mermaid board on Pinterest is now unlocked.

Serial Update

I feel like I need to apologize for my farewell  freak out after finishing  Sweet Prince. At the time I felt like I'd never come up with anything again but now it feels oddly...stupid. 

I've just been dipping my toe back into the Vice world and it's sucked me in. Lile said  she writes Lux Aeterna for herself and I feel that way about Vice. I have no idea why I'm drawn to writing these characters over and over again but I can't stop. I would never say they feel real or anything  but I like exploring them and when I do writing feels fun again. I guess ?

 

I say that to say that the Lucely serial is closing in at 14,000 words.....

Future!Vice
 ....and I also started writing another Future!Vice thing and got out 6,000 words  and I'm really into it. The playlist is giving me life. The only thing is that in order to really make Future!Vice  work I'm not sure it can be cannon. I really just want everyone to be in their HEAs/HFNs but in order to make a plot for Future!Vice bad things have to happen to the characters. I'm just not sure I know how to write sad anymore...not since I killed off Minnow in Veritas.

The Lost Sentinel

You: So, Shawna what do you think attracted you to the Human Weapon trope ?

Me:

I want to post a little more of TLS but I think I'll have to go on a brief hiatus soon to really work on getting back into this story. I've sort of reached a writer's block I need work through. I may post some Veritas TDOSHs. I started working on one and guys...re-reading it has been worse than Sundays.

Recap:

He's a human weapon created to fight alongside Princess Xael on the planet Caelus...

Chapter 1

Playlist

-1-  The Devil Is A Lie

-2- Invisible

-3- Hello

All The Serials : GIF Edition

Mermaid Wrap Up

So, that concludes my unplanned mermaid interlude. It all started because I had this recurring image in my head of two  reunited merman squeezed in a big Rubbermaid type container together and fleeing from something and the story kind of grew from there. I also think the phrase "punk ass bitch" is kind of funny and I wanted to open a serial with it....okay on to the GIF post !

Let's do some SHV writing updates and talk about all the serials (....I'm just  calling everything with more than one part to it a serial now)

Thinking about all my unfinished serials/flash fics

I have so many serial and flash fics...but they are mostly half done. It's fine.

My muse and I every time I have a new idea

My general thought process when I write a Vice novella

My Haley/Luce Vice Story is going to be a mystery and I'm pantsing it and I'm...not...sure..it's working.

Me, trying to figure out the Vice universe timeline and how old everyone would be / I want them to be

Literally how I stare at my 2 year old unfinished UL short story

I do have some of FZA finished

It has a title but I'm still chewing on it so here is an aesthetic to hold you over and lol, this aesthetic  features character inspys for characters I haven't even written or named.

Okay, back to the writing cave

Legacy

IDK where this flash fic came from, I just wanted to write a little something about Charlotte Dory.
Legacy
Playlist

-1- Saman
-2-  Let It Be
-3-  Doria
-4-  Fragment II
-5- Say My Name

In Which I Talk About The Thing

Me: Okay, no more Vice stories. I am going to concentrate on FZA and finishing this UL thing.

Internet:

Dude has a prosthetic tattoo gun, this is the most Cyberpunk thing I've ever seen. pic.twitter.com/z5Jev14OyN

— Klara Sjöberg (@klara_sjo) October 28, 2018

More Vice
As I inadvertently revealed in my last post, I just can't seem to quit the Vice world. I somehow managed to bang out a Vice flash fiction. Also I have outlined a novella that exists in the same timeline as Built For Sin about Luce and Haley. This Luce/Haley story was one of those rare occasion when scenes and characters would not leave me alone and I wrote it all out just to get it out of my head. It's going to be a feat for a few reasons that I'm not going to say much about it.

AquaWorld 3
Welp, it was bound to happen again...I had this section all nicely edited and arranged in the site...and I forgot to save it ):  Luckily I didn't have to start from scratch !

Recap: Jacob makes friends with Soren and together they are trying to locate Luka so they can get them out of the park.

-1- Don't Know Who I Am by Rebecca Roubin
-2- My Dear Anne
-3- River Flows in You by Yiruma
-4- Save You by Turin Brakes
-5- Free by Franchesca Blanchard
-6- Rise by Jonas blue

Aquaworld 3
Playlist

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