the wonders of inspiration
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marycatelliI ripped off an idea from another story.
I was just looking back at that story and realizing how little of it came away, in part because it grew into the rest of the story ideas. I look at it, and I know for a fact that the villains grew out the idea, but they were entirely different from the villains of the story he came from.
Inspiration is strange.
I was just looking back at that story and realizing how little of it came away, in part because it grew into the rest of the story ideas. I look at it, and I know for a fact that the villains grew out the idea, but they were entirely different from the villains of the story he came from.
Inspiration is strange.
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 4
13 July 2025 18:41marycatelliFrieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 4 by Kanehito Yamada
Spoilers for the earlier books.
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Spoilers for the earlier books.
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vignettes
13 July 2025 11:13marycatelliThis week's prompt is:
park 🏞️
Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term. Any (G or PG) definition of the word can be used.
park 🏞️
Anyone can join, with a 50-word creative fiction vignette in the comments. Your vignette does not have to include the prompt term. Any (G or PG) definition of the word can be used.
fun in the foundation
12 July 2025 22:45marycatelliWent back to rework the opening and make it a firmer foundation. Had to know how the heroine discovered her powers up front to work on her making more subtle discoveries.
Am discovering bits and pieces that do not add up.
The heroine chooses which way to go based on severely limited information. She is going to have to learn what was the other way at some point -- in particular, because she meets some people on the way, and they had to have a reason to be there.
sigh
Am discovering bits and pieces that do not add up.
The heroine chooses which way to go based on severely limited information. She is going to have to learn what was the other way at some point -- in particular, because she meets some people on the way, and they had to have a reason to be there.
sigh
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 3
12 July 2025 22:42marycatelliFrieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 3 by Kanehito Yamada
Spoilers for the earlier books ahead.
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Spoilers for the earlier books ahead.
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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 2
12 July 2025 11:04marycatelliFrieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 2 by Kanehito Yamada
Spoilers ahead for the first volume.
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Spoilers ahead for the first volume.
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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 1
12 July 2025 09:35marycatelliFrieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 1 by Kanehito Yamada
Prologue: the hero and his companions -- one the elf Frieren -- are honored for the defeat and death of the Demon King. They watch a meteor shower and Frieren speaks of seeing it in a better place to view, in 50 years.
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Prologue: the hero and his companions -- one the elf Frieren -- are honored for the defeat and death of the Demon King. They watch a meteor shower and Frieren speaks of seeing it in a better place to view, in 50 years.
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knowledge and power
9 July 2025 23:34marycatelliHow do the characters learn their new powers?
I scorn to use pop-ups. Besides, this isekai is not a RPGlit even if the heroine acquired a class, as many others do. So I say that the newcomers intuitively know what to do.
So now she has to learn subtle differences in what she had perceived as undifferentiated problems.
Intuitively.
sigh
I scorn to use pop-ups. Besides, this isekai is not a RPGlit even if the heroine acquired a class, as many others do. So I say that the newcomers intuitively know what to do.
So now she has to learn subtle differences in what she had perceived as undifferentiated problems.
Intuitively.
sigh
The New School Reader: Fourth Book
9 July 2025 22:50marycatelliThe New School Reader: Fourth Book by Charles Walton Sanders
A 1856 book on elocution. Opens with discussions of how to say things, and then offers many samples of eloquent prose and poetry to praise on -- and to have your character formed by, since, as he writes, they were chosen toward that important end.
A 1856 book on elocution. Opens with discussions of how to say things, and then offers many samples of eloquent prose and poetry to praise on -- and to have your character formed by, since, as he writes, they were chosen toward that important end.
gonna need some backfill
8 July 2025 23:42marycatelliThe heroine has been given the run-around.
She deduces it, but since "go heal those people' is something she should do, she tries to puzzle things out.
I am picking up the pace again, and thinking that section is really going to need some work. I'm sending her to Mass, but it will take more.
She deduces it, but since "go heal those people' is something she should do, she tries to puzzle things out.
I am picking up the pace again, and thinking that section is really going to need some work. I'm sending her to Mass, but it will take more.
The Words of the Night
8 July 2025 20:01marycatelliThe Words of the Night by C. Chancy
A historian is on a plane to Korea when it is attacked by a dragon.
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A historian is on a plane to Korea when it is attacked by a dragon.
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twisting the tale, part two
7 July 2025 23:52marycatelliHurrah. The stepmother and stepdaughter ran off together and found themselves in a hut in the forest, desperately needing two people to die.
Horrible people, to be sure, but they have no real way to kill the husband and father, and they don't even know who the other person is.
I think the mirror is going to be helpful. A bit.
Horrible people, to be sure, but they have no real way to kill the husband and father, and they don't even know who the other person is.
I think the mirror is going to be helpful. A bit.