Abby Sundeen ✍️📚🔮🐉

I’ve been following my motivation recently due to an INSANE and EXHAUSTING summer, and really only writing when I feel like. A break for one’s brain is super important!

I don’t feel back quite yet, but I know I’m on the way. Here’s to a relaxing and healing autumn 🍂🧡

#WritingCommunity #writesky

Nothing beats having an overwhelming hyper-fixated creative vibe suddenly possessing your entire being, and knowing the next month or two of creativity is about to go absolutely wild

Please keep talking passionately about all the things you really love

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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1777:
Everything you experience informs your work. In summer, write about the heat; the vegetation; the scent of the sea. In winter, write about the cold; the darkening sky; the onset of snow. Use everything you feel: grief, anxiety, joy, love, pain. It's all good.

It’s ok to put the phone down.

Woah! Can you describe what your beat sheet process looks like?

Ooo I like this!

Rhea, a major foodie, is there for the snacks.
Cali (Rhea's older sister) is here for the rides.
Nell (Rhea's closest friend) is shopping for trinkets.
Sable (Rhea's mentor) is just trying to survive the heat!

Writing an in-depth outline sure is fun - I'm having an awesome time with this one! Just finished up to Chapter 10, and mine is already 2.5k words... definitely be a record for me!

Are you a plotter or a pantser? What's your outlining process like?

#WritingCommunity #writesky #writing #author

This just in - on top of all the other things you can do in #Canva, it's great for creating blueprints!

I'm creating my world's capital building right now, a place called the Oxborough Embassy. I'll definitely need to know how it's laid out, since my cast will be there OFTEN!

#writesky

Doing some #character work today and created a moodboard for the MC of my book, UNDER SHATTERED SKIES.

This is Rhea! Spending some time with her character development and arcs today and already having a blast!

#WritingCommunity #moodboard #writesky #writing #author

Sounds like you have a really neat balance going on!

Spending some time writing before I hop back into my beloved Minecraft world ✍️🤍⛏️

#WritingCommunity, what's your favorite part of the world you've created? It can be history, a physical space, mythology, food - anything!

#writesky #worldbuilding #author #writing

Write down ideas whenever they come to you! Image: sleepy gal Text: Just had such a good idea, gotta write this down. - The next morning - When the glove

Last night's idea involved a magic tower, a stand-up comic, and something about a ghost road? #writingcommunity

It’s Saturday 📺

Post a cartoon TV series you love!

Today is a mix between writing and Minecraft - whatever keeps me on the couch while I’m feeling like this!

#WritingCommunity any video games you all like to play?

Thanks! I’ll be quarantining for a bit so the next few days will look veeery slow

And it looks like I’m out for the next few days… COVID found its way to me. Time to rest and recover, and today … mostly sleep.

Hope you guys are having a better day than me!

Tiring day today! Hopefully some writing can help recharge me - I’ve been on pause for the last week for this vacation! Time to come back!

#WritingCommunity #writesky #writing

Buying and reading indie books: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Buying, reading, and REVIEWING indie books: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

That rocks! I have a few short stories published but no longform yet. Working on a high fantasy novel right now!

I write high fantasy and speculative fiction. What are yours?

Ooo i’ve heard that’s a great read!!

Good morning #WritingCommunity! What’s everyone reading today?

I started on The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks this weekend, and boy am I sucked right in!

#booksky #writesky #reading

I really like my main character, Rhea. But the older sister in me comes out through Rhea’s older sister, Calliope (Calli) - and so she has absolutely claimed my “favorite” spot.

Take what you need:
- write the story you'd like to read
- write the story that helps you sleep
- write the story that keeps you up
- write the story they ordered you not to tell
- write the story you can never forget

One of the best things about world-building is there's always something that needs developing. One of the worst things about world-building is there's always something that needs developing.

#WritingCommunity #writesky #worldbuilding

Oh nOoOoOoOoOo not another new book idea

Feeling inspired to develop the educational side of my world recently - partly because my main character is a student, and partly because I am, too!

#WritingCommunity, does your setting have anything to do with education or academics? If you have a fantasy world, what’s your setup? #writesky

If you ever find this place taking a toll on your mental, just log off bro. Seriously, just chill, step away. No need to take it out on others or worsen your own state of mind. Shit sucks right now. Our brains aren't meant to be barraged like this. We'll be here when you get back. You're all good.

a woman sits on a couch with the words i see what 's going on here Alt: a woman sits on a couch with the words i see what 's going on here

Monday #WritingQ to cheer me up!

Genre-savvy!
How genre-savvy are your characters? Do they know what's up?

What genre do they THINK they are in vs the genre you've written them into?