An Attempt At Writing - Blog Posts
so far, this is as much as I have for a type of map of the city. the main tower is supposed to be bigger, not everything is really drawn to size
would this technically count towards spoilers?
I realize that it may not be obvious but the main character is gay. i just want to make that clear.
on royalroad btw, Tower of Babbling Silver. same user name.
how am I supposed to market a story I'm writing?
it's on royalroad btw, Tower Of Babbling Silver.
A messy retelling and modern dramatization of a tower of babel kind of story, as well as faustian bargain elements
random magic ideas
-smoke that slices anything it touches. Ie smoking character. or anything else you want the smoke to do.
-cant die. whenever killed, the soul gets transferred to the killer and shapeshifts back to the original form. Last disciple of a God of Rebirth?
-animate. dancing brooms from the rich rat. Can heal self, but only when if you can touch the bone.
-make anything into a sword.
-scape goat. the world dies and everyone in it, lucky you are the last to die. strike of luck, all the rest of the souls turn their eyes to you and refuse to let you die and inhabit the recesses of your soul. now you can command literal armies worth of ghost or monsters or whatever form you want them to take.
-that blind spot idea. can summon anything in a blind spot that has absolutely no eyes on it, not even peripheral, mostly.
-shapeshifter, but only into one kind of monstrous beast, can change size tho. isekai? can't speak the language but can understand it, bit of a plot hole unless you find a way to fix it, accidentally steps in a magic puddle or something maybe. bad ass bitch mode, adventure style comedy via isekai tropes, not a romance if it can be avoided.
-tiny ass fairy form, smaller than a plastic waterbottle, tinkerbell height. fucks with a pre-planned plot, isekai madness. Hates the fact they are this small and weak. Very much a total menace.
-a racoon holding a wand, two 'brother' racoons with their own magic tools. the wand grants any wish the holder makes. one brother has an infinite holding bag and the other has a human size wizard hat that let's it teleport wherever it wants.
-create a rift in space, pitch black. A primordial black hand, or multiple, come out of it. Ie, rift in someone's mouth, hand and arm come out the mouth and latch onto the head of the body, lift it into the sky. squeeze head til it pops, body drops.
-vibromancy is low key overpowered when done right. control sounds. no one that can go at the speed of light? sound beats everything in rock paper scissors
-chronomancer abuses the power of equivalent exchange to teleport using time.
-cowboy internet girl. Cowboy Bebop type beat. Matrix bs, cowgirl asethetic with hat covering the eyes. In the internet. Hackers, human?, get shot in the face irl. Like the girls hand comes out the screen and just pops them in the face with a bullet. Can snap her fingers and turn everything, the scene, into a matrix gird. Uses the grid lines like a lasso.
-angels have reversed gravity. This just means that their hair is pulled by an unknown gravity source that looks like when youre hair is hanging upside down. Any of their blood drawn also falls upward.
strawberry lightning
Pink lightning little dude with magic. Bastard man. Overzealous little shit of a boy. We condone slander on him. Light pink hair, electric blue eyes. Sharp teeth. Likes strawberry lemonade and everything strawberry flavored.
Girlie can't die. 'Bodyswaps' with whoever it us that kills her.
-she gets killed. Dead.
-killer starts to wig out.
-killer starts to transform into girlys face and body.
-girlys 'reborn' in the body of her killer.
God just won't let her die. What an ass.
This girl can bleed gold!
Start with girlie being kidnapped by a cult and strung up for her blood, cult profits off liquid gold.
Two adventure come in, cocky assholes. Horror movie sequence starts, girlie killed the cult. Now is gonna kill them. Paladin douche kills her first. But we know what happens :)
Then she goes on adventure. Then, girlie somehow lands herself a job working as a maid for some rich king ass dude, mega powerful. Pretty much becoming the maid of the final boss type beat.
If Time as a personification exists, then time itself, its power, is constantly working like a passive ability inside of the stories, right? so when Time goes into the stories to fuck around, time doesn’t technically stop immediately? right? so then, time keeps on moving, since Time is very much out of practice, never started really on controlling it. But keeps on moving forward, like a waterfall! so then it doesn’t stop unless made to by Time.
Times power works in that she,. i’ll just make her take on a feminine form for the sake of convenience., can reverse it, speed it up, and slow it down. She technically has a deal with Space, Mass, and Gravity (the science nerds) where she can use a form of slowing down a persons inertia through space, along with the fact that gravity and mass is being controlled, and mass wouldn’t exactly exist without gravity, I think? so then theres that, which calls into question when that deal got brokered and why. That should be when the big bang happened right? [wow im just starting to realise what a hole ive dug for myself. keep digging i guess]
So then thats how the power kind of works as a basis at least. then powers obviously don’t work outside of the stories due to other personifications technically exist outside of time, even though she happened first, outside of chaos, so shes the older sister figure, even though she acts like the youngest and is pretty much treated as such.
Nothing can really exist without a perception of time. You wouldn’t know how long you’ve been alive, nor really know if you’re dead. without a perception of time, everything loses meaning. while yes, everyone lives in the present and that is unchangeable. to completely understand anything about yourself, you have your past, your perception of your self, and what you think of the future. everything is based off a sense of perception. on how you perceive the world. and that leads from a sense of time. a perception of it.
So, when Time goes into the story, time continues ticking and doesn’t stop. Unless I wanna write it in that time skips for a moment, to give the villain a tip off. but that calls into question why the villain would be unaffected by a primordial deity know as Time itself. Probably scrap that. So time continues uninterrupted. pushes the guy out the crows nest. and onto the story.
Now, it probably makes more sense to have some kind of human form that she usually keeps on hand, every personification would then to make more sense for the Death scene, so then she pops out of nowhere in front of the pirate and confuses the hell out of him and, pretty much makes him go splat on the deck. No witnesses ya know? right after that, she discorporate her form and disappears into thin air, nothing but a floating consciousness.
The poor little guy was part of the original captains crew, just got the job actually, and had magic sticky feet that made it so it shouldn’t have made it possible for him to fall. he falls right in front of his original captain, almost falling on him. The original captain, protagonist #1, is currently tied to the mast of his own ship after being commandeered by a pirate. That pirate then got the ship commandeered by another pirate, dressed in a blue royal fleet coat, who is our second protagonist. Yada yada yada, banter happens that oh so conveniently tells us that this is the second commandeering. Little mishaps will now happen on the ship due to Time wanting to see what they will do.
Maybe a mishap should be that Time pauses time to find out where she can procure a sea monster to mess with the boat and solidify the protagonists places as protagonists in the story.
SO! What if, you make Time the narrator? And you make her just some bored immortal who decides to mess around with a story? First person view of some immortal asshole? Amazing
Hello! I’ve unfortunately gotten into writing and have decided to make it everyone else’s problem! ALSO, I suck at social media! An amazing combination! Hope you enjoy my suffering at the hands of my own uselessly creative mind. I will attempt to update my progress and actually say what I am writing in the morn’!