Silly flower shop au where tokoyami’s shop is called Shadow’s Bloom or something and all his bouquets are gothic themed in black, purple, or “similar shades of darkness”. He is incredibly popular for his spider lily bouquets. He also knows a lot about flower language so he has some obscure flowers you can’t get that easily. This is still a quirk au so dark shadow is just hanging out around the shop
Hi ,I'm making a personal project of mine (a story book) where the introduction of it is the villian talking to the audience and/or reader and I want to make it sound like a poem , do you'll writers out there have any tips?
Imagine a fantasy book where all the characters are autistic and there's a mysterious oracle who only speaks in riddles, but it's not because they're cursed. It's because they're the only neurotypical and no one can understand them because they never say what they mean.
• Esmeralda is a stunning golden-era showwoman and singer. She's all short pixie cuts gelled and glittered with glam, calf-exposing glittery dresses with a slit halfway down the skirt, and black heels. In the early 1960s, she's untouchable.
• Francisco is a top-notch criminal who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. He's quick, witty, light on his feet, and always red-handed but always wearing gloves.
• Esmeralda’s been divorced from Francisco for twelve years, ever since her second child Ava was born….if ‘born’ is the right way to put it. They had drifted apart; Esmeralda chasing success and Francisco being drafted into the war between the so-called heroes, magical humans with a somewhat toxic humanitarian facade- and the wearh, blood-sucking villains who rule the lands underground.
• In Francisco’s absence, Esmeralda made a deal with William, a wearh with whom she has a bit of a history, to transform her pet bird into a living child- she just wanted to feel as though she had a purpose again- especially after the authorities had sent her son Arlo off to his designated “training center,” a school designed to harness children's powers and prepare them to become successful heroes as they reach adulthood.
• Esmeralda just didn't understand why they had to take him at two.
• Arlo is an independent, solitary, shy kid. He grows up in books and maps and rules, always following, always on the sidelines. He wants nothing more than to break free.
• Ava is different. Esmeralda’s hidden charm, she learns at one and a half to hide in the garage whenever any car pulls up in the driveway, and to only go to the market early in the morning, before the shops officially open. She's brilliant, social, energetic, loves inventing and designing anything and everything she can get her hands on. With a creative, fast-moving mind, she loves exploring and yearns to see the world and meet everybody who lives in it.
• Ava meets Arlo, once a summer, only for a month. September is the hottest month of the year, but the two children always run around outside from before the sun peeks above the horizon, to long after dusk when the tiny “glowbugs” create a spectacle of sunny spots through the forest behind the house.
• Those were the good days. But then one night- in December- Ava hears a knock on her window. She almost doesn't recognize the boy hanging by two paralyzed hands on her windowsill. Arlo hadn't visited the previous year, claiming he'd been too busy in a rushed, chicken-scratched letter. He had been thirteen at the time; now he was fourteen. Considering the fact that she hadn't seen him since he was twelve, her age at the present, she had been expecting a very different boy. A boy with untied shoelaces and a missing molar or two, not a tall and lanky kid with a deep voice and long bangs that hid his eyes.
• He says he doesn't have much time. Much time before they catch him, the people who had taken his dad and forced him to kill- or worse, the people who were trying to kill his dad. He says he wants to run away, and he has been collecting for years and now possesses every map that's ever been reprinted or even sketched once.
• With Ava hungry for adventure and Arlo desperate for escape, they formulate a plan beneath spilled candlewax and messy scribbles of possible paths on worn-out maps. And thus, their adventure ensues.
books similar to the selection (royal is presented with a bunch of people of the opposite sex to choose a life partner from (usually a male royal presented with girls. they get married at the end) usually end up with a part where the two people are like ‘lets be friends’ and thus starts the slow burn from friends to lovers HOWEVER such a book could be improved if instead they never left the friend stage and bond over both of them being aromantic (and maybe also asexual or on the ace-spec) and the rest of the book is just them whispering jokes to each other over group dinners and working on solving problems and the royal realizes that their new BFF is not only the funniest person they’ve ever met they also have an amazing mind for politics and they eventually get married (because thats the whole point of this ‘selection’ and they realize that 1. if they don’t the country will get upset and the royal will be pushed into another relationship or something, 2. it would be weird to just keep you’re new best friend around after ending the ‘selection’ and either royal’s parents or some other government authority would want BFF out of the castle, and 3. they want to spend the rest of their purely platonic lives together) and eventually they adopt some kids and maybe some animals as well and live out their best lives.
idk i just think it’d be neat
Sudden writing prompt
God has finally answered the prayers of mankind. To each sufferer (mentally or physically), he bestows a superpower to help solve your problems. Blind man gets X-ray vision, people suffering from insomnia can now control their own and others' dreams and etc. The strength of the abilities depends on the amount of suffering of this person.
MC who really considered themself a happy person receives God-like powers.
And now they somehow have to deal with that.
So I was casually listening to Devil's Backbone by The Civil Wars and got an idea. So A good Christian girl lives in the middle of the woods in a little cabin. She's like in her mid 20's and she's been living alone for about 5 years. One day in fall maybe like September her home gets broken into by a man on the run. He of course threatens her and says he'll stay only for a while. He also makes her go into town which is about a few miles out. He makes her buy even more food for the both of them and ALCOHOL; with the money he's taken. He thinks at some point she won't come back but she does every single time. She doesn't know why either. One day he gets super drunk and he tells her everything. After that they have an understanding of each other and have a weird bond. He adds in a few pet names after a while and at some point he notices she blushes every time so he increases it a bit more. But- at some point when he stops she knows it's time. What will she choose? The religion that has saved her from damnation or a man that will do nothing but damn her.
Hi, I have been in writer's mode since I have been out of school. I have so many ideas of books and possible book series but the thing is, everyone has different tastes. I want to share my ideas with people who have the same interests but also share it with people who just love reading. The thing that I am struggling with is finding my audience. Right now I am starting a book that has a lot of good things. In this book, there's going to be drama, thriller, humor, romance, mature themes, mature elements, mature topics, mature content, revenge, LGBTQ+, Poly relationships, Dark acadmieca, and more. I'm very excited for this book but I don't want to get the wrong group that doesn't like that type of stuff. Please help me. Also I'm doing this on my laptop, so please excuse my bad spelling,, hehe.
So, I have an idea for a book. In short it is very gay and involves pirates, featuring an entirely woman crew.
Do I know anything about writing books? No. Is it a good idea for a book? Maybe. Was I elected “most likely to become a published author” my senior year of high school and has it given me more confidence in my abilities than it probably should have? Most likely.
I may make more posts on this, though I wanted to get The Mass’s thoughts.
Also any advice you have would be very nice <3