Guess what I found.

Hah.

I never thought I'd do/say this, but I am doing so now.

I have found a theme song for Shadow Wings.

Yup.

It's true.

I always thought that I'd have to make up my own music or use film scores and say 'the theme is kind of like this'.

Now, I've found what is probably the closest song ever.

The only way a better one could be found is if someone wrote a song for it.

Which I'm not seeing in the near future.

Yeah.

Anyways!

The song is: 

Radioactive cover by Lindsey Stirling and Pentatonix

Everything, from 'waking up in my bones' to 'all systems go' makes me think Shadow Wings, Kallie, Audriana, Raine, Doctor Aceti, Mr. Atkins, etc.

I will get even more in depth into why it makes me think of Shadow Wings later, as right now it just went 

BOOM! 

"Hello, I'm Kallie's new theme song.

Nice to meet you."

In the middle of my studying for a test. . . 

SO!

Adieu until later!

Keep on Writing!

God Bless

SDG

Joy

Writing Wednesday Pinspiration

This Week's Theme: Building Character

I'm planning on using this one to help me fill out a few characters.








Insults, always useful!

Keep writing!

God Bless
SDG
Joy

Building Printhia

Before I go on, I must confess something.

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Most of Printhia's cultures are not original.

You see, I myself cannot not be biased.
(Double negative there. . .)
Let me restate that.
I am biased.
I cannot think of anything new; only what I've already learned or been taught before.
Why am I saying this?
Because each culture that evolves in my world is influence by different, already existing cultures in our world.
As you can probably tell already, Arabs and the Middle East with a little bit of Indian culture is what influences the Fire Elf culture.

More than that though, ancient and modern religions are also pretty dominant.
What do I mean?
Well, lets just say that Greek and Roman Mythology--something I know very well thanks to Percy Jackson and the other series that I'm forgetting the name of, and a good grounding in ancient history--permeates a lot of the cultures.
That said, lets look at another kind of elf.

Earth Elves

There really isn't a single word that can explain Earth Elves.
They are a little bit of so many things; gypsies, Spanish, a little of Indian, a small bit of modern, with a touch of ruffian throughout.
That doesn't even do them any kind of justice.
I'm serious.
There culture is so diverse, and it's mainly because they are the peddlers and 'gypsy travelers' of Printhia.
I have absolutely loved creating their look.
(Truth be told, I'm still not quite happy with it.)
In fact, here's a picture that comes really close to describing it:

The shirt isn't quite right, but the over all feel just screams 'Earth Elf' to me.

Their religion, sadly, isn't very built right now.
In fact, all that I know about them is that they are one of the first groups that finds Karum's Meegonta, or God's Scriptures.

They are healers, travelers, merchants, performers, name it and they probably have someone who does it.
Thieves, mercenaries, knights, lords, kings, priests, priestesses, the list goes on.
They are the dominant race, in all of Printhia they are everywhere except. . .

Okay.
Almost gave something away there.

More on that later when I get to the Pixies and Fae.
:)

Keep on writing!

God Bless,
SDG
Joy

LIGHT BULB MOMENTS!

This last week, Shadow Wings and Shadow Sky has been haunting me.

Last weekend, I started to read over the first chapter of Shadow Wings, and had to stop because I wasn't supposed to fix things, only make notes, and it was too hard. 

Either way, that's part of the reason why it was haunting me.

Today, during church, it came back to mind.

That is really quite unusual for me as I normally really concentrate on the service, but today it kept coming back to mind.

During Sunday School, it hit me that what I was really missing from the beginning was a 'knot' or problem in my MC, Kallie, that needed to be 'straightened out' or fixed.

I was missing a Theme for my MC.

Then in the middle of the church service, it hit me what the two 'knots' are.

What are they?

Well, I'm not just going to out and out tell you. 

That wouldn't be very fun now, would it.

So, here's how I figured my theme out, hopefully it would help any fellow writers think through their themes. 

Fact 1

What is going to happen in the story?

Well in Shadow Wings, Kallie is supposed to turn against the Zoic Betterment Program that is either using Zoics or else killing them.

In Shadow Sky, Kallie is supposed to either destroy or change the Zoic Betterment Program (either option is still open right now because I haven't reached that part in the planning/outlining process yet).

Fact 2

What is the MC's character like?

After taking a personality test while 'in character', I found out that Kallie is an ISTJ.

We don't have very much in common, but what we do have, is being Introverts.

All of this was helpful to me, but what does this all have to do with the theme?

To put it simply, the theme in a story is what pushes both the plot, and at least your MC, through to the end.

I had originally stated that Injustice/Justice was the theme.

That could be true in a sense, but that wasn't a strong enough theme to push through to both novels, and that theme was just strong enough to pull through one or the other book.

So, what IS my theme/s?

Let's look at Shadow Wings.

Introvert, making a rather extreme decision, in a relatively short amount of time (unless I change that, which is highly probable).

What do you think would be the theme?

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Answer: Indecisive/Decisive

Let's look at Shadow Sky.

Introvert, taking charge when, as an introvert, she normally wouldn't.

What do you think would be the theme?

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Answer: Unwilling to lead/Leading

Ha.

There you are. 

I hope that this was helpful to at least someone. 

I had never realized before how simple this could be.

Before I had gotten into so much depth into why it could be this or that theme (all of which where/are still plausible), that I was literally over thinking it.

Keep on writing!

God Bless

SDG

Joy

Brainstorming Saturdays: I might as well

So, I thought I'd start sharing some of my ideas for stories, because I probably won't write all of them.

If you like a specific one, feel free to comment and I'll answer questions. :) 

As my latest Writing Wednesday was on Little Red Riding Hood, I thought I'd share my idea for that story.

Oh.

In case you didn't know, I have a dream of rewriting fairy tales. . . 

Maiden of the Wolves.

(So far YA, but lately I've been thinking of moving it to just Adult. . .)

I thought I knew the MC's name, (I think it started with an L) but I cannot find it now.
Anyways, I try to make a one liner for each of my story ideas, as that usually helps them push off.
Let's just say that MotW needs work. . . (AKA it's not in existence)

This SI came to me when I was on Pinterest one day (which used to be a lot last summer. . .) and someone was pinning a lot of fairy tale based pictures of people.
Then, I saw this picture:

 And this one:

That's when the title hit me.
Maiden of the Wolves.

So, who is this maiden?
Why do the wolves follow/possibly-protect her?

To be truthful, I still don't know all the answers to that question, but here is what I have.

L (as I'll use for her name right now) is the daughter of a king, whose whole royal family is somehow connected/guarded by the wolves.
When L's grandmother from her mother's side successfully poisons the king and pays one of the Royal Guards to turn away when she slips some of her own men in who massacre a lot of the people in the palace, L's mother slips away with the toddler L.
Hunted by her own mother's men, the queen leaves L with the one symbol of her true birth (her red cape and hood, red is the symbol of royalty) and some wolves standing guard over her; she runs off successfully distracting and moving the men away from L.

L is kept warm and rather well cared for by the wolf pack, until she is found by a wood cutter.
Seizing an opportunity, he takes her home to his wife where they raise her along with their other children, until she is about 8 or 9 years old, when the wolves come looking for her.
Afraid because of the royal curse (whoever kills a wolf. . . Well, something dreadful happens. . .), they put her out of their home.
The children are confused, and continue to be friendly with her, but the rest of the village considers her cursed.

That's what I know the most of.
What I also know, is that the son of the traitor guard is the one who knows that the princess L survived the massacre, and goes looking for her with the help of some rogue royal guards and a small elite group of warrior women.

Oh.
L is a red head.
It just fits with her spunky, no nonsense-ness.
I have no other words to describe her personality yet.
Yet.

So!
Questions, words of a kind sort, please comment below.

God Bless!
SDG
~Joy

Writing Wednesday Pinspiration

This week's theme: Little Red Riding Hood




















Keep on Writing!

God Bless,
SDG
Joy

Sorry about the Building Printhia. . .

Sorry. 

>.< 

I actually did homework instead this weekend, so I decided to do something else this week. 

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Shadow Wings has a Facebook Page now. 

Shadow Wings

I haven't put anything interesting in it yet, but it's up. 

I hope to be putting random stuff up over the next few days/weeks.

I'll be working on a Building Printhia for next week this week. 

:)

God Bless!

Joy