Completed chapter 14. The chapter is called Inside the yearling cave.
This Chapter was pretty heavy and intense. A chapter filled with a lot of reflective and judgmental moments for the characters and a lot of newfound reality moments for the characters. So, the music I chose for this chapter was kind of in-between being heavy and reflective but also action pact because there is another chase scene.
So here is my playlist for this chapter 14:
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You’re Not Mortal is the 4th scene in the 14th chapter of the 2nd draft of the work in progress novel During the Blue Hour. I finally completed not only this scene but the whole of chapter 14. Let me tell you I was dawdling through this scene not because it was boring but because I had to rewrite most of it. The new version of this chapter came to 8928 words. The you’re not mortal scene came to 3554 words total. The longest word counts out of all the scenes and chapters so far in the 2nd draft.
SCENE SYNOPSIS:Sirena is finally told by Cristen that she is not mortal, but in fact a caninruh and that she must stay with the pack in order to protect her, but her reaction is more than what is expected from Cristen and Sirena runs off in disbelief back to her mortal community.
In this scene it is in the 1st love interest pov ; Cristen and he has to convince Sirena that she is one of them. I originally wrote the scene in 2012 within the first draft but it wasn’t this long. It’s pretty much the same but the interactions and locations are somewhat different.
In this draft Adrian shows back up to the group and in front of Sirena in the form of the large werewolf and ordinarily Sirena would be afraid, but she can tell the difference between Adrian and any other beast because of his apparent kindness.
But like I said Cristen is the main POV so his perception is warped in this scene but not because he is an empath, and he can sense the energies between both Sirena and Adrian. So, within this scene there is a lot of tension because he is the alpha of the yearling werewolf pack and sees Adrian as trying to undermine him. In reality Adrian has fallen for Sirena and they are talking telepathically. Cristen doesn’t like that.
My greatest pitfall for this chapter is trying to keep the tension between the triangles. In the other chapters Sirena’s attitude is not one of being afraid but curious, even though she uses the excuse she is going to find her friend it is also because she is curious about the teenage wolves that saved her from the bear. However, she is still running away from them because she is in disbelief over the fact Cristen has told her she is actually a werewolf like the rest of them.
Moreover, she runs away because she has to face this truth that is her most hidden and dreadful fear in which she had tried to keep buried and locked within her dreams.
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Short question to fuse your mind and make you think. How was the automobile even possible in a world of generations of animal transportation? How did the sudden appearance of the automobile technology revolutionize a whole world within only 50 years who were masked in a technology dark age for over thousands of years only using animal transportation? WHAT IS THE FORGOTTON HISTORY OF AUTOMOBILES?
I will explore this question and more in full on my new podcast documentary series Forgotten history coming soon .
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*UPDATE: The next podcast episode 11 will be a deep dive analysis on the serialized short story The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains. in my Werewolf in fiction podcast series coming soon. Check out the story and see what it is about down below.
What does a seafaring adventure involving a man trying to save his father have to do with werewolves? Well a lot .
The 1838 Gothic Novel by Frederick Marryat which explorers the legend of the Flying Dutchman, a tale about a ghost ship interestingly also includes not only other supernatural components but a whole chapter about a werewolf.
Cleverly and remarkably written it told the story of Kratz who leaves to the mountains of Germany with his three children after killing his wife and lover.
He distracts himself with hunting wolves in the mountain but one day is intercepted by a man and his daughter. He takes them back to the cottage where his three children are. After three weeks of knowing the woman he accepts her hand in marriage from her father. However he really doesn’t know who he has married because it is soon revealed the girl is a werewolf.
There is more that happens but I liked it for a werewolf story and to me it sort of had like a Moby-Dick vibe to it. Give it a read and let me know what you think .
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So, I have been busy working and going back and forth on two podcast episodes.
I’m working on a new series called Forgotten History. And while working on this first episode I created some shorts history questions to get the mind to start to think about what the real story behind our history might be.
The first episode won’t be connected to these shorts right now but will be a full podcast episode about the forgotten history on the Rus. And I will continue with a whole series of episodes about Russia and exploring different questions I had and how it pertains to our history and the world. So please if you are interested in learning about Russia with me join me in exploring its forgotten history, coming soon…
The next project I’m working on is from the ongoing podcast Discovering the Blue Hour episode 11 where I will be talking about and going in-depth about the short story, The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains. It is a part of my werewolf in fiction series within my podcast and I will also be discussing book end framing technique in writing and the history of magazine serials and how it’s on the rise again in the writing community. I would love for you to join be for this episode if you like writing.
To catch up on what The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains is I wrote a post about it last year entitled:
Let me know what you think about the short story before I release the podcast episode coming soon…
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Another short question to fuse your mind and make you think. Was Pompeii really the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah? You decide. What is the forgotten history of POMPEII? Leave your comments down below. I want to know. Let’s start a dialogue.
I will explore this question and more in full on my new podcast documentary series Forgotten history coming soon .
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Short question to fuse your mind and to make you think. Was Rome really destroyed in a day? What is the forgotten history of Rome? Leave your comments down below. I want to know. Let’s start a dialogue.
I will explore this question and more in full on my new podcast documentary series Forgotten history coming soon .
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What do you think about how characters introduce themselves to other characters that don’t know their name? Is it on the nose?
So, I am working on this scene in chapter 14 where a terrified Sirena (my main character) has just seen the werewolf pack in their nonhuman form, and she is scared shitless by their appearance being their red eyes. So, she doesn’t say anything to them, but she is freaking out. So, her love interest Cristen, alpha of the pack, in his point of view introduces himself and the rest of the pack excluding Adrian (he isn’t there) by name to get her to calm down.
So, my question is:
Is naming names within a scene like this so on the nose?
Let’s explore. Well, if you think about it, do we use each other name in daily conversation when we are talking? No. Because that would lead to boring and stilted conversation, right?
But what about when we first meet someone?
Someone usually says, ” What’s your name?” or ” Who are You?”
And we usually say, ” my name is so and so,” right? And that’s okay because we have never met that person.
But what about when it’s in fiction? Can we name names?
Answer is It depends.
Dialogue is the trickiest component in writing a fiction novel. Things can easily get bogged down and messed up making the dialogue seem stilted and unreal. But when writing dialogue, we want to make it as real as we can.
So naming names in fiction is only really used for emphasis or trying to get a character’s attention. But must be careful not to overuse it.
In my case I only use this one time in my novel for two reasons really:
Because my main character Sirena has never met the pack
And second because she is freaking out and Cristen trying to get her to calm down .
So, I’m going to see where this naming names scene takes me, and I’ll let you know how it goes .
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Sparks fly in this love triangle I got going on my work in progress novel but how?
The love triangle in my work in progress novel is just a subplot in this first novel actually and begins on the 12th chapter of my 2nd draft.
The two love interest Adrian and Cristen won’t actually realize they have feeling for Sirena until after they find out she is a werewolf. Based on how they are raised they don’t really have any interest in romancing and mating with a human girl and I don’t explore that until maybe my 3rd book in which case Eli will be the human that a new werewolf character named Amarantha falls in love with him.
But anyways there will be sparks between them all that they will ignore up until chapter 12. Not only because they think she is human but because they also have their own goals . This chapter 14 is where they finally establish she is defiantly a werewolf and boy do the emotions and sparks fly. All kinds of jealousy and animosity all over the place.
Sirena has just found out she is a werewolf from love interest Cristen and the rest of his pack. She is in this confusion scared state where she doesn’t believe any of what has just been told to her even though she already has been through a lot within the previous chapters. She literally has been almost killed twice. The first time by a religious wolf hunter and almost kidnapped by the wolf council.
But when she sees Adrian she softens a bit because Adrian saved her from getting mauled by a dog in previous chapters. But just a bit because he is in his werewolf form with red eyes and everything is just weird to Sirena. She doesn’t and can’t believe what is before her. But that sense of familiarity from him makes her draw closer to him as though she is a magnetic .
Cristen wants help from the earth diver to get off the mountain but in order to do that he has to help Sirena.
Adrian wants to become the alpha and so he thinks he can use his new found knowledge about Sirena to do that.
This love triangle between the three will consist of a lot of jealously , betrayals and secrets .
The main Character Sirena will be interested in both of them and she will have a reason to be interested in both of them. They will be her first ever love interest.
She is interested in Adrian because he seems to understand her in a way. They seem to get along and she likes Adrian because he never seems to be afraid to tell her the truth of things no matter how harshly he delivers it. And she respects him for that. And also he ends up saving her most of the time.
With her falling for Cristen he is reasonable, compassionate, and kind to her and seems to understand her differently because he can easily read her emotions and see through her insecurities because of his powers and abilities and he connects her with his emotions and calm her emerging werewolf rage. And she is able to do the same , calming him of his werewolf rage since his powers are not fully developed as well.
I don’t have Sirena really going back and forth over them like a drag out decision . Time is of the essence and she really has no time to play teenage love games with the two werewolf boys . Because she is about to become a werewolf herself dammit.
I only put in a little section within the novel where both Adrian and Cristen will give her an ultimatum to choose between them but she is like wait hold the phone . She is new to the whole boyfriend experience and feelings thing especially with them both being werewolves where they date differently. They don’t date . They mate and become pair bonds. (pair bonds is a real thing in the real world in wolf society. Check this article out about ( pair bonds)But in my novel they can’t officially mate until they get to the werewolf community anyway. Another reason why they are rushing her to make a choice is because they have never seen another werewolf girl besides Imani. And Imani is Adrian’s sister who is the future pair bond to Bastian. Cristan always also saw Imani as a sister so yeah . Sirena is basically the only werewolf girl right now they can choose from.
She basically tells them they are both crazy and she is not going to mate with them .
This particular scene in my first draft that will soon be in my 2nd draft doesn’t mean Sirena doesn’t choose one of them because she does . I don’t want to really tell you who but there is a kissing scene between Sirena and one of the two boys. And the other boy is greatly devasted by Sirena’s choice.
This choice that Sirena makes will bring a lot of conflict between both Adrian and Cristen even though they already hate each other over the whole alpha situation( I talk about that type of rivalry in a different post) Her decision doesn’t make anything better in the story even other characters hate her for what she decides. Let me just give you a little (spoiler) her decision comes to a tragic accumulation . She is never selfish about her decision and she doesn’t string them along but it’s just that the reveal of secrets and lies get in the way and makes her choice worse for everybody at the end .
This love triangle subplot is basically scattered mostly toward the middle and end of my novel. I can’t say that the three character actually fall in love perse . All three of these characters just have these new found feelings . They are all teenagers in this first novel . And they don’t know what their feelings are yet.
The only two characters I can say that know exactly what their feeling are with each other are Bastian and Imani but their true love will be tested in my later books and I don’t know where those particular love triangle storylines will go yet .
Did I need a love triangle in this first novel? No . I mean I could have done without one. I didn’t have one in my pre-draft screenplay version . But I just thought it would be fun to add more conflict to the story. I kind of like reading love triangles in other novels and thought I’d give it a try writing about one myself.
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Have you ever wondered how moments in history are related, and connected to one another? I have too. Even though I am a fiction writer I love history because knowing history allows me like all writers to create worlds beyond our imaginations. My journey as a fantasy writer has also led me to question things like where did the creation of dragons come from within fantasy and sci-fi fiction if it didn’t really exist at some point in time? Being a writer, you can clearly see the answers to those type of questions because of research. When doing a simple search in your search engine on dragons a writer will find that the creation of dragons originated from many different cultures from around the world. From China with their snake-like creature with four legs dragons to the Mesoamerican with their legend of the feathered-serpent. Each of those two cultures described them both as snake like. Another question from this arises for the writer. Like how did these cultures get the same idea of a dragon and what they should be or look like?
I am one of those that have strong beliefs that most of our history, our true history has been readily forgotten and that they are all connected to one another like the pages and scenes of a book. And I along with others have many questions that I want answers to. And so, I will explore questions and answers and try to find the connections behind the most famous moments in history except it will be the forgotten history that no one dares to talk about. I will delve and research explicitly everything and anything about the forgotten history of our world and planet.
There are many podcasts that talk about and discuss the histories of our world and planet as well. But I will be talking about history as a whole from a different point of view, the point of view and opinions of history from a fantasy fiction writer on this blog along with my novel series.
My goal essentially will be to connect each point of history with each other and see how they relate to one another ultimately putting together history like a puzzle or mystery to be solved.
To give you an idea of the topics I will be exploring and some of my favorite topics I will be starting the first few podcast episodes with exploring the forgotten History of Russia and slowly up to the end of war world 1 seg waying and making pit stops here and there over to American history and the gilded age.
Come along with me as I Explore and delve into the forgotten history of our world.
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