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Requiem of Silence (Earthsinger Chronicles, book 4)
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Get Back Up Again – My Imaginary Friends: Episode 124

A breakdown of my very painful process of getting back on track with this manuscript.

Things Fall Apart – My Imaginary Friends: Episode 123

…and tend to shatter. On going through a story crisis.

Iceberg, Right Ahead! – My Imaginary Friends: Episode 122

90% is under the surface, but it can still sink the ship!

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#EarthsingerReadalong for Song of Blood & Stone - Week 3: Ch 20 - 30⁠
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The majority of Jack and Jasminda’s story in these chapters is largely unchanged from the earliest drafts. One of my favorite parts in the entire book is when Jack goes to Jasminda’s door, telling her he’s reinjured himself, “Because it hurts. Just here,” and puts her hand against his heart. Gets me every time.⁠
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One big change to the story was that, originally, Jasminda visited her grandmother at home and not her grandfather. She got glimpses of her Aunt Vanesse quite a bit earlier in the story, and saw the house that her mother had grown up in, as well. Sometimes cutting scenes is really difficult, especially when they push forward character development and theme in a really nice way — with Jasminda’s home gone, seeing her mother’s home was a powerful moment — but writing is often like juggling a three-dimensional puzzle and trying to make all the pieces fit while in midair.⁠
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I'm cleaning out my index card container for REQUI

I'm cleaning out my index card container for REQUIEM OF SILENCE to make room for the current manuscript. Some books don't require index cards, while others apparently need an entire package or two. I try to keep the book's vision statement front and center, for when I inevitably forget what the story is about and why I wanted to write it in the first place. For REQUIEM, the process was: an idea for a scene or thing that needs to happen in the book goes on a card (color-coded by POV/plotline). White cards are for diagraming the scene before I write it to make sure it has all the necessary components: desire, inciting incident, progressive complications, turning point, crisis, climax, and resolution. With such a complicated story (the longest book I’ve written so far at 150k) these cards kept me sane and reasonably on track. #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #fantasyauthor #lpenelope #earthsingerchronicles #indexcards #writingprocess

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#EarthsingerReadalong - Song of Blood & Stone - Week 2: Ch 10 - 19⁠
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In a previous version, Jack actually sang the Elsiran national anthem that here is sung by the veterans. When I lost that particular scene in revision, I wanted to ensure the song still made it in, especially since I’d thought up a tune for it. (I know the tunes of every song that appears in the series and have recordings of myself singing them. In fact, I’ve written songs that never made it into the books, but you really don’t want me to sing them. Ever.)⁠
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The storm that features prominently in the story was, at one point, going to be part of the title. I brainstormed well over 100 title options including: Storm & Stone, The Queen of Storm & Stone, Queenstorm, and Song & Storm.⁠
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The chapter epigraphs were a suggestion from my editor. Once I decided to do them, I was determined to figure out how to make mine really add value to the story. I studied what other authors like Octavia Butler and Brandon Sanderson had done and then came up with the idea of the in-world folktales.⁠
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This is what a story crisis looks like. All the cr

This is what a story crisis looks like. All the craft books come out as I try to figure out where it all went wrong... #amwriting #fantasyauthor #authorsofinstagram #authorlife

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📕 L PENELOPE has been writing since she could hold a pen and loves getting lost in the worlds in her head. She is an award-winning author of new adult, fantasy, and paranormal romance. She lives in Maryland with her husband and their furry dependents: an eighty-pound lap dog and an aspiring feral cat. Her Earthsinger Chronicles began with Song of Blood and Stone.⠀
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📗 TJ KLUNE is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of The Extraordinaries, The House in the Cerulean Sea, and more. Being queer himself, TJ believes it’s important—now more than ever—to have accurate, positive, queer representation in stories. The Extraordinaries was TJ Klune's YA debut.⠀
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📚 JENN NORTHINGTON is a former bookseller and current reviewer, podcaster, and editor. She’s been published various places including Selfish Magazine and Book Riot, where she also works wrangling editorial operations. She is the co-editor, alongside Swapna Krishna, of SWORD STONE TABLE: Old Legends, New Voices, publishing July 2021.

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