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@emily-waldorf

t was really fun, to read through all your characters and what parts they play in the band.   Do you have a solution yet for Acyn, or have you just diagnosed the problem?

I have some solutions that I want to change during my next draft around! If you hadn’t seen it yet, Acyn has a tendency to pretend that he doesn’t actually want to be there, and he’s definitely the most cautious of all the characters. So I’m just toning down the caution and turning up the chaos XD (Who am I kidding, Acyn would totally do dangerous stuff if it looked interesting XD)

I also have a couple scenes I can make his role slightly more active in. I’m somehow convinced Acyn is that one character that is unreasonably well-connected (because he befriends everyone who seems interesting XD) so he’d probably be like “I know someone–” like three times a book XD

Liorah is usually the one who makes the plans (because she’s the MC and it’s important for her to have as much agency as possible) but I thought it might be a cool idea to make her overlook a rather obvious fact (she would totally do that XD) and then Acyn can kinda amend her plans.

So, I do have some ideas!

I am now very curious, wondering if my characters fit into the five man band mold? It also made me want to get writing, because Anika and Natalya haven’t appeared in the story yet, and I WANT TO MEET THEM NOW!

Anything that gets you excited about writing is awesome! If you want to learn more about the five-man band, that same channel has a whole, detailed video on it.

The channel is called Overly Sarcastic Productions (or just OSP) on YouTube. They mostly make stuff like “History summarized” “Classics summarized” and videos about myths and of course, the Trope Talks. That’s my realm, I don’t venture into the others often.

The Trope Talks are basically analyzing a specific trope for like 20 minutes. Red (the narrator) is amazing at this, since she’s also a writer. She doesn’t just analyze how it works, but why it works that way, variations, issues, and potential for how to use it.

The videos are also exceptionally amusing, Red has a great sense of humor.

Warning though, there might be some language. I don’t remember anything exceptionally inappropriate, though I do advise you to use your discretion (of course XD)

I’ve watched most of the videos at least twice and I’ve learned a TON from it.

@denali-christianson

That rant was EPIC!!! I’m sad that Sahar and Acyn are leaving… but I’m really excited to read your book when you publish it!!!!

I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙂

I’m actually not planning on publishing at the moment 😅 These books are just for me to have fun with. But if you want to beta-read sometime in future? (Not soon, but once I worked on it a little more XD) I like having people read it, I just don’t plan to publish yet.

@everyone

I’ll try to post again soon! I’m just a bit busy with NaNo!