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Wow, that sounds hectic! I can imagine it’s a big adjustment, but I’m glad you’re enjoying it! What are you studying?

Did you have any issues with the three big storms? I’m pretty sure they were over England as well. We certainly felt all of them, but praise God we barely have damages. It was definitely stressful though.

Haha it was a huge adjustment, but a good one too! I’m just gonna wait and see what God has in store for me. So I’m studying film 🙂 one is a research module where you get to pick your topic, and the others are animation and music in film. I’m really liking them so far!

Haha funny story – my friend and I tried to go see a movie but it got cancelled cause of the weather. So we just studied together instead (I know I know, I am such a prude lolll). But I was keeping an eye on the weather on my laptop cause I was terrified than any moment it would be a really bad storm and if we leave too late we would get injured or something. That didn’t happen of course thank God. But our conversation was going something like:

Me: It looks like the wind is going from 36 miles per hour to 27 miles per hour at 9pm!

Friend: Oh that’s good.

Me: Only for the storm to pick up again at 11pm.

LOL, that’s a mood XD I’ve been deliberately obscuring a lot of stuff with Aydin and Liorah.

Thats a wise decision to make, tbh I should stop revealing so much about my other characters cause someday a clever reader is gonna put two and two together and work it all out before I’ve even published the darn thing🤣 I’m planning a very big twist for my series, but it won’t be as exciting if I don’t stay quiet lolll

Yes, absolutely! Aydin has absolutely dozens of each! Just off the top of my head his misbeliefs include “I’m not wanted” “I don’t deserve happiness” “I’m a burden” “I need to be independant or others will hurt me” “I won’t amount to anything” and so on and so forth. (I can keep going, trust me. Don’t worry he’s getting help in-story, it’s working out.) But you’ll see that almost all of those boil down to one fundamental lie: “I am a terrible person and deserve every bad thing that happened to me and nothing else.” All the other lies often turn out to be different “flavors” of the same thing.

Yeah thats so true! I can’t wait to read more about Aydin and Liorah, I’m really loving them cause I just feel like I understand them. Mayra is quite similar to Aydin in terms of misbeliefs, she believes that there is no such thing as good people, her own survival is what matters most, she’s not responsible for anyone/anything else, she also believes she’s a bad person and incapable of good. In my opinion, even if a character does terrible things, as long as I understand their motives and why they think the way they do, I will literally praise their character arc till the day I die haha.

Another example, Liorah’s current lie (in book 3) is “I have to be successful by surpassing Gavril’s example, otherwise I’m useless and my future will slip away from me and I’ll be unhappy for the rest of my life.” However in the same vein she’s showing strong signs of a sub-lie. “I have to sacrifice everything or I’m worthless.” However, if you were to ask her “Why do you have to?” She’d probably answer “Because Gavril did” and it boils down to the same thing. It might be that characters have a set of interconnected lies, and especially in a series sometimes you just have to bookmark them and move on. For example, Liorah was showing signs of this “I have to live up to Gavril” nonsense all the way back in book 1, but she had a block in her way “Why should I?”. It was still there, it was just hidden. As circumstances changed it popped up again worse than ever. I hope that rant was at least somewhat useful!

Yeah that’s super interesting that her misbelief boils down to wanting to be like her brother. Honestly the more complicated a character the more I love him/her XD

So I’d really love to know where you’re at with writing your WIP Rose 🙂 are you in the middle of writing your draft or just working on characters? For me I’m definitely just working on character arcs and personalities.