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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

Working on my travel version chart of who is betraying who is betraying who and why in my new WIP… #amwriting (kinda)

Super complicated character motivation chart

Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

The earliest stage of a writing project for me is listening to the MCs having out of context conversations in my head: “If you’ve gotta be fucking FREEZING, there’s no better place to be fucking freezing than Cleveland.” “You haven’t had a real good time ‘til you’ve seen the back of an ambulance.”

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

I put them up in a very particular order, it my characters take them off in whatever the heck order they like.

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Indeed. That one really got away from me too.

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

And I KNOW it’s gonna happen, but I KEEP PLANNING ANYWAY… I can’t start without a ‘plot wall’ even though I am absolutely certain the post it notes will come off the wall all out of order anyway.

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Sounds like an enjoyable way to write.

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

I don’t really have a separate muse. I fall at least a little in love with all my MCs and they are my muse for their story. I’m totally obsessed with getting in their heads and hearing them talk. #HorrorWritersChat

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

My characters do this all the time. AT THE TIME, I don’t generally appreciate it. But they’re usually right.

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Honestly FIRST step for me with any new story is characters just pop into my head one day and have completely out of context conversations for a few weeks and I feel like I’m just evesdropping…

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

I feel like that last sentence could be a summary of my whole life.

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

I had one murder mystery once where the killer changed three times during the first draft. 😂

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

#HorrorWritersChat … this. whatever this is. BUT THEN THE CHARACTERS DO WHATEVER THE F*** THEY WANT ANYWAY. so rude.

Plot wall. String in a plot arch shape with LOTS of sticky notes.

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

This is a weird answer for #HorrorWritersChat but, honesty? My MCs fell in love too quickly. The reader was supposed to be on board with one MC thinking the other was, and I quote, ‘a psychotic, murderous bitch’ but then all of a sudden it was, ‘Nooo. She’s so PRETTY.’ Rogue character shenanigans…

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

I’m sad just from the six word summary.

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

I misread ‘plans’ as ‘puns’ originally and I had some questions…

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

I dunno. Pops always told me, “Never take a job from a dead man.”

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Helloooo #HorrorWritersChat. Daryn. Currently in the nerve wracking phase of a new WIP where, no matter what I do, it always seems to take three months for a new idea to just percolate. But… Dragons (I know. I swear they’re different.) Finders Keepers Nuns Cardiectomy Cats

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

I’m working on… thiiiiiiings. (I’m super not artistic though so we should definitely not let me attempt to paint.)

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

So… I’m writing? Kinda? This has really gotten out of hand. I just needed help visualizing a few things…

Picture of a table covered in craft supplies and the beginnings of a wire sculpture dragon…

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Nickferatu @nickeldoodle.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

fear my power!!

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

I’m pretty sure I’ve not written anything the historians will be debating, yet… BUT WHEN I DO…

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

I dunno… that sounds like a hard call!

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

This sounds like a hard way to learn empathy!

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

I feel like describing oneself as ‘crawling out of the dirt’ is really on theme here…

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

I love how a solid half of these responses are like… wait, kind characters?!

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

I’m outlining too! Kinda. Right now I am literally building myself a physical model of my planet… BUT IT STILL COUNTS!

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

I feel like she gets at least a solid 25 Kindness Points for helping someone figure out how they were murdered. Solid act of service.

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

…’big space horror book’ sounds cool 👀

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

All my works are equally and astoundingly brilliant. The historians will never reach a consensus. #HorrorWritersChat

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

#HorrorWritersChat YOU WANT THEM TO BE KIND TOO?! Well, the current MC literally saves a cat early on. Last MC was kind but wary. Didn’t trust easily, but gave her cardigan to ladies with a chill. Decapitated a werewolf to save her LI. All those small touches to show she cares…

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

#HorrorWritersChat It has been so long! Daryn. I write mostly murder mysteries, dark fantasy and horror. Always a dash of absurdism. I want to have my next WIP plotted out by the end of the year. Considering I’m worldbuilding back to the formation of the planet, I think that’s enough…

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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 31/10/2023

How to write a book: - pick a time each day - write a little bit - write a little more - write more - keep writing - oh god it’s just more writing isn’t it - the writing never stops - this is your life now - you asked for this, you mental crouton - all is pain - snack break

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

For #FantasyIndiesSpooktober Saturday Snippet, a bit late, this little gem from yesterday’s writing session…

She senses word might have spread regarding Tuesday and the Slaying of the Insane Fucking Grizzly Bear, because multiple students stop to stare at her as she walks towards the circulation desk in the library, and Tuesday suspects it's not because she looks particularly alluring today.
It is impossible to color coordinate with the hospital leg brace and she can't raise her right hand high enough to do her makeup properly.

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badly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼‍♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

laughed solidly for about five minutes

A classic bodice-ripper romance style painting of a cishet couple embracing. She's dark haired, fair skinned, wearing a pink satin dress in the Napoleonic style. He's blonde, bare-chested (of course) and muscular. A text box over her reads 'Undress me with words'. He replies 'You have a spider in your bra'

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Hi, #FantasyIndiesSpooktober! For Free Friday… I described a Bed and Breakfast house like a biiiiiig spider today in my spooky WIP…

The Lodge looks more like a giant black spider than ever in the gloom, in the rain, in the night. Even with the headlights sweeping ahead, Tuesday can hardly distinguish the long limbs of rooms from the cephalothorax of the living and dining rooms, from the abdomen of the kitchen at the back. The windows in some of the front rooms could be the eyes, Tuesday thinks blandly. There are eight, though only a few are lit right now. The front porch, with the extensions on either side of the circle drive, are the chelicerae - the mouthparts.

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

I can’t lie to you #FantasyIndiesSpooktober friends… I haven’t been listening to spooky music while I write this WIP. Kodaline has been representing MC’s vibe in my head, while Mumford & Sons has represented LI. A little Lord Huron mixed in occasionally.

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Well, shit. Writing I can do, but if I have to cultivate the mystique of celebrity to sell books… Regular inside peeks into my life and personality are probably about as interesting as watching a shuffleboard tournament. (I’be actually never watched shuffleboard. Maybe it’s fascinating.) #author

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Rachel Bowdler / Bonnie Woods @rachelbowdler.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

COMING SOON Maeve thought she would have more time… like your Norse mythology reimagined with sapphic romance, heat, angst & high-stakes? the goddess Hel is about to get more than she bargained for when fates are twisted and a present-day mortal soul stumbles into her path. ⚔️

The cover of Kiss of Death by Bryony Rosehurst, coming soon!

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

I guess I’m currently writing sapphic… paranormal? There are loooots of werewolves.

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Daryn Faulkner @darynwilde.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Maybe this is scandalous to admit, but I’ve not tried to put together a newsletter because I’ve never subscribed to one myself. If I want to know what’s up with an author, I go looking for them. Socials, website… If I’m into their work, they don’t have to regularly remind me I’m into their work.

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