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Frau Anonyme
Planetoid
- Joined
- Feb 10, 2019
- Location
- USA
Hi!
For now, you can call me Frau Anonyme, and I would like to welcome you to my thread. It has been a while since I've done one of these, so I ask for a bit of grace as I reacquaint myself with making request posts. I will do my best to cover most of the things you'll need to know about me as a partner, as well as my plot idea!
If you're interested, please reach out! Thanks for reading!
For now, you can call me Frau Anonyme, and I would like to welcome you to my thread. It has been a while since I've done one of these, so I ask for a bit of grace as I reacquaint myself with making request posts. I will do my best to cover most of the things you'll need to know about me as a partner, as well as my plot idea!
I am 27 years old and have been writing fairly consistently for about 10 years. I work from home and on my own schedule, so that does give me the freedom sometimes to respond more than once in a day, but work is work, and there may be days when I cannot post but once, if at all. If I am going to be longer than expected with a response, I do my best to let my partners know. I know this is not any of our main priorities in life, so I do not expect completely constant and/or immediate replies to my posts every time I write. I do ask, though, that you generally be able to respond at least once every 1-5 days simply to keep interest alive in our story. Life happens and there are always exceptions, of course, but I think you know what I'm getting at.
I am fine writing in first-person or third-person, but I do have a slight preference for third-person. I like past tense for third-person and present tense for first-person. I am a teeny bit of a grammar freak. Don't get me wrong, we're all human, everyone has slip-ups, I know that I certainly do (I will proofread this post and there is still likely to be a mistake here or there), so I am not talking about the occasional mess-up. I'm talking about those who never use capital letters, commas, periods, and quotation marks, or the folks that still don't know the differences between the most basic homophones (there, there, their, wear, where, weigh, way, whole, hole, too, to, two, etc.) It just immediately takes me out of the story, and I can't focus on what you wrote, but how badly you wrote it. I'm sorry!
I enjoy world-building for my stories! It's something that I used to hate; I thought it was tedious and annoying, and I would do as little as possible before jumping into a story that my partner and I would mostly make up as we went, but I've come to really love coming up with and discussing the details of the setting that the story takes place in. I don't think that everything has to be talked over. I do think that there needs to be a certain level of "winging it" in this form of writing so that you're looking forward to whatever your partner is going to type next rather than knowing for certain what's coming. If I wanted to know everything already, I'd write on my own!
When it comes to the length of my replies, I can crank out 3-10 paragraphs, but my average post is usually 3-6. For those of you who are able to type out novella-like messages every time, I just don't have that in me. I always do my best to write out my character's thoughts and emotions, and describe the scene while trying to match my partner's efforts, but to give 15+ paragraph replies every single time is just not something I have the brain capacity to do. When we really get into the heart of the story, my replies can get a bit shorter just because something I struggle with is one of us typing out a wall of text where our character does things A-F, setting it in stone and forcing the other one of us into a corner where we can't properly react to thing B like we want to because it might ruin thing D. I hope that makes sense! Basically, I do my best with my responses and I ask for you to do the same!
I'm no longer into the easy and simple lovey-dovey stories. I'm not anti-romance, I'm all for it, but adding conflict and drama or bringing darker themes into the mix makes it all the more interesting. I don't want cliche and sappy.
I enjoy smut as much as the next person, and it will always have a place in the stories that I take part in. With that said, I like to make it clear that I'm not looking for stories that are just sex. Too much sex and it gets boring, repetitive, and leaves no room for other interesting plot points. I think that smut is important to the stories I like to write that have couples of various sorts in them, but the platonic interactions and the adventures they go on or that go on around them are just as important. I don't like to give a plot-to-story ratio because not every writer or every story needs the same parameters; I think that with a fellow mature writer, we can come together and create a good story with the right balance for us and our plot.
I enjoy world-building for my stories! It's something that I used to hate; I thought it was tedious and annoying, and I would do as little as possible before jumping into a story that my partner and I would mostly make up as we went, but I've come to really love coming up with and discussing the details of the setting that the story takes place in. I don't think that everything has to be talked over. I do think that there needs to be a certain level of "winging it" in this form of writing so that you're looking forward to whatever your partner is going to type next rather than knowing for certain what's coming. If I wanted to know everything already, I'd write on my own!
When it comes to the length of my replies, I can crank out 3-10 paragraphs, but my average post is usually 3-6. For those of you who are able to type out novella-like messages every time, I just don't have that in me. I always do my best to write out my character's thoughts and emotions, and describe the scene while trying to match my partner's efforts, but to give 15+ paragraph replies every single time is just not something I have the brain capacity to do. When we really get into the heart of the story, my replies can get a bit shorter just because something I struggle with is one of us typing out a wall of text where our character does things A-F, setting it in stone and forcing the other one of us into a corner where we can't properly react to thing B like we want to because it might ruin thing D. I hope that makes sense! Basically, I do my best with my responses and I ask for you to do the same!
I'm no longer into the easy and simple lovey-dovey stories. I'm not anti-romance, I'm all for it, but adding conflict and drama or bringing darker themes into the mix makes it all the more interesting. I don't want cliche and sappy.
I enjoy smut as much as the next person, and it will always have a place in the stories that I take part in. With that said, I like to make it clear that I'm not looking for stories that are just sex. Too much sex and it gets boring, repetitive, and leaves no room for other interesting plot points. I think that smut is important to the stories I like to write that have couples of various sorts in them, but the platonic interactions and the adventures they go on or that go on around them are just as important. I don't like to give a plot-to-story ratio because not every writer or every story needs the same parameters; I think that with a fellow mature writer, we can come together and create a good story with the right balance for us and our plot.
Since the beginning of its history, Yvonta was known as the home of a faithful and gentle people who were devoted to their gods and their lands. When the world around them grew more violent and greedy, Yvonta became a target for the many nations that wanted their fertile land and natural resources. They were unprepared for the waves of violence that came against them, and the Yvontan people crumbled and changed, turning away from their original ways a little more with each act of aggression against them, altering the ways of life they had always known to try to survive. For five hundred years, they suffered through various violent invasions and occupations, always fighting and getting stronger, but never enough to keep the enemy gone for long.
The pain inflicted on their land hardened the Yvontan people with each war, but it wasn't until King Hylan came to power as a young man that the kingdom began to fully turn away from their gods and let go of their peaceful nature. Hylan further built their military and intensified the soldiers' training. He began to take full advantage of what their land had to offer and grew Yvonta from a once humble kingdom to a powerful empire that earned the respect and fear of its neighbors. After Hylan came Machus, everything his father was two-fold. Yvonta was the most prosperous that it had been in far too long when King Machus suddenly died, leaving the throne to his son. The Prince was like his father and grandfather in many ways, and those traits were what gave him the support from most in favor of his rule, but the prince was more ambitious than even his father had been. Hylan and Machus wanted to take back what was theirs and protect it, the prince wanted to expand and push Yvonta's borders further outward, and it was because of this greed, as some called it, that the more religious of the people were wary of the soon-to-be king.
Adela was an infant when she was taken to the High Temple. She had a childhood like no one before her, growing up in a place considered to be Yvonta's most sacred. She was raised by priests and priestesses, mages and seers, taught to be devoted wholly to the gods and their ways. Even the most learned and devoted of the men and women who lived in the Temple had once lived in the outside world, only allowed to join once they reached their nineteenth birthday, but Adela had never lived beyond the Temple walls. She knew the history of her kingdom well, the laws and the customs, but had never experienced it for herself. It was for this reason that when King Machus died, Adela was the one sent to the capital to replace the passed king's Holy Advisor. With each new Yvontan king or queen that came to sit on the throne, the High Temple chose a priest or priestess to join the Royal Council; a woman to balance the king or a man to balance the queen, a godly person to aid a ruler with more power and responsibility than they knew what to do with; and who better to advise the most war-hungry leader in Yvonta's history than her most devout holy servant? The prince, and soon-to-be king, had ambitions thought to be violent and evil by many in the Temple, and Adela's sole purpose was to try to keep the young monarch in check.
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So, I want to make it clear that I am open-minded to any ideas or suggestions that you may have for this story. I don't want this to be a plot that is entirely one-sided with my ideas and none of yours.
With that being said, if you are interested, I do have a blueprint for the religion and history of Yvonta, as well as some ideas if you are into a fantasy/magic-ish element for the story. None of it is set in stone and is all open to alterations that we may make together so that it has both of our touches to it.
The pain inflicted on their land hardened the Yvontan people with each war, but it wasn't until King Hylan came to power as a young man that the kingdom began to fully turn away from their gods and let go of their peaceful nature. Hylan further built their military and intensified the soldiers' training. He began to take full advantage of what their land had to offer and grew Yvonta from a once humble kingdom to a powerful empire that earned the respect and fear of its neighbors. After Hylan came Machus, everything his father was two-fold. Yvonta was the most prosperous that it had been in far too long when King Machus suddenly died, leaving the throne to his son. The Prince was like his father and grandfather in many ways, and those traits were what gave him the support from most in favor of his rule, but the prince was more ambitious than even his father had been. Hylan and Machus wanted to take back what was theirs and protect it, the prince wanted to expand and push Yvonta's borders further outward, and it was because of this greed, as some called it, that the more religious of the people were wary of the soon-to-be king.
Adela was an infant when she was taken to the High Temple. She had a childhood like no one before her, growing up in a place considered to be Yvonta's most sacred. She was raised by priests and priestesses, mages and seers, taught to be devoted wholly to the gods and their ways. Even the most learned and devoted of the men and women who lived in the Temple had once lived in the outside world, only allowed to join once they reached their nineteenth birthday, but Adela had never lived beyond the Temple walls. She knew the history of her kingdom well, the laws and the customs, but had never experienced it for herself. It was for this reason that when King Machus died, Adela was the one sent to the capital to replace the passed king's Holy Advisor. With each new Yvontan king or queen that came to sit on the throne, the High Temple chose a priest or priestess to join the Royal Council; a woman to balance the king or a man to balance the queen, a godly person to aid a ruler with more power and responsibility than they knew what to do with; and who better to advise the most war-hungry leader in Yvonta's history than her most devout holy servant? The prince, and soon-to-be king, had ambitions thought to be violent and evil by many in the Temple, and Adela's sole purpose was to try to keep the young monarch in check.
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So, I want to make it clear that I am open-minded to any ideas or suggestions that you may have for this story. I don't want this to be a plot that is entirely one-sided with my ideas and none of yours.
With that being said, if you are interested, I do have a blueprint for the religion and history of Yvonta, as well as some ideas if you are into a fantasy/magic-ish element for the story. None of it is set in stone and is all open to alterations that we may make together so that it has both of our touches to it.
If you're interested, please reach out! Thanks for reading!
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