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Moodboards for books I wanna write part 1;

Story Title; The Fleeting Five.

Summary; A story about 5 individuals from 5 different worlds. A story of friendship, sticking to the man, betrayal, and revenge. A story of cat and mouse. This is a story of rock, paper, scissors....

Genere; Action.

It's a heist story based on 'A Heist in Monaco' from Choices.

Theme Song/Intro; 'Partners in Crime'.

Story Title; Not So Holly Jolly Holidays.

Summary; A group of friends travel to their friend's half brother's place for a Christmas get together only to start dropping like flies. Making this winter holiday anything but jolly.

Genre; Horror-Comedy.

It's a Christmas horror comedy, in case you didn't notice.

Theme Song/Intro; ‘I’ll Be Buried By Christmas’.

Story Title; Color Me a Mate.

Summary; In a world where you see everything in black and white until you meet your true love, a little girl meets hers at a pool party. Now, 10 years later, she has to figure out which of the boys from the pool are the one. Which is harder than it should be.

Genre; Romance.

It's a love story that's more than a little odd.

Theme Song/Intro; 'True Colors'.

Story Title; Welcome to Nowhere.

Summary; This is a tale of a land no one but children can find. A land with an ever changing landscape. A land were monsters lurk and children work, with no memory of who they are or were. Which leaves them wondering what happened to them and why they can't even remember their own names.

Genre; Mystery.

A story of a land that children rule-- where monsters roam and the kids try to remember their home. Based loosely on the Ed, Edd, and Eddy Purgatory theory and the story of Peter Pan.

Theme Song/Intro; 'Nowhere Kids.'

Story Title; The Deadly Game Of Life: Year One.

Summary; What happens when the survivors of the zombie apocalypse consist of mainly children? Well, they turn it into a game and adapt of course.

Genre; Horror/thriller/fantasy?

This is basically a story where a bunch of kids survive the original outbreak of the zombie apocalypse, use resources to keep things like electricity alive, and turn it into a game to survive. Making colonies that they call 'Kingdoms'.

Theme Song/Intro; 'Teenagers'.

“Protection from fairies” is no substitute for a condom with your supernatural partner.

Quotes From My Characters (Part 2);

-Captain Shadow from 'Welcome To Nowhere'.

I was worldbuilding two bog standard fantasy species, wise old tree dudes and impulsive little rat guys, when I realized it was far funnier if they had each other's personalities.

The rat guys think fast and talk fast, but they're incredibly conservative and like to cover all the angles before they take any action. This comes with being a prey species: their ancestral environment had lots of clever traps and devious hazards, so you get rat councils wisely working the problem.

The tree dudes speak and move slowly, but they will propose and then do the most insane things you can imagine. They can slot together a rocket in an afternoon and will then use it without so much as a test fire first. They test new potions by quaffing them down, sometimes not even waiting for it to cool (though they're tree dudes, so I guess quaffing a potion just means pouring it over their root legs). This comes from the ancestral selection process too: the tree dudes that won were the ones that took big risks, that grew faster, stronger, and tried new things without worrying about consequences. The tree dudes evolved in an era when they had no natural predators and their only competition was each other.

And this is, of course, initially confusing for any human who makes contact with them. If a giant bearded tree nods at you solemnly and tells you to go through a portal, your first thought is not that he's curious about what will happen to spacetime. And if a hyperactive little rat guy tells you with some urgency that you must accompany him into a ruined city, you won't immediately think that this is step 11 of his branching 27 step plan.

Basic overlooked worldbuilding questions

Whether you are writing a futuristic dystopia or a cloud city of dragons, you need to figure out how people get basic supplies. These are often the most overlooked worldbuilding questions since it’s more fun to think about how cultures honor the dead or where the mountain ranges are, but answers are necessary to create a complete world.

-Where does the water come from and how is it distributed?

-Who makes the food?

-Who transports and distributes the food?

-If your world has modern utilities, are they widespread or only for the rich? For that matter, do utilities have to be modified to work in your world (for example, electric lines with anti-magic coating)?

-What happens to trash?

-What happens to sewage? 

-What building materials are available?

-What do people do when they get sick?

-What do people do in the case of a natural disaster?

-What do people do in the case of a fire?

-How are large objects moved?

-How are items that take skilled labor to make created and distributed?

Remember, the answers might be different for people at different economic levels.

Modern Monsters

Demon kids loitering outside of convenience stores, lighting up cigarettes with their own flames

Werewolf girls snarling at men who dare to cat call them, baring fangs to show they are not to be trifled with

Sirens crooning into a mic in a smoky bar, voices resonating with otherworldly passion

Vampire EMTs taking night classes and struggling to get into medical school

Alarunes dutifully tending to their gardens, whispering encouragement to their seedlings

Satyrs being the most charming baristas ever seen, flirting with every customer

Gorgons uploading fashion tips and make up tricks onto their blogs

Nagas chatting with their centaur friends about how hard it is to workout when you’re not bipedal

Sphinxes posing annoying riddles at a train stop and then leaving

Hybrid monster kids not being sure where they belong but learning to love themselves anyway

Men like to believe theyd be great in apocalypse scenarios but they dont even know how to sew

Quotes From My Characters (Part 4);

-Erica Triggs, from 'The Deadly Game Of Life'.

The Deadly Game of Life (Year 1) Cover:

Summary: What happens when the survivors of the zombie apocalypse consist of mainly children? Well, they turn it into a game and adapt of course.

Genres: Post-apocalyptic, fantasy, etc.

Can we talk about how in zombie shows/movies/books they always find a veterinarian and not a surgeon? Are veterinarians deemed more likely to survive the apocalypse?