-dusts off blog-
Apologies!! For the radio silence!!!!! on this blog and on my site as a whole!! About a few-ish months ago I started working full time at a new job, which has been taking up a ton of my time! I'm also really eager to finish up Chapter 2 of Star Quest (I just have 6 more pages left!!) so if I'm not at work, I'm working on that or vibing in the fields of Mistria. :]
This post is just gonna be a repost of a blog post on Tumblr I made some months ago, about a lil project of mine I've been poking at on and off. Enjoy!
Link to the original Tumblr post, posted on May 8, 2024
I was initially gonna make this post exclusive to my site’s blog, but with me wanting to talk more about my projects and OCs on here, I wanted to post this here too!
This is meant for Pillowfort, but I don’t really use Pillowfort much these days, so I’m putting it here and on my blog haha
ANYWAY LET’S GET TO IT! Everything is below the cut, enjoy my ramblings!
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This seemed fun! I found this prompt through Kalechip's recent blog post, which you can find here. Here is the link to the original prompt list on Pillowfort.
I've had this WIP story I pretty much codenamed AWAKEN in my head since November, I talked about it a little bit in one of my newsletter posts, but the basic premise is that a robot (?) wakes up in a field with no other mission than to find the source of a voice they hear from a distant tower.
The November newsletter and a sketchbook posts on my site are the only places where AWAKEN is mentioned, in the future I wanna make a lil landing page for it, like how I did for Ad Astra and Endaria!
Let's start!
Think quick! It’s the dreaded elevator pitch icebreaker: explain your WIP project in less than three sentences! Bonus points if it’s the most horrendous way you could’ve possibly described your project.
A robot finds themselves waking up in a field with no other mission than to find the source of the voice they hear coming from a distant tower.
You know, now that I think about it, I'm not sure if Orion is a robot or not? In their earliest concept they were a robot but I'm not sure if they are one now...
If you had to pick one song or instrumental piece to best represent your project what would it be? If that’s too strict, what genre of music do you think would best fit your project?
This is a tough one! I'm not at the stage where I can imagine what this story would sound like. Hmmm maybe something from Sky?
Introduce us to your main characters. What are their stand-out characteristics?
ORION: Orion is the name of the main character! They're a silent, almost mute, robot who's unsure of their origins. They're skilled with a bow and arrow and they want to know what the voice is that's calling them.
And that's all I have info on for now LOL. I have other characters, but they're not fleshed out to where I wanna talk about them juuuust yet
Introduce us to your setting. Does it have an aesthetic or prominent genre-feel to it? What makes it unique?
Another tough one since I haven't quite figured everything out just yet haha! I imagine the planet the story takes place on, Pheolvian, to be a quiet, peaceful planet, that's settling and recovering after a giant cataclysm.
What genre(s) or theme(s) does your project fall under? Get as specific as you want.
I haven't figured this one out yet either LOL. Something in the fantasy and post apocalyptic genre for sure!
What sparked the idea for your project? What made you decide to begin working on it? Has your project changed since it was first inspired?
AWAKEN I can say was inspired by games like Sky and Journey. As far as the story goes… well I was just writing as it came to me! It started out as a NaNoWriMo project, where I was just writing and writing and I would piece the puzzle together later on.
That was back in November 2023, and as far as changes go, I can say that the idea is becoming more clear in my head. I'm closer to a solid beginning than I was when I started!
How long have you been working on this project? Do you have a guesstimation for how much more work you still have to do for it?
Since November 2023. I don't have a estimate for when I'd like to share it, for now I'm just going with the flow and writing and working on it whenver I feel like it. Also, my mind has been taken up by another project of mine, haha.
There's still a lot of work to be done, but like all of my story projects, this is purely for fun so there's no pressure to complete it!
Do you have an end goal in mind for this project? Is there anything you want to achieve during/with your project? Or are you just enjoying the journey of creating it, unsure where that will take you?
I'm just enjoying the journey with it! Like I said this is all for fun and I just wanna tell a story that appeals to me, haha!
What’s a new skill you’ve learned, or an existing skill you’ve improved while working on this project? Is there anything else you want to learn or improve while working on this project?
I'm hoping to hone out my storytelling and prose skills! While my preferred storytelling medium right now is through comics, or even, deviantART Chat style RP (which is how I write my comic scripts lmao), I do want to iron out my prose.
I used to write a TON of prose as a teen and fell off of it after high school, I'm hoping to get that back haha!
What’s one of your favourite things about your project?
That one's a secret. ;)
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Hey this was a lot of fun! Tbh I might do these same prompts with other projects of mine!