Audrey I love it!!! I’ll totally read it, though I’ll be like 19 when it comes out (books take ages to get edited and published, not to mention written). Or I’ll give it to my kids “You know, Mommy’s not the only person who was a teen author. This was written by one of my friends, known to us as [name_f]Audrey[/name_f], on a website that I’ll give you accounts to later.”
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Yeah nanowrimo is where you try to write 50k words in a month, I’m moreso aiming to just write a bit every day and won’t be focusing too much on the word count.
The supernatural element is going to be pretty entwined with some religious history stuff - [name_f]Ivy[/name_f]'s specific research interest is [name_u]Julian[/name_u] of Norwich, a christian mystic from the late 1300s who had visions of god while seriously ill and then survived and became an anchoress and wrote about her visions. [name_u]Arden[/name_u] is a mystic of sorts, one who talks to spirits and sees beyond this world. And because she’s so young and there is so much darkness, she’s struggling with this power she has - her parents and aunts are trying to help her but they don’t know how to. [name_u]Arden[/name_u] is a big part of [name_f]Ivy[/name_f]'s life and as [name_f]Lydia[/name_f] becomes part of [name_f]Ivy[/name_f]'s life, she also becomes attached to [name_u]Arden[/name_u] and unlike the relatively normal humans, she is more capable of helping [name_u]Arden[/name_u].
As for what kind of vampire [name_f]Lydia[/name_f] is, I’m unsure if I want her to be one of the blood sucking ones who was turned by another vampire 100 years ago or if I want her to be a psy-vampire who feeds off of emotions and became a vampire some other way.
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Thank you for such an interesting topic and good words. [name_m]Matvey[/name_m] is worthy attention and interest, yeah 
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So. I’m back. But this time with a story completely unrelated to the ones I’ve done before!
Title
Dynasty of [name_u]Night[/name_u] was the title of the short story I first wrote for this idea, which has expanded into a much longer project. The name is the same, for now.
Target demographic/age group
Adult women, ages 18-25
Genre
Adult fiction (it would be rated R for language lol)
Medium
Currently have plans for a trilogy!
Setting
2023/2024, in a small fictional college town called [name_u]Canyon[/name_u] [name_m]Young[/name_m], which is in Southern [name_u]California[/name_u].
Names of main characters
[name_f]Amara[/name_f] [name_f]Fiammetta[/name_f] Acerbi- 19/20. [name_m]Long[/name_m] light brown hair (gets super light in the sun), brown eyes, short build. She’s persistent, strong, impulsive, introverted, a bit vengeful, and confident. At age 8, she approached an assassin and tried to hire her to get rid of her abusive stepfather (whom she lived with following the death of her mother). The assassin did it for free and adopted [name_f]Amara[/name_f], showing her the ropes of the crime world. The seven people in her assassins group are based off the seven deadly sins. She is wrath.
Edmund [name_m]Manuel[/name_m] Wechsler “[name_u]Teddy[/name_u]”- 20/21. [name_u]Light[/name_u] brown skin (mom is Puerto Rican, dad is [name_m]German[/name_m] and black Dominican), short curly black hair, brown eyes. [name_f]Amara[/name_f]’s best friend and future love interest. Middle of 5 siblings. Currently in community college studying economics. He’s quiet, sly, clever, and a bit of a kleptomaniac. His sin is greed.
Carys [name_f]Emma[/name_f] [name_f]Rose[/name_f]- 22. [name_m]Long[/name_m] blonde hair, blue eyes, curvy body. She got kicked out of her catholic parents’ house for promiscuous behavior and makes ends meet by working at a bar and with [name_f]Amara[/name_f]. She’s loud, brash, unapologetic, and social. Her sin is lust.
Winslow [name_f]Emerald[/name_f] Schenk- 19. Shoulder-length black hair, tanned skin, curvy body. She’s a student at the local university (a fictional one called [name_u]Canyon[/name_u] [name_m]Young[/name_m]). Her dad is a celebrity who cut her off after she nearly got kicked out of school for partying too hard during her first semester. She’s materialistic, social, confident, and loves food. Her sin is gluttony.
Kian [name_m]Amir[/name_m] [name_u]Dempsey[/name_u]- 20. [name_u]Red[/name_u] hair, brown eyes. He’s quirky, funny, popular, social, a little narcissistic, and loves watching documentaries (it’s a running gag in the story where he’ll say a random fact and then say he saw it in a documentary for school, which someone will call him out for). His sin is pride.
Livia [name_f]Hadassah[/name_f] Zielinski- 21. [name_m]Long[/name_m] blonde hair, blue eyes. She’s smart, resourceful, loves social media, and is the queen of internet stalking (in a good way). Her sin is envy.
Layla [name_m]Theron[/name_m]- 43. Curly black hair, brown eyes. She’s the assassin known as the [name_u]Night[/name_u] Huntress who adopts [name_f]Amara[/name_f] and raises her. She used to work with [name_f]Amara[/name_f]’s mom and believes her to still be alive, something that [name_f]Amara[/name_f] isn’t aware of until [name_f]Layla[/name_f] dies early in the story
(The other sin is sloth. His name is [name_m]Stellan[/name_m] [name_m]Sanders[/name_m]. He dies early in the story.
Blurb
- At age 8, [name_f]Amara[/name_f] hires an assassin to kill her stepfather and moves in with her.
- 11 years later, [name_f]Amara[/name_f] has her own team and has started doing jobs like [name_f]Layla[/name_f], her mentor.
- When [name_f]Layla[/name_f] is murdered, [name_f]Amara[/name_f] is plunged into a world of secrets that involve her mother, her living stepbrother, and a dangerous secret power that seems to be behind it all.
- As her team members are targeted in ways related to the seven deadly sins, she’s forced to confront it all before the secrets kill her too.
Extras
I’m planning a side story about the Protected Children, which is a group of kids who live across the country (near Jacksonville, [name_f]Florida[/name_f]) who are connected to [name_f]Amara[/name_f]. Basically, when [name_f]Layla[/name_f] started researching [name_f]Amara[/name_f]’s mom’s disappearance, she realized that it went so much deeper than just [name_f]Alana[/name_f]. She made a list of children who were related to people who have similarly gone missing in hopes that other assassins and criminals would keep an eye on them and protect them. [name_f]Amara[/name_f] is the first on the Protected Children list.
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Excerpt
8 [name_u]December[/name_u] 2012, 10:42pm
[name_m]Durham[/name_m] [name_f]Street[/name_f]– [name_u]North[/name_u] Los [name_f]Angeles[/name_f], CA
Eight-year-old [name_f]Amara[/name_f] [name_m]Haines[/name_m] stood by the lamppost on the corner of [name_m]Durham[/name_m] [name_f]Street[/name_f] and Merchants Avenue, shuffling her feet as she waited for the light to change. Another pedestrian stood nearby but [name_f]Amara[/name_f] didn’t acknowledge them. She inched closer to the road, praying that they weren’t the type to target little girls. She had followed a young couple from the bus station to the previous crosswalk, hoping to convince others that she was with them but leaving enough distance that they didn’t get suspicious. Unfortunately, they had turned down the wrong street and now [name_f]Amara[/name_f] was alone.
Her black sweatshirt swallowed her tiny body and she tugged down the hood to cover the bruises around her eyes. Despite the sharp nighttime desert wind, she was comfortable. She had hoped the giant hoodie would hide her identity and make her seem larger but the coziness was an added bonus. She otherwise only wore a pair of leggings and her thin pajama shirt, which would’ve had her shivering as soon as she stepped out of the house.
Amara thumbed the wad of cash buried in her pocket: thirty-eight dollars and seventeen cents, scraped together from her piggy bank, sock drawer, and the space between the couch cushions. She had been saving for weeks, hiding the money in different places every few days to prevent her stepbrother from stealing it. He was one of the reasons she needed it.
She’d heard of an assassin known as the [name_u]Night[/name_u] Huntress from her stepfather’s associates. Whenever her stepbrother complained about [name_f]Amara[/name_f]’s presence being annoying—which was quite often—[name_u]Dorian[/name_u] solved the issue by sitting her in the corner of his office to finish homework. She remained there for hours and he sometimes forgot she was there (or not deaf) when he took phone calls. Some of them would get rather dark.
Dorian owned a talent agency in downtown Los [name_f]Angeles[/name_f] and had plenty of enemies he could unleash the [name_u]Night[/name_u] Huntress on, if only he weren’t too chicken.
Amara wasn’t.
She didn’t quite know what an assassin was but the man on the phone, Mr. [name_m]Romano[/name_m], said they make bad people go away. As far as she could tell, [name_u]Dorian[/name_u] [name_m]Haines[/name_m] was as bad as they came.
According to Mr. [name_m]Romano[/name_m], one could contact the assassin by leaving a fee of five-thousand dollars and the name of the target in a mailbox. The location changed frequently since the police eventually caught on each time but the most recent mailbox was just off of [name_m]Durham[/name_m] [name_f]Street[/name_f]. As [name_f]Amara[/name_f] crossed the road, she saw the rusting metal box hiding in the shadows ahead.
She couldn’t find five-thousand dollars in time so she made an addition to the note promising that she would pay once she found the money. Hopefully the [name_u]Night[/name_u] Huntress would understand.
Amara glanced around to make sure no one had followed her. The other pedestrian at the crosswalk had buzzed into a nearby apartment building but the shadows made it hard to tell. [name_f]Amara[/name_f] winced as the lid of the mailbox creaked.
She peered inside, wondering if anyone else had left something. The darkness below seemed to go on for eternity, as if the box had no end. A penny slipped from her grasp and landed on the metal floor with a clank, reassuring her that the mailbox had a bottom. She held the rest, ready to dump it, when a hand seized her shoulder.
“What are you doing, kid?”
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@Theodora_Phoenix If you’re okay with it, I’d love to see that drawing! 
(Also, I think they ages are fine, since it’s just platonic at that time.)
@12queen That’s a great start! I’m curious where the sci-fi comes in! Is the world a sci-fi one, or do the characters go on an adventure with an unusual sci-fi aspect?
@SparkleNinja18 Dang, you’re writing is always good. And your names. [name_u]Winslow[/name_u] [name_f]Emerald[/name_f] 
This sounds like a very interesting plot, so are the assassins being targeted by other assassins?
Guys, I have a couple paper and exam coming up, so I’m not on here as much, but I love all your stories, and please keep using this thread if you have more you want to share 
Aw thank you 
[name_u]Winslow[/name_u]’s name was a lot of fun to come up with because she’s the daughter of celebrities so I felt like I could get wild!
Yes, they are targeted by other assassins. In the first book, they’re all hired by [name_f]Amara[/name_f]’s stepbrother, [name_m]Gabe[/name_m], who is later revealed to have just been a pawn.
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All credits for this final written plot: @olympia.michelle! Character credits: @milqtea (Me!), @olympia.michelle, @Sidney_Lucille, @the.vintage.scribe, and @jeeps!
Okay, sorry I’m late. I love this dialogue idea, but I think I got this plot perfect. I ruined everyone’s characters, including my own, so sorry in advance. No one has to even read this, but I wanted to share it.
The characters are as they were in the first place. Laurie’s mother is so sick she can’t take care of the kids or do her chores. Laurie’s dad asks around for some help around the house. Albert Coleman (senior) volunteers Constance, who he hopes will deem Laurie an appropriate husband.
Constance is well beyond the suitable age to marry, but Mr. Coleman hopes that her good deed for the Hawthorne family will convince them to let her marry Laurie. Except, Constance needs to take care of her siblings. She doesn’t want a husband. Constance doesn’t want the job, but has no choice. She asks her friend Adeline to accompany her. Adeline accepts, grateful for the excuse to get out of the house. Adeline loves her family but is sometimes overwhelmed by them.
While taking care of the Hawthorne house, Constance attempts to convince Laurie to marry someone else with money, of course to no avail given Laurie is gay. Constance then moves to Charlotte and tells Charlotte how proud her father will be if Charlotte steps up to marry. Charlotte agrees, but doesn’t know who to marry.
Victoria and her step-brother, August, come to the Hawthorne residence often. Victoria and Charlotte are best friends, and so are August and Laurie. While being at the house with Constance, Adeline falls madly in love with Victoria.
One day, Adeline goes looking for Victoria but instead inadvertently finds August and Laurie together. Adeline tells Constance immediately.
Constance hatches a plan. August’s family has money. She tells August that if he doesn’t marry Charlotte she will expose August and Laurie’s secret. August agrees to marry Charlotte in fear of the truth getting out. Charlotte agrees to marry August to help her mother. Mr. Hawthorne is very grateful to his daughter for her sacrifice. Charlotte and August’s marriage will take care of Mrs. Hawthorne’s treatment.
Charlotte got both his Lauries’s father’s pride and Laurie’s August. Laurie feels betrayed by both his sister and August. In a fit of rage, he proposes to Victoria, Charlotte’s best friend and August’s step-sister. Victoria accepts, dumbstruck. Everything is set in stone. Adeline, hearing the news of Victoria’s engagement, panics. Adeline confesses her love for Victoria, but Victoria doesn’t know what to do.
[name_u]Laurie[/name_u]’s mother dies. Unexpectedly. Suddenly, all of the plans are for nothing. Charlotte and Laurie don’t need to get married. Should they call everything off?
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I forgot to mention that this story is set in the early 1800s, so sorry about that, lol!
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@Theodora_Phoenix No offense, but he’s perfect. It’s hard to overstate my love for him. (I’m proud that my mental image of him was so spot on. You’re good at describing characters!) (also, really, I would die for him)
@milqtea I was actually following this story on the other thread while it unfolded. The drama! I quite enjoyed it 
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Aw, thanks so much! He’s definitely my favorite right now.
I’m almost done with episode 4 of my video series. I decided to keep going even though the quality isn’t good. I didn’t even draw the characters in them; I just used a free app to make them. 
(Well, the drawing of Felixander is mine, but I didn’t include it in any of the videos).
I’ve really got to get back to actually writing the story. It shouldn’t be too hard now, since I already wrote a little bit of it.
And do some more drawings. But Felixander was first, because like I said, he’s my favorite.
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Yay thanks (I was involved, I’m the creator/voice of [name_f]Victoria[/name_f] [name_m]Fitzroy[/name_m])!
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Title: [name_m]Lowell[/name_m] [name_u]Loyal[/name_u], Adventures of
Demographics/Ratings: Children! I don’t know a specific age range, probably around six or something, idk, but I’d like everyone to be able to enjoy it. No ratings to worry about.
Genre: [name_f]Fantasy[/name_f], I guess?
Medium/format: Picture book. Like, most of the page is picture, but the text is a paragraph or so at the top of each page.
Characters: Well, no surprise that the main character is named [name_m]Lowell[/name_m] [name_u]Loyal[/name_u]. He’s a do-gooder knight-slash-prince sort of guy, a young man in armor with a shield and spear. He’s meant to be a sort of blank face for the kids to maybe imagine themselves in his place.
There’s a few other characters I have planned, but they mostly just show up for one ‘chapter’ to help/hinder [name_m]Lowell[/name_m]. A few of them are the Beautiful Monster, [name_m]Little[/name_m] [name_m]Gold[/name_m] Things, the Dark Friends and the Laughing Grims. The more important ones are Space [name_f]Sister[/name_f], [name_m]Skyden[/name_m] Steadfast, and the Twelve Giants. Not great names, I know!
Blurb: I don’t have one, so I’ll just talk about it a bit more. [name_m]Lowell[/name_m] is off exploring the land of his kingdom. It’s to learn how to be a better king when the time comes, though it isn’t stated outright. Now he’s trying to get back to his father, the king, and his mother, the queen, although he is a far way from home. Along the way he meets strange strangers. Sometimes he helps them, or teaches them about life, or they teach him in a myriad of ways. His spear has a white flag/banner sort of thing on it, and he writes important things/life lessons on it, or maybe attributes he’s learned like ‘loyalty’ ‘courage’ ‘compassion’ yada yada. He collects these throughout the different chapters, of which there is planned to be about twelve, each chapter with a different adventure.
Excerpt: Upon the crest of the last hill, it was seen that a wide plain was before him. “Never have I seen such a barren and empty place before, full of nothing,” [name_m]Lowell[/name_m] said. But a breeze stirred, and the long grass whispered with a child’s voice, saying “How can you say that I am nothing? I am the rhythm. I am all that you see before you.”
[name_m]Lowell[/name_m] knelt down to the earth to murmur an apology. “[name_m]Will[/name_m] you talk with me,” he asked. “as I travel through?”
(I don’t actually have anything solid written down, I just did this super quickly to get an idea of it. Probably less detail, as the pictures would cover that.)
Extras: It’s supposed to be very understated. More just a book to have on your kid’s shelf, really, or something to read to them to bore them to sleep. I wanted the pictures to be fairly detailed, but just line illustrated, with not much color beyond grays and sepias. It started with a vague idea that I wanted a character named [name_m]Lowell[/name_m] [name_u]Loyal[/name_u], but when my nephew was born, I actually started to think about it, and what kind of things my sister might want him to read growing up, something light and wholesome. I could never do the art how I’m picturing it, but I think I could do some more cartoony ones instead, which would probably be better suited to kids, anyway.
Questions: I don’t really have any questions. I’m open to ideas, though, if any of you have any about getting moral lessons across to kids in a bizarre way. Like, the Laughing Grims are fun but act as distractions, trying to pull [name_m]Lowell[/name_m] away from important things, and the Beautiful Monster is a huge bird/dragon thing that has been covered in dirt and mud for so long it forgot it was beautiful, ect. Nonsense things like that. I don’t know, this is such a dumb idea, I’m so nervous about posting it
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I love your idea to pieces! That sounds like such an awesome way to introduce young people to bigger discussions that they’ll encounter as they grow. I would absolutely get such a book for my little cousin (:
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Oh goodness, thank you so much!
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No problem! (Also I peeked at your user card and I really enjoy your names there! Sorry ik this is off topic!)
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You’re so sweet, thank you for the encouraging comments I like quite a lot of your names, too! ([name_f]Amaryllis[/name_f] is truly a hidden gem, imo)
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Title: Imperial Crown or The royal game of the Pawns maybe “against the current” I haven’t decided which one.
Demographic /age group: Its YA. basically targetted for 14- 21-year-old. [name_m]Gore[/name_m], maybe. violence and deaths, a lot. politics, a little more than necessary.
Genre: [name_u]Adventure[/name_u]. young adult. thriller
The medium: a novel
Names:
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Petra Ivanek: She is a young prodigy. She is a medical student and also works in the Imperial research department. She is smart, typically a Slytherin. But down to earth and sweet. She has is easily stressed and is perfection driven. Anything other than perfect is straight out no.
*Ziven [name_m]Emmerich[/name_m] (I am yet to settle his surname): He works in The imperial Investigatory division (spy) and was [name_f]Petra[/name_f]’s schoolmate. He was initially [name_f]Petra[/name_f]’s rival because both of them gave the national exam, only for [name_f]Petra[/name_f] to rank first and he landed second (jealousy, duh!) He is the calm, straight-headed, patient and logical guy of the crew. A bit flirty. Douchebag, in the beginning, a loveable boy by the end. - Marchelia: She is the princess of the neighbouring nation. A rebel. Loudmouth and picks fight with whoever wrongs her. Has a soft heart yet wouldn’t think twice before hitting someone.
Blurb: Three nations, two groups and the race for one imperial crown. The young girl’s’ life changes as she gets a chance to meet the princess. [name_f]Petra[/name_f] finds herself in between the devil and the ocean as she is kidnapped by the insurgents to help them get into the [name_u]Royal[/name_u] system of [name_f]Imperia[/name_f] and has also become the prime witness of the Emperor’s assassination. Running for her life, she has no option now, but to play the game of death and defiance.
Extract: “Current posting, 5th division. Grade A Medical research department. [name_u]Experience[/name_u] of twenty-two months. Have contributed towards project [name_f]Alpha[/name_f] D-7, Gen1 B, Project NaLZA to name a few. Secured the first place in the imperial examination. Daughter of Ivanek Zoan, Head of the Capitol Police.” [name_f]Petra[/name_f] shuddered as each word came out from the man’s mouth. Head filled with the most outrageous ideas that could possibly happen to her.
“I used to think your name was [name_f]Patricia[/name_f]. But none the less, impressive.” The man replied.
[name_f]Petra[/name_f] was brought back from her string of thought. She jolted at the man’s words, giving him a quizzical look.
“I said.” He repeated. “impressive account, Miss Ivanek.”
“Thank you, sir.” [name_f]Petra[/name_f] managed to speak without shuddering, letting out a sigh.
“And I hope, Miss Ivanek that you are working on some project, with professor [name_m]Yuvan[/name_m]? Or are you busy with your classes?” The senior questioned the young lady. That had her mouth shut. There were two options in front of her, tell him the truth or lie your way. She chooses the former one.
“no sir. I am currently not appointed for any project.” Not revealing the complete fact. How could she tell someone that she was banned from working on any new project as a punishment from her division head?
“is that so? I heard you were quite busy.” he chimed, staring straight into her dark orbs. “well then, Your accounts are as impressive as it made to look. You aren’t politically involved, I wonder how you caught the eyes of the royalty.” He murmured the last statement. “But then again, [name_m]Ziven[/name_m] [name_m]Emmerich[/name_m] has caused enough troubles for you to attract a national audience.”
Though [name_f]Petra[/name_f] managed a fake smile, she couldn’t help but curse [name_m]Ziven[/name_m] under her breathe.
“I would have transferred you into my division soon, Miss Ivanek.” The man mentioned. “Perhaps it isn’t an everyday sight to find prodigies like you. Eighteen, and the only person appointed at both Project [name_f]Alpha[/name_f] and NaLZA. Part of two of the biggest successes of our Nation.”
“you are flattering me, sir. I just did what I was asked to.” And she internally cringed at this dialogue. But perhaps, she couldn’t help. She had practised this dialogues more than a thousand times on her way to the [name_m]General[/name_m]’s office.
His lips curled at the statement, getting up from his seat, he treaded towards her. “I would like to ask you, [name_f]Petra[/name_f] Ivanek, are you free on [name_m]Saturday[/name_m] evening?”
And this wasn’t something [name_f]Petra[/name_f] had imagined the general would ask her. Of all the things he could ask, was it for this that he called her for?
“Yes sir. I’m free.” She lied. Of course, she wasn’t. But then again, schedules could be changed. “I am free on [name_m]Saturday[/name_m].”
“Excellent.” He nodded, now mere inches away from her. His dark hairs were falling on his eyes, shading them, as he bent down towards her. “I expect you to appear at the [name_m]King[/name_m]’s Residence, sharp at 6, [name_m]Saturday[/name_m]. A guest would be eager to meet you, miss Ivanek.” He hissed.
“A-and who, who would that be, sir?” she spoke out a little too early, out of curiosity.
“The princess of Rouswieth. Asked me Personally to meet you.”
“m-me?” [name_f]Petra[/name_f] asked, her eyes wide from shock. Maybe satisfaction and surprise too. She had no idea that she was internationally famous. The king and the nobles, she has met them all. But this one was totally unexpected.
“well, do you mind?”
‘No sir!”
“Well then, I expect you there, miss. [name_m]Sharp[/name_m] 6. You can go now.”
Yes, sr.” She turned around to towards the door. Emotions bursting inside her. She just couldn’t put her finger why she was being called, but whatever the reason may be, she was getting some really good treatment.
“and yes, Miss ivanek.” The general called out just before she was to exit the room. “do tell, my brother dear that he should stop snooping around and causing you trouble.”
“I will sir. Thank you, sir.”
**The question I wanted to ask was …how do you find [name_f]Petra[/name_f]? She is lovable? does she strike as a character you would like to see as the protagonist? What do you think she looks like? **
and what about the general? What imagery do you form in your head when you see him?
and …do you think my story is fine…?
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Another [name_f]Petra[/name_f] author! It’s a fantastic name, isn’t it? 
Except my [name_f]Petra[/name_f] is the very definition of a Gryffindor haha.
I’m too invested in my own story to think of [name_f]Petra[/name_f] as looking different from my [name_f]Petra[/name_f] at first glance: long red hair, short, left-handed, always fidgeting with the wrap on her arm. As I see her more and differentiate her from my [name_f]Petra[/name_f] though, I’d be convinced.
I think the premise is super interesting! I’m invested in why [name_f]Petra[/name_f] is meeting with the princess.