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Monthly Wrap-Up Jesus, how is it already the end of April … granted, the last week has felt like it’s been four years long, for several reasons, but still! I truly cannot believe that, in the middle of all the things I’m dealing with right now, I was able to complete a full 30-day challenge
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Character’s Accomplishments Oooh, I have the perfect character for this one! Leah Kwasny was actually one of the first characters I developed for Paradiso – right after Fan, actually – and man, is this woman a force to be reckoned with. She knew exactly who she wanted to be when she was a child; beginning
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Character Phobia(s) Oooooh, this should be fun, but I’m having a hard time choosing which of the characters I haven’t talked about yet. You know what? Somehow I’ve gotten almost to the end of this challenge without talking a bit about Innis Bergonne, a character I invented well before 2016 (which is when I started
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Soundtrack in Paradiso This was originally supposed to be something like “compromises” or whatever, but I just couldn’t figure out anything to write on that topic. So I changed it. Because I can. I have a perpetually evolving YouTube playlist that I continue to use to get into that writing headspace, and it’s creeping up
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Saturday Snippet #4 And without further ado, my final Saturday Snippet. I’m really excited about this one and hope you love it as much as I loved writing it.
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Free Friday or share your hobbies Other than writing? Hm. Well, I like to go to the gym (lifting weights and training for a 5K), to hike, to watch movies/TV, to read, to paint … pretty much standard hobbies. They (plus my ridiculous animals) keep me busy outside of work, so I don’t tend to
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Paradiso aesthetic in gifs I was going to do a mood board of some kind but then I remembered that I have work in the evening and need to sleep, so … gifs it is!
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Would your character have their fortunes told? Although Ash doesn’t follow any particular kind of religion, he is fascinated by the idea of fate and a big universal plan created by some all-knowing something or other. So yes, he would definitely have – and has had – his fortune read. He is very similar to
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Character’s Pet Peeves Doreen Aberra is a high-powered managing editor of one of Paradiso’s major news outlets, known for her general good sense and objective approach to her work. She’s also very much a Type A personality, driven past what most people would consider sane. These traits tend to make her very particular about her
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How would your characters do in the last TV show/movie you watched? Okay, so … I just watched Revenge and yeah, if you haven’t seen it, well, let’s just say it’s brutal as fuck (don’t get me wrong, I absolutely adore Coralie Fargeat’s vision and direction, but yeah, it can be triggering). I didn’t realize
a little more juju 