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@musewrangler

Where I write Star Wars, return to my artistic roots, and appreciate tall ships. In between wrangling muses I have a day job and adore baking. I’m on ao3 as wishfulthinking1979.
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Last Line Game

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like).

Thanks for the tag @cacodaemonia!

Here's the last line I wrote of a new fic I started. Shockingly, it's not related to Star Wars.

On the nights River waved to Jerzie's twin, she would feel that cold, and sometimes those invisible cobwebs, and she'd hide under her blankets until morning.

I wonder if anyone can guess the fandom. 😄

Thanks for the tag!

Otto was, privately, very amused by the ensuing negotiations.
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Thank you for the tag! From my yet unpublished wip—

The sofa was comfortable. The child was asleep. Plo could meditate with the little warm body cuddled close to him.

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I have been tagged in... so many writing tag games recently. So many. I have lost track of them all. So I am starting a new one.

Rules: Start a new post and post the last line of your WiP. Tag as many people as you like because let's face it none of us know as many people as there are words in our last lines.

The fields and hedgerows outside were lush and green, fields of ripening wheat rippling in the sunlight and flowers dotting color across the pastures.

Tagging as many people as I can remember; if you tagged me and I've forgotten consider yourself tagged.

@winterinhimring (so many tags) @kraytwriter @afaroffsong @muse-write I think @musewrangler also tagged me at some point uhhhhh... @catkin-morgs-kookaburralover @paranorahjones @talesfromgringolandia @scleroticstatue @holbytlanna umm... do I know anyone else who writes? If so tag yourself.

"What are you getting at, here?" Harry asked, slightly mollified.

Thank you for the tag, @thegreenleavesofspring! Yay for new writing games. I'll add @accidental-spice, @kanerallels, @ghosts-and-blue-sweaters, and anyone else who wants to play.

She could hear Dawn shouting her name over the crowd of 7th and 8th graders gathered near the school entrance. She looked up to see Dawn, waving her hands in the air, still shouting her name. Her blue eyes were shining with happiness. The sight put a small smile to Mikayla's face, momentarily forgetting her thoughts on her dream.

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We are a prolific bunch aren't we? xD I've been tagged AT LEAST four times, so that's the number we're going with. Thank you @lady-merian @winterinhimring @thehappybaker @thegreenleavesofspring

Here are four lines of the latest WIP.

Luke’s little body…limp in only the way Death could bring… Padme wrenched her mind from that moment—the darkest of her life—and took several deep breaths. She was the Queen, damn it.  All else must drop below her duty. All else including old affections and the certainty of her sister’s anguish.
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WIP Tag Game

Rules: Rules: If you are tagged, you have to work on your WIP until you write a sentence that contains at least one word from the sentence given to you by the person who tagged you. Then post that sentence and tag as many people as you want. Tag-backs are not only allowed, but encouraged! >:)

@lady-merian just tagged me again in this game and suggested she should start a new reblog chain, which seems like a good idea--that other one is ridiculously long. I'm adopting the word thing from her in this sentence.

Perhaps a regime change was needed. Fresh blood and new ideas and all that sort of thing.

So if @lady-merian @winterinhimring @musewrangler and @let-the-whump-commence want to jump on this chain, feel free. (You may consider these tags just a transfer from the old rb chain if you don't want to be tagged twice.) If you want to take those tags elsewhere, that's okay too.

Tagging @rainintheevening (you said you want to write) and @griseldabanks

I just saw @winterinhimring tagged me on that other post too. Borrowing the word "press" from that one.

The evening of the first day of the recess, the text of the speech the Emperor had planned to give on Empire Day was released anonymously to the press.

Hmmm...tagging anyone who did not stay up to see the new year in last night.

Whelp, that tag got me! I was going to try and write to an interesting word, but all I've got for tonight is 'the':

It was just hard to focus on anything except the thought that he was actually going to see Peter Two again – and his intense curiosity about how that was possible if (as Bucky had implied) the universe wasn't broken again.

I'm starting to lose track of who I have and haven't tagged, so I'll just make this an open tag for anyone who's scrolling Tumblr to procrastinate on a writing project.

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Okay first of all, @winterinhimring 😂 that kind of tag will always get me.

Also tagged by @kraytwriter. Here’s a sentence that has a word from each of you:

“You’re right, of course. It’s just… any ideas of how to go about it?”

Tagging you both back naturally. Also @afaroffsong, and @informedimagining and @let-the-whump-commence

I think we're all vulnerable to that kind of tag, honestly! Goodness knows it's gotten me before too.

"It's not about protecting me!" Gwen exclaimed, no longer bothering to keep her voice down.
It took a deal of pacing and muttering nothing in particular before she felt herself collected enough to return. Her parents would be unsurprised by her lengthy absence; it was just part of being her, being Patience, being autistic. She wondered if her parents would love the other child more, assuming she was ‘normal’ like Patience was not. If pressed they would exclaim that nobody could love a child more than they loved Patience, but she had long since learned to take that advice lightly.
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Tagged by @kraytwriter and am totally using the word ‘and’ 😂

The Resolve shook again under another missile strike and Piett flailed a little, gripping Matt’s arm tightly for balance.

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WIP tag game

rules: Make a new post and post the latest line your WIP & tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like)

Ok, once again, the mutuals are at it with rapid fire tagging here. So I know I was tagged at least seven times and I'm just about treading water to keep up. xD

A nervous looking woman in a pale lilac robe was seated by the fountain, gazing around furtively at all the beings milling about. The sun was setting and the radiance of its rays through the branches of the tree was fairly breathtaking. Very romantic actually. Luke tamped down hard on that thought, but he knew he was too late by the fierce surge of irritation he felt from the woman beside him. “Really, Skywalker?” she growled softly. “I know you’re a farmboy and all, but surely you have enough experience not to touch a hot stove?” He hid his smile as he looked down at his outstretched legs and slightly dusty black boots.  “Both you and Leia point out that I’m a nerfherder, so…” “Nerf,” Mara cut in immediately, her tone sharp. “Your sister gives you enough credit to be a herder. I don’t. Focus.”

Whacking with a dodgeball---@winterinhimring @kraytwriter

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WIP Tag Game

Rules: make a new post and post the latest line in your WIP & tag as many people as there are words

Max leans over to get it.

Tagging @winterinhimring back of course, and @afaroffsong @kraytwriter I know I know other writing people but I am drawing an absolute blank here so if you see this post fill your name in.

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Tagged twice by @winterinhimring, once by @brievel and once by @lady-merian. (You are all tagged-back.)

He tossed and turned, eyes stubbornly shut against the night but mind filled with visions of dragonfire and battle and his own little cottage, burned to the ground. But morning came and he found that, although there was nothing in the world he was more opposed to than the very idea of this quest, he could not bear the thought of leaving his lifelong friends and companions to hunt this, perhaps the greatest treasure of all time, without him. He met them outside the tavern at first light. Percy and Robin were clearly pleased, though they said nothing; Basil greeted him, solemnly, with a nod.
Percy seemed unbothered, gnawing away on an apple as Basil looked over the map one last time.

Also tagging @ladyphlogiston if you want to join in. <3

Thank you for the tag, @afaroffsong! I wasn't going to get any writing done this evening but you and all my writing friends have helped me get past that. ;-) Also, you are tagged back.

Web it up and toss it over to me.

Tagging @kraytwriter, @melliabee, @musewrangler, and anyone else who'd like to join.

Noon approached swiftly. Basil had the horses saddled and ready for his four companions; he spent his last few minutes waiting eating a hurried lunch of bread and apples. Percy was the first to arrive, with an excessive amount of provisions and trinkets. 
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Aha thank you @afaroffsong and @winterinhimring ! Tagged twice so here you are—two lines.

“Please, Firmus,” she said more gently. “We can both be near Max this way.”
Well, she had a point there.

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lady-merian

Last sentence tag game

tagged last year by @urban-hart, @called-kept, @winterinhimring, and @scarvenartist (twice!) and @kraytwriter (some of these were indirectly tagging me, tis true, but I’m counting it because despite it taking me so long I do love this game)

"Rules: Write the latest line from your wip (or post where you last left off in your art) and tag as many people as there are words in the line. Make a new post, don’t reblog."

I'mma aim for efficiency and smush four things into one post! (Great idea @urban-hart!)

“We cannot know for certain.”
“No, we can’t,” Erandir agreed. “Just like we don’t know why he allowed you to be taken, or my father to be killed, or the war to start, any more than why he allowed me to survive where my father did not. Or why he allowed me to find you and free you, for that matter. He doesn’t give us the grace for things that haven’t happened yet, if they happen at all. But I can’t deny the grace is there.”

Tagging: ….yeah, no, I don’t know 86 writers. So no pressure tags for @hollers-and-holmes, @holbytlanna, @magpie-trove (because it was one of your posts that inspired this) @called-kept, @imissthembutitwasntadisaster, @scarvenartist, @isfjmel-phleg, @winterinhimring, @fairytale-lights, @freenarnian, @kraytwriter, @praise-the-lord-im-dead, @musewrangler, @tsfennec, @taleweaver-ramblings, @fairytalearista, @siena-sevenwits @eddis-not-eeddis, @stealingmyplaceinthesun, @brielle-of-the-notions, @thrina-thrina-on-the-wall and anyone else who writes and wants to do this

Whelp, you're not the only one who leaves these things almost indefinitely, @lady-merian! Have another snippet of A Far, Far Better Thing:

"Wanda," he said, motioning her to a chair, and not sitting down until she had taken it. "What can I do for you?"

That's twenty-three words; I don't know twenty-three writers on here and CERTAINLY not twenty-three writers I haven't already tagged repeatedly, so...consider yourself tagged if (a) I have not already tagged you and (b) you have a WIP you should be working on and aren't!

I do usually leave things for quite a while, but I’m amused to point out that my ‘last year’ note was initially a New Year’s Day joke ;)

Sir Uriah agreed to record the whole adventure for us, and so long was it in coming that my wrist was almost fully healed by the time we received it back at the Kirik of Carranburn. He had grumbled a little about his insufficiency for the task, as was his way, but in the end he relented without much pressure. 

tagging: @musewrangler, @hollers-and-holmes, and @saxifrage-wreath as answer to that last tag I’ve added another here ^_^

Okay, finally getting around to this. Here's, I think, the last line I completed during last night's tearful writing session.

On he read and further on, pausing only to turn pages and to sip water from a glass that Kazia filled for him herself when his mouth grew dry.

gently tagging @winterinhimring @musewrangler @lightthewaybackhome and anyone else who has a last line and would like to share

Thank you for the tag, @saxifrage-wreath!

Tony's normally peaceful cabin in the countryside was now the site of a very hurried council of war.

Tags for @kraytwriter, @hollers-and-holmes, @musewrangler, and anyone else who wants to join in!

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Thanks for the tag, @winterinhimring. I haven't had a writing day in weeks, so now I can finally take my turn in all these wip games!

He gave her the old Jedi salute to acknowledge a hit, lips quirking.

Twelve words. Erp! My writing friends are going to be overwhelmed by the tags before I'm done. No pressure tags for @brievel, @muse-write, @informedimagining, @griseldabanks, @rainintheevening, @shannon-foraker, @hollers-and-holmes, @afaroffsong, @lady-merian, @called-kept, @queenlucythevaliant, @christian-latte-anonanon

The last line of my main WIP is way too spoilery, so I'm jumping over to the last Let Me Count the Ways fic I'm working on:

"Are you gonna sit there grinning like an idiot all night, or are you gonna tell me why this couldn't wait till morning?"

Okay, I don't think I know 23 writers @_@ So consider yourself tagged if the last sentence you wrote was dialogue.

@novelmonger got me with that open tag. Yup, the last sentence I wrote was dialogue.

“Astute,” he said.

I guess I shouldn't opt for an open tag when I only have three words. No obligation, of course, but tagging @winterinhimring, @musewrangler, since I didn't tag you in the previous post on this thread, and adding @alverann

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@kraytwriter I think you tagged me 5 times yesterday! 😂😂😂 you just woke up and chose violence didn’t you?

Ok here we are:

“I am going to free you,” he stated abruptly.

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Last line tag game

"Rules: Write the latest line from your wip (or post where you last left off in your art) and tag as many people as there are words in the line. Make a new post, don’t reblog."

I got tagged AGAIN. Thank you @kraytwriter. Apparently a whole lot of you have been very industrious today. xD xD

Here we are:

There were already scars of this nature across the Captain’s back.

If I have to keep doing this so do the following people. ;D

Well, I'm gonna tag you back, @musewrangler, because it's been a long time since you tagged me for this! Anyone else who's got more than three active WIPs, consider yourself tagged for the one you updated least recently.

And have yet another sentence from my current project:

"Did they bury him in Wakanda?"

Fine fine. Here we are.

“I do,” Piett replied cautiously, aware that all three of Luke’s guardians were watching him closely.

As we are lobbing these tags around and I’m enjoying seeing people write, I’m gonna perpetuate it. 😉 please share your last line or where you left off in your art!

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🌀 ☔ 🌪 for the WIP ask game, please?

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As ever, you make me smile just by showing up in my inbox. Thank you so much friend!

Swirl---Our story begins when a young Lieutenant from Axxila meets the Princess of Naboo. Their secret romance becomes a secret marriage, known only to Padme' Amidala and the parents of the Naberrie sisters.

Thus, the safest place a dying Padme' can think to send her newborn twins is to the Pietts out on Axxila. And so we follow this young family as they raise the Skywalker twins and dodge the Empire. What will happen when Lord Vader learns that his children lived?

Umbrella---So. I don't know if this will ever happen, but---

I love writing Star Wars. At some point, I have thought---should I write original fiction again? And right now, I am very happy to be writing in fandom. But it suddenly occurred---could I ever pitch an idea to Disney I guess as the owner of Star Wars---to write Piett and Veers novels up to and perhaps through canon? Could I even---PERHAPS---convince them that Piett didn't die in that explosion?

It's wild and out there. But. I have it tucked in a cupboard in my mind. ;D

Tornado--- Local man is exhausted. He did not sign up for this. Hurt/comfort. Last stands. The kid is hurt. Defend the kid. No help is coming. Loyalty and courage. ;D

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Fic Story Tag Game (because some of the people I’m tagging are writing original stories!)

Rules: post the name of all the files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that intrigues them and then post a little snippit of it or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have wips. 

Thank you @holbytlanna and @brown-little-robin for the tags! WIPs, wow. Okay.

• this monster thing about the army hospital

• the thing about the girl shipwrecked with her kidnapper

• the serial killer mystery thing with Arwen

• the modern AU thing

• the thing with Ki and Ecthelion and the wraiths

• the midwifery thing

• the Baba Yaga thing (also Hollers’ WIP)

• the thing with the rabid fox

• the thing that comes after Ivorwen’s thing

• the thing with Sten and blowing up the train tunnels

• the thing about Halbarad’s family

• the epistle thing (ack)

• the thing with the kid and the assassination

• the thing at Brandywine I really need to finish

• the thing with the nurse who has the sea-longing

• the onboard surgeon sailing adventure thing

• the thing where they move to Annuminas

• the thing where he has to get her over the mountains

• the thing with Valandil

• the thing with Aragost

• the tidal wave thing

• the lost in the wilderness thing

• the thing with Eldarion and the sea monsters

• worldbuilding meta

• theological and philosophical meta

• help I need to sleep less

Tags tags tags hmm okay… @hollerswrites @musewrangler @winterinhimring @idrilsscribe @ramyun-monster @called-kept @swinging-stars-from-satellites @christian-latte-anon @lurking-latinist @isfjmel-phleg @scarvenartist @greater-than-the-sword @queenlucythevaliant @kraytwriter @oh-cactus @kanerallels @i-am-a-stupid-robot @laurelin-of-valinor @imissthembutitwasntadisaster @writinginsunlitcorners @lady-merian @allisonreader with no pressure of course! (I know some of you have probably already done this, I was just trying to think of some writers off the top of my head). And anyone else who sees this and thinks it looks fun, consider yourself tagged!

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I’m so tardy with this. But. RL allowed a breath. So. :D

Rules: post the name of all the files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that intrigues them and then post a little snippit of it or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have wips.

1. Star Wars WWII AU

2. To Strive, To Seek, To Find, And Not To Yield

3. A Matter of Trust

4. Rebel Piett due to dishonorable discharge from Imperial forces

5. Next Story for Empire Reimagined

6. Forging Further One shots--three lined up

7. Lion and the Bear Hornblower

Tagging with no pressure @mathmusic8, @saxifrage-wreath, @banachtarskiparadox, @chaosgoblinhours, @empirics, @neumh, @fairytale-lights​

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Commodore AU with winter, for the WIP ask thing (if you're doing that part of it). I must say I am quite intrigued. :)

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Well thank you very much! I'm delighted you're intrigued. ;D Winter and I enjoy the Hornblower series---books and film---but goodness does Forester kill off anyone one cares about. Also, he has superfluous infidelity etc that is just not needed.

So.

Winter and I decided to rewrite the series allowing some people to live and leaving out other characters entirely.

Commodore is the current book we are placing our own spin on. It's likely to be the last one we tackle, but you never know. In our canon, Archie Kennedy and William Bush get to live and form a sort of nautical three musketeers with Hornblower. We felt robbed of their dynamic and so decided to do something about it.

We also had Hornblower marry Barbara in the first place, since his first marriage was an act of folly and poor Maria did not deserve that.

Commodore takes place in the Baltic campaign and Hornblower is instrumental in pushing Napoleon out of Russia. We're nearing the end which is exciting for many reasons---one of which is that I get to publish a little bit of art that I did to go with the ending. ;D

Thanks for asking!

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"Dragons", for the WIP meme/game

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You are too kind! Absolutely!! This story has been a joy to write, though certainly one of my more niche works. However, I have loved allowing the Lady [SSD Executor] to be a dragon in this Star Wars AU and her Admiral, the dragon speaker. I haven't written fantasy since high school, so this has been a challenging and enjoyable work.

Here are the last two lines I've written to date:

Sola was on the left flank with Veers in the center as was his wont and Fox leading the right. The Mandalorians had insisted they fight side by side for this, and the General had readily agreed. 

Thank you for the ask!

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WIP Game: Post one out-of-context sentence (or line) from every unpublished chapter/draft you’ve written so far.

Thanks for the tag @mandogab!

Here's a sneak peak at an upcoming scene in Lost and Found - Fives and Kix:

Master Bari was carrying the children, who were wrapped up in robes and blankets in her arms and keeping quiet, and she carefully stepped over the guards’ motionless forms, Rex a warm presence behind her.

If you're reading this, consider yourself tagged!

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This is good fun! I shall consider myself tagged. Fair warning, I have a LOT going on because writing is my happy place. xD

Mirjahaal

Ch. 25-Luke, next to him, sighed. “Father. Sidious did his kriffing best to kill you. Could you please try not to finish the job?”

Ch. 26-Veers reached over and clicked his glass to Venka’s. “I think, Commander, we can agree that our Captain might be a bit of a risk taker.”

Ch. 27-The Lady raged into Anakin’s mind. <Dark One!! Correct this! You have hurt him. Were you a ship I should say that most of your circuit panels have been disconnected!>

Ch. 28- “And you, Firmus? How are you?”

Ch. 29- He reached his quarters before he realized, having been deep in his reflections and the doors hissed open to reveal a black clad TIE pilot chucking his boots across the room from his position on Veers’ sofa.

Ch. 30-She didn’t like him in the least. He was obnoxious and cocky and was positive he was a Force gift to females apparently. 

Whumptober 2021

Ch.1. He’d been bound in a stress position---couldn’t sit or properly stand, and his arms trembled with the effort of holding himself and the damned detonator. 

Ch.2. Twelve hours since they’d taken him. He could hear them talking in the other room--voices rising and falling in urgent rhythms, but nothing he could discern.

Ch.3. The gratitude in his eyes was fairly staggering--so much so that she couldn’t stop herself and bent to kiss his forehead, then pulled back to rest her palm along his jawline.

Ch. 4. Unable to move. Unable to recall who he was. Faces passing in and out. Sometimes, a tickle on the farthest edge of his memory….brown eyes. Stars. Not viewed from the ground---viewed in space. But then these not memories would disappear leaving him in this white nothing.

There’s more but I don’t want to flood the feed. I’d love to see what others are doing! :D

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