Day 19. Write the worst thing that could happen to your protagonist that doesn’t happen in the novel

This made me laugh and it shouldn’t… I’m a mean writer, I always make my characters suffer in one way or another… Anyway, let me think…

Mynthae have a rough path to follow. One of the worst things that didn’t happen could be that he never accepted the leadership from his people and run away from them without caring if they are safe or not, including his sister; that could made him walk away from his predestined path of heroism. That way, if he’s really bad, he would ally with the Magicless in order to kill Antiques!

Oh no, my dear Tael is not bad… now you know it Tael.

Day 18. 500 words about a topic your character knows better than you do

Hello, I’m Vonaxie and because my creator wasn’t sure about the request in this particularly day I was asked to do it alone. At first I didn’t understand why me but then I get the answer and it’s because I’m the one who knows the most about the breeds thanks to the books and information that mister Pesto showed me.

It’s said that more than three thousand years ago, the Core created this world with our elements parents, among the flora and fauna from every corner. The peace reigned for many more years until our elements parents noticed that they needed help to embellish and keep the world in harmony so they asked to the Core children who fulfill those requirements and thus the Core made them.

The first ones were the four children of the ones who gave the idea and knew exactly what they wanted so the Children of the fire, the earth, the wind and the water born blessed with abilities for the sake of their parents. The next ones who asked for their children were the stars and the animals making the Dream Hunters and the Ferals as unique as the others. Being a little bit late, the ice asked for its own guardians because the water couldn’t understand all its needs.

With the seven breeds born, the world began to shine and prosper, the Core was satisfied with its creations until the thought of a new breed came while thinking that they needed another more who would support, with the strongest shoulders, the powers of the first seven children so it made the Bones.

That way, with the eighth children, the world grew more and more beautiful for twenty years. Everyone talked with the Core about how proud they were with their children, how obedient they were and how beautiful they were transforming the environment; however the Core started to notice that all the power from the children was covering in shadows their hearts when the distance between them shortened, so it decided to create the last one of the breeds, the ones whose perfect presence in the world would clean the evilness and bring the balance back. The purest of the children born as the Healers.

Having consumed most of its energy, the Core reunited the parents one more time to warn them that the hearts of the children couldn’t be completely purified for the free will they gave them so they needed to be isolated until their minds mature enough to coexist without the predicaments about the most powerful of them.

The Core said goodbye to its children giving them their homes and territories, then it became quiet. The elements parents knew that their children needed to grow by themselves so they taught them the last part of their abilities before they stopped talking to them.

The nine breeds became independent, they learnt by themselves how to fulfill their parents' wishes, they stayed away from each other for most than three hundred years.

Day 17. Why are you excited about this novel? Is it a specific character, a scene you want to get to, are you writing in a genre you haven’t tried yet?

In the beginning I was excited about this particular story because I dreamt the first scene that lead me to the complete idea, some days later I dreamt another three scenes made for this story so I started the complete development of this along with the writing.

Another reason for my excitement is that I’d never before created a complete world as this one in which more than a race or type of humans live. I’m really proud of what I created with the Antiques’ breeds: their names, the appearance, their abilities, their homes, their traditions and organization. I even drew and made a map!

I love the characters I’ve made so far, even if I haven’t introduced them in the best form, I’m happy with them.

There are a lot of scenes I really want to show, there are some which I thought since the very beginning so they kept me writing.

Day 16. Find a book by a favourite author. Open the book to page 16. Choose a line from page 16, and write it as a starting point of a scene in the world of your novel that will not end up in the novel

She felt it like she was witnessing a crucial moment, although she couldn’t say why. Mynthae was speaking with the Children of the Water in a way she never saw in no one else, that people with cold eyes and emotionless words were really listening to all the boy had to say with something different from distrust.

Mynthae alone knew the words the crystals would listen to, that way they were able to introduce themselves and made them consider their plan about gathering the remaining Antiques free in an alliance powerful enough to free the ones trapped in The War and, then, fight against the Magicless.

Emisya felt kind of satisfied about how Vonaxie and she expressed their ideas because even if the crystals decide to stay hidden, they would known that the effort was done and, maybe, new ideas for persuasion would be find.

With that in her mind, she let the eight Children of the Water left their sight in order to discuss in privacy their thoughts. However, her mind lost its peace when Mynthae left to the opposite side that the other group took; since his part in the friendly treat ended, he returned to his usual silence although it looked to Emisya as something different in a way she couldn’t explain.

Firstly she noticed the unease the boy felt when the leader from the crystals showed in front of him; then, when he claimed “the mist”, the whisperer looked kind of calm with just a little bit of unease still in him. At the end of the conversation, when they decided to take their time to talk, his serenity broke down making him looked a bit angered.

Vonaxie was always amazed by how she read the cold whisperer and even she was equally surprised without a clue of how that was possible considering the few days she had knowing him. It wasn’t because his face was an open book, she thought that it could be because she felt his aura change or something related with her half breed origin.

That aura was the thing that made her think about the crucial moment in their lives, she felt the variations in it in a way too hard to explain even if she was almost sure of what she felt. Those things were the ones which made her believe that her other half of her blood wasn’t a lie.

Day 15. Describe your plan for writing. How many words in a day, what are you using as a bribery or reward system, what are you worried about distracting you from writing?

First of all, this story I used to write it when I was in school, in the middle of the classes when I should have been paying attention. In those times my only plan was to write as much as the class let me so I wrote like three pages (notebook pages) in a day if I was lucky, but in the busy days I just wrote something like three paragraphs (like 50-100 words).

I don’t use rewards or nothing of the kind because write itself is a reward for me and I was really organized with this one.

I was worried about the classes distracting me (and it should be the other way around). BUT the thing that always, always, always worried me while writing anything is creating something new. I mean, I been writing for more than ten years and it always happens that when I’m making progress with a story, some other start in my mind until I let the first to keep the second, that way I’d left like eight stories without end… It’s really frustrating, I love my creativity but I hate leaving them endless.

And when I’m writing in the computer is tumblr or something else my distractions, always the Internet.

Day 14. Review your novel as if it’s already written and you’re a nobody. Give it a good review

This story is great and full of magic, the places are something that I wish they exist. Every chapter leave you wishing for more, making you read and read until you realize how late it is.

The main characters are so unique, they grow along with the story and you feel it, even you can find attractive some of the secondary characters of who I wish I knew more. Besides the plot has some amazing radical changes that made it more interesting.

I hope we get more information about the past events or The War, maybe the things that happened far from the protagonist.

Day 13. Review your novel, as if it’s already written, and you’re a famous author. Give it a bad review

The narrative started pretty clear and fluid, but since the fourth chapter the quality decreased leaving disconnected paragraphs and sloppy ideas which difficulted the reading flow.

Some characters lack of development and don’t have an outstanding personality that differentiated them enough, plus most of them were nameless even if they were, at first sight, an important part of the story.

What concern of the genre, the abilities lack of originality and the settings are not enough described to create a true image in my mind.