Now on to the actual post, I thought it was about time to show you more of the drawings from the polls I've created:
Elm with her favorite animal, which is a bumblebee.
I have been needing to update the cover of The Mystery of the Body Thief on NaNoWriMo for sometime (though it wouldn't be the official cover, this is only the second draft), so I used a poll to figure out how I should update it. Interestingly enough the majority vote ended up being a similar design I tried before for the cover, but never finished.
I feel that Ophelia, as a Tinker Bell style fairy, would be a mix of a garden talent and a fast flying talent. On the other hand, you can only have one talent in Pixie Hollow. That presents a dilemma, because Ophelia can control two different elements, earth and air, since she is a devotee of the two gods who give her those two different powers.
I haven't drawn Vinverva in a while, the last time I drew her was in this post.
So, I decided to do a poll where the pollers would decide between her and Odile.
Vinverva ended up winning. In this drawing the pollers wanted her to wear fancy clothes,
so that's what I ended up drawing her in. The only thing I found difficult in drawing her, was trying to make her not look like Oak, since both of them have short blonde hair. I tried to make her hair look a little longer and grayer.
In this drawing I had pollers vote on what character I should do a figure drawing of (it was a choice between Angela and Reyvon), and a choice between whether it should be digital or hand-drawn and hand-drawn won.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Which drawing is your favorite? And if your character was a Tinker Bell style fairy, what would they be like?
A while ago I mentioned that I finished writing the first draft of this novel. This July, I am focusing on editing it and working on the second draft, along with some world-building along the way.
For this project I started writing the first draft in 2018 and finished it in 2020. I made a lot of posts about this novel in the past, so if you want to check them out, here you can, or if you can to look at posts about the series as a whole here you can.
Synopsis-
Genre: Fantasy | Murder Mystery
Horatio wakes up from being in a coma, but he doesn't remember anything that happened before he fell into unconsciousness. All that he remembers is a name, "Annabelle!" Also... Detective Inspector Time finds himself having to solve a case without Lady Annabelle. Murders have been happening throughout many different kingdoms, and no one knows who exactly is behind it all.
Characters-
Here are the characters. Please note, many things have changed. Phillip, the dwarf guard character from the first draft moved to later book, given that the time-line changed a lot. (The dwarf and elf war happens much later). Also since Phillip is not coming in until later, I replaced him for now with a character named Angela. I had created her character for All is Not Lost For All Will Begin Again, but that setting and story changed, too. Angela didn't fit the story anymore, so I moved her to The Mystery of the Body Thief instead.
There are other characters who appear later in the story, but I won't be including them in this post. In this post, I am including the characters who have the largest impact on the plot:
Horatio
A servant who works in the castle, who lost his memory. He has a connection to Annabelle, but what the connection is, he doesn't know, but he longs to find out.
Ophelia
She is one of Horatio's few friends and one of the healers at the castle. She works with the Earth and Air Gods and learns her magic from them. She is a very sweet (but quiet) person.
Lady Annabelle
Lady Annabelle is a princess, who is in a coma, who fell unconscious at the same time as Horatio. Before she was in a coma, she worked as a detective and sometimes would work with D.I. Time and Marigold.
Detective Inspector Time
An old friend of Annabelle's, he is a detective actively working on the case of the murdered royals.
Marigold Time
Marigold is also working on the case of the murders of royalty, and is the adoptive daughter of D.I. Time. She also works as a detective in the police department.
Vonivera
Lady Annabelle's lady in waiting, she is a friend to Horatio and a frenemy of "Angie." Unlike the other ladies in the castle, Vonivera is a fairy and she finds it odd to be amongst elves and humans.
Angela "Angie"
Another one of Lady Annabelle's ladies in waiting, Angela is "a close friend" of Vonivera's (or at least that is what she tells people).
Soundtrack-
I compiled a playlist of music that I listen to while writing this story. I decided to make a different playlist for the second draft, because it is neat to look back and listen to music that I listened to when writing the first draft of this novel.
My Goal-
Since I'm on the second draft, my goal is going to be edit/rewrite at least 12,000 words. I made my goal smaller because, editing is really hard and I don't want to make myself stressed with a large goal. There are also a lot of things that have changed in the plot-line, so getting those changes into the story, along with the world-building is very important in this second draft. While it may not be perfect, I have the third draft to fix those flaws.
