there is bravery in being soft (Posts tagged bran)

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“…This is the kind of fasting I want: Free those who are wrongly imprisoned; lighten the burden of those who work for you. Let the oppressed go free, and remove the chains that bind people. Share your food with the hungry, and give shelter to the homeless. Give clothes to those who need them, and do not hide from relatives who need your help.”

— ‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭58‬:‭6‬-‭7‬ ‭NLT‬‬

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i love all the words we have that mean traveler. i love the shades of difference between wanderer and rambler and rover. i love the boldness of adventurer and the purposefulness of explorer, the lawlessness of vagabond and the capability of wayfarer, the quiet reverence of pilgrim and the wild rootlessness of nomad.

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Camp Tolkien: Day 6

Inklings Challenge: Camp Tolkien is coming back around this month. There were some prompts I missed and wanted to do, so I'm catching up now.

For Day 6 of the challenge, I'm following this prompt:

Dioramas: Write a detailed description of one room in one setting in your project.


Lord Roger’s family lives in an apartment on the top floor of the keep of Avonholm Castle. Their family has lived there for generations.

The middle of the room has a couple of couches gathered around a low table. The family often plays chess there. Nearby is a long dining table with chairs that can seat the whole large family. There are narrow windows and bookshelves in this room, along the stone walls, and a big fireplace.

This room opens onto the lord’s bedchamber within, with a big bed and another fireplace. Down a short hallway, there are two tiny sleeping chambers for the lord’s children, each with a low bed and a clothes chest.

I chose to make the common area or living room of the family apartment to be more like what we’d have in modern times, rather than adhering to what would be realistic or historically authentic for medieval times. I actually like it. I’m normally a stickler for taking my inspiration from history, but in this case I only loosely stuck to history.

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There’s another room I want to describe, so I’m going to do both.

Here’s a floor plan map:

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In the Avonholm Series, one of my characters eventually lives in the royal apartments of the palace in the capital city. There are many rooms, and all of them interest me. Most of them are empty—for now—but my lonely royal character would like to fill them up with a family.

The apartments begin with an antechamber or guardroom that opens off the public passageway outside. Guests then enter the royal study or office, which has a desk facing the door and chairs around the desk. Most are never invited beyond this room—or never reach it at all. The king usually meets with people in a much more public office or throne room, not his personal office.

The main chamber of the apartments has couches and chairs grouped in the middle of the room with a small desk against one wall and a fireplace in another wall. At the back of the room, there is a door opening onto the balcony outside, which overlooks the castle gardens. Next to this door is the dining room, which has a long table and chairs.

A long hallway opens off the other side of this main room, with rooms opening from it. There are family bedrooms, servants’ quarters, and a women’s sitting room. Some of the rooms are interconnected.

At the end of the hallway is the main royal bedchamber. It is separated from the hallway by a small sitting room or antechamber. The bedchamber is large and sunny, with windows in the walls and a door to the balcony. There’s a big bed with armchairs and a small table beside it. Rich rugs cover the floor. At the other end of the room is a large fireplace with chairs or benches in front of it. A dressing room filled with clothes opens off of this room.

The bedchamber leads into a sunroom at the back of the royal apartments. It has a couch and several windows. The sunroom connects to what was formerly the queen’s bedchamber in the inner part of the apartments. The queen’s chamber will later be the royal nursery. The women’s sitting room connects the queen’s chamber or nursery to the outer passageway and the main room of the apartments.

Though the royal apartments are luxurious, they hold emptiness and loneliness for my character, at first. My character hopes that will change.

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Here’s my response for one of the @inklings-challenge Camp Tolkien: Day 9 prompts.

Shadow Puppets: Describe at least three characters in your project, using only 1-2 sentences for each.

Arienna: A gentle young noblewoman who doesn’t know her own worth.

Thalia: A rebellious tomboy who longs for adventure and gets more than she bargained for. (Arienna’s cousin.)

Luke: A big brother and young soldier who doubts himself, and who hides his own pain by taking care of others and making them laugh. (Thalia’s older brother and Arienna’s oldest cousin.)

Jason: A charming young rogue with big ambition, who wants to be powerful, admired, and feared.

Bran: A wanderer and exile with a sweet smile and a kind heart.

Arden: A cheerful, motherly young woman who is always ready to help her friends or stand up against enemies.

Roger: A tall, broad-shouldered, quietly strong man, a loving father, and the lord of a small northern province. (Arienna’s father.)

Marcus: A gruff, hardened commander of soldiers, who hides a heart that fiercely loves his family. (Thalia’s father.)

Merryth: A sharp-tempered, red-headed mother who prides herself on being a prim and proper lady. (Thalia’s mother and Roger’s sister.)

Lady Bethan: A wise, compassionate older woman who is the local healer and a mentor to the other characters.

Daeren: A young squire and lord’s heir who worries about morality and the rules of chivalry. (Arienna’s older brother.)

Evan: A quirky, quiet redhead who likes to learn about science and tinker with mechanical things. (Thalia’s younger brother.)



This is the first time I’ve introduced my entire cast. I like the descriptions I’ve written for them here.

What do you think? Would you enjoy reading about these characters?

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  1. …you share a hobby with.

Bran loves reading and always has a book on hand. He grew up living in a rural area without much pocket money, so he carefully saved to spend his money on books. He’s a voracious reader, and a book or two every few months was never enough. He had to savor the books and read them over and over. Books shaped his mind and his education.

A character in the sequel series, Addie, loves reading and also writing. She’s the niece of the MCs from the original Avonholm Series.

20. …is good at fixing things.

Roger and his nephew Evan. They both have mechanical minds, though each in a very different way. Roger is good at building things, like carpentry work. And Evan loves gadgets and inventions.

27. …has changed so much in appearance that somebody who knew them years ago might not recognize them now.

Since most of my kingdom fantasy characters don’t change much in appearance, I’ll give you one of my sci-fi characters instead.

Jav, the cocky pilot from my sci-fi adventure series, has completely reinvented himself. He pretends to be cool and charming, a man of the world and a ladies’ man. In reality, he’s a former farm boy from a backwater planet, but he likes to keep that under wraps because it’s not cool.

28. …has a lot of trauma, even compared to the rest of your OCs.

That would be Jason. He’s been through a lot. He tries to avoid his pain and grief by feeling nothing at all, but it never works.

Marcus, one of the parents in the main series, has also been through a lot of trauma, especially since he lost his parents in tragic ways. He has never fully healed, and he is anxious underneath his tough, gruff exterior.

Another character who has been through a ton of trauma is Rhiennyth, the main character of my Ancient Queen Novel, the Anglo-Saxon and Celtic-inspired prequel set in the same world as the Avonholm Series. She has severe PTSD. At first, she runs away to escape her life and her enemies, but she heals, and later faces down the source of her pain.

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which oc knows nothing about their family?

most of my characters know something about their family but some know almost nothing my character jason never had a father and he has no idea who his father even was which contributes to jason's own brokenness he did know his mother but he lost her when he was young my character bran was orphaned at birth bran had a wonderful couple as his foster parents he is actually glad he grew up with them and not his parents he never knew his parents and from the little he's heard about them he doesn't miss them very much which sounds unfeeling but he really can't help it since he never knew them he knows he would be a very different person if his birth parents had raised him he's a good person (selfless and kind and loving) because of his foster parents bran jason my characters reminds me of my characters my writing avonholm series actually i do have one character in the sequel series who really does know nothing about their family his name is niko next generation niko questions