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? UNTITLED GAY SPACE BOOK ?

✨INTRO✨
 Hi hi! I'm Julie and I'm coming off of another several year forum hiatus to beg for moral support for my not-so-new WIP. (and to make writing friends doing it!) It's a YA original story that owns my heart right now and I'm so excited to try to make my word count go up with it. 
 

✨PREMISE✨
Starry-eyed fangirl Max is obsessed with Rocket Club, the web series of stories about a group of queer space adventures. Lately, she much prefers their fictional worlds to the real Earth she's stuck on. Between her friends that suddenly don't seem to need her, and her toxic parents that just wish she'd 'try harder', the world around her seems to want to knock her down at every turn. So when the Rocket Club crew that she thought she knew shows up on her front porch with the mysterious author in a huff requesting her help to save Eleos, she's all too ready to jump on board. 

KD Queens writes Rocket Club from Eleos, the common ground planet between Earth and the alien planet Ujiri. When they aren't plotting different ways for their snarky self-insert space captain to fall in love, they're counting down the days until responsibility for The Queens Net, the official propaganda source from Eleos to Earth, can officially be given over to their stepsister. (No really, Pearl's holding a gala and everything.) When KD discovers their sister's true plans for the company and what it will mean for the people of Eleos, they team up with the very last Ru High School's Rocket Club members they're expecting to see.

Ells is the captain of The Falcon, the lamest-named delivery ship in the galaxy. His family lives on one of Eleos' moons and operates a greenhouse to preserve Ujirian plant life, and dreams about visiting what remains of Ujiri. When his sister and his lover discover that Rocket Club isn't just the name Ells made up for their afterschool activities, they meddle with their delivery route and Ells ends up in the crosshairs of a skirmish between the infamous heir of the Queens' Net and the plans to frame them for Eleos' downfall. 

When Max, KD, and Ells are brought together to retrieve proof of KD's innocence accidentally sent to Max on Earth, each of them discover the things they need to save themselves and the worlds they love.

Have you heard the one about the author, fangirl and character walking into a space opera together? 

It's out of this world. 

 

✨JULNO GOAL✨
I'd be incredible if I could get a majority (or all) of my messy first draft done this month! I've been working on this project for a few months now and I really would like to see it come together to something I can edit the heck out of after July and share with everyone one day! Thanks for stopping by and reading this! I'm basically obsessed with talking about this book so please indulge me this month and yell at me here or on twitter to shut off Minecraft and write!
 

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JULIEEEE! i'm so excited that you're here and that you're gonna be working on your space book for julno ^_^

  • if you could describe each of your characters in a single emoji, what would it be?
  • what's your favorite writing snack?
  • if it's not spoilery, can you tell us your favorite scene in the book so far, and one you're anxious to write?
  • are you a morning writer or an evening writer?

looking forward to cheering you on next month!! :elmofire:

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@dreamshadowJILLLLLL. Oh my gosh. Where would I be without you on this book, or in my life, my love. Thank you so much for the questions! I already said that on twitter but I told you these would be soul cleansing. 

if you could describe each of your characters in a single emoji, what would it be?
Ells: ?
Max: ?
KD: ?
Some bonus names: 
Copper: ?
Skye: ?
Dahlia: ?
Doug: ?️

what's your favorite writing snack?
The mini white chocolate covered Oreos. I'm addicted. They only release the regular size white chocolate ones around the holidays and those are by far the superior Oreo and no I will not be taking further questions on this topic. 

if it's not spoilery, can you tell us your favorite scene in the book so far, and one you're anxious to write?
Favorite: I have a scene with Max and KD planned in the greenhouse that's my favorite I've planned so far. 
Anxious: I'm really nervous about writing what I'm calling "the heist" which it isn't really, but the characters will call it that because they got their flare for dramatics from me. 

are you a morning writer or an evening writer?
I do feel like i write my best at night, but since i go to bed so early for work i don't get a lot of that good 'red eye just one more sentence flow' that you only get when it's like three hours past bedtime and the muse has decided that it's time to kick it into overtime. Basically i'm a "whenever i have time/energy" writer lately :D 

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howdy friend, I come bearing questions! 

1) who is your favorite character to write so far? 

2) is there an upcoming scene you're most excited to write?

3) what's the school like? is it similar to schools we are familiar with? 

4) what job would you have if you lived in the world you're creating?

Happy nano! :D You can do this!

a lil KD vibe bc they are the best  ? 

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Paula ur the best. I will tell u this until my face is as blue as Ells'. Yes, they're blue anthropomorphic ants. In space. 

1) who is your favorite character to write so far? 
See okay. The first thought that comes to mind is KD because they just spew the first thing that comes to their mouth and that's really fun. But then like, Ells, I'm writing in third past so that's super fun to do because it's different from the direct mind feed of first present. And Max's story is such a close one to my heart that writing her always feels so special. How dare u make me choose. 

(it's KD.) 

2) is there an upcoming scene you're most excited to write?
Honestly, all of the scenes I have planned on Ru are my favorites right now. I can't wait to really sink into writing the Ujirian preserve and all of the scenes in that setting. Which also leads into your next question. 

3) what's the school like? is it similar to schools we are familiar with? 
The Ru Crew (as I've affectionately been calling them) is high school age, so I definitely can't resist some good classic high school scenarios. The classes and the core material on Ru will be different, as time and a galaxy of separation from Earth will do, but at the core I want it to feel the same. Like an alternate reality high school where there are classes like Earth Studies, Eleos History, and Astronomy, electives like Rocket Maintenance and Galaxy Cuisine, and clubs like After School Snow Sculpture (A.S.S.S. Club) and Rocket Club, where you enter yearly events to showcase flying and ship maintenance skills, and definitely not where you deliver illegal Ujirian plants around your planetary system using school funding.  

4) what job would you have if you lived in the world you're creating?
Galaxy Cuisine instructor ?

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Julie yaya! I think I've seen you teasing this on twitter & I am so excited to see more about this story!

On 6/28/2021 at 10:27 PM, banshee said:

Have you heard the one about the author, fangirl and character walking into a space opera together? 

It's out of this world. 

I mean, this is uhmazing when you put it like this! ? Anyway, I am too brain dead to think of any good questions at the moment, but I just wanted to come and throw some confetti at you and say best of luck to you this month! If you need a raw raw cheerleader to randomly pop in, I will gladly do so! ? 

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@prideofprewett courtneyyyyyyy thank you. Yes this is The One from twitter. With the space and the queers and the shattering of the fourth wall. and YES I ALWAYS NEED MORAL SUPPORT. LET'S MORAL SUPPORT EACH OTHER :hearteyes:

Do you want to see what I've been doing instead of writing on my days off? I made my humans with bitmojis! 

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From top to bottom / left to right:
Max! She wants to cut her hair off real bad. She is Rocket Club's number one fan. 
KD is our author, heir, and general rude commentary champion. They make a lot of bad decisions.
(also KD has freckles but i forgot them. Yes u need to know this)
Skye isn't the captain of the ship, but they put up with him and even love him a whole bunch. They were Copper's best friend first, though. 
Dahlia is the queen of the nerds. She loves to read and she knows more about plants than you. She and Doug are twins that live on the preserve. 
Doug is an artist. U can't see them but his arms are covered in bright baublefish ink tattoos. (hi @victoria_anne✨)

If anyone out there knows a good creature editor that I could make Ells and his sister Copper in, spill the tea please! For now we can picture Ells as a grumpy blue humanoid ant with two antenna and Copper like that but rolled in some piercings and tattoos and snark. If you make bitmojis of your characters let me know, I want to see them and love them! 

My word count you say? Don't know her, sorry.

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