The World Walkers: Unknown World: Ginevra: Taking Over

The minutes ticked by and all Ginevra could do was sit watching the clock, waiting for someone to walk into the room. Everyone said her room was haunted and they were right. No one wanted to rent a haunted room, but she knew eventually the night would come when someone had no choice, and all she could hope was that they were the right person. She would have her revenge, eventually. A couple of times she walked to the door, hoping that the footsteps she could hear would stop outside her room, only to have them walk past, to room 208 or 210. Sighing she sat back down on the bed.

Another night passed, another day, and another night. Running a hand through her hair Ginevra wandered over to the mirror, wishing she could see her reflection. She knew that she looked exactly the same way she had on the night she’d been killed. Her worry was that anyone who might be a candidate would see her and be scared off by the wounds on her body. They would know what had happened, what she wanted, and run for somewhere they would be safe from her, which was exactly what she would have done if she’d ever come across a restless spirit.

Finally the footsteps stopped outside her door. They put the key into the lock and turned it. For the first time in months Ginevra believed she might finally be able to, at the very least, leave the room she’d been trapped in. She pressed her body against the wall behind her, hoping that the person who entered wouldn’t be able to see her and would be a candidate for a take-over. Even thinking that made her feel nauseas but she had no other choice. In order to avenge her murder she needed a body. Hopefully then she’d be able to move on to wherever it was she was meant to go, because that hadn’t seemed to be an option at any point.

When the door opened and a pretty blond haired woman walked in the raised eyebrows told her all Ginevra needed to know. Making a quick decision she dove for the body before it could walk away, knowing that everyone else who’d seen her had run. The couple of times she’d tried it before hadn’t worked. It had been like hitting a wall and she’d ended up in a heap next to the body. It really hadn’t been a surprise as they hadn’t been able to see her. For the first time she managed to reach the body before it left the room and in moments she found herself sharing it with another spirit.

“I’m sorry,” Ginevra said, doing her best to take control of both the mind and the body.

“Wait a minute,” the other spirit replied, sounding vaguely amused. “What is it you’re trying to do, exactly?”

Ginevra stopped. “In order to move on I think I need to avenge my murder.”

“Okay, I think we can work with that.”

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The World Walkers: Athare: Leolin: Why

Written for a character adoption.
Sponsored by LJ user ysabetwordsmith (Elizabeth Barrette).

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Update: February 23rd

Waking up to a donation is always nice. It actually got me thinking about how much my currently sponsorable fiction is worth, so I worked it out. In total it’s worth £243.30 at the current rate I’m charging, with £92.45 of that being Donor House stories. All the other collections are much lower than that because I don’t write as much about them, which is something I do want to change.

That then leads me to wonder how much I could make if I charged for the stories I’m posting freely. If I take this month, so far, I’ve missed one day of the 500 word stories, but to make up for that I posted one metaconversation (which was great fun to write) and one World Walker story, which means I’ve posted about 13,000 words this month. If I’d charged for that it could have made me £19.50.

If I’m honest crowdfunding is working for me in one way – it makes me write a lot more than I would have done if I didn’t have an audience who like what I write. That is great, because I love writing, but at the same time I’m having trouble getting donations, which means a lot of it isn’t posted for everyone to read and that makes me sad. I write because I like people reading my stories, hence why I try to make it easy for those who lack in funds to have stories posted to them, so having the majority of them sitting there collecting virtual dust is disappointing.

I am hoping that posting more free stories is increasing my audience. My site stats are remaining pretty steady, so I can’t really tell if what I’m doing is making a difference, although I have been getting some new users that could be real or they might not be. I’m not certain how to find out.

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Writing Plans

As I enjoyed writing the metaconversation with Persephone, that I’m planning on expanding, I’ve been thinking about other characters I’d like to meet. I want to do a metaconversation with Alice, because she’s always been one of my favourite characters. Of there’s anyone you’d like me to see a metaconversation with then let me know and feel free to let me know if there are any question you’d like me to ask them.

Then, as I said before, I’d also like to explore some more unusual fictional forms and thanks to Elizabeth I do have a couple of ideas. I have a few ideas for fictional diaries, or at least excerpts from one, including the fae’s record of the destruction of their first world, the records of the world and race creators during the history of the fae, and Elizabeth suggested Leolin’s records. If anyone else has any ideas for fictional diaries they’d like to see I’d be happy to hear them. Then I also want to try out some glossary fiction, because that looks fascinating to try, and some docufiction, which I was already beginning to plan for the World Walkers. Of course any ideas are again welcome. Finally I’ve always wanted to play with epistolary fiction and I did do a bit before during last years’ advent story, so again I’d love to hear any ideas for this form.

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