Joined Nov 2023
Watering the fruits of my psyche/
Blooming tulips to woo the muses/
Inspiration sings/
Like mood music/
Setting the scene/
For the story of a lifetime/
Let's cut to the chase. I'm Leyelle, an 18-year-old African-American and Dominican author-poet from Maryland, USA. I'm aggressively precocious so at age fifteen I became a published author for lyrical essays in a women's magazine, and in 2023 I won the H.G. Wells Short Story Competition Junior Category and became a recipient of the Turnill prize (humble brag.) My personality is 90% boss, but I'm passionate about telling the story of the other 10%, the crazy, ugly, and beautiful moments that hurt like poetry.
Tools
Google Docs, Google Photos, colored pencils, pencils, paint
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Announcement Time:
Unfortunately, I have a not-so-fun announcement today.
“A Dozen Morning Glories” will be going on a brief hiatus. It is NOT ending, just taking a pause, and if all goes as planned it will be back to its regular release schedule starting Saturday, the 7th of December.
A big thanks to everyone who has supported the story up to this point and sorry in advance for the wait. Please do stay tuned. There is definitely more coming soon-ish.
Unfortunately, I have a not-so-fun announcement today.
“A Dozen Morning Glories” will be going on a brief hiatus. It is NOT ending, just taking a pause, and if all goes as planned it will be back to its regular release schedule starting Saturday, the 7th of December.
A big thanks to everyone who has supported the story up to this point and sorry in advance for the wait. Please do stay tuned. There is definitely more coming soon-ish.
Announcement
My romance novel "A Dozen Morning Glories" recently hit 1k views and it's 3 month anniversary. It's a tiny milestone, so why not have a tiny DTIYS challenge?
So rather than asking people to draw my female lead for this challenge, I'm asking folks to draw her toddler, Ayla.
Ayla is 5 years old, so I'll make this challenge simple with five rules:
1. No Ai art
2. Please maintain the integrity of her features. She's a little black girl, so her hair is coily, her complexion is medium brown and her nose is on the broader side.
3. You are allowed to draw her as a toddler, or reimagined into a teen/adult. You don't have to keep the outfit/hairstyle she's wearing here, but either way, please keep the outfit age appropriate.
4. You can submit as many times as you want, and share your pieces either in the comments of the related thread on the Tapas Forum or on your instagram with the #ADozenMorningGloriesTinyDTIYS. On both my IG and the forum, I've shared a drawing of Ayla for reference.
5. UP to two winners will be selected.
The winner selection process will work like this:
1. If I only get drawings of Ayla as a toddler OR an adult, there will only be one winner. However, if I get art of her as a toddler and a teen/adult, I may pick one winner from each category.
And because I've gotta be weird again, the winner(s) will receive a drawing of one of their OCs as a toddler.
The challenge deadline is October 15th.
My romance novel "A Dozen Morning Glories" recently hit 1k views and it's 3 month anniversary. It's a tiny milestone, so why not have a tiny DTIYS challenge?
So rather than asking people to draw my female lead for this challenge, I'm asking folks to draw her toddler, Ayla.
Ayla is 5 years old, so I'll make this challenge simple with five rules:
1. No Ai art
2. Please maintain the integrity of her features. She's a little black girl, so her hair is coily, her complexion is medium brown and her nose is on the broader side.
3. You are allowed to draw her as a toddler, or reimagined into a teen/adult. You don't have to keep the outfit/hairstyle she's wearing here, but either way, please keep the outfit age appropriate.
4. You can submit as many times as you want, and share your pieces either in the comments of the related thread on the Tapas Forum or on your instagram with the #ADozenMorningGloriesTinyDTIYS. On both my IG and the forum, I've shared a drawing of Ayla for reference.
5. UP to two winners will be selected.
The winner selection process will work like this:
1. If I only get drawings of Ayla as a toddler OR an adult, there will only be one winner. However, if I get art of her as a toddler and a teen/adult, I may pick one winner from each category.
And because I've gotta be weird again, the winner(s) will receive a drawing of one of their OCs as a toddler.
The challenge deadline is October 15th.
I made in error in my "Part Mother" upload. The chapter was too LONG for the AF Journey guidelines, so the end of the chapter is moved to the beginning of he next chapter "Part Mother Part 2."
Don't worry, if you've already read "Part Mother Part 1," Part 2 will be more than just the ending to Part 1.
Don't worry, if you've already read "Part Mother Part 1," Part 2 will be more than just the ending to Part 1.
I totally forgot I can only do 5 images per novel upload, so I went back and shared more of the entries in yesterday's upload
I have a crazy goal to get 100 subs on "A Dozen Morning Glories" before the novel's debut in June. If I succeed, I'll release a special gift I'll let all the subs vote on!
The first chapter of "Damsel in the Red Dress" from Kattar's POV is now available to read on my Patreon! If you wanted to know what was going on in his head during the first chapter, and to get a bit more detail on the ceremony itself then this is for you.
Don't worry, Friday's announcement is the last in-chapter announcement for sometime (I think)
I'm running my Patreon like a blog, if anybody's curious check it out. All my blog updates, writing prompts and tips are free for everyone.
The bonus episode is out baby!
I'm posting (public) writing prompts once a week on my Patreon (every Saturday.) If anybody likes writing from prompts or is curious, I'd love to see what you guys write to them!
