about me
hello, my name is ana neu and i am a christian content creator and writer. you most likely know me from my YouTube channel (@ananeu) where i began share writing tips and project vlogs two years ago. we now have 100k writing besties.
“writing is how i understand myself and my feelings toward the world.”
curious about my projects?
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project. city of ziel
a golden-crusted city
that once haboured a god.
GENRE: high fantasy (duology)
LENGTH: 130k
TROPES: found family, fables coming to life, magic
CURRENT DRAFT: draft 0
PITCH: on the way home from Delle's highschool graduation night, her best friend is abducted by a strange angellic demonoid through a portal in the alleyways of her home town. driven on shock and desperation, she has no choice but to follow. but as soon as she tumbles through, she is lured and attacked by beings unknown to her. beings that roam the ancient, war-torn City of Ziel. a city that contains portals to other worlds - Elven Wrelds, Sea Wrelds, Archangel Wrelds. worlds forgotten from human eyes...
when she is saved by a mysterious boy in a mask she is taken back to an orphanage run by a peculiar group of orphans of war. when Delle convinces them to help find her friend, they embark on a journey that begins to fulfil the old prophesy: once a god dies, a demigod is resurrected.
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ghostcide (to-be debut)
4 ghost boys meet 1 girl
GENRE: (paranormal) literary fiction
LENGTH: 52k
TROPES: found family, self-sabotage, toxic love
CURRENT DRAFT: edting for publication (!!)
PITCH: Red Gibson is a stubborn 17-year old girl who is forced to move in with her long-lost grandmother in the outskirts of Alberta, in a suburb that can only be described as a desolated ghost town. when Red intentionally fails to attend school and make new friends, she lives her life in her room obsessed with filling up the pages of her small journal behind her bedroom door.
that is until she meets 4 ghost boys - a gang of mysterious and reckless personalities who roam the suburbs, steal cars, rob small candy shops and pull pranks on whomever they please. initially, Red rejects their existence entirely. but as she falls into their care-free nature and ridiculous dares, Red becomes blind to the fact that these boys want her for something darker. a secret motivation that reveals more about herself than anything she’s ever known...
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project. black birds
a vengeful thief and a useful prince.
GENRE: kingdom-esque fantasy
LENGTH: 100-120k
TROPES: hesitant allies, rebels, mc without magic, robin hood re-telling
CURRENT DRAFT: draft 1
PITCH: in a kingdom where magic is outlawed and almost forgotten from centuries of opression by the Royal King, a self-taught thief named Robyn spends her nights stealing from the Castle. she's a peasant orphan who lives in the Slums, along with her people whom are long descendents of Magic Blood.
but its years before she steals something useful for her revenge upon the king for murdering her parents...something as useful as a Prince. such bold an act will not only trigger a revolution, but the spark of a dormant magic...
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project. orchestra
a young musical conductor recruits a talented busking violinst.
GENRE: historical fiction
LENGTH: 100k
TROPES: 1800s london, romantic revolution, unrequited love, dual POV
CURRENT DRAFT: draft 1
PITCH: Alexander Lawlor is a professional and distinctly young composer and conductor at the academy of London Music of Arts. when Alexander recruits a homeless migrant - a busking vioinst named Louis Everlock - into his performance, he is threatened to be expelled from the academy. Alexander Lawlor, unable to grant the academy's wishes to take back his invitation, takes his bet on the violinist.
but once Louis' life becomes intangled in his, Alexander falls down a long path of remembering his unrelenting past that threatens not only his music, but Louis too.
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project. prison
fate doesn't call upon criminals - the imprisoned must make their own luck.
GENRE: (mystery) literary fiction
LENGTH: 40k
TROPES: questioning social systems, mystery, prison escape
CURRENT DRAFT: draft 1
PITCH: Kyo has been in a 1980s boy juvinile centre for two years, confined to his own cell where the walls have no telling of what he had done. in the midst of his time at juvie, he hears news of his adoptive brother being murdered. his hands itch to escape to find the man who did it.
that is until a mysterious new mate is assigned to bunk with him. this creature is a timid thing, and doesn't speak. its clear to Kyo that they haven't been in a place like this before. eventually he takes them under his wing and after earning their trust, Kyo makes two discoveries: his cell mate also doesn't know why they're imprisoned. and his cellmate is not an ordinary person.
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project.samson
they saw the end of the world. and one name played in all their minds: samson.
GENRE: (post-apocalyptic) literary fiction
LENGTH: 42k
TROPES: mystery, time-travel, paranormal, betrayal
CURRENT DRAFT: plotting
(working) PITCH: a group of friends on the way back from a school trip, deep in the middle of the Canadian mountains, find themselves lost. after trekking for a day and nearly losing each other, they wake up with a name playing in their heads. Samson.
when they finally reimmerge out of the fog into civilisation, not a soul walks the streets. only feathers, and the same name replaying in their head gives them any lead of what happened. that, and the uncanny feeling that, although they know the world is empty, they don't feel quite so alone...
f.a.q
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i always describe myself as an old soul in a young body. i mean, how many people do you know write books in their spare time?! i started writing when i was little. i'd write poems about flowers and my cat, and short stories about pokemon and silly things.
it was when i was in middleschool, however, when i really became the bookworm. i discovered my love for fiction and i'd literally do nothing but sit down and read in the corner with my lunch everyday. then, when i was in grade eight, i got so bored of my existence (because of the magical fantasy books filled with romance and adventure i was consuming) that i began to write.
i started to write half a science fiction novel (which literally was out of this world). and...i simply fell in love with writing. (i was around 14). during the years i wrote short stories and came up with many book ideas, majorly project.city of ziel, which still has my heart till this day (and which still needs to be finished lol). i then began to create writing content a couple years later when i began my fantasy novel many of you may know as project.blackbirds (or project.bb). i started that during the last year of highschool (i was 16) and would write it during my classes (naughty i know).
since then i have put down the books and picked up my laptop - writing and finishing my first book draft a year later (project. i first met you in a graveyard). following, i wrote another few drafts (project.ghost, project.prison and project.o), now specifically focussing on writing and editing ghostcide as my debut! as i showed in previous slides, i have 5 projects...but in reality i have a lot more (estimated at least 9 books i want to write) - but isn't this every writer ever?
hehe hope you enjoyed my little journey. i love creating because its the essence of who i am - as. a child of a God who created me and this world. i think its a blessing, and i hope to never give it up...
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my writing dreams are to become a published author and someone's favourite author. i have the aim to self-publish my debut novel, ghostcide, and perhaps a poetry collection. in terms of traditional publishing - i hope to traditional publish one fantasy project i have been writing. so...this means i want to be a HYBRID AUTHOR! both publishing my personal projects, and working on my fantasy books too.
i also just want to write a book like my favourite book - piranesi by suzanna clarke. i want to get better at my prose and become a more confident writer as i mature with life.
and of course, i am not sure if i'll be able to, but i truly want to at least finish from cover to cover, all the project ideas i have (see above!). i think it would be so rewarding - being able to have all my books as manuscripts, that my stories are written and said and done.
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sometimes its fun to write a new book just because of the vibes (i do this all the time). but eventually you burn out. having a clear idea on what type of message you want your story to tell will help get you through actually finishing the book.
sometimes this is hard as you try and discover your book. as you write, the book may tell you what it is suppossed to mean. most stories can be reflections of important world issues, lessons characters may learn or bringing to light a new perspective on the world.
surrounding your story by a handful of themes will help SHAPE your book and therefore help you make plot and character decisions that will reinforce this message. this will also help a lot with subtle theme foreshadowing, and also allow for a stronger first draft which will help you understand the story ever more. i usually blurt out the message of the story in my brainstorming page and also list potential themes or tropes i want to explore and how this relates to me! this gives your story that foundation, so you can continue writing and become a better author because of it.
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my favourite book: piranesi by suzanna clarke
my favourite author: franz kafka
my favourite quote: 'we don't write poetry because it's cute, we write poetry because we are members of the human race' - Dead Poets Society.
fav fictional world: middle earth
fav fictional creature: angel
fav fictional character/s: jem carstairs (infernal devices), crowley (good omens), peeta (the hunger games)
fav trope: hesitant allies to lovers, found family
fav movie: dead poet's society, pride and prejudice, the sword in the stone
fav artists: phoebe bridges, the lumineers, michael jackson
