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EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. FOR. CHARLIE.

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god this took me too long lmao but I DID IT

are they associated with a certain color? what color do they wear the most?

Yellow! Warm yellow like sunshine is the color I associate with Charlie. He sticks with wearing a cooler palette when it comes to clothes though, definitely a lot of green, some blues, but a lot of brown and black.

what sort of music would they like? have you thought about what genres or bands do they lean towards? do they have a favorite song?

Charlie is a sucker for anything that's like, soft and orchestral, some folksy type stuff too. Think Hozier, The Civil Wars, The Amazing Devil, stuff like that.

weapon of choice? any particular reason they chose their weapon?

Well, Charlie's our resident magic boy, but he uses it less as an outright weapon and more of a protection/redirection type deal. His character sheet says he has a ritual knife but the idea of Charlie stabbing anything sounds so impossible.

Rest below the cut!

how crafty/resourceful are they?

I think I can say with confidence that Charlie is able to come up with unconventional solutions for problems, more often than not using magic, but he's not above using more mundane tools as well!

how do they typically dress? does their wardrobe lean more towards practicality or aesthetics?

Think about a history grad assistance in the 90s. Turtlenecks, jackets, cardigans, nice slacks, and he wears round wire framed glasses. He definitely leans towards practicality, but he knows the basics of how to throw an outfit together so that he doesn't look totally goofy.

how do they wear their hair? do they care a lot how their hair looks?

short on the sides and in the back, but he's got a fluff of ginger curls on top. he mostly just makes sure it's not overly tangled, not laying weird.

favorite animal? why?

Owls, he loves owls so much, he finds them fascinating and he loves how soft their feathers are.

do they have a nickname? who gave it to them? if it's not derived from their real name, what's the story behind it?

>:) our boy has so many nicknames. the big ones are related to each other a bit, because when he was little, his Uncle Kenny called him Peanuts (like Charlie Brown) and then Tuck, upon hearing this story, decided on Woodstock, but Tuck will also call him any number of sweet adorable pet names and they always make Charlie just...melt

favorite food? least favorite? are they a picky eater? do they have any dietary restrictions?

Charlie loves fruit and game meat, often together! and Charlie is a halfway decent cook and baker so he'll make a mean blueberry pie and he can do some magical (heheh) things with venison.

if they wear jewelry, what kind? do they prefer silver or gold? do they have a favorite gem?

Charlie always has a kind of unreal number of rings on his fingers, multiple on each finger, but most of them are fairly slender so they don't end up looking that bulky. Silver and iron for protection against various supernatural/fae beings and such.

what do they have in common with you? how are they different? would you get along with them?

uh we're both touch starved gingers with mommy issues? I think we would get along for the most part, but in small doses. I'm too abrasive for Charlie and Charlie's too soft for me.

how long have they been around? do you know their birthday? is their birthday the day you made them or another day? what do they think of celebrating birthdays?

I decided at least that Charlie is a Pisces, I suppose now I'll hammer down a specific date. March 15th! It's not the day I made him, I officially made him uhhhh back in 2021? he was extremely different in his first iteration though, I made him for a play by post motw campaign that fizzled out very quickly, and now he's in another one! as far as celebrating birthdays, they've always been a rather large affair for his family but he personally prefers a quieter celebration, dinner and a movie type stuff

what languages do they speak? how fluently?

English and Gaelic fluently, small amount of Latin for magic reasons

are they any good with numbers?

He's....adequate? He can do basic math but it was never his absolute favorite subject in school. He can calculate tips at restaurants in his head though!

how big or small is their family? who did they live with growing up? do they live with anyone now?

Charlie has a very large family. he's only got three siblings, but he's got a bunch of cousins and aunts and uncles and grandparents and second cousins and in laws and the list just goes on, he doesn't even know how far his family reaches.

do they have any pets? what do they call their pets?

Charlie does not have any pets, he worries that he's too busy to properly care for them, but he does have a habit of trying to befriend birds, especially crows and owls

how did they spend their summers/free time as a child?

before his magic really began to manifest, he would spend a lot of time helping his mother bake in the kitchen and help take care of the couple goats and sheep that they had. and of course he'd play with his siblings, usually out in the fields, rolling down hills and playing in the creeks and whatnot. but as he got older he spent a lot more time alone :)

their opinion on lying, stealing, and killing?

Charlie doesn't personally enjoy any of these, but as much as he tries to avoid them, he does understand that there's a time and place for everything. killing less so than the other two, because he really thinks there's always another solution before that.

are they quick to anger? what sets them off?

Charlie doesn't get necessarily angry, but when he gets overstimulated then he can get very frustrated and irritable and snippy.

if applicable, can they drive? if they have their own, what color is their vehicle? is the inside neat and tidy, or a mess?

Charlie can drive, and he does have his own car, a simple dark blue sedan. it is clean, but he often has books scattered across the backseat

their favorite place to be?

Alice's house with everyone there, or Tuck's place, or anywhere with a lot of books

do they sleep well at night?

depends on the day really, but he gets cold so easily so it definitely helps if he either has someone next to him or if he has enough blankets

how would you describe their voice? can they sing?

Charlie has a somewhat higher pitched voice, but it's very melodic in nature, and he can halfway carry a tune, but he tends to hum rather than sing.

do they have any creative hobbies? (art, writing, music, etc)

I'm counting baking in this, otherwise all that boy does is read lol

how good/bad is their hearing? what about their eyesight?

Charlie wears glasses and is pretty farsighted, but his hearing is average for someone of his age

how do they move? are they clumsy? light on their feet? do they use mobility aids?

Despite his excessively long limbs, he's actually somewhat graceful, but it's only because he is hyper aware of his movements to avoid accidental magicks

if applicable, do they have a favorite sport? do they play any sports or prefer to watch?

a stiff breeze would bowl that boy over, he doesn't not play sports and he finds no appeal to them, but he would absolutely go to a friend's game if they asked.

how do they show that they care about someone? how do they express that they don't like someone?

Charlie is a giver, he loves giving gifts. Whether it's a healing balm, a trinket, or baked goods, he puts incredible thought into the things he gives others. If Charlie doesn't like someone...to be honest I think he would just say it in the least confrontational way possible. Like, "I don't think we would be good as friends, or acquaintances, so we should part ways now"

are they associated with any particular element (air, earth, fire, water)?

Hmmm. Gotta be water/air for Charlie. He is the frighteningly still air just before a tornado, the cool breeze of spring, the gentle splashing creek, and the sudden riptide.

do they smell like anything notable?

I think Charlie always has a freshly baked smell about him on account of all the baking. Beneath that, something distinctly other. The current of magic that flows through him, like the smell of fireworks.

do they like receiving gifts? giving gifts? what is their ideal gift?

Despite his love of giving gifts, he always gets so shy when someone tries to give him something. It's easier when it's something that's more sentimental rather than like, material value. Every time Tuck brings him a cool rock or something like that genuinely just makes Charlie's heart sing.

do they have any habits that aren't particularly self-destructive, just maybe odd?

The stimming he does with his rings has the potential to be destructive, both to the self and to others, but it's not inherently dangerous

if applicable, how would your other characters describe them? i mean specifically the people around them.

none of my other characters have met the noodle boy yet!

how would your character describe themselves? it doesn't have to line up with how they really are.

"I, well, I'm a boy? I guess? A man, rather, I am an adult. And I um, I'm a redhead? I'm sorry I'm really not sure what kind of answer you're looking for here, I'm just uh...I'm Charlie?"

do they ever return home?

Charlie goes to visit his blood relatives every few years, but that hasn't been home for a long, long time. Home is weekly dinners at Alice's. Home is in Tuck's arms, Alice's gruff silence, Kenny's terrible jokes, Nessie's singing.

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🧁🌕📓 forrrrr charlie!

🧁- When is their birthday? How do they celebrate it, if at all? REAL talk, I haven't decided on a birthday yet for Charlie. But I can say that he is probably a Pisces if that is any indication. His birthday is usually a pretty lowkey event. Get himself some nice takeaway and settle in with a movie, but now that he has friends maybe he'll do something different this year!

🌕- if this OC was an animal, what kind would they be?

Charlie would be a bunny, but like, permanently baby sized. He's just so small...

📓 - Do you associate any quotes or lyrics with this oc?

So I did just realize that I know of THE Charlie song. It is "Drinking Song for the Socially Anxious" by The Amazing Devil, featuring such lyrics as "My heart is tearing my pages / From that funny story I rehearsed / And I know I won't be long / 'Cause I know I don't belong"

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emojis oc ask game! These are unabashedly just the questions *I* want to ask about y’all’s ocs. Feel free to copy the entire question into the ask box, because this list is hefty and I wouldn��t mind not searching through it, hahaha. Remember to specify which oc(s) you’re asking about!

🌈 - Do you associate any colors with them?

👁️ - How do other people perceive this oc? How close do their first assumptions come to the truth?

💝 - How much effort do they put into appearances? Do they have a favorite article of clothing?

⚠️ - If this oc came with a warning sign, what would it be?

🌨️ - If this oc had a day free from all their responsibilities, how would they spend it?

💙 - Describe their bedroom! Is it personalized, unchanged? Messy, neat?

👖 - Coffee shop or high school AU, your choice: tell me their role.

☕ - What is their preferred beverage(s)?

🧁 - When is their birthday? How do they celebrate it, if at all?

🧠 - What is their stress response: fight, flight, freeze, or fawn?

💭 - How is their mental health? Do they struggle with guilt or shame?

💔 - Does forgiveness come easily or with difficulty to this oc? Can they forgive others? What about themselves?

❗- What are the highest priorities to this oc (at a point in their life of your choosing)?

⚔️ - How does this oc handle conflict?

🌍 - What are this oc’s religious views?

🌊 - Does this oc have a secret or repressed desire?

✨ - Tell something that makes this oc feel happy!

🧶 - Do they do any arts, crafts, or creative hobbies?

🍪 - What are their favorite scents?

☔ - How does this oc feel about rain?

🌲 - Do they have a favorite location to hang out in?

⚡ - Does this oc have any unusual or “irrational” fears?

🗡️ - Does this oc have a signature object, accessory, or weapon?

💛 - Are they ‘good with children’, or more awkward?

🧡 - Physical touch: good or bad for this oc?

👁️‍🗨️ - Eye contact: good or bad for this oc?

🐺 - How does this oc deal with solitude?

🔅 - How does this oc deal with physical pain?

🌱 - Share one of this oc’s early memories.

🐰 - How huggable is this oc?

🍁 - What is this oc’s favorite season?

🌕 - If this oc was an animal, what kind would they be?

🦷 - Would this oc ever bite someone?

🐉 - Very serious question… are they more like a dragon, or a unicorn?

🐸 - What’s this oc’s sense of humor like?

🚷 - Tell one difference between yourself and this oc!

📓 - Do you associate any quotes or lyrics with this oc?

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Thoughts - June 4

Happy Pride Month Motherfuckers!

My writing has been pretty sporadic for the past couple of months. I'm not surprised really, I knew that setting a goal to write every day was going to ultimately wind up with missed days, but that was never really the point of this anyways. Whether I do it every day, every other day, or a couple times a week or whatever, I've already written way more this year than I think I've written in...let's just say it's been a while.

I'd like to expand on why that's happened, why I found myself falling out of love with the thing that I straight up decided to major in while I was in college. (Hint: college definitely had something to do with it)

I pinpoint the start of my love of writing around the age of eleven. At the time it was all My Chemical Romance self insert fanfiction and typical My Immortal style vampire stories. A little after that, I started branching out into doing text RP on Gaia Online and that's when I made my first real OC, Cassandra. Stuck her in a less than savory asylum themed roleplay and that particular group I would go on to do several different plots with. That was all through middle and high school, and those roleplays fueled my writing. I still wrote some MCR fanfiction during that time too, but I was branching out! Original stories, original characters, poetry, hell I did NaNoWriMo in like...2011 for the first time and fuckin crushed it.

I was pretty confident about my writing honestly. My friends and I liked it and that's kind of all I gave a shit about. When I started contemplating going to college and eventually decided to major in creative writing, that's when things started to take a bit of a turn.

For one thing, I don't particularly enjoy criticism! I also don't enjoy being told what format/genre/etc to write in, and when you get into advanced creative writing classes (at least at my college) then they usually focused on specific genres. For instance, I took a novella writing class, and a one-act playwriting class, and a....poetic playwriting class? Gun to my head I couldn't tell you what that one was officially called.

Now, obviously I recognize that the point of these classes was to allow you to branch into different formats, learn the conventions of them and use that knowledge to strengthen your skills. But I was a stubborn bastard and I only wanted to write my stuff.

That being said, my work often felt like it was undermined and looked down upon because my influences were very obviously YA/fanfiction/genre fiction based, whereas everyone else seemed focused on being as pretentious as possible, trying so desperately to be the next great white male author. I was resentful of that, and couldn't understand why my writing was seen as immature in comparison to my peers.

Long story short, I think those feelings kind of festered in me all through college so that, by the time I graduated, I had no intentions of ever turning my writing into any sort of career. I felt discouraged and pretty hopeless about my prospects, so once I was out, I was more concerned with figuring out how I was going to survive and pay rent, and I knew that my writing wasn't going to pay those bills. So I just...let it go for a while.

I'd write something here and there, sure. I think I might have even tried to submit a couple things. By and large though, what once consumed a vast majority of my free time was became something of a past life. "Back in the day I was a writer" and such.

And yet, it was still always one of the first things I would tell people if they asked me about my interests. ("Oh I'm a writer. What have I written lately? HAHAHAHA!") I couldn't let that part of my identity go. It had been a huge part of me for half my life, how could I abandon it?

So it was there, always, even if I didn't do anything with it. And then I got into DnD and other TTRPGs and I was doing text RP again and I realized that....I can still write? I'm still an actual writer? And I could write again if I really wanted to, if I could find a way to push past the discouraged feeling in my gut.

So that's what all this has been for, really. I could go on for a while about this complex relationship I have with writing, but it honestly feels so fucking good to be back in it, to be back working at something again. It's not perfect, I've definitely forgotten a lot of the useful shit I did learn in college, but I think that I could get there again.

If you read through this whole thing, I can only assume that you related to it in some way and if so, I hope you're coming out on the other side of things feeling hopeful for yourself too. Thank you, as always, for reading.

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⚖️ and 👥 for cass and vicky!

⚖️- Are they a good person?

Cass: Vicky is a great person. She's been through way too much bullshit, and I think she's had a hard time dealing with all that, but at the end of the day she still tries to do the right thing and I think that's what matters. I think she's better than me, at any rate.

Vicky: Cass likes to act like she's this big badass who doesn't care about anyone but herself, but the truth is she's the kind of person that would not just help you hide a dead body, she'd straight up murder someone for you if you asked, as long as you didn't suck.

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I am being informed that my experiences are not universal and that perhaps, being willing to kill and hide bodies is not necessarily "good person behavior". Whatever, I said what I said. 👥- What are they to you?

Cass: The little sister and the daughter I never had. She means everything to me and if I could take away every ounce of pain she's ever felt and put it on myself, I would, a thousand times over. I love her more than I've ever loved anyone else. Vicky: I didn't always have a mom. I mean. I did, but I didn't know her. She left me with my dad as soon as I was born, and so for the first several years of my life, it was just my dad and my brother, and then just my dad, and then finally I had my brother and Cass. And I had a mother then. I had someone to help me be a girl, while still not taking anybody's shit. As much as I owe Sam my life for getting me away from our father, I owe Cass my life just as much because without her I don't know who I would be. I love her with every piece of my soul.

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OC Duo Answers Ask Game

So because I'm incapable of doing things the conventional way, here's an idea: for these asks, instead of picking an OC and just saying things (which I like, don't get me wrong), to answer these asks pick two characters, and answer the questions as if each character were talking about the other. These answers don't have to be accurate; they reflect each character's perceptions of the other. They can be friends, family, enemies, anything to each other.

😇- What's their best trait?

👿- What's their worst trait?

⚖️- Are they a good person?

👁️- Do you really know them?

👥- What are they to you?

❤️- What are you to them?

🐺- What animal do they most remind you of?

😘- Are they your type?

😨- What's their greatest fear?

🧠- What's your best memory with them? Worst?

👣- How long have you known each other?

🫂- How has your relationship changed recently?

🫡- Are they a good leader?

If you guys have asks you want to add in the reblogs, go ahead, ik this isn't a lot.

Gonna tag people below the cut to get this started:

@the-ellia-west, @somethingclevermahogony, @thewritingautisticat, @smudged-red-ink, @aesthetic-writer18

@tildeathiwillwrite, @agirlandherquill, @illarian-rambling, @corinneglass, and @diabolical-blue!

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Thoughts - May 9

Holy mary mother of god, the Renkaza fanfic that I was working on forever ago that I had to put on hiatus because I had no idea where the hell it was going??

Found a path through the weird spot I wrote myself into. I'm a fucking genius.

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Weeks 10 - 14 Update

Buckle in, we got a lot to get through.

WEEK TEN:

Writing Days: 6/7

Total Words Written: 1,547

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WEEK ELEVEN:

Writing Days: 3/7

Total Words Written: 920

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WEEK TWELVE:

Writing Days: 4/7

Total Words Written: 1,125

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WEEK THIRTEEN:

Writing Days: 2/7

Total Words Written: 178

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WEEK FOURTEEN:

Writing Days: 4/7

Total Words Written: 3,250

Summary thoughts below the cut!

It feels insane to me that even though I've been struggling quite a bit with mental health and stress, on top of having a sudden death in my family, that I still managed to write a decent amount. Week 13 was my weakest one to be sure but like, hey, the two days I wrote I still managed to write at least 50 words so, y'know, hell yeah.

I was able to rope myself into focusing on this again largely because my girlfriend has been watching college gymnastics this week, so she's been using the TV and I can't sit and rot and play video games all evening, so I was like, "well fuck I might as well do something else besides sit on my phone!"

Which is how I managed to write over a thousand words yesterday and today, which I have only done ONE other time this year. Whadda fuck...

Anyways, I haven't forgotten about this project and I'm not going to! Even if I don't update this blog super consistently I will still be tracking my progress on my own. I'm really proud of myself and all the progress I've made so far. Just reminding myself why I love writing in the first place and getting back into the habit of it has done wonders for like, just stimulating my brain in general.

Soooo yeah, anyways, thanks for reading! I promise at some point I'll post some actual writing on here as a reward for the few of you who read through these long ass rambles of mine.

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Thoughts - April 4th

So. It's been a minute.

I have written since my last weekly update, but not much. I've just had a lot of other stuff going on. I still want to keep trying with this whole writing a little every day thing, but I've just not had the mental capacity for that the past few weeks so I'm just doing what I can, when I can. I've been working on other projects and stuff too so it's not like I've been doing nothing, just, haven't been doing the specific thing I made this blog for!

This isn't much of an update, but I wanted to say something just to remind myself what's going on, and that it's okay that I'm not a writing machine that can do this every single day.

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Weeks 8 & 9 Update

Okay, so it's...been a busy/rough/complicated couple of weeks! But I haven't forgotten about this, and I'm still dedicated to it despite how many days I've missed. Instead of doing the daily word count though I'm gonna condense a little bit, just so this isn't such a long post.

WEEK EIGHT:

Writing Days - 3/7

Total Words Written - 729

WEEK NINE:

Writing Days - 2/7

Total Words Written - 414

Technically, if you average it out, I still had an average of at least 50 words a day for both of these weeks. And I'm nothing if not a lover of technicalities.

I had a lot going on the past couple of weeks so I haven't really had the energy, the time, or even the inspiration to work on much. That being said, I have a few new projects in the works on top of continuing to revise the one piece that I've spent a lot of this blog's lifespan working on.

Writing feels...lonely, sometimes. I think that I'm so afraid of criticism that I'm reluctant to share my work, but even when I do share my work I'm not guaranteed feedback and that's almost worse. What do I do if nobody says anything about the stuff I send them? I automatically assume it's trash and I should give up writing forever. Obviously.

I hate that my thoughts always jump to the worst possible outcome for this type of thing. I'm working on it though. In the meantime, I'm going to continue writing because god at least it's something other than mindlessly scrolling on my phone. And it makes me feel good.

Anyone reading these updates still, I love you as always and thanks for your support, however silent or vocal it may be.

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Thoughts - February 28

One of my most annoying habits as a writer has very little to do with my actual writing.

Whenever I send someone something of mine to read, whether because I'm specifically looking for feedback or because they simply expressed interest in reading it, I almost always feel the need to issue a bunch of "disclaimers" or "caveats."

Not like content warnings or potential triggers, but rather it's usually something like, "Hey I know this thing is bad in this spot and it is bad for this reason" or "I know the ending is a mess I'm working on it."

I want to work on not doing that and just...let people read my work! Why am I apologizing before they've even read it?

I know why, and it's all rooted in my lack of confidence in my own writing which is dumb because I'm a good writer! I feel like if I acknowledge the problems that I've already perceived, I won't have to face as much criticism.

Motherfucker, that is one of the ways you're gonna improve! Let people critique your work! It's not always gonna be bad!

Am I maybe a little traumatized because every creative writing workshop I took in undergrad royally sucked ass and was full of pretentious dickheads? MAYBE.

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Questions About Creating Your OCs

‘Cause sometimes the stories of how OCs come to be are just as interesting as the OCs, themselves. Tell me how your virtual kids came into the world.

What was the first element of your OC that you remember considering (name, appearance, backstory, etc.)? 

Did you design them with any other characters/OCs from their universe in mind? 

How did you choose their name? 

In developing their backstory, what elements of the world they live in played the most influential parts? 

Is there any significance behind their hair color? 

Is there any significance behind their eye color? 

Is there any significance behind their height? 

What (if anything) do you relate to within their character/story? 

Are they based off of you, in some way? 

If they have an LI, how much of their character is tailored to be compatible to that person? 

Did you know what the OC’s sexuality would be at the time of their creation? 

What have you found to be most difficult about creating art for your OC (any form of art: writing, drawing, edits, etc.)? 

How far past the canon events that take place in their world have you extended their story, if at all? 

If you had to narrow it down to 2 things that you MUST keep in mind while working with your OC, what would those things be? 

What is something about your OC can make you laugh? 

What is something about your OC can make you cry? 

Is there some element you regret adding to your OC or their story? 

What is the most recent thing you’ve discovered about your OC? 

What is your favorite fact about your OC?

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Weeks 6 & 7 Update

I won't let the brain goblins win! I will make sure I do my updates! Ahhhhhh!

WEEK SIX -

February 5, 2024 - 443 words, original piece

February 6, 2024 - 76 words, original piece

February 7, 2024 - 0 words

February 8, 2024 - 266 words, original piece

February 9, 2024 - 569 words, text RP

February 10, 2024 - 541 words, original piece and text RP

February 11, 2024 - 213 words, original piece and text RP

TOTAL WORDS FOR THE WEEK: 2,108

WEEK SEVEN -

February 12, 2024 - 121 words, original piece

February 13, 2024 - 0 words

February 14, 2024 - 0 words

February 15, 2024 - 1,119 words, original piece

February 16, 2024 - 0 words

February 17, 2024 - 0 words

February 18, 2024 - 493 words, original pieces

TOTAL WORDS FOR THE WEEK: 1,733

Notes/Summary under the cut!

I barely remember week six. It was largely unremarkable except the fact that I remembered that the stuff I write for the text roleplay one of my Monster of the Week games does between sessions should TOTALLY count towards my word count for the day!

That does make me realize that I'm not sure if I've really specified what is counting as part of my word count, but the answer is fairly simple: gotta be fiction. Even though I do occasionally write poetry, that isn't what I'm trying to focus on and it's not super compatible with the word count goal even if it is only fifty words a day. That also means that writing up these posts doesn't count towards my daily goal either.

Week seven was obviously a minimal one but between being sick and then celebrating my birthday I was kind of expecting it. I did have a really nice day between the sick and the birthday where I was able to crank out quite a bit. I will be honest, I don't....remember what the hell I was working on that day but I do think it was still the demon erotica story. I've been editing and rewriting especially since there was such a long gap between when I first started it and when I finally like, "finished it" so the tone was all over the place. That's primarily been my focus is working on that story because I would like to post it, maybe on Medium? There's a trans erotica collection I can submit to that I kinda think would be a good spot for it.

Looking ahead, I'm gonna have a few more blank days where I'm not writing much if at all because I will be out of town Thursday through Sunday, but that's okay! Overall I still think I'm doing really well with this and I just hope that I can keep it up as much as possible throughout the year.

Thanks as always for reading!

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Thoughts - February 15

Haven't written anything for the past three days because I've been sick.

Wrote over a thousand words today.

Also just realized I never did an update for week six! Fuck! I'll either combine it into week seven's or I'll just do them one after another this Sunday. I'm not sure what the rest of this week will look like as far as meeting my goal goes because tomorrow is my birthday and I've got a game on Sunday, but who knows!

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Week 5 Update

Didn't have the energy to do the update yesterday so here it is!

January 29, 2024 - 130 words, original piece

January 30, 2024 - 341 words, original piece(s)

January 31, 2024 - 393 words, original piece

February 1, 2024 - 93 words, original piece

February 2, 2024 - 0 words

February 3, 2024 - 0 words

February 4, 2024 - 227 words, original piece

TOTAL WORDS FOR THE WEEK: 1,184

I was out of town this weekend and I was super busy the whole time so I didn't have time to write for those couple days. Even so, the days that I was writing were pretty minimal. I am trying to be gracious to myself especially because I purposefully set a low word goal so that I didn't get down on myself for not writing a lot.

Still, it's hard! I can get discouraged pretty easily and I really only have myself to blame for it because nobody else is trying to discourage me! So I gotta ignore that voice in my head that says I'm not doing enough and what I am doing sucks.

So like, on the bright side of things I did finish the one piece I was working on and while I haven't really gone through and edited it yet, I did roll right into a continuation of that piece so this might end up becoming an overall longer piece, which is fun! I'm usually not great at longer pieces despite my repeated attempts. Hopefully I can get the two pieces to connect together in a smooth enough fashion.

I may need to adjust my overall plan to include editing days though because if I'm just focused on getting words down that doesn't necessarily leave me mental space to refine and polish.

Thanks again for reading!

[pretttydemonwrites]

19, 21, 22, 23, & 28 for all your tabletop-originated characters (or at least your faves)!

OUGH. That's hard because actually I don't have that many characters that originated as tabletop characters! I think it'll be Racquel and Charlie for this set!

19. sleeping position?

Racquel - full starfish, absolutely just spread out across whatever surface zir sleeping on. a real nightmare to share a bed with to be honest, cuz what inevitably happens is zir just fulling laying on top of the other person. Charlie - instinctively curls up because he is always cold, and also runs into that issue of "blanket/bed is too fuckin short for him long legs" and he needs to be completely covered from the neck down in order to sleep 21. obsession from childhood? Racquel - this might feel a bit sad but like, having a family? not like, having kids (thought ze does end up with at least one pseudo adopted child) but just having those kind of connections? growing up not really knowing your parents at all will kinda mess your shit up so ze has spent on a long time trying to find people to care about and for those people to care about zem in turn.

on a less serious note: archery

Charlie - he has always been really into sunflowers??? hey idk where this came from, this just popped into my head unbidden. but he loves the way they follow the sunshine, and he loves how tall they get, how sturdy they are, how BIG, and he loves sunflower seeds (he hates eating them around people though because having to spit out the shells is so embarrassing)

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22. role model?

Racquel - ze was raised by an elf named Silas, who took Racquel in and taught zem pretty much...everything? closest thing to a father figure ze had and he kind of maintained a sort of distance between them for reasons Racquel never really understood, but it didn't stop Racquel from being in awe of his skills. he was a powerful cleric but his experience in adventuring and travel meant that he was able to teach them survival skills, which lead to zem becoming more of a ranger. cool guy, shame he got murdered.

Charlie - probably his older sister Aine (awn-yah)! he's the second oldest of his four siblings, and Aine and him are just under two years apart, so they're pretty close. she was the one who helped him channel his magic into his natural stimming and came up with the idea of adding the rings to then help focus that magic a bit more. things still go haywire a bit, but Aine's patience helped him have confidence in himself so he messes up a lot less than he used to and he's very grateful to her for that.

23. strange habits?

Racquel - man, the only things I can think of right now are zir tendency to steal baked goods (happened frequently when zir party was posted up in a literal palace) and zir habit of basically only wearing half zir shirt, but that's because one side of zir torso being covered in scar tissue gives zem a lot of sensory issues so ze hates having anything touching it too much.

Charlie - well, other than various stimmy things I think Charlie is just a nervous babbler. he can say so many words without actually saying anything at all because he is so nervous all the time!

28. five songs to describe them

God we were cruising right along until I got to this one. i sUCK at picking songs for my OCs, so I will try and come back to this one later I think general vibes for Racquel is Arctic Monkeys meets indie queer artists talking about gender in increasingly esoteric ways. For Charlie, take like, indie girl with an acoustic guitar and then sprinkle in a dash or two of like Irish folk music. ...Yeah.