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[stromael-writes]

Chapter Update

I’ll try and do a few of these, even though like two people follow me rn.

Hi, both of you. 

Anyways: 593 words today, current chapter total is sitting at 3500 ish -- I’d love to update by this sunday but I fear that pumping out that much (current estimate is 9k-10k) will burn me out and I’m high-key terrified of that. I’ll try and shoot for more each day, though, so let’s see what happens. Hopefully in time I’ll settle into a more consistent 14-15 day cycle. 

[stromael-writes]

I just wanted to tell you that I loved the first massages and I was so excited to see that you picked it up again, albeit as a rewrite. My question is how did you get into writing?

Oh Lord on high, what a question. To preface, I'm writing this on mobile so I apologize if I don't catch any errors.In all legitimacy, I have been "writing" for my entire life. Some of my earliest memories have been making pictures books with staples and pens, one such book being about a boy who was lost, and in fact was hiding under the bed the entire time.I must have been around 5-6 at this point, I think? My interested waned in grade school but in middle school it sparked up again -- the first fanfiction I ever started writing was when I was probably 13 or so. I never published it, because I didn't have a program with a spell checker at the time and saw how many errors I had, which discouraged me for a while. I'd always imagined stories, though. Crossovers between 12 of my favorite fictional world's, all joining forces to fight one horrific entity, united by a god-awful overpowered protagonist. In my spare time, this would dominate my mind, and I would imagine all different plot points and twists.The first fanfiction I ever posted was for rwby, and I deleted it with thirty minutes. It featured a terrible oc and a terrible lead-in, and I trashed it instantly. The next one was equally bad, and then another, and then massages, and then after massages for the past five years I have taken massive steps in improving the quality of my writing. The vast majority of this can be attributed to my mentor, who ruthlessly tore apart my garbage and lead me towards building something better from the ashes. I don't know what sparked my interest, so long ago, but I cannot remember "getting into" writing so much as I can remember always being there.