#Holding up a baseball bat telling my brain 'no we are NOT romanticizing the 90s'

[astramachina]

Trying to convince my brain that I don't write romcoms/basic romances is a yearly occurrence at this point. Like the only romcom I've ever written was about serial killers. Last November I gave it an honest try and got about 30k in before ragequitting. In April I attempted, again, this time as a stageplay, and I ended up with some weird psychological something that never made it past the first draft (puppets were involved... don't ask).

So whenever my brain is vibing at a chill frequency it'll feed me these vivid scenarios that beg to be written but have no actual characters attached to them because??? Can't even oneshot them, fanfic style. I'll just jot down the scene for "future reference". There's enough of a backlog to write an entire trilogy with an ensemble cast.