#Writers Breakthrough

[histhoughtslately]

[home-for-artists]

All those lonely little nights when I feel hopeless and scared are just stepping stones to make way for my breakthrough. I can feel it.

[lunar-years]

S1 Keeley with a boyfriend she genuinely likes and has fun with (the first one in ages) and is maybe even starting to love, even though she hadn’t ever planned on falling in love with him, and this was only supposed to be PR, right (probably), and he isn’t even the right material for a longterm thing anyway (unless he could be?) only for him to go and break their carefully woven trust and demonstrate that he really is more the arsehole everyone else keeps telling her he is, rather than the person he's been to her (the one who, sure, has an ego through the roof, but who's also funny and kind and ambitious and brave) in one fell swoop. To have to wonder if she’s been blind this whole time to who he really is, and to be made to feel like a total idiot because of how he treated her, and then to decide firmly that no, he is good and he is trying, and then to make the choice to continue to be there for him and help him when he asks...

Late S1/S2 Keeley with a different boyfriend, and this one she's certain she loves, and he could most definitely be longterm material with only a little polishing, in fact she's pretty sure this is it, and she's going to see this man through to his shine, because he's worth it. Even as he spirals in retirement and even as they hurt each other in small ways that eventually start to add up into something bigger, she keeps believing things will get better and they both will do better, because the little life they've been building is worth it. Or it has been, up until he goes and breaks up with her and doesn't even give her the courtesy of presenting something passable as a reason, even as he's turned into a stranger before he's fully out the door. And then they're barely talking and she's heartbroken and she knows she probably went wrong somewhere in there, too, but he never told her how and she's too tired to pick apart all the whys, and she's mad at him but it's difficult to even hold space for that anger because she misses him....

S3 Keeley Jones who stumbles into another new thing, and it's not going to be anything serious (unless it could be), and she's still grieving the last one (maybe the last two?) (but this will be different, really) and Rebecca's telling her she isn't certain this is a good thing (but Rebecca never liked Jamie, either, and Jamie's turned out all right, hasn't he). Her new girlfriend flying her on extravagant dates and flooding her with extravagant gifts and making Keeley feel appreciated, like all the time she's put in is finally being recognized, makes her feel worthy of love (she only wants to be loved. she wants people to stop leaving.) Even as her new girlfriend announces their relationship to the entire office (and sure, it's a little sticky, being that her girlfriend is also her boss, and it makes Keeley feel a little uncomfortable, actually, having all those eyes on her, her employees, but she pushes it aside because Jack isn't afraid to acknowledge her, to make it known that she likes her, to stick with her, and that's something). It's something until it isn't, anyway. Until she only acknowledges Keeley where she wants to, to the people she wants to. Until she leaves, too, and takes Keeley's funding with her. And then Keeley is left to feel like the clueless one again, the idiot for not spotting it coming all along.

And she's making stupid decisions again (sleeping with exes just to get the chance to feel someone), and Jamie and Roy are weirdly close now, and isn't that just flipping great. somehow she missed that, too. And she's the one who made them both better!! they never would have turned out like this if she hadn't been pushing them towards it all along, and now they're there without her, which really doesn't seem fucking fair and definitely sucks. And she's maybe still a little (a lot) in love with both of them, but then they're demanding she choose between them like quarreling stupid schoolboys, and she doesn't even want to choose and she wants both of them at the same time she wants neither of them and then there's still the sticky business of rebuilding her firm with what Jack did still sitting so raw in her chest (and it was never that serious anyway, so why does it bother her so much? why does everything bother her so much?)

(im gnawing at my enclosure)

[teriwrites]

About Me: A 2025 Writeblr Intro

Hello! Apparently I've made something of a habit of refreshing my introduction at the start of the new year, so here we go again!

As the url suggests, I'm Teri, and I write. Mostly novels, mostly fantasy, but a bit of a smorgasbord when it comes to short stories. What you can typically expect to find in my writing are close and complicated family/friend dynamics, playing around with worldbuilding, themes often around trust and paranoia, and more!

I've got a page for various WIPs I've posted about, a couple of which I'll briefly touch on below.

I set out a few goals for myself back at the start of 2024, and managed to accomplish 3/4. For 2025, I've been trying to piece together a few more:

Revise the 2nd and start the 3rd draft of Beyond Alder Creek

As always, try to crack 100K words worth of writing/brainstorming/etc.

Focusing more on the more formal craft side of writing/dedicating more time to actually improving my skills, which leads me into the goal I set out for 2024 and didn't finish:

Read back through my old NaNoWriMo(/whatever we're calling it now) drafts, both for entertainment and to sort of assess the kind of progress I've made over the past 14 Novembers (with the acknowledgment that November writing emphasizes quantity over quality ofc).

There are a few other goals I'd like to toss out, like going back to a few WIPs that I've set on the back-burner for the past couple years, but I think formally setting out a couple feels more realistic.

With that, here are some of the WIPs to look out for in 2025:

Beyond Alder Creek | Revising Draft 2 | Tag: #bac

When Winnie's little brother is stolen by the fae, she finds she has no choice but to risk venturing into their home, the Beyond, to bring him back. But in order to protect herself in this topsy-turvy new world, Winnie deliberately crafts a cautious deal with one of its residents, a golden fae with a grudge against her brother's kidnapper.

The Lies in the Legend | Drafting | Tag: #litl

A fictional autobiography of an elven noblewoman recalling her various, highly publicized diplomatic exploits and warning her readers about the dangers of aggrandizing and villifying figures like herself in the public eye.

Castle on the Hill | Revising Draft 1 | Tag: #coth

Five West German young men work through a year of university in the 1960s, coping with a drastically shifting political landscape as the emerging generation comes to terms with their nation's past and look ahead to its future.

With that, here's to a new year!

[dancingwiththesocks-blog]

IM BACK AND I COME WITH A NEW FANFIC! (Don't worry, I am still working on my unfinished stories. The inspiration for this one has taken the front seat.)

This is my version of Hety Banker (Cultist) meeting Dave Ruy (Tab) I hope you like it!

[thegrimreaperisanerd]

month-long chronic insomnia flareup got me acting a BIT too HDB-esk so I drew myself some Kims. I have cracked it! (The case of 'how to draw this MF')

feat one Harry, ECHEM, and Kineema that I fucking made up from memory because im not studying that beast

[always-andromeda]

Somebody pinch me. I fr just banged out a thousand words after months of not being able to touch any of my WIPS. 🥹

[ezziefox]

A Small Breakthrough

Last night, I got back into the great feeling of writing. I've been, of course, doing this for many years but what made last night different was that i didn't hold back, I didn't get scared of time, I didn't stop not knowing what to put next and having anxiety bite at the back of my head. I just wrote in the moment and I let my mind and fingers roam the free land of creativity.

Even if I backpedal on it, I'm just really grateful and happy that I could get back into the feeling. Now I know it's not impossible for me. So even if things don't stay this way and I take a step back again, I hope this moment can be a light in a dark tunnel for me in the future to at least try harder to continue.

Just wanted to share my gratitude for my progress, no matter how small.

Before this, I would reject all positivity. All the posts that said to just see the light at the end of the tunnel or not to give up hope and all that usual advice for anything. I would reject it. I thought it was stupid.

But I guess it's kinda true. I've done it before, and I managed to do it again. So don't give up. From me to you <3

[lyrebirdswrites]

The evil demon in my head says I’m a terrible horrible no good very bad writer and I MUST NOT let it win. Even if this wip is not knocking anybody’s socks off right now I have to trust it will become good eventually!!! Just keep swimming!! Just keep swimming!!

[glitchlight]

well thats fun.

[missamyshay]

WIP Whatever-Day-It-Is

Thanks for the tag @abcd-em 🦦

I’m going to do three snippets because I can’t choose and to make up for being several days late.

From sparks and embers:

He missed their old apartment. It was terrible, and cold, and smelt a little eggy in the summer, and for one week last August their shower and tap water had had an inexplicable brown tinge to it. But he’d loved it. It was the kind of place he was used to, the kind of place he’d grown up in. He’d never had much and things were never easy. But once it was just he and May left, he’d found himself a little grateful that their space was so small. It was harder to feel the presence of ghosts that way. Easier to fill in the gaps of all the people they’d lost.

From an unposted oneshot I’m working on:

MJ takes both of his cheeks in her hands, ducking her head to look him directly in the eyes, her brows drawn together, expression stern. “Peter,” her voice is unwavering, still strong in the face of it all as she shakes her head, “don’t let them turn you into the person they’re accusing you of being.”

From another unposted oneshot I’m working on:

“I’m asking as a—” May’s voice cuts off as she swallows the word that was about to slip out of her mouth unbidden.

Tony raises a dark brow at her, snorting as he perches on the edge of his desk and folds his arms. “Friend? I don’t think you shouldering your way into my office makes us friends Ms Parker.”

May shakes her head. “No. As…as…”

“As an aunt,” he supplies.

“Yeah.” But it still doesn’t feel right. The word aunt doesn’t quite taste right. She turns, taking three strides to the exit before her feet stop beneath her and she spins around again. “A mother. I’m…I’m asking as a mother.”

Tagging whoever sees this and wants to share!!

[icedteaandoldlace]

‼️‼️ CHARACTER MOTIVATION UNLOCKED ‼️‼️

[theredhobbit]

The more I rehearse my goodbyes, the more certain I become that it must happen.

The end of this passageway..

The last door to be closed on an era that was opened by someone so callow.

The more I detach myself from the perspective of that 20 year old who was desperate for your attention, the more my anticipation grows for what I may become with the space I've used up pining over you for a decade.

How many people did I cast in the role of the Irishman only to find that they were lackluster understudies?

I burned the vines whenever I felt them growing. In constant preparation for the season, you might turn up to collect me. Keeping detached so I may be replanted with haste. You did arrive at times but only to pick some blooms. To take the loveliest flowers and let them die on the island in your kitchen.

I refuse to cast your shadow over anyone else, not for a second longer. Your scent once invigorated me, and now it brings panic.

[dancingwiththesocks-blog]

Chapter 5 of The Chronicles of Dave and his clones is here!

This chapter is focused on Mack and Daves relationship for those into this pairing, do be warned I'm not great at writing shipping fics!

Hope you enjoy regardless!

[dirtbagcore]

crazy to think at the beginning of this year i had 0 idea what a productive writing process should look like, and every time i tried to write it felt insanely hard. like writing 200 words in a day felt like a major accomplishment, and i had never even managed to complete One full scene before.

but now!! i actually have some of my writing posted! and i have a bunch of wips that feel like theyre actually possible for me to complete 100%! idk, its just that, even tho i dont have much to show for it rn, im feeling proud of myself and i got the urge to share.

lets gooo 💪!! hopefully ill have more to show you guys soon!!

[chaoticdesertdweller]

From hurt, from anguish, from suffering, there comes that burst of creativity. That fiery pen waving like a magic wand over the paper...and the words, they just flow...