#and somehow by association with all these trad pub hopefuls I’ve built those limits as walls in my own mind

[keylimepieeeeee]

In terms of style and tone WB is more aligned with "commercially successful" or “mainstream” dark fantasy (whatever the heck that means anyway), but in reality you could probably call it "the author's thinly veiled fetish (for whump shit)" and on god i realized i need an outlet for being blatantly about that torture porn/whump shit after several years of hanging out with writers gunning for traditional publishing, agonizing over querying agents and comp titles and big 5 publishing houses and tying themselves into knots about "marketability" and all of that. i say this with the utmost love, but good lord. how exhausting. either way, I’ve got massive writers block and I’m really hoping that indulging in the core of the project - the backstory behind the scenes stuff I daydream about but never write down (until now!!!) - will help me get my ass drafting again