#eoy wip game

[curiosity-killed]

“They’ll attack at its peak,” Callebero continued, trying to guess the lay of the field before they were swallowed within it. “It’ll be dark, the horses will spook.” Spooked horses faired poorly when thrown into the mess and chaos of open battle, but surrendering the cavalry was like cutting off their own foot before a race. They had the numbers to make up for it, but they’d lose speed and coordination. “I’ll make sure Duan isn’t around them,” Sirion said with a wry smile. Startled, Callebero let out a quiet huff that didn’t quite become laughter. His whole body was wound tight as a bowstring, terrified of the release. All the plans, all the contingencies, and none of them had accounted for the gods intervening directly. Sirion caught his hand and lifted it, gaze steady. His heart was protected under the layers of his cuirass and tabard. He brought Callebero’s hand instead up to the tender side of his neck, where his pulse beat strong beneath his jaw. It was fast but steady, even. Callebero swallowed hard. “You have us,” Sirion said, solemn. “Now let us be your will.” It was sacrilege, blasphemy to use such a holy pledge—except Sirion believed. Sirion meant it in every sense, in pledge and prayer alike. Callebero didn’t understand, couldn’t fathom placing his faith in him—but he believed in Sirion. He trusted him to know the way. He nodded and drew in a steadying breath. Leaning forward, he pressed their foreheads together briefly and prayed as fiercely as he could that this was not goodbye.

there is a non-zero chance you could make a drinking game out of all the times Sirion uses his own pulse to ground Callebero & I don't know what that says about my writing but here we are

[dogwooddiaries]

WIP Wednesday !

So excited for another wip game! I've never done this kind before ackkkkk

Thank you for the tag @sparrow-in-the-field and @arokel <3

List your current wips (as vague or specific as you want) and let people send you asks about which one intrigues them the most!!!

these span a lovely, disorienting range of barely intelligible ideas to paragraphs written that may or may not see the light of day. soooo, ask away?

WYKAM - no map

fall

carry with you

papes

bottle of fortune

EOY

Idk idk who to tag - I think I haven't seen a tag for @effervescentyellow, @savvylittlecoxswain @kcsplace @borealopelta ? I know there just lots of life as always etc so no pressure!!

[moonshine-nightlight]

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thanks for sending in for the EOY WIP ask game

this is from a sci-fi alien romance short story because i have too many ideas for that genre too lol. it's working title is "Snapped"

He wishes the small medbay next to his quarters was bigger, wishes her scent wasn’t already flooding it. Humans, always giving off so many pheromones and scents, spilling their chaos everywhere.

He loves that about them most of the time. He hates it right now.

Methodically, he begins going through the cabinets as soon as he sets the database running through possibilities for treatment. He’s never been so glad he has his own medbay, given his species, and that everything is in his native language so she can’t read it. He doesn’t want her to know about this weakness of his, this lapse in control. It’s too shameful, too revealing.

Every second that goes by makes it that much harder to war against his instincts. Instincts that have suddenly decided he needs to claim his mate before she is taken away, by death or rivals—by anything. The fact that she isn’t actually his mate doesn’t matter to the primal beast within.

Only that he wants her to be, desperately. Only that she hasn’t rejected him, since he’s never bothered to ask when he know the answer. Only that she cares about him enough to fool his hormones into thinking she’d be receptive.

“Seriously, Mech,” she says, her voice insistent and annoyed. Her hands are on her hips. “What’s going on?”

“Told you,” he replies, pulling down bottles. “Personal problem.”

“Yeah, well, that’s useless. And I don’t see what it has to do with me. If you’re just gonna ignore me, then I might as well go—”

“No!” He’s suddenly in front of the door out, his eyes wild—glowing with red light strong enough he can see it on her face. She freezes, finally eyeing him like the wild beast he’s turning into.

He tries to calm down, tries to breath, but her scent is everywhere—all of his senses heightened and trained on her. He tries anther tactic, reminding himself that she’s here—she’s just worried about him, she’s not going to leave. “I. Apologize,” he grits out. “I will try to explain. Just please. Take it back.”

[malkaleh]

For the fanfic ask game: 3, 7, 12, 20 💜💜

3. What’s your favorite fic that you’ve written? Such A Time As This (Tudors). It’s a retelling/reinterpretation of the Purim Story with Anne Boleyn as Esther - specifically as Persian Jewish woman. It was so scary to post because it’s so deeply personal - I was writing my own identity as a biracial persian jewish woman into the threads and soul of this story and while there are things I would add/change now I am still so proud of it. A quote:

"You are talking of me, of my family" she wants to say to the courtiers when they sneer or repeat the stories about the Jewish monsters who steal babies to make matzoh and mix the blood in with their gold and have poisoned all the wells in France. But it would do no good at all). And she should be used to hearing this - as it has been around her all her life and it would not change - to be Jewish was to be safe nowhere.

7. How many ideas for fics do you have right now? I am not including actual WIPs that have words here but a list (feel free to ask questions about if wanted):

The West Wing Dystopia

Multifandom Sex Slave AU aka ‘that is yours, I am not’

President Joanna Bartlet and her wife Abbey

Robert Dudley Travels Back In Time

Gregory Cromwell Has Some Feelings

Jane and John Dudley????

Hot Thomas Boleyn Rights

English Civil War: AU Edition

Tough Scenes In Fictional In Universe Version Of The Tudors

Choreographer Interview

TWW Ballet AU

Persian Jewish Sara Crewe

Race Bent LOTR graphics

Helen Norwich

Girl H7/Boy EOY

Liam shows up in George’s office with an iced coffee

OT3 verse next gen (Anne Tudor-Dudley)

Tudor Ships + Taylor Swift

Robert proposes to Elizabeth

12. Do you have a playlist for your current WIP(s)? Share it!

20. What’s a favorite title for a fic you’ve written? I personally believe that Only Wore This Doublet (So You Could Take It Off) is a genius title/rif on the Taylor Swift lyric ;). (Tudors, Robert Dudley/Elizabeth I and for some reason it contains knife kink)

[disastardly]

Tagged by @gleek4twd , thank youuuuu

Last Song: Luna by The Mountain Goats

Currently Reading: Gentle Chaos by Tyler Gaca

Currently Watching: well this is a loaded question, lol... Need to finish the live action YYH and Yellowjackets, probably gonna watch some Game Changer and/or Umm, Actually tonight tho

Currently Obsessed With: Kingohger, if you couldn't tell by all my reblogs today 😂 also hardcore trying to finish up my current WIP by EOY and about 3/4 there

No tags - if you see this, that's me tagging you!

[sam-glade]

1 and 8 for the EOY writeblr asks? :3 (if you’re still doing them)

Hi, thanks for the ask!

(From this game)

1. what was your writing-highlight this year? what made it special and how will you reflect on it next year?

Gifts of Fate was written from start to its polished, query-able current state entirely this year. I've started writing it mid-January or so, it's gone through two rounds of beta readers, and now I'm sending queries. I still can't quite believe it.

And of course creating this writeblr (in February? I think) and meeting all you wonderful people.

8. what are three things you're looking forward to next year?

Sending out more queries. All of the queries. (Well, ok, it's a somewhat stressful process, so I'm not exactly looking forward to it, but I want to get it done).

Finishing my NaNo project, The Prince's Shadow, which is the sequel to Gifts of Fate, and showing that to my dear betas.

Tackling some of the WIPs for which I wrote a couple of chapters each to figure out the tone and check that I like the idea enough to write it, but didn't have the time to actually write them this year. Yes, that includes The Truth Teller.

[kazmiya]

Current list of fanfics to write/publish by EOY, 2022 hopefully…

- A Dangerous Love (chapter 4 - 6) // the rough draft was written last year during Christmas but lost the mood halfway thru 🥲 so here we are again, picking up my slack. Also, I’m undecided whether to keep old plot line or spice up the details a bit, it’s gone thru several transformations already but I’m still unsatisfied.

- [ still need a title ] // recently in the mood to write some crossover fic b/t OP & Drrr. Spoiler: gonna be a short series with a “virtual online game” kind of setting. Keeping it light and fun.

- [wip] // Hamatora fic (Ratio x Bday). This gonna be dark…

Update: 2023 gonna be pump!

[honeysidesarchived]

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HI THANK YOU SO MUCH AND ALSO I'M SORRY THIS IS SO LATE. i am rapidly running out of wips (so folks if i don't answer yours--i promise i am not ignoring you i am just. tapped out) but!!! i really appreciate it and thank you katie <3 <3

under the cut is a bit from an original project i'm working on featuring my oc circe & my dear friend's oc wolfric, set in a regency period! they're big idiots and i love them. no warnings, just pining and the kind of flirting that regency brings (i.e. touching is so SEXY) (feat. also wolfric using his General(TM) voice on circe she is a simple woman)

The older man regards her warily for a moment before he acquiesces; one of his hands holds hers, his thumb cradled against the curve of her palm, and the other attends to the buttons with practiced ease. Circe very dutifully does not look over her shoulder at where Inna and Wickman are still standing���and admittedly, even if she wanted to, she wouldn’t have been able to.

“Stop moving,” Wolfric chides, when she squirms.

“I’m not a child.”

His grasp of her hand tightens and he tugs, lightly, almost in reprimand—as though being closer to him could ever be a punishment, she thinks forlornly—and gripes, “If you don’t stop squirming, I won’t act like I’m enamored with you and fend off that nobleman you’ve been blatantly ignoring.” His thumb rubs against the love line of her palm, as though to soothe the sharp precision with which he had read her and then cut her. “Be. Good.”

Circe feels the blood rush scarlet in her face. Wolfric touches her with such an easy familiarity that it nearly stuns her into obedience, standing by like a placated housewife, thoroughly admonished. The moths flicker furiously in her stomach as Wolfric clasps the last button on her cuff, tugging it for good measure.

“There,” he announces. “All buttoned up.”

She clears her throat. “Thank you.”

“You are most welcome. Now, I can see you are absolutely dying to elaborate on your disdain for our lordly companion, so you might as well get on with it.”

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WIP Wednesday

Thank you for the tag @thnxforknowingme!! My current WIP is Echoes of You, and it's a Klaine/Kurtbastian fic with a yet-to-be-determined endgame. The chapters are really short so I don't want to reveal too much, but I hope you enjoy this little snippet :)

It might not have been the best idea, coming to Sebastian’s apartment after his meeting with Blaine. But, he’s here now, so. He’s not even sure why he’s here, not really. It’s not like that first night, when Blaine asked him to leave, and he’d shown up at Sebastian’s door, not even realizing where he was going until he was here. No, this was a conscious decision. But he’s not upset like that night – he should probably be more upset, actually. Maybe that’s why he’s here. He needs the distraction, doesn’t want to start thinking about why he’s not more upset. Sebastian is really good at providing a distraction.

Just enough to leave a little mystery ;)

This was a lot of fun so I really appreciate being tagged, sometimes I forget I'm really a writer lol. Going to tag @esperantoauthor and @20xbetterthanu if you haven't already been tagged, since I am actually managing to do this while it is still Wednesday!!

[stilesssolo]

23 & 24 for EOY asks game… 🙂

23. fics you wanted to write but didn’t

Oof, a lot 😂 my writing motivation was simply MIA for a really good portion of the year. I had wanted to write my Emma au or the Musketeers au for the jonerys remix event, but neither of those happened. We’ll see how I feel next year about them— I feel like I’ve gotten my mojo back with BICBTY, but I often feel like I might be nearing the end of my fic writing career, especially after my two WIPs are done. But I do still have outlines and parts of both written so we shall see what 2022 brings!

24. favorite fic you read this year

God, I was so busy this year that I think I really only kept up with WIPS I’d already started. My list of fics to read like tripled this year 😂 but I think my favorite was probably For The Cameras by @muttpeeta and @adecila!! I LOVE me a fake dating au as well as a celebrity au and already this story is fabulous and hilarious and addictive. I can’t wait to see what they have planned next for it!!

end of the year fic asks

[mistresspandora-archive]

EOY ask game: 4 & 18 because I want to know which number is bigger 😜

That's such a fair question 😂

4. total number of words you wrote this year I have posted 288,173 words according to AO3 this year, including the stuff I coauthored. I have a bunch of words in drafts and WIPs that I haven't posted yet, but I'm not counting those. I'm hoping to get to a million words overall in 2022 (I've got a little over 750k right now).

18. current number of wips Uhh.... Just those I've actually started?

10 one-shots (plus a collab or two we haven't quite finished)

3 long fics (again, plus some collabs we haven't finished)

And then I have notes and plots down (but nothing actually written) for .... 32 more. When I say I have mortality concerns, this is what I mean.

[zinzinina]

5 and 23 for the eoy ask game! 💖💕💗

Hi Tess! 💖 Thanks for playing love!

5. most popular fic this year

So, this one's tricky because based on AO3 hits it's A Mutual(ly Beneficial) Arrangement, but based on notes on Tumblr it's Directions...but then if we're counting how quick the response was, it's my TASM!Peter Parker fic Approach Shift. So I really don't know? Lsdflksk it's insane to me that anyone reads anything I've made, so I'm just grateful that people have been kind enough to share their time with my stuff.

23. fics you wanted to write but didn’t

From my WIP list, these are the big ones that are stewing away (hopefully for the new year):

Longform series with Clone Medic Kix

Post-O66 continuation of Hierarchy of Needs

Redux of my "early days in the desert" Ben Kenobi series I started and then took down

Enemies to lovers with Din

Thranto (non-reader-insert)

And I've also been thinking about reworking the Darman and Etain relationship from the Republic Commando novels into something not...uh...completely awful and harmful

end of year fanfic asks

[doitwritenow]

I'd ask all 35 of the ask game, but I feel that might be a little too much. Instead, I'll choose: 2, 5, 6, 7, 12, 23, 29, 31, 33, and... oh that's way too many. Uhhh, feel free to not answer some if you feel overwhelmed. If not, go ham! I'd love to read more about your writing/writing process. :)

Oh WOW thank you! These are so fun. Hm...

2. Why do you write fanfiction?  Recently answered this one! Here’s what I said: I write fic because of the spaces between the lines of a story. The gaps and unanswered questions in canon encourage me to come up with deeper mechanics, more complicated lore, and complex character motivations in order to explain. Sometimes, one of those pieces will click into canon so well that it becomes inspiration. And then there’s nothing else to do but write! Lol. Stories are so wonderful because of what we can do with them, individually and all together, and I really like being a part of that. 

5. What’s the fic you’re most proud of? While EoI is kind of my magnum opus, I really really adore Sunrise Loves To Go Down. Something came together in that fic, some tone and some thread of style, and I am immensely proud of how it turned out. I started writing it when I had been evacuated from my house due to a wildfire, lying on a hotel bed and typing on my phone in the middle of the night, and so it felt different to write than my other works. Maybe that’s why it feels different to read, too.

6. What element of writing do you find comes easily? Easily? I have to say dialogue. It’s often my favorite part of any scene, and I love the way it determines tone and establishes character. Though it’s not my absolute favorite part of writing, I dance through dialogue scenes feeling like I’m on a caffeine high. Of course, lots of times getting dialogue right is a lot of work, but there’s an ease to it that some things don’t have. 

7. What element of writing do you struggle with most? Hnnnngk the answer is pacing. It’s pacing. I struggle to pace things. I do enjoy long projects and feel proud of my ability to commit to them, don’t get me wrong. But I’d love to get better at structuring a plot to allow for the same tone without needing an overly generous amount of words. My go-to answer with pacing is always ‘write more’, but I don’t think that’s always strictly necessary. I want to be able to use the other tools in my arsenal to tell a story that’s just as complete but even more gripping.  Me: *challenges pacing to a death battle* Me: *dies*

12. Tell us about a WIP you’re excited about. Okay so a friend and I were laughing about how funny it could be to write about what happens to Odin after Loki sticks him in a retirement home on Earth. The Mystic Artists would obviously know he was there, what with all that cosmic threat sensing bullshit, and things would devolve from there. Like, can you imagine? The Adventures of Odin Allfather and the Home for Elderly People. Series of one-shots. Each titled something like: Odin vs. Thursday Bingo. Odin vs. His Roomate. Odin vs. the Grumpy Wizard. Odin vs. the Craft Store. And slowly other characters start to show up. Ned’s grandma is in the same nursing home, and he and Odin hit it off, so obviously Ned introduces him to Peter. Stephen comes to check up on him occasionally and Odin stages the most dramatic escape attempts of all time with no real intention of going anywhere. Now I dislike Odin in canon but how comical could that be I’m serious--

23. Do you prefer prompts and challenges, or completely independent ideas? I like prompts and challenges, but generally I work best with completely independent ideas. I can’t force my one-shot muse, so whenever it strikes I buckle down and write there and then. So yeah, prompts and challenges are really fun, but the inspiration has its own plans for my hapless self.

29. Have you ever gone outside of your comfort zone for a fic? How did it turn out? Comfort zone? What comfort zone? Lol. I suppose I do have bounds of what I’m willing to write and share, but they’re not particularly limiting. Each story I write extends the limits of what I’m used to; I try not to hesitate. And most of the time, I like where things end up! 

31. Do you have any OCs? Tell us about them! OCS YES I DO HAVE OCS THANKS FOR ASKING. Most of my Marvel OCs show up in EoI or were created specifically for it. But I have some other lovelies floating around, my three favorites being: - Silas Ewyn, a necromancer detective. He’s basically a vigilante archeologist, using his abilities to interact with bones to solve the mysteries of foul play victims. Silas doesn't care about politics or reasons; all he cares about is facts and bringing voices back to the dead. In the lawless Roughs (yeah, he’s a cowboy, fight me) he takes that justice back into his own hands. Though he doesn't kill, he'll go to great lengths to punish perpetrators, and he always takes a bone of the murder to bury with the bones of the victim to ensure the victim gets their justice in the afterlife, too. Which bone depends on the severity of the murder. During one of Silas’s investigations, however, he was murdered himself. Oops. But he woke up three days later with his soul rattling around in an entirely different body with no memory of the event. The only way for him to discover the truth is if he finds his old bones and solves a whole new murder... His own.  Anyway I love him and I could talk forever about the truth behind his murder and all the details of the Roughs and everything but we’ve got a limited amount of time and I still have to tell you about: - Sohcahtoa and Pemdas! If their names look like math acronyms, that’s because they are. Sohcahtoa and Pemdas are kind of children’s comic book characters in my mind? Sohcahtoa is a superhero; she travels through the Sciverse bringing people together and solving scientific and mathematical problems between others who are concepts come to life. With her meter-stick sword and her protractor throwing star, she’s a force to be reconed with!  Pemdas is her trusty sidekick. He’s a cuttlefish with immense knowledge of operations and formulas, and Sohcahtoa keeps him in a cube on her belt. Pemdas checks her math and gives her any theorems or formulas she might need.  Lol I’m a nerd next question.

33. Is there anything you wish your audience knew about your writing or writing process? Just want to say: I’m not some sort of warlock, I promise! The reason I can post so consistently for EoI is not always because I write consistently; it’s because I have a cushion of chapters between what I’m writing and what I’m posting. Sometimes I’m completely barren of words and I can’t write for days on end, and sometimes I just fly through things in hours. But all that inconsistency balances itself out in the end and keeps the chapter cushion intact, so my readers get to see only me looking like I have everything under control. I’m just as chaotic as you, I promise.  (Prophets is not like this with the chapter cushion. I am a bad girl when it comes to Prophets. XD instant gratification is my arch nemesis.) 

Anyway! This was super fun Ish. Thanks for the ask! 

[moonshine-nightlight]

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@thornsnvultures

thanks for sending in for the EOY WIP ask game

the below is from a short story tentatively called "Goddaughter" based around the prompt: what type of person would make a deal with a demon for his granddaughter's soul? and what sort of demon would accept?

You can’t do anything, but think. And regret. Because how the fuck did you end up here? You’d been managing to hold your panic at bay for Janie’s sake, but now they’ve taken your daughter away.

You were supposed to be safe, dammit. What was the point of moving half a dozen times, all the time and money and connections you’d spent on protection and hiding if all it took was a chance meeting in a grocery store to have it all be for nothing? Stuck paralyzed in this room by your thrice-damned estranged father’s enemies.

You can’t even see who’s opening the door, only hear it from your corner spot on the floor of this cell.

“It’s about time that someone—” your father demands before he falters upon seeing whoever it was that was in the doorway.

“Well, well, well,” a smooth low voice says. It’s a familiar voice, but the context is so foreign and unexpected it takes precious seconds for you to identify the speaker. Over the sound of the door shutting, it clicks in your mind. Somehow, your neighbor, Vee, is here. “Look what we have here.”

You’ve never heard Vee’s voice so darkly amused. If you weren’t hearing right now, you would have said he would never sound like that. He’s a relaxed, casual man, with hidden intelligence and a past certainly, but a good man. A friend. Now you wonder just how much he’s been hiding. You’d suspected he wasn’t exactly untouched by magic, but now he sounds positively… demonic.

It can’t be a coincidence he’s here. A bolt of dread goes down your spine as you think of close you’ve allowed him to come to you and Janie. Just what don’t you know about him?

“If it isn’t Richard Pierce himself.”

And why the fuck does he know your father?

[sweepseven]

It’s EOY and what a year it’s been. I’ve never had this much time to write in my life, and for years and years I wanted CdS to be a fandom that welcomed fanworks as much as discussion and critique. I’m so grateful to have a group that has helped me cultivate that and grow as a writer while we’re all at it. So now that it’s something actually worth doing, and also because I’m trying to consciously be proud of my own work, I spent a little time cataloging my tangible contributions to Cirque fandom over the years:

I first wrote for Cirque in December 2009 after seeing Kooza a year prior. Because I’ve only ever been exactly the person I am today, it was about the Innocent growing old and being collected back to Kooza in his final moments. It now lives here if you like bittersweetness.

I didn’t write anything more for Cirque until I saw Ka in July 2016. And after that....

2016: 8 works, 18,594 words. CS/TS is born (this is shocking tbh because I feel like it’s been with me for all eternity).

2017: 1 work, 2,255 words. A year of a new job, new friends, tumultuous mental health, and one of the best years of my life. Apparently all that added up to next to no writing. Borderline Suspect is conceived. 

2018: Discord sever is born and fundamentally upends my understanding of small fandom support in the best way. 3 works, 4,813 words. Somehow, brutally and unendingly, Borderline Suspect is still in progress. 

2019: “oh fuck CS/TS is with me for life huh” year. 5 works, 67,070 words, 79% of which are Borderline.

2020: Quarantine Work & having received tangible feedback, 16 works, 47,855 words.

Grand total for Cirque: 141,367

Ka: 129,994 Non-Ka or crossover: 11,373 (small count, but a surprising number of individual works imo)

I should also mention that @studiokawaii , whom I only met in like April, have been directly or indirectly responsible for 80% of words written in 2020 and 27% of words I’ve written for CdS in general. I didn’t tell you the numbers before but..yeah. Thank you so much for that!! But you two already know how I feel, haha.

Top ships: CS/TS: 9 works, 94,399 words CS/CAD: 8 works, 13,125 words CS/TB (no one likes to admit it exists but LISTEN, it’s worth exploring): 2 works, 4,514 words

Today: Published works under active revision: 2 Ostensibly finished pieces that need and deserve one more chapter: 2 Serious WIPs I intend to finish: 2 WIPs I want to finish but let’s be realistic: 2 Stubs of ideas I want to explore: ~7. good news for me and my bullshit. 

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Reigning fave: Passing Curiosity (a game changer for me in so many ways. I’m just so affectionate towards it.)

Least fave: Sweet Tangerine to this day I have this weird fucking thing about Rensai and tangerines and I can’t really explain it but it’s real. regardless, this was my second Ka fic ever and I debate deleting it every time I remember it exists. I didn’t have a firm grasp on anyone at this point but leave it up because I want to believe people will come for the CS/CAD and stay for the CS/TS.)

Most personal: Clipped Wings

Most difficult: Walkabout (Borderline is a very close second because it took so ridiculously long, but unlike Borderline I only ever knew the ending to Walkabout, never how I’d get there. I cut a full 50% of it in the end and it pained me deeply. but I’m very happy with the final product and haven’t been as proud of a piece since Borderline.)

Most niche: Zugzwang

Most unexpected: Tea Series (truly still can’t believe I had it in me.)

Hottest: Diligent Note-Taking

Faves even I forget about but always wish got more eyes: Spiral, Precarious & Patient, Innerbloom, Reflecting

What I’ve learned:

the works I’m proudest of tend to include no explicit sex

writing your most self-indulgent shit really does produce your best work

"create the content you want to see” is real and has a ripple effect

writing for yourself first and foremost is essential

...but writing for others is an extremely powerful motivator, and a single well-timed comment can produce 10,000 more words

[moonshine-nightlight]

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If you can't share any more writing (you're killing me with these teasers, btw) then I'd love to know a bit about Vee or our lovely alien

thanks for sending in for the EOY WIP ask game

Behind the scenes on the previous two teasers:

Vee: He's actually a demon prince and he's Not Happy someone took his child or her parent.

Alien: Nicknamed "Mech" for "mechanic" because his name is not possible to be pronounced by a lot of other species. he has four arms and a tail. he's trying very hard to control himself, but if she knew why, she'd wish he wasn't ;)

the below is from another short story called "Courtship Confusion" about a siren raised by concubi (collective for succubus and incubus) and a reader from a werewolf family (not a werewolf themselves though) and a dating style misunderstanding

“Morgan isn’t a concubus,” you correct automatically, long used to the assumption. You don’t feel bad adding a bit of ‘duh’ to your tone as you remind her, “He’s a siren.”

“He acts like a succubus,” Lilian replies, her eyes narrowed. You don’t normally give any more explanation that you just did, but these were fellow coworkers and concubi themselves—they mostly just seemed confused. And Morgan never really cared about things like this. “He was adopted by concubi when he was young, maybe that’s why he comes off that way.”

The confusion on Lilian’s face did clear up at that. She snapped her fingers, “That’ll do it. He’s got a lot of our, quirks so to speak. And he does, talk and act like a succubus.”

“Does he?” you muse. You mostly just think Morgan asks like Morgan, but you shrug. “I suppose I don’t know that many concubi.”