#its a wip im just drafting so dont get excited

[royrockstone]

Hi!! Fic writer asks 3 8 17 24 25 30

hiiii thank you for asking <3

3. how you feel about your current WIP

umm they are both (romencken and romtom) quite stalled but i feel good about them i think? if im ever feeling sad enough to rewatch church and state it will definitely spur me on to write more romencken. i rlly want to fully tie mencken to romans ed/let him have cringefail eating issues sex which im excited to dig into but also im not 100% how to approach it.

8. if you had to write a sequel to a fic, you’d write one for…

i have a lot of bits and bobs ive never polished or published that could be parts of sequels ! like a bunch more eat what's rotten epilogue material that should honestly be fashioned into a final chapter to cap it all off or a spin off. i never finished involuntary, but it could have a kendall-centric sequel. i could also do a sequel to all the bourgeois social angels if anyone cared at all to read it.

17. talk about your writing and editing process

i rely on inspiration way too much for initial writing. almost all of my ideas start as a momentary flash of either one line, one exchange, or one central image and i just build out from there. if there's no flash, no writing comes :// in terms of editing, i am pretty impatient to get fic out into the world (i try not to be prefectionistic and not to keep people waiting) so i take my first or second draft, read through for coherence, for any places where the characterization or analysis is shallow or off, then proofread and maybe move a few paragraphs around before i publish. (this means i often regret how i went about writing something bc i Immediately realize as a work on the next few chapters that it was wrong or not a great setup or whatever, but better than never publishing ig)

24. how do you recharge when you’re not feeling creative?

i have basically no non-creative outlets (lol) so i switch from medium to medium until im ready to write again. i also rewatch the source material or read other peoples fan works.

25. besides writing, what are your other hobbies?

cooking, reading, dancing, watching films and musical theatre, listening to podcasts about films and theatre, analyzing film and theatre with my friends. i am also fond of smoking menthols but i dont think that counts as a hobby.

30. share a fic you’re especially proud of

eat whats rotten is probably my best fic. whisper how im better than i think is the most structurally sound and the most focused. i have a soft spot for all the bourgeois social angels-- its a weird one but a good one? its barely fanfic its just an exploration of what it feels like to have an ED Buddy.

[fadelbison]

thoughts on the domundi lineup? i'm already excited for the cutie pie special 🎉

MY ZNN FOLLOWERS REJOICE BECAUSE ONLY FRIENDS WHAT AND FIRSTKHAO WHOMST??????? LMAOOOOO

[this *is* a joke but i for real can really only have one focus at a time and the best i can do is ping pong between them and let me tell you ZNN have bulldozed any thoughts of any other series i was excited about or looking forward to]

I have been essentially screaming at everyone I can think of but its best shown by the response of the one who knows me the best @kun-is-my-daddy has seen me love this au through fandoms you dont even know exists

when i tell you that crown prince x bodyguard is my TOP AU [I AM A BBC MERLIN/MERTHUR FAN FIRST AND HUMAN SECOND] like I like it in terms of stories, in terms of kink, i love everything about it. I was drafting a Crown Prince x BodyGuard FirstKhao story YESTERDAY.

LIKE FOR FFS I HAVE A CROWN PRINCE x BODYGUARD ZEENUNEW fanfic meandering in my WIPS somewhere from months ago that I will likely dust off and release like c-ent when they start unshelving a breakout star's horrible old shows to test the mettle of their new fans (rip Gong Jun)

The Next Prince is everything to me and I will think of nothing else for a whole year and maybe even beyond.

Like the sexiness of fencing took a SHARP nosedive after I found out my former PhD adviser fences but GOD ARE THE FENCING STOCKS ON THEIR WAY UP AGAIN

ZEE LOOKS SO HOT I AM JUST A PUDDLE RIGHT NOW

The other stuff looks fairly decent too - Getting in Boss and Boun was a A+ plan I DONT HAVE THE BANDWIDTH TO PROCESS NET IN THOSE KNUCKLE WRAPS HOLY SHIT THEY HAVE PICKED JUST THE MOST AESTHETIC COUPLE FOR THE PERIOD PIECE HAVENT THEY and BED FRIENDS HOLY SHIT MESSY MESSY FUCKBOIS HAVING FEELINGS [ITS LIKE DMD WAS LIKE HOW DO WE DESTROY ALL ANTICIPATION FOR ONLY FRIENDS FROM THIS BITCH'S MIND and DIDNT STOP before pulling the trigger hardcore]

the only thing im unsure of is Naughty Babe like dont get me wrong MaxNat are LONG OVERDUE a headliner but a Cutie Pie spinoff?? That show was just fluff and vibes....another 12 episodes of just fluff and vibes?? idk idk if they pull it off good for them ill be rooting for them

DMD knows its strengths and plays it for all its worth and I!! AM!!! HERE!!! FOR!!! IT!!!!

@mintokkies get ready for some clowning bish!!!!!

[youngpettyqueen]

1, 5, 17! 💜💜💜

ty Ally!! <3

Do you prefer writing one-shots or multi-chaptered fics?

generally I prefer to write one shots when it comes to fic! one shots can be so varied in terms of length and what they convey- you can do a scene, a whole story, 1k, 10k, I find the freedom of one shots really appealing. ive only ever written I think two multi-chapter fics, and while I do enjoy writing them, they are limited to being longer-form stories and theyre definitely more of a commitment to yourself and to your reading audience with having to update multiple chapters. its why I havent written another multi-chapter fic since 'and miles to go before i sleep'- I love that fic, I loved writing it, but if im going to write a multi-chapter fic it needs to be a story I really, really want to write and be able to hold my motivation so that I can keep writing it for however long it takes. a one shot can take me months to complete and thats fine cause nobody sees it till its done. if a multi-chapter fic takes me months I might be leaving people hanging, which I never want

(I dont think there's anything wrong with that, to be clear, making people wait- we write and provide this stuff for free and we can take as long as we want, I personally just struggle with some guilt over it because I cant help it lgdkjghd)

5. Do you like constructive criticism?

I dont mind it! I dont seek it out with fic, really, but I actively seek it out with my original writing. if I ever wanted constructive criticism on fic I would ask about it from people I know better within fic communities and fandoms, because I would know and trust that they'd be able to give me actual solid advice. I really dont feel the need for it, though, and thats not like. out of arrogance or anything. I dont think im above it. its just that fic is something I do for fun!

with my original writing I actively seek out constructive criticism and feedback. I think its essential to the process and I eat it up. something im excited for with the novel im working on is getting to send it to a literary agent, to editors, to sensitivity readers all so I can get that constructive criticism and that feedback on it

17. What do you do when writing becomes difficult? (maybe a lack of inspiration or writers block)

I usually try to force my way through it while chanting "its a rough draft it doesnt need to be good its a rough draft it doesnt need to be good its a-" until I can get something down that can be edited later. when this doesnt work, I turn away from the project im currently working on and I go to something else

one such example is when I had really bad block while writing 'and miles to go before i sleep' I turned to writing a few other one shots so that I could get the words flowing again. im a firm believer in writing every day, even if its just a few words, so working on other things really really helps me work through a block and not get stuck for months on end. im currently working through other WIPs while a specific one gives me a lot of trouble, and taking prompt requests the other day has really helped me get back on my groove! im working through the last request now which is a combo of the request itself and an older WIP I'd been struggling with, and its been nice to post writing again

[cheolhub]

hjfjdhsj okay okay im gonna let u work on that wip and I'll be patiently waiting for u to post it 👀

anyways I'm writing a lil best friend!yunho fic that I started drafting like ??? legit over a year ago, but then I abandoned it and now im back to it. it's honestly just bc I wanted to write some rly cute and wholesome smut 😳🥺 but like,, think abt it,,,,, u have this huge crush on ur best friend but u don't wanna ruin it blah blah blah mutual pining bc ur both idiots

and then u both figure out that holy shit we've been into each other this whole time ??????? and one thing leads to another and I just keep thinking abt what ur first time together would be like

u already know each other so well and u have a dynamic going on, the jokes come easy and ur comfortable w/ each other, but ur also so so nervous bc u like him so much and this is all new and it's a little awkward but ur both so excited and happy and 🥺🥺🥺🥺

I've gotten stuck a little on the actual smut tho so if this sparks something in ur brain I'd love to hear it!!! - ☁️

TSHAUSHSBS DTHIS IS SO FUCKING CUTE CLOUDNON !!! love the concept so much :( here’s some smut ideas u can take!!

i can imagine the first time being a lil awkward, but he wants it to be so good for you so it’s mostly him talking and taking the lead. dont get him wrong, he’s nervous as fuck but i think he’d be good at hiding it.

i think it’d be sweet if there was a bit of foreplay,,, maybe like a giggly make out session that leads to grinding and then maybe he eats u out?? or uses his fingers??? OR BOTH?! and you’re maybe all shy once u get out of ur clothes bc he’s never seen you like this— he’s really reassuring tho, calling you all types of pretty names that make you feel so so pretty.

and i think he’d be sure to let you know how good you feel while he’s fucking into you at steady speed. he’s peppering kisses all over you while you let out meek moans and whines that progressively get louder. and he’s just telling you abt how long he’s waited for this and you finally reply with “me too” and that’s when he kinda,,, loses it? maybe? he just goes faster and faster and ofc, its still sweet, but just needier bc it’s something you both have wanted for soooo long

[bodejustice]

Part One

"So we're finally here."

At Bobby's words, the disgraced lawyer finally lifted his nose from his book and made eye contact. He even smiled, amused, as Bobby turned the chair around outside the cell and straddled it like an insolent high school student--or, more appropriately, like a cop sitting down for a heart to heart with a suspect.

[[MORE]]

"How is your husband? He doesn't seem to have the time to visit me. Too bad." Kristoph closed his books and uncrossed his legs only to cross them in the opposite direction.

Bobby grimaced slightly and gave no answer. Truth be told, his husband was in the hospital after being hit by a car. (And despite his broken ankle, he seemed to be enjoying the stay.) The detective adjusted his aviators and gave as cool and cryptic a response as he could. "I don't think Phoenix will be finding much time for you anymore."

Kristoph adjusted his glasses in turn--a light and dainty touch compared to Bobby's--and smiled, the corners of his lips curling like a cat who isn't in a cage. "That would be a pity."

Something about the words irked Bobby, just as pretty much everything about Kristoph had been irking him for years. But he did his best to brush it off. "You're the pity here, Mr. Gavin. The murder, framing Phoenix--betraying your student's trust. Why would you do this? What have you become??"

For a moment, Bobby thought he saw an angry facial twitch and a sudden tightening around Kristoph's eyes. A shadow of the coldly enraged murderer who had been dragged off the witness stand. But then the lawyer just shrugged.

"Were you a Boy Scout, Detective?"

Bobby paused for a moment. "Yes, but what does that have-"

"as I imagined. I know it may be... Difficult for a do-gooder, a self-made champion of justice to grasp this, but sometimes... Terrible things just happen." Kristoph marked the page I his book and closed it.

Now it was Bobby's turn to twitch a little. His worldview as a "do-gooder" doesn't make him naive; he's a homicide detective. He knows perfectly well that people do terrible things sometimes, especially to each other. "You make it sound like an unfortunate accident. You killed a man! Why?!"

"It was unfortunate, wasn't it?" Kristoph's gaze left Bobby, instead moving into the near distance of unoccupied space as if he was contemplating some great question. "An unfortunate man, and an unfortunate situation."

Bobby stared at the man resting in an armchair, looking for all the world like he could get up and walk away to get a drink without steel bars and a murder sentence hindering him. He looked as calm, collected, and steady as ever.

Except for those moments during the trial.

"I don't know why you spend time with that man."

Phoenix sighed and stretched himself further across Bobby's lap, pinning him in place on the couch. "Don't you think he's a nice guy? He reached out to me after I got kicked out of court. He's been nothing but nice."

Phoenix had changed in ways his partner had never expected since his disbarment. There was a slight drawl, a too-mild tone to his words about Kristoph, and the way he turned the question around made Bobby frown. "He's not the sort of person who actually cares about the misfortune people like you and me experience, especially in the law world. I can tell."

"He's a defense attorney like I was. We care about people's misfortunes." Phoenix turned gray-brown eyes up toward his boyfriend's face.

Bobby looked back into those eyes--sadder now, more guarded than ever even with those he loved--and paused for a long moment. "Maybe you're right."

Phoenix only closed his eyes again.

[whorizcn]

[  ° ♡.  ]             𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐨  𝐝𝐚𝐲 :  1  𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐩 . *

so  today  was  definitely  very , , ,  slow .  it  took  me  for - fucking - ever  to  get  the  ball�� going  and  find  my  writing  style  for  this  wip  but !!  progress was  still  very  much  made !!  chapter  one  was  basically  just  mengzhi  getting  beat  to  all  hell  and  anita  being  sad  abt  it  :’(  also  they  were  left  a  mysterious  note  by  a  mystery  man  :0  how  spooky .  but  yes !!  other  than  how  long  it  took  me  to  finally  start  writing  i  am  v  happy  w  the  progress  i’ve  made  today !!!  i  can  already  tell  nano’s  gonna  be  a  great  one  this  year ,  i  hope  everyone  else  had  a  productive  day  today  as  well !!

words  written  today :  3581 . total  wordcount :  3581 .

favorite  line  of  the  day :

   walking through lower neo-shanghai always had a certain routine to it: the same older man was always at the corner of her street, always waving around his same rusted metal cup and calling out to passerbyers for spare funds to support his “bath salts business”, the 24/7 convenience store with the bright flickering neon lights and the busted boarded up windows was always void of people except for the broken service bot behind the counter, and the streets were always so loud and yet quiet at the same time that it made every ones head spin and their eyes a cross between heavy and wide. you get used to it eventually, same way you get used to the pungent smell of the bags of rotting garbage that line every street, or the metallic sting of whatever violent incident happened nearby. mengzhi likes to call neo-shanghai an acquired taste. some people never get used to it, others cant even stomach it. those types of people don’t seem to last long.

[aaeoluss]

sorry to cheat on you nano wip but i’m thinking more and more about getting back to pseudonyms and i am,, So Excited 

[akutails]

recent wips?

THANK YOU ANON I LOVE U

university student! akutagawa as ur suitor fic

now i've already posted and drafted 5 chapters of this fic on my old blog and i stopped writing it bcs i lost motivation BUT ! i wanna pick it up again bcs its just a sweet lil akuatagawa as ur suitor and i really loved the idea and i hv so many things i wanna do for it so :)) stay tuned ! i might give some 👀 sneak peaks if u ask the right question <3

kageyama x student journalist! reader fic

this one MMMMMMM i love it . its abt reader interviewing the whole volleyball team when they make it to nationals so they can write abt it on the school paper BUT !! reader has never written for volleyball so when they get to interview kageyama and realize how much he knows abt it they ask for his help :)) i have so many sweet ideas for this one and the layout is almost done so im super super excited !

bungou stray dogs x moriarty the patriot oc! reader

now this one . it's more imaginative than my other wips HAHAHAHHAHA AND ITS SUPER SELF INDULGENT ! basically the reader gets transported to the mtp universe due to an ability user having the ability to make portals to other universes (totally not inspired by america chavez/s) and while the bsd universe tries to bring u back the mtp guys figure out where u came from while simultaneously making sure u dont ruin their timeline by being there 😭 it's super fun and i lovee thinking abt it (but not writing it lawl) so this one is my fave<3

[bringingglory]

Hey bestie, for the fanfic ask thing I’ve got these for you: 🖊 (if you don’t have a snippet then just like describe a scene you’re excited for, and you know which fic I’m asking about lol) ✨ 🍰

aldkjfhasdf hey bestie, my love, my light, asjdfhlaskdjf thank u in so much for this ask <333

🖊 Post a snippet from a current WIP.

okay first of all, this whole scene feels so embarrassing bc its SO SAPPY. like, i would have posted a more comedic scene, but all the funny college crack shenanigan scenes are very unpolished rn so uhhhhh have gross sappy corny scene instead alkdjsfhasdlk while this scene is slightly less unpolished than my other scenes, it is still subject to change bc, yknow, rough drafts

“Iwa-chan!”

Hajime spun around to see Tooru sprinting towards him from the baggage claim.

A breathless laugh bubbled out of his chest. “Oika—”

Tooru dropped his luggage handle and threw his arms around Hajime’s neck.

Hajime let out an oof before he caught Tooru and wrapped him in a hug.

“Iwa-chan,” he breathed. “I’m in California!”

“Yeah, you are,” laughed Hajime. “I can’t believe you’re actually here.”

The smell of Tooru was overwhelming. He smelled like the stale recycled airplane air that came from a fourteen hour flight, but he thought he could smell the beach sand on him. Tooru was tanner than when Hajime had last seen him, and he could see the faintest freckles dotting the back of his neck, and even though his hair had turned a lighter brown from the sun, his shampoo still smelled the same.

Standing in the middle of the airport pressed chest to chest with Tooru was addicting, but Hajime was afraid that if he didn’t pull away soon, he wouldn’t pull away ever. But when he tried to take a step back, Tooru tightened his arms.

Hajime froze. “Uh, Oikawa—”

“Be nice to me,” Tooru mumbled into his neck. “I missed you.”

Ohhh, this was so bad for his heart.

He hesitated for a moment before tightening his arms again. “I missed you, too.”

He could feel Tooru’s smile spreading across the skin of his neck and his heart stumbled in his chest. Hajime let them stay like that for another second before he pulled away.

“Okay, let me go now,” he said. “We should stop blocking the way.”

“Fiiiine.” Tooru pulled away with a dramatic sigh.

✨ Choose three adjectives to complement your own writing.

sdfhalskdjfa feels weird saying positive things about urself bc im terrified of sounding arrogant but uhhhh alkdjfhaldskfdsalfjsdflkjhdalksjfhalksjdfhlkads okay

1. comedic - or at least i try really hard to be. i really try to put humor in a lot of my fics bc i don't want to make stuff *too* serious or dramatic, plus i think having light-hearted moments makes the serious moments hit a little harder. or at least i hope they do akljdsfhlaksd

2. conversational - idk if this is a good adjective? but it's a thing that i kind of strive to make my prose to be. like, ever since i read the wings of fire series in 7th grade, i've noticed that the prose itself is conversational or it has a v specific voice (i dont mean like character voice, but that counts too) and i really liked that so even though i write p much exclusively in 3rd person, i always try to make the prose a bit conversational, if that makes sense (not that 3rd person is commonly voiceless, but like u tend to get more voice in 1st person stuff). god i hope i dont sound like an asshole aldkjfhasdkl

3. poetic - this is a VERY recent thing and also my writing isn't always poetic, BUT every since that One Summer Day last august where i decided to learn how to write poetry, i have learned to write more poetically and sometimes it shows in my writing via the convoluted metaphors i come up with alkdjfhasd. ofc my writing isn't always poetic, so im just saying that this is v much a sometimes thing. and uhhhhh, i also literally cant come up with any other adjectives lol

🍰 Name one of your fave comfort fics (doesn’t have to be your all time fave).

THIS ONE OH MY GOD

so this is a super cute solangelo fic and who doesnt love solangelo BUT the part of this fic that makes it a comfort fic for me is all of the FRIENDSHIP and the HUMOR.

so a quick summary of this fic is that nico di angelo gets stuck in a time loop bc of aphrodite, and he can't get out of it until he figures out his "love troubles." she catches him when nico's trying to run away (he's running away bc will "rejected" him).

and so there's a lot of cute stuff about love and realizing people care about you and family and helping people and also it's just funny, like the scenes with hades and nico were p funny. it's overall just a fun romp and a light-hearted story and i just love it so. so much. i reread it when i feel sadboyhours or something bc i genuinely just love the friendship and everything about it.

once again, eye of my apple, life of my light, thank u so much for the ask bestie <333

ask game

[sylveondreams]

now that i think about it i should actually pretend im writing bc ive been on a bit of a kick this past week (not that yall would notice... i am so bad at Finishing Things)(also i say A Bit Of cause i worked half the days and i get tired) so here’s a list of my current wips and their status. the sheer number of them is a red flag. i should probably do these more often to get me off my ass and pretend i’m a fic writer. ask me about them if you want! lol. in no particular order:

- fairy fic (currently untitled i had an inkling of an idea for the title but i FORGOT IT) - it’s got a start and i keep writing Scenes but since i changed the setting i need to rewrite one of them and i’m dreading making people Meet each other! gerard and mikey are fairies and have a frank who tags along with them and they’ve met ray who is unhappy with the direction of his life and he sorta falls in love 

- vampire fic (currently untitled) - i’m having a bad time with this one i . am having a bad time with this one. i might just write out scenes i was excited about and post those but i didnt make a plot and that was a mistake. so it’s probably going to be abandoned with just those scenes ever seeing the light of day (metaphorically...) what is it? its about vampires. surprise!

- curse breaker fic (currently untitled) - this has a whole plot and i love it. i came up with it one morning while listening to maya the psychic. now i just have to write most of the thing... this one is going chronologically apparently! so there’s still a lot left to write. gerard is a curse breaker. ray has a really sticky curse. yep

- ‘so say goodbye to all my friends, i fell in love with her again’ - I JUST FINISHED THE PLOT OUTLINE this one is again, looking good plot wise. however i keep thinking about it and not actually writing it. first mistake. this is jennifer’s body fic! alternate movie ending! it’s a sequel to ‘darling, tonight could be a beautiful night to die’ but much longer

- rocky horror fic (currently untitled) - this one is actually looking like it will get posted at some point! wow! i’m at a Bump right now but i’ll get past it next time i’m not ace. yeah its pwp whaddya want. polyamory occurs.

- sequel to ‘a motel in the middle of fucking nowhere’ (currently untitled) - this one i think is going to get dumped... it’s been in my drafts for a year and i havent worked on it....

- ‘errare humanum est’ - this has literally been a wip for 5 years so dont expect it anytime soon! it’s dan and phil fanfiction cause i was into them the most 5 years ago when i started it. cyberpunk. very cool. has a plot but i dont have braincells xo

- secret 1 (currently untitled) - it’s going poorly but i want to finish it. again next time i’m not ace it’ll hopefully get picked up. ive been ace for at least 2 months though...

- secret 2 (currently untitled) - going better. still not so great. the main problem is that i actively don’t want to finish it. if i do finish it it will be published anonymously so i will simply not share it <3

- original work - i literally dont even have an outline but i keep daydreaming about their fucked up little town. i came up with the pov character’s name 2 days ago. i need to write an outline bc i still cant figure out who killed the group’s mentor who also doesnt have a name. im deeply in love with these characters and their world though i want to finish this SOMEDAY 

[inyoursheets]

2, 16, 18, 23!

Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project

wow ok this is surprisingly hard to answer! confronting! im not even sure, there isn’t anything specific ive got planned out that im excited to write. i don’t have any future projects planned out yet. or. i mean.....there are some things at the tips of my writing fingers but i can’t allow myself to think about them properly yet bc i need to focus on and commit to finishing warm water. and my thesis (ugh).

there are some things from warm water that ive already written that im excited to share, but right now im in a place where writing just isn’t going smoothly, so whenever i have an idea (like the eloquent “sweatpants dick” note i took recently) (my only contribution that day) im not all that confident or excited about it bc im afraid the actual writing itself will be a pain? that i’ll drag my feet for days and it won’t come easy and i’ll hate every second of it -- until things click and the words start flowing, not unlike this post describes. idk i keep really wanting to write and sitting down for it and then it just--won’t happen. or if i do actually try putting pen to paper i just start hating it all, which i don’t want.

so! this is a sad note to end on! here’s some vague things i am looking forward to: i’m looking forward to being excited about writing in general! i’m looking forward to writing something i’m proud of, either in terms of plot or theme or characterization or dialogue or whatever! i’m also looking forward to having that oh-my-god-the-words-are-flowing-from-me moment, regardless of the result tbh, bc i just love that feeling of loving writing and having it come easily. that’s what im excited about -- being excited about writing again.  

Tried anything new with your writing lately? (style, POV, genre, fandom?)

ok so i have this terrible writing tendency to not know how to not describe every single action characters make -- every movement, every gesture. particularly on first drafts i feel the urge to describe it all, otherwise i can’t continue. i know that it’s not always necessary to write what happens every single second of a scene, but i can’t seem to stop?

idk if im explaining what i mean correctly -- there’s probably terms for this that i dont know -- but someone who i think manages to do the opposite of what i do very well is @fairhairedkings, who is really good at time jumps and not going overboard w the minute-to-minute descriptions, the way i tend to.

i know it can be pretty tiresome and it’s one of the things that annoys me a lot about my own writing, both in terms of reading it (it can be plain boring?) and for the writing itself. it blocks me! but i can’t seem to stop doing it, feel like i’m glazing over things otherwise or lose track of where im going. i have to keep reminding myself that leaving out certain things doesn’t mean that nothing happens or that people assume nothing happens.

so, to answer the question, ive tried to be a bit more concise with it’s hidden in heartbeats, exhales and in the hope of open hands when i started writing it. that fic is a product of being fed up with my other WIPs and it didn’t take more than a week from its initial idea to the finished product, so i really wanted it to be a quickie, and i thought something tight and concise could work for the plot. i didn’t actually manage to succeed though, still ended up describing just about every action there, too. i don’t think i’ll ever manage to write something concise tbh. i do bad with time jumps, i do bad with less is more, which is unfortunate, bc less can truly, truly be more. so! im gonna try this again some time!

Do any of your stories have alternative versions? (plotlines that you abandoned, AUs of your own work, different characterisations?) Tell us about them.

mmm well, warm water originally didn’t include mutual pining -- beth wasn’t supposed to be in love with rio yet, we were gonna watch her fall in love slowly, while he already felt things. but then i ended up almost turning that entirely on its head and now we’ve got the mess that is that this fic in its current state lol. there’s also an AU to warm water that i briefly considered bc of you which i won’t go into now bc of possible spoilers -- but ive considered things!!! 

also for it’s hidden in heartbeats, it was supposed to be more about petty!rio and haha, look, exes trying to get “revenge”, and to be light and funny, but i realized that idk how relationships work, let alone how exes work, so i couldn’t really find any good reasons for them splitting up, at least nothing that could generate comedy, so it ended up getting fairly angsty? idk why this keeps happening -- me planning to do something rom com-esque and it developing into something wayyyyy angstier, but it did!

What’s the story idea you’ve had in your head for the longest?

oh wow idek! ive definitely been working on warm water the longest, so i guess technically that one, but there are some other ideas that have been drifting near the surface that have been there longer and are very underdeveloped and need time and nourishment and attention and love, all of which i can’t give them yet bc im trying to stay focused on warm water and thesis writing. maybe the beth/stan friendship snippet ive got hidden in somewhere in my docs!

thank youuuu for indulging me!!! meta writing asks!!!!

[trenchcoatkitten]

So I’ve been reading Temperature of the Heart, and you’ve mentioned how you have the whole thing written already. Can you describe what that’s like? What’s your writing process? How long does it take for you to write everything start to finish? Do you plan it all out or just kind of wing it? How long do you sit in an idea before you start?? Sorry about all the questions, I’m just so curious >_

bro!!! are you sure i will scream about writing for days omg

first of all THANK YOU its so freaking cool that you came to ask your questions and that you like my writing, im still sort of getting used to my writing not just being garbage that i read in the dark at 2am and never share with anybody, and i am always excited to answer questions waaaah 

(THIS IS GOING TO BE LONG I APOLOGIZE IM PUTTING A READING BREAK IN CAUSE I WENT OFF BRO, IM THE WOOOOORST) 

my process is pretty weird, it’s kind of all over the place? I’m kind of a halfway planner halfway pantser. I have an idea and usually make some disjointed notes about character and the main idea, in my phone or maybe on a google doc, and then a pinterest board maybe? Something to get excited about, a visualization. I ALWAYS tell myself im going to make an outline first and then i ALWAYS just jump right into writing because I’m too excited/impatient to wait. give me words on a page. give me dialogue. 

Usually when I’m a little bit into the project, when i know that I’m not going to abandon it to the depths off where my WIPs go to die (rip like literally over 300 individual and unique works, this is NOT an exaggeration, you should see my document bank its gross) Ill say “ok fuck you sami its time to actually know where you’re going” and I’ll sit down and make the grossest outline you have EVER seen. like im talking, my outlines are littered with memes, me yelling at myself, actual stuff thats going to end up in the final project, and just general random garbage? its so gross. Ive literally only showed one of my outlines to one person ever (hi akira!) bc im super self conscious of them and hate the way that i write them. making an outline usually sucks up an entire day of writing. they’re pages and pages because some parts will be INCREDIBLY specific and other parts will be so vague you dont even know

From there, when im done with my garbage outline, (after going back through what I’ve written and fixing the shit that was just me going off like a psycho) I usually start writing in earnest. I’ll highlight the parts of the outline that I’ve done and I’ll go back and check it often to make sure im following through on my plans and the character arcs and such, making sure that everything ties in and such. This section is me like. every day getting home from work or whatever and sitting down at the computer and not moving until 2am, this is the section where i forget to eat and I dont sleep enough and i forget to drink water or take my vitamins and I do word sprints with myself and have days where I write 10 thousand words in one sitting. (very not healthy and also terrible i do NOT recommend) this is the section where I’ll handwrite anything i can in the back of classes and at rehearsals because im pouring out words.

during this section I go back and edit ENDLESSLY. i cannot write something and just let it be. I go back to the section I wrote the night before, I go back to the section I just wrote, i go back to the very beginning. I generally dont have to do 1st 2nd 3rd draft this way, but it is much more time consuming as Im just writing. i dont know if i reccommend this its a MESS

THeN once i finish writing the whole thing, i sit down and reread/edit the whole thing once through. this makes sure i have good flow, the paragraphs go together well, the prose feels right to me, timelines make sense. during this time i make ENDLESS paper notes with calendars, section notes, additions, drabbles, thoughts about my own shit. i have notebooks full of just garbage. im not kidding. full notebooks. 

Once I finish that read/edit through I’m usually happy. only once something is completely finished will I consider posting. I go back too much, I add shit, I can’t let go of shit, not until it’s done. While I’m posting - I go through the chapter I’m going to post with a fine tooth comb, try to catch any tiny little mistake, add words here and there, but never change anything large if I can help it. Then i format it on Ao3 (this is literal hell, fuck the HTML editor it wants me to die) and then post it. Deciding to post a chapter to actually hitting ‘post’ usually takes me 1-4 hours, depending on the length, the difficulty of formatting, and how many goddamn links i wanna put in the chapter notes cause im the worst~ (insert jean ralphio voice) 

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LISTEN im probably super extra but I’ve been writing since I was in sixth grade (thats twelve years! time is an enigma and i hate it!) and so I have a bit of practice, i have a bit of experience and while I’m not the best me that I can be, I KNOW myself, and this is just what works best for me. 

As for timing - it depends on the length of the project and how motivated I am. It took me about a month to write Royal (~50k), just a little over a month to write All Might’s All Night Shop Stop (~75k), and just about two months to write Temperature of the Heart (~115k). I try to post every few days, because as a person I hate waiting and I don’t want to do that to my readers! 

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As for the ‘how long do i sit on an idea before writing it’ it really depends. Some things I will receive inspiration or a sliver of an idea and start writing it in the next ten minutes, even if I have to stop working on something I’m already working on, because that was Brain Has Decided. Sometimes I will consider an idea for like. months before actually doing it. I’ve had the idea for FBoW (the newest thing im working on oops? have i told anybody about this NO cause that will make it REAL) since before I started Royal, which was like. Last november. But I just couldnt quite do it for some reason, and it wasn’t pressing. My brain is super broken, and a lot of times I get sick over ideas. I can’t sleep or eat until I’ve written, and I will repeat phrases to myself until i can get them out of my head by writing them down. (Sometimes this is something nice or poetic - “The golden hour lights up the whole world, wiggling its fingers into every nook and cranny, lighting up two people lounging on a bench-swing, someone leaned onto porch stairs with a mug of tea, the space between those walking down a dirt road, a couple of dogs laid out on the deck.” and other times its literally “Ranch Fiddlesticks.” I’m not kidding. i have a note in my phone that says ranch fiddlesticks because I was actually going to Die if i didnt write it down.)

I do wish my brain didn’t do this - but I guess it makes some fun art, doesn’t it? 

WOW OKAY THIS WAS SO LONG im so sorry jesus christ. SOrry i will ALWAYS go off about my process and what it’s like to write. Writing is so so important to me, I LOVE it with every tiny atom of my weak, alcohol-infused, overworked heart. Despite how scary it is sometimes I am very glad to be sharing my work with the world, seeing peoples’ reactions and hearing things about my words, hearing how this little picture in my mind has gone into yours. 

okay jfc im done now im so sorry. thank you again and again and again, a thousand times over, for reading my work and enjoying the worlds that i enjoy building. It makes me feel like I’m worth it. It makes me feel like I’m doing something good. 

ily :’)

[crafiet]

1-50 of the writers ask thingy, tell me everything :D

D:

1 : What age-group do you write?adult! ive always written characters my age or a few years older

2 : What genre do you write?sff, mostly fantasy

3 : Do you outline according to big ideas or small details?hmmm, i guess small details? when i get an idea, i get an idea for single scenes or pieces of dialogue or a certain character, so i piece together an outline from that. but i have trouble with a overarching plot lol

4 : Which do you prefer–line-editing or plot-revisions?line-editing, i love editing. revisions suck bc it takes me 10,000 yrs to come up with an idea and now i have to replace it with another??? blasphemous

5 : Do you write better with or without deadlines?ive written my whole life without deadlines except for when i tried nano last year and failed. so without i guess, but then i dont have anything to convince me to write more lmao

6 : What would be the biggest compliment you could hope to receive on your current WIP?idk probably that its someones favourite book, or to see fanart *.*

7 : How long is your current WIP?26,305 words, its a rewrite heh

8 : What author would you be most excited to be compared to?hummmmmm,,,idk when people call new fantasy books “the next game of thrones” it sounds so fake lol but idk who my favourite author is...

9 : What do you struggle most with as a writer?writing

10 : Do you brain-storm story ideas alone or with others?mostly alone but YOU, ASH, help sometimes. its good to get an objective ear

11 : Do you base your characters off of real people?nah lol, im not good at characters

12 : Is your writing space clean or cluttered?clean

13 : Do you write character-driven or plot-driven stories?plot-driven. my writing is extremely fast paced, and i dont tend to like reading character-driven works

14 : Do you have a favorite writing-related quote?ive answered this in previous ask. the 'drunk on writing’ one by ray bradbury

15 : If you transport your original characters into another author’s world, which world would you choose?everyone else’s worlds are so harsh lol maybe id put them in atla so they can fuck around w bending

16 : Would your story work better as a movie or tv show? Why?miniseries ﾟ*｡(･∀･)ﾟ*｡ but it would lend itself to a movie yeah

17 : Do you make soundtracks for each story?nah, lazy ass

18 : If you could assign your story one song, what would it be?unbecoming by starset

19 : Would you rather live in your characters’ world, or have your characters come live in our world?honestly? i wanna escape capitalism and wield a sword

20 : What book would you love to see adapted for the big or small screen?zero world by jason m hough!!!! its a pretty big book i think a movie duology or a tv show would work!

21 : Do you finish most of the stories you start?no

22 : Has your own writing ever made you cry?no lol 

23 : Are you proud or anxious to show off your writing?anxious cz im bad

24 : When did you start considering yourself a writer?i meannnnnnnn do i even now thoooooo

25 : What books are must-reads in your genre?sff is so broad, read whatever tf u want

26 : What would you like to see more of in your genre?diversity, not just in race gender sexuality but in fucking plots like damn give me something w a twist

27 : Where do you get inspiration from?real life, books, movies

28 : On a scale of 1-10, how much do you stress about choosing character names?about a 2, i just search on a generator until i find one i like im not a stickler for names nd i dont usually have placeholder names or anything

29 : Do you tend to underwrite or overwrite in a first draft?chronic underwriter hence the only 20k words

30 : Does writing calm you down or stress you out?calm me down, i have no control over my own life so its good to have complete control over my oc’s lives. i dont tend to have the ‘characters run away from me’ thing, but probably bc i dont see it like that lol

31 : What trope do you actually like?ride-or-die, charas who are knowledgeable and badass from the beginning, i hate following the character learning to do something lmao im impatient

32 : Do you give your side-characters extensive backstories?depends on the side character, every character is fleshed out to an extent but i dont do a massive family tree or anything

33 : Do you flesh-out characters before you write, or let their personalities develop over time?i tend to create characters before plot so i would say i know them pretty well before starting but i do let them develop naturally within the story without forcing them into any box

34 : Describe your old writing in one word.tryhard

35 : Is it more fun to write villains or heroes?mmm both have their merits, i went through a phase where i loved villains but a warped heroes journey or a morally grey/anti-hero can be super good too

36 : Do you write with a black and white sense of morality?nah, murky

37 : What’s one piece of advice you would give to new writers?try anything. anything it doesnt matter if ur nervous or you ‘dont write in that genre’ or you dont even like that genre. its good to train yourself and go out of your comfort zone, makes u a better writer imo. also dont read this and think ‘im not writing an entire historical romance novel bc i hate it’ i mean just one shots. a paragraph or two. try out writing prompts, it really flexes ur skillsalso dont feel like everything u have to write will be published, thats what i mean by try out little paragraphs or prompts. let go of this idea that any of this work will see the light of day [unless u rly want it to] and just have fun, go wild, go crazy, go stupid

38 : What’s one piece of writing advice you try–but fail–to follow?its mostly those ones that help u have cleaner, more beautiful writing. i write really beige-like and its hard to be poetic or flowery

39 : How important is positive reinforcement to you as a writer?probably super important

40 : What would you ask your favorite author if given one question?when ur next book out

41 : Do you find it distracting to read while you’re writing a first draft?nah

42 : Do critiques motivate or discourage you?ive never really had many, so i would say discourage bc i dont have a thick skin with my writing

43 : Do you tend to write protagonists like yourself or unlike yourself?unlike myself, i like to write bold, confident characters and im not that lol escapism much

44 : How do you decide what story idea to work on?whichever interests me the most at the moment, i can jump between projects easily so i dont have a problem 

45 : Do you find it harder or easier to write when you’re stressed out?harder, i cant look at my writing if im stressed else ill absolutely hate it and might do something drastic like delete it all lol

46 : What Hogwarts house would your protagonist(s) be in?ary is slytherincyri is ravenclawash is gryffindorcaena is slytherin [i dont know how to spell the house names]

47 : Where do you see yourself as a writer in five years?still writing id hope

48 : Would you ever co-write?nah

49 : Are you a fast and rushed writer or a slow and deliberate writer?i used to be fast and rushed bc i was so impatient i just wanted to see the end product but i realised that i really love being in the world of my wips as long as possible so i draw it out and really mull everything over

50 : Would you rather be remembered for your fantastic world-building or your lifelike characters?both lol? i do love worldbuilding but i think characters make a greater impact

[choerrypuffs]

?!?! bad boy jeno wip?!?!?! BAD BOY JENO WIP?!?!? how can you . say that so casually now im excited </3

and yes !! it is allowed they made the rooftop like . a nice place? idk how to explain it LMAOO but its def not the ltieral roof!! jsut closest to it...? i literally dont know how to explain it its so confusign but they have lots of benches and like plants for people to sit and enjoy the air!! its my favorite place to go when i want to chill

first, i was unaware of the fact that we couldnt get them (which was so fucking stupid??!? ofc there would be a catch </3) and bought like . 15 (two tries, i think?) and then when i fully gave up like full on gave up i hate you lemonilo and stuff i went back to the grocery store to buy some food

i saw all the noodles and i thoguht 'hey . i'll give you one more chance or i will spend my life hating lemonilo, okay?' and then pick a random one, checked it and it was him LMAOOOO

AND YEAH OH GOD THE JAEMIN MULLET </3 HE LOOKS GREAT YES HE DOES BUT ONE OF MY MUTUALS SAID IT WAS RECYCLED FROM KICK IT TAEIL AND I COULDNT SEE IT THE SAME </33

im doing good (for now) but in a few days i dont think i will be bc i think my whole grade failed exam season :') but i shall savor my time until then!!

- ccsa anon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FJSDKSD it's an old old OLD draft so i didn't think anyone cared 😭 i've been meaning to finish it for almost a year but never got around to it bc all my attention and energy was on demigods 😩

ohhhhh i got you!! i thought you guys were just on some random rooftop and i was concerned about the safety protocols of that mall 💀 that sounds so pretty though and omg my mind is so fanfiction-fried that i immediately thought about how fic-esque it is to have a special spot to chill 🤩

wait wait wait so there's not a pc in every pack??? that is such a scam wtf 😡 holy shit you really were the chosen one 🧎‍♀️ like that kid from charlie and the chocolate factory 😩

YOUR MUTUALS ARE RIGHT IT DOES LOOK LIKE TAEIL'S KICK IT MULLET AND THAT DIDN'T EVEN LOOK THAT GOOD 💔

JKFDKS NOOOO OMG YOUR WHOLE GRADE???? hey but does that mean you'll get a curve tho 👀👀👀

[jinlinli]

writing meme

tagged by @rohkeutta, so here we goooo

+Where do you publish your work? p much just ao3

+What medium/application/etc. you use? scrivener! i cant live without it

+Do you collaborate with others? ive never actually done a writing collab with someone else, but there have been a bunch of projects that i was planning to do a collab on that just never ended up panning out. 

+How much editing do you do before you publish? most of the editing i do is about structure, so throughout the process there’s a lot of cutting and rearranging of scenes. towards the end when i have a clear idea of how i want to write a fic, there’s generally not a lot of editing. but i do a lot of major restructuring towards the beginning of projects.

+Do you listen to music while you write? depends on my mood, but most of the time i write when its quiet

+How do you decide what to write about? uhhhh i have a spreadsheet. and its color coordinated. but mostly i figure out what i want to write based on how excited i am about the project and whether it’s something i can write within my current abilities.

+When do you write? when im not at work or school, so in the evenings or weekends

+How often do you write? not as often as i should, i usually get out about 1k a week, but a lot of that can get lost in restructuring edits

+Do you take requests? ive never actually thought about it, and im not sure if i would ever have the time to do it, but taking requests sounds p fun. i guess i should?

+Is there a genre or type of story you want to write but are hesitant to? anything long and plotty gah. im a mid length character driven angst machine, and anything that requires an actual plot structure scares the crap out of me. it’s a shame because the projects im most excited about writing are the kind im most afraid of.

+Any inspirational quotes, videos, tricks, articles, etc that help you stay motivated? your writing is never as crappy as you think, and even if you fuck it up now, you can always fix it later in the second draft. uhh that’s not really a specific quote tho... oh! and this line:

Aro started to laugh. “Ha ha ha,” he chuckled.

+Go to page 7 of your WIP, skip to the 7th line, and share 7 sentences:

Sometime during their conversation, Damen had slipped off into an easier rest, his fever already beginning to subside. “You have good men beside you,” Laurent says to the quiet room.

He leaves the king’s rooms in the cool hours of dusk. It is too early in the evening for the torch lighters to begin their rounds, but the setting sun casts long shadows that make even the airy Ios hallways dark and murky. The marks of battle have already been scrubbed away. There’s a wary light in the eyes of the guards standing vigil, but they acknowledge him with a polite dip of their heads nonetheless. Servants and minor kyroi hurry past him, and Laurent senses that Ios will not truly be at rest for a long time.

@drowningbydegrees, @noncorporealform, @deceptivesoldier, @agape-rose, @hawkguyz, @major-koalatea. @yetanotherobsessivereader and @talkplaylove im p sure roh already tagged you so you dont need me to ^_^

[judaru]

Year End Writing Progress Meme

Ahh, I’ve seen a lot of people in the magi fandom doing @dragonofeternal​‘s writing meme, and it looked really fun so I thought that I would give it a shot! This year has been really fun for me in terms of writing, and I’ve never really written much before like, September of this year, so I thought it would be fun to reflect on all of the writing and improvement that I’ve done this year!  ♡

[Here is my AO3 in case anyone was wondering! I write a lot of Sinju while crying I just… I just want them to be happy so bad *prayer emoji*]

Total Word Count: 77,415 -AO3: 61,873 -WIPs: 4,000 -Planning: 11,542

Total Projects: 14 (most are still just planning tho OTL) Magi: 14 (I also have planning for some Arslan Senki and Twin Signal stuff, but that’s the kind of self-indulgent thing that won’t ever get posted and lives at the bottom of my drafts, so I didn’t think it was worth mentioning ^^;)

Types of Fanfic Projects: -Chaptered Fics: 2 -Oneshots: 5 -WIP/Unposted: 7

Improvement over last year: Infinity LMAO I didn’t really write anything last year! I kinda dabbled in Edvy and stuff but… I don’t really talk about that anymore lmao

AWARDS

Top 3 projects I wrote the most for: 1) Melt (49,629) 2) Mistletoe (3,006) 3) Stay (2,386) (I guess it’s pretty easy to tell where all my effort went… lmaO)

Top 3 most popular by kudos: 1) Melt (150) 2) Stay (47) 3) Ocean’s Kiss (31) (tbh I’m like… really overwhelmed with all of the kudos I’ve gotten ghsudfksfsd I was honestly expecting like a dozen odd kudos and a paperclip because I’ve really just.. never posted writing before?? So the positive feedback was really overwhelming and I cry a lot LMAO)

Top 3 most popular by comment threads: 1) Melt (62) 2) Ocean’s Kiss (11) 3) Stay (6) (Obviously Melt won out because… I’ve put my whole life into it lmaO but I was really really surprised that the Mermaid AU did so well?? Everyone seemed to really like that one kdfjsfs so I’m really excited to write more of it in the coming months !!)

Most fun to write: Oh man rfsjdkhgj I have a lot of fun writing in general aaaaaah that’s why I post so much and clog the archive all the time omg I’m sorry? I think the winner is probably Ocean’s Kiss, my Sinju mermaid AU :’) The concept of a mermaid AU has always been very dear to my heart–the first thing I ever did in magi fandom was actually a mermaid AU rp with my friend–so I had planned to write it from the beginning, tbh? It just took me a while to get to, but it’s just so so much fun to write, I think Judal definitely fits the role of troublemaking siren, with Sinbad as his idiot pirate of course :’) god i love them im gonna start crying Sexiest moment: lmao im 15 and inexperienced and really, really not good at writing sexy scenes sorry @ all of my readers who arent minors hgrfudkfhfj but I guess Burn was fun to write lmao? it was masshar and it was supposed to have a blowjob scene but then i remembered that.. i dont know how to write porn.. so it was just needy sharrkan and grinding gudfkjfsdhc but it was fun i guess Funniest moment: im literally not good at any of these hdiufks my humor scenes fall SO FLAT i hate it but i was laughing at myself in the mermaid au because every time judal smacked sinbad in the face with his tail i felt 10 years being added onto my lifespan tbh.. i was cackling ND ALSO in melt any time ja’far is talking to sinbad about judal frsdkjgvhd i liked those scenes.. every time ja’far said shit like “i mean he’s cute but he can’t be here sin” i laughed @ myself Hardest to write: group settings ugh please kill me i hate when im writing and there’s twelve people in the scene like i’m bound to forget 7 of them its just the nature of the beast? exhausting. like every chapter in melt where there’s a festival and all the generals are there is so harD for me *eyeroll emoji* and i have one more festival scene planned so its gonna have to happen AGAIN and im gonna suffer Big Time��� Biggest Disappointment: i vastly underestimated both the size and demand for masshar fic and i was kinda sad when it only got like 5 kudos hrifgj i really thought there was still a masshar ship community but there wasNT and it flopped lmao. but i still like writing masshar and honestly i’d probably do it again tbh? it was still fun :^) Most Surprising: ocean’s kiss hdsufkfgs lmao that thing got comments from people who hadn’t showed up in the sinju fandom for months to years and i was crying the whole time.. it was a fic that meant a lot to me too so the fact that it got so much sweet feedback really made me  ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ Favorite story of the year: probably melt tbh :,) i put my heart and soul into that fic and the fact that it did much, much better than i’d first anticipated just made me so happy ♡ its about halfway done now and I can’t wait to tell the rest of it!! i have so many plans I am crying Something I want to revisit: like, half the chapters in melt ghfudeilfjge anD ALSO THE HOLIDAY AUS i wrote them when i was really sad and upset for Reasons so they weren’t as cheery as i would’ve liked :( first snow was cuter because it was posted later and i was happier then but.. mistletoe was written when i was :V about a lot of things so I’d like to rewrite it someday.. maybe next christmas :’)

What writing risks did I take and how did they pay off: I.. honestly didn’t take that many risks? I think the biggest risk that I ever could’ve taken was to write for myself. I really really tried to write only things that made me happy, and I was really nervous as to how the reception of that would be, but it turned out really well!! I’ve got a lot of sweet comments and feedback from readers, and the response was more than I every could’ve asked for  ♡ Writing goals for 2017: my goal is to finish Melt before the end of the school year, preferably before the end of April. I also just really wanna try harder to stick to my freaking update schedule because, like, some people are banging out a solid 7k every week, people with JOBS, and I’m still in high school and I can barely finish my measly 4k by Sunday ghfdklrgjdj. I just need to work harder on time management tbh, but overall I just wanna write more in 2017!

This was really fun to do!! Thanks again to dragonofeternal for sharing their template, I think doing these meme really helped me get my thoughts together and decide where to go with my writing in 2017. I can’t wait to write more for the new year! ♡