#on my heart

[corishadowfang]

😭 and❗️for the ask game!

(For this)

😭"what are the biggest challenges writing your WIPs?”

An over-arching problem that follows many (but not all) WIPs is that I'll sometimes struggle to hammer out the plot and/or keep the plot on track. I have. So many documents that are just. Me desperately trying to brainstorm where the story's going or re-outlining after the characters made a decision that drastically changed the direction of the story. While it can sometimes be frustrating, it is also really rewarding if and when you get a breakthrough and things start coming together.

Individually:

On My Heart: PLOT. This one REALLY lives up to the above, because while the beginning has always been very easy to write over its various incarnations, the middle and ending have always kind of eluded me. I have completely re-written this story, like...five or six times now? Literally thousands of pages and probably over a million words, man. It is my problem child of a story, and I may end up just doing a lot of shorts following the characters to see if that can help orient me in the right direction.

KH Folktale Story: Thankfully no challenges directly related to the story so far! The biggest thing has just been finding the time/energy to work on it, because uh...I am not actually the highest energy person in the world, and have also been very busy. (And also. My dog is pretty sure I should be paying attention to her at all times and Not Working, and she has no problems jumping up and closing my laptop if she thinks I'm not paying enough attention to her, haha.)

❗"how many WIPs do you have?“

Uh, I guess this is kind of answered above, but two that I'm actively working on!

On My Heart is an original story that I've written on and off for over a decade, which uh...the short summary is, "Kid is temporarily turned into a dragon to save his life, which is very illegal and very dangerous. Teams up with a former police officer and the local hermit to try and get out of the mess he's found himself in. Found family bonding, questions about identity and what makes someone human, and other shenanigans ensue." It's a story that's very dear to my heart, despite all its problems, and is where I really started honing a lot of things about my style, so I'd really like to create a version that gives these characters justice one day.

The KH folktale story (which is...still unnamed, and may remain that way for. a while) is basically me going, "Man, it'd be fun to really dive into worldbuilding and explore the mythos of the KH universe," and then just. Rolling with it. It's expanded a little to explore some additional cultural stuff too, haha. Basically, this is my excuse to go wild on worldbuilding!

Aside from the "official" ones, I have a couple of things I've been writing on-and-off. (Ex. I've been writing some snippets of future scenarios set in the Fallen Stars-verse.) But uh, nothing that I've delved too deeply into, aha.

[incognito-princess]

My niece and I binge watched 1/2 of the second season and the 3rd season of Ghost while she was visiting. She went back home yesterday. This is the text I got from her last night:

"You know what I just thought about tho- Thor, Sas, and Isaac watched Hetty her whole life and then they got lost in a hole and when they came back she was a ghost." (sob!!!)

[euesworld]

"Your smile is so damn contagious that I get rashes on my heart.."

Your smile is like poison ivy and I got it bad - eUë

[hl-obsessed]

i need to fuckin remember to not complain every time when is quiet evening here and and i don't see any interesting posts because always then when i wake up in the morning and this big emotional shit is all over my dash and i need to deal with that completely unprepared just 5 minutes after fucking waking up

[arinrowan]

So I hate facetime but have two small nephews who live very far away and wanted them to know who I was. So when second nephew was born, I started sending first nephew (4 years old) a postcard every week.

The content wasn't anything special. I made cookies, I saw this flower, my cats did this. He likes trucks and machinery so I scoured redbubble for anything related to machinery and got a giant batch of machine postcards. Whenever I traveled, I'd hunt down a postcard for him.

My second nephew turned four this year, and I started sending him postcards as well. Both of them like Pokemon now, so mostly it's been double Pokemon postcards every week. I don't hear much from them, or my sister, so I just generally hope they're enjoyed and try to remember to mail them before Sunday.

However. This week my mom informed me second nephew likes the postcards SO MUCH he brings them into daycare to show around. And when I shared that with my sister, she told me not only does he bring them into daycare, he sleeps with them at naptime.

The only higher honor would be for her to tell me he's eating them.

[hjarta]

[spooksier]

young artist posting your work online, heed my warning. im holding your face so gently in my hands, you have to stop caring about numbers right now and start caring about making the weirdest and most self-indulgent art you possibly can

[tammykaos]

✨🦄🐬🦖🌊 I JUST WANNA BE PART OF YOUR SYMPHONYYYYYYY✨🦄💖💕🐟🐬

[smthaboutuss]

That one tweet that’s like “oh that’s gore… that’s gore of my comfort character” but in the absolutely most positive sense u can imagine, with rainbows and dolphins in the sky etc.

[brainrotcharacters]

When irl pisses me off, I rewatch the Honda Odyssey scene to relax

[hotvampireadjacent]

https://x.com/treborrhurbarb/status/1819855330232480252?s=46&t=kvJFP3BjKnMEl5NO2bJUMA

[corishadowfang]

NaNoWriMo: End

Technically I won NaNo a while back, haha, but I figured since it's the end of November I'd make a final post for it.

My goal was to at least get 50,000 more words for On My Heart and get something of a workable draft. And...I more or less met that goal! Hit 50,000 words, and at least have some idea of what direction I need to take the story in, even if it needs some editing.

Initially, I planned to see how much more I could get once I hit that 50,000...but uh, I kind of got attacked by a plot bunny partway through NaNo, and decided to use the rest of my time outlining that.

It's been fun! (I am, uh...a big fan of worldbuilding, haha.)

Anyway, I'll be switching back to Fallen Stars until it's completion, and probably continuing outlining *gestures* that for a while. (Maybe also writing some bits and pieces? We'll see.) On My Heart will be returning to the backburner for a little while, but hopefully once Fallen Stars is complete I can go back and keep working on it.

...Provided the above plot bunny doesn't completely commandeer my time.

[camilleflyingrotten]

Thinking about the Good Omens S1 body swap…

LATER

[gothamitee]

What will you be tonight? That’s the question

[raystarkitty]

Puddle of Little Ponies!