#or videos or I re read fanfic (some parts of which I've read more than twice) or I scroll tumblr

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~ mutuals I want to know better ~

That was quite the surprise @easy-revenge ! Thanks for the tag!

Last song I listened to: Breezeblocks by alt-j and the whole time, I was thinking about Falin and Marcille from Dungeon Meshi… I mean… “Please don’t go, I’ll eat you whole, I love you so […]”

Fav colour: hmm, tough choice. I’m more of colour-hater than a colour lover (I don’t like purple, even if I use it all the time for shading, lol). I guess I do like brown a lot, when accompanied with blue. Nice combo, no matter the shade. I like brown tabby cats best (I’m more of a blue eyes lover, though)

Currently watching: some seasonal anime, like Mushoku Tensei season II.

Currently reading: I’m giving Dungeon Meshi a re-read, with the official French translation this time around. I’m taking notes for fanfic writing. Otherwise, Brave New World is waiting on the nightstand.

Sweet/savoury /spicy: never heard of savoury as a flavour, aha. Is it umami? Probably is. In any case, I’m not picky and I like them all. What I’ll eat will depend on my mood.

Relationship status: single and not really looking for a partner. I’d prefer to be well on HRT before trying to find someone, if I ever bother to go looking. I’m more of a “ride or die” type of person, so casual stuff is out the window in any case, lol.

Current obsessions: *looks at my blog* Dungeon Meshi, ahaha. I can’t wait for the anime, I’m sure Trigger will do well. Kinda hoping for a full-series adaptation! Otherwise, Chainsaw Man is still on my mind, always. I have a bunch of CSM Beastars!AU WIP, fanart wise.

Last thing I googled: “Akita Inu”, as I was talking with a relative and they said they saw a tall Japanese-type dog. I showed them pictures, to which they said “yes, that’s the dog I saw!”

Currently working on: many things… Completing my current sketchbook for student credits, writing a “scientific Pokédex” for student credits (an excuse to look into many animal species and expand my own knowledge for work later on, all while having fun with speculative biology), re-reading Dungeon Meshi, analyse the characters and write fanfic for them (starting with a Laios and Lycion thing… I haven’t decided what yet), learn basic video editing so I can make the Dungeon Meshi edits I want to see (Talk by Hozier with the Winged Lion *cough*), write for my OC on Master Poké (RP forum, there’s a summer writing event going on). I've also had this idea for a Skyrim fanfic, featuring a werewolf Khajiit who has lived a big part of their life in Falkreath. Shit happens. Anyway… I won't be able to complete all of this before classes start again *sigh*

tagging: @catcrow236 @rachaeltad @brn-t if you want, of course. No pressure! :D

[mylittleelphie]

I don’t know why it’s taken me so long, but I’ve just started reading ‘Accidents Will Happen’ - I’m only a few chapters in so far, but I’m loving it (I always adore your characterisation of Glinda).

What I really wanted to ask is would you ever consider writing a sequel or an epilogue of ‘The Princess of Oz’? That has to be one of my absolute favourite fanfics ever; literally everything about it was perfect, and, every time I re-read it, it’s as though I’m watching a period drama in my head.

Thank you for taking the time to write such in-depth works, I really adore your writing. 🖤

Oh man.

You know, this is the first inbox message that I got on here that was not from some questionable p*** blog. So I went into this with the lowest expectations possible and getting such a wonderful ask instead of "check out my sexy videos" just blew me away 🤣 I'm not sure if I'm functioning properly right now 😂

So yeah, thank you so much!!

I'm happy to hear that you're interested in AWH, but I can understand if it isn't everyone's cup of tea. It's nearly finished and I'd say a lot more people started reading it than managed to see it all the way though lol Which is fine. I'm mostly content with my choices. I guess it's a bit less mainstream. It certainly is not The Princess of Oz (or "PoO" as like to abbreviate it for convenience and giggles).

Thank you for your praise, it's very touching. I'm quite aware of the fact that PoO is a favourite among my works so far--as much as that can be said, since I myself ain't exactly a fan favourite lol. I guess it just struck the right balance between "well enough written" and "not too ambitious, difficult, abstract etc" I could improve on it for sure. The plot is mostly fine, except for the slightly unsatisfying ending, but the writing could be more polished. But it has a touch of commercial appeal to it, doesn't it?

Which leads me to: PoO was always meant to be part of a duology or even trilogy. I think I might have said that in my ANs? Not sure. Either way, that does go some way to explain the ending, I guess?

Well. This never happened. For millions of reasons. These days there is one particular one that stands out and unfortunately more or less forces me to give you a negative answer to your question. No, I do not plan on writing more for this series. Not as fanfiction that is.

The truth is, I've been scheming for years to make the jump from fanfiction to original fiction, to become a "proper" author. I know I'm not quite there yet, or at least nothing I published so far ever went through that rigorous polishing process. But it has been a dream, even though it's daunting. And I picked my project. It's an overhauled version of PoO and its never published sequels. As a trilogy.

Ambitious plan, I know, and most likely I'll crash and burn, but at least I'll be able to say I tried. It won't be just a case of "filing off the serial numbers". More like a new re-telling from what I remember the story to be, alongside with slightly more mature and thought-out elements. And sequels. It's all planned out in the macro scale. I just have to write it. I'll probably start early next year and I expect that the first book alone will take me about half a year to a year until it's ready for querying (sending it to agents). So I can't even console you with the fact that you would be able to read the original version soon if you're so inclined--it's a loooooong way till any of that gets published (if ever), especially if you're waiting for the sequels.

Ok. Sorry for bombarding you with such an essay, only to tell you no 😅 I guess I got a bit excited there.

I can't begin to express how excited I am to get such feedback and I hope you'll be able to enjoy AWH enough to at least temporarily forget your disappointment over the PoO sequels.

Thanks so much for writing to me (though you might regret that move now 😂)! What a wonderful Christmas gift!

Take care and have a few wonderful days of Christmas cheer!!!

xoxo

MLE

Note to everyone else: always feel free to message me and make my day! But beware, THIS is what you might get back in return! 😂

[creativenicocorner]

i've seen you mention some kind of reading hiatus several times now, and i'm just curious—could you tell us more about this? :o i'm a horrible reading gremlin so it never occurred to me that people could just, like, meaningfully hold off on things (or remember them later, if they did). only if you want to talk about it, of course!!

No worries!! My absolute pleasure!! ♡

It’s more of a planned writing hiatus than a reading one haha I’ve been working and writing on a fic for over a year now, and while working on the fanfic (Terpsichore) I haven’t had a lot of chances to sit down and be part of another fic’s audience. Which is a bit of a bummer cause there’s so much good content I can’t wait to sink my teeth into!! 

But, there’s only so many hours in the day, especially with life to likewise manage- and being a horrible reading gremlin as well I’m self aware enough to know that when I sit down and read it’s going to be in big. hefty. chonks. and not doing much else. 

THUS with Terpsichore about to reach a sort of ‘season finale’ like stopping point, I thought it would be a good place to pause creatively for a bit. Use the time I usually have for writing to read and appreciate other fics, maybe art more too, but just take it easy creatively in general. I welcome a breather. Take the time to re-charge, as Terpsichore is a bit like an emotional marathon to write at times lol.

Video recording of my writing process:

AND SO!!! Knowing I’m going to take a welcomed creative pause I’ve been hoarding fics I just can’t wait to devour and write and gush so many lovely comments on!!! ヽ(o♡o)/ 

Like your fic for instance! I can tell from the snippets I’ve managed to read that I’m going to enjoy the H E C K  out of it!! And although I can’t bring myself to sit down and read it just yet, I’m sure as heck going to try and do my part and reblog as much as I can so to help spread the love and circulate the material 

( •̀♡• ́)ﻭ✧ 

Hence all the tags that are along the lines of, ‘I can’t wait!’ Cause I do want to leave comments as well, and I don’t want the writer to think I’m not going to comment (I’m going to be so obnoxious too djbgjdfg, so this is me apologizing in advance lol I’m not really sorry writing can be thankless sometimes and writers deserve to be gushed over! Like putting and weaving words together is magical!! And magic like that takes energy and can he rough and hard and messy and that glorious good stuff should be celebrated!! ) 

So that’s my biggest reason for holding off from reading at the moment.. 

another one might be because a fic might be emotionally too much™ for me at the moment, as I’m a squishy soft baby sometimes, and can, and will set down what I’m reading to pace for 5 minutes. Especially if it’s too heavy for me at the moment, I’ll just lovingly tuck it away for a better mental moment.  

In short, I have two modes when it comes to reading; nothing, or everything without any signs of stoping. And that sometimes takes tactical planning haha    

♡ Thank you so much for the ask♡, I hope my answer made sense, but yeah! Writing has been a blast, but I need a break, and it’s nice knowing that when the time comes there are going to be so so many fics to devour that’ll be most unequivocally 

[xx-obliviousfantasy-xx]

Roasting Myself

Quick note:

Okay so bc I'm writing this on my phone, I can't take a photo of the document history to show you the stupidness. I apologise for that, but just try to imagine the fricken like... Stupidness.

Edit: The original version is on Wattpad still so nvm I'll be adding both Wattpad and Google Doc screenshots, but I did not have as many dates on Wattpad so only for some sections will I use Wattpad.

Edit: My photos keep going to the bottom. Idfk what to do whatever I hate Tumblr with a burning passion.

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So, I gotta vent about my stupidity.

Okay so the time frame I set back in 7th grade for this book idea I have is completely stupid. What I wrote didn't make any actual sense because I contradicted it. Which makes sense, because I was stupid. But doesn't, because now that I'm older, I should've caught it.

The story is called 3044(Destined Stars). I definitely stole that last part from something. I thought it was the game Mystic Messenger but it's not. The more I think about it, the more it seem like it though.

The problem is that with how far away 3044 is, it doesn't even make sense for humans to be how they are then, or even be alive tbh. I'm pretty sure they'll be extinct by then. I don't even know big we'll last 200 more years tbh. Or even 50.

Another problem, is I still do that thing where I fucking forget there's a bunch of numbers in between and skip up. So basically, with how I write the dates, I made the years really far apart with the dates and shit. Like REAAALLLLY. Like from being 10-ish years apart to skipping ahead nearly 1,000. Because I am a dumbass and didn't think "Wow this doesn't make any effing sense. This makes some of your events very insignificant because of evolution, and your characters old as dinosaurs."

(But I'm just now remembering I did day Humans live longer, which, could be taken to interpretation but besides the point.)

To better understand:

I literally had the dates like 2070, 2080, 2090, to then, 3000, 3010, 3015, 3025.

Like... That jump was so fucking huge but I didn't realise.

But because I was attached to the makeshift title I gave it, because it came from my friend's favorite number (but because I have issues with flipping numbers I found out was wrong later in after naming the story. I have still kept it that number though even years after),

Instead of doing the easy thing, I wrote in the stupidest, most confusing, complicated thing ever.

And then, after reading through my dates again and actually doing the math, it was like "Wait a second, this doesn't make any sense because this event started before this character (Hyacinth) was born, but after this one (Aleya) was two years old" or something like that. Idk. Like... It's wonky because my characters are certain ages in the story, but, by the date I set things, they happen waaaay too before they were born which would mean they'd stop mattering so much.

But thankfully, I thought recently, why don't I just f-ing make the dates that date? What's the reason for all of the complicated stuff?

(Also, I think I was gonna change the date again which is why it still makes no sense.)

( But then something happened. Idk. I honestly might bring the ages down again bc it makes sense. Because... The time still doesn't make sense because I'd have to age Hyacinth up.)

Generally, I just placed some events out of sequence. Like, I said space cities finished construction before they even started building them. Idk, it was a fucking mess and one of the first things I wrote confused me a lot because I was like "Did I delete something?"

It also made Aleya reaaaally older than Hyacinth because I set a significant date in her birth 15 years before the date of the story so it either

Aleya is 24 and Hyacinth is 20. It was 18 and 21 before,

I just- Oh my God. So, I'm deleting that, and going to make it better. Also I accidentally made the Earth 3044 years old, when, that's absurd. I said the Earth aged faster in that Universe, but that's too fast. Like- I just- wtf?

But the year is also 3044.7b2? Is that for the universe? See it just doesn't make sense. Idk how it made sense in my head. The Earth is 3044 years old but the Earth is not the age of the universe right now so why would the Earth be the age of the universe unless the Universe reset itself entirely and made everything come back at the same time?

And then I said that after that war, the first alien race I talked about plus some other planets, created a treated together.

I think I remember that at first a lot of planets were sucked into a black hole but spit out and made again but faster? Idk. It's so confusing.

(That's when I wrote it on Wattpad and how it was before the rewrite below)

Then there is this dumb contradictory mistake I made again because I said a certain race of aliens with a very awful name was first to contact the Earth at a certain time and helped them and create a treaty,

It's just so messed up and it's because I:

1) Didn't check some of my SEVENTH GRADE WRITING EVEN THOUGH IM IN NINTH NOW,

However I then wrote a different one with a less awful name did before that and went to war with them. As seen above and below.

2) Didn't check my Math, and-

Also apparently the whole story is being told but a space child who created Earth by accident and has grown find if her creation. Also one of the things I changed that made it complicated was saying that 3044 was the number of times Earth restarted. But I forgot that part because I constantly skim over that part.

3) Am still writing it in a bad Tumblr/Wattpad fanfic manner instead of a genuinely good writer pov.

Like... It's genuinely so bad that idk how it didn't click in until now. Maybe it's because after watching a nearly 2hr video about how bad Yandere Simulator and Yandere Dev is, and then two reviews of Onision's books I've already seen, I began to be very afraid of being on the same level as them in terrible production of anything.

I'm going to to fix this and re-plot it and then re-writes it because this is horrible, even for a first draft.

My incompetence a m a z e s me.

My understanding of math scares me.

[aquadestinyswriting]

Thanks @druidx

Rules: Answer the 11 questions, and tag 11 people.

What are your favourite genres to write?

I'm mostly a fantasy writer. I've dabbled in sci-fi and some more modern stuff, but I've always preferred fantasy anyway.

What do you write the most? (books, short stories, poetry, fanficion,…)

I mostly write mostly-original fiction set in former d&d campaign worlds. Currently most of it is fairly short, but I have done a couple of longer pieces. I'm also working on some Warhammer 40k au fanfic ideas.

What are your favourite tropes?

Found family is the top one. I'm not too sure of any others to be completely honest with you (I should probably fix that >_>)

What genres do you dislike?

I really dislike chick-fic. I'm also not a massive fan of hard sci-fi.

What’s your writing process like? (outlining, pantsing, plantsing, structures, worldbuilding,…)

I generally pants the heck out of my writing. I get an idea and just... start typing. Sometimes I start out writing complete gibberish as far as the story I want to tell then it slowly begins to take on some sort of shape. I'll generally go back and figure out how to start the story off properly, but sometimes I just delete those first four or five paragraphs and start the story from paragraph six onwards ^_^;.

Very occasionally, I might make some sort of outline, but it's generally more a case of getting down ideas I *might* want to include, or it's a very basic timeline of events. This is generally what I do when I'm writing about something that took place in the campaigns the stories I'm writing are based on just so I don't mess up when and where things happened in 'canon'.

What’s your favourite way to get writing advice? (books about writing, youtubers, podcasts, creative writing courses, blogs etc)

Through blogs and sometimes youtube videos. Blogs tend to condense the information down into manageable chunks and I can listen to youtube in the background when I'm doing something other than writing.

What inspired your current wip?

The wip I'm currently working on is the series focusing on my OC Selene. It was inspired by re-reading and listening to recordings off a previous campaign that she was an NPC in. I realised that even though she was no longer a primary protagonist in the story being told at the time, that she still had a lot of unexplored and unresolved issues that would be fun to write about. It will also help to expand the world she's a part of since the people she interacts with on a regular basis are so important to the running of Toreguarde that it's fun to explore how all that works.

What are some of your favourite books?

I have a lot of them, but I'll try to keep this as concise as possible.

Abhorsen series by Garth Nix

His Dark Materials series by Phillip Pullman

All of Terry Pratchett's work from Discworld (yes, even including the Light Fantastic and Colour of Magic)

World War Z by Max Brooks (and the Zombie Survival Guide too)

Gotrek and Felix series by William King

The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by Tolkein

What themes come up in your writing the most?

Found family, love (both romantic and platonic) and trauma (and a lot of it apparently)

What are your plans after you finish your wip?

Try to get back to the one I originally made this blog for and, inevitably, get sidetracked into writing other stuff instead.

Which part of the writing process is your favourite?

Listening to my various playlists and imagining the scenes I'm trying to write as movie set pieces.

Tags: whoever sees this and wants to take part since I need to find out who else wants in on these tag games again >_>

11/11/11 Tag

Thanks @writingonesdreams

Rules: Answer the 11 questions, and tag 11 people.

What are your favourite genres to write?

I mostly stick to Fantasy, but I’ve dabbled in Sci-fi a few times. Worldbuilding in Sci-fi is harder though…

What do you write the most? (books, short stories, poetry, fanficion,…)

I write mostly fanfic short stories, but I’ve got original novels in the words as well.

What are your favourite tropes?

Found family. Umm, that’s basically the only one I know the name for off the top my head.

What genres do you dislike?

Psychological horror, gushy romance, and most chick-fic.

What’s your writing process like? (outlining, pantsing, plantsing, structures, worldbuilding,…)

I have an idea (could be something said or read that’s twigged, could be my mind making connections between things, could be a prompt I’m given). 

It goes into a document. 

I think about it, poke and prod, and do that thing where one lays in bed and half dreams, half writes it. 

If I think I’m going to forget the plot beats, I note them down in the doc, but this doesn’t happen often. The plot beats aren’t stored in the head; they’re stored somewhere around the diaphragm.

I write until I get stuck, then I go do something else (a different WIP, gaming, fanfic reading, moodboards) until I get unstuck.

I start writing again

(there can be many repetitions of “write, stuck, <other>, unstick, write” in a project)

I finish

I edit & proof while agonising over a title (if I didn’t give it one from inception, but that’s rare)

I post

I like to say I’m a plantser, because I do plan. But it’s all mental, I very rarely outline, so it looks like I’m a pantser.

What’s your favourite way to get writing advice? (books about writing, youtubers, podcasts, creative writing courses, blogs etc)

Probably blogs. It’s handy to read a post, let it the subconscious dwell on it, and then subsume it into what I’m doing.

What inspired your current wip?

Currently the Big Project is Haven’s Ember, which was inspired by a few users wanting a fluffy Fix-it fic for TESIV: Oblivion, were the main character doesn’t die at the end.

What are some of your favourite books?

Oh no. I dislike this question; there’s just so many. Well, here’s a shortlist of books & series that mean something to me:

The Shining Princess and other tales

The Wonderful Whatisname by John Patience

The Temeraire series by Naomi Novik

Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett

Tales of the Ketty Jay series Chris Wooding

Gentleman Bastards series by Scott Lynch

Tales of Earthsea by Ursula le Guin

Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon series by Spider Robinson

Redwall series by Brian Jacques

…That’s probably enough XD

What themes come up in your writing the most?

Found family, food poverty, justice/ mercy (rather than black & white good/ evil)

What are your plans after you finish your wip?

Go on to one of the many others XD

Which part of the writing process is your favourite?

The “words flowing onto the page” part.

Tagging (ask for +/- Writeblr games): @aquadestinyswriting @viawrites-andacts @ryns-ramblings @strosmkai-rum ​ @chauceryfairytales