Abby

Writer, Reader, Lover of Words Saved by grace through faith Fandom and Original Works

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Intro

Zelda blog: @abbyz-elda

Hello! My name is Abby, I'm a Christian, and I love to write. I've been writing since I was a little girl, and I used to always say that I wanted to grow up to be an author. Now, I'm working really hard to hone my writing and one day achieve that dream!

I write fanfiction and original works, and I'll sometimes post about both on here. But I'm mostly known for my Legend of Zelda works, which you can find me posting about on my side blog, @abbyz-elda

Here, I post writing WIPs, reblog book-related posts, and generally geek about books and writing and all things literature.

My current WIP is titled Of Manors, Mirrors, and Magic. It is a YA/New Adult Historical Romantasy (wow that's a lot of words) with a heavy emphasis on fairytales, myths, and legends. If you're interested in learning more about it, feel free to send me an ask!

My current book interests are OUABH, Caraval, Percy Jackson, anything related to Greek myth, The Lunar Chronicles, Jane Austen, and many others!

Pleasure to re-meet all of you!

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I finished the first draft edits of my second book! Excited to start sending it out to betas and incorporating feedback!!

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Every Good Friday I am always struck by the richness and the power of Christ’s love for us. The fact that the man of sinlessness, innocent and humble, chose to lay down his life for us. When it was our sin, my sin, that beat him. When it was our sin, my sin, that nailed him to that cross.

How great must his love be, that he chose to bear the punishment that should belong to us, just so we might know his father, our father, as intimately as he knows us.

How great the Father’s love for us. How deep and wide and fully unfathomable.

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I’m still querying my first novel, but I’ve actually been working on a second novel for the last several months, and I just finished my first draft today!!!

Inspired by Greek mythology, the story tells the ending of the Odyssey (and a significant portion afterwards) from the perspective of Nausicaa, Princess of the Phaeacians. She is the person who finds Odysseus washed up on her island near the end of his famous journey and sets up the framing of the epic!

She has been such a fun character to explore, and I can’t wait to share more as I start editing!

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Sharing this contest I'm entering to get my first 5 pages of my manuscript critiqued!

First Page Contest #10:  Young Adult Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Horror -- Judged by Agent Keir Alekseii of Azantian Literary

FREE CONTEST FOR WRITERS! Welcome to a  First Page Contest . Contest #10 is for writers of Young Adult Fiction in the areas of science ficti

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A pet peeve of mine is when writing advice or writers in general try to gear everything toward a “universal audience.”

So few people seem to understand that there’s literally no such thing! In high school, we’re taught to define our audience first in our papers, so why are people not able to do the same thing for creative writing?

It is absolutely impossible to please everybody, and the sooner you decide who you want to write for, the easier it becomes to hone your writing in that direction. Those people will make it very clear what they want to see!

Don’t seek out writing advice by someone who primarily reads/writes romance if you’re wanting to write action/adventure. Don’t try to make your writing exactly like [insert author] if that author’s audience isn’t who you want to read your stuff!

Doing everything you can to write for as many different types of people as possible is just going to water down the story you want to write and ultimately exclude a lot more people than you’re including.

Define your audience, define your goals, and write with that in mind!

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Posted this on my writer instagram that I'm going to try very hard to keep up with! A little sneak peek at my original book!

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2026 Creativity Goals Tag Game!

Rules: Make a list of every creative project you'd like to tackle next year! It can be anything, from updating a story to starting a new story entirely. Fanart ideas. Wrapping up old projects. Literally any creative endeavor that comes to mind! It doesn't have to be super extensive either. Just whatever you think you'd reasonably like to tackle in the coming year.

I was tagged by @mistresslrigtar and @louwhose! Thank you!!

I don't have a lot of lofty goals this year, mainly just keeping up momentum from this past year, but here's what I'd like to do!

Finish a first draft of new novel by May

Finish writing A Link to the Stars (this one is a maybe, I'll probably at least get pretty close this year)

Finish my OOT Spy AU fic

Write something for Zelinktines

Keep querying my current novel!

Excited to see what I end up doing this year!

I'll tag @karama9 @amelias-hart @flutefemme

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My 2025 Writing Stats

Hi everyone! This is for no one's benefit but my own but I was curious about how my writing shaped up over the course of the year and decided to do some calculations!

In 2025, I wrote nearly 500,000 words! (Thats half a million!!) 😳

This was divided across fan fiction and original works and no, I will not be doing additional math to see how many were for fanfic and how many were original because just getting to that number took far too much time lol

For my original stories, I rewrote a large section of the end of my book that I'm currently querying, and I started two new books that I've been swapping back and forth between! I'm hopeful to have at least a first full draft of a second book finished by March of this year ☺️

For fan fiction, I wrote 14 new stories (one shots and multi-chap fics), added a couple of chapters to existing stories, and wrote a HEFTY chunk of my main project, A Link to the Stars (which is now going on almost 200k words oh my goodness)

2023 was the year I started writing again for the first time in a decade, 2024 was the year I really fell in love with it, and 2025 is when I hit a really large stride and realized just how much I want this hobby to stay in my life for a veryyyy long time.

Thank you to EVERYONE who has read even a small portion of my works, I really couldn't have done it without your constant support and excitement!

Here's to another half a million in 2026!!

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I passed the 50k words mark in a new book I'm working on, so here's a little snippet to celebrate!!

This story is a look at the Greek myth figure of Nausicaa, the princess who found Odysseus toward the beginning of the Odyssey. I've been expanding her story and it's been so fun working on her characterization!

A man stood before me. At least, something resembling a man, one that had been beaten and broken nearly beyond recognition. He was caked in a layer of grime that obscured most of his body. His hair was snarled and tangled like a coil of snakes, stiff with sea salt. His skin clung to his muscles like wet silk and shone an angry red, whether from sunburn or rubbed raw from the saltwater, I could not tell. He had a wild look in his eyes that spoke of hardship, exhaustion, and a deep hunger that had me taking a careful step back from him.  The man was utterly naked, save for a cluster of greenery he held in front of him to keep me from glimpsing his manhood. I had never seen a man in this state, so decrepit and broken from whatever hardships had assailed him. I wanted to run, but something poured resolve into my legs, grounding my heels into the grass. My servants had run, and I would stand firm. After all, this was the first foreigner I had ever had the opportunity to meet. 

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Hi Abby! So, I am a newbie when it comes to the Tumblr scene, but I just want to say how absolutely fantastic your and @coffebits A Link to the Stars story is. Once I had read the first chapter or so I was instantly hooked by how real the characters feel and how rich the world is, and you both have done a phenomenal job with it. It really marries the classic feeling of Star Wars and Zelda while still standing as its own unique story and world! This last chapter especially was SO good, wow! Really worth the mini-hiatus. So glad that Link and Zelda finally bridged the gap ^u^

I hope you and yours have a very blessed Christmas and New Years!

oh my goodness thank you so much!!!! It means so much to me!! It's been so fun working on this for almost a year and a half and I can't wait to do more hehehe

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Get you a man who not only microwaves wet cat food for your cat but also sticks his finger in the wet cat food to make sure it’s not too hot and not too cold for the cat

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✨ Contributor Spotlight ✨

Kicking off our contributor spotlights, say hello to @abbyzwrites / @abbyz-elda!

As a lifelong writer with an enduring passion for Zelink, she delights in exploring the soulmate bond between Link and Zelda across every game. We're thrilled to share what she's creating!

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My hobbies include reading, writing and doing neither of those things

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Earlier this year I wrote 20k words for a novel where the main character is Princess Nausicaa from the Odyssey, following her story after Odysseus leaves her island.

I stopped working on it because I worried that I wasn’t capturing it the way I wanted to, but last night I found the story again and lowkey I was cooking something…I want to start writing it again😂

The issue is I’m already writing another book😅 so now I have to decide if I want to write two books at once or pick which one I want to finish😩

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ALTTS chapter 35 illustrations! ✨

It took me a little longer to post these because life’s been crazy aaah. Let me also present to you my Rito OC Ilios!✨ It was so fun to work on his design! Probably one of my favorite color palettes 🫶✨

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Mini Update

Hi everyone! It’s been a hot minute since I posted on this blog lol!

I’m still currently caught in querying purgatory with my manuscript, sending it out to a couple of book agents a week. I’ve had one request for a full manuscript so far so I’m not gonna give up yet!

I also impulsively started writing another book! I’m about 20k words in already and having a BLAST with it so I might post more about it soon👀

If I get more news on the publishing front I’ll be sure to share!