Genre: Dark romance, horror, sci-fi, fantasy (a whole mess of things)
Status: 150k into a first draft and I'm not even halfway through the plot
Summary: 10 years ago the Monroe family home was burned to the ground when the pirate Zephyr and his crew raided it and stole their eldest children, 16-year-old Sirena Monroe and 18-year-old Tobias Monroe and the teenagers were assumed dead when no ransom was asked. Today, Felicity and Rosalia Monroe, the twins who were left behind, find their family home cursed and those within it trapped in time, doomed to fade into shadows if the curse isn't undone. With the advice and help of a witch, they disguise themselves and find a crew willing to take them to Pluto, a place no one goes. The Captian and first mate of this ship are faces that the twins had thought they would never see again and, as they soon realize, a lot can change in 10 years.
How It's Written: I'm weaving together Felicity and Rosalia's quest and Tobias and Sirena's 10 years in alternating POV chapters. So there would be a Sirena chapter taking place at the start of 10 years ago, then a Felicity chapter in the now, then Tobias in 10 years ago, then Rosalia in the now, then the cycle starts again. I'm hoping this will create a sharp contrast between the Sirena and Tobias that we first meet at the start of their story and the Sirena and Tobias that we meet at the start of Felicity and Rosalia's story and as the story progresses you'll see how these characters came to be as they are. That said, I prefer to write chronologically so I've only written from Sirena and Tobias's POV so far.
What The Fuck: Yes, Sirena and Tobias are siblings, yes they fall in love. This is an incest dark romance story about a pair of siblings who are wildly codependent. Their relationship is not healthy and it's portrayed in a romantic light, but if they were real people they would need therapy and I would be horrified by them. Luckily, they are fictional. I will slap some warnings on the story so no one will go in without knowing what it's about, but. Yeah. Also, both Sirena and Tobias kill people and Sirena eats people, if the ONLY thing you're objecting to is the incest idk what to tell ya.
Main Characters
Sirena De Ville (prev Monroe): Pirate Captain of the Kraken Rose, known as the Siren of the Void, reputation for being cannibalistic and unhinged. Her moral compass is inscrutable to anyone but her and Tobias (and Holly on most days). Beneath it all, Sirena is kind of awkward, having had very little social interaction and even less normal social interaction since she was 9 and her parents all but abandoned her and Tobias. She tends to feel her emotions at a blinding intensity or not at all with little in between. She has been doing witchcraft in secret with Tobias since she was 13. She views Holly as her truest and closest friend (besides Tobias) and Tamzin as a mother. She does NOT view Zephyr as a father no matter how often he tries to be her dad and does, in fact, hate his guts and want him dead.
Tobias De Ville (prev Monroe): First mate of the Kraken Rose, known as Sirena's right arm and the only one able to control her. He doesn't actually control her at all and enjoys how batshit she is. He is seen as the more reasonable of the pair mainly because he is a generally quiet person. Has been doing witchcraft with Sirena since he was 15. The list of people he truly trusts is very small, though he doesn't treat people with any sign of distrust. He views Holly as a close and true friend, second only to Sirena, and he views Tamzin as a mother. He hates Zephyr about as much as Sirena does. Lets Sirena do the talking because he somehow has less social skills than she does, and that's not a very high bar.
Felicity Monroe: Angry, openly distrustful of most, not a fan of her parents no matter how much they started trying to be better after Sirena and Tobias were taken. She has a perfect memory, having never forgotten a single moment in her life, and this has given her a lot of depression, frustration, and anger at the world and the people around her. She is, on the surface, a deeply bitter person who hides how much she can care about others for fear of being hurt. She is afraid all of the time, though you would never guess that by interacting with her.
Rosalia Monroe: Cheerful, considered naive by most because of her optimistic outlook on most things. He is genderless, though they don't mind presenting as a lady because he likes dresses. She is a bit silly and wildly charismatic, though they have no friends to show for it because, like his twin, she is terrified of making deeper connections with people. They also have a keen interest in engineering and the construction of starships, much to her parents' delight.
Other Important Characters
Holly Graves: Habitual thief and former rich kid who was abducted by Zephyr a few years before Tobias and Sirena. She quickly forms a close friendship with the pair, realizing quickly that they probably come from a similar background.
Zephyr Crescent: All around terrible person and Captain of the Serpant's Revenge before Sirena and Tobias took the ship from him and renamed it. There is a curse on him and he has learned how to manipulate it to keep others under his control. When he sees Sirena bite a man's ear off he decides that he wants her to be his heir. Sirena, quite frankly, does not want to be anyone's heir, but Zephyr doesn't care what anyone else wants.
I'm curious: fellow writers, on a totally normal day in your life, how much writing do you do? (or think you do, if you're not sure). This isn't for anyone to brag or show off; I'm really just thinking how most of us are busy with other Life Stuff, even if your job is/involves writing full time, and i'm interested in how that effects the realistic daily output.
"Writer" here applies to anyone who does any kind of writing, from original to fanfic to academic to journalism to blogging to content creation. Even if you don't write daily, think about how much you could reasonably get done in an average day.
"Normal" is a day when you're doing whatever you would usually do with your time and not if you have a lot of free time/energy to spend on writing, or when you're in a frenzy of inspiration or in writer's block etc.
Writers, how much do you usually write in a normal day?
less than 500 words
500–999
1,000–1,499
1,500–1,999
2,000–2,499
2,500–2,999
3,000–3,499
3,500–3,999
4,000–4,499
4,500–5,000
More than 5,000 words
Not a writer / don't track words / results / infinite nuance
i’ve been writing for almost my whole life and i gotta tell you. if i only stuck with the stories people “wanted” to read, or wrote the things i thought other people would like, i would have quit ten years ago. go make some self-indulgent nonsense your soul will thank you for it
[ID: Photo of a road going into a tunnel entrance. A truck has crashed into the hill next to the entrance. The entrance is labeled "the vague outline i managed to create for my book." The truck is labeled "me by chapter 2." The image is signed @ _ADWills. End ID]
Hey, omegaverse people! Any ideas for terms for in-universe sexualities like an omega who is only attracted to other omegas or an alpha only attracted to other alphas? Or should I maybe just give up on trying to come up with in-universe terms and just go with real-world ones like gay, since attraction is based on secondary genders in this thing I'm working on, so a male alpha attracted to a male omega is technically straight, I fucking guess
How would one go about making an intersex character
That's a big question, and I want to emphasize that I'm only one person, and I can only speak for my own personal experiences. There is no one-size-fits-all guide to this sort of thing.
My advice is therefore the same as it would be for writing any character whose identity you don't share:
Understand that you might fuck it up, but don't let it stop you from trying. No group is a monolith, and what resonates with one member of a group might be considered shitty representation by another member of that group. You're never going to make everyone happy, so instead of trying to make the "perfect representation," try to approach things with the mindset that nothing will ever be perfect. The goal is to have a wide variety of respectful representation, not create the Perfect Rep.
Engage with media created by people who share the identity you want to represent. You can't write a respectful piece of representation if you don't know how anyone in that group is representing themself.
Research activism connected to the identity you want to represent. What are the offensive stereotypes you should avoid? What kinds of sociopolitical issues affect this group of people? Are there any organizations dedicated to activism and support for this group, and have those organizations made any resources for allies?
Work with a sensitivity consultant, and preferably more than one if you can. Many people do this as a paid service, but there are plenty of people who are willing to arrange some kind of trade if financial hardship is an issue. If you absolutely cannot manage to get a consultant for whatever reason, doing your own research becomes even more important.
Since you asked about intersex representation specifically, let me help you get started with some relevant links:
InterAct's Intersex FAQ
InterAct's collection of informative brochures & guides
Intersex Human Rights Australia: Celebrating Intersex Firsts on TV
JSTOR: Intersex Narratives: Shifts in the Representation of Intersex Lives in North American Literature and Popular Culture, by Viola Amato
Human Rights Campaign: Understanding the Intersex Community
what’s the longest Single work you’ve written? can be unfinished, has to be something done of your own volition not an assignment for school/work (but can be creative or something like an essay)
So, You Want to Write Original Fiction and Post It Online? Here's What to Expect.
I finally saw a post that pushed me over the edge of talking about this subject, because a lot of people go into posting their original fiction online and they end up extremely burned out and disappointed because their ambitions did not line up with reality.
To be clear, posting original fiction can be one of the most fulfilling experiences that you can have as an internet denizen (it certainly has been for me!) and I absolutely encourage everyone who wants to to try it, but like, at the same time I think everyone should know what they are getting into. I’d like to cover here what your goals might be for getting into web serial writing, and what a realistic level to set those goals at is, as well as some tips on how to meet them. This isn’t so much as a how-to or concrete advice, it’s more like “lessons I’ve learned (or seen other people learn) the hard way but that I rarely see talked about frankly.”
Before we begin, just so you know where I’m coming from (and so you can decide if I’m worth listening to) here are my bona fides
I have been posting fiction online since 2018, nearly 2 million words total. It can be read on ao3/royalroad
About half of what i’ve written is original fiction and half is fanfic
I write things that you might generously call “extremely niche”
My total audience (which i’m broadly defining as “people who have read a significant part of either of my major series”) is probably on the order of 500 people. this is a difficult/impossible metric to really track, but you can make fairly accurate guesses from view counts
I am friends with some moderately successful web serial writers (moderately successful here defined as “makes enough money via patreon that it affects their taxes, but is not enough to live on”)
I have never attempted to traditionally or self publish my work, or monetize it in any way
I try to keep up with the broader web fiction zeitgeist
All that is to say, I have been there in the webfiction trenches.
Through this guide, I will be using numbers pulled from the statistics pages of my own stories (and those of friends) to back up some of the conclusions that I’m drawing. I do believe the statements i make are illustrative of broad trends, but do keep in mind that I am one person with one experience, and everyone’s experience will differ.
With that out of the way, I think the most important thing before you post your writing online is to understand what you’re trying to achieve. If you understand that, you can manage what you’re actually expecting much more closely. Here are some super common goals/desires that people posting web fiction can have.
I want to have as many people as possible just read my work (but I do not care about engagement or monetary gain)
I want to have an audience that I can talk to and who talks to me; writing is about sharing a part of myself and I would like to be friends with my audience/connect with them.
I want to improve my writing with reader feedback.
I want to improve my writing by figuring out what readers like and tailoring my writing to them.
I want to make money off of my writing via patreon.
I want to test the waters before I self-publish my book, and maybe gain an audience who will purchase my books.
I want to test to see if my writing is “publication worthy” by posting it online and seeing how it does.
I want to test myself and my ability to complete a long form story/project; having an audience will be motivation to keep at it.
I’m not doing anything else with this piece of writing that I have, so I might as well post it and see if people like it.
If any of this sounds like you, read on! I'm putting the rest of this below a cut b/c it's disgustingly long.
I will be brutally honest here: some of these goals and desires are much easier to achieve than others. I’m going to break these motivations down into a couple broader categories: popularity, reader engagement, publishing, financial, and intrinsic.
Popularity
On some levels, this is the simplest metric. It’s pretty easy to count things— views, followers, comments, reviews, etc— and all of this is so good for the “number goes up” reward button in our monkey-brains.
If you do not care about engagement, and only care about view counts, it’s actually pretty easy to rack up views. But that is only the case if you really, honestly, truly do not care about comments. Here are some statistics from my own work
On royalroad, my story ItSoH has ~160,000 pageviews and 711 comments (a 225:1 hit:comment ratio). Keep in mind that many of those comments are also my own replies or copy/paste “thanks for the chapter” messages— I reply to every substantive comment)
On scribblehub, the same story has ~10,000 pageviews and 6 comments (a 1666:1 hit:comment ratio!). Granted, i’ve never been truly active on SH and only crosspost there for kicks, but still!
Views are very very cheap as a metric, and it can feel really dispiriting to have a big viewcount and a much smaller amount of audience engagement.
The things to understand if you are writing to be popular
You need to know what metrics mean (how they are tracked by the website you’re posting on, how they are used by your audience, how much they actually tell you) and how they relate to each other (what are the typical ratios between hits/comments/follows/likes/financial support)
If you are hooked on watching the numbers go up, there is not going to be a time when you feel satiated by the metrics. It’s always going to be a jolt of good feeling when they go up, and when they stagnate it feels bad. This is unavoidable and just how brains work.
If popularity is your only goal, you can tailor your work specifically to gain an audience
Luck has a lot to do with it, unfortunately.
Here are some tips about popularity.
Location, location, location. If you are posting on the wrong website, you are shooting yourself in the foot.
Every website has a niche, but not every niche has a website. If you want to write BL, you need to be somewhere like Tapas. If you want to write progression fantasy: royalroad. Fantasy erotica for men: literotica. TeenLit: probably wattpad. Hard sf: spacebattles or sufficientvelocity. Asian light novel inspired stuff: webnovel. Etc etc etc. there are many many many websites, and each of them has managed to snag a different audience who go there looking for the type of content on that website.
You should be reading the content that you want to write, and you should be posting in the place where you are reading.
Not All Websites Are Created Equal, and there may be reasons to choose one over another, or to crosspost in only a few places. i will ditch a website if their UI/UX frustrates me (and many of them do). The statistics and metrics that different websites offer vary greatly, as do the ways in which site users interact with your content. Some websites will have active author communities, others won’t. The ways readers discover your content can vary greatly between platforms as well. Some websites have built in monetization systems that affect the way stories are read (thinking of webnovel and tapas specifically here). It’s all over the place. Once you find a home, you can dig deep into what works there.
A note on hosting your own website: you make the major tradeoff of control to discoverability. (+ you have to put time and effort into creating and maintaining a website.) if you are willing to make that tradeoff, godspeed, but it is not going to do anything for increasing your readership, especially at the beginning before word of mouth can carry you
You should be reading the popular stories on the website that you are posting on, and figuring out what the common denominator is that makes them popular (usually this will be pretty easy to figure out)
Some readers will go to a story that is just parroting out the same thing as everyone else, but it can really help to have some sort of unique twist
Tailor your writing to match site expectations. If the average chapter length of popular novels is 1.5k words, do not post 10k word chapters.
Consistent uploads are great; rapid uploads are better (usually). If you can post three times a week, you will have a /massive/ edge over someone who posts once a month
Every website will have its own scheme for ranking stories: figure out what it is and what the best way is to game it.
Some websites have too many authors and not enough readers, and/or no easy way for readers to find your work. Wattpad is especially heinous in terms of discoverability. Avoid these places, or at least don’t make them your primary platform.
Being affable and friendly and participating in a community can help you get your foot in the door, but it probably will not be the thing that skyrockets you to fame. But it’s also just good to be part of a community so i do recommend doing this anyway.
Explicit self promotion almost never gets you anywhere. Paying for in-house advertisements, if you’re willing to pay for it, might.
An audience for something else (social media following, writing fanfiction, etc) WILL NOT translate into an audience for your writing. Maybe 1-2% of your social media or other thing followers will click on your writing, though it doesn’t hurt to post the link to it.
This should go without saying, but having a well written summary, a nice cover image, and an interesting title are like. Crucial. These are the only things that a prospective reader will see, so you need to use them to their full ability.
Reader Engagement
Ok. Here’s the tough pill to swallow: reader engagement, be it in the form of comments or reviews, for original web fiction is difficult to get. It’s also, unfortunately, probably the most satisfying thing to have. You will likely have to have a couple hundred clicks for every one comment you get. See the popularity section for some tips on how to get those clicks in the first place.
Some websites are better at being a comment environment than others— an especially noticeable difference is in sites where anonymous commenting is allowed vs needing an account to post— but it also depends heavily on the community culture, which is something that you will just have to feel out.
As always, I suggest being an active reader on the site where you are an active poster, and checking out the ratio on stories you read between hit counts (this info is often public) and comments on new chapters. You may be surprised at what you find.
You can improve reader interaction somewhat— be chatty in your author’s notes, always reply to comments to foster discussion, ask question prompts for readers to answer, solicit suggestions for upcoming plot points, etc. None of these are guarantees, but they are things that you can do that encourage people to talk to you.
I will also be completely honest here: it is way, way, way easier to get reader engagement if you are writing fanfiction (especially on AO3). For one thing, the community culture is vastly different, and the way that readers find your work lends itself to being more active commenting. This is not to dissuade anyone from writing original fiction, but it is a fact of life that I would be remiss if I didn’t mention.
If you are looking for constructive reader feedback (along the lines of actual “here’s how to improve your story” and not “here’s the typos I found in this chapter”), stop, do not pass go, do not collect $200. You are never going to get what you want out of it. If you are looking for constructive criticism, the best thing that you can do is find a trusted friend to beta read for you— ideally someone who you exchange works with. Reader criticism, when you get it, is often not given with your best interests at heart, and a fellow writer will usually understand/express what is working and not working in your story in ways that you can interpret and put into action better than a reader can.
Community and friendships =/= reader engagement, but they are good to have. I have writer friends from my time on royalroad who do not read my work, and whose work I do not read, but are nevertheless very good friends of mine, who have helped me improve as a writer, and have also been invaluable at helping me navigate the web fiction community space. Making connections with other people in a community can help make writing fiction online more satisfying feeling, even if they do not directly read your work. I promise!
[sidenote: ime, the webfiction writing community is a much better place to find writing friends than groups focused on tradpub or selfpub. I think the nature of how public everything is with webfiction helps remove some of the weird… idk… not knowing where you stand wrt everyone else around you. That’s not to say it’s a perfect community (lol) but it meshes with my brain a whole lot better than most other writing communities i’ve participated in. ymmv on that though, especially if you are coming from more traditional writers groups]
Publishing
Big caveat lector: I have never self or traditionally published anything, and I don’t have any particular intention to try. But here are some things I’ve noticed.
Novels =/= web serials. The things that make a web serial good and popular do not always translate into a good novel, and the reverse is also true. Web serials do better when they’re longer; novels typically have a set length (what that length is varys by genre, but you’re rarely going to find a 500k word novel, while web serials of that length are dime a dozen). Of course, you can break your long serial up into shorter light-novel esque volumes, but this comes with its own pain. And you /can/ post a traditional length novel on the web, but with fewer opportunities to post chapters (since there are a limited number of them) that leads to a smaller window to gather and keep an audience.
Also, I think it’s important to be aware that the audience of web fiction readers as a whole and the audience of novel readers are two completely different beasts. (There is also a difference between people who read mainly self published novels and those who read mainly trad pub novels, but that is Beyond The Scope Of This Post.) Web fiction readers will be lenient about things that would never fly in a trad pub book, and sometimes the other way around! The expectations of genre and professionalism are different. So using web serial popularity as a metric for “should I publish” can only get you so far.
Your free web serial audience =/= a paying audience for a self published novel. It can /help/, and sometimes readers will want to support you by buying your book, but there is no guarantee of either of those things. There’s no great way to do it: if you have your entire serial published free online and have a “buy my book to support me”, that’s a voluntary donation your readers are making, so is pretty equivalent to patreon. If you gate off chapters (like have the first half of a serial up and then say “buy my book to read the rest”) be prepared for people to be Pissed at you. Also, if you’re publishing via Amazon, there are rules about how much free content of your book you are allowed to post. Self publishing is an arcane and complicated system, and there are many more people who know much more about it than I do. If you’re serious about self publishing, there are lots of resources out there for you, and it’s just a totally different ball game than web fiction writing, though the two are often connected.
If you intend to traditionally publish your book: maybe don’t post it online. Every piece of advice I’ve read on this subject says that posting your full novel text online makes it extremely hard to get it published. The only exception is if you become massively popular (think andy weir’s the martian. I read that story while it was being serialized way back in like 2011 😅 this is a very ‘i liked it before it was cool’ moment of me :p ). But people who become massively popular in webfic are extremely rare, and also tend to monetize their content in other ways that are not being picked up by traditional publishing (patreon, mostly).
Financial
So, on the topic of monetizing your work. The most common thing that people do is gate off new chapters on patreon for a couple weeks before posting them publicly, but many people also just use their patreon/ko-fi/whatever as a tip jar without offering bonus rewards. There’s benefits and disadvantages to both approaches, but I don’t have the experience to get into it (i have never personally tried to monetize my writing).
But for a second, let me talk numbers. These are examples pulled from my friend unice, who is a pretty popular writer on royalroad. Across her stories, she has ~7000 followers (though probably ~1000 of those are duplicate follows on both stories). Those 7000ish followers translate into ~30 patreon supporters with an income of ~$200/chapter (her patreon info is public, you can check it out here). Her actual readership is likely much higher, since the majority of people who only read stories on royalroad never make an account, and so can’t press the follow button. You can expect a ratio of >100 readers:1 paying customer.
And Unice is a success story!
My friend Nil, who also writes on royalroad, has on the order of ~1500 followers across his two active stories. He has 4 patreon supporters, from whom he makes $8/mo. Also i think one of those is Unice giving him seed money so his patreon is less dire looking. (that’s a protip— people are less likely to pledge to an empty patreon. Always have some seed pledges in there given by a friend.) But his ratio is not actually that different from Unice’s— you need hundreds of readers to get even one paying customer.
This is why i’ve never tried to monetize my anything haha. It would not actually be worth the sadness of trying. And I think that you should be aware of that before you set up any kind of patreon or other monetization scheme. Temper your expectations. If you have a dream of making enough money to live on, you are going to need at bare minimum in the high tens of thousands of readers (not an easy feat by any means).
Intrinsic Motivation & What Posting Your Writing Can Actually Do For You
Look, at the end of the day, you have to be writing for yourself. Writing is a solitary task that takes massive amounts of time and effort, and it is often difficult to get the kind of extrinsic motivators that you’re looking for.
It’s important to keep in mind that a reader’s time and attention are valuable things to them, and although you may be providing them with entertainment, they are also giving you the gift of listening to what you have to say. Attention is not a thing that anyone owes you by virtue of you putting your work out into the world, and feeling like it is will only hurt you in the long run.
It’s a reciprocal relationship. For me, it’s occasionally important to step back and remind myself of that— there are people out there beyond just the numbers who have let me into their lives, even in a small way. If I take into account my total pageviews across ao3 and royalroad, to date about 200,000 hits, and I assume each one of those hits is someone spending 10 minutes reading a chapter— that’s 32 THOUSAND hours that people have collectively spent reading my work, or about 3 ¾ years. Like that’s an almost unimaginable amount of time that people have given to me as a gift, and I’m so ;0; every time I think about it.
Aside from that, if you do write things to consistently publish online, you are going to improve. Even just brute force typing out words into sentences into stories, that WILL make you get better at writing. And web serials are a great place to learn, because the only things at stake are your ego and your time (and while both of those are valuable, hey, they don’t cost anything!). When I first started writing seriously in 2018, I made pretty much every mistake it was at all possible to make, and four years later, I am an unimaginably stronger writer, because of dedicated practice and keeping at it.
I know that I’m kinda a rare breed when it comes to perseverance (admittedly, this is one of those things that will come a lot lot easier to you if you have my flavor of autism lmao), but if you can find whatever the spark is within yourself to keep going, the rewards of writing web fiction are like. Immeasurable.
I feel like I can attribute 95% of the good things in my life right now to writing web serials. It has made me dear friends who i know i will cherish for the rest of my life. It has improved my writing skills beyond what i ever thought possible. It has opened professional doors for me. It has made some of the darkest hours of my life a lot easier to bear, because of having a project that I can cling to and dump nearly endless amounts of time into. It has improved everything about the way I see myself as a person and as an artist. And I’m not even a web serial success story! I’m kinda a flop, except for the fact that I keep on going :p
I know that a lot of things that I’ve said here about audience and money and whatever are pretty dire (they are) but I think it’s important to say those things at the beginning, because going into this without realistic expectations is a way to get burned the fuck out from an artistic project that can be extremely rewarding. I honestly think that if you have a story you want to tell, you should consider writing it as a web serial! I want there to be more of us! Please join me!
Thank you so much for reading my screed; I hope it was helpful. If you think it sounds like I know what I’m talking about, consider reading either of my web serials: A Wheel Inside a Wheel and In the Shadow of Heaven. Also, if you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment and I will do my best to answer.
This is great advice, and makes me want to say that I am so so grateful to everyone who has taken a chance on reading my original work - you didn’t have to do that!!! Thank you for sampling my handcrafted blorbos!!! I write mostly for myself but I also love having an audience even if right now there are like 4 of you!!!! (IYKYK)
I’m also really grateful for fanfic, which has provided me a practice arena in which to, as OP says, make every imaginable mistake; a steady source of encouragement; and uncountable hours of pure fun.
In sum, just feeling sappy and grateful tonight and I can’t wait to write more words and tell more stories, whatever form they end up taking and however many people end up reading them. Maybe I’ll write a web serial!! That sounds fun!! Who knows!!! On this bitch of an earth, at least we are free to make up guys and put them in situations!!! Keep on keepin’ on, everyone.
these are my best friends in the whole world. my anchor when im in a storm. My lighthouse on a stormy night. The definition of i would know him by touch alone. Shout out to the keyboard bumps.
ok new game - if your current writing project (original or fic or whatever) was published tomorrow, what about it would make booktok denounce you as problematic? rb with answers in the tags
“I crush her against me. I want to be part of her. Not just inside her but all around her. I want our rib cages to crack open and our hearts to migrate and merge. I want our cells to braid together like living thread.”
