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(author ~ she/her ~ I’ll publish my long fic here!!) LitRPG Progression Fantasy Coming Soon

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when you stop giving a ssh about grammar and aesthetics, you know that idea woke you up at 3am to become peak.

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there’s always that one chapter you think is gonna be too short until you accidentally finish it at 6k words.

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How it started: draft.docs

How it’s going:

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25% tears for the characters I hurt

35% tears for all the wounds I have to remember

40% tears for the readers confused about that one character fighting with half of their ribs broken

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when it’s 3am and you’re writing a masterpiece but then it’s morning and you’re trying to edit that nonsense but then it’s 3am again and you hit publish (kinda proudly even)

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being friends with a writer means they might be hallucinating a whole story while you’re talking to them.

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I work my passion like a job and my job like a passion. so basically I sleep at work and take the night shift to write an extra chapter. I’m rooting for myself fr

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the concept of writing a full outline and never starting on the draft.

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last year, I wrote a one-shot that went viral. it was 10k words that I wrote in two days because I was very inspired.

since then, people have been asking me to write a continuation, but I’m not really inspired, and I don’t want to risk writing a continuation that feels like one of those shows that had a second season only because the producers were greedy.

at the same time, I don’t want to disappoint readers…

what would you do?

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𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐔𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 (𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐖𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐓𝐨 𝐌𝐞)

Bring back illustrations in books.

I want full page art that makes me pause mid-sentence and go “oh.”

Bring back little drawings at the start of chapters. Bring back weird decorative headers. Bring back maps that are slightly confusing but I will stare at them like I’m planning a military campaign anyway.

Where is my glossary. Where is my pronunciation guide. I am tired of guessing. I want to know if I’ve been saying a name wrong for 300 pages so I can feel betrayed properly.

Give me marginalia. Give me fake documents. Letters. Diagrams that look important but are emotionally suspicious. Let the book look like it’s been handled.

Why did we decide everything had to be Just Text. Who voted for this. Show yourself-

I want footnotes that feel like the author is whispering additional lore directly into my ear. I want diagrams that explain nothing and somehow make everything worse.

Give me endpapers with art. Give me symbols that repeat until I start connecting dots like a conspiracy theorist. Give me one illustration halfway through that alters my brain chemistry permanently.

Books used to come with bonus content like they were slightly haunted objects and now we’re just… behaving? No.

If I am committing to 300 pages, I deserve enrichment.

Let the text do things. Let it shift. Let it breathe. Give me a page that’s just one line in the center so I can sit there like I’ve been personally attacked.

We have the technology. We have the printing capabilities. Why are we acting like books have to behave.

Also imagine the DRAMA. A character dies and suddenly the chapter header symbol changes. A map detail you ignored becomes relevant. A little drawing you thought was decorative is actually foreshadowing. Hello???

Anyway this is my formal petition to make books a little more unhinged again. Add the art. Add the maps. Add the weird glossary entries.

This is not a want. This is a need. Publishers, please let books be weird again- I AM BEGGING

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they can’t even train AI on my fics. what are they gonna do? they might as well just give me kudos.

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Anon: CN1 and CN2 might just be best friends.

Me: It wasn’t explicitly said, but they’re in a relationship. That’s why they were assigned to the room with one bed.

Anon: That’s an interesting take. But I think they’re just clingy with each other, not in a romantic way.

Me: That wasn’t a theory. I am the author.

Anon: That doesn’t mean you’re right.

Me: I’m about to make the next chapter very interesting for you.

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I’m now fully convinced that serializing book chapters before finishing the whole thing triggers a curse.

Nothing else explains the irreconcilable details I spot mid-publishing that force me to rewrite every scene I outlined for months.

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My OCs make better choices than me. They should be the real people. I only know what I’m doing when I write them.

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Glad I never ignored a random 3am idea.