#lett vidal

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Looking over my main characters/the arcs I tend to write/the characters I tend to be attracted to writing 200k+ words about, patterns start to emerge (most of which describe me pretty well, ngl). So I'm kinda curious.

Which one of my favorite character traits to write do you vibe with the most?

Feel alone in a crowded room

Want to break the cycle my parents/mentors trapped me in

Have a deep craving for hugs but no idea how to vocalize it

Attracted to people in button-ups

Hardest turn-on is competence/people being really fucking good at things

Really fucking tired of ableism

AutisticTM

Favorite insult is "dipshit"

Voting ended onMar 24, 2024

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I'm in the middle of writing the much-more-serious sequel to my sci-fi novel but I just remembered an aspect of the story and I can't stop giggling.

Everybody meet the group of tiny aliens that, after telepathically bonding with their respective humans, decided to name themselves the following:

Newt

Ziggy

Bean

Pulga (literally "Flea")

The Flush of Color Under Your Cheeks

Linguini

Westaphor, Supreme Overlord of All

Jeff Goldblum

and

Gary (literally an elderly old lady tiny alien)

Fantastic job, guys, all completely normal names.

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

What does it say about me that I have one of the demo theme songs for Power Rangers R.P.M. on my writing playlist for my original scifi dragons v. aliens trilogy?

(That I take Power Rangers very seriously as an inspiration, that's what. Also that while I took character/world-building inspiration from multiple sci-fi /fantasy franchises- including Daybreak, Pacific Rim, Six of Crows, and Power Rangers R.P.M.- if you don't think that some of the biggest character inspirations aren't Ziggy Grover and Scott Truman you can think again.)

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Choose The Next Book I Publish!

Btw, if I don't find a new fandom to get into in the next, oh, couple of weeks, I'm going to go ahead with formatting/editing/publishing my next novel! I'd love for y'all to let me know which of these concepts you would be interested in (all of them are finished & edited manuscripts that just need one final polish/cover design). Whichever one ends WILL be the next book I put out, so choose wisely (or spread to your friends to skew the results, whichever floats your boat).

(Oh, and the "comparisons" here are NOT fanfic-related, it's just to describe the vibes.)

Which book should I publish next?

ex-Chosen one Done With This Shit falls for her ex-rival (CARRY ON x COMMUNITY)

wlw rivals-to-lovers romance ft. autistic college junior who Really Needs Sleep

asexual mc co-pilots dragon avatars against aliens (PACIFIC RIM x POWER RANGERS)

Voting ended onDec 25, 2023

Oh, and if there are any artists who might be interested in making a cover/cover art for a cover, I'm good to commission one! My budget generally runs about 200$ for a cover, so if that's not enough for you, I totally understand, but if you're at all interested, please let me know!

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

we'll all be here forever, or musings on sibling love

Listening to Noah Kahan's song "You're Gonna Go Far" and thinking a lot about siblings today. About how I've moved seventeen hours away from home and how I only see my younger brother twice a year and how we're nothing alike but how he knows me better than anyone else in the world, because our parents got divorced when we were so young and we were the only constants in each other's worlds and how we're mirrors of each other in so many ways and how there is a weight between us because no one knows how to hurt us like each other and about how as an eldest daughter I am protective of him but that he felt like he could never live up to the precedent I set in school (despite the fact that he's exceeded me in so many ways) and how I was always trying to cushion the blow of realizing how our father had failed us to the point where my brother still doesn't know the extent about it despite the fact that we're both adults.

Thinking about how I still love my little brother and always will but how love is shown in the small acts, like learning about sports I don't care about and asking him for country music recommendations because I didn't pay enough attention to him when I was a teenager because I was too focused on myself but I was this thing between a kid and an adult, never enough of one to feel like enough of the other, and how I'm still trying. That I care about these things because I care about him.

I'm thinking about love. I'm thinking about the long car rides to and from our dad's house on dad's weeks and the two of us falling asleep in the car in the morning listening to country music and how it's been thirteen years since our parents got divorced and I'm halfway across the country but I still smile when I see pokemon memes and text them to my brother because love is stored in the road trips and the bonding moments and the things that sucked and the things that hold nostalgia and the things that make you who you are.

I'm thinking about my brother. And I'm thinking about how he'll never know that he's the inspiration behind so many of my younger sibling characters in my writing and how sometimes the greatest evidence of love is something that the other person will never see.

I'm thinking about growing up. I'm thinking about distance and closeness and the bonds that can bend without ever breaking. I'm thinking about love.

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

writing the sequel to my sci-fi dragons v. aliens rom-com and making it basically switch subgenres to a mafia au focusing on a side character from the first book but listening to nearly exclusively country/folk music about revenge to set the mood!