#maplewrites

[maplewrites]

Today I wrote about being brave when it's hard. I wrote about hopelessness but choosing to use the energy to love people. I also wrote about being hated for who you are (queer, being a girl, being strange, looking different). And still, loving people.

[maplewrites]

Today I wrote about love.

[maplesyrupptarmigan]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Summary:

Katie wanted to be excited. A part of her was. Hang out with her friends, eat food made with love—fun stuff. So what if she had woken up with a nine out of ten on the chronic pain scale? She'd been through worse.

She rubbed her eyes and tried to stretch. I have got to get a stretching routine, she thought. The thought was, thankfully, interrupted by a car pulling up and a person hopping out.

"You good?" Lance asked.

"No, I feel like shit. But otherwise, yeah. I'm fine."

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something different. decided to infodump in the actual notes than in here, although do have things to say about it here.

i think my writing is too dialogue-heavy, and i need to work on actually writing scenes and settings instead of characters and conversations. i enjoy it, and i love writing the way people speak, but it makes the writing feel sparse in my opinion. it works for the kind of really short microfiction stuff that got me back into writing, but i think for more long-form stuff its suffering. a lot of times i want these stories to be longer, but my writing style lends itself more to short forms (this was a slight problem for signals and messages, which were both downsized significantly when i realized i couldn't write as much as i wanted to—strangely, the interludes always seem to end up larger than i anticipated). i'd like my writing to be more dense, which i am trying to work on. anyways

this went for a long time without a proper name. i originally called it microcosms, which is fine, i guess (i'm saving that for something else, now). the lyric title was more of an addition after the fact, but i would like to do more lyric title fics. there are some good lyrics out there.

thanks

[maplewrites]

Sometimes you're writing fanfic and you have to completely redo the characterization of a canon character because the version of them from canon is so poorly done it's not even worth it.

Im making a minor antagonist/mentor worse :) That bitch should be more manipulative.

[maplewrites]

Get to Know Me

Thanks for the tag @writingpotato07 (You tagged my main, that's okay)

Tagging: @toribookworm22, @graveyardescape , and an Open Tag to anyone else.

Relationship Status: Weird

Favourite Colour: Purple

Sweet/Savoury/Spicy: Sweet

Three Favourite Foods: Curry (Chicken Saag),

Song Stuck In My Head: Lake Monsters by They Might Be Giants

Last Song I Listened To: Hey, I don't work here by Tom Cardy

Last Thing I Googled: I was trying to figure out if I should by Sword and Shield or Scarlet and Violet

Last Series I Watched: Doctor Who

Last Movie I Watched: Spirited Away

Currently Reading: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing By Hank Green

Currently Working On: Weird fantasy novel that doesn't really have a plot yet but I'm hoping if I keep thinking and writing about the characters and the world building I'll be able to get a conflict that would last longer than 3 chapters.

Time: 11:05pm

[pointilist]

debating whether or not i should share the fic (check my last post) bc its full of OCs and my friends and their own OCs and i dont think anyone would like it </3

[pointilist]

writing a fic of me and my friend's OCs

god dammit it's just the prologue and its going past 4K words

[maplewrites]

Oops... I forgot to spend time figuring out what I needed to finish writing first. Uhhhh tomorrow, I'll do it tomorrow, definitely.