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Project Update: 12/22/2018

(Don’t judge me for the date, I’m from the US)

It’s been a while since I’ve updated you guys on my projects, but it’s been a rough semester. Now that I’m on break, I have much more time to write. None of the projects I said I was going to work on have really been written, but I’m not too down on myself. As it stands, I’m working on these:

Q-TOWN BOOGIE Q-Town Dance: I changed the title on this one, but the plot remains the same:  Q-Town is about a girl named Nina falling in love with a sweet guitarist named Charlotte, who also goes to her school. It’s a cute little love story with a back arc of learning to pick up the pieces when coming out to your family doesn’t go as planned.

The Happy Ending We Deserve:  “The Happy Endings We Deserve” is a collection of LGBTQIA+ short stories. There are only 5 officially planned, but I might expand it, depending on how long the stories end up being.

If you have any questions, feel free to send asks! I’ll probably talk about them more and put up character information as I go along.

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So I've been in a rut, and just kind of writing to write, but I was going through some pieces of THEWD with a friend, and we discovered that a character I once despised is a little more complex than I thought.

I haven't talked about him in a while, but the character I used to hate is Jackson Wirth, a character from "The Prom". I hated him cause he's a homophobic asshole who is rude to one of my MCs, but after rereading sections he's in, we discovered that he has a lot of internalized homophobia??? Like I didn't plan to write him that way, it just happened.

So guess who has his own side story set after "The Prom" because I'm weak?

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I'm gonna make a new WIP post for THEWD soon. I'm bad with pages cause most of my Tumblr stuff is mobile, but I'll probs link it in my bio

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I’m going to start “Prom” in The Happy Ending We Deserve soon!

“Prom” is about Mira Bernardi, a high school football player, falling in love with her best friend Katie Hillen. But what happens when Jackson Wirth asks Katie to prom before Mira can?

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Excerpt from “The Map”

Tags: @ally-thorne

“Chey?”

Cheyenne froze. Derrick scooted closer to her, throwing an arm over her stomach.

“What’s wrong?”

Cheyenne swallowed. “Nothing.” she said, wincing internally at the sound of her voice. Derrick’s hand came up his thumb running across her cheek.

“Baby,” he said, voice much more alert, “why are you crying?”

“I’m not.”

“Cheyenne.”

The concern in his voice made her stomach hurt. He had enough to worry about without her adding to it. Sitting up, she rubbed her eyes. “Gotta pee.” she muttered, getting up and rushing to the bathroom. She felt bad for avoiding him, but she couldn’t bring herself to tell him was on her mind. She wanted to move with him, but she was terrified. Knowing her boyfriend, if she said told him that, he’d call the whole thing off. Sighing, she scrubbed her face with her hands before using the bathroom. When she was done, she stared at herself in the mirror. Her eyes were slightly red, and her hair was a mess. She frowned at herself before opening the door.

Derrick stood against the wall, just like she knew he would be. He squinted in the light of the bathroom, and she flicked it off. They stood silently in the darkness.

“What’s going on?” he asked.

“Nothing, Der.”

“Is it about the move?”

“No!” she snapped, and instantly regretted it. “No. It’s… a lot of stuff.”

“Like?”

“I’m just overwhelmed, I guess.”

“By?”

“Do we really have to talk about this?”

He sighed. “No, but I wish we would.”

Cheyenne stepped forward, wrapping her arms around him. He hugged her tight, and his warmth made her feel better. His arms were thin and bony, but to her, his hugs were the best. He tipped her head up, kissing her softly. When they parted, he said, “What’s wrong with my girl?”

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I'm supposed to be doing camp but now I really just wanna write the wedding scene for two characters I have that are supposed to get married at some point

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Writer culture is talking to your friends about a character and then getting distracted by the development of a side character and talking to them about that instead for the next few hours.

So anyway, Jackson Wirth from "The Prom" gets his own side story now.

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Me, looking down at the character I’ve created and control with a mere stroke of the keys: Stop being an asshole