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bugs when you lift up a rock
hey man was I don't think it was casual when I knocked you out using a rock
No bro we gotta get down from this mountain so I can loredump about my sudden remembrance of the timeloop I'm stuck in cause you're the only person who'd believe me. Yes bro I have to leave you even more haunted by dying again so it sparks some desperation to find me again like 5 years later. Yes this will repeat because Orpheus looked back yes we will fundamentally change as people but still find eachother either way even if the loop is broken. bro wdym this isnt normal what are you on about
Thrown for a Loop by Sarina Bowen
5 stars
Old enough to fall in love, too young to face the challenges of life! These two epitomized that, and ten years later, have a chance to meet again. Things aren’t easy, old hurts linger, and pain still radiates. The attraction, the pull to each other, that is still front and center, and after a while, they start to have cracks in their resolve. They start to open little pieces to each other. They start to capture some of what they had before. Maturity brings clarity, and after a few more mishaps, they get to solid standing, and the HEA they are finally ready to fully enjoy <3 and one more thing…. “toe pick!!!!”
How do you get past realizing your family doesn't actually know you better than that...despite everything you've said for years
Update on Thrown For A Loop
Hello everyone!
It’s been ... a few months since I’ve talked about this WIP. I wanted to be honest and say a few things:
- I’m still working on this story. I’m not giving it up. I’m still very attached to my OCs and I want to share them and their story with the world.
- If you’ve been following this blog, then you will know that I’ve very recently started a fanfiction. This fandom that I’m writing for, I honestly only remembered it as a passing thought somewhere in the middle of last year. Then it started popping up in my head more frequently, until I began to see flashes of scenes in my head and occasionally fantasise about them. It eventually got to the point where I had enough of those scenes floating around that I thought “why not?” and made a one shot for one of them.
Fast forward to today where I currently have over 43k words written for the first fic in a planned series of 6 stories, about 2 of the next stories in this series planned out in rough detail, the beginnings and endings and bits and pieces of fully fleshed out scenes from the rest of the stories thought up and written down in bullet points, and 20+ pages worth of worldbuilding and main character details and side character backstories and side plots and what-have-you scattered across various documents that I’ve had no other choice but to collectively dedicate to this series because this idea was literally the only thing I daydreamed about for 5 months whenever I was tired and miserable with studying and wanted something fun to get lost in when I went to sleep at night. It just ... it kept growing and growing and growing and now I’m a little bit overwhelmed (but also! excited!! very excited!!! it’s like a drug)
I ... really, really did not expect to fall this deep into a fandom I was in over a decade ago. And since I have all this drive for it right now I want to wrestle with this a little more and get some of the hype out of my system so that maybe I can spend less of my every waking moment thinking about it.
- My plan right now is to complete the first fic in this series before I hop back to this WIP and complete it too. Again, I adore the OCs I’ve created and I don’t want to abandon them, but when I write for them I want to be fully focused on doing it without another story going on in the background.
There is one good thing of note that has come from writing this fic series: my writing style has gotten monumentally better, not to mention my story planning, worldbuilding, and character building skills as well - I am still reeling from all the changes I can see between the writing I’m doing now versus what I had going on in my second draft - and I’m not even half way through this fic yet. By the end of this I’m sure that the quality of my writing will have improved even more, and then I’ll be able to give all of you a story that’s better than it could have been half a year ago and also maybe if I finish this fic that I impulsively started then I just might be able to convince myself that I am in fact capable of finishing something for once in my life
TL:DR: I’m still going to write this story, but I’m going to complete my other story first so it will be a few months before I start talking about this story again. Thank you in advance for your patience.
Taglist for the people who’ve so far responded positively to or reblogged my WIP intro post (this is a very rough taglist, please ask if you want to be added or removed):
@idreamonpaper , @sunnydwrites , @bluewritesbadly , @thewriteblrchronicles , @srazar-left , @elliewritesstories , @majesticduckie , @stellaskia , @writersblockandapotoftea , @ill-write-when-im-dead , @cometworks , @ofvisitorsthefairest, @punkrockpicsandfics , @stephrawlingwrites , @elaynab-writing , @adie-dee , @somegaywritersfactory , @mastery-in-procrastination , @abalonetea , @indecentpause , @lookslikechill , @itsyaboi-fil , @danwriterblr , @writingonesdreams , @thelysstener , @purrfectwriting , @jowriteist , @liesversusjournals
Last Line Tag
I was tagged by @alessia-writes in this post, thank you!
Rules: post the last lines you’ve written and tag other writers
Past the main entrance, shelves wound further into the library, neat and orderly. There had been bookshelves in the dream from the other night. Unlike what she saw, those had been impossibly tall, entire walls of books that branched off into the darkness.
Deep breaths.
You can do this. You have to.
Laila squared her shoulders. The thought stayed with her as she walked toward the shelves.
Tagging: @roll-a-bi20 , @cjjameswriting , @welcometomycerebralcortex , @inexorableblob , @lordkingsmith , @theunubun , @harrybpoetry , @smudged-glasses-writing , @ill-write-when-im-dead , @cosmic-storytelling , @furryarbiterangel , @ecritblr , @owlsofstarlight , @drarrybabes , @lura-wilcox , @purrfectwriting , @this-was-my-2nd-choice-for-a-url , @poetbelieverhere
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11/11/11 Tag
I was tagged by @kaptune in this post, thank you!
I am now exactly half way through the second draft of my WIP Thrown For A Loop, so I feel more comfortable doing one of these.
1. Did you have alternate ideas for your wip that eventually didn’t make it in the story of were exchanged with a better scene? If yes, tell us one or a few that you left out (could be a character too or a name)
A: Oh, I’ve had quite a few of those. Like, I had to rewrite the intro more than a couple times because the first time I started off in the wrong place, then because my main character was info-dumping and making no sense, and then because I mis-characterized my characters and had to write more about them and develop them properly before I could go back and write it again.
I wrote a few scenes that felt off to me because some of them relied on harmful and misinformed troupes, while others were not true to my characters.
I remember at least 2 instances where I actually tried to write scenes that had been inspired by scenes I’d read in books many years ago. For example, there was a scene that I’d based loosely off of something I’d read in a Terry Pratchett book where my main character confided in another because the character she was talking to was so calming and easy to pour her heart out to.
But that didn’t seem to fit somehow, so I flipped the entire thing around. Instead of being calm and happy while confiding in the character, my girl was instead very upset. She was angry! She was scared and confused and frustrated and no one was telling her anything! It was unfair and she made sure to say so! Now that felt more in line with what she’d been going through, especially when a person she didn’t know told her that they’d been looking after her when she’d been so sure that she was all on her own the entire time and then this person showed up late and said all these pretentious things, like how they’ve been trying to help her and how much they cared about her. Of course she blew up. It helped her feel much better after she did, but that’s how it went down and I’m pretty happy with it.
2. Do you have a specific audience in mind for your wip?
A: Teenagers ranging anywhere from 12-18 can read this! :D There’s no cursing or mature themes in it, no violence whatsoever, and it fits pretty well into the general audience category. It’s an urban fantasy adventure, first and foremost.
But I would recommend it specifically for the teenage age-group, because the main character herself is a teenager and deals with the growing pains of being at that age, which hopefully many of them can relate to.
3. Is it important to you that your wip has a moral or a message?
A: I suppose so. I think so. What I’d initially wanted to write for this story was something fun. I’d also wanted to write a story where my main character is wholeheartedly and unapologetically loved, by her friends, by her family, and by all the people who claim they love her.
As I’ve written this story, I find that if there are any messages that I want to reach the readers no matter what, it would be: 1) it’s alright to reach out for help if you need help. You don’t have to climb to some threshold of being “deserving” of help or “proving” yourself worthy. It’s not a bad thing to rely on the people who love you to help you. It doesn’t mean you’re weak. and 2) there’s always more than one kind of strength, some more obscure than others. Look out for them.
4. What kind of relationships do you like writing the most (romantic, platonic, familial, etc.)?
A: I love writing friendships. I’m all about the friendships, I love them so much. I especially love writing friendships between young girls and teenage girls because I never saw that anywhere growing up. I especially want to write about friendships that involve girls who look like me, who are asian like me. And they don’t have to be young girls! I want to write about the friendships between old women, middle aged women, young women, all the women! I want to write lots of this so that there’s more of it in the world!
I love writing healthy family dynamics! I love writing scenes of platonic intimacy. It’s so, so rare for me to read about asian families and poc families where there are healthy family dynamics. I am hungry to write about families that are supportive, loving, happy. I wish I could write faster just so I can write more of them!
I want to write lots of stories where women who look like me fall in love with men who cherish them and are proud of them. Whether the relationships they have are goofy or awkward or competitive or soft, I want to write healthy romances that are based on friendship, respect, and trust that is earned. I want more sweet, wholehearted romances, and I want all of them to have woc.
5. What kind of research have you done for your wip?
1) I remember one fateful day when I researched the fruit festivals that occur in France, particularly the orange festivals in the south of France
2) I’ve learnt a LOT about flowers, like the kinds that grow commonly in northern regions or which can be found during autumn or in the late part of the year, the kinds that can go in tea or can be baked into foodstuff, the kinds that hold special meanings, lots of fun things
3) I asked some questions regarding sensitivity and miscellaneous cultural details to a fellow asian writer to make sure I didn’t do anything particularly upsetting
4) general writing advice like how to make a compelling story narrative, writing dynamic characters, about story beats, how to keep a plot moving, etc.
5) my story takes place in the early 2000′s. I myself am a millenial/gen z hybrid. And yet, I have very hazy memories of this time. I’ve looked through so many, so many, of those “you know you’re a millenial if”, “young millenial aesthetic”, “remember back in 2005 when we had-”, “being born in the 1990s like”, etc. And I’m still not sure if any of it’s helped =_=“
6. If your wip became very successful would you want to make a movie adaptation? why or why not?
A: Heck no. A graphic novel maybe, but a tv or movie adaptation? - absolutely not. I feel like it would have a lot of inaccuracies in how the characters are portrayed, I feel like they’d focus on all the wrong things and none of the right ones, and most importantly I’d be scared that they wouldn’t get the feeling right, because the feeling is very, very important to me.
7. Did you have alternate title ideas for your wip?
A: I don’t believe I did, no. I thought about what to title, a pun came to mind, and that’s what I went with.
8. What has been the hardest part about writing your wip so far?
A: Convincing myself I’m going to finish it. I’ve kept thinking about when I’d finally start posting and if I’d be able to put up with a steady posting schedule and get stressed out thinking about it, and then I’d have to shake myself out of it and keep going. Also worrying that my characters aren’t lovable enough - because I love my characters and I want others to love them too, or that my story isn’t compelling or interesting enough, or most of all that the feeling that I had in mind for the story just isn’t coming through. Like I want this story to be overall light but also an adventure, but what if I’m making it too serious? Or angsty? Or plodding and boring?
9. Do you prefer writing action or description?
A: Description, definitely. ^^” When I write action, I feel like an grade schooler putting one word in front of the other and all of them feel tedious and redundant, like I’m describing basic, boring things. With description I can at least info dump before I refine it later and make it pretty. With action I have to be sparse and smart, I need to know what to cut, when to cut it, and how to do it right. And that makes for a whole different kind of brain exercise.
10. What do you want your readers to come away with after reading your story?
A: A good time. No really, I want them to have happy feelings when they’re done reading my story. I want them to have happy feelings while reading my story, because there’s a lot of fluff and happy things going on in there.
But I also want to write a character who is both timid and strong. I want to write a character who freaks out and cries a lot and is still trying her best and still being very brave, and I want the readers who do stick around to value her because of that. The choices she makes and the thoughts she has are going to be frustrating to read at times, but whether they like her or not I hope they can understand that her strengths all lie in her exceeding her own expectations and her mentally set limits and I hope they can appreciate her for that.
11. What’s your favorite part of your wip? what make you excited to write?
A: I want to write the fluff so bad. I love writing a character who receives so much love from others, who is seen as a love interest and is genuinely treasured. I love writing the friendship scenes, the bonding scenes, all the platonic intimacy. I love that I get to write healthy family relationships in an Asian family, I love that I get to write about friends who love and support each other. And most of all, I love that I can write an anxious and imperfect character who is surrounded by people who accept her as she is, and that I can write her as the heroine of her story - the one who drives the story, the one who makes things happen, the one who has power and agency and a voice in her own narrative. That part makes me happy beyond words.
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And that’s all for me! Here are my questions:
1. If your OC were to meet you in real life, what do you think they’d think of you? Would they like you?
2. Which of your OCs has the most appealing aesthetic vs. which of your OCs has the aesthetic that matches closest to yours?
3. How would you say your story has changed as you’ve written it?
4. Which story troupe(s) do you want to take and flip on its head?
5. Have you ever based an OC off of a song? If so, which song was it?
6. Have you ever read a fanfiction that filled your heart with soulful feelings and quite possibly moved you to tears?
7. Which OC(s) that you’ve ever created would you say is/are the farthest from you in terms of personality? What about intelligence?
8. Which relationship dynamics do you find yourself writing the most often?
9. Pick one: Angst or Fluff
10. Have you ever written a self-insert OC (no shame here - in fact, I love those! A lot!), be it in fanfiction or original fiction? If so, how old were you when you first wrote them?
11. Have you ever written a story based off of a dream? Did it stay true to the dream as you wrote it or had it changed drastically by the end of it?
Tagging all the people on my “like being tagged in tag games” list:
@roll-a-bi20 , @cjjameswriting , @welcometomycerebralcortex , @inexorableblob , @lordkingsmith , @theunubun , @harrybpoetry , @smudged-glasses-writing , @ill-write-when-im-dead , @cosmic-storytelling , @furryarbiterangel , @ecritblr , @owlsofstarlight , @drarrybabes , @lura-wilcox , @purrfectwriting , @this-was-my-2nd-choice-for-a-url , @poetbelieverhere
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