Looking for a Writing Partner
Hello! My name is Caitlin. I have recently returned from long hiatus from tumblr due to intensive schooling, but now I am back and ready to be creative! My current obsession is The Handmaid’s Tale, and I am looking for a writing partner to either do a character based or turn taking collaboration on an OC fanfiction series for this series. I particularly would like to write with a pair where one of us writes the perspective of the handmaid, and the other writes as the wife. Here is the two main premises I am working with:
A Traitorous Compromise
A young lesbian woman is picked up during the battles in Chicago and is sent to become a Handmaid. However, upon her first posting, she finds it impossible to complete the ceremony. She cannot accept the idea of a man invading her body and does everything she can to avoid being seeded by her Commander. When the wife catches on, she takes an interest in the girl, and learning through subtle means that the girl is a gender traitor, she devises a plan to make her handmaid feel more at ease. But it will require getting their Commander to take them to the most sinful place in Gilead... Jezabel’s.
Based on the background shots from Season 1 Episode 8: Jezabel’s 35:00-35:25
Silenced
A Deaf college student attending Gaulladet University in Washington D.C. when it is overthrown by the Gilead Crusades. She is brought in to be a handmaid, and cut off from anyone who speaks her language, inadvertently becomes an inspiration for the vow of silence that brings about the Ring and the Veil. But when she is placed with a sympathetic mistress who attempts to learn her language, she finds access to an underground world where she helps the veiled girls find their voice again.
I am a sign language interpreting student, and as I watched the show, I couldn’t help but wonder what Gilead did with all of the “disabled” people. Certainly they wouldn’t disregard the value of a young fruitful woman for something so simple. This is the tangent world that came about from those musings.
I am also interested in co-writing a more generalized OC plotline withing the Handmaid’s universe. If any of these spark your interest, please hit me up!!! I have extensive experience writing in roleplays and fanfiction for the 100, Hunger Games, The Mortal Instruments, Fringe, and more! You can find examples on my blogs, although I apologize that I don’t have them sorted from my other posts well.
I am so excited to get back in the writing game! My creativity is sparked, and I really need a good collaborator to help kindle it!