Posting my sketchbook for everyone to see. A little thing I still like to do to encourage people to draw.
A reminder why: I draw for fun. People struggle to get into art and are discouraged. I dont post all my mistakes per-say but i will post the less interesting ones to show the hidden parts of art and thats all the practice that isn't normally shared
I want to nurture the idea that art isn't always the grand beautifully made sexy eye catchers. The endless sea of YCHs. It can be all that, but for every piece you see normally posted, there's 20 pages worth of sketches, practice, and time consumed. I will continue posting my sketchbook open
And Hello May!!! The flowers are blooming and I am back from my vacation. Was nearly diverted to Newark, but thank goodness my flight took off on time and landed back home in NY.
I was able to write a little, last night, The Apothecary Bakery 1,278. How did you guys do?
Sorry its taken so long to get round to this but thanks for the tag @wolfstargazer
Rules: In a new post, post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.
1. Remus
2. What if?
3. Slytherin reader x Marauders
4. Not Gryffindor
5. The Five Stages of Grief
6. Grim Place
7. Untitled mini wolfstar
8. Little Regulus scene that I'm not sure what I'm going to do with.
9. Shocking Behaviour
10. Lily
I did not know I had this many mostly finished, half-finished and barely started WIPs.
Some no pressure tags @weirdtinkerbellversion @beautyoftheships @emmamcmath @thedvilsinthedetails @thebibutterflyao3
@welcometololaland you have DONE IT AGAIN. bows down.
Rules: List your WIPs below (if you only write one fic at a time, feel free to include future WIPs/ideas!) then answer the following questions. Then, tag as many people as you have WIPs (or more).
I am humbly here to present my ABSOLUTELY insane WIP list for the Firstprince fandom and tell you a little more about them!
(Also to those who asked about WIP’s in my inbox those answers are coming ~ if anyone has any more questions or wants more ask box is open! I’ll be answering all of those tomorrow instead of (or with) Seven Sentence Sunday!)
Thank you to @welcometololaland for ANOTHER amazing weekend game truly a blast. To @kiwiana-writes @daisymae-12 @orchidscript @happiness-of-the-pursuit @gay-flyboys @rockyroadkylers and @anincompletelist for the tags I LOVED reading all of your words and answers.
If you have prepared yourself, then forge on ;)
1. WIP List
- The Firstprince Files
- The Ties That Bond Us
- Super Six and the Siren’s Call
- Looking for Orion
- Balls to the Wall
- Fifteen Hours Till Forever
- Watermelon Sugar
- Mr. Party Hardy (Mr. Bodypillow AU)
- Mr. Move It Move It (Mr Bodypillow AU)
- Mr. Massage (Mr. Bodypillow AU)
- S.M.U.T.
- No Laughing Matter
- Sweater Weather
- Ground(s) Up
- Delilah
- Minty Fresh
- Beast I’m an Animal
- Mind Over Matter
- [Switchback]
- [World Cup AU]
- [Orchestra AU]
- [Yoga AU]
- [Rugby Video AU]
- [Star Trek AU]
- [Oxford Slut Era AU]
- [Model/mistaken identity AU]
- [Pomodoro Method AU]
And probably more but that’s enough for now lmao
2. Which of your WIP’s is currently the longest?
Definitely Super Six and the Sirens Call. Currently at 48K but over the next two months I think a few of my other multichaps will also match it for length.
3. Which WIP do you expect will end up the longest
The Firstprince Files. The outline for it is 37 chapters long and the first two chapters that are written are clocking in at about 13K right now.
4. Which WIP is your favorite to write/the most enjoyable to write? Why?
Going to go for broke here ~ my co-writes (Super Six and the Sirens Call w/ @read-and-write- and @happiness-of-the-pursuit, [Switchback] w/ @celaestis1, Watermelon Sugar w/ @heybuddy-drabbles, and S.M.U.T. with @affectionatelyrs) have been a BLAST. The words flow, I'm obsessed with the stories, getting to read others words and then add your own and make good soup will always be fun.
Outside of my cowrites? … hmmmm honestly I am obsessed with mystery and plotting out The Firstprince Files was truly a delight, but I enjoy writing all of my fics otherwise I wouldn’t write them.
5. Which WIP do you find the most intimidating to write? Why?
The Ties That Bond Us. It’s a Bond/Q actor AU and there are already SO MANY great ones (and ones being written), and there is an extensive amount of epistolary writing that comes from different authors of articles and media works that need to have a distinct voice in order for the work to really work. I don’t know if I even have a distinct writing voice let alone if I can wear the masks of a bunch of other voices in a convincing way.
6. Which WIP do you experience the most self-doubt about. Why?
Whichever one is currently being written/focused on/about to be posted? It’s not a one size fits all answer, but at the moment I’m writing this it’s my Halloween Huh fic. It’s done and posted- ready to be revealed. I made myself go read it out loud one last time to hear it back (newsflash I hate doing this but I still do it because it helps) and that just made me doubt everything hahaha.
7. Which of your WIP’s will you seek out a beta/sensitivity reader for? Why?
All of them. I always have a beta, I am incapable of posting a non beta’d work I have too much anxiety about it. The Firstprince Files deals with some much heavier themes so I will likely want a sensitivity reader there for those, and Super Six and the Sirens Call has quite a bit of Spanish in it that we have beta’s checking on.
8. Have any of your WIP’s been struck by the curse of writers block?
Yes this is why I have so many … (joking). Yes and no. I will just power through to write a bad section to have words on the page and then come back to fix them later which helps. I have a focused few WIP's that I work on at a time (small rotation inside the big rotation). The rest of these have an outline and a doc and at least a little bit written, but will not receive heavy work on them until I go through what’s first on my internal fic calendar.
What is in the current small rotation? SSASC, Looking for Orion, Watermelon Sugar, [Switchback}, Minty Fresh, my Mr. BodyPillow follow ups, and The Ties That Bond Us is my Nano project this November.
9. Which WIP has your favorite OC? Tell us about them?
At this moment Watermelon Sugar which is a co-write threesome for Threesgiving with @heybuddy-drabbles. Our third member of the threesome is AMAZING and we love them so much and we are very very excited for them to come into everyone else’s world as well.
10. Which WIP is the sexiest?
This is a toss up between [Switchback], [World Cup AU], Watermelon Sugar, and [Pomodoro Method]. We will see when they are finished what I think really takes the cake there.
11. Which WIP is the angstiest?
I mean chapter two of Looking for Orion, but The Firstprince Files has quite a bit of angst. I don’t really write a lot of heavy angst or I haven’t yet we will see if the reception to LFO changes the tide there.
12. Which WIP has the best characterization (in your humble opinion)?
Looking for Orion at the moment, but I’m really hoping that Mind Over Matter takes that one when I have more written on it.
13. Which WIP has the best scene setting (in your humble opinion)?
Oh my, Super Six and the Sirens Call has quest locations that change in a rotation. Truly I can't tell you more but it is SO FUN truly so fun. The Ties That Bond Us also just is jet-setting movie stars in Bond movie locations, stunt training, doing interviews in wild places, and campaigns in larger than life locations. So that is ridiculously fun to write and I hope it is just as fun to read.
14. Which WIP have you worked the hardest on?
Super Six and the Sirens Call. This work has a promo schedule there is art being made, there are docs linked within docs. When I say this became a big brained thing it’s a big brained thing.
15. Which WIP do you have the highest expectations for? Why?
I try not to ever have expectations, it’s better that way I find ~ but based on reaction and excitement (my irl bookclub today made me promise to send them a link) I would say Super Six and the Sirens Call. Outside of that I just hope that if one person likes it then it is doing it’s job which is to create joy. (but internally we all have those fics that we hope do a little better than others for one reason or another. My Mr. Bodypillow follow ups I hope people enjoy, my two longer Multichapter works I am deeply attached to, and Looking for Orion I am currently a bit obessed with and I hope others get obsessed with it too.)
16. Do you dream about any of your WIP’s?
NO I DONT DREAM BUT @happiness-of-the-pursuit LITERALLY DREAMED ABOUT ONE OF MINE THIS WEEK SO I'M COUNTING IT.
17. Do any of your WIP’s have any particular complexities that your other fics don’t?
[Orchestra AU] is meant to be read at pace with the classical pieces that are titled in the top of the chapter which is fun and funky but is going to make pacing HARD. Because people read at different times. + that posting schedule is supposed to mimic the NYC philharmonic concert series performance schedule.
The Firstprince Files has a lot of real world implications for the characters as it is a suspense mystery novel that requires so much research on realistically how things might work or play out.
The Ties That Bond Us is going to have SO Much coding in it for the media chapters and I am now thinking I’m going to do art for it which rip me I guess (hahaha).
[Switchback] has a lot of POV changes which requires a delicate hand to know when to stop and start a perspective
Mind over Matter and No Laughing Matter are meant to be laugh out loud funny and I’m going to need help with both of them for that … truly
A lot of the one shots I struggle with because I want to give the story enough depth while still not expanding them into multichapter works, which is something I struggle with.
18. Which WIP is the funniest or has the most humor?
Reiterating above, Mind over Matter and No Laughing Matter for sure.
19. Do any of your WIPs contain outside POVs or a deep dive on a character other than the main ship? How are you finding that process?
Super Six and the Siren’s Call DOES and it’s SO FUN. Truly it has been a BLAST To get into the heads of these other characters, and flesh out how they see the main ship as well.
The Ties That Bond Us, every other chapter is an outside POV from the media perspective which as I mentioned earlier creates a lot of work for voice and structure.
20. Tell us one thing we don’t know about one or more of your WIPs.
Hmmm some super fast fun ones
- 14 of the WIP’s on this list are MultiChap works
- 4 of them are co-authored works
- The Firstprince Files has been outlined since February of this year and The Ties That Bond Us has been outlined since March. (They are my oldest outlined works but they are also long works).
- 6 of these works are my FirstPrinceWeek works that I will still publish. I got sick and had an “AO3 author note” standard few weeks which put me behind. I do have one FPW fic published so far.
- Balls to the Wall started after a conversation about how criminal it is that Starbucks doesn’t sell the "Off menu but actually on menu now because it is in the app" Medicine Ball Tea in take home form so you can make it yourself when you are sick.
- All of these are for Firstprince but I now have an IRL who told me TODAY that she wants me to write Tarlos so I better get started on finishing all of these.
- [Rugby Video AU] and Ground(s) Up are both based on TikTok’s that I saw and immediately went "ahhhh yes that’s firstprince."
- All of my Mr. BodyPillow follow up’s will have “Mr.” In the name, and the title of the collection is Mr. Ace Alex, though there is a bit of a push for me to rename it the snerdle collection.
- My ask box is open if you want to ask about any of my WIP's :)
And now I will be tagging my entire moot list because I have too many WIP’s (jk but … prepare for the wall of tags) there is no pressure here but this has been a DELIGHT to read through everyone’s and I want to read about a million more!
I just have to share something from this project even though it's not done yet.
That's 50% of the text blocks done. The third part is ready to glue and the fourth isn't even printed yet. It's by far my biggest project and I'm so excited to share it when it's done!
