#writer milestone

[originalheroluck]

[lady-angst]

I wrote my first smut today as part of a drabble-doodle exchange between me and a friend, so I can finally cross that off my fanfic writer bucket list! Yay!

But also, whoa. Just whoa.

Mad respect to everyone who writes smut on the regular, because holy hell was that hard.

...pun intended.

[lobelliah]

100 FOLLOWERS!!!!

Y'all this post is so overdue! I didn't realize I hit 100 followers!

It's not that I was ungrateful or thought that it wasn't enough. I did look at my account activity all the time and see that I have new followers but I didn't realize it got that high. I was just excited to actually get a new follower.

I have a full time job that I honestly hate, and I just want to go home at the end of the day and pretend my life doesn't suck. My life is also hard and a mess, I'm always thinking about how to make it better somehow. It plagues my mind most of the day unfortunately. Writing is one of my hobbies and I look forward to indulging in my hobbies whenever I can, because it's the only way for me to feel like a person.

I was also so focused on getting my stories out, enjoying writing when I can, and getting all my ideas down it didn't register in my head I reached my first milestone.

I'm happy! I'm so so happy! It's a small thing for a lot of people but this means so much to me.

I am so appreciative of everyone who took time out of their day to give my writing a chance. I've been wanting to write and post for years but I didn't think that I would make anything good. I thought I would hype myself up to a point to where if I didn't get enough attention I would get really upset with myself thinking I wasn't good enough.

This was honestly really scary for me but I don't feel fear anymore. I have developed better habits to keep myself going. My day is easier to get through knowing I have another thing to look forward to. And knowing I have people who just leave a like is a wonderful feeling, but having followers is so damn euphoric.

I've got so much more planned and I'm going to keep giving it my all.

So thank you to my current followers for supporting me. And to my future followers who took the time to read this old post, welcome and thank you to you to!

[pearlypairings]

❤️-hellfire camping!

this one was a cute little writing exercise with a prompt from Losty when I was feeling creatively stunted. Just a cute Eddie-led camping trip (punishment xP) for the Hellfire club.

❤️ here's a bit of silly dialogue from post-Eddie rallying speech:

Lucas perched up on his feet first, squatting above the dirt floor and leaning to grab Gareth’s shoulder next to him. “Let’s go grab some sustenance from the van–uh, wagon.” Their hands slipped into a tight grip, so Lucas could help pull Gareth up onto his feet. “Alright, man, let’s go get those s’mores.” Eddie looked about as pleased as punch at his underlings, breaking into a wide smile. He spoke in a deeper baritone, making the devil horn sign. “For Hellfire.” In unison, Gareth and Lucas replied with a nod, repeating the call. “To the fires of the abyss.”

take a dip in my asks, too....the water's just fine :)

200k Celebration WIP game

[pearlypairings]

🎬 for there's a light please!! 🫶

my latest hyperfixation, omg! appreciate the ask for our shy new pairing jonathan x chrissy <3

🎬 Here's the last lines I've written for the next chapter:

“That’s because you’re not funny.” Jonathan said with a smirk. “And she’s nice.” Eric fell off the counter, sputtering on weak knees. “Are you seriously unwell? Do we need to tell Jerry to call an ambulance?” “I’m allowed to say someone’s nice.” Eric threw his hand over his mouth and paced the length of the concession counter. “Sure, you could say, ‘getting out of work early is nice’, or ‘wow, Jerry didn’t put me on the weekday graveyard shift, he’s being nice.’  But you saying a cheerleader, nay—prissy Chrissy, from your grade is nice like that’s your standard operating procedure. No, that's called insane.”

mwahahaha the chapter is so fun, I can't wait to make final edits and post!

200k Celebration WIP Ask post

[the-loosest-moose]

Woohoo!

[shirleycarlton]

Personal AO3 milestone

I just reached a thousand bookmarks on AO3! Which means that, a THOUSAND times, someone on this world has thought, “I want to be able to find this fic by ShirleyCarlton back later” and hit ‘bookmark’.

I’m a little speechless right now.

All I can say is thanks, you guys.

[worldofcopperwings]

My AO3 word count has exceeded 300,000 words.

Three. Hundred. Thousand. Words.

I posted my first fic on AO3 on April 21st, 2017, 272 days ago. Which means I’ve written 300k words in less than nine months. That’s roughly 33k words per month, or about 1.1k words per day. 

Whoa.