Jun 20, 2020
Character Intro - Dakota Winters
Gender: Nonbinary Orientation: Pansexual Age: 29 Likes: Fashion, Sweet Tea, Rain, Cooking, Dislikes: Sour foods, Cleaning, Large Crowds Profession: Amateur Model
WIP - What the Flowers Told Me
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Character Intro - Dakota Winters
Gender: Nonbinary Orientation: Pansexual Age: 29 Likes: Fashion, Sweet Tea, Rain, Cooking, Dislikes: Sour foods, Cleaning, Large Crowds Profession: Amateur Model
WIP - What the Flowers Told Me
Character Intro - Adam Caswell
Gender: Male Orientation: Biromantic Asexual Age: 32 Like: Blankets, Cats, Hot chocolate, Flowers, Gardening Dislikes: Spicy foods, Hot weather, People who don’t turn their lights on when its raining even if it’s only a little bit Profession: Florist
WIP - What the Flowers Told Me
I’m realizing that I’m accidentally setting up What the Flowers Told Me to look like a straight romance and it’s so funny because right before you think the guy and girl are going to fall in love - BOOM, Dakota shows up and the gay ace romance starts instead
North Stitch - the newly started fashion line by Dakota. The small clothing store fills up the last store on the very end of the outlet mall Adam’s flower shop occupies. It’s a gender neutral clothing line with a very open arrangement and minimalistic, modern interior.
Adam’s house is a brightly lit small, and cozy space. Originally owned by an elderly women, Adam saw charm in the old kitchen and painted walls and kept them as they were when he rented it out. There’s only one bedroom, a large living space, and a little kitchen. The furniture is worn but comfortable, and covered in blankets and cat hair from a fluffy Siamese named Princess.
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The Green Room
The flower shop Adam owns and works. It’s one of the many small open shops squished in a line making up an outlet mall off one of the bus streets of the city. A bakery sits on one side of The Green Room with a metaphysical shop on the other. [x][x][x]
NaNo 2021 Reveal: What the Flowers Told Me
Genre: Romance Subgrene: LGBTAQ+ Intended Audience: Adult LGBTAQ+ Fiction
Adam knows a lot about flowers. He should, considering he owns one of the town’s more popular flower shops. He understands their moods, their preferred lighting, differences in soil types, but what he doesn’t understand is Dakota. He knows what the bouquets of sunflowers and forget-me-nots symbolize, but not why Dakota keeps giving them to him. He also doesn’t know how to tell Dakota he’s asexual. Maybe a striped carnation? How about geraniums?
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That’s right, we’re back with another romance! Follow Adam’s confusion around his shop, along with a curious Dakota, as the two try to figure out each other - and their feelings! - through tropes, cliches, and flowers! An asexual romance that’s meant to be lighthearted, a little silly, and a lot of wholesome.
You may remember the title and this year I’m actually putting ideas to paper! All throughout the month of October I’ll be (re)introducing characters, tossing out scenary ideas, and talking about some plot to get ready for November!
so i have the first third of What the Flowers Told Me planned out and I dont know if I want to write it and then see where it takes me or keep outlining. I have a really hard time starting because an empty page, especially the FIRST empty page is so much pressure and I want to put it off for as long as possible but it’ll never get done if I keep waiting around