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dallonwrites · 1 year
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reading my old life cycle of massive stars writing and then reading my old revelations, revelations. whichever one i work on in march will be a battle of the hyperfixations
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kohakhearts · 10 months
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realized i think i forgot to pause my patreon billing cycle for july (and looking at my page now i think...i also forgot to do it in march) so im sorry to anyone who was charged and wasnt expecting it. its time for me to accept that i will be taking much longer with this book than i’d anticipated so for now i’ve unpublished my page and will relaunch once osf is ready to be shared, which definitely won’t be in september like i’d hoped :(
thankfully, osa and oes aren’t going anywhere! :’) but mark my words. i Will be back one day
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insecateur · 2 years
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i haven’t drawn as much slawcs art as you would think outside of the chapter covers and it makes me sad tbh... not to mention some of it is so old by this point on account of the fic being fucking almost 9 years old
i do like this one from last year tho
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wander-wren · 1 year
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so, this is nice to see. like. sometimes it just feels like i’m not accomplishing anything, right
my ao3 wordcount for 2022, as of today:
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that doesn’t include at least 120k of original stuff, if somewhat sleep-deprived memory serves. that doesn’t count the 20k oneshot rotting while i put off finishing the last scene, or the 60k fic that’s just getting started. it doesn’t include ideas i started and pushed aside halfway through.
i hate to risk sounding like i’m bragging but damn. it’s not a lot. it’s not anything, to most people, especially being that it’s free labor.
but that’s half a million words there, easy, and i know all of them are good. i have faith in my competence.
whatever else comes out of this year, i did that much. and i know wren from last november wouldn’t have dreamed of a 500k year, let alone a 500k year i wasn’t even trying to pull. the only person i ever have to impress is my former self, right?
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mangoisms · 10 months
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re last rb LMAO i mean all the ideas in my head are just so Big. like long form projects. that’s my default. which is fine! but it’s also A Lot. the arañita wip is even bigger like just so massive especially if i do decide to add a third fic. which i. yeah. will probably do. so that’s three fics there already 😭😭😭😭😭 so it’s my main focus especially after wanting to write it for SOOOO long but… Ywah. too much stuff going on up here 😵‍💫
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hanna-writes · 6 months
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Ah fuck it, I guess I’ll do nano this year
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silent-creed · 2 years
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Did that thing I always do and wrote for a different WIP than the one I planned to work on this Camp NaNo. Not necessarily a bad thing.
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writeblrfantasy · 2 months
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i definitely want to do camp nano this year and commit to solid, routine updates. when i'm drafting i tend to go into my hobbit hole and not come out, not share anything with anyone until the entire draft is done, but i'd like to get back to the days (2020/2021 writeblr how i miss you) of sharing my progress and connecting with the other writers participating in camp nano. so if you're participating in either this year, give me a shout!
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nanowrimo · 11 months
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NaNo Interview: 2023 Camp Designer Elizabeth Goss
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Camp NaNoWriMo is almost here! You’ve probably already seen the beautiful papercut inspired designs in our shop. Today, we’ve interviewed our graphic design Elizabeth Goss about her project!
Q: Your design for Camp this year is unique: it's our first time working with a papercut artist! Can you tell us a little about your history with papercut, and how you got started in this art form?
In college, I had to create a cut paper animation inspired by the work of Lotte Reiniger. I fell in love with the process of papercutting. I’ve gone through several style changes over the years, but I’ve been cutting paper since that project.
Q: What was the trickiest element of the process for you? What was the most fun?
I really enjoyed this whole process. It was wonderful to have so much creative freedom. The trickiest part was wanting to turn all my sketches into final art! That’s pretty unusual. I may try to finish a few pieces over the summer, just for myself.
Q: NaNoWriMo is all about challenging ourselves to take on the sometimes painstaking work of writing and editing. What parallels do you see between noveling and papercutting?
I think there are some powerful parallels between writing a novel and papercutting. Whether you’re working with words or paper, it takes tremendous patience and persistence to create a finished work that matches the vision in your head. I also think both processes require a little audacity. It takes courage to bring something into existence and even greater daring to share that precious creation with strangers.
Q: If your papercut practice was a sandwich, what kind of sandwich would it be?
Oh, what a fun question! If my papercutting were a sandwich, it would be a grilled cheese—simple ingredients, endless creative possibilities. Papercutting is a wonderfully accessible art form. It doesn't require specialized or expensive tools, just paper and something to cut with, yet you can create an enormous variety of work. I love a classic grilled cheese sandwich, but I appreciate that, if the mood takes me, I can throw in some caramelized onions or pesto and enjoy something totally different and delicious. Papercutting is the same way. It offers endless variations and styles to explore.
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Elizabeth Goss is an illustrator, author, and papercutter based in the Pacific Northwest. Her first picture book My Way West: Real Kids Traveling the Oregon and California Trails (West Margin Press, 2021) won the Paterson Prize for Books for Young People. Her new picture book, All About Nothing (Charlesbridge, 2023) is a collaboration with decorated children’s author Elizabeth Rusch and celebrates all the positives of negative space.
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radiowrites · 4 months
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2023 Writer Year-In-Review
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Hi, I’m RaisedonRadio & FortressofmyPast on AO3 and FF.net. This is an on-going tradition since 2015. Check out my past year-end posts: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015.
Tagging a few, but if you come across this, consider it an open tag! You’re welcome to tag me back, I’d love to read it!
@writercorianarose @shesailsships @talesofsorrowandofruin @azdesertwillow @goneahead @littlemissfandomworld @dreams-of-kalopsia @halleyuhm
Big change for me compared to last year—in addition to NaNoWriMo, I actually posted fanfics! I tried to add some new questions to this year’s edition, I hope they might even move out of my tiny circle.
Total Word Counts: 51,920 for 2023 NaNoWriMo 15,570 on 2022 NaNoWriMo project 19,193 for July 2023 Camp NaNoWriMo (mostly fanfics) 28,310 in published fanfics (this number is overlapping with camp nano, I wasn’t paying attention, so I’m not going to add everything together)
Total Number Of Completed Works: 10 Total Number of WIPS worked on this year: 10 or so How Many WIPs do you still have: 23
Looking back, did you write more than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you’d expected? I wrote way more than expected! I seriously didn’t think I would do NaNoWriMo again. And I published ten fics! That’s ten more than last year!
Did you take any writing risks this year? The NaNoWriMo project was definitely a risk for me. I basically had an idea and no outline. It was quite a challenge to my perfectionism issues—I had to basically never reread anything and just keep going, fully aware that I can better foreshadow the ideas that came up halfway through in the next rewrite.
Biggest Surprise: I wrote for NaNoWriMo again, which I was pretty sure wouldn't happen lol, and hit the word count, all through discovery writing, and having very little idea where I was going with it.
Biggest Disappointment: I dropped that above mentioned project the moment November ended! I can tell it has potential, hidden in there. I will definitely return to it.
Do you have any writing goals for the new year? I’d love to at least finish the first draft of the 2023 NaNoWriMo project, bringing it to a tentative end so I can actually reread it and go from there. And keep writing fanfic, and maybe even work on the 2022 nanowrimo project…
Fanfiction Questions Below! (if you don’t write fanfiction feel free to skip or rework the questions for your original works.)
Fandoms I’ve written in this year: I wrote fics for 7 different fandoms! For the following kdramas: Island, Tale of the Nine Tailed, Memorist, Royal Secret Agent, W: Two Worlds, May I Help You?, and a little Korean Web drama called Handmade Love.
Your most popular story of the year? That would be Besides You with 327 hits and 47 kudos. However Superhero got the most comment interaction with 4!
The story that was easiest/or most fun to write: I Think He Knows was fun to write! I do just love brooding with a heart of gold formerly immortal male leads.
Hardest story to write: Rescue Me, Superhero, Restore, and Prayers & Promises were four works that I had left for dead, and came back and found them to be basically finished and just needed proofreading. (So just in case anyone wondered how I turned out three of those in like two days: they were actually done and I was hellbent on getting them out of my WIPs list)
Your sweetest story: That would definitely be Superhero. I altered my normal narrative style to better fit the child’s character, and I was really pleased with how it turned out.
Your saddest scene: I feel like I hit a lot of angst this year, but nothing really sad?
The sexiest moment you’ve written this year? *coughs* I wrote five pieces of smut. (Half of my fanfics were smut this year?!) Umm, I’m torn between Beside You and Don’t Blame Me? But also Never Be the Same and Take On Me???
Your favorite tag: (whether you use it the most or just something witty/perfect for the story) My brother announced to me that he reads all my tags (he was trying to embarrass me about one of my smut pieces) so I did a shout out to him in the next fic. He saw it within the day, I was actually impressed.
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Most unintentionally telling story: (have you accidentally or purposefully exposed a detail about yourself?) Religious guilt seems to be a reoccurring tag this year. In all seriousness, not quite sure why, but yet it kinda makes sense? (its complicated lmao) And for some reason not one, but two fics ended with marriage proposals?! (I’m so single.)
Are any of your fics named after/heavily inspired by music? I’m RaisedonRadio and it would be concerning if—checks list—less than 8 of the 10 fics weren’t named after songs, haha! (I’m actually just really bad at naming fics…)
Good To You and Besides You are both songs by the band Marianas Trench, and are heavily inspired by the songs. Rescue Me is by OneRepublic, one of those more vibes than lyrics inspired. I Think He Knows by Taylor Swift was definitely on repeat for that fic, as well as Don't Blame Me. (Poems), Prayers, and Promises was more a steal the name of the song by John Denver, for some reason I think Cold by Corbyn was on repeat when writing that one. Take On Me was named more for the similarities between the MV and the series! Never Be The Same was for the vibes of the song by Camila Cabello but not really the lyrics.
What’s your own favorite story of the year? Maybe it’s cheating but I’m not sure if I can really choose? I know it’s not a common writer sentiment but I really do like them all for different reasons.
Like I churned out Good To You and Besides You within ten days of each other in July, after not writing any fanfic basically for a year and a half.
And then I pulled Rescue Me out of the dead drafts pile and made myself work on more description.
I Think He Knows was my first foray into a brand new fandom.
Don’t Blame Me is one of my rare canon divergence fics.
Restore was another dead draft that I found to be mostly complete, and decide to release into the world even if I knew there was so much more I could have done with it.
Prayers and Promises was not only another new fandom, but for some reason, I decided to write for a side character. It’s still sitting on just 1 hit and that makes it all the better that I really wrote it for myself.
Superhero was out of my comfort zone of writing for a kid’s perspective and I was so happy with how it turned out.
Take On Me was a draft sitting at less than 1k words and I challenged myself to finish it before the new year, and got it done in two days.
And then, to finish it all off with the intense desire to have ten fics under the belt for 2023, I wrote Never Be The Same in less than two days for the last drama I had watched, and the speed that the last two fics were actually finished was a huge change for me.
Fanfiction risks you took this year? I wrote fanfic for not one, but two fandoms that I had to create the first tags for on AO3! Also, as I started to slip into just writing for kdramas this year, I’ve basically become my own proofreader and editor at this point. Any mistakes are my own, lol.
My favorite part of fandom this year: That would be getting two kudos and a comment on I Think He Knows, one of the fics that is the first in its fandom tag. To actually connect with more fans of such a tiny project was so cool!
Thanks for reading and here’s to next year!
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winnieleighwrites · 1 year
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writeblr intro (2023 edition)
hello! i have been part of the writeblr community for over five years, and my last introduction post was back in 2021, so i will be re-introducing myself for the new year!
about me
my name is winnie. i go by she/her pronouns. i’m in my mid-20s and i’m a june cancer. i’m canadian (half-acadian, half-irish). i’m hard-of-hearing and wear hearing aids. i also have three cats with halloween-themed names (salem, male black cat, hallow, female tortie, and boo, female grey tabby).
my writing experience
i have been writing for over a decade now, starting with writing fanfictions. i was previously in a professional writing program in college. i have also written a 100k word-count manuscript after winning the 2018’s NaNoWriMo. is it normal that i haven't been able to write that much for a project since? i don't currently have a wip i'm working on, but i have this intro post i did for a heist book.
my outline progress
check out this post for a more detailed explanation, and check out this tag to see all of my outline progress posts.
my 2023 goals
i want to have five outlined story per month; i have 40 stand-alone story ideas in total, and outlined 3 of those so far. this should take eight months max.
i will participate in April’s Camp NaNo to zero draft an outlined stand-alone.
i will participate in July’s Camp NaNo to zero draft a second outlined stand-alone or finish the zero draft from April.
i will outline my halloween short-story collection in September, and will write the short stories in October in between preparing for NaNoWriMo.
i will participate in November’s NaNoWriMo to zero draft an entirely different outlined stand-alone.
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ladykf-writes · 10 months
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LadyKF's Fic Update(s)!
So, been a while since I updated here... I wanted to let you guys know the upcoming plans now that I'm starting to write again.
I am literally right now working on CH 82 of A Second Chance at Family, the FFXV fixit fic where Eos is saved and the dark future averted more or less by the power of love, mostly familial and platonic with a small dash of romantic. It's plot, politics, lore and headcanon heavy, so be prepared for a RIDE if you start reading it.
It also only has a few more chapters left to write before it's done, which means there's a good chance I will have it done by the end of the month. Camp NaNo is next month, however, and even with ASCAF done I will need another fic to work on.
Believe it or not, I'm in the process of rereading Dog Whistle with full intention of figuring out where to go and writing more with the goal of that fic being the next one for me to finish. I've matured as a writer since 2021 and I expect that will show, so get ready. Obviously if I finish it I will start posting again. I will also start posting if I have a good backlog of finished chapters. REGARDLESS! More fic is coming. That's a promise.
For those who don't know, DW is actually from a batch of soulmate prompts from @snaccksels, who gave me a prompt that led to a sharp canon divergence a mere three weeks after the Nibelheim incident. Much politics, much involvement of "minor" characters, lots of sass and banter and a lot of big flashy fights and action.
When I finish DW, be it sooner or later, I intend to watch the Iron Man series and the first Avenger's movie to get Tony's voice down again and Tony & Bruce's dynamics - I may also watch Ragnarok if I need to nail down Bruce's voice. Why?
Because the next fic in line is It's Not A Game. Yes, it's a bit down the road, but I know there's some fans out there looking forward to it so I wanted to let you know.
The Series, specifically the long FFXV one - Stand By Me (Let Us Defy Fate) - will be picked up either when INAG is done or when November brings NaNoWriMo around. Currently on part three, there will be at least another three parts, and two long ones at that.
Obviously, there's other ones too, such as the OT5 MMO AU, Party of Five, the Threads of Fate semi-novelization, Dewprism: Journey to the [Relic], and the FFVII / FFXV crossover To Save the Future once I can focus on it again and @wandererriha and I both have revisited our plot.
Did you hear about one of the fics you were looking forward to? Let me know in comments, an ask, or a reblog how you feel!
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ashen-crest · 1 year
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nanowrimo!
I’m going to attempt it this year! 
Last Nano I did was for draft 0 of A Rival Most Vial (July 2021 Camp Nano), so let’s continue the trend with draft 0 of The Spirit Well.
I’m now ashen-crest on the site if you want to be buddies!
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sorakazeno · 5 months
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✍️+🍷+✨+😬+😈+⌛️
✍ Do you have a beta reader?
I used to on FF.Net. They read act 20 something to 44. I kept writing the story and realized nothing was getting posted. Turns out I had sent a chapter about a year ago and never heard back. This is why only one chapter was posted of Chaos Theory in 2021 on that site.
I started posting on A03 at this time. So I reached out and told them I was planning on posting the rest of the story by the end of the year which was now complete. Acts 45 to 60. They got back to me right before I posted Act 44. So acts 45 and on do not have a beta. Rebirth did not either. This is why I read everything three times before posting to try to catch as many mistakes as I can.
🍷 Do you drink and write?
Yes. I write or outline. However, I am a total light weight with alcohol and stick to one drink because when I start drinking more than one it makes me really sleepy. Drink of choice is flavored rum and coke. Sometimes white wine.
✨ Give you and your writing a compliment. Go on now. You know you deserve it. 😉
Umm.... I would say my writing style has improved a lot since 2014 when I started Chaos Theory. I've also spend more time brainstorming and developing the story so it makes it easier to write.
😬 Which of your fics would you be most horrified for friends, family, or coworkers to stumble upon?
The ones I wrote under my previous penname that was lost to the internet. I wrote them when was 13 - 15. (26 years ago) Those are on my harrdrive and will remain there. Though... I might have incorporated a few plot points from them into Chaos Theory. Like the Moon Senshi and it gives me ideas on some attack phrases. Rebirth was a complete overhaul of one. So much better too!
😈 Has there been a point in a story where you did something just to be playfully mean to your readers?
100%!!! "This is Only the Beginning" was one giant tease in a way. The cliffhanger where Fighter nearly dies in Act 28. And then I have two that are going to be really bad for this arc. One of them a friend helped me make it even worse! Act 61 has a pretty mean cliffhanger but I have others that I have planned are worse.
⌛ How long does it take you to write a fic, or a chapter?
Ummm. I would guess it takes me a year or two to write an arc. I plan for months and then writing during Camp NaNo or NaNoWriMo which is 50,000 words 3 times a year and have anywhere from 6 to 7 chapters depending on length at the end of the month. The edits after are what kills me.
Currently Act 61 is at 16,941 words with 5 more pages of notes, unedited. So that means fewer chapters will be written this month due to the length since I am focused on wrote count. I could split the chapter up.... but cliffhanger.
Thanks for the questions! I know they ended a lot more wordy than I anticipated.
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mjjune · 1 year
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2022 Writer's Wrapped
So to mimic spotify, I thought I would do a "wrapped" and review everything I did writing-related this year! Since 2021 was pretty... unproductive due to personal crisis reasons, I really made a comeback this year and I'm quite proud <3
Putting it under the cut just so I won't clog your dash lol
Reading:
8 books total
Genres: short stories, paranormal, fantasy, sci-fi, queer ya romance, memoir, comic book
Favorite: She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
Beta read @aritany's amazing peter pan retelling ❤️
Beta read a bipoc fairy tale retelling and a queer fantasy romance with crit swap partners
Writing & Editing:
Novels: 2
Words: ~190k
Hit 1 million words lifetime total for Nano projects!
Participated in Camp Nano and Nanowrimo
AVOF2 draft 0: 125k (72 days)
TWTR draft 0: 65k (33 days)
Genres: paranormal urban fantasy & dark fantasy fairy tale retelling
Edited down AVOF1 from 120k to 102k
Edited AVOF2 Act 1 and got the total down to 118k so far
Alpha reads in progress for both AVOF2 and TWTR!
Final beta reads in progress for AVOF with shortened word count (@jamieanovels, @bebewrites, and @isabellebissonrouthier ❤️)
Querying:
Learned how to write a synopsis & query letter
Made a website
Started querying AVOF
Participated in #PitDark and #MoodPitch and got 2 agent likes!
Rejections: 23 (including 3 from maybe piles ;-;)
Out: 7
Currently in 1 maybe pile
Writeblr Stats:
October: made this blog and started participating in writeblr
Gained 200 followers so far!
Most popular post: TWTR Playlist (click)
Biggest fans: @little-mouse-gardens @isabellebissonrouthier @elijahrichardwrites @spookyceph
Other:
Made my own discord server :3 (message me to join!)
Started twitter
AVOF art commissioned here
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Writeblr Re-Intro version 3!
Hello I'm doing this again because there are new wips. Also new pronouns and a new name (mostly new name, I suppose)
I'm Copper or Julius or dragon or what else you wish to call me, and my pronouns are he/they. I'm queer and neurodivergent and I really, really lik I'me dragons. My main is @copper-dragon-in-disguise, so any likes/reblogs/other assorted interactions will come from there.
Here's my wips, all of them are in the same world unless otherwise stated. Title (with a link to its wip intro if there is one), then draft number in parentheses, then its main tag in the second parentheses with the description/blurb/weirdly ominous sentences below that!
Main WIPs:
Frost & Fire (draft 2) (#wip: frost & fire):
The death of an ancient primordial dragon brings the greatest (if not particularly well known) adventurers of the last centuries together. Enna Helder-Kromlin, half-elf thief and contractor for the crown of Halmond, along with her sister, Anne, leader of the thieves guild Oleski. Anastrannia & Redari Galendel, half-dragon, half-elf siblings, one a shadow ranger and one a shadow sorcerer. They must work together, if not get along, to stop a evil dragon named Dizerdrat from trying to claim the power released by the death for himself, because if he does he could conquer the world—and would.
One of Copper (needs a re intro so no link yet but there will be) (draft 1) (title may change) (#wip: one of copper):
Decades after the events of Frost & Fire, a new age of heroes is ready to start adventuring. Only these heroes weren't exactly willing, nor were they ready. Four envelopes later and they're together, tracking down the weapon of a god and facing off against enemies none of them could fathom three months before.
Silence and Secondhand Souls (draft 0) (#wip: silence and secondhand souls):
Fate is an interesting thing. Some doubt it even exists. Not me. Not anymore. Souls don't rest until they've told their story, and I've got a long way to go yet. My friends are dead and so am I, haunting a narrative I never got a choice in. How exactly did that happen, you ask? Let me start at the beginning. Or the end, rather. I died when I was 21 years old.
There are my other wips + things that are not technically wips but have tags below the cut for length reasons
Other Wips:
Angel's Daughters (Draft ?) (#wip: angel's daughters):
A prequel to Frost & Fire that's about Enna's backstory, based on the DnD campaign I originally played her in.
Starr's Story (draft 1) (this is a placeholder title and will change eventually but i've been saying that for almost a year so...) (#starrs story):
My Camp NaNo April 2022 story. It's about some pirates, a somewhat lost heir to a fallen underwater kingdom (the heir in question being the pirate captain), and an awful lot of secrets.
A Dragon's Apprentice (draft 0) (#wip: a dragon's apprentice):
Another NaNo story, but for the actual November NaNo in 2021 (a challenge which I did not even come close to finishing. Whoops). Also about lost heirs, and by that I mean that the heir got kidnapped and the apprentice wizard had to go and find them with the help of their brother.
Things that are not technically wips but have tags (none of the below are in the same world as the wips above, they all have their own world. mostly.):
Vampire Hunter Steampunk Story (#vampire hunter steampunk story):
Exactly what it says on the tin, except I messed with the rules of what a vampire actually is sooooo *shrugs*. It also may not be entirely steampunk that much. Or at all sometimes. The title is only mildly accurate.
Space story (#space story):
The product of the single time I ventured into sci-fi. The thing I know the most about is that the protagonist is an alien from Pluto. Because I'm me I got sucked down the wormhole of figuring out if she could breathe on earth or how would that work and it was a lot of a wormhole.
Supernatural story (#supernatural story):
Not that supernatural. Dear god no. I would of called it ghost story but that's a different one and besides there aren't any ghosts in this anyway it's vampires and werewolves and one girl who's part fae.
Ghost story (#ghost story):
This one has ghosts in it! May or may not be in the same universe as the above supernatural story, I'm unclear on that.
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