#gno

[tyra-atm]

#me #girls #camera roll #music #black girls #cute girls #dream #frienship #style #night #gno #girls night out #party #pretty woman #pretty #shes so beautiful #black woman #black hair #black power #black people #hearts #dark #girls night #new year #Spotify

[sohypothetically]

Post 5: Girls Night Out

The stats:

2 years from first published to complete

300,000 words

8 couples (10 if you include Hayffie)

2 main OCs (original characters)

29 pages of outline

So many euphemisms

So much food

So much research

So much research

The fic changed my perception of Gale completely

First person

So, so much smut

Mr. Mellark lives!

If there's one criticism... it might be verbs. Or maybe that the first part feels a little too "crack fic" and ambles too much.

This fic changed my life. It changed how I felt about the fandom, my place in it, and my writing.

Blurb:

Contemporary A/U. Johanna Mason copes with a breakup the only way she knows how: going on a man-hunt. She brings her roommate Katniss Everdeen with her and the rest is frat party history. Rated M for explicit language, sexual innuendo, and general snarkiness. Written for Prompts in Panem Places Challenge, Prompt: Frat House. (Ships: Jo/other, Everlark, Gadge, Odesta)Rated: Fiction M - English - Humor/Romance 

Fanfic.net

A03

GNO Tumblr

For more about the genesis of this fic, read the Tolkien Food Blog description below the cut.

I'm going to apologize because I'm pretty sure my Anon response earlier sounded like sour grapes. Boohoo that I wasn't in the inner circle and that I wasn't regarded as one of the top 50 Everlark authors. So what?

I mention it because I think it's important to understand my headspace when I talk about this next fi. Where it came from and where it led me.

So it was March of 2013. I'm on the periphery of a fandom that was so freaking talented. HGRomance, Atetheredmind, Court81981, Dustwriter, Amelia_Day, DandelionSunset, Fnurfnur, Misshoneywell, Peetasbunmyoven, Annieoakley1, hutchhitched, jhutchmyanchor, Everlark_Pearl, JLaLa, Monroeslittle, Sponsormusings, Xerxia, pookieh, louezem, bleedtoloveher, katnissdoesnotfollowback, streetlightlove, famousfremus... the list of phenomenal Everlarkers went on for days.

We would regularly have something called "Prompts in Panem". (You can check this out at promptsinpanem.tumblr.com.) These were, well, what they sound like. Pre-A03 fic exchanges based on prompts. It ran for a week, with each day having a new prompt. Everlark only. They prompts would release maybe a week in advance? I don't remember how long, but I know that it was a Bacchanalian festival where we would gorge ourselves on all things Everlark. Creative. Full of pressure. The goal was to put out something that people would read and comment on. It was all about buzz. (To be clear, I miss these.)

At the same time, I was reading other bits and pieces outside of Everlark. Whiskeysnarker, who wrote the best Johanna Mason. Hawtsee, one of the best Gadgers. I beta'd for an Odesta author.

PIP started and I knew that there was nothing I had in my quiver that wasn't going to be done 100 times better by every other author in the fandom. I didn't have an angle, and I wanted one. I wanted something that would make for interesting reading. I had no ideas.

So I did what every writer does when experiencing a doubt-spiral. I poured myself a glass of wine. And one glass became two. I cried. Then I got mad, sort of like Katniss when she shoots the apple in the pig's mouth in THG. And I heard a voice in my head berating me stridently for my pity party. That voice became the voice of Johanna Mason for GNO. And let me tell you, she doesn't suffer fools. And she has opinions.

Everlark through the eyes of another? And that person is Johanna? And it starts at a frat party? Hell, yeah.

It was only ever supposed to be a one shot. And then honeylime08 made a comment about wanting more.

The rest is history.

#10 years of fanfic #10 years of fanfiction #sohypothetically writes #GNO

[jasakabratz]

#bratz #cloe #jade #sasha #yasmin #dana #gno

[lolsomeone-actually]

Okok another one here is the full looks (ignore the hair cause tbd)! I wore the gold earrings last year but i think the red has more slay to it, what do you think?🤔

#lol #larissa original #me face #selfie #omg #ootd #personal #happy #yes #slay #fashion nova #amazon #lbd #little black dress #gno #holiday party #party #dress

[stefandstuff]

Friday night 😘

#personal #me #Friday #friyay #gno

[salty-ass]

the girls went out tn and saw shitty boone bands

#real #me + mac #cigs 4 life #gno #boone

[teethpaste]

Time flies and I feel like I’m melting :,,,)

#me #self #selfie #photobooth #girls weekend #GNO #makeup #ootd #drunk #North Carolina #friendship #bff #cute

[checrawford]

Gotta love some creative problem solving

#Dnd #comics #dungeons and dragons #steampunk #train #puzzle #elf #gno #artificer #webtooncanvas #webtoon #the immortal think tank

[jadegrippe]

Digi slay

#film #digi #slay #gno #digital camera

[tyra-atm]

FLY GIRLS ❤️‍🔥

#me #girls #camera roll #black girls #cute girls #california #texas #los angeles #summer #summer time #gno #girls night #girls night out #clubbing #black tumblr #black women #black hair #black people #black love #lgbtq

[a-jeezy]

Funzies🪩✨🥂

#personal #gno #cocktails #night out #scottsdale

[sohypothetically]

May I have a brief fangirl moment?

Give a girl a second over here, cuz I don’t think I’ve ever given a shout out.

You see, I want to thank someone for giving me the gift of words. 

A long, long time ago, I wrote a thing. It’s called Girls Night Out (on Fanfic.net and Archiveofourown.) And I hit a certain outtake. Chapter 38. And it kicked my ass. Hard. Like for awhile. I just couldn’t write it. 

And then I went to a conference and took a class with @shiraglassman, who taught us a little bit about how to write a sex scene. And that class, ya’ll. THAT CLASS. This was maybe 2013? That class  taught me SO MUCH. 

Read her. Follow her. Seriously. I don’t care what you like to read or write, whatever she’s got to say, listen to how she’s saying it. She’s a lady who understands that you have to listen to your characters and they’ll tell you how to handle things in their own words when you get stuck. She had a bunch of other, awesome advice, but this advice -- listen -- has stuck with me.

After I got back, I finished that chapter. I don’t know that I ever sent it to her -- I was too embarrassed because it was fanfic and...well, a lot of other reasons. But it was a great scene that I GOT THROUGH because of her.

She’s awesome. And if I never, ever say thank you, it will bother me forever.

#shira glassman #the queen #how to write a sex scene #magic #GNO #GNO38

[milajmonroe]

Mila decided to go out for the night with her friends. Once she found out she was going to Florez bar later on that day. Mila decided to pack up some of her best pastries in a cute little box to bring for Paco.

She got inside the bar and had told the girls she’d be right back. Mila walked over to the bar and sat down as Paco had his back turned. “ I gotcha something,” she said with a smile while sitting the box on the table and scooting it towards him.

@pacoxflorez

#pacoandmila #para #gno

[lolsomeone-actually]

#thank you #holiday party #formal #fashion nova #slay #fashion #pick #ootd #gno #larissa original #hm #dress #formal dress #party #life #girl #woman #idk #tagging whatever lolll #black dress #velvet dress #little black dress #choose one

[goldenblonde]

GNO 🥂

#goldenblonde #chicago #GNO

[myongoingcrisis]

#girls night #girls night out #gno #espresso martini #bars #aesthetic #my friends #my photo #art #summer #summer nights #night out