It's Okay If It Takes A Little Longer Than You Thought.

It's okay if it takes a little longer than you thought.

This is the hardest part of writing! Especially if you do something like, casually make the antagonist a background character in the main character's every day life! Like, yes, this barista never gets MC's order wrong or name misspelled, but it's for REASONS!!!

Or, yes, this seems like such an innocent friendship now, but they don't understand the politics and the machinations around them and neither do you, reader! You will weep later!

it’s so hard to post a snippet and refrain from adding 500 words of context. the need to explain is so strong

Maybe becoming a werewolf wouldn't fix my mental illness but it would fix my Not Being A Werewolf problem

MASTER LIST

The point of this list is to help folks find whatever aspect of my stuff that they like, but faster (bc sometimes we don't have the time to doom scroll forever to find that one scene you want to show your friend).

Villains & Vigilantes

Assorted

First ramble (soft yandere romances in a One Piece meets John Wick setting)

Opposite genre (wtf is the opposite of romance?)

Commercial break (for the series, bc I wasn't thinking)

Characters

Antagonists

Viper (this corpsefucker, right here), (more details)

Mains

Mia (main details)

Nico (main details)

Cora (main details), (speech patterns)

Diesel (main details), (speech patterns)

Supports

The Edge (Dana), (Buck)

Marek (main details), (speech patterns)

Jai (main details), (friendship dynamics), (speech patterns)

Lore

Settings

San Padua (legit side), (criminal underworld)

The Edge

Stories

Mia's Arrival (exploratory, learning Mia's voice)

Timelines

Fan Fiction

MCU

Overwatch

Website Shenanigans

Best practices

Copy (words for website)

Site specific

And so on...

Asks

The Golden Comet (from months ago, I cry pardon)

Updates

Reintroduction

No sacrificing of toddlers to the old gods

Bc none of my hooligans told me not to

Writeblr Things

Emotions don't want to logic

So many details to share

How to find player characters

Intimidating myself

Hacks for being social when you forget how

I am weak

I'll try to add to this every time I add a post, but consistency is troublesome, so please be patient.

What do you write? OC or fan fiction? And what genre of "drabble"?

If it helps, there's a cross over fanfic I got 6 or 7 chapters (depending on how we're counting) into almost 10 yrs ago (??? I think). I'm going back through it and cleaning it up, but I've forbidden myself from reposting annoying until I've finished the whole damn thing.

If/when I manage that, I'll start posting original stuff... But maybe more fan fiction, too? I keep getting ideas.

I hv such an urge to promote my writing on here...but all I have is a short smut drabble on ao3..woe is me...૮ ⸝⸝o̴̶̷᷄ ·̭ o̴̶̷̥᷅⸝⸝ ྀིა

(pspspspsps I am bambidol on ao3)

Hi jadeglas! Do you prefer OC, fanfiction, or a little bit of both?

I for one enjoy writing both, but have been on an Original Story kick for a few months. I’d love to learn more about your supernatural romance if you want to divulge ✨

First, I'm sorry for taking so ever-loving-long to respond to this, but thank you so much for asking in the first place!

Second, the answer is both.

I learned to write via fan fiction (hello being 9 years old and writing yourself into your favorite cartoon show! I'm not the only one who did that, right?), and while OC is harder, it feels more rewarding in certain ways. I still "cheat" tbh, though -- especially with characters. My character creation process tends to be along the lines of:

I need a villain/mentor/bestie for this character right here

Who (other people's fictional characters) do I know who's personality would fit this?

*mentally fusses over finding the perfect personality for a small eternity*

Alright, this person is going to be based on Nori from The Hobbit, but specifically the version of Nori that I read in that one fanfic written by that one writer that I swoon for no matter what they post.

*makes adjustments to the character so they fit the setting and situation*

*continues writing*

It's just faster. It's like wanting to eat muffins. Yes, I COULD make them from scratch, but my free time is limited, so I'll just use store bought this time.

And omg omg omg - I'm about to set up a Master-list post thing on my page so that as I randomly gush about different characters and topics and storylines in my world, it actually remains semi-easy to follow along with the particular parts you're actually interested in!

And thank you so much for the ask again!