You Write Sadness Very Well! I Literally Felt Everything The Reader Goes Through Emotionally I Hope She

You write sadness very well! ☹️ I literally felt everything the reader goes through emotionally 💔 I hope she doesn’t give in to Ari’s cheap redemption. I hope she’s emotionally strong to not give in too easily

HONESTLY SO TRUE !!! there's no way she should forgive Ari right away, and i think that they both need to grow a little more - reader needs to learn to love herself, while Ari needs to learn to love her, and that there are consequences to mistakes, you know? profound ones, too.

ahh and thank you so much! i was so scared updating that it wouldn't be angsty enough... haha

super excited for the next part when the unrequited love is essentially switched hehe

Trick or treat! 🎃

treat! (this d4 is working against me lol)

a little Dragonsong excerpt

Enya’s voice twined into the song, loud and clear from her position on Isi’s shoulders. A chill ran down Isi’s spine and spread over her whole body. Enya’s song was equal parts haunting and sweet, and entirely unlike anything else Isi knew. Even though she’d heard it before, it was… indescribable. The air seemed to crackle. Joy bubbled up inside her chest. The music seemed to find a place inside her she hadn’t known was empty until today, flowing in and filling it up to overflowing. She tipped her head back and grinned as she hummed, letting the song wash over her.

Additionally, caught in the midst of constantly forced to choose a side, Asian Americans are not able to attain a space to grieve their loss or erasure: they are either placed in neat categories of victim or perpetrator, but never victim and perpetrator, and thus are unable to come to terms with what they have lost.

Hey there!

You hoax series is damn good.

Just wanted to appreciate your work.

Btw hkw many parts are you planning to write?

ahhh hiii! and thank you! i think as of right now, hoax might have 4-6 parts to it. we're in the midst of all the angst right now, but hopefully it'll get better from here! (at least after a bit more angst at least...)

this may just be me - but i realize how important support and validation is in writing. and now the affirmations where people read your work and say it's amazing.

that's great too, but i mean the direct support of your family and writer friends telling you that you can do it when you believe you can't. when you're about to slip into that space of insecurity, wondering, should i really do this? your family members tell you, yes, i told you that you shouldn't have done it, that you would regret it.

support is so, so important. and it shouldn't be half-assed, because our insecurity can latch onto that, too. and this isn't just for people who want to be full-time writers, but all writers, because anyone who writes is a writer.

but it hurts when the people closest to you don't understand how you feel. don't understand the frustration that sometimes comes with having writers' block, the joy of finding a character's origins, their turning point, their growth.

i still get messages from my loved ones: are you still doing this? is this the route you want to go? and it hurts, because i feel like they don't have faith in me, like they're watching a car go at 120 mph or something and waiting for it to create an accident.

but i can't let go of this. i crave writing, i think about it even when i can't write, and i miss the nostalgia of getting words on the page.

so don't give up. you can do it, you can be it. i believe in you, genuinely.