Working On My Wip For The First Time In 2 Weeks. Screw Homework This Is More Important Right Now

working on my wip for the first time in 2 weeks. screw homework this is more important right now

Nine People I'd Like to Get To Know Better

Rules: answer the questions and tag nine people you'd like to know better.

Thanks @owlsandwich for tagging me! Being obsessed with your own work is so relatable

Last song I listened to:

Vielleicht Vielleicht--the Blumengarten cover

Currently watching:

I guess you can say I'm watching Jujustsu Kaisen and DBZ right now because I was in the middle of watching them a few months ago then got bored and stopped, but I still plan to finish them.

Spicy/savory/sweet:

It's sweet for me! I know it's bad but I can't help but eat sweets every day.

Relationship status:

I've never actually been in a relationship. I'm still looking for someone I click with.

Current obsession:

Those My Little Pony infection AUs on tiktok. They're so creepy I love them.

I'm soft tagging @inkovert @marz-writes-shit @squarebracket-trick @that-chibi-writer @missionsparrow @friendlyshaped @bluberimufim @owl-writing @silviathebard No pressure to respond

It’s been one day and now I don’t think I can stop this from happening so I need someone to tell me RIGHT NOW if this is actually genius or if I’m just delusion. So here’s how I got to this point.

The core group of my wip is 5 witches: Daron, the leader; Catalina, the mom friend; Aria, the feisty one; Naomi, the soft girl; and Cassidy, the adventurous one. By the time I got to Cassidy I started runnjng out of personality traits so she ended up being pretty similar to Aria.

I originally only planned for her interactions within the group to be with Naomi, who’s her best friend, and Daron, who she looks up to. But after finishing my first draft, I realized that she naturally clashed with Aria a lot because they’re similar headstrong personality and I leaned into it more.

This dynamic is what made me realize they are perfect for each other.

What was SUPPOSED to happen is I introduce a new set of characters and one of them is this horrible guy who is obsessed with Aria, but she hates him because he sucks. Eventually he would get threatened into helping the core group and through doing that becomes a better person. That’s when Aria accepts him. I liked the idea of Aria growing and forgiving and of her humbling herself because he’s a human and she thinks she’s above humans, but this might be more important.

Cassidy was never supposed to be in a relationship, even though she was the one character I made vocal about wanting one. Instead, she dies when the group first meets the villain. This serves the purpose of 1. showing how high the stakes are and 2. giving Naomi an arc where she wants to become stronger

BUT WHAT IF Cassidy never dies. Everyone thinks she does, so Naomi still gets her arc and the stakes are still high because the villain could kill her but is choosing not to. And Cassidy gets the romance she’s always wanted. And we’re happy for more queer characters.

Thoughts??

My brain is about to explode because I had the revelation last night that two of my main characters are very shipable. I’m so serious I went to sleep thinking about them and then woke up thinking about them. I want to explore this but the problem is I’ve been planning for years to put one character in a different relationship and kill the other. Now I ask myself am I willing to upend major parts of my story for the sake of romance. Probably.

I just decided to kill my most likable character. I’m so evil for this

I’m putting good use to my Africana and African American Studies minor because a few weeks ago I wrote a scene in We Faceless Folk where Rachel stops at a grocery store by Chinwe’s house to buy her mom a cake.

But I learned in a lecture this week that most Black neighborhoods in the U.S. have way too many liquor stores and not enough grocery stores.

So now I’m going to change this scene to draw attention our reality. I’m still figuring out what to do with it but I think I want her to look at a map on her phone to find grocery stores and seeing none in that area before driving over.

Make Me Write Tag Game

Thanks @missionsparrow for tagging me. I've never seen this one before and it looks so fun!

I'm gently tagging @marz-writes-shit @i-can-even-burn-salad @squarebracket-trick and I'll leave an open tag for anyone else

The rules are: Make a 24hr poll using the titles of every WIP you want to or are currently working on. If you only have one WIP then still go ahead and make the poll for the numbers. Whichever WIP gets the most votes tally the votes and write that many lines or sentences! For example, if a title gets twenty votes, then write twenty sentences.

I only have 2 WIPs so the choice is pretty intense here.