You Are What You Write.

You are what you write.

Did you intend on making me feel some sort of pain in my chest? Because for the record, it's currently there and this made me feel some deep shit.

The problem with writing romance, and not specifically romance where the sex happens, but any romance is...

Whether you intend it or not, you're interests are in there. Your desires are laid bare. What you lust for, perhaps, what attracts (and doesn't) certainly but more what you long for in a relationship and what frightens you away from one.

Everyone who reads it will know more about you than you probably want. You will learn more about you than you probably want.

This is true for all writing, but for some reason the intimate nature of relationships (both romantic and not, because you'll find those out too) is a bit more painful to broadcast.

And I am not simply talking about stories where romance is the entire point. I mean any stories with relationship dynamics to deal with.

You smash those dolls together, you have fun breaking hearts, but just remember what little doors in your own you are opening as you do.

Or the realization that you are what you write is going to hit you like a brick.

The afterfire update:

This and the next one are the chapters I've first daydreamed about after finishing the game. Basically, that daydream is the reason why I started writing this fanfic. I feel so happy and solemn in some type of way that finally, after waiting for almost two months, you all can see it too.

Thank you for sticking around, and I promise this is by far not the end of the book.

Are people really... I think humanity is lost

“writing fanfics is something I do in my free time for fun. I will not treat it like a job and will instead treat it like a hobby because that’s what it is.”

also how it feels being a fanfic writer:

EVERBYTE IF YOU HEAR ME, FRICKING DO THIS THANK YOU

Mmm... I think Eric's little crush in the story for the next chapter he will no longer have it 😆 I need Macie and him would start that friendship and collaboration already, I can't wait until he asks if she has a boyfriend, I want the dynamic of friends between them ✨✨ (And more for adding original content so that a character I have for him appears ✨)

I want a funny scene of Macie apologizing for thinking she gave him hope and poor Eric listening to her talk about Jake and how special he is 🤣 someone has to put up with her obsession/Love like a teenage 🤭 And I think Eric will be happy to see her well compared to how she was the last time they spoke 🥺

I need this friendship so much, maybe even a big brother/little sister dynamic 🤭

I need some gut-wretching, sad, traumatizing short stories or headcanons about Jake and Mc to make me sob and finish some headcanons.

Give me recommendations, please.