I Got A Bright Idea Of Writing And Binding Book For My Cousin's Birthday In October Which I Know Is Ambitious

I got a bright idea of writing and binding book for my cousin's birthday in October which I know is ambitious and I may not make it but who cares. Maybe I'll push it to Christmas to get some more time.

Anyway I was talking about it with her to get a grasp on what she would like to get and it went like this:

My cousin: Low fantasy

Me: *internally* I'll have to develop a world in a month or so, alright I can totally do it *sweating*

Me: *over the text* Okay, sure

My cousin: Murder mystery, maybe?

Me: *hasn't read a murder mistery since she was 12* Okay

My cousin: Romance!

Me, a questioning aro, most likely ace: *again, haven't read romance in some time, outside of fanfics* ...Sure

My cousin: Enemies to lovers, but their true, crave the blood type of enemies at the start!

Me: *kinda hates enemies to lovers* Okay

My cousin: First person narrative

Me: I may not be able to do this, actually

My cousin: Sure, don't worry

My cousin: Humour with at most sprinkles of serious

Me: *with exactly one funny fic I managed to finish, and I still put some angst in it (up to four, maybe, if we count my Wattpad era and one-shots people asked me to write)* *flippingthe table* AaAAAaaaA

Me: Okay, though it'll be hard :)

I am not even getting out of my comfort zone, I'm launching myself out with the power of freaking trebuchet and just hope at the end is something a bit softer than a concrete

Photos Showing That Angle Is Everything.

Ref Recs for Whump Writers

Violence: A Writer’s Guide:  This is not about writing technique. It is an introduction to the world of violence. To the parts that people don’t understand. The parts that books and movies get wrong. Not just the mechanics, but how people who live in a violent world think and feel about what they do and what they see done.

Hurting Your Characters: HURTING YOUR CHARACTERS discusses the immediate effect of trauma on the body, its physiologic response, including the types of nerve fibers and the sensations they convey, and how injuries feel to the character. This book also presents a simplified overview of the expected recovery times for the injuries discussed in young, otherwise healthy individuals.

Body Trauma: A writer’s guide to wounds and injuries. Body Trauma explains what happens to body organs and bones maimed by accident or intent and the small window of opportunity for emergency treatment. Research what happens in a hospital operating room and the personnel who initiate treatment. Use these facts to bring added realism to your stories and novels.

10 B.S. Medical Tropes that Need to Die TODAY…and What to Do Instead: Written by a paramedic and writer with a decade of experience, 10 BS Medical Tropes covers exactly that: clichéd and inaccurate tropes that not only ruin books, they have the potential to hurt real people in the real world. 

Maim Your Characters: How Injuries Work in Fiction: Increase Realism. Raise the Stakes. Tell Better Stories. Maim Your Characters is the definitive guide to using wounds and injuries to their greatest effect in your story. Learn not only the six critical parts of an injury plot, but more importantly, how to make sure that the injury you’re inflicting matters. 

Blood on the Page: This handy resource is a must-have guide for writers whose characters live on the edge of danger. If you like easy-to-follow tools, expert opinions from someone with firsthand knowledge, and you don’t mind a bit of fictional bodily harm, then you’ll love Samantha Keel’s invaluable handbook

that feeling when you get a brand new story idea, but it literally has no plot yet, just vibes>>

Happy International asexuality Day! Be ace, do crime, drink aced tea!