do y’all think i could write a million words in 2024

It's such an amazing feeling when someone picks up on something in your writing that you 100% intended but didn't think people would notice. Like, YES!! My writing properly conveyed the thing it was supposed to!!! You are so awesome for noticing that!!! I am so awesome for writing that!!! I feel so good about my story now!!!!

When people got that twist i had been planning for a year the moment i hinted at it

what’s the line you’re most proud of writing recently?

It’s almost funny he’s a man of science, when there are demons—ghouls—and ghosts, when in the same breath there is gravity the future is writ in stars.

what’s the line you’re most proud of writing recently?

“He began to speak, though with a voice that was not his own. I could hear it, if only just. It was nestled deep within the recesses of a voice orotund enough to rattle the windows and thrum in the air. Intermingling with both was a chorus of sharp, disjointed whispers that danced in my ears. ‘Ye in this congregation with faith resolute enough to dry the seas, come hither, and be healed.’”

what’s the line you’re most proud of writing recently?

Your mask falls whenever you find it in yourself to hold my stare, Alcor.

Maybe that's why I cannot help but peer into your eyes, desperately, breathing in the courage you grant and the bits of truth you share, like the hungry, devouring shadows that make me.

You do not have a heart. You've stolen mine.

I do not mind - let it beat for both, then, would you? Or would you sap it dry before I get a chance to even vow back to you: I'll find a way to grant you a new one?

what’s the line you’re most proud of writing recently?

i'd like to post funny lines for the entertainment value, but i'll go with earnestness instead.... so they also warrant an explanation of why they're my favorites.

for fanfic:

canon luz says "i'm not so kind" in the show's finale, in a remarkably similar situation to AU luz here -- convinced she is The Actual Devil and that she's an evil parasite doomed to hurt everyone she loves.

AU amity has just gone through a many-thousands-of-words-long arc that started with her being afraid luz was Actually Literally Going To Kill Her, PLUS being afraid luz was abusing hunter behind closed doors. so her response here is her acknowledging not just that she was wrong, but also that luz has gone Out Of Her Way to show kindness to the two people she'd be most within her rights to torture/kill/etc for funsies.

also. polyamory rights. i did scan for a polyamorous line on purpose.

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and for original fiction:

devin and nova's relationship is soulmates-as-horror and i have always been open about that. BUT. you know that post that's like, "a wholesome relationship has to be 10% fucked up and a fucked-up relationship has to be 10% wholesome"?

there IS a level of care and tenderness and comfort to their marriage. it wouldn't be interesting if there wasn't. you can see the gaps in the choices that have been made, the way the relationship has been built. these are two people who Could have something really good, if they'd either been in different circumstances or made different choices.

and also it's crucial to nova's characterization that she's nice and likes to perform kindness. some real questions raised about what real kindness actually is, etc.

thank you for the excuse to ramble!

what’s the line you’re most proud of writing recently?

Definitely this one:

(not from a novel, but a write-up of one of the most emotional scenes of my dnd career.)

izzy saying “my feed will never recover” in response to the sub dm prompt is so funny cause like yeah same but also you are his wife so we are not the same

must a book have ‘plot’ and ‘structure’ and ‘progression.’ is it not enough for characters to be in a place. and for that place to be really fucking weird.

WIP INTRO - RESENT YOUR SECOND CHANCES

genre | adult urban fantasy, speculative

status | complete!

pitched as HELL FOLLOWED WITH US meets THE TAKING OF JAKE LIVINGSTON, in which the child of a magical crime family resurrected from the dead for “one last job” to steal from an extra-dimensional library is thwarted by a boy on the hunt for the ghost he just spent the last year falling in love with.

characters |

aesthetics | hallways leading to nowhere,

themes | t4t love conquers all, superpowers, magical resurrection, mafia-esque magical crime family, complicated mothers, daddy issues but because your dad loves you more than anything, strangers-to-friends-to-strangers-to-friends-to-lovers, mommy issues but it's because your mom loves anything more than you.

warnings | death, mild body horror, pregnancy loss (sort of), explorations of grief, parental trauma

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nothinggg better than torturing an emotionally repressed character until every single trauma they've ever refused to process starts spilling uncontrollably out of the cracks. like a matryoshka doll situation of repressed trauma and baby you better believe i'm going in there with a hammer

writing isnt even like a hobby to me anymore its just that theres images trapped in my head and if i dont get them out fast enough they start rotting in there and stinking up the place