@writemeforgotten / writemeforgotten.tumblr.com
Why it takes me forever to finish outlining in a nutshell:
Me: *ready to open a new Google doc after pouring my sweat and tears into creating a neatly organised outline*
Brain:
Me: Don't you fucking dare
Brain:
Brain: So what if that one background character that's only mentioned like once and barely interacts with the MC was the real villain after all? Also, why not give the MC's bsf a love interest with snake fangs?
If I wrote a series with a romantic subplot, I would 100% be the kind of author that doesn't allow the OTP to kiss until the very last half of the last book. Slow burn all the way.
Category/Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Romance (15+)
Status: Outlining (*This is a side WIP; most of my writing time is going towards my main project*)
Project Type: Stand alone
Writing style: First person, present tense (Dual POV)
Tropes: Arranged marriage, "touch-her-and-I'll-kill-you", mermaids, HEA (Sorry, Hans Christian Andersen), villain pov, slow burn romance, morally grey characters
Synopsis: Echo, the youngest daughter of King Aquarius has been betrothed to the Sea Witch: a terrifying necromancer with tentacles in place of a mermaid tail. As an engagement gift, Echo is offered the opportunity to dance on land — temporarily exchanging her tail for legs to fulfil her childhood dream.
Yet all spells come at a cost; on land, mermaids cannot speak and must return to the sea before the next moon phase, unless they wish to forget their merfolk lives forever.
After an argument with her fiancée, Echo uses the spell alone and ends up trapped on land, having forgotten the reversal spell. Now in the hands of a freak-show owner, a man who believes Echo is the key to his dying company's future, she must fight to find her way home or risk losing more than her memories.
Taglist (Just putting this here so I don't forget): @quilloftheclouds @mel-writes-with-her-dragons @ashen-crest
Ya girl was supposed to be editing TSDS this week, but nope, the dopamine demanded sea witches and mermaids and now I have a side WIP which is a sapphic retelling of The Little Mermaid.
Would it be bad to work on two WIPs at the same time? I really want to make a WIP intro post rn. You know what? Fuck it, I'm gonna do it. (Maybe I should make an anthology series of sapphic retellings.)
