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Hello Friends!
I just wanted to jump on here and give everyone an update since it’s been so long since I’ve posted anything. Five months here on Tumblr, 16 months since there’s been an update to any of my fanfics at best and 50 months at worst. (And for some reason One White Blank Page seems to be going through a renaissance period of new readers despite the fact that it’s been 16 months since there was an update.)
It’s crazy looking back at it, but I started writing One White Blank Page 4 years ago when I was a full time college student! A lot has changed since then, in the world at large, and in my own little personal bubble of a world.
In 2022 I took a hiatus from posting or updating any fanfics at all. It was a year where everything felt so incredibly out of control for me, and that feeling spiraled into my creative life and took away most of my drive to hunker down and actually create. I’m looking at 2022 as having been a ‘fallow’ year where my metaphorical fields had to sit untouched for a while in order to prepare for a new season of creating.
This year I’ve been brimming with creative energy! And I’ve been focusing most of my efforts into a piece of original fiction that I’ve talked about here a bit before. It’s a New Adult novel that I’ve tentatively titled You Got The Wrong Hero, and I do aspire to one day query and publish that novel. Of course, in order to do that I have to actually have a finished novel to publish!
So, this year, I’m choosing to focus the brunt of my creative efforts on YGTWH. At this time, I’m planning on having the first draft of YGTWH finished towards the end of this year. Because I’m going to be focusing so much of my creative energy and free time into getting the first draft of YGTWH finalized, I’m not going to have much time to focus on my existing fanfics.
Now, this isn’t to say that I’m abandoning my existing fanfics! I love those fanfics that I’ve written and I have every intention of returning to them. But this is a notice that I’m going to be on a fanfic hiatus until I finish that first draft of YGTWH.
Apologies to everyone who loves my Megamind and ATLA fanfics I have up, but it’s been a lifelong dream of mine to write a book that gets published and I genuinely feel like the idea, plot, and characters of YGTWH are enough to get me there if I can only give them the time and effort they deserve and actually get them down on the page.
I threw a (very) tentative schedule for my upcoming writing life for the next few years down below for those who are interested in when they can start expecting me to return to my existing fanfics. And below that I have a short list of tropes and ‘comp titles’ for YGTWH for anyone who might be interested in being a beta reader once I get this first draft done!
TLDR; I’m not dead and I haven’t abandoned any of my fanfics! I’ve been on hiatus and will be for a while longer while I finish some stuff up. See the (very) tentative timeline below for an estimate of when I will return to working on your favorite fanfic!
SCHEDULE
Q2 & Q3 2023 - 1st Draft YGTWH
Q4 2023 - 1st Draft YGTWH; OWBP as time permits, may add an additional chapter
Q1 2024 - One White Blank Page, add at least 3 chapters
Q2 & Q3 2024 - 2nd Draft YGTWH
Q4 2024 - One White Blank Page, add at least 3 chapters
Q1 & Q2 2025 - 3rd Draft YGTWH
Q3 2025 - One White Blank Page, add at least 3 chapters
Q4 2025 - FINAL Draft YGTWH
Q1 2026 - FINAL Draft YGTWH
Q2 2026 Onward - Focus on fanfics in the following order of priority; One White Blank Page, You Bare Your Fangs, Cupid’s Got A Gun, Gangster’s Paradise, Time and Time Again. (Not to say the fics at the end won’t be updated at all until the prior ones are done, but they’ll be updated less frequently than the others.)
If you came this far and you want some You Got The Wrong Hero deets… here ya go:
Imagine if you dumped Stranger Things, Venom, Fullmetal Alchemist, and Twilight (but only the vibes) into a big stockpot, simmered for 12 hours, attempted to perform an exorcism on the remains and failed… and you would get something similar to You Got The Wrong Hero.
An action packed dystopian with sci-fi/supernatural elements and lots of romance. You have these tropes: Long lost friends to lovers, Love across battlefields, Slow burn romance, Touch her and I’ll kill you, a Morally grey protagonist, the ‘Villain’ gets the girl (and the girl is the ‘hero’), Mutual pining but they’re idiots, Hurt & comfort, Angst & fluff, EVERYBODY has daddy issues, When he’s with her he’s a golden retriever but when she’s not there he’s a rabid dog, Extremist terrorist groups and the government agencies dedicated to catching them.
Again, if you want to be a beta reader once the first draft is done (or want to hear more) just hmu!
Thanks for reading everyone! ❤️
#long post#one white blank page#owbp#fanfic update#writing update#hiatus announcement#ybyf#you bare your fangs or you bare your throat spoilers#cgag#cupid’s got a gun#gangsters paradise#tata#time and time again#my writing#my fics#YGTWH
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YBYF Update
Working on my fanfiction projects has been pushed onto the back burner ever since April. I always struggle a lot with my mental health from April to June (in no small part in thanks to the mainstream holidays that fall in these months, and my birthday) and it usually takes a lot out of me. (I’ve only been able to work on YGTWH because working through those characters relationships with their parental figures has been cathartic for me.)
But, this morning I woke up to a really sweet comment on YBYF and saw a few people on a Discord server talking about how much they like the story and it motivated me to work on it. (I still lurk on Discord on occasion, but I try to step away from social media during this time of the year because when my mental health is shit social media usually just makes me feel more alone and alienated. So, that’s why I haven’t been on social media platforms much anymore.)
So, I finally finished working on the dialogue for the next chapter of YBYF, which I feel a little guilty about because I’ve been trying to write a fluffy one-shot for @nientedal ever since the year was young and I feel bad working on any fanfiction that’s not that little project. But at the same time I know that I just can't really write fluff right now because it’s hard to channel happiness into my writing when it’s been so long since I’ve actually felt much of it. However, it’s easy for me to work on something darker like YBYF.
And I know I haven’t been very active on here ever since April, so I figured I’d start trying to step into fandom and social media again by dipping back into the shallow end of the pool so to say. So, here’s a dialogue snippet from each of the main characters in the next chapter of YBYF (which is already at 2900 words):
Megamind:
“I've killed a lot of people. I couldn't count them all if you asked. If I ever get out of here I'm going to kill the people who locked us in here.”
Roxanne:
“I'm trying to figure out what's going on with you. Because I seriously have a hard time picturing the guy who cancels plots when I'm feeling sick, and who single handedly funded a charity hospital, and who turned me down for sex when I drunkenly threw myself at him, somehow also being the guy who graphically murders people.”
The Villainess:
“Dollface, I picked you because you were always the only decision. There's a reason you're not dead yet. He'd have killed almost anyone else by now.”
#my writing#ybyf#ybyf snippet#ybyf spoilers#you bare your fangs or you bare your throat#you bare your fangs or you bare your throat snippet#you bare your fangs or you bare your throat spoilers#feel free to ignore my mental health rant#my head has just been exceptionally difficult place this year#and stepping away from fanfiction helped me for a bit#because so often on fandom platforms I can only feel guilt for not writing as quickly as so many other authors#insert a sigh here#but I’ve had fun working on ybyf today#and hopefully will be able to get it posted in two weeks
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