hey friends I’m looking for some reading recommendations!

I’ve just been rereading old favorites, which is a joy, but I’m hankering for something new to surprise me and capture me. I’m open to anything but have particular soft spots for:

- narrators or POV characters with distinctive, atypical voices, perspectives, or assumptions who make an ordinary or extraordinary world more interesting by being seen through their lens (ex. Martha Wells’ Murderbot, owlet’s This, You Protect)

- clever, precise plotting and storytelling such that final conclusions or reveals click together like delightful, unexpected but perfectly predictable clockwork— the sort that you can see obviously in the first chapter but only after you’ve read the last page; stories where the authors trust the reader to pay attention and figure stuff out (ex. Megan Whalen Turner’s The Queen’s Thief series, The Westing Game, Pamela Dean’s The Secret Country)

- worldbuilding with depth and texture — it feels explorable, immersive, like you could study it, like you could get lost, like other stories are going on just off the page (The Secret Countey gets a second honorary mention here, great book, I highly recommend)

- characters you can root for, especially ones that are slowly, quietly, unregretfully tearing themselves apart for something they care about (Kip Mdang from Hands of the Emperor, Newt from Designations Congruent with Things, Nico D’Angelo from the Percy Jackson books, Arthur in rageprufrock’s Presque Vu)

I like stories with momentum, stories that swallow you. I like beautiful things. I like stories that surprise me and make me think. Help a gal out? What stories have captured you?

can i just say that "and nothing else weird happened / i'm kidding" is the best way to tell any story and i am now entranced by the idea of reading literally anything else you've ever written, i don't suppose you're one of those fanfiction writers who also has like an entire bibliography of origfic novels for sale on like gumroad or anything?

i am one of those fanfic authors but not an entire bibliography of origfic novels on gumroad; im really lazy and also i have pokémon blorbo disease.

so what im saying is: i have an entire bibliography of fanfic on ao3 and you're free to peruse it at your leisure. i highly recommend the "i could command you, be cruel to you, compel you" series

4, 5, & 19 for the writer's ask meme?

[from this meme]

4. How many WIPs do you have right now?

I'll never tell! (Of the ones that I'm actually still intending to finish, 6 fanfics and 3 origfics, with option to resurrect one hiatus'd origfic.)

5. What’s a fic idea you’ve had that you will never write?

Now seems like as good a time as any to bring back that idea that I had and wrote approximately six paragraphs of without any context or plan, which was 'Lilo & Stitch AU of Thor: Ragnarok, where Darcy Lewis is Lilo and Hela is Stitch'.

19. Give us a small teaser from one of your WIPs.

I'm gonna give you one from...the continuation of the light of all lights, the Stranger Things AU of Dracula that I decided in May I wanted to write juuuust a couple more scenes of, which then promptly bloated into thousands of words. Because that's what fics do. (FYI, if you're doing Dracula Daily and this is your first time reading Dracula, the premise of this fic draws on some stuff that hasn't happened yet in the novel's chronology.)

Mina digs her fingers into her knees. The stiff denim of her jeans squelches slightly, the last of the saltwater cold against her fingertips. There hadn’t been time, had been too much danger, to even think about going home for her swimsuit. She’s regretting going into the water fully clothed now, of course. But she hadn’t wanted to strip in front of the boys. Too prim or too shy or too much of both to skinny-dip in the quarry on graduation night, even when Lucy’d begged her to join them in the ice-cold water. And still too prim or too shy or too much of both to let Art Holmwood see her in just her underwear. Even with Jonathan’s life on the line. Even with Lucy –

The image is burned, seared, forever into Mina’s brain. She recoils away from it, the same way she had in the pool, not wanting to see. Wanting to remember her best friend happy and laughing and warm and beautiful and alive, not wanting to remember –

It’s too late for Lucy.

But it might not be for Jonathan.

The pool, the makeshift sensory deprivation tank, had been Dr. van Helsing’s – Bram’s – idea. His design. It was a crutch. A signal amplifier, to help focus Mina’s mind, to broadcast it across whatever impossible distance lies between her and her absent friends.

And it had worked. She’d seen, where before she’d only ever been able to hear fragments of Jonathan’s voice. She’d found him, curled up shivering in a corner of the old treehouse where he’d taken her for so many picnics. The treehouse they’d jokingly called their castle. They’d made elaborate, unserious plans about moving into the treehouse together, before the house, before the proposal, long before Jonathan took that fucking night security job down at the lab. They’d laughingly considered it as an option, if they couldn’t find a place they could afford to rent on a teacher’s salary and a law student’s lack of one. Considered it as a home.

To see it rotting away in a deep, unnatural twilight, black decay eating through all of its walls and making the floor slant and skew, had been almost as frightening as seeing Jonathan so pale and thin and hollow-eyed, so ragged and so desperate. But Mina had seen it, as clear as though she’d been standing on that slanted floor. Had seen Jonathan, had heard his quiet voice humming their song to himself under his breath as he tucked his windbreaker tighter around himself. Had knelt on the boards of that floor so she could reach out to him –

She’d needed the pool to be a signal amplifier, before she could find Jonathan. Before she could find what was left of poor dear Lucy.

But they’re an entire world away.

It has many names. Telesthesia, to the scientists. Remote viewing, though it be more old-fashioned. The children of the flower called it ‘astral projection’, and believed it the gift of an enlightened spirit.

Mina chances another glance between the two guards. Both of them are still paying her an uncomfortable amount of attention.

Oh, well. It can’t be helped.

Mina turns her eyes down onto her knuckles, and tries to concentrate.

a pattern i have noticed in myself, primarily with my origfic (my fanfic on the whole tends to be too short to have this problem): i struggle with enthusiasm while writing the first few chapters, and then the minute i get my leading man on the scene, all bets are off

in related news, the love interest of my nano novel has made it to the hospital and reunited with his long-lost love (protag-chan).

maybe it's just me, but I think Hobin as a protagonist is weak?? At the beginning he was this pathetic but likeable guy that you couldn't help but root for, but his character development always seemed kind of limited to just him gaining confidence in fighting and being a leader(kinda) and nothing too deep. His main goal went all over the place; one chapter he wanted to be rich, the other he wanted a gf, some other time he wanted to be famous, and sometimes it's not even clear what he wants. I think the fragment of his backstory was interesting, but it's a shame it was used as more of a love story told from Bomi's romanticized pov than an opportunity to flesh out Hobin's character more or give something more to it. It's so funny that his 15 year old self seems way more interesting than him at 18,,

I guess he's more realistic that way but it's eh

With the final fight arc, everything happened so suddenly and Hobin's character changed drastically with the blink of an eye. The author could've made these changes such as Hobin's body gradually rather than just, you know, keeping Hobin stick skinny even after all his training for 120 chapters and then slapping some lazily drawn muscle lines on his body to create the illusion of him being ripped. I also don't really understand Hobin's change of heart, risking him and his friend's lives to fight for "justice" because he thinks that bad guys should be punished. Hell, even Seongjoon's girlfriend had a more understandable reason even though she was horrendously written.

Even in the last fights, it felt like he was just there, the development felt really artificial and I lost all interest in him as a character. I think all the characters we were supposed to root for had a weak presence, just as much as the bad guys did. The author randomly introduced the story of Seongjoon and Jinho into a story about YouTubers, which is kinda silly. The primary YouTube kids plot waters down the dark atmosphere that the Seongjoon/Jinho parts are supposed to have, while it feels like the gangster/yakuza subplot just don't fit here and they would be better off as separate series. Maybe if this was a story about gangs it would fit, but imo the two antagonists make the main characters look like a joke.

I agree. I think, early on, Hobin was a fantastic protagonist. I have a fondness for a MC who can openly be like "Look, man, I just want money and attention and IDGAF how dirty I have to play to get it." His growth to being more mature (e.g. deleting the Jiu Jitsu guy's channel instead of profiting off it), and wanting to protect his friends, felt genuine and well written.

And then there's been the last third of the story, and that all kinda stumbled and fell on its face. Which can be said for most of the comic at this point, honestly.

Like, as someone who's written, uhhh, ~4 standard length novels worth of fanfic and origfic, I understand: Endings are HARD. It's tough to both get in all the things you want to happen while also trying to wrap things up neatly. But hoo boy has the story as a whole not been doing too hot since Seongjun’s death. I think he cursed the creators to get revenge for killing him off.

I KNOW there's tons and tons of fanfiction out there in jpn fandoms (search for any ship name in Japanese on twitter and you'll get as much fic as art, or just tab pixiv over to the novels section and check like any fandom BL tag) and I really do wonder about like. Its relation to non-fanfic fiction. In English speaking spaces there's a line you can trace directly from fanfiction to YA novels and original m/m romance. Does anything like that exist for fic in Japanese speaking spaces, maybe to light novels? Surely, right? I know there's plenty of original BL light novels but I only ever hear about them once they get translated to Japanese. I don't, like, resent this or anything--manga is simply much less translation work by volume than a novel, and there's a much bigger market for the end product. But it just makes me wonder. Presumably there's as much of a link between fanfic BL and origfic BL in prose works as there is in comics, right? I wonder if there's anything else there...

on fanfic, original fic, and living on the boundary

most of the time, you hear about fanfic authors who eventually “make it” writing Real Books. very rarely, you might hear it the other way around. once upon a time, not too long ago, it was common for fanfic authors to aspire to write fic that mimicked Real Books, and very likely some of them still do. i’ve thought about it and realized the two were not separate experiences for me—something i suspect is becoming more common as fandom becomes more mainstream.

pretty much all of my earliest stories (elementary-age) were derivative. i loved multiple series about horses, and especially black beauty; the cats vs dogs movies, underdog, racing in the rain, and the whole dog’s life series. and more! those are just the ones i can distinctly identify as being stories i pulled from when i wrote about horses and dogs escaping abusive humans to go be spies. or wander the wilderness and be rescued by nice humans. i was also a big fan of dramatic angst, so not much has really changed. perhaps you could call those things fanfiction at a stretch, but i really wouldn’t.

once i hit 12-14, i started making things that were more original—all work is derivative, but this wasn’t consciously inspired by media i’d seen. i was, however, really big into ya dystopia, so that genre came up a lot alongside fantasy. i also found my way to fandom spaces and real fic at the start of this period. at the time, though, i didn’t even clock it as something different. i was simply writing “my warrior cat stories” right alongside my stories about kids in magic school and teens living underground post-nuclear war.

when i was around 13 i discovered the terms and community around fandom, moved to wattpad, then ao3, and more firmly separated origfic and fanfic in my mind. posted some more of both. finished like six things ever, all of them pretty short.

at 15, i started to Take Writing Seriously. i finally finished my first (original) novel, then my first longfic. wrote a few more fics. started a few more novels that didnt quite get off the ground. took a year-ish break from fic to really focus on original fiction, then wrote both at once again, and then in the last year or so, mostly abandoned original fic (except for editing) in order to throw myself back into the fandom sphere.

what i’m saying, in this very long-winded way, is that there is no ascending the writing ladder from lowly fic to super professional original work, to me. do i spend more time and energy on original stuff? sure! that’s the harder sell, and the one that, in theory, will eventually make me money. is my style exactly the same? no! they’re different mediums and i’ve honed each separately to reflect different strengths.

but my original work is still fanfic-y, in the sense of being extremely character driven, slim on the worldbuilding that’s not directly relevant, and emotional.

i think writing a first draft of something my own is a nearly identical process to writing a longfic, if that longfic actually has a plot (mine don’t always) and i know my audience is going in fandom blind. i still have to explain things like character backstory and how the world works, but it’s hardly the priority and i only need the bare minimum to get what’s going on. everything is focused on the high-emotion moments, skipping past all the boring bits in between. things happen with very flimsy justification, characters are ooc to serve the plot, and somehow we went on several tangents on our way to the end that didn’t all get resolved.

that makes my fanfic sound bad! but those things in fic are features, not bugs.

the second draft and beyond, then, is an effort to turn the story into a source material, rather than a fic based off the source in my head. features in fanfic are, unfortunately, bugs in novels, and they must be squished. but the core of the story is always the emotions, the character arcs, the relationships. they’re what i build around and what i follow like a compass when i revise.

i’m a very fannish person, i suppose. my silly little hope is that approaching my original stuff this way might entice a small fandom of its own to form around it.

this is also here as yet another reminder that you don’t have to use fanfic as “practice” for future, more legitimate works. it does not have to be a training ground until you’re good enough to move to the big leagues and push it aside. that’s not how this works for me. i would not have any kind of writing career without my fanfic. i would be such a wildly different human it is painful to think about. fanfiction is my heart, and it informs everything.

you know what? writing fanfiction may not make you good at writing original fiction... if you're talking traditional, long-form novels or short stories

but if you're working on literally any kind of long-form fiction project where you're not the solo writer? Something like video games, TV, or animation? the skills you pick up writing fanfic are a godsend

the ability to pick up a character's voice from only a few sentences of canon dialogue? the ability to flesh out an entire character from a description less than a paragraph long? the ability to pick up someone else's voice and write in a "house style"?

they're invaluable if you're a junior writer on a larger creative team. and you don't get that from writing origfic unless you're specifically writing in a team context.

This is an anthology of original stories written by fanfic writers. One of them is my own. For so long, fanfic writers have been discouraged from sharing their links to fandom in the original stories world and from disclosing they write fic to the publishing industry. Fic writers have been told many things. We're told we are inferior writers. We're told fic isn't real writing, but practice for originals and, simultaneously, that our originals will never fly because we cling to our beloved tropes and the conventions of our genre. I took these things to heart, for a long time, even as I knew there was an audience out there for the kinds of stories I wrote. Folks who would love the slower, more character driven adventures I wrote with fluff scenes interspersed throughout the action. Who consumed character studies and emotional prose as if they were as necessary to life as food and water. Who were desperate for the sort of inclusiveness in origfic that fanfic has always had. The same inclusivity the publishing industry has barely begun to tap into. So many of my fandom friends can point to a 200k word story they swear is better than any published novel and that it would suffer greatly from being forced into the 100k word or less box Big 6 publishers insist on to reduce risk. It can seem impossible to get your name and your words in print when you want to tell your stories, not those of the publishing industry, and you don't want to stop writing fic, much less renounce it. Self publishing, too, can seem like an insurmountable mountain of work and self-promo. I could sit here and talk about indie presses and niche zines and how they are, for the most part, a friendlier place for fanfic writers, but I mostly want to get the word out that there are two (that I know of) who specifically only take on fanfic writers and have built platforms around supporting those of us who want to be published: Duck Prints Press (@duckprintspress) and OFIC Mag (@oficmag). In the interest of full disclosure, I am both published with Duck Prints Press and became a part of the editorial staff after my story and contract were finalized for printing. I don't speak now as a staff member, but the author I am. I don't ever want to hoard opportunities, because we all benefit when there are more stories out there for us to read. I've got no affiliation with OFIC Magazine and haven't submitted a story to them (yet), but they appeared on my wall and inspired this post. I truly, deeply, down into my very core, believe in the missions of these companies and want to see them succeed (it's why I accepted a staff position in the first place). Publishing needs diversity; not just in authors and characters, but also in style and structure. It needs new stories. Fresh stories. The kinds millions of fandom folk already love to read. We don't need to grow out of our tropes or write something to Market with a capitol 'M'. It's not the only market, and it excludes so many people and so many beautiful, impactful stories. And I am glad there are people willing to put in the time and effort to publish books, anthologies, and publications to showcase all of these amazing tales of adventure, sorrow, intimacy, fluff, and love. If you're looking for paid opportunities to write the kind of stories you love, please check out https://www.oficmag.com/ and https://duckprintspress.com/ for upcoming opportunities. As I learn of more fic-writer-friendly publishers and zines, I will try to share them here as well as my fic-friendly general writing advice and answers to Asks on writing, making the transition from fic writer to origfic writer, and how my birds/guinea pigs/child/wife are doing. And, if you aren't interested, pass these opportunities along and keep on writing and reading. You're all amazing.

Sam I'm confused. Are you rewriting stealing Harry into origfic or another fanfic? I must've missed some posts but I can't find the context I'm missing on your blog...either way I loved the old stealing Harry and I'm v curious about this new version.

I’m rewriting Stealing Harry into an original novel, mostly to spite JK Rowling, but also because it seemed fun to do. I think the confusion might be coming from the fact that I haven’t changed anyone’s name yet :D It’s easier for now not to change the names and just go through and change them all on a rewrite once I’ve gotten a better handle on the characterization in this new setup. (This way I also don’t have to, for example, keep going back and looking up the new names for relatively minor characters like Arthur and Molly.) 

But yeah -- I’m moving Stealing Harry from Britain to America, changing the time period to be more contemporary to modern day (the Marauders are now Millennials!) and rewriting some of the mythos and family relationships. I’m trying to tag everything “the ozyverse” (Harry’s new name will be Ozy) but the earliest stuff I think didn’t get tagged.

Not to worry about Stealing Harry, though -- I won’t be taking it off AO3 or replacing it with a new version, it’ll stay right where it is :)

How many ongoing WIPs do you have?

the way this question exposed me...🙈 the answer is too many! scrolling thru my google docs was painful. okay here's my list:

fanfic:

I Named the Wind for You - my Ouyang/Esen fix it, takes place post canon; without spoiling it, here are the tags: Canon Typical Gender Issues, Post Canon Divergence, Temporary Character Death, Unreliable narrator, Grief, Setting As Character, BDSM, Fisting

Nothing Safe Is Worth the Drive - Summer Sons post canon fic that I have barely started, it's basically about how difficult it can be to let yourself be loved

Unnamed Harrow the Ninth Wip - Mercymorn/Augustine, spans pre canon to the ending of H9. all of this is spoilers!!! the big theme is how close love and hate are.

origfic:

Time's Shroud - my ongoing fantasy novel, here are some ao3 tags: end game ot3 (f\m/m), identity play, clothing porn, court intrigue/political thriller, mutual pining, slow burn, arranged marriage, with themes of memory, disability, capitalism, and shame. I've already written the first draft. there are 45 docs in my gdrive devoted to this book lmfao

When I Was King of the Forest - my backburner f/f thriller/contemp fiction novel. Mattie and June meet in wilderness therapy and end up at the same therapeutic boarding school. But when June goes missing, it's up to Mattie to find her--even if it means going missing herself.

Unnamed Widow Book - my super backburner m/f women's fiction novel. A widow and journalist goes to Italy to do research for her book on grief and widows and accidentally falls in love while learning to love life and herself again

if you're like, "wow this is too many projects" you would be correct lmao!!! thanks for the ask 💜

The writer meta ask! 2, 13 (always share! I wanna know about secret projects tho :eyes:), and 6!

2. Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project 

So, I’ve got a few works in progress right now (which I’m sort of doggedly avoiding, for various reasons, but do plan to get back to). The one I’m really excited about is Desideratum - I’m pretty solidly in Angst Central with it right now, but when I get back to the smut I get to play with a lot of fun concepts and characters. Each scene is themed around these kind of smutty vignettes from erotic, bodice-ripper type novels the MC (Ancano) has been reading, and I get to develop those into actual scenes that play around with the tropes and kinks and hangups attached.

In regards to future projects, I already have plans for the sequel to The Edged Lexicon (and the third piece in that trilogy, actually) which I’m desperate to start working on but they kind of hinge on me actually finishing writing TEL, so. (But there are OCs aplenty, and I’m very excited to introduce them all.)

6. What character do you have the most fun writing?

At the moment, I have two that I adore writing. The first is Piers from Pokemon Sword/Shield - he has such a distinctive voice and personality that I really get to tap into, while also getting to indulge in my other love, which is music. I get to write paragraphs upon paragraphs of gratuitous music porn, and draw inspiration from punk songs, and it’s just a blast. I also really love writing Genji Shimada (especially a young, pre-Overwatch Genji Shimada) because I am an absolute sucker for characters who are just unapologetic little shits but also with a ton of depth to them.

13. Do you share your writing online? (Drop a link!) Do you have projects you’ve kept just for yourself?

Here’s the obligatory AO3 link! And as for secret projects, I don’t really have any, fanfic/origfic wise (unless you count the numerous unfinished WIPs I have) - when I finish a work I like to yeet it right out into the world. That said, I do tend to write journal entry-type things and poetry, but that’s more for cathartic/personal purposes, so I’ve never shared them (and most likely never will).

Thanks so much for the ask, Taff! ❤️

came for the writing (found you through your original fic, of all things! but while going through old fanfic i'd saved i realized i'd run into your writing before), stayed for the excellent taste and hatred of nicholas sparks

Oh man! People finding me through my origfic is awesome to hear--I’ll bet it was the “tell me a story” meme, which I should reprise sometime when I am not balancing a million things. I am glad that it caught your interest and that my fic did too!

I will never stop being viciously glad that so many other people are willing to hate Nicholas Sparks with me.

The other day I saw a post on FB where someone was saying they wanted to give the romance novel genre a try and asked for recs and someone recced Nicholas Sparks and friend, I almost screamed.

For the ask game, I'd like no. 2, 22, 42 and 62 please!

2. talk about a notable time a narrative or character has looked you dead in the eyes and said “fuck your plan, here’s what we’re actually doing.”

see, i don't think this has ever really happened in a notable way. the thing i have firmest in my mind before i start writing is the characters, so they rarely surprise me once i'm actually drafting. i learn things about them, to be sure, i can't think of everything ahead of time, but in minor ways, not by going against something i had planned.

the most recent time a character looked me dead in the eyes and told me something about themself, though, was when i decided to rewrite my nano novel to add the love interest's POV, and he promptly told me what kind of sex he most liked to have. which was very helpful!

22. describe your writing process from scratch to finish.

oh lord, ace, you don't go easy on me, do you? 😅 it's so variable. usually, for origfic, i come up with a character (or, often, a version of chris/mat that i want to play with that's new, whom i later adapt into an original character) and a world, and then i daydream about that character/world for...a long time. like i said in another answer, weeks/months/sometimes years. this is for gathering a more complete picture of the character(s), fleshing out worldbuilding, and coming up with a list of scenes that would most interest me, to "see" and to write.

then i outline. i outine meticulously. the outline for my nano novel first draft, which was 15 chapters, was 6000 words on its own. add in scenes, descriptions, and lines of dialogue verbatim as i want them in the outline.

then i write. i'm a very fast writer, and i do very very well in a nanowrimo format (i'm a toddler and like the badges), so sometimes i'll save it for whichever nano event is next, or if i'm too eager i'll just set a personal daily word goal (usually 2k) and go for it.

once it's drafted, it goes to ia/patreon for initial feedback, and we go from there.

fanfic requires less character-building for the most part (unless it's a new-to-me fandom/blorbo), and i'm much more likely to write short and off-the-cuff, without an outline or sometimes even a plan.

42. describe the aesthetic of a story in 5 words.

i guess if you want me to pick one, i'll go with orig!OUAJ, and say "canadian frontier, emotionally honest, pining." let me know if you have one in particular you want me to do, though!

62. what’s the weirdest reason you’ve ever shipped something?

i was ~13 and it was frank denouement/beatrice from ASOUE and i honestly can't remember how it started, but it persisted for as long as it did because crack (the fandom kind, not cocaine, i was not on crack at 13).

thanks ace!!!

hey ryan! i couldn't help but notice that you'd mentioned p&p maybe being your final bnha longfic (correct me if i'm wrong), but do you have any other ideas for fanworks after this is finished, or will you be working primarily on oaac and your mermaid one? i'm hyped for anything you do, but i have always loved your portrayals of canon characters, so i would love to see some more fanfiction come out from you!!

yeah, it's probably my last unless i can pull out some motivation to work on either the kiribaku sequel or project metis. im parked pretty comfortably in the ensemble stars (enstars) fandom now, with two semi-longfics in the works that i want to get out for sure. im not sure how long enstars will hold me, but it's my current fandom home. origfic is...difficult in different ways from fanfic and while i spit out fanfic with an 'lol if it sucks who cares' attitude, i take my origfic too seriously...i'll be lingering in both for the rest of the foreseeable future, although i probably won't be posting too much about novel work here. too much bad blood to my name. i have no intention of bringing that nastiness to my professional work.

I'm curious about those Standing Projects, do you mind telling about them?

Yes!  Here’s a really long response that you probably didn’t want because I’m excited.

Standing Projects Currently Part Of The 100 Words Exercise:

1. Response to a tumblr prompt (for Descendants, ship is Malvie)

2. Incredibly niche Amenta AU of RWBY (basically: Blake is an ex-red who goes gray, Yang is her roommate at Fighting School For Grays, they fall in love)

Standing Projects That Were Originally Part Of The Exercise But Got Omitted:

1. Origfic lesbian fairy tale romance about art and colonialism (omitted because this exercise is about New Content Generation and at this point the story mostly needs revisions)

2. Dumbing of Age fanfic in which Danny and Ethan meet again as adults and rekindle their connection, but are kept apart by Danny’s abusive spouse and internalized homophobia and Ethan’s fear of inadequacy.  Also Mike is there too which doesn’t help (omitted because it’s just an outline right now and also I’m afraid of getting Jossed).

Standing Projects That May Get Integrated Into The 100 Words Exercise At Some Point Depending On How Things Go:

1. The rest of my tumblr prompts (on hold because I want to do them in order

2. Four (4) Gilmore Girls Paris/Rory AUs (Hunger Games AU, Beauty and the Beast AU, Maximum Ride AU, and A Series of Unfortunate Events AU) (on hold because of a lack of confidence in my ability to write Paris)

3. Four (4) Descendants fics (the second chapter of that one Jaylos fic I wrote like a million years ago, the fake dating fic, the conversion therapy fic, and a Secret Project) (on hold because I want to finish all my Descendants prompts first)

4. Also a Descendants AU of The Raven Cycle (on hold until I reread the books)

5. That one Star Wars fic I blogged about like a million years ago where Poe Gets Traumatized (on hold until I stop being afraid of the Star Wars fandom)

6. Kinky Jane Villanueva/Petra Solano porn (on hold until I’m better at writing porn)

7. Three (3) longform novel projects (Literary Equivalent Of A Taylor Swift Album paranormal romance, Prophecies and Found Families fantasy, Polyamorous Romance in Matriarchyland fantasy) (on hold until I’ve gotten good at both short stories and long-form fanfic)