I 🩷 my beutiful lily

1: I've made a few practice videos posted on YouTube privately. None of these are the actual chapters, but are me just getting the hang of it, and trying different software. I think I'm starting to get the hang of things, but I have learned a few things. A: Yikes I hate listening to my voice from my phone's mic, and B: Man I need to work on my voice acting lmao

2: Capcut seems to work okay for my video making purposes so I'll probably be using that

3: The funniest technical difficulty that I'm still having is the fact that to save an audio recording to the place where I can put it in the CapCut editing software I have to set it as my ringtone first. I have yet to find another way to get it into that folder. (Thank goodness I don't have my ringer on almost ever lmfao)

4: I ordered a microphone and four sketchbooks from Amazon. I paid extra to get it by today. It will not be here until tomorrow, and I'm still pissed about that.

5: I'm considering posting a few of the chapters early, and posting the rest on November 2nd (the actual anniversary lol)

6: I don't have my sketchbooks to do the art (I specifically ordered those sketchbooks FOR this smh), but I am currently making thumbnails for the videos. They will look like this

6.5: I know the 'written by' seems kinda redundant, but please remember I did have a co-writer for this fic, and even though it wasn't for very long, I still want to give credit where it's due

7: I'm planning on doing artwork for this as well. One drawing per chapter, and the drawing will be something related to the chapter.

7.25: I'm currently planning on doing the artwork for each chapter myself, but there are 155 of them. So if you want to do one, feel free to comment or DM me. I do not have the money to pay you for this, but I will link to your socials in the description, and shout you out in the video.

7.5: If you want to do some of the artwork: Just let me know what chapter you're wanting to do artwork for, and what you're planning on drawing, so I can approve it. Please try to make a drawing that will fit into YouTube's video sizing. When you send me the art, give me the name/socials you want shouted out. I truly don't know if anyone will want to do this, and there's no pressure at all, but I've had a few people send me fanart of the fic unprompted, so I thought I'd let y'all know it's an option.

7.75: I already have plans for the artworks for chapters 1, 49, 53, 72, 155, so those are off limits. Other than that, first come first serve. (Unless I have already finished the drawing for that chapter by the time you ask)

8: I am going to be editing the fic as I do this. The overall story should be pretty unchanged. I might add or cut a couple scenes here and there, but I'm ultimately pretty happy with the overall plot. However... As I am rereading it... UGH the formatting 🤢 how tf did this get so popular?

8.5: However, if you're REALLY devoted to how the fic is right now, I would recommend downloading it, because when I edit it, I will not be saving the previous version anywhere.

9: Thoughts, suggestions, critique, and comments welcome at this stage.

10: tagging the people who seemed interested in my last post, let me know if you want to be tagged in updates about this project. (Or if you don't)

What could have been