Midnightskywrites

writing is so funny because sometimes you spend weeks trying to force an idea to work and your brain gives you absolutely nothing

and then you blink, have a birthday, and immediately get possessed by a story idea about two goobers fake dating their way directly into emotional ruin

spontaneous writing ideas are either the best thing or the absolute worst thing to happen to me

Btw here’s the summary and link for the story if you want to read it it’s called Rules for Pretending

It was meant to be pretend. That was the first thing to fail.

Jax Mercer agrees to a fake relationship for convenience, not commitment. River Hale suggests it for reasons that sound simple enough: family pressure, social expectations, a few well-placed lies that need maintaining.

Neither of them expects it to require effort.

Or attention.

Or feeling like something in their life has quietly shifted direction without permission.

The rules are clear. No real feelings. No complications. No reason for it to become anything other than temporary.

It doesn’t stay temporary.

And somewhere between pretending and repeating, they start noticing things they were never supposed to notice, like how easily silence settles when the other is near, or how being alone feels noticeably worse than it used to.

They were supposed to be acting.

They just forgot how to stop.

some days writing is ✨inspiration✨

how to fix writer’s block:

STEP 1: simply start writing

STEP 2: if that doesn’t work, stare at the document until it feels bad

STEP 3: open ao3 “just for a minute”

i may be sick

i finished one fic and immediately started another because i make excellent decisions

it’s about a barista who refuses to give his name and someone who takes that personally

me: i’ll keep this one light