I've been really busy lately, working on trying to write a novel. I have a story I wanna tell, and I really think that there's something to it. I just need to figure out the best way to convey it. I'm doing a fuckton of research on romance, ship dynamics, love story plots, et cetera.
A lot of the story is wish fulfilment, a lot of it is just resentment and therapy really, and it's very likely that I'll never reveal which story I wrote (nom de plume and all), but I know that this story is going to be someone's favourite. I don't know who will read this story out there and feel seen, but whoever they are, I 'm writing it for them just as much as I'm writing it for me. If my story is that person's favourite, then that's enough for me.
Now I just have to figure out what ideas I want in the story, the best framing for said story, and which emotions and tones I want to lean into. When I've worked out a plot outline and character arcs, conflicts, and resolutions, I think that this thing just might write itself. The dialogue is easy. The intimate, emotionally-terse moments are child's play.
It's the getting to and between story beats that has always been the bane of my writing's existence, but I'm not going to let that familiar frenemy best me this time.
Anyways, if I just Danny Phantom you all (read: "go ghost"), this is why. Or I died. Either/or, but at least you can be assured that it's one of them!
