#artsietango

Oh, thank you! I'm not a full-time writer at the moment (I wish!), but I'm fortunate enough that my current freelance workload takes up about 25-30 hours per week, so I do have plenty of time to focus on personal projects. This is definitely a privilege, as I am currently making basically no money on said personal projects, lol.

But I did spend the entirety of my adult life pre-Covid either full-time employed or part-time employed while enrolled full-time in school, so I'm very familiar with having to squeeze in that writing time while also being super busy! I feel like the only thing that worked for me in that regard is setting very specific (but realistic) goals and taking it very seriously as a routine—like, definitely doing it every single day at around the same time and aiming for the same minimum word count.

I also try to do everything I can to set myself up to write without having to stop and think too much or switch tasks, which helps for both writing a lot very quickly & getting work done at the end of a long day. That means creating super detailed chapter-by-chapter outlines in advance so I always know what's going to happen next, leaving comments or notes to myself in brackets where I know I'm going to have to come back and do more research/rewrite/etc, resisting the urge to go back and self-edit at least until I've met my word count goal, etc.

Thanks for the ask! This is from my WIP "The Quest". These are the last lines of the chapter entitled "The Ambles".

Emma started cuddling him.

         “That’s a good idea. Considering I can’t think of anything else, I think I’ll do it. Thanks Coco, you are pretty wise for a dog.”

         Coco licked her face and wagged her tail.

When your DM has a NPC that gives you his last healing potion so you don’t have to roll anymore death saves and you end up falling in love....

Literally have been possessed since my last DND sesh. Above is Rex the Hammer, and below is my drow wizard, Eladithas.

Of course, thank you so much!

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The pants may be the little misisng square emoji. The question for that is: do you describe your character’s clothes? Share a clothes related excerpt or briefly describe their fashion sense!

Oh I’m sorry I never noticed all these asks, mobile notifications seem to eat asks. Seen them now that I’m on my laptop! Thanks for the ask! 

🐇: How do you deal with plotbunnies? Indulge immediately or wait until later?  it very much depends! If it’s a short story, for example, I can be a little more lenient and I may be more inclined to write it straight away, but usually, I’m a “keep them confined to one document” person, so at least I can pick and choose what I want to do when I have free time! 

♥️: Do you include romance or romantic subplots in your WIPs? Tell us about one if so!  I’m kind of 50-50 on romance subplots! If I do include one, I try to link it to the overall themes of the book or the character’s growth/arc, so I have one for Hallowed because the MC, Paisley, is learning to come to terms with her identity as a lesbian, but not for another novel I have because the MC is learning how to be independent and stand on her own two feet after a long time of isolating herself, and it didn’t feel right to include one at that point.