#cthl

now that AOTL's officially complete, here's the official tumblr post pspspspsping you to read it :) we have more mer magic and whimsy packed into this fic than ever before!

summary under the cut!

chasing the horizon line by melon, nine, and bri!

And guess what? @writtingwithaglassquill told me for ask you! so how did you find/get started on ao3? And who else should I ask?

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i'd seen quill's post, so i suspected this would be coming to my inbox eventually. i, however, did not prepare!

right.

long story short, i had a good friend who'd been reading and writing on ao3 for years and i finally decided to make an account myself last year. in reading fic tailored to my niche at the time, i saw a lot of stories that inspired me. from there, i wrote my first fic. rest is history, i suppose?

to expand a bit on my full fic list, though, it wasn't long after writing my first full fic that i was caught by the loneliness that is writing alone. some people do well for it, but i was finding it demotivating, so i reached out to a writer i'd been reading the fics of at the time—and that i'd interacted with on tumblr semi often—to ask if they might be open to co-writing an idea i had. she accepted, and cthl (the biggest fic series on my page) was born.

if writing alone is intimidating, co-writing is such a beautiful thing. always leave yourself open to collaboration—you can do so much more with a broader swath of perspectives than you could ever do alone, even if you and your co-writer(s) have so very much in common.

cheers! i hope that was insightful for you, or helpful in any way. don't know what your game is, stranger, but i'm flattered to be asked a little question.

writers i know (other than my beloved co-writers, @nine-of-diamonds and @crabbri, who quill had already tagged in her own post) and respect and think could offer some neat stories would be @cat-in-the-desert and @nyxtheeclipse assuming they haven't already been tagged by another person in one of these asks.

…sorry about shitty image quality I’m posting from like 30,000 ft above ground in an airplane