#draftdash intro

Anyway, here’s my intro!

(sci-fi/apocalyptic/found family maybe??/queer)

Allison, a stressed out 8th grade honors student, gets lost in the woods after losing track of time. Also, the apocalypse is kinda starting — a dangerous plant virus is rapidly spreading around the college town she lives in. So while her and her friends are traipsing around lost in the woods by the oldest part of the city, they also have to avoid the creeping rot and pollen. Will they make it unharmed through the forest, and back home safe despite the strain that a Literal Apocalypse™️ can put on friendships? It’s told in a diary format, and full of found family, young queer folks, maps, (questionable) poetry, and an epidemic of freaky flora.

DraftDash is a writing challenge for January where you write your project for 15 minutes per day. I am going to give this a try!

The project I will work on during DraftDash is my Steven Universe fanfiction project, Steven Universe Renaissance. It's called that because just like the Renaissance looked at the creations of Antiquity and tried to recreate them from a different lens, I am looking at Steven Universe and recreating it from my lens.

It is an alternative universe that takes at its starting point the question "what if Amethyst and Rose Quartz were the only surviving Crystal Gems, and Steven was growing up alone with a teenage single mom Amethyst?" But because it is an AU and a recreation, I am changing some other things along there too, to explore different themes than the original did. I have a plan, I have a roadmap, but I just gotta kick my butt into gear and actually write it.

I have been working on this project for a while, you can find the episodes so far on AO3. It also has a blog @steven-universe-renaissance but the story is on AO3 only.

My plan is to take fifteen minutes on my bus ride home from work. I will write on my phone, which is something I have done often already, for this project and others. I will set a recurring reminder in my Outlook calendar to remind me to do it on the bus.

@draftdash I really need to develop a writing routine so this was the perfect occasion!

My project:

The Normal Academy is a totally not suspicious university for extremely normal, and totally not Supernatural, beings. Luca is an Italian law student who gets mistakenly summoned into the A. Normal by Iride, a mermaid, who will have to find a way to send him back to his life with the help of the Fallen Angel Elia. Hopefully, they'll manage without getting Luca killed, or worse, falling in love.

I'm currently working on characters backstories and development, so I'll mostly focus on those!

Hello, honestly I have no idea what I'm going to write about yet, but it's gonna be one of my past works in progress, which I will dig up and see which one inspires me more currently

It will be fanfiction; probably a misawa or tsukihina, or I might start afresh and write bakudeku instead, which has been my brain rot for the past year!

“When a boy tried to cut her hair off, Abigail should’ve known her life was over.“

Abigail wants to live a perfectly normal life. All she has to do is finish her last year of school, stay on the good side of her peers, and hope she was not chosen for anything greater. But when strange pamphlets appear in her town and her sister announces an even stranger wedding, Abigail has to confront the reality that her life was never normal to begin with.

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This is the wip I'll be working on for the DraftDash event in January! This is a project which I've tried to work on before, but I've gotten some breakthroughs lately which I think will help me finally get the project written the full way through. While I don't think I'll get through the whole draft, my hope is to gain the momentum to finish it relatively early in the year.

hi hi hi! i'm joining this writing challenge where you spend fifteen minutes just writing. for this, i'm focusing on two different wips:

The Eyes That Haunt & The Ghost That Bleeds. a fanfiction one-shot of an interactive fiction that i used to adore called the war for the west. the planning of said fanfiction has been in my drafts for a while and i've mostly forgotten the entire plot of the IF itself, so i've been developing and adding my own things. i still label it as fanfiction because that was the starting point and focuses on one of the 'main' characters from the IF, though he'll largely be OOC / seen through my interpretation since... i don't remember much and am pretty sure he did not have much screen time. i ultimately want to finish this because i want to get back to being able to write one-shots or short storied while having fun. i've been a writing drought for years now, and i'm eager to actually write and complete my creative projects instead of just daydreaming about it!

My Lady, an interactive fiction made for the queer vampire jam and technically would be my first foray in IF (do not look at running from elysium, the entire reason this blog exists, because i'm reworking the lore / worldbuilding on it since... forever. teehee). i'm still largely brainstorming the idea and the title is still a work in progress. but the main idea is that you'll play as handmaiden who has been brought along with your lady to her new home, where she is arranged to marry a vampire. the story is largely planned to be a w|w story with your lady as the main love interest. as her closest confidant, you have the ability to advise, comfort, and influence the decisions she may or may not make as both of you try to survive in this new and fairly hostile environment. the story's inspiration draws from dracula's brides (a dowry of blood by S. T. Gibson, to be specific) and love the guard, be the king (it's a good game, i recommend you check it out!).

Sliding this in under the wire from my phone before a NYE party 👍 I'll be working on my The Locked Tomb/Stardew Valley crossover, with the goal of having a draft for chapter 1 & maaaaaybe chapter 2 by the end of January.

Character pics under the cut:

Just found out about this so lets go!

Auberon Academy: In Pursuit of Knowledge is the second book in the Auberon series. While me and my boyfriend/editor are working on polishing up book one so I can start to query it, I've been working on book two and have about six chapters left!

The book follows a quartet of protagonists through their individual storylines as they keep secrets, make discoveries, and try to survive in a world on the verge of war.

- Christie Nutter is an eleven-year-old girl who's just been hit with a double-whammy of sadness: she's found out she's magic-averse, and her friend and roommate just disappeared. A month later with no progress, the school hires a new investiagor, Arthur Garland, to take over the case, and Christie is determined to help.

- Ashton Alamilla is a new protagonist to book two, a Sivonese hunter living in a tiny town on the Foldra Mountains. He has a peaceful, quiet life, until a wayward cursebreaker, Sutton Senft, stumbles into a hunting trap. Sutton ropes him into joining them on their quest to find Adakoi's missing king, Genesis Eldridge, and the two embark on a perilous journey over the mountain range.

- Addison Garland is the recently not-so-deceased fiancé of the princess, still in his faux-exile after taking the blame for her manifestation. After a month in the wilderness with the missing princess, Bella, he returns to Port Mimslow and resumes his new normal, slowly reintroducing Bella to civilization, ignorant to the consequences of his actions.

- Rosamund Eldridge is the heiress to the throne, set to ascend in less than a year, and is still reeling from the discovery that her own mother had her cursed. Amidst their strife, she tries to reign in her magic, discover the truth behind the dark prophecy that her kingdom will fall, and prevent the war her mother is so desperate to start.