#ebh

Hiya! It’s been a while since I’ve really interacted with this account so I’m deciding to redo my introduction/give a little update!

I’m Zena! 🪰

17, Black, and Nonbinary (they/them)

I’m a realistic fiction writer who also enjoys sci-fi! I love YA/NA novels and write mine with poc and lgbtq characters. 

Romance, angst, and violence scratches the itch in my brain.

I will write characters who are shitty people, but still love them because I have issues :D (looking at you Tony)

Mostly prose, but a little (little) poetry

I’ve been writing seriously for the last four-ish years

Currently, I’m working on Everything but Happiness which is the first linear storyline I’ve ever worked on. It’s extremely in progress (50k words done), and I’ve been writing it for six months now. I struggle a lot writing it because I kinda don’t know what I’m doing (?) but I’m really excited to continue working on it. While having a fairly new wip is a great thing, I’ve also lost a lot in my two year long break from this platform.

When I first joined the writing community, I was 15 (yikes) and writing a separate work called Sit, Speak. At the moment, I haven’t touched that book since Summer 2019. I still think of the characters sometimes and all of the ways I could’ve used them, but I don't feel the spark I used to. Maybe in a couple months or even a year I’d go back and look at it from a different perspective. For now, I’ve discontinued it and don’t see myself picking it up in the near future.

Another WIP I’ve (kinda) discontinued was Kisses Under Oil Painted Skies. I say kinda because I technically haven’t discontinued it. I plan on writing something for that book early next year (2021), but for me, it's become more of a comforting side project. I don’t view it as an “actual book” (whatever the hell that means) anymore, and write chapters for it purely for my own amusement. Some would argue that that still makes it a book -- because I should be writing for myself anyways. It was my first book that really helped me get my footing with this whole writing thing, but I was young (we’re talking 14), and it’s very disorganized. 

I also made a six-work mini zine/portfolio recently. Each submission was a short story with a max word count of 3,000 words which was really hard for me since my average works are anywhere in the 3k - 6k range. It was stressful but working towards hard set deadlines is something that actually forces me to write. Shocking, I know. Still, I’d love to work on something of that caliber again. 

Anyhow, I hope to accomplish lots of things with this blog in the coming year and to document my process while writing. I also have plans for a lot of wip ideas I have like (and their temporary names):

EBH (Everything but Happiness/College drug au)

Gay astronauts (gay space adventures)

Office people

Another 6 work portfolio

Dear Elise (a chapter for kuops)

Only you (murder mystery)

Japan murder (another murder mystery)

And more!

Anyways, that's it from me. Expect a wip intro for EBH soon and hearing my never-ending trifles with being a writer. I hope we grow to be good friends :D

madelaine petsch

a total bitch

runs this school tbh

super spoiled

gets whatever she wants

honestly has a lot in common with regina george

is currently dating JOE KEERY but tbh doesn’t even really like him that much

rolls her eyes him every point .2 seconds 

finds him kind of childish and annoying??? 

really only dating him b/c it is The Thing to do ... plus their families both expected it 

is honestly more interested in DAVE FRANCO but he rejected her once a few years ago and she (secretly) still isn’t over it 

joe keery

madelaine’s bf

has always cared for her but he knows that she is only dating him b/c that’s what their parents want 

tbh he’s done being treated like crap by her and would have ended things a long time ago but he knows that it would disappoint his parents a lot

has always tried to have their approval but he’s never good enough for them 

his grades are only okay and he’s constantly getting himself into trouble

dating madelaine is the only “good” thing he’s ever done as far as they are concerned

he cares a LOT for lili reinhart and always has but she thinks he’s an asshole 

lili reinhart

TRYING HER BEST!!!!

her parents are going through a divorce right now and it’s super messy

she has to decide who she wants to live with and she isn’t sure how to pick between them 

always thought that they were such a happy family but found out that it was all lies??? 

has always had a super high gpa but has had a really hard time studying and her grades are dropping and it just feels like her entire life is falling apart!!!!!!

on top of it all, JOE KEERY won’t leave her alone

cousins w/ BONNIE DAWSON

interested in BILL SKARSGARD

saorise ronan

the weird loner kid 

tends to keep to herself but when she does speak, she’s SUPER SARCASTIC 

eye roll game is strong

has been over HS since she got here

landon liboiron

interested in saoirse ronan

camilla mendes

interested in LANDON LIBOIRON

bill skarsgard

interested in CAMILLA MENDES

dylan sprouse

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“in three words, i can sum up everything i’ve learned about life: it goes on.”