#simon alvarez

I should warn you that it won’t have more than 20 or 25 chapters, but each one will have over 5,000 words. The first chapter will take you almost an hour to read, since it’s close to 10,000 words.

It’s one of the most complex novels I’ve ever written in my life. That’s also why I took this distance from AO3. I had never handled 30 characters in my universes before, and believe me, it’s a real challenge to give all of them a storyline. But I’m managing it well.

I already have 10 drafts totaling 78,000 words, which I’ll later divide into chapters and, of course, edit. Writing in Spanish and English is quite a challenge, and I apologize if sometimes a translation isn’t 100% accurate. Remember that I translate based on how I understand English, without a spell‑checker.

So that’s it, we’ll meet again very soon on AO3 to keep writing and sharing stories about this beautiful world.

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It's laughable but it enrages me too bc WHAT WAS HE EVEN DOING THERE?

HE SHOULD'VE BEEN TOURING SOMEWHERE WITH HIS OWN MUSIC CAREER.

HE NEVER EVEN WANTED TO SKATE PROFESSIONALY?? HE ONLY DID IT FOR LUNA??

WHY DOES HIS LIFE HAVE TO ALWAYS. REVOLVE. AROUND LUNAAAAAAAAA

I hate the writers Is2g. I get that Matteo was the main lead and so they gave him everything he wanted etc etc. But to completely sideline a character whose MAIN FOCUS was music. Who literally composed VALIENTE and other VERY SUCCESSFUL SONGS. It just goes to show that they never gave a fuck about him. They always just used him as the third in a love triangle (hell, even in season 3 when Luna got momentarily confused with him). It's just bad writing by this point, and I'm not even saying that out of spite, it's just true. Because you're not writing a full dimensional character; you're writing a prop. A useful tool you place in the scene whenever you need it and then let it rot somewhere.

I'm not even saying they had to make him successfull if they didn't want to! Making it in the music industry is hard, we all get that. Hell-- THAT would've been a better plot for his character! Make him so poor he feels isolated from his rich, successfull friends. Make him so poor he couldn't follow Ámbar wherever she went-- not without making her pay everything for him and he refused to be a weight she carried. Make him so poor he's thinking of giving up entirely and work a 9-to-5 at a bank.

'But then his storyline would be too similar to Luna's' -- WELL, GOOD!!! Make them parallel each other!!! Make them both mad at the other bc they think the other has MORE chances of following their dreams and they're not taking them. Make them both support each other and resent each other in equal meassure!! Make one of them start getting back on their feet first and then help the other out too!! "I know what you're going through, I was there too, but there's another path." !!!

HAVE SIMÓN END THE SEASON WITH HIS LONG-AWAITED BREAK IN THE INDUSTRY AND LUNA BACK ON THE SKATING COMPETITIONS, AND EVEN THOUGH THEY KNOW THIS MEANS LIFE WILL TAKE THEM IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS, IT'S OKAY, BECAUSE THEY KNOW HOW BAD THE OTHER WANTED IT !! AND THEY'RE JUST HAPPY THEIR BEST FRIEND IS HAPPY WHENEVER THEY ARE!!!

Have him reconnect with Ámbar, who never stopped believing in him (or loving him), just couldn't stand keep watching him not believe in himself-- and Boom.

Everyone happy.

But nOooOoOo

And mind you, I came up with all this IN UNDER 10 MINUTES.