Title: The Paper Round the Worlds

Word count: 71k

Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult, New Adult, Comedy, Adventure

Tropes: Expectation subversion, breaking the fourth wall, going for literally the Wildest thing at All times, Heist, episodic storylines

Pitch: Jennifer Angelica Mary Kate Adams does a paper round...which coincidentally saves the world. But when important magical artifacts start going missing and arguments break out, she suddenly finds herself on a path to save the multiverse.

Ramble: So essentially, this is a highly episodic novel covering the story of Jennifer Angelica Mary Kate Adams as she attempts to perform a Paper Round which goes across multiple dimensions, featuring a variety of weird, wonderful and fantastical residents. Also basically all of them are genderqueer (ft. neopronoun users plural). Also ft. neurodiverse rep and other forms of queerness (including a platonic relationship)

The Beginning: Jennifer takes the first day of her paper round, and is shown around by Michael. He guides her through the rough rules and guidelines for each house and introduces her to the more fantastical residents -- faeries, dinosaur centaurs, twin dwarfs, air spirits, vampires and hellbeasts (who knit with the essence of dying worlds)

The Tea, Sis: After drama at the art therapy group run by the Dinotaurs, twins Felicia and Lucinda start causing trouble, and Jennifer must attempt to keep the peace or run the risk of both their worlds and her own being caught up in the tension. .

The Bluster: A storm hits, increasing the powers of Ron and Bonnie, and Jennifer has to help deal with the minor fallout

The Heist: Jennifer undertakes a dangerous mission to aid the Vamps in retrieving an old medieval textbook from the British Museum.

The Apocalypse: Beryl and Ethel the Hellbeasts accidentally start knitting with the essence of our world after something important goes missing.

The Collection: Everything comes together in the final challenge to save the multiverse

Triggers: body horror (immediately revealed to be non-scary and not sure I'd call it horror? But body fuckery regardless); vampirism and mentions of blood; theft; road accidents (nothing happens beyond a scraped knee and minor shock, victim is on a pushbike and protected); threatened apocalypse; alcohol (not overconsumption or misuse); minor references to bullying

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Thank you!!

Ok so I'm aiming for 70k this month, which would be a personal best - I'm hitting my targets thus far!

I'm aiming to finish of two old drafts, one of which I introduced on my old blog, the other I have never really officially spoken about. Both of them are partway there and I'm aiming to get them both to 50k and finished by the end of the month!

Project number 1 is called The Paper Round The Worlds. It's an episodic story about a girl called Jennifer Angelica Mary Kate Adams, who does a paper round, which goes around some normal houses and some houses which are in fact portals to other dimensions! These dimensions include such intruiging characters as: a nonbinary Fae ruler and their boss-ass QPP who like to eat the holes from inside of polo mints and who raise a pack of talking geckos who hang out on old socks; a pack of Dinotaurs (dinosaur centaurs - human torsos and heads starting where a dinosaur neck starts) who live in a palm tree jungle and work in an art therapy group; two twins who live in each half of a dimension and are exactly the same apart from one has everything in red and the other has everything in blue, but they're determined they are completely different, and also their relationship can change how colour theory with red, blue and purple works in our world; two air spirits who are argumentative but so so in love who live in a house with lightning grass; a group of vampires who are students and need to retrieve their textbooks from the British museum; and two hellbeasts who knit with the essence of dying worlds.

Project number 2 is called Vibes and Vanity; or Space: An Operatic Romance. It's a queer retelling of Pride and Prejudice, except that George Wickham has a lot more social power than Darcy rather than the other way around. Also, it's set in Space! Featuring such fun things as: probably poly definitely queer elderly female space pirates who sail around in a space ship shaped like an actual ship and kick absolute ass ("how dare you break up the knitting circle with your boarding party!"); a lot of highly homoerotic fencing; a slow burn QPP; lots of relationship angst and lots and lots of character-driven moments; ballroom dancing in antigrav in a space station shaped and designed like an old hall/castle; and fun reference names like William Ydar, Charles Leybing George Hamwick and Elizabeth Netben who work for two political organisations called P.R.I.D.E. and P.R.E.J.U.D.I.C.E.