#writer's process

I think this makes sense.

I feel like a detective

and how tf did u remember this fic from high school? Were u thinking about it everyday and procrastinating on writing the full thing or did it just suddenly pop up in ur mind one day?

Hi! Yes! Great question. Your guess is a really good one, bc that really nails the feeling I was going for at the start.

So the scene I wrote in high school was chapter 2 when she had a sex dream with James (which also explains why the dream was so innocent, heh) where she starts off with “Why are you doing this to me?” (I guess I thought having the title was a little too on the nose here) through him turning her into a kitten 🐈

At the time, I had a huge crush on a guy who I knew was bad news (my type used to be sociopaths… it was a big problem 😑), so fought the crush really hard, but he knew and toyed the shit out of me. I had a lot of inspiration for a cat and mouse game type of relationship 😅

none of this is a secret

but we are both over 60 so we are both at home

Pandemic

I write in private not secretly

but this man sexy funny a little touched with the ADHD magic

gets between me and the Muse

not on purpose and none of this is a secret

but it involves a puzzle

a workaround

can I still write with all the rearrangements muttering music podcasts the gurgle of the bong

he is scented with luxury he is like a Sunday afternoon without church

but the writing

Hey guys! Just another reminder, if you started following me for HXH stuff, I'm moving most of that content to my new side blog @twila-star and I just started a new series for behind the scenes Bells and Whistles stuff. Go and check it out!

So, I've been working almost exclusively on Dies Irae this past couple of weeks. About time too, I say, having discovered yesterday that it was about a year and a half between posting chapter 1 and chapter 2.

I'm simultaneously writing and outlining/detailing. I'll be writing, and I'll come across something that I'm not sure about, so I'll stop and go over notes, mind map the relevancies and come up with questions that lead to ideas, and layers, and dimensions that I hadn't thought of before. I'm loving the process and excited about the results.

This is very much an AU wrapped in a familiar blanket.

I hope to be able to post a new chapter once a week, (or once ever two weeks at the most).

I made cover art for the fic, which I also love. I chose to leave character picture off this one, which is not my usual choice, but felt right for this one. It was also made using a combination of Corel Paintshop Pro, and Canva - mostly because I couldn't get the text feature to work properly on PSP, but I like the result. Also, as I'm typing this, I'm wondering about making a different cover art for each act of the fic. I'll roll that one around for a while and see how I feel later.