#writingcommuity

I know, weird start but it’s getting harder to find new intros lol. 

Anyways, on topic, in contrast to my last post I have come up with my goal for my novel. I want my book to be the wlw book. I want it to have the same status in the wlw community that girl in red, Hayley Kiyoko and non-milk milk has. And yes, that is quite the goal, but the scariest part is that I don’t control wether that dream comes true. 

So, the title is sorta relevant ‘cause my demographic is literally The GaysTM and usually the women and enbys at that. AND it includes trauma, but not in the boring oh-no-my-mother’s-homophobic trauma ‘cause it’s set in the 1700′s c’mon, y’know? It’s in the narcissistic mother (who hit her like- once) kind of trauma, and the character - Catherina - has PTSD (but like, it’s not diagnosed ‘cause, again, 1700′s) which gives me a lot of research to do, of which I have started, dw, however I’d like some.. qualitative information on this so just, yk, DM me if you have a similar expirience and it doesn’t trigger you to describe your “flashbacks” ‘cause all I can do is imagine, and I really don’t wanna misrepresent this like most writers usually do. 

Anyways, we need a moral of the story here, which is funny ‘cause I haven’t found a moral of the story for my novel. And thus begs the question, “Does every story need a moral?” and personally I think it gives some sort of satisfaction when you’ve read it y’know, ‘cause then it wasn’t for nothing and you learned something. (I know what you’re thinking and yes, my teachers are quite fond of me, but on the other hand I get away with everything). Buuuut does my story need one? I think I’m gonna do the sensible thing with this issue, and procrastinate. Ahah, sometimes it works and you learn from the silence, don’t mf’ing @ me ok. No but for realzies, I haven’t written my first draft yet and I feel like that’s when I’ll get a better idea of the meaning of everything, so, postponing. 

This post is very messy, and I apoligize, however I just wanna circle back to the goal thing, ‘cause I do find it very important to set goals for ourselves. Mostly because it works for me, and it motivates me, and this particular goal doesn’t have a deadline and thus, doesn’t stress me (time and I have a complicated relationship, it’s best not to ask questions) so I guess that’s the moral of this story, set a goal. It’s ok if you don’t reach it, but set it and work for it.