#writlbr

It's something you spent hours, days, maybe even months on, pouring your heart out onto a page because you were so full of passion and thoughts about a story or characters, you felt like you were going to explode if you didn't get it out. Maybe you lost sleep because your mind was racing with ideas or you forgot to eat or drink water because you were so focused. Maybe your back aches from being hunched over for so long, unmoving. Maybe you even felt like you were going a little feral because you were so excited about what you were creating, or were frustrated when you got stuck. Either way, you put your heart, mind, soul, and body into making something.

It's okay to want people to read it, and it's okay if you're disappointed that they don't or it doesn't get as much of a reaction as you were hoping for. Humans are social creatures. Sure, we write for ourselves, but we also share because the joy of doing so is just as powerful as the joy of the process. Of having created something.

We all experience that joy and that disappointment, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

My little way of celebrating 10 years of Love Run. I've chosen a line per song that can be used to inspire a fic or art. I hope you have fun with them. So send me an ask with a ship or characters and I'll see what I can do!

Love Run

Love Run - Loves worth running to

King - The house at the top of the rock

Pruning Shears - Whatever you do, don’t turn round

Shower Day - Would have stayed if you’d have asked

Elsa’s Song - I’ll scream but you won’t hear

Pray - I’m stronger now than you have ever known

Little Miss Why So - Just stop staring at the moon

New York Torch Song - Are you god, or devil, ghost dishevelled?

Two Minutes - These hands are growing old

Not Yet/Love Run - We’ll build a den out of pillows and get drunk again

The Horror and the Wild

The Rockrose and the Thistle - I wake and hear you calling

The Horror and the Wild - Remember me, I ask. 

Wild Blue Yonder - Hold me, lover, like you used to

Welly Boots - Make all the mistakes that made me laugh

Farewell wanderlust - I promise you, I’m not broken

Fair - Like petals in a storm

Unwanted Animal - You rip my ribcage open, and devour what’s truly yours

Marbles - I’ve loved you for a hundred years

Battle Cries - With you, I could summon the gods and the stars

Ruin

Secret Worlds - Give me your fire

The Calling - You happen to me all over again

Drinking Song for the Socially Anxious - ‘Cause I know I don’t belong

Blossoms - I know I’m more than what I fear 

Chords - Your life begins by leaving

The Old Witch Sleep and The Good Man Grace - You’re brave because they broke you

Ruin - It starts with love and comfort

Do you need to compile research for a book but don’t know where to begin? Need help tracing down a historical mystery? Do you need to know accurate details about what Mongolian traders on the Silk Road wore for your work of fiction, but don’t have the time or patience to dig in yourself? Want someone else to do it for you?

As a professional librarian and amateur sleuth, I’m here to do it for you!

Send me a research query or topic and I will trace down, compile, and summarize all the obscure sources you need!

• $15 for a research packet on a specific query (I.e, did they shoe horses in Ancient Greece? What would a lady’s wardrobe consist of in 1658? This will get you all the detailed information I can find in answer to the question.)

•$50 for a research packet on a general subject (I.e. “I need to know everything there is to know about food in the Dust Bowl or the life of Julia Morgan”. This will get you a packet of research based on the most original sources I can find.)

I may also take commissions for research into specific historical figures that might require original research (say you want to know more about your great great grandma or the founder of a town) or track down sources of information.

Ko-fi here :D

I want my fics to be the best quality that I can make it and I get embarrassed when some time goes by and I reread a story of mine and discover that there’s been a glaring typo in it for so long.