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Ooh, thank you for the ask, Zoya! I'm going to give you a treat!

Please, take these two pinterest boards that are totally not related at all.

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Oh noooooooooo. This one. The very first thing I ever typed up on my own on a computer (derogatory, but in an inherently affectionate way).

To be completely honest with you, I don't really remember what I wanted it to be about? I based all of the characters off of my friends from school. It was silly, absurd, and an all-around fun time for little third-grade me to write. I'm pretty sure it involved a group of friends finding a helicopter in a field with a note addressed to them that led them on a ridiculous cross-country scavenger hunt to figure out who was leading them along. Coyotes were involved. One of them skydived into a canyon. I think they were trapped in an RV at some point.

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Thank you Zoya, it's so good to hear from you! I'm thinking of the characters from QBOB for this one.

I think... because there are so many "main characters" it's difficult to write for all of them. Like, I've found there's sometimes a point of view that I've favored a lot a couple chapters in a row. Lydia and Cyrus I don't think have their own POVs, or if they do, that was the most difficult to write because they were most likely severely underdeveloped. However, my writing style has changed since I wrote those parts, and I'm excited for when I get to edit to go back to add POV writings and change what's awkward and difficult. But also not bad for only 2/8 characters to be the most difficult to write XD

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Ooh, this one is hard to choose from. Basically, it's a sad little short story about second chances and changing the past. Keep in mind that I wrote it all in a couple of days and didn't edit it at all. A quick warning that it's about death and has some descriptions of blood.

It’s 10:00 pm and I’m laying on the pavement, his face battered and bruised and empty right next to me. A warm, sticky crimson fluid flows around us, seeping into the cracks, matting my hair, and the scariest part is that I can’t tell if it’s his or mine.

It’s 10:00 pm and the paramedics arrive to find the steel frame of a faded blue pickup truck crumpled up under a great elm tree, two bodies lying on the pavement beside it. Only one of them is alive.

I think I get it now, the whole “accepting that the past is the past” thing. Because every time I look over at his seat, it’s filled by someone else. Every time I close my eyes, his voice isn’t there. Every time I feel alone, the emptiness of where his too-deep hugs used to be grows ever deeper

That’s the definition of insanity, isn’t it, trying the same thing over and over and expecting a different result every time.

I was just reading the posts about my brother's pocketwatch again and I miss James so if you feel like it....some new facts or a little rambling please?

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(it's @zoya-writes btw from my main)

Hi Zoya! I'm doing well! And I am so ridiculously sorry I took like a month to get back to you on this ask fsdhkjfdsjhkfd. I haven't gotten much writing done lately, just because of school, but I've been getting back into it more! How are you?

It shocks me every time whenever I realize that other people think about my characters at all, but it's always a pleasant surprise. I haven't been writing much of MBP so I miss James too ToT

Anyways, here's some (read: a lot of) rambling for you!

MBP has kinda been rattling around in my brain for a while, really just with the idea of a boarding school stuck in a time loop

I’ve been considering going into a more horror-esque direction with it. Just like the inherent horror of being stuck in a loop for an eternity. The horror of not knowing who you really are or where you come from or what's going to happen to you. But also more creepy stuff going on in the academy >:)

(I didn’t plan too much bc of my impulsive decision to start it for nano if you can tell, but I’ve been mulling the idea over for a while)

Idk if I've mentioned it but James and Elliot are roommates (*gasp* and they were roommates!). They would both be terrible roommates to anyone else but happen to be a perfect match for each other

I'm still trying to figure out what the source of the loop is. I don't think I'll actually reveal it in the book, but I want to know just to know what kind of theme. My first thought was the fae living in the forests around the academy, then possibly an old god (for some fun lil' eldritch horror possibilities), OR some sort of sci-fi loop, with covert experiments and shady government scientists. I should actually probably figure it out bc I need to know so I can eventually break the loop

Anyways, it's all under the headmaster's control, regardless of whether it's an old faerie god or some mad scientist, so the time loop's source doesn't matter that much.

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ty for the ask!

Hope: originally they were like 12 (sensing a pattern here), cis, not a god, pretty bland and 2-d, totally sensible, had a couple different names i went through, and didn't have their trademark "feels emotions super super strongly" thing.